The 100 most influential people of the world by TIME. Сотня наиболее влиятельных людей мира по версии Тайм. 29 апреля/6 мая 2019 года. Обратите внимание на Россию. Никого. 1/7 суши. Pioneers, artists, leaders, titans, icons – везде не мы. Зато эго отрастил кое-кто.
The 100 most influential people of the world by TIME. Сотня наиболее влиятельных людей мира по версии Тайм. 29 апреля/6 мая 2019 года. Обратите внимание на Россию. Никого. 1/7 суши. Pioneers, artists, leaders, titans, icons – везде не мы. Зато эго отрастил кое-кто.
Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform.
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