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TikTok Retains Access to Indian Users' Personal Data After 2020 Ban: Report
TikTok continues to retain information on its users from India who can no longer access the video sharing platform, according to a report. The service was blocked in India in 2020, and currently faces the possibility of a ban in the US, where the app has grown in popularity, over national security concerns.
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Garena Free Fire, AppLock, 52 More Chinese Apps Banned by India Over National Security Issues
Government has ordered to ban 54 apps including Tencent’s Xriver and gaming firm NetEase’s Onmyoji Arena that have links to China and pose threat to the country’s security, according to sources. Google and Apple have been informed to block access to these apps.
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Indian TikTok Clone Josh Gets $100 Million In Google, Microsoft Funding
The app, Josh, is one of several home-grown short-video platforms that have sprung up since India blocked the wildly popular TikTok in June
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Josh, Indian Short Video-Sharing App like TikTok, Gets Google, Microsoft Backing in $100 Million Funding
Bengaluru-based VerSe Innovation that owns Josh, a short video-sharing app like TikTok, has got $100 million (roughly Rs. 700 crores) in funding led by Google and Microsoft. The popularity of the app spiked after TikTok was banned in India and has crossed 50 million downloads on the Google Play store.
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Desi TikTok Variant Gets Google, Microsoft Backing In $100 Million Funding
The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country.
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Government Bans 43 More 'Chinese' Apps Including AliExpress, CamCard, Taobao Live
The government on Tuesday banned as many as 43 new mobile apps that have a linkage with China. These apps include AliExpress, CamCard, and Taobao Live, among others.
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TikTok Pakistan Ban Lifted After Company Vows to Moderate Content
Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality", the country's telecom authority said on Monday.
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TikTok Banned in Pakistan Over "Immoral and Indecent" Content
Pakistan's telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content, another blow to the social media app that has come under increasing scrutiny as its popularity has surged across the globe.
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Pakistan Bans TikTok Over "Immoral" Content
Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content, the country's telecommunication authority said in a statement.
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PUBG Ban: Government Bans 118 Chinese Apps and Games Including PUBG Mobile, Apus Launcher, Rules of Survival
PUBG Mobile, Apus Launcher, Rules of Survival, and 115 other Chinese apps and games have been banned in India. The new app ban comes just a little over a month after the government imposed a ban on 47 Chinese apps that followed the blocking of TikTok and 58 other apps in the country.
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Centre Goes To Court To Stop Likely Challenge To Chinese App Ban: Report
The Centre has petitioned the Rajasthan High Court to stop any of the Chinese companies whose 59 apps it recently banned from obtaining an injunction to block the order, according to two sources and the legal filing.
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China Says "Artificial Blocks" To Bilateral Cooperation Will Harm India
China said today that "artificial blocks" to bilateral cooperation would harm India's interests and that the two countries should work together to uphold peace in their border region. Beijing will take necessary measures to uphold the rights of Chinese businesses in India, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Beijing told a news briefing.
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Apple App Store, Google Play Block Access to Banned Chinese Apps From India
59 Chinese apps that were banned by the Government earlier this week are now inaccessible via Google Play store in India. A Google spokesperson confirmed the development to Gadgets 360, saying that the apps have been "temporarily blocked" by the platform in line with the government’s order.
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Blocking Chinese Apps Was "Digital Strike": Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said India's surprise move to ban 59 Chinese apps days after a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh was a "digital strike". "We banned Chinese apps to protect data of countrymen; it was a digital strike," Mr Prasad said at a BJP rally in West Bengal today, news agency Press Tr...
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For Small-Town TikTok Stars, Mixed Emotions After Government Blocks App
TikTok India, with some 120 million active users, is particularly popular in small towns, where the app and its content allowed users a platform to express themselves and their dreams, and reach out to the "mainstream"
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TikTok Retains Access to Indian Users' Personal Data After 2020 Ban: Report
TikTok continues to retain information on its users from India who can no longer access the video sharing platform, according to a report. The service was blocked in India in 2020, and currently faces the possibility of a ban in the US, where the app has grown in popularity, over national security concerns.
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Garena Free Fire, AppLock, 52 More Chinese Apps Banned by India Over National Security Issues
Government has ordered to ban 54 apps including Tencent’s Xriver and gaming firm NetEase’s Onmyoji Arena that have links to China and pose threat to the country’s security, according to sources. Google and Apple have been informed to block access to these apps.
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Indian TikTok Clone Josh Gets $100 Million In Google, Microsoft Funding
The app, Josh, is one of several home-grown short-video platforms that have sprung up since India blocked the wildly popular TikTok in June
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Josh, Indian Short Video-Sharing App like TikTok, Gets Google, Microsoft Backing in $100 Million Funding
Bengaluru-based VerSe Innovation that owns Josh, a short video-sharing app like TikTok, has got $100 million (roughly Rs. 700 crores) in funding led by Google and Microsoft. The popularity of the app spiked after TikTok was banned in India and has crossed 50 million downloads on the Google Play store.
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Desi TikTok Variant Gets Google, Microsoft Backing In $100 Million Funding
The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country.
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Government Bans 43 More 'Chinese' Apps Including AliExpress, CamCard, Taobao Live
The government on Tuesday banned as many as 43 new mobile apps that have a linkage with China. These apps include AliExpress, CamCard, and Taobao Live, among others.
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TikTok Pakistan Ban Lifted After Company Vows to Moderate Content
Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality", the country's telecom authority said on Monday.
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TikTok Banned in Pakistan Over "Immoral and Indecent" Content
Pakistan's telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content, another blow to the social media app that has come under increasing scrutiny as its popularity has surged across the globe.
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Pakistan Bans TikTok Over "Immoral" Content
Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content, the country's telecommunication authority said in a statement.
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PUBG Ban: Government Bans 118 Chinese Apps and Games Including PUBG Mobile, Apus Launcher, Rules of Survival
PUBG Mobile, Apus Launcher, Rules of Survival, and 115 other Chinese apps and games have been banned in India. The new app ban comes just a little over a month after the government imposed a ban on 47 Chinese apps that followed the blocking of TikTok and 58 other apps in the country.
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Centre Goes To Court To Stop Likely Challenge To Chinese App Ban: Report
The Centre has petitioned the Rajasthan High Court to stop any of the Chinese companies whose 59 apps it recently banned from obtaining an injunction to block the order, according to two sources and the legal filing.
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China Says "Artificial Blocks" To Bilateral Cooperation Will Harm India
China said today that "artificial blocks" to bilateral cooperation would harm India's interests and that the two countries should work together to uphold peace in their border region. Beijing will take necessary measures to uphold the rights of Chinese businesses in India, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Beijing told a news briefing.
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Apple App Store, Google Play Block Access to Banned Chinese Apps From India
59 Chinese apps that were banned by the Government earlier this week are now inaccessible via Google Play store in India. A Google spokesperson confirmed the development to Gadgets 360, saying that the apps have been "temporarily blocked" by the platform in line with the government’s order.
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Blocking Chinese Apps Was "Digital Strike": Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said India's surprise move to ban 59 Chinese apps days after a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh was a "digital strike". "We banned Chinese apps to protect data of countrymen; it was a digital strike," Mr Prasad said at a BJP rally in West Bengal today, news agency Press Tr...
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For Small-Town TikTok Stars, Mixed Emotions After Government Blocks App
TikTok India, with some 120 million active users, is particularly popular in small towns, where the app and its content allowed users a platform to express themselves and their dreams, and reach out to the "mainstream"
