India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using TikTok in 2020, but employees at the company and its parent ByteDance can still mine some of Indian users' most sensitive data.

In early 2020, India was TikTok’s largest foreign market, with 200 million users. It had quickly become a hit with people like Sumit Jain, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

Why is TikTok Banned in India? China and India have almost always had strained relations. The former’s distrust of Chinese companies and their operations within the country came to a head ...

Four years ago, India was TikTok's biggest market. The app boasted a growing base of 200 million users, thriving subcultures and sometimes life-changing opportunities for creators and influencers.

In India, TikTok content was hyperlocal, which made it quite unique. It opened a window into the lives of small-town India, with videos showing people, for example, doing tricks while laying down ...

Shortly after India banned TikTok, Instagram saw a surge of downloads, propelling it to become the country’s most popular social media app by 2021, up from No. 6 in 2019, and to surpass TikTok ...

TikTok, a video-sharing platform that has been downloaded 611 million times in India, is among the apps targeted as the Asian giants feud.

Before being banned, India was TikTok's biggest market outside China, with 200 million monthly active users. Its growth coincided with Indians getting access to cheap mobile internet following the ...

TikTok was banned in India in 2020 amid a political dispute with China. TikTok's parent company ByteDance is shutting down its music-streaming app Resso in India at the end of this month, a ...

Raghuram Rajan cautions that India's projected status as the world's third-largest economy will be hollow without innovation.

TikTok removed roughly 100 million videos from its platform through the first half of 2020 for breaking its rules. More than a third of them were in India alone.. The company took down nearly 37.7 ...