India slams a few more Chinese apps, Baidu Search and Weibo among those
By MYBRANDBOOK
India has again slapped a few more Chinese influential apps- Baidu Search and Weibo among the many most influential apps and as the country’s answer to Google search and Twitter respectively.
Weibo, launched in 2009 by Sina Company, has over 500 million registered customers globally. It had Prime Minister Narendra Modi as considered one of its star customers after he opened an account on the Chinese language microblogging web site in 2015 forward of his go to the neighbouring nation.
Baidu has been testing waters in India (one of its significant products here is Facemoji keyboard), and the company wanted to increase its engagement in the country, something spoken about by its CEO Robin Li, who came visiting the IIT-Madras campus in January this year.
The two apps, which are among the flagship internet products of China, have been asked to be taken off from the app stores of Google and Apple, while internet service providers (IPSs) have also been told to block them, as per the sources. “They are among the 47 new apps that the government had banned on July 27,” an official source said, adding that the government is also considering a decision to block more apps.
While the first decision to ban 59 key apps — such as TikTok, UC Browser, Helo, Likee, Shareit, Mi Community, WeChat and CamScanner — was taken on June 29, the government had supplemented the list by adding 47 more, though this time refraining from making the list public.
Most apps in the second decision included clones and different versions of some of the original apps, such as TikTok Lite, Likee Lite, Bigo Live Lite, Shareit Lite, and CamScanner HD.
The government has decided to block the apps after accusing them of “engaging in activities which are prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”.
During his visit, Baidu’s Li had said that the company wants to work with Indian technology institutions, specially in areas such as artificial intelligence and mobile computing.
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