ByteDance - Wikipedia
Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin. The company is also the developer of the news platform Toutiao and the video-editing app CapCut.
TikTok: Is it really Chinese? | CNN Business
Mar 18, 2024 · In particular, they worry that TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, could share data with the Chinese government or manipulate content displayed on its platform. So far, there’s...
RIP TikTok. Long live TikTok: A look at the ByteDance app
Jan 20, 2025 · TikTok's influence has been greater than its seemingly short-lived demise. The ByteDance-owned app returns after going dark over the weekend.
TikTok updates: ByteDance director says deal will get done to …
Jan 22, 2025 · WASHINGTON – General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford said on Wednesday that a deal would get done to save TikTok in the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halted a ban on the...
U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its ...
Jan 17, 2025 · The ban of TikTok in the United States is set to create a glaring hole in social media. For ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China, it also could create a glaring hole in its business. The ...
Supreme Court gives green light to law that could ban TikTok
Jan 17, 2025 · The bipartisan law requires China-based TikTok owner ByteDance to divest itself of the company by Sunday, the day before President-elect Donald Trump is to take office. If no sale takes place, the ...
ByteDance: How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an …
Apr 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...
Who will buy TikTok from ByteDance? | CNN Business
Mar 14, 2024 · There’s just one pesky little $100 billion problem: Who’s gonna buy this thing? Technically, the legislation that passed overwhelmingly in the House on Wednesday is a cudgel that seeks to force...
Perplexity AI makes a bid to merge with TikTok U.S.
Jan 18, 2025 · Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok parent ByteDance, proposing that Perplexity merge with TikTok U.S., CNBC has learned.
What to know about TikTok owner ByteDance amid possible TikTok …
Mar 13, 2024 · Once signed, the provision will give TikTok’s parent company, the Beijing-based ByteDance, roughly nine months to sell the platform or face a nationwide ban on Apple and Google app stores...