The central government has banned a total of 59 Chinese apps, including the popular Chinese app TikTok, ShareIt and WeChat citing security and privacy. Amid tensions with China, there was a demand to ban these apps. These apps have billions of business in India and a large part of their downloads take place in India.
Other popular Chinese apps facing Bain include popular apps like UC Browser, UC News and MI Community. The government has banned such Chinese apps which are mainly of non-financial nature. Chinese giants Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, Tencent etc. have invested heavily in these apps. There is a large part of their downloading in India. Therefore these companies may suffer huge financial losses. Their valuation can also be affected. About 50 percent of India's total app download is from Chinese app.
Tiktok's owner suffers huge loss to BiteDance
Among the banned apps, 30 per cent of the most popular TicketTalk users in India are Indians and about 10 per cent of its revenue comes from India. This app is operated by Chinese company ByteDance. By April 2020, 2 billion downloads of TikTok were downloaded from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Of these, about 30.3 percent or 61.1 crore downloads were from India. According to mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the download of TicketTalk has increased more than China in India. Tik Tok's download in China is only 19.66 crore, which is just 9.7 percent of its total download.
It is worth noting that the market cap of Chinese company ByteDance is about 110 billion dollars (about 8,30,547 crore rupees). ByteDance is not just TicketLock but also the owner of another banned popular app Hello. In India, it operates in the name of ByteDance India Services Limited. Not only this, the owner of Veego Video App is also byteadance.
Tiktok earns so much from India
ByteDance has also purchased Musical.ly in the year 2018. Tittok had earned Rs 25 crore in India in the quarter from October to December 2019. The company's earnings were continuously increasing through advertisements on the app. The company had targeted to earn Rs 100 crore this year.
One billion dollar investment plan
Till last year, the company had invested $ 100 million (ie about Rs 755 crore) in India. The company had planned to invest $ 1 billion (ie about Rs 7550 crore) in India in the next three years. Not only this, the company aimed to increase its workforce in India to 1,000 this year.
Apart from Tiktok, India was also a big market for other banned app Share It, UC Browser, UC News, Likey, WeChat, Wego, Cam Scanner, Clean Master. UC Browser became the largest browser in the country after Google Chrome.
Heavy damage to UC Browser too
China's UC browser also became very popular in India, which is now banned. UC Browser is the Chinese giant Alibaba. It claims to be the world's largest third party mobile browser. It was installed by 110 million people worldwide, of which about half is in India. It has more than 13 crore active users.
This is the complete list of banned Chinese apps
1. TikTok
2. Shareit
3. Kwai
4. UC Browser
5. Baidu map
6. Shein
7. Clash of Kings
8. DU battery saver
9. Helo
10. Likee
11. YouCam makeup
12. Mi Community
13. CM Browers
14. Virus Cleaner
15. APUS Browser
16. ROMWE
17. Club Factory
18. Newsdog
19. Beutry Plus
20. WeChat
21. UC News
22. QQ Mail
23. Weibo
24. Xender
25. QQ Music
26. QQ Newsfeed
27. Bigo Live
28. SelfieCity
29. Mail Master
30. Parallel Space 31. Mi Video Call – Xiaomi
32. WeSync
33. ES File Explorer
34. Viva Video – QU Video Inc
35. Meitu
36. Vigo Video
37. New Video Status
38. DU Recorder
39. Vault- Hide
40. Cache Cleaner DU App studio
41. DU Cleaner
42. DU Browser
43. Hago Play With New Friends
44. Cam Scanner
45. Clean Master – Cheetah Mobile
46. Wonder Camera
47. Photo Wonder
48. QQ Player
49. We Meet
50. Sweet Selfie
51. Baidu Translate
52. Vmate
53. QQ International
54. QQ Security Center
55. QQ Launcher
56. U Video
57. V fly Status Video
58. Mobile Legends
59. DU Privacy
2. Shareit
3. Kwai
4. UC Browser
5. Baidu map
6. Shein
7. Clash of Kings
8. DU battery saver
9. Helo
10. Likee
11. YouCam makeup
12. Mi Community
13. CM Browers
14. Virus Cleaner
15. APUS Browser
16. ROMWE
17. Club Factory
18. Newsdog
19. Beutry Plus
20. WeChat
21. UC News
22. QQ Mail
23. Weibo
24. Xender
25. QQ Music
26. QQ Newsfeed
27. Bigo Live
28. SelfieCity
29. Mail Master
30. Parallel Space 31. Mi Video Call – Xiaomi
32. WeSync
33. ES File Explorer
34. Viva Video – QU Video Inc
35. Meitu
36. Vigo Video
37. New Video Status
38. DU Recorder
39. Vault- Hide
40. Cache Cleaner DU App studio
41. DU Cleaner
42. DU Browser
43. Hago Play With New Friends
44. Cam Scanner
45. Clean Master – Cheetah Mobile
46. Wonder Camera
47. Photo Wonder
48. QQ Player
49. We Meet
50. Sweet Selfie
51. Baidu Translate
52. Vmate
53. QQ International
54. QQ Security Center
55. QQ Launcher
56. U Video
57. V fly Status Video
58. Mobile Legends
59. DU Privacy
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