In addition to its flagship products, ByteDance offers a suite of other products and services catering to different markets and user needs. These include Xigua Video, a Chinese video platform; Baike.com, an online encyclopedia; PICO 4, a programming language; Lemon8, a cloud-based video editing...
ByteDance has over 150,000 employees based out of nearly 120 cities globally, including Austin, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Tokyo. ...
China’s ByteDance, an internet firm and the owner of the short video appTikTok, has launched its own third-party mobile payment service called “Douyin Pay”. Douyin Pay is the Chinese version of the TikTok app, the video-sharing app known in China as Douyin. The launch of Do...
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told U.S. lawmakers that China-based employees at its parent company ByteDance may still have access to some U.S. data from the app. He said that won’t be the case once its risk mitigation plan, called Project Texas, is complete. ...
TikTok’s popularity over the past two years has shone the spotlight on ByteDance, its Beijing-based developer. Founded by a Chinese computer scientist, Zhang Yiming, in 2011, it is now the world’s biggest unlisted technology “unicorn”, recently valued at between $90bn and $100bn. It is...
The firm aims to produce robots that can sort and pack goods in warehouses, LatePost reported on July 3, without disclosing the specific positions Beijing-based ByteDance is hiring for. ByteDance began to explore robotics in 2020, and had a team of just over 10 people by the end of 2021....
The Chinese version of the popular short video app TikTok, known as Douyin, will limit users in China who are under 14 years old to 40 minutes a day, parent company ByteDancesaid in a blog postSaturday. The app’s youth mode keeps it in line with the Chinese government’s new restrictio...
a range of products that enable users to create, share, and engage with short-form videos and other forms of digital content. ByteDance primarily serves sectors such as online entertainment, digital advertising, and social media services. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Beijing, China....
But in an ironic twist, ByteDance, which is based in China where the ruling Communist Party has cracked down on free speech and dissent, will be relying on this very American right to protect its business interest. “We are confident and we will keep fighting for your rights...
The Chinese billionaire behind teen phenomenon TikTok is a 36-year-old tech guru whose eye for youth trends and pioneering use of AI has blasted the app to global success—while working hand-in-glove with censors to control content within China. Zhang Yiming's Beijing-based startup Bytedance ...