Vanguard has cut its valuation of Indian ride-hailing startup Ola to approximately $2 billion as of August, down from $7.3 billion in late 2021, reflecting a significant decrease in its holdings in ANI Technologies, the parent company of Ola, following a series of prior valuation adjustments.
Vanguard has cut its valuation of Indian ride-hailing startup Ola to approximately $2 billion as of August, down from $7.3 billion in late 2021, reflecting a significant decrease in its holdings in ANI Technologies, the parent company of Ola, following a series of prior valuation adjustments.
Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War."
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