Besides Tiktok, India banned 58 different apps with Chinese hyperlinks. (File)
Beijing:
Chinese tech big unicorn ByteDance Ltd is anticipating a lack of over $6 billion after three of its apps, together with the massively well-liked video app TikTok, have been banned by India this week, a media report stated.
Besides Tiktok, India banned 58 different apps with Chinese hyperlinks, together with the favored UC Browser, for partaking in actions “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”. The ban got here within the wake of the continued stand-off alongside the Line of Actual management in jap Ladakh with Chinese troops.
The $6 billion quantity is more than likely greater than the mixed losses for all the opposite Chinese apps banned by India, China’s Caixinglobal.com reported, quoting sources near the corporate’s senior administration.
ByteDance grew to become one among China’s newest homegrown know-how corporations to run into rising resistance from overseas governments cautious of the perceived ties to the Chinese authorities and issues about defending consumer information, it stated.
Describing India’s ban of 59 China-developed apps as unprecedented, the report stated it’s a enormous blow to the worldwide growth of TikTok, which is touted as the most well-liked Chinese app abroad. India is its largest market by way of customers exterior China, the place the service is known as Douyin.
The ByteDance apps banned have been its quick video platforms TikTok and Vigo Video, in addition to its social networking app Helo. Tencent’s messaging platform WeChat and 5 of its different apps have been additionally banned. Other massive tech China companies, together with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc., additionally had their merchandise banned.
All the 59 apps have now been faraway from Apple Inc and Google LLC’s app shops for the Indian market.
TikTok was downloaded in India 611 million instances on this 12 months’s first quarter, equating to 30.3% of its whole downloads worldwide within the quarter and almost double the whole variety of India downloads for all of 2019, the report quoted one other publication, SensorTower, as saying.
The penalties of India’s newest determination may very well be extra long-lasting, analysts advised Caixin.
Responding to the Indian authorities’s transfer, TikTok stated it will totally adjust to the choice. ByteDance employs over 2,000 full-time native workers in India.