How TikTok’s Chinese owner tightened its grip on the app
WEBApr 25, 2024 · TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years, according to company insiders, even as momentum to ban the short-video app grew in ...
Despite international hires, TikTok is Chinese at its core
WEBMay 7, 2024 · Current and former TikTok employees say Chinese executives, instead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, are making key decisions. Experts say close ties between TikTok and ByteDance call into question whether TikTok could be considered a separate entity, making a potential sale unfeasible.
Analysis: There is now some public evidence that China viewed …
WEBJun 8, 2023 · In a court filing this week, the former employee of ByteDance, Yintao Yu, alleged that the CCP spied on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2018 by using “backdoor” access to TikTok to...
ByteDance: How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an …
WEBApr 25, 2024 · The new law gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the short-form video app or face a ban in the US, where it claims some 170 million users and has raised national security...
TikTok Lawsuit: ByteDance Founder Is Part of Elite Chinese Living …
WEBMay 8, 2024 · Among the facts TikTok’s lawsuit against the US government surfaced: billionaire ByteDance Ltd. founder Zhang Yiming is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship.
US TikTok ban: When and why could the app be outlawed? - AOL
WEB5 days ago · The video app TikTok could be banned in the US unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance. ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24 ...
ByteDance - Wikipedia
WEBByteDance is the developer of TikTok, Toutiao, and other apps that use big data algorithms to classify news and content. It was founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, and has faced legal and media attention over security, surveillance, and censorship issues.
Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, gears up for …
WEBMar 13, 2020 · The founder of China's ByteDance, owner of the wildly successful TikTok app, has for years aspired to make ByteDance the first Chinese firm to rival U.S. internet giants on the global stage.
What You Need to Know About TikTok's Chinese Parent Company, ByteDance
WEBMar 15, 2024 · The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill this week that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short video app, or...
All the apps run by TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance - Quartz
WEBFeb 24, 2020 · ByteDance merged Huoshan with Douyin (link in Chinese) in early January, saying the two would continue to operate as independent entities but their content would be shared on each other’s...
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