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.
App owner ByteDance beats a de facto retreat with mass layoffs

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