As US targets China tech, TikTok rival BIGO shifts servers from Hong Kong to Singapore

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SINGAPORE: BIGO Technology, a smaller rival of embattled Chinese app-maker ByteDance, is shifting servers from Hong Kong to Singapore, out of the ...

BIGO, whose equivalent app Likee and live-streaming app BIGO Live compete with TikTok, has not been named by US authorities, but a senior official of the firm told Reuters it hoped"not to be caught in the crossfire"."The unfortunate thing is sometimes we can't control what other people think," Mike Ong, vice president of government relations, said in an interview at the firm's headquarters in Singapore, where it was founded in 2014.

BIGO's biggest data centre capacity is in Singapore, along with other markets where it operates, such as India, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. BIGO's situation exemplifies the growing challenges for firms in a world of increasingly polarised technology.

Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)

 

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