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2. TikTok - Wikipedia

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   TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, 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 10 minutes. [4]

3. Zhang Yiming - Wikipedia

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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 ). As of March 2024, Zhang's personal wealth was estimated at US$40.2 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires ...

4. Restrictions on TikTok in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Restrictions on TikTok in the United States. In April 2024, US president Joe Biden signed into law the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which is an effective ban or forced sale of TikTok from its parent company ByteDance. The video-sharing platform had sparked concerns over potential user data collection ...

5. How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an ... - AOL

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   The new law gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the short-form video app or face a ban in the US, where it claims some 170 million users and has raised national security ...

6. How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential ...

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   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 ...

7. Explainer-What is so special about TikTok's technology

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   By Josh Ye. HONG KONG (Reuters) - The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the U.S. ordered its Chinese ...

8. Who owns TikTok’s parent company? Brian Kilmeade ... - AOL

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   TikTok's parent company is ByteDance Ltd., of which 60% is owned by global investors, 20% by its Chinese co-founders and 20% by employees, TikTok said

9. ByteDance - Wikipedia

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   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.