Chinese govt has considered plan involving acquisition of TikTok’s US operations by Elon Musk; ban on TikTok is expected to make massive dent in revenue of parent company ByteDance.

"In truth, they're one and the same," they said. Founded in Beijing in 2012 by IT students Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, ByteDance grew rapidly. In 2021, Yiming unexpectedly stepped down as CEO ...

ByteDance is a Chinese technology company best known for developing TikTok, a popular video-sharing platform. It was founded in 2012 by two young engineers Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo with the ...

ByteDance is a Chinese technology company best known for developing TikTok, a popular video-sharing platform. It was founded in 2012 by two young engineers Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo with the goal of ...

As TikTok CEO, Chew reports to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo. Though he runs TikTok from Singapore, he frequently travels to the US. Manas Sen Gupta writes at the intersection of tech, entertainment and ...

In a system that favored insiders, Mr. Liang was not one. Yet, there’s precedent for that. Some of China’s most disruptive tech companies — Huawei, Alibaba, ByteDance — started outside the ...

We thought this was only possible from giants like ByteDance and Alibaba,” he added. Even though DeepSeek was viewed as a side project initially, Liang was personally involved in the company and ...

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform led by Liang Wenfeng, has overtaken ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app in the US, significantly impacting market dynamics and technology stocks. Despite ...