TikTok calls time on Hong Kong after Beijing crackdown
The buzzy short-video platform owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance, said on Tuesday it would pull out of Hong Kong.
The buzzy short-video platform owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance said on Tuesday it would pull out of Hong Kong within a week in light of “recent developments” in the city.
TikTok said it would pull its apps from Google and Apple app stores in the city and cease operations for existing users there, a spokesman said.
TikTok, which said last September it had about 150,000 users in Hong Kong, was not profitable in the former British colony, he said.
This will be the second Asian market the social-media app has exited recently.
TikTok stopped services to users in India last week after Indian authorities banned the app following military skirmishes with Chinese troops along a disputed land border.
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