Telegram in the spotlight

We meet Melanie Perkins, the CEO and co-founder of graphic design platform Canva, which has hundreds of millions of users and a valuation of nearly $40 billion. Despite her immense wealth, Melanie Perkins says the label “billionaire” has never felt quite right. Instead, she plans ...  Show more

In just a few months, the country has signed or advanced several major trade deals with other nations. Is it a reflection of the growing size of the Indian economy - it is on course to become the third largest in the world - or it is because of a global economic realignment due t ...  Show more

The UAE is in talks to invest in OpenAI’s chip- making business and an Uber courier makes an app to fight against the company’s algorithms. Plus, a look at how the encrypted messaging app Telegram has become both an important news source and a hotbed of criminal activity.  ...

The encrypted messaging app Telegram is haunted by a single question - if it really is as secure as it claims to be, why does Vladimir Putin allow it to be used in Russia?And should Russian dissidents, independent journalists and Ukrainian soldiers use this Wild West of an app, w ...  Show more

In today's episode: Reddit goes public: Reddit, the popular online discussion platform, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) to become a publicly traded company. Grok will open source: Grok, an artificial intelligence startup, announced plans to launch an open plat ...  Show more

With the US midterm elections only a few months away Twitter has announced how it plans to “enable healthy civic conversation” on its platform i.e. how they plan to control political disinformation. Journalist Emma Woollacott who has written about the new measures for Forbes is o ...  Show more