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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.
Zhang focused on expanding ByteDance globally, as opposed to other Chinese tech CEOs who focused on domestic growth of their companies. [13] He insisted that ByteDance's workplace productivity app Lark be targeted at the American, European and Japanese markets, rather than limiting the focus to China as originally proposed. [14]
Lark was developed by Lark Technologies Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of ByteDance, based in Singapore, [2] and was originally developed as an internal tool. [6]In November 2018, Lark became ByteDance's internal communication and collaboration platform.
If ByteDance failed to do so, app stores operated by Apple, Alphabet's Google and others could not legally offer TikTok or provide web hosting services to ByteDance-controlled applications. In ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok on Monday asked an appeals court to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance divest ...
The law prohibits app stores like Apple and Alphabet's Google from offering TikTok and bars internet hosting services from supporting TikTok unless ByteDance divests TikTok by Jan. 19.
The app was first released in China in 2019 and was initially available for iPhone and Android. [1] [2] In 2020, it was renamed as CapCut (formerly ViaMaker internationally) and became available internationally. [3] It later expanded to include web and desktop versions for Mac and Windows. [2] In 2022, CapCut reached 200 million active users. [4]
The House of Representatives will block and remove all ByteDance apps from House-managed devices by Aug. 15, House Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor announced Tuesday in an internal ...