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Bytedance appoints dedicated head of gaming: report · TechNode
The Bytedance executive currently heading its strategy and investment unit will lead the company's gaming business as it looks to drive growth.
ByteDance to name exclusive head for gaming, signaling ambitions for business: sources
China's ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing app TikTok, will appoint an executive to exclusively lead its nascent gaming business, sources said, signaling its growth ambitions in the sector and an intensifying rivalry with tech giant Tencent.
TikTok is reportedly on the hunt for a US-based CEO, and it could be the company's latest step to distance itself from ties to China
The move may help to distance TikTok from ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, and appease concerns about the app's ties to the Chinese government.
ByteDance Is Seeking a New CEO for Its TikTok Business
Chinese internet giant ByteDance Inc. is seeking a new chief executive officer for its TikTok business, a hugely popular video app that American politicians have targeted as a potential security threat.
Exclusive: China's ByteDance moves to ringfence its TikTok app amid U.S. probe - sources
ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok from much of its Chinese operations, amid a U.S. national security panel's inquiry into the safety of the personal data it handles, people familiar with the matter said.
TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China’s Detention Camps (Published 2019)
The app faced renewed questions about whether it censors material after it removed an American’s video about Muslims in China.
WSJ News Exclusive | TikTok Looking at Ways to Shake Off Its Ties to China
TikTok this year made history as China’s first social-media company to make it big in the U.S. Now, it wants to shed its label as a Chinese brand.
TikTok’s Chief Is on a Mission to Prove It’s Not a Menace (Published 2019)
Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington’s fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
China’s TikTok Blazes New Ground. That Could Doom It. (Published 2019)
The rise of the seemingly innocuous app is forcing Americans to consider a world influenced by a Chinese-backed social media network.
TikTok Said to Be Under National Security Review (Published 2019)
The review comes after lawmakers raised concerns about TikTok’s growing influence in the United States.
Four ways Facebook showed how much it wanted China
Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech decrying Chinese censorship, but it wasn’t long ago that he was courting China
Bytedance Pushes Into Search in Threat to Baidu's China Monopoly
When Google pulled out of the China market in 2010, it left local leader Baidu Inc. a de facto monopoly in the lucrative internet search business. Now that franchise is facing its most ominous threat yet.
China's ByteDance is developing a smartphone
Chinese social media firm ByteDance said on Monday it is developing a smartphone, following a deal it made with device maker Smartisan Technology.
Bytedance has reportedly acquired UK music AI startup, Jukedeck · TechNode
The acquisition could bolster Bytedance’s music-themed short video apps.
Bytedance tests online learning app 'Tangyuan English' · TechNode
The short video learning platform is Bytedance’s seventh self-launched education product and third English-learning product.
TikTok parent Bytedance is reportedly working on its own smartphone – TechCrunch
It’s been a busy couple of months for Bytedance, one of the world’s most valuable startups and the operator of globally popular video app TikTok. The Beijing-based company has continued to grow its list of apps to include the likes of work collaboration tool Lark, an instant messenger called Feiliao as well as a music streaming […]
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, plans to launch a free music streaming app – TechCrunch
Does the overcrowded and cut-throat music streaming business have room for an additional player? The world’s most valuable startup certainly thinks so. Chinese conglomerate ByteDance, valued at more than $75 billion, is working on a music streaming service, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The company, which operates popular app TikTok, has held […]
Opinion | We Should Worry About How China Uses Apps Like TikTok
Illiberal innovations created for China’s vast surveilled and censored domestic market are increasingly popular overseas.
Bytedance's tutoring platform Gogokid laying off employees · TechNode
Chinese tutoring providers, either online or offline, have now been restricted to charge tuition fees for a maximum period of only three months.
TikTok: SC stay on ban, government asks Apple & Google to take down TikTok app
MeitYs order will stop further downloads, but people who already have the app will be able to still use it.
