It has been a disappointing week at the India arm of Chinese internet giant ByteDance. Seven months after its popular short-form video app TikTok—and 58 other Chinese apps—was banned in India, the company seems to be giving up on the hope of a return. On Wednesday, TikTok said that it will be scaling back the size of its workforce in India.
More than two-thirds of the company’s workforce is expected to be eliminated, the source said. ByteDance said it was left with no choice after the Indian government, which banned its marquee app late June last year, had offered no …
Harveen is a co-founder at The Morning Context, and leads our Internet coverage, overseeing a team of reporters writing on startups and tech. She has previously worked as a media, consumer and tech reporter at The Ken and Mint. At The Morning Context, she writes on startups, venture capital, consumer and media businesses—from e-commerce to healthtech to streaming.
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