India’s Chinese app ban seen jolting US$1b expansion of ByteDance | Malay Mail

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NEW DELHI, June 30 — An Indian ban on dozens of Chinese apps following a border clash between the two nations has possibly derailed a US$1 billion (RM4.3 billion) India expansion plan of China’s ByteDance, while also sparking an uproar from users of its popular TikTok video app. TikTok was...

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The government order didn’t name China, or cite the border clashes. App analytics firm Sensor Tower said all the 59 apps named were of Chinese origin, including Tencent’s WeChat and Alibaba’s UC Browser. The biggest casualty of the move appears to be ByteDance, which has since last year hired several senior executives and laid out plans to invest US$1 billion in India. India is TikTok’s top growth market and accounts for 30 per cent of its two billion downloads worldwide.

When TikTok was banned briefly last year after a state court said the app encouraged pornography, the company told the Supreme Court the ban cost it roughly US$15 million a month.

 

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