Fast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance, the company behind news aggregator Toutiao and video platform Tiktok, has raised at least US$2.5 billion in a mega funding round, Chinese tech news websit ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-25
... ncent and Bytedance Group. This is expected since people don't have to spend a lot of time on the Alibaba app when making an e-commerce transaction. But Alibaba has been unable to surpass Tencent in ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-11
... ending on Bytedance's applications rose to 10.1 percent from 3.9 percent a year ago. Bytedance's applications include highly popular short video app Tik Tok (known as Douyin in China) and Toutiao. The ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-16
Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., owner of China’s leading news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, aims to raise about US$3 billion in its latest funding round that would see its valuation soar to as high as U ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-09
... ing-based ByteDance Technology, which also runs China’s popular news aggregation platform Jinri Toutiao. ByteDance is the also firm behind Tik Tok’s foreign rival Music.ly, which has a strong presence ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-08
Musical.ly, the lip-synching app popular with teens and young people, has been sold to Chinese dominant news app Toutiao, TechCrunch reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Beijing ByteDance ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-13
