TikTok has never been available in China, as the country has its own version of the app, called Douyin. Both apps are owned by the same Chinese company, ByteDance. Thus far, we've been unable to ...

Daily active users of Douyin, the Chinese version of the popular TikTok app, have exceeded 250 million as short video viewing continues to explode in China. Tik Tok's popularity soars in China as ...

The Tik Tok app on an iPhone on Nov. 1 in San Anselmo, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) IT WAS a bad week for TikTok — and a good week for the long arm of the Chinese government under whose ...

Tik Tok, Douyin’s overseas version, was the most downloaded non-game app in the Apple app store globally in the first quarter of 2018, reaching 45.8 million downloads, according to Sensor Tower ...

Indian Government bans Tik Tok TikTok, formally Musical.ly, is a popular video sharing app that was bought by Chinese company ByteDance in 2017. The government used a provision in the Information ...

Editor’s note: A version of this post by Hans Tung and Zara Zhang first appeared on Han’s blog.Hans Tung is a managing partner at GGV Capital. Zara Zhang is an investment analyst at GGV ...

TikTok this year made history as China’s first social-media company to make it big in the US. Now, TikTok wants to shed its label as a Chinese brand.

Families are aiming to take the social media app, owned by a Chinese company, to court for unfairly profiting from users' personal content. Parents Sue TikTok for Allegedly Sending Kids' Stolen ...

Tik Tok Inc.'s ultimate parent company is ByteDance Ltd., a privately held company that has opera- tions in China. ByteDance Ltd. owns TikTok's proprietary algorithm, which is developed and ...