ByteDance is registered in Beijing and thus subject to Chinese law, giving those whose data privacy it violates the potential for redress through Chinese courts.

With government concerns over national security growing, Beijing’s influence over platforms such as WeChat and Shein could come under scrutiny.

A new mobile app from TikTok-parent ByteDance is gaining traction in the U.S., despite growing national security concerns around ByteDance's China ties.

A new content-sharing social platform owned by TikTok parent ByteDance aims to capitalize on its sister app’s success – despite growing regulatory scrutiny of TikTok and its business practices.

In front of a panel of skeptical and hostile U.S.

Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may endanger sensitive user data.

Following the spotting of a Chinese surveillance balloon floating over Billings, Montana, U.S.

TikTok + ByteDance employees — incl. members of Chinese Communist Party known to be on ByteDance’s payroll — can switch between Chinese + U.S. data with nothing more than the click of a button using a proprietary tool called Dorado.

Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking his relationship with China after he retweeted about the U.S. government’s “low-confidence” assessment that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.

Insider viewed a document describing the Lemon8 platform and the guidelines creators should follow when posting to get paid.

„The fact that the CEO had to enter the fray is quite telling. It suggests that TikTok is fighting for its life, and there is no telling what will happen next.“

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool, has amassed more than a million users within days of its debut in November, touching off a debate about the role of AI in schools, offices and homes. But Chinese companies are not behind in their efforts to newly define, what A.I. can do for us.

The general counsel of TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance is no longer in charge of working with officials to keep the app in US.

After TikTok’s overwhelming success in the social media world, virtual reality has become the next battlefield for Chinese firm ByteDance and Facebook’s parent company Meta.

For the past two years, TikTok executives have denied US allegations of Chinese interference and positioned themselves as an independent entity from its Chinese parent company ByteDance. But new revelations about the company's leadership structure paint a different picture.

Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.

The step is thought to draw a line under a regulatory crackdown that was triggered soon after its mammoth stock market debut was scuppered two years ago.

Scandal-free, cheap, and cool: While Virtual Influencers and even Virtual Workers have appeared on the fringes of the western internet, they’ve been popping up more and more in China’s cyberspace. Those virtual people are a combination of animation, sound tech and machine learning that create digitized human beings who can sing and even interact on a livestream. They open up a whole new business worth millions of dollars by 2025 already.

End of year licence approvals has stirred optimism in some quarters that China’s video game industry will stage a comeback in 2023.

This year will be a critically important one for ByteDance, China’s largest unicorn, as it faces political uncertainties in the US over its hit video app TikTok and regulatory scrutiny at home.