Beijing Office Shortage Turns Tech Firms into Construction Firms Despite its status as the world’s most valuable startup, seven-year-old Bytedance has so far not had a dedicated headquarters to house its 10,000-strong workforce. Now, Zhongkun Plaza, or at least the site of the project, wi...
Yu saysan engineer in Beijing could access US user data, even if it were stored on a server in the US. After this practice was scrutinized by American lawmakers, Beijing engineers' access to US data was revoked, but the Committee's access remained. TikTok declined to ad...
Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) will deliver the Spanish language response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday, Speaker Mike Johnson announced. Johnson said De La Cruz's story is "nothing short of inspirational and encapsulates the very essence of wha...
Why it matters:The company is intensifying its efforts to address concerns around its Chinese ownership. Tiktok’s Chinese parent, Beijing-based Bytedance, has stepped up efforts to separate the app from its Chinese operations by hiring executives in the US, including cybersecurity veteran Roland Cl...
ITU-T H.265 “High efficiency video coding” Series H: Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems Infrastructure of audiovisual services—Coding of moving video,Telecommunication Standardization Sector of ITU, Available at address: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265 (Nov. 2019). Lee et al. “Non...
Specifically, a drag object in the original application display region may be a selected text, song, webpage link address, or picture, which may be different depending on the content supported to be selected in each application. As shown in FIG. 6, the drag object is a text in a contact...
ByteDance began on the Beijing metro, according to an address Zhang gave to students at Nankai University in 2015. “Back in 2011, I noticed that fewer and fewer people were reading newspapers on subways,” Zhang said. “The sales of smartphones in China also experienced explosive growth in...
Microsoft will not acquire TikTok's U.S. operations after ByteDance rejected the company's offer. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant was seen as a