Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Telegram App Raises $1bn by Selling Bonds
Business Recorder ^ | 26 Mar 2021

Posted on 04/05/2021 5:03:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The encrypted messaging app Telegram has raised over $1 billion by selling bonds to foreign investors, its Russia-born founder Pavel Durov said Tuesday.

Durov, 36, wrote on his Telegram channel that the bonds were sold to “some of the largest and most knowledgeable investors from all over the world”. He added that this will allow Telegram to grow “while sticking to its values and remaining independent”.

Durov said the funds will fuel the app’s monetisation strategy that was outlined in December, according to which the platform will launch paid services this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at brecorder.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: 2020; 202012; 2021; 202103; bonds; communications; durov; encrypted; encryption; encryptionkeys; investors; paveldurov; pedo; russia; telegram; telegramapp; vkontakte

1 posted on 04/05/2021 5:03:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

I don’t really trust any of these apps or devices - but at least not supporting Fascist Facebook via WhatsApp or Messenger.


2 posted on 04/05/2021 5:06:07 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

1 Billion, eh?

But Bill Gates just purchased telegram for 600 million per the article right below this one?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3948137/posts


3 posted on 04/05/2021 5:08:11 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EasySt

If you can find an article supporting that claim, please post it. If it was on Fox News, there would be plenty of articles by now.


4 posted on 04/05/2021 5:10:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

Comment #5 Removed by Moderator

To: bigbob

What is?


6 posted on 04/05/2021 5:13:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

I just realized....the one tweet we can find was posted on April 3. Today’s the 5th.

The second article I can find when Googling ‘telegram app bill gates’ is the newly posted Free Republic thread!


7 posted on 04/05/2021 5:17:11 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Jesus said 'I am the Light of the world'. ~ John 8:12)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Telegram is awesome. People have been fleeing to get there in droves.

Lots of conservative voices, from James Woods to President Trump to Crowder.

This is excellent news. The globalists can’t turn them off. It’s safe there. I like it.


8 posted on 04/05/2021 5:42:39 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway; All

^


9 posted on 04/05/2021 5:57:49 PM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: romanesq

I like Telegram because it simplifies following conservative voices.


10 posted on 04/05/2021 6:02:32 PM PDT by bobcat62
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: EasySt

Your linked thread was pulled as “fake”.


11 posted on 04/05/2021 6:03:46 PM PDT by House Atreides
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

if bill is down with it, it must suck.


12 posted on 04/05/2021 6:07:35 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: House Atreides

Not surprised.


13 posted on 04/05/2021 6:16:22 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Can’t be trusted... Get Qtox.


14 posted on 04/05/2021 6:35:58 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

I have never heard of “Telegram App.”


15 posted on 04/05/2021 6:37:17 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bobcat62

Get Qtox. It never exposes who you are... or who you are not...

Tried to share it many times. No one will listen. Sheep following other sheep right off the cliff.

Telegram is not secure at all. Based out of Saudi Arabia.


16 posted on 04/05/2021 6:41:41 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Openurmind
Thanks for the great advice!

I'm not an instant message kind of guy though.   Before I retired, Verizon made me use IM which kind of turned me off to the whole concept.   The whole, "drop what you are doing and talk to me but, I don't really want to talk to you" kind of thing.   How rude!

17 posted on 04/05/2021 6:56:57 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Although, President Trump’s Save America PAC statements have been posted on the Gab account set aside for him, Telegram is the most active MAGA universe right now.

Parler doesn’t seem to be as relevant, except for the individual accts by some noted voices like Mark Levin, etc.

I have Telegram’s President Trump’s Loyalists app pinned to my Microsoft Edge browser and receive alerts throughout the day—and a little bit at night. Highly recommended.


18 posted on 04/05/2021 8:50:50 PM PDT by edie1960
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mylife

He’s not. Fake news.


19 posted on 04/05/2021 11:10:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Openurmind
"Based out of Saudi Arabia."

I just went to their site and they claim to be based in Dubai, UAE. They look pretty good for encrypted group chat and posts. I currently use Protonmail.com for encrypted, but they don't provide group chats for free.

20 posted on 04/06/2021 11:00:08 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson