Chat Folders. Your chat list can have separate tabs with specific chats for Work, School and more via Settings > Chat Folders.
To try it out, add one of the presets like Unread or Personal. You can edit them from any device to includeorexclude other chats – like Unread with muted chats excluded.
You can also create custom folders with your own filters like Groups or Channels – or select individual chats to make a Work or News folder.
Folders support unlimited pins to keep your chats in any order and can be shared via link – letting coworkers and contacts add the folder and join all its chats in one tap.
Chat Folders. Your chat list can have separate tabs with specific chats for Work, School and more via Settings > Chat Folders.
To try it out, add one of the presets like Unread or Personal. You can edit them from any device to includeorexclude other chats – like Unread with muted chats excluded.
You can also create custom folders with your own filters like Groups or Channels – or select individual chats to make a Work or News folder.
Folders support unlimited pins to keep your chats in any order and can be shared via link – letting coworkers and contacts add the folder and join all its chats in one tap.
Secret Chats are one of the service’s additional security features; it allows messages to be sent with client-to-client encryption. This setup means that, unlike regular messages, these secret messages can only be accessed from the device’s that initiated and accepted the chat. Additionally, Telegram notes that secret chats leave no trace on the company’s services and offer a self-destruct timer.
Telegram hopes to raise $1bn with a convertible bond private placement
The super secure UAE-based Telegram messenger service, developed by Russian-born software icon Pavel Durov, is looking to raise $1bn through a bond placement to a limited number of investors from Russia, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the Kommersant daily reported citing unnamed sources on February 18, 2021.The issue reportedly comprises exchange bonds that could be converted into equity in the messaging service that is currently 100% owned by Durov and his brother Nikolai.Kommersant reports that the price of the conversion would be at a 10% discount to a potential IPO should it happen within five years.The minimum bond placement is said to be set at $50mn, but could be lowered to $10mn. Five-year bonds could carry an annual coupon of 7-8%.
