A woman walks past the headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing on September 16, 2020. - Silicon Valley tech giant Oracle is "very close" to sealing a deal ...
TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed with ...
HONG KONG, Nov 16 (Reuters) - TikTok owner ByteDance is testing a paywall feature for content creators on its short video platform Douyin in China, a person familiar with the matter said, as the ...
Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, spurred a creator economy with more than 700 million active users. The social media video app, owned by ByteDance has parental controls and even time limits. NBC ...
On Saturday, Douyin parent company Bytedance announced they would be limiting access to the app for children to 40 minutes a day, in line with the Chinese government’s push to curb “internet addiction ...
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill this week that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short video app, or face a ...
A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei ...
Regular users of the short-video app TikTok are more likely to subscribe to narratives that favor the Chinese government, according to research published this month in Taiwan. In a public opinion poll ...
Expanding beyond just video gaming, the youth in China are now also having their time on social media platforms limited. Youngsters having their access to social media and online services limited ...
Tencent’s WeChat Pay and Alibaba’s affiliate Alipay have long dominated digital payments in China, but they have always faced new challengers. The latest entrant in online payments is Douyin, TikTok’s ...
Douyin, the Chinese version of the popular video-sharing platform TikTok has set a limitation for young users in China through its "Youth Mode." Company owner ByteDance said that it would now limit ...