TikTok gives up on India, months after government ban

App owner ByteDance beats a de facto retreat with mass layoffs

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TikTok boasted roughly 167 million users in India before the government banned the app over privacy concerns. © Reuters

AKIRA HAYAKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

MUMBAI -- Having made little headway against the Indian government's ban on the TikTok short-video app, Chinese owner ByteDance appears to have decided to leave a market once among its largest.

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