Among the apps banned by India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT is TikTok, which counts India as its largest overseas market, with 120 million users. Also banned in India are community and video calling apps from Xiaomi, the country’s leading smartphone vendor, as well as two apps from Alibaba Group (UC Browser and UC News), Likee , which is starting to position itself as a clear competitor to TikTok, and the huge Chinese Twitter-like social network WeChat .
To give you an idea of the enormous impact of this measure, we are talking about some of the main social apps of the moment (TikTok, Likee), another of the most used apps in Asia, which also includes a indonesia business email database powerful payment tool (WeChat) and the most used browser in India, ahead of Chrome (UC Browser).
You can see the complete list of Chinese apps banned in India here:
This is the first time that India, the world's second-largest internet market with nearly half of its 1.3 billion people online, has ordered such a sweeping ban on foreign apps, with the resulting loss of advertising revenue for the affected apps.