China apps fade in US as TikTok returns on Apple, Google app storesSince its relisting on Apple's App Store and Google Play five days ago, downloads of Chinese apps like Xiaohongshu have plummeted 91%, whil...
21 Feb, 2025, 06.41 PM IST
Google suspends Chinese ecommerce app Pinduoduo after finding malware in versionsThe Mountain View-based company said on Tuesday it has found versions of the app, offering PDD Holdings Inc.’s flagship e-commerce service,...
21 Mar, 2023, 11.04 AM IST
Indian students being ‘forced’ to download banned Chinese appsOnline studies of 23,000-odd students, at least 20,000 of whom are medical students, studying in various Chinese universities have been bad...
21 Jul, 2021, 02.19 PM IST
How two Chinese scamsters duped 40,000 people via malware app of marketing schemeTwelve people, including two Chinese women and a Tibetan, were arrested by Cyber Cell of Delhi Police for duping people of crores by making...
16 Jan, 2021, 12.51 PM IST
Anybody can download and play PUBG despite ban; government says it's aware of breachesEarlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued advisories to the effect that none of the banned Chinese...
16 Oct, 2020, 03.27 PM IST
Chinese tech giant Tencent's WeChat app sees downloads surge before U.S. banThe U.S. Department of Commerce issued an order requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove WeChat for downloads on national se...
22 Sep, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
Snack Video: Another China-developed app taking TikTok’s place in IndiaSnack Video escaped the wide-ranging government ban on Chinese apps, and in August it was the most downloaded video app on App Store and Go...
19 Sep, 2020, 07.24 AM IST
China's Tencent rebrands WeChat work app ahead of Trump banTencent, registered the WeCom trademark on Aug. 19, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
18 Sep, 2020, 03.52 PM IST
275 more Chinese apps on India's radar, list includes PubG, RessoList includes Tencent-backed gaming app PubG, Xiaomi’s Zili and AliExpress from Alibaba Group. A senior official told ET that the governmen...
31 Jul, 2020, 09.16 AM IST
TikTok clones from India, China and US fill the voidSince the ban, Roposo, Zili, and Dubsmash together have garnered close to 22 million downloads, around 13% of TikTok's installs in India in...
27 Jul, 2020, 08.47 AM IST
Chinese TikTok clones vying to click with Indians, three now in Google Play Store's top 10 listA raft of Indian short-video apps, such as Trell, Bolo Indya, Chingari and Mitron, have not been far behind, aggressively trying to fill Ti...
18 Jul, 2020, 07.18 AM IST
TikTok predicts over $6 bn loss from India's ban: ReportBesides Tiktok, India banned on Monday 58 other apps with Chinese links, including the popular UC Browser, for engaging in activities "prej...
03 Jul, 2020, 07.27 PM IST
Homegrown TikTok rival Chingari on fire“We were experiencing 50,000 downloads per hour earlier, and suddenly, after the news (of TikTok ban) broke, the number jumped to 100,000 d...
01 Jul, 2020, 11.59 AM IST
Chinese app downloads fall amid border disputePopular Chinese apps TikTok, Helo, Bigo Live, Likee and PubG have seen downloads fall in India, one of their largest markets globally, as t...
25 Jun, 2020, 07.32 PM IST
TikTok competitor Chingari witnesses 5 lakh downloads: DevelopersThe custom-designed audio and video based free social platform was developed in 2019 by the two and now they aim to achieve the milestone o...
22 Jun, 2020, 04.56 PM IST
Amid rising anti-China mood, local app Mitron eats into TikTok's India market in eye-popping mannerMitron saw a 4x jump in downloads to 5.4 mn between April and May 25, according to data from Sensor Tower.
28 May, 2020, 08.17 PM IST
Indian apps witnessed more downloads than Chinese onesAn analysis of India’s top 200 apps by install volume, by app intelligence firm AppsFlyer, showed that 41% were developed by local develope...
26 Dec, 2019, 10.45 AM IST