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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 ). In March 2024, Zhang's personal wealth was estimated at US$40.2 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires ...
On March 17, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officially launched an investigation of TikTok, including allegations that the company spied on American journalists. [ 9] On January 25, 2023, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban the platform nationwide.
TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. [12] It owns four entities that are based respectively in the United States, Australia (which also runs the New Zealand business), United Kingdom (also owns subsidiaries in the European Union), and Singapore (owns operations in Southeast Asia and India).
According to more than ten former employees, TikTok retained data-sharing ties to its Chinese parent, ByteDance—despite the company’s assertions to the contrary. TikTok has repeatedly said ...
President Joe Biden approved a limited TikTok ban Thursday when he signed the 4,126-page spending bill into law. The ban prohibits the use of TikTok by the federal government’s nearly 4 million ...
“For young people, this is a fight for our future,” said Foxx, who has more than 141,000 followers on TikTok and 54,000 on Instagram. The party's outreach to prominent influencers extends ...
Recorded 23 March 2023. Website. tiktok.com. Shou Zi Chew ( Chinese: 周受资; born 1 January 1983) is a Singaporean business executive who has been serving as the chief executive officer (CEO) of TikTok, an online video platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, since 2021. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
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.