Ranjan Pai in talks for stake in FirstCry; IT hardware firms may get more time for local manufacturingManipal Group chairman Ranjan Pai is likely to pick up a stake in FirstCry, as part of a secondary share sale. Pai’s Rs 250 crore investmen...
14 Aug, 2023, 07.01 AM IST
TikTok owner bets on Resso & Lark for a Byte of India marketIndia is the world’s largest internet market after China with close to 800 million users and provides a huge opportunity for apps looking t...
12 Aug, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
TikTok launches subscription-based music service to take on Spotify, AppleThe subscription-only music streaming service called "TikTok Music" has been launched first in Brazil and Indonesia and replaces ByteDance'...
07 Jul, 2023, 11.51 AM IST
ByteDance launches new music streaming service in Brazil, IndonesiaThe initiative is a new attempt by ByteDance, as the company in a statement said it will stop its existing music streaming service Resso as...
07 Jul, 2023, 12.53 AM IST
ByteDance plans music-streaming expansion to take on Spotify: reportThe TikTok parent plans to eventually integrate music streaming within its short-video service and scale it to serve as a major platform fo...
13 Oct, 2022, 11.48 AM IST
ByteDance to shut edtech business in IndiaThe decision follows after weeks of discussion in which it also explored migrating the team in India to work with the European edtech team.
22 Nov, 2021, 03.33 PM IST
India powers Spotify's growth as it closes in on 350 million monthly active usersThe company adds 24 million monthly active users in Oct-Dec 2020, taking its total for the year to 74 million; one in four users now consum...
03 Feb, 2021, 06.22 PM IST
ByteDance-backed music streaming app Resso escapes Chinese app banThe government had banned ByteDance owned viral short-video app TikTok in June following border hostilities with China
27 Nov, 2020, 12.34 PM IST
Despite app ban, ByteDance doles out cash bonuses to employees in IndiaThe move is in line with a global announcement through an internal memo earlier this month, wherein ByteDance stated it will be issuing a c...
25 Sep, 2020, 05.39 PM IST
Snack Video, Zili, Resso and several others escape China apps banSnack Video is a Singapore-based app that is seen as a TikTok alternative and whose parent, Kuaishou Technology, is a popular Chinese softw...
03 Sep, 2020, 07.56 AM IST
TikTok owner ByteDance considers listing China business in Hong Kong or Shanghai: SourcesOf the two venues, the company prefers Hong Kong, according to two of the people. One of the two also said ByteDance is simultaneously stud...
31 Jul, 2020, 11.24 PM IST
2nd digital strike targets clones of banned China apps, Google and Apple Inc directed to remove these appsGoogle and Apple Inc, which run popular mobile operating systems Android and iOS, respectively, were directed to remove these apps from the...
28 Jul, 2020, 07.50 AM IST
Govt bans 47 more Chinese apps citing risks to national sovereignty, integrity and defenceThe source privy to the development said that the 47 additional Chinese apps that have been banned now were clones and variants of the apps...
27 Jul, 2020, 06.56 PM IST
Despite TikTok ban, ByteDance signs office space deal with WeWorkAccording to the plan, the newly-leased property in the Goregaon suburb was to be used by ByteDance to consolidate and expand its operation...
09 Jul, 2020, 09.49 AM IST
TikTok-maker is launching Google-like work tools during coronavirus outbreakBy focusing on the local China market first and targeting individual users, ByteDance will try to capture the latent demand in the country ...
11 Mar, 2020, 09.42 AM IST
TikTok parent ByteDance woos India's Gen Z with RessoResso, which calls itself the world's first social music streaming app, is also looking at expanding its service to Indonesia in the the ne...
04 Mar, 2020, 08.39 PM IST
TikTok owner has a new music app for India - RessoByteDance Inc is testing a new music app in India and Indonesia as it tries to pull off another global sensation.
11 Dec, 2019, 06.49 PM IST