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On Wednesday, Sensor Tower released data that in January 2022, TikTok and Douyin earned a total of $266 million through Apple's App Store and Google Play, 2.1 times that of January of 2020.
Xiaomi announced the shutdown of MiTalk last Tuesday, the same day Tencent unveiled an ambitious vision for WeChat. Why couldn't these apps achieve the same success?
ByteDance has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, following a year of litigation.
Tencent recently increased its claim amount for the "Soul Land" copyright dispute with ByteDance's Douyin from 61.6 million yuan ($9.7 million) to 800 million yuan.
ByteDance will launch a feature on two of its products, TikTok's sister app Douyin and information platform Toutiao, with which the account IP location will be displayed on the user's personal homepage.
Beijing-based internet technology firm and TikTok creator ByteDance has recently acquired cinema ticketing platform Leyinghui (Shanghai) Cultural Media Co., Ltd., and comic platform Yizhikan.
Chinese lifestyle-sharing app Xiaohongshu has recently undergone an update, replacing the shopping section in the second column of the homepage with a new videos section, indicating the increasing importance of the medium.
On May 9th, Douyin released 11 regulations and industry initiatives regarding AI-generated content on its platform.
ByteDance's short video app Douyin has begun supporting Alipay's collection code, a mobile and online payment platform, to finish payments, though the function is not available for Tencent's super app WeChat just yet.
At the beginning of this year, ByteDance's short video app Douyin started to explore online livestream broadcasting as a method of promoting and facilitating drug sales.
A ByteDance source said adjustments were made within the Feiliao product team last week with its employees moved into other internal positions. This change was regarded as a substantial dissolution of the product.
Sensor Tower released a report on Tuesday morning claiming that in April 2022, Douyin and its non-Chinese version TikTok earned more than $296 million from the App Store and Google Play.