ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. [7]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.

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...

Jan 19, 2025 · Video-sharing app TikTok wasn't the only platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance that went offline in the U.S. on Sunday. Several other apps, including the photo-sharing app Lemon8, are no ...

Jan 19, 2025 · The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling hinged on the first justification: that China, through the app and its parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, can amass vast amounts of information from ...

3 days ago · ByteDance is a Chinese technology company that has developed novel video-sharing social networking applications, most notably TikTok. ByteDance also serves as the parent company of several popular social media and news apps.

Feb 24, 2020 · Although most often described as “the Chinese owner of TikTok” globally, ByteDance has another nickname in China: “app factory.” Since its inception in 2012, the company has created an...

Jan 22, 2025 · TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China's most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US...

Douyin is China's leading destination for short-form mobile videos. Powered by easy-to-use video creation tools, Douyin quickly became a highly popular app across the country.

Mar 24, 2023 · Douyin has a whopping 600 million users a day. Like TikTok, it’s a short-form video app. Launched in 2016, Douyin was the major money spinner for ByteDance years before TikTok, raking in revenue...

Mar 15, 2024 · The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill this week that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short video app, or...