has “spawned its own industry”, creating a new generation of social-media stars and handing an estimated $33bn fortune to Zhang Yiming – the 37-year-old software engineer who founded its ...

Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, has become the wealthiest person in China with a net worth of $57.5 billion. This achievement is particularly noteworthy for the 41-year-old, considering ...

SINGAPORE—Zhang Yiming chose a college by calculating which schools were far from home and had a favorable female-to-male ...

On one side, ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming is leading talks for a Microsoft-Walmart takeover, helped along by Zhang's connections to Microsoft as a former employee. On the other is a group of ...

Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance and China’s richest man, has not obtained Singaporean citizenship, according to a statement from Douyin, the Chinese sister app of TikTok. Douyin said it ...