In a tumultuous year for China’s tech sector, ByteDance – the power behind short video hit TikTok and the country’s most-valued unicorn – may just have faced its Dunkirk moment.
ByteDance was founded in 2012 by a team led by Yiming Zhang and Rubo Liang, who saw opportunities in the then-nascent mobile internet market, and aspired to build platforms that could enrich people's lives. The company launched Toutiao, one of its flagship products, in August 2012. It followed that success with the launch of Douyin in September
The deal is undisclosed but sources tell TechCrunch that Bytedance, the company behind China’s top news aggregator service Toutiao, will pay between $800 million and $1 billion to buy Musical.ly
Topline. A former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance alleged in a court filing that Chinese Communist Party officials accessed data of Hong Kong civil rights activists that used
In China, ByteDance has just made its much-rumored debut into the smartphone market. The Smartisan Nut Pro 3 is a well-specced handset available now priced at around $400.
20%: ByteDance shares owned by employees by its founders. The shares of Zhang Yiming, ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo, and others who founded the company in Beijing in 2012, carry outsize voting rights.
ByteDance's main Chinese subsidiary is the license-holder for some of its video and information platforms that only serve the China market. Official investment funds have also bought 1% of the Chinese subsidiary of Weibo Corp., the country's most popular microblog platform, and also of domestic subsidiaries of Alibaba.
Owning TikTok and Douyin, the most popular short video app in China, ByteDance has reached almost two billion monthly active users of its products. Highest-earning apps owned by ByteDance 2023;
A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese firm that owns TikTok, has come forward with accusations that the company provided backdoor access to data on U.S. users and boosted, demoted and
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ByteDance Headquarters on January 6, 2022 in Shanghai, China. VCG/Getty Images. The profiles also provide critical insight into how ByteDance manages its relationship with Chinese state media
ByteDance says it will own 80% of TikTok Global, contradicts Trump's claims deal has 'nothing to do with China' But because 40% of ByteDance is owned by U.S. venture capital firms, the Trump
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