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TikTok names ByteDance CFO Shouzi Chew as new CEO
TikTok appointed Shouzi Chew, a Singaporean national, as the new Chief Executive Officer of the hot video-sharing platform, the company has said.
US judge to hold TikTok ban hearing on November 4th
A US judge said on Tuesday he would hold a Nov. 4 hearing on whether to permit the American government to bar transactions with TikTok, a move that the Chinese-owned short video ap...
ByteDance drops TikTok’s US sale, to partner with Oracle
ByteDance abandoned the purchase price of TikTok from the US on Sunday to pursue a partnership with Oracle it hopes will save it a US prohibit when appeasing China’s authorit...
How a Silicon Valley chip pioneer landed in Communist China
Since the United States stepped up its effort to prevent China from acquiring key technological know-how, the twisting journey of a pioneering Silicon Valley computer chip company ...
ByteDance investors seek to use stakes to finance TikTok bid
Investors in ByteDance are in talks to utilise their stakes in the Chinese tech Goliath to help finance a bid for its popular short-video app TikTok, according to people familiar w...
Microsoft faces technical challenges in TikTok carveout
Microsoft’s bid to carve out parts of TikTok out of the Chinese owner ByteDance will be a technically complex endeavour that could test the patience of the Trump administrati...
Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, gears up for the global stage
The founder of China’s ByteDance, owner of the wildly successful TikTok app, has for years aspired to make ByteDance the first Chinese firm to rival American internet giants ...