TikTok Cuts Job in India

After the Indian government announced a ban on 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok last week, which is operated by Chinese internet firm Bytedance, as Indian relations with China deteriorated, it said that all apps were prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India.

The app TikTok has cut its workforce in India after hundreds of millions of its users dropped it to comply with a government ban on dozens of Chinese apps amid a military standoff between the two countries.

According to U.S News report, the china’s government criticized Indian moves to ban Baidu, TikTok and other popular Chinese apps and appealed to New Delhi to get economic ties back on track.

Meanwhile, the media reports say the company has more than 2,000 employees in India. It expressed the hope it will get a chance to relaunch TikTok in India to support hundreds of millions of users, artists, storytellers, educators and performers.

On other hand, the app is facing ban in Italy following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the app, Also, the state called on TikTok firm to ban the accounts of any users whose age could not be verified , following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the app, according to Guardian report.

Moreover, the Italian Data Protection Authority reported in a statement, that it would block the app with immediate effect until 15 February, by which date the network would have to meet the regulator’s demands.

In contrast, Medical experts have warned about the danger of the challenge being taken up by some young people, who refer to it as scarfing or the choking game in which restricted oxygen to the brain results in a high. Noteworthy, the Chinese version of TikTok app surpassed 600 million daily active users on August 2020.

On September 2020, the US government banning China’s TikTok and WeChat services from mobile app stores. Also, the US commerce department, which will issue the orders, stopped short of forcing Apple and Google to remove the Chinese versions of TikTok and WeChat from their app stores in China.

Noteworthy, ByteDance Ltd.’s Owned TikTok revenue doubled to about $35 billion , according to Bloomberg report on January. Also, the company managed to grow profit to roughly $7 billion in 2020 from less than $4 billion the prior year.

ByteDance was founded in 2012 by Zhang Yimin. In May 2020, the company was valued at more than $ 100 billion. Later Bloomberg statedthat the company wants to go public, but before that it plans to attract investors and increase its value to $ 180 billion before its initial public offering in Hong Kong.