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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 ]
In China, there is a different version of TikTok: a sister app called Douyin. It launched before TikTok and became a viral sensation in the massive mainland market. Its powerful algorithm became ...
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.
Zhang Yiming (Chinese: 张一鸣; born April 1, 1983) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur.He founded ByteDance in 2012, developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin (internationally known as TikTok).
TikTok called the Chinese government’s 1% share in Douyin a "common arrangement" under Chinese law. It has no bearing on ByteDance’s global operations, including TikTok, it said.
Some have insisted they be called “global companies” instead of “Chinese companies.” But for TikTok, this may not be enough. The House bill passed overwhelmingly on a 352-65 vote.
The floor of the U.S. House of Representatives is pictured after the House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets ...
Some 170 million Americans are TikTok users, and U.S. politicians fear their data has a direct route back to the Chinese state via ByteDance, which has its head offices in Beijing.