
TikTok Limited Users With Disabilities
TikTok, an international short-video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance was found to be limiting the reach of users with disabilities, according to Netzpolitik.org.
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TikTok, an international short-video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance was found to be limiting the reach of users with disabilities, according to Netzpolitik.org.
Douyin, the Chinese mainland version of ByteDance's short video sharing platform TikTok, has recently added features aimed at curbing cyberviolence.
"Zack," the former head of Kuaishou's Southeast Asian market, resigned in February this year. The employee joined Kuaishou in August 2019.
TikTok announced on June 9 that throughout coming weeks, it will introduce a tool to help users control how much time they spend on the short video app in a single sitting by enabling regular screen time breaks.
Kuaishou is one of China’s largest short video-sharing and livestreaming apps, which has also become a conspicuous power in China's e-commerce industry.
Kuaishou, a Chinese short video platform, reported a 16.2% increase in total revenue last year to reach 94.2 billion yuan ($13 billion), up from 81.1 billion yuan in 2021. The company also significantly reduced its adjusted net loss from 18.9 billion yuan in 2021 to just 5.8 billion yuan last year.
According to some users on Chinese professional networking site Maimai, popular domestic video-sharing platform Kuaishou will lay off 30% of its employees in the near future.
On January 23, Bloomberg reported that ByteDance was looking for a new CEO for its TikTok business. As of time of reporting, a spokesperson from TikTok refused to comment.
Shares of Chinese short video app company Kuaishou jumped 194% at the open on its Hong Kong debut on Friday.
WeChat, China’s most popular social media app, plans to join the craze for short-form videos by adding a feature that allows users to publish videos and photos to their followers.
ByteDace saw a personnel reshuffle with Zhang Nan taking charge of Douyin, and Alex Zhu taking over the app’s international version TikTok, while reporting directly to the CEO of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming.
ByteDance's short-video platform TikTok saw a compound annual growth rate of 300 percent in advertising revenue. In addition, ByteDance's advertising revenue in China moderated.