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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 ...
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]
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).
The bill would require China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok, ... TikTok called the Chinese government’s 1% share in Douyin a "common arrangement" under Chinese law. It has no bearing on ...
The TikTok owner's push to acquire more Nvidia chips is part of the company's broader effort to establish itself as an AI powerhouse. The company has siphoned top engineers from rival companies ...
The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ownership by a ...
China made changes to its export laws in 2020 that give it approval rights over any export of algorithms. The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok ...