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TikTok-owner ByteDance has appointed former Disney streaming executive Kevin Mayer as the new Chief Operating Officer, effective June 1.
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TikTok-owner ByteDance has appointed former Disney streaming executive Kevin Mayer as the new Chief Operating Officer, effective June 1.

On the morning of February 17, Liang Rubo, CEO of Beijing-based internet technology company ByteDance, sent an internal letter to all employees, saying that he would adjust the cycle of setting and reviewing of performance targets from bimonthly to quarterly.

On June 23rd, Kuaishou, a Chinese short video company and rival of TikTok, held a strategic cooperation conference in Beijing with Voice of China, a state-owned company. Kuaishou obtained the rights to broadcast the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on its short video platform.

Welcome back to our series on Bytedance, maker of TikTok (and many other things!) and the most richly valued privately-held tech startup in the world.

Beijing-based technology firm and TikTok owner ByteDance has raised its 2022 sales target for virtual reality (VR) products from 1 million units to about 1.8 million units.

The e-commerce arm of ByteDance-owned TikTok will see Kevin Chen, the current the head of news aggregator Toutiao, lead its product and data science division.

A spokesperson for popular short video-sharing app TikTok has said a small-scale test is being conducted to explore ways to grade and restrict content by age to prevent teenage users from seeing adult content.
<p>Ang mga kapatid na babae ng Jhakespeare ay nagsimulang subukan ang bayad na mode ng maikling nilalaman ng drama, simula sa 1 yuan ($0.16) bawat yugto.</p>

The new product offering aims to address issues with telephone contact numbers, door-to-door delivery issues, and poor service attitudes that happen during traditional package delivery services.

People are flocking to all sorts of social media apps to kill time while being unable to leave their homes. Some Chinese apps have emerged as the most downloaded social media apps in India.

On May 30th, ByteDance issued a statement denying that "TikTok had proposed transferring control to the US government in 2022".

The below is a translation from the first of four parts of a 2-hour interview on March 20, 2018, with Zhang Yiming, Bytedance founder and global CEO.