Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Telegram Premium passed 1M subscribers since its June 2022 launch; the monthly subscription costs $5 in the US and £5 in the UK (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the messaging app plans to build a decentralized crypto exchange and noncustodial wallets  —  The messaging app is pushing ahead with its buildout of crypto infrastructure.  —  Messaging app Telegram has sold $50 million in usernames in less than a month through …

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Seesaw, a messaging app for parents and teachers with 10M users, says it suffered a credential stuffing attack, after users said they received an explicit image  —  A messaging app for parents and teachers said Wednesday that it was hacked after some parents said they had received messages …

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta will end support for Instant Articles, source says in mid-April 2023, giving news publishers six months to readjust their Facebook strategies  —  Meta is ending support for Instant Articles, a proprietary mobile format it debuted in 2015 to quickly load news articles on the Facebook app, Axios has learned.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Boston- and London-based Zoe, a nutrition and health tracking app, raised £25M led by Accomplice at a £209M valuation, after closing a £48M Series B in May 2021  —  Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic …

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app acquired by AWS in 2021, will shut down on December 31, 2023 and stop accepting new users at the end of 2022  —  Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023.

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Palantir signs a three-year, £75M deal with the UK’s defense ministry, providing software to prompt real-time military actions and predict potential results  —  Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR.N) has signed a three-year, 75 million pound ($91.39 million) deal with the United Kingdom’s Ministry …