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ByteDance reshuffles, education unit adapts to new rules
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TikTok brain drain as head of AI lab leaves ByteDance?
The head of an artificial intelligence lab at the company behind TikTok has left the private sector in China to join the University of California at Santa Barbara.
ByteDance finally reads the room and cancels six-day work weeks
ByteDance, the hard-charging Chinese tech giant that created TikTok, has ended an overtime policy after a month of dithering, and after one of its biggest rivals took concrete steps to end its corporate culture of overwork.
Kuaishou shows ByteDance that fighting overwork isn’t that hard
One of China’s biggest video apps, Kuaishou, once installed sensors in toilets to monitor how long employees took in the bathroom. Now the company has put an end to six day work weeks for tech staff, shortly after ByteDance — which owns China’s dominant short video platform — decided to continue the practice.
The people who work for TikTok are workaholics and they want more!
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is famous for its workaholic culture, and many of its employees don’t want it to change despite growing calls in China for better work-life balance at tech companies.
TikTok and Douyin combined top the world of in-app purchases
TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin are the world’s most lucrative apps aside from games when it comes to in-app payments, and advertising revenue in the U.S. is exploding as the Biden administration declines to enforce previous bans.
Kuaishou reaches $159 billion valuation after largest tech IPO since Uber
Chinese short-video giant Kuaishou made a splashy IPO in Hong Kong, reaching a valuation close to its larger competitor, Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Will Douyin’s parent company, ByteDance, follow and also list its short-video product in Hong Kong?
Kuaishou copyright dispute escalates ahead of Hong Kong IPO
China’s second most famous video app after TikTok / Douyin might have to take down music or pay hefty copyright fees ahead of its planned listing.
More Than Just TikTok, What you Should Know about Chinese Short Video Apps
While Douyin and its international subsidiary, TikTok, get most of the headlines, China’s short-form video app universe is more competitive than most people in the West realize. Here’s the low-down from Ping Pong Digital, the authorities on China’s digital ecosystem.
India permanently bans TikTok and WeChat
India — once the most promising new market for Chinese technology companies — has solidified its own great firewall by confirming bans on 59 Chinese apps.
Kuaishou, China’s other TikTok, files for IPO in Hong Kong
TikTok may be in choppy waters in the U.S., but its Chinese version and two major competitors are thriving and hungry for cash to expand.
Fear of a red tech planet — why the U.S. is suddenly afraid of Chinese innovation
Americans are as wrong in their overestimations of Chinese innovation today as they were in their underestimation just a few years ago.
Will China target Google? Is it revenge for Huawei and TikTok?
China could pursue an antitrust investigation into Google’s use of its Android operating system as soon as October, according to Reuters. The move would come after the Trump administration’s attacks on TikTok, WeChat, Huawei, and SMIC.
The man behind TikTok, who believes in a cyberspace without borders
Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of ByteDance — the $100 billion company that owns TikTok — is a 37-year-old self-made billionaire who always puts business interests and global ambitions first. But now he finds himself caught up in a U.S.-China political rivalry, battered by people on both sides.
China is unlikely to approve any TikTok deal that doesn’t keep source code secret
Beijing appears to be souring on the TikTok deal. After a series of state media editorials indicated this attitude, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese Commerce Ministry officials are skeptical of allowing American companies to inspect TikTok’s algorithm.
TikTok and WeChat both in limbo in U.S. after Trump ‘blessing’ and court ruling
A day before TikTok and WeChat were due to be taken off app stores in the U.S., both apps were saved from the ban — TikTok by Trump’s “blessing” of a restructuring deal, and WeChat by a free speech lawsuit. The future of both apps is hard to predict.
Trump’s WeChat and TikTok ban starts Sunday
The Trump administration is poised to implement a Chinese Great Firewall–style block on WeChat starting on September 20, with downloads of the app barred and network interruptions ordered. Downloads of TikTok will also be blocked, but the company has until November 12 to strike a deal with Oracle before also suffering technical freezes.
TikTok rejects Microsoft, proposes to make Oracle ‘trusted technology partner.’ Will Trump be satisfied?
ByteDance, wary of political risk after Beijing designated parts of its algorithms as “sensitive technologies,” will not sell TikTok to Microsoft or anyone else. Instead, the company is proposing to partner with Oracle, a Silicon Valley company with Trump-friendly executives.
