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.

It was founded in 2012 by two young engineers Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo with the goal of capitalizing on the growing mobile apps industry. The company's initial projects were Neihan Duanzi ...

It was founded in 2012 by two young engineers Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo with the goal of capitalizing on the growing mobile apps industry. The company's initial projects were Neihan Duanzi, an app ...

ByteDance is founded by Yiming Zhang and Rubo Liang, who launched one of their flagship products, Toutiao, later that year. ByteDance launches Douyin, a short-form video app available in China with ...

Chew and his partners invested in ByteDance Ltd., which was founded by Zhang Yiming, after meeting the group of ... As TikTok CEO, Chew reports to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo. Though he runs TikTok from ...

10 Feb - Douyin has permanently banned the accounts of Zhang Lan and Wang Xiaofei ... and provoked widespread public backlash." Li Liang, vice president of Douyin, explained: "As they have violated ...