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.

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