INDIA PUTS PAID TO 59 CHINESE APPS INCLUDING BYTE DANCE’S TIK TOK AND TENCENT’S WECHAT

• On Jan.25, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology conclusively paid put to 59 Chinese applications, including ByteDance’s Tik Tok, Tencent’s WeChat, Baidu, Alibaba’s UC Browser, digital e-commerce app Club Factory, Xiaomi’s Mi Video Call, ...

INDIA ASKS TikTok AND 58 OTHER BANNED APPS TO ANSWER 77 QUESTIONS

Highlights

• The Government of India has asked 77 questions that include topics like censorship of content, working on behalf of foreign governments and lobbying of influencers

• The Chinese companies have been given a time of three weeks to respond to the questions<...

INDIA’S BAN ON 59 APPS HITS THE RIGHT SPOT, CHINA SAYS ‘STRONGLY CONCERNED'

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• Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian said India should uphold rights of Chinese businesses

• All the Chinese companies have been invited to offer clarifications in front of a government panel

• TikTok owned by Bytedance, Tencent's WeCh...

THE GOVT OF INDIA BANS TikTok & 58 OTHER APPS FROM IMMEDIATE EFFECT

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• The list of apps banned by the Government of India include TikTok, SHAREit, Cam Scanner, UC Browser and numerous others

• The decision to ban all these apps has been taken by the Indian Government citing security reasons

• Majority of the ...