Chingari crosses 10 million downloads in India, says ‘No’ to Chinese funding
India recently banned 59 Chinese apps including social networking app TikTok with more than 200 million users but the ban helped local start-ups to flourish. Chingari is a Tik-Tok alternative, the short-form video-sharing app crossed 10 million downloads on the Android Play Store in under a month. While talking about Chinese money, Co-Founder Sumit Ghosh said “ “No Chinese money, no Chinese companies’ money, Not now, not ever,”
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White House advisor calls TikTok’s CEO an “American Puppet”
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