China's richest person is valued at almost $50 billion; that's the ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, age 41. To be precise, he ...

China has a new richest person – and it’s the entrepreneur behind the wildly popular, and controversial, app TikTok.

Zhang stepped down as ByteDance’s CEO and chairman in 2021, handing over the reins to Liang Rubo, who has both roles today.

Mr Zhang said his successor Rubo Liang has been "an invaluable ... accepts record fine and vows to change Mr Liang's most recent role at ByteDance was head of its human resources department.

Despite dominating the app market, TikTok's owner is irked that his people didn't move on artificial intelligence sooner. Liang Rubo, the cofounder of TikTok's parent company ByteDance, told ...

The move underscores the TikTok owner's ambitions to solidify Doubao's leading position TikTok parent ByteDance is adding ...

ByteDance was founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo. The duo saw a gap in the budding mobile internet market and made it their mission to develop platforms to enrich people’s lives.

Requests for comments were not immediately answered by ByteDance and Moonton representatives. Founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, ByteDance has grown into an internet major worth more ...

Shifts in China's billionaire landscape. Zhang's rise has dethroned China's "bottled water king" Zhong Shanshan, who had been ...

It has been racing to catch up with Big Tech’s efforts to produce an AI chatbot after CEO Liang Rubo implied during a company-wide meeting in January that ByteDance was late to the game in ...

CHINA: The 2024 Huron China Rich List released last week has named Zhang Yiming the richest person in the country. Zhang is ...

ByteDance's CEO Liang Rubo sent a separate email to employees, stating that the company needs to "deeply reflect on our actions and think about how we can prevent similar incidents from happening ...