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Zhang Yiming (Chinese: 张一鸣; born 1 April 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).
TikTok merged with Musical.ly on 2 August 2018 with existing accounts and data consolidated into one app, keeping the title TikTok. [36] [35] [37] [38] On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked first among free application downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. [39]
Shou Zi Chew (Chinese: 周受资; born 1 January 1983) is a Singaporean business executive who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of TikTok, an online video platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, since 2021.
Susquehanna first invested in ByteDance in 2012, long before the company created TikTok and then merged it with a short-form video app called “Musical.ly” in 2018. When the app exploded in ...
If you’ve been online any time since March 2020, you’ve probably seen a celebrity, social media star or bored relative attempt to perform the dance. Meet the teenager who created TikTok's ...
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
First released to the public in September 2017, TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service [80] used to make short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] On 9 November 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai -based social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$ 1 billion.
On 22 June 2022, Lame became TikTok's most-followed creator, surpassing Charli D'Amelio, with 142.1 million followers. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] According to Alessandro Riggio, the social media manager who signed Lame when he had only 1,000 Instagram followers, the TikToker was earning up to $750,000 per post and was on track to make $10 million by the end ...