Indian sellers and consumers are concerned over their payments and refunds owing to the ban of 59 Chinese apps, including e-commerce platform Club Factory. The Chinese e-commerce platform is popular for cheaper goods across the fashion, lifestyle and electronic segments coming from China. While the company has been facing government scrutiny over its various trade […]

Representatives from the 59 Chinese apps banned by India on Monday can appear before a government-constituted committee within 48 hours of the announcement to prove that the data of Indian users is not being sent to servers in China, top officials told ET. The committee, which is likely to meet on Wednesday, will conduct a […]

The Department of Telecommunications has ordered internet service providers and telcos to immediately block access to 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, SHAREit and WeChat. The names of the apps were issued in two lists. “Ministry of electronics and IT has issued directions for blocking of 35 apps,” DoT said in an order late Tuesday, which […]

The ban on several Chinese apps, including popular short-form video app TikTok, has caught the media industry, advertisers, marketers and content creators by surprise, and forced many companies running campaigns on these platforms to look for alternative digital avenues. Media agency experts, though, said the government decision on Monday to ban 59 Chinese apps will […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi AliExpress, one of the oldest and largest e-commerce platforms that ships products to India, has managed to evade the latest ban on 59 Chinese apps, a list that includes three peers Shein, Club Factory and Romwe. Club Factory and Shein had earlier come under the government’s radar for allegedly misusing India’s duty-free […]

Fashion platform Limeroad’s customer database has suffered a breach with details of 1.29 million shoppers up for sale on the darkweb, reports US-based cyber security firm Cyble, at a time when online shoppers are switching from Chinese apps to Indian e-commerce apps. “As part of our regular deepweb and darkweb monitoring, we came across a […]

Tiktok, the short video app which had captured the fancy of rural India and more recently the urban elite, has gone offline in the country, its biggest overseas market. Meanwhile, there is a renewed enthusiasm among local startup entrepreneurs to build domestic ventures that can step in and fill the void that has come up […]

Amazon on Tuesday said its grocery delivery service Pantry has been expanded to cover 300 cities, at a time when India is seeing a spurt in the number of Covid-19 cases, keeping demand for home delivery of groceries and essential products high. The company said customers across 10,000 pin codes will be able to choose […]

India’s move to ban 59 Chinese apps including TikTok found widespread support among the country’s startup and tech community, who are eyeing this opportunity to back promising homegrown ventures. The government on Monday prohibited the use of several apps citing the threat posed to the country’s “sovereignty and security”. This comes after border tensions between […]

Reddit on Monday said it yanked a forum used by supporters of President Donald Trump as part of a crackdown on hateful posts at the popular online bulletin board while the game streaming platform Twitch briefly suspended the president. “r/The_Donald” was among some 2,000 forums or “subreddits” banned as tightening of rules at the news-focused […]