At another event the next day, Zhong targeted another one of China’s tech companies: ByteDance. Zhong said he’d hoped to get an apology from Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder, for not ...

ByteDance, which under the direction of the tech group’s founder Zhang Yiming has become the frontrunner in China’s AI race, ...

With Trump back in charge, a long list of mooted, familiar buyers is re-emerging. The simplest way to scroll past this glitch ...

When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president on January 20, several tech tycoons were present - from Amazon.com's ...

TikTok went dark in the U.S. as roughly 170 million Americans were denied access to the popular social media app. Although the threat of suspending the app loomed over American users for months, some ...

Microsoft, which declined to comment on the president’s remarks, had discussed buying TikTok in 2020, when Trump tried to ...

Kotick, the former CEO of video game publisher Activision, has tossed his name out there in the past and apparently has spoken to ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, The Wall Street Journal reported ...

Kotick previously spoke with ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming about acquiring the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2024. Today, Kotick is the co-chairman of the Call of Duty Endowment ...

Zhang Yiming, a Chinese entrepreneur, founds ByteDance. He reportedly sketched the rough concept for what would become TikTok on the back of a napkin. July Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang launch Musical.ly.

Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged with its competitor Musical.ly, TikTok has grown from a niche teen app into a global trendsetter. While, of course, also emerging as a ...

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