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16 July, 2020

Alibaba's UCWeb lays off India staff, Club Factory halts payments after app ban

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's subsidiary UC Web is slashing staff in India after a ban on 59 Chinese-origin mobile apps ......

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15 July, 2020

Govt quizzing owners of banned Chinese apps over content and practices

Chinese companies such as TikTok-owner ByteDance have been asked by India to answer 77 questions about their apps that have ......

Finance

06 July, 2020

India reviewing around 50 investment proposals from Chinese firms

The Indian government is reviewing around 50 investment proposals involving Chinese companies under a new screening policy, three sources familiar ......

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02 July, 2020

Indian social video app MitronTV raises seed funding, aims to fill TikTok void

Mitron TV Pvt. Ltd, which operates social video platform MitronTV, has raised Rs 2 crore ($267,658) in seed funding, according ......

Markets

30 June, 2020

Sensex, Nifty record strongest quarter in 11 years

Indian shares ended lower on the last day of its best quarter since 2009, led by losses in energy stocks, ......

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30 June, 2020

Govt bans TikTok, 58 other mostly Chinese apps amid border crisis

India on Monday banned 59, mostly Chinese, mobile apps including Bytedance's TikTok and Tencent's WeChat in its strongest move yet ......

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28 May, 2020

TikTok owner ByteDance moves to shift power out of China

TikTok's poaching of Disney's Kevin Mayer to be its CEO was just the most visible part of a broader strategy ......

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24 December, 2019

ByteDance denies report on plan to sell video app TikTok

Chinese social media firm ByteDance has no plans to sell part or all of its TikTok app, the short video ......

Finance

16 December, 2019

After WeWork fiasco, SoftBank's China strategy under the scanner

For SoftBank Group Corp, financial technology firm OneConnect's IPO should have been a vindication of an aggressive China investing strategy. Instead, ......

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11 December, 2019

India's privacy bill seeks access to users' data from companies

Changes to India's privacy bill could cause trouble for Facebook, Google and others as proposals include government powers to request ......