China’s Beijing Bytedance Technology Co. announced on August 1 that it is shutting down the popular musical.ly video app and merge this short video platform into its other platform, TikTok. The two will merge as one upgraded app under the name of TikTok.
Earlier this month, Tencent sued Bytedance, better known as Toutiao, for 1 RMB and Toutiao fought back by suing Tencent for 90 million RMB. What sparked the feud between the David and Goliath of the Chinese tech world? Listen to this week’s episode of TechBuzz China by Pandaily to find out!
Douyin, the most popular short-video platform, announced on June 12 that its number of domestic daily active users (DAU) has exceeded 150 million.
Tencent filed lawsuits in Beijing on Friday against Beijing Bytedance Technology Co Ltd, the owner of Jinri Toutiao and weiboshijie Ltd, parent company of Douyin, claiming 1 yuan for compensation and demanding public apologies from the two companies to publish on these two new media platforms.
On December 1, at the A.IDEAS Forum, Toutiao announced the establishment of the Bytedance Strategic Technology Committee. Its first members included professor John E. Hopcroft, a Turing Award winner, Gao Wen, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as Zhang Ba, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
