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Background and founding
In 2009, software engineer and entrepreneur Zhang Yiming collaborated with his friend Liang Rubo to co-found 99fang.com, a real estate search engine. In early 2012, the pair rented an apartment in Zhongguancun and, along with several other 99fang employees, began developing an app that would use big data algorithms to classify news according to users' preferences, which would later become Toutiao.That March, Yiming and Liang founded ByteDance.
First apps: Neihan Duanzi and TouTiao
In March 2012, ByteDance launched its first app, called Neihan Duanzi (内涵段子). This allowed users to circulate jokes, memes, and humorous videos. At its peak in 2017, Neihan Duanzi had over 200 million users . In August 2012, ByteDance launched the first version of news and content platform Toutiao ("Headlines"), which would become their core product.Toutiao hit 1 million daily active users four months after its launch. In 2018, ByteDance permanently sunsetted Neihan Duanzi, after the National...
Expansion into new markets
From late 2016 through 2017, ByteDance had a number of acquisitions and new product launches. In December 2016, it invested in the Indonesian news recommendation platform BABE.In July 2017, it launched the UGC short video platform Hypstar (Vigo Video) in Southeast Asia. In February 2017 it acquired Flipagram, and in November it acquired Musical.ly, merging them both into TikTok. In November it also acquired News Republic from Cheetah Mobile.
Leadership
Zhang Yiming was the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ByteDance. On May 19, 2021, the company announced that Zhang Yiming would step down as CEO at the end of 2021 and his co-founder Liang Rubo would become CEO. On 19 May 2020, ByteDance and Disney released an announcement that Kevin Mayer, head of Disney's streaming business, would join ByteDance. From June 2020 to his resignation 26 August 2020, Mayer served as the CEO of TikTok and the COO of ByteDance, reporting directly to the company CEO...
Funding
ByteDance is financially backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, and Hillhouse Capital Group.As of March 2021, it was estimated to be valued at $250 billion in private trades.
Partnerships
ByteDance has a strategic partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security for the ministry's public relations efforts,and joint ventures with a state-run publisher in Beijing and media firm in Shanghai.
Douyin
Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), the Chinese version of TikTok, is a short-form video platform that differs from its international counterpart by having more advanced features, such as e-commerce. As of August 2020, the app had 600 million daily active users.TikTok and Douyin have almost the same user interface but no access to each other's content. Their servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available.
Lark
First released to the public in 2019, Lark is ByteDance's enterprise collaboration platform.Its features include cloud-based file management and document and spreadsheet editing. Lark was originally developed as an internal tool, becoming ByteDance's primary internal communication and collaboration platform, but was eventually made available to external users in certain markets.
TikTok
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service used to make short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education. TikTok users create short videos, often featuring music in the background, including short lip-sync videos to popular songs. Videos can be sped up, slowed down, or edited with a filter. The app has spawned numerous viral trends, Internet celebrities, and music trends around the world. On November 9, 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai-based social media start-up Mus...
Huxiu
In December 2018, ByteDance sued Chinese technology news site Huxiu for defamation after Huxiu reported that ByteDance's Indian-language news app Helo was propagating misinformation.
US Federal Trade Commission fine
On February 27, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission fined TikTok US$5.7 million for collecting information from minors under the age of 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act in the United States.ByteDance later added a kids-only mode to TikTok which blocks the upload of videos, the building of user profiles, direct messaging, and commenting on other's videos, while still allowing the viewing and recording of content.
US executive orders
On 3 August 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump set September 15 as the deadline for TikTok, a social media app under ByteDance, to find a US buyer, and he then issued executive orders that would effectively ban TikTok from operating in the country if it is not sold by ByteDance within 45 days.Then at 12:40 PM of August 3, Beijing local time, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming sent out an all-staff letter in response to the potential sale of TikTok's US operations. On 7 August 2020, ByteDance relea...
Il y a 1 jour · His elder brother Martin is a musician, while his younger brother Brendan is a presenter. [8] Coogan's mother is Irish and hails from County Mayo, while his father was born in Manchester to Irish parents Margaret (from County Kilkenny) and Thomas Coogan (a tailor from County Cork), who had settled there shortly before the First World War.
Il y a 1 jour · The first Baptist baptism (adult baptism by full immersion) in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul in the Yelizavetgrad region (now Kropyvnytskyi region), in a German settlement. In 1867, the first Baptist communities were organized in that area. From there, the Baptist movement spread across the south of Ukraine and then to other regions as well.
