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TikTok, whose mainland Chinese and Hong Kong [3] counterpart is Douyin, [a] [4] is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [ 5 ]
The future of TikTok is mired in uncertainty in the United States after the House of Representatives passed a bill last week which could ultimately lead to the wildly popular video app being banned.
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.
TikTok is asking a federal court to stop a law that could ban the social media platform in the U.S. But two studies suggest TikTok blocks info critical of China, and a new analysis argues the firm ...
Bilibili (stylized in all lowercase), nicknamed B Site, is a Chinese video-sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit, view, and add overlaid commentary on videos. Bilibili hosts videos on various themes, including anime , music , dance , science and technology , movies , drama , fashion , and video games , but it is also known ...
Billionaire Frank McCourt told Yahoo Finance he is still interested in acquiring TikTok if it isn't able to overturn a federal law that demands the Chinese-owned social media app be sold to a US ...
Zhang's management style with ByteDance was modeled on US tech companies such as Google and included bimonthly town hall meetings and discouraging employees from calling him "boss" or "CEO", as is the Chinese convention. [14] In September 2015, ByteDance launched its video-sharing app TikTok (known as Douyin in China) with little fanfare.
The House of Representatives, on March 13, passed a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to sell the app’s U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban.