August 12 According to the Associated Press citing news from the Economic Times of India, people familiar with the matter revealed that TikTok’s parent company Bytedance has suspended recruitment in India and reassigned some management positions, and some employees are seeking to leave.
The report pointed out that ByteDance has 2,000 employees in India and is currently retaining existing employees and has not yet made formal layoffs. ByteDance declined to comment.
Naijatechnews.com learned that the Indian government began to take banning actions on Chinese applications in June this year, including 59 applications such as TikTok, UC browser, WeChat, and QQ. In addition, according to previous news from Indian media, India has listed 47 applications in the relevant local market and forced to remove these applications, but Indian officials have not announced a detailed list of these applications.
SensorTower data shows that in the first half of 2020, Bytedance TikTok has been downloaded nearly 600 million times, and it is also the most popular overseas mobile application in the first half of 2020. The top three markets are India, Brazil and the United States, accounting for 27.5%, 9.6% and 8.2% respectively.
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