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YouTube will first test its short-video app ‘Shorts’ in India, its largest and fastest-growing market.

However, the sale of TikTok probably won’t proceed without an agreement between Beijing and Washington.

The company is currently hiring for more than 200 Singapore-based positions, including roles for Thai and Vietnamese speakers.

ByteDance, the app’s Chinese parent company, is discussing alternatives to a sale of TikTok’s entire US operation, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Haokan, which is similar to Baidu’s Xigua, had 110 million daily active users as of last November.

Weishi launched its Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival Shopping Season in a bid to get more farmers selling their produce on the the platform.

TikTok’s recommendation algorithm is its secret sauce and this is what its prospective buyers are after.

ByteDance has long been a proponent of content recommendation systems, and uses it on other products, such as the popular news aggregator Jinri Toutiao.