TikTok To Shed Hundreds of India Workers After National Security Ban

TikTok To Shed Hundreds of India Workers After National Security Ban

TikTok has announced that it will lay off hundreds of workers in India, [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] seven months after the Chinese-owned video app was banned from what was once its biggest international market on national security grounds. From a report: The company, whose parent is Chinese tech group ByteDance, said in a statement on Wednesday that it would reduce its current headcount of 2,000 after its efforts to restore the app in India failed. “We have not been given a clear direction on how and when our apps could be reinstated,” said TikTok. TikTok and other Chinese apps have been banned since June following a rise in tensions between New Delhi and Beijing.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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