News

The Bombay High Court has found that the assistant registrar’s decision to refuse TikTok well-known mark status in India was justified. The ruling raises questions about the scope of trademark law ...
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 India, a country of 1.4 billion, it took TikTok just a few years to build an audience of 200 million users. India was its biggest market. Then, on June 29, 2020, the Indian government banned ...
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.
TikTok and ByteDance are reportedly implementing organizational changes, potentially leading to layoffs, particularly within ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In India, TikTok isn't just a teen craze. It's a livelihood for some people. It has given birth to new social media celebrities, many of them working-class folks, like Rathod, ...
However, court documents obtained by WIRED, which have not been made public before, show the extent that TikTok’s problem with hate speech in India. During the five months between November 31 ...
Beleagured video sharing platform TikTok is undertaking a third round of layoffs since April in its US e-commerce business, ...
When it comes to in-app revenue — money users spend buying virtual items in TikTok — India also makes up about $1.5 million to date, or less than 1% of TikTok’s total, according to Nelson ...