Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Meta donates $1mn to Trump’s inauguration fund
    • Nato’s European members discuss 3% target for defence spending
    • James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries
    • Demand for UK rented properties falls for first time since pandemic
    • Romania and Bulgaria to join EU’s Schengen free movement area
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • Investing in America
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    • US Presidential Election 2024
    Most Read
    • Meta donates $1mn to Trump’s inauguration fund
    • Nato’s European members discuss 3% target for defence spending
    • Luxury real estate brokers charged with sex trafficking
    • Dollar’s surge sparks biggest fall in emerging market currencies in 2 years
    • The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with’
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Meta donates $1mn to Trump’s inauguration fund
    • James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries
    • Selfridges’ Thai co-owner says it overpaid for luxury store portfolio
    • Luxury real estate brokers charged with sex trafficking
    • Demand for UK rented properties falls for first time since pandemic
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Meta donates $1mn to Trump’s inauguration fund
    • The AI agents are coming
    • Romania’s cancelled election is a lesson in social media manipulation
    • Australia to introduce ‘news tax’ on tech companies
    • Google races to bring AI-powered ‘agents’ to consumers
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Former BP chief Looney joins board of Abu Dhabi energy group XRG
    • Dollar’s surge sparks biggest fall in emerging market currencies in 2 years
    • The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts
    • Not too hot is a weak justification for a cut
    • UK fintech Stenn collapsed after Russia money laundering case drew scrutiny
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries
    • The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with’
    • Romania’s cancelled election is a lesson in social media manipulation
    • The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts
    • The AI agents are coming
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Nasdaq’s board diversity rules struck down by US court
    • Why business should not ape football when it comes to pay
    • Pay UK bosses like football stars, says Lord Spencer
    • Winner Parmy Olson on AI: ‘It’s not uncontrollable’
    • Obsessed with: Vancouver’s top-quality — and inexpensive — sushi
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’
    • Pat Boonnitipat expected to lose money on his debut film. It’s become an Asian cultural supernova
    • It’s party season — let the covert interiors appraisals begin
    • Murder at the Castle — Miss Merkel finds her freedom
    • Recipe Club: Bob Bob Ricard’s chicken and champagne pie
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

ByteDance

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    China hits out at US push to ban TikTok as Steven Mnuchin plots bid

    Beijing urges Washington to ‘stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies’

    TikTok logo and a woman using a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    US House votes through bill to ban TikTok

    Measure passes with bipartisan support despite intense lobbying and now heads to Senate

    A protester opposed to the bill that could ban app stores from distributing TikTok demonstrates outside the US Capitol
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    China offers AI computing ‘vouchers’ to its underpowered start-ups

    Chinese tech giants are hogging scarce cloud resources to develop generative AI models as US restrictions bite

  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    Ex-TikTok executive claims she was fired for lacking ‘docility and meekness’

    Lawsuit from former global marketing head criticises corporate culture at popular app owned by China’s ByteDance

    TikTok logo
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    Alibaba chief takes direct control of Chinese ecommerce business

    New group CEO Eddie Wu is now chief executive of cloud and online retail divisions in latest restructuring

  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    TikTok Inc
    TikTok to take over Indonesia’s Tokopedia in bid to overcome ecommerce rules

    ByteDance’s social media company to invest $1.5bn for controlling stake in GoTo unit

    Tokopedia logo
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    TikTok owner ByteDance to buy back shares after amassing $50bn cash pile

    Ecommerce growth drives revenues to record level and pushes quarterly earnings before interest and tax to $9bn

    TikTok app on an iPhone
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    TikTok Inc
    US judge blocks first-ever state ban on TikTok

    Decision finds lawmakers over-reached with statewide prohibition on downloads

    The TikTok logo on a mobile phone with a computer keyboard in the background
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    ByteDance’s VR division announces restructuring and staff cuts

    Move by TikTok owner reflects downturn in a market that has been eclipsed by AI boom

    Students play virtual reality games at a technology expo in Hong Kong
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    China’s Baidu and ByteDance launch AI chatbots to public

    Beijing grants regulatory approval to artificial intelligence products by several tech groups

    A screen showing Baidu’s Ernie bot
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    China’s internet giants order $5bn of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions

    Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export

    Montage of Tencent, Baidu, Nvidia and Bytedance logos
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Under-21s targeted by money launderers, warns UK fraud agency

    Schools initiative to discourage youngsters from being used as ‘money mules’

  • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
    News in-depthTikTok Inc
    TikTok turns to south-east Asia to drive growth

    Viral app’s parent ByteDance targets large Indonesian market but faces growing regulatory scrutiny around the world

    TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew at an event in Jakarta on June 15
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    News in-depthTikTok Inc
    TikTok reshapes ecommerce unit in bid to crack western markets

    Chinese-owned group relocates executives in renewed push of livestream shopping in US and UK

    Shopping tab on TikTok app
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    FT Magazine
    TikTok spied on me. Why?

    The FT’s Cristina Criddle on discovering she’d been surveilled by the controversial social media company

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    News in-depth
    Cottage industry of Chinese scammers target TikTok

    Parent company ByteDance struggles to police videos promoting dubious products such as ‘enzyme’ weight loss coffee

    Montage of TikTok logo and an influencer
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    News in-depthTikTok Inc
    Dissenting politicians join young activists to oppose TikTok bans

    A small group of lawmakers from across the political divide speak out against restrictions to the Chinese-owned video app

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Matteo Salvini
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    The TikTok divide

    Rupert Murdoch’s Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case

  • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
    ByteDance posts record profit despite TikTok losses

    Booming 2022 helps it overtake China’s long-reigning tech giants Tencent and Alibaba for first time

    A woman walks by an advert of TikTok at an e-commerce expo in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province
  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    What the fight over TikTok really means

    The tussle over the viral app shows just how entwined American and Chinese business has become

  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    The Big Read
    The teen mental health crisis: a reckoning for Big Tech

    A growing body of evidence links a rise in depression in children to social media use. Will it lead to more regulation?

    Montage image of a teenager on a smartphone, with the logos for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat
  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    TikTok Inc
    TikTok chief faces hostile Congress in bid to fight off US ban

    Shou Zi Chew takes tough questions from legislators as China vows to oppose any forced sale

    TikTok chief Shou Zi Chew testifies before the US House energy and commerce committee
  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    TikTok Inc
    China says it ‘firmly opposes’ forced sale of TikTok

    Intervention by commerce ministry comes ahead of social media app chief’s appearance at US Congress

    Shou Zi Chew speaking to media
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    News in-depthTikTok Inc
    TikTok caught in US-China battle over its powerful algorithm

    Chinese parent company ByteDance stuck between legal manoeuvres aimed at controlling video app’s future

    A montage showing the TikTok logo and two hands with the US and Chinese flags pulling on a rope
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    TikTok Inc
    US prosecutors probe ByteDance’s use of TikTok to track journalists

    Chinese owner of popular app has come under increasing pressure over its use of data

    The TikTok logo on its offices in Culver City, California
Previous page You are on page 2 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:International
UK
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • US
    • US Economy
    • Investing in America
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    • US Presidential Election 2024
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In