TikTok scales down India operations; read full text of mail to staff
It is not clear how many employees have been let go. CNBC-TV18 January 27, 2021 / 12:58 PM IST
ByteDance, the company which owns the app TikTok, said today that it was scaling down its India operations. This follows the Indian government banning many Chinese apps, including TikTok, last year.
“We simply cannot responsibly stay fully staffed while our apps remain un-operational,” TikTok CEO Vaness Pappas, and the company’s Vice President Blake Chandlee, said in a jointly signed mail to its 2000-odd employees in India.
It is not clear how many employees have been let go.