| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.03.2025 | ByteDance to repurchase U.S. employee shares at $312 billion valuation | ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese technology conglomerate behind TikTok, plans to buy back employee stock at a valuation of approximately $312 billion.
The company is offering U.S. employees about $189.90 per share, according to a person familiar... |
| 05.03.2025 | ByteDance launches new round of stock buybacks, raising its valuation to $315 billion | ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched a new stock buyback program offering US employees $189.90 per share, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The repurchase price marks an 11% increase from la... |
| 22.10.2024 | ByteDance's Sabotage Scandal: A Cautionary Tale in Tech | In the world of technology, where innovation is the lifeblood, a shadow has fallen over ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. The company recently confirmed that it was the victim of internal sabotage by a former intern. This incident ra... |
| 21.10.2024 | Dona do TikTok confirma sabotagem de estagiário em projeto de IA | ByteDance, dona do TikTok, foi alvo de sabotagem interna e divulgou nota sobre o caso (Imagem: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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| 13.09.2024 | Как устроен главный китайский аналог Ютуба | Ютуб в России лихорадит, и непонятно, чтоб будет дальше. Самое время посмотреть на Китай, где Ютуб давно заблокирован, но у людей есть несколько заменителей. Разбираем самый интересный из них, который больше всего похож на Ютуб. Это Bilibil... |
| 09.09.2024 | Taobao integrates WeChat Pay, signaling new era for Chinese e-commerce | The interconnection between China’s tech giants has reached a new milestone.
According to 36Kr, Taobao will soon fully integrate WeChat Pay. Sources say the project has been a closely guarded initiative within Taotian Group (Taobao and Tmal... |
| 26.04.2024 | After Biden signs TikTok ban into law, ByteDance says it won't sell the social media service | ByteDance, the China-based owner of TikTok, said it doesn't have plans to sell the social media service in the wake of a new law that requires it either to divest ownership of the popular app within 12 months, or face a U.S. ban.
On Thursda... |
| 27.05.2022 | Не все герои носят плащи. Программист-энтузиаст построил кластер Nvidia GeForce 1080 Ti для лечения рака | Люди часто жалуются, что их работа не имеет особого смысла и не приносит большой пользы. Мол, её можно вообще не делать — и практически ничего не изменится. Никому не станет хуже.
Но мало кто находит силы, чтобы изменить ситуацию и начать п... |
| 27.09.2021 | Rocket : Detroit's Rocket Mortgage Extends its Title Sponsorship of the Rocket Mortgage Classic through 2027 | World-class PGA TOUR event within the city limits of Detroit to continue supporting community initiatives
DETROIT - The PGA TOUR and Rocket Mortgage, the nation's largest mortgage lender, today announced an extension of the title sponsorshi... |
| 14.09.2021 | Bank of N T Butterfield & Son : Butterfield to partner with the PGA TOUR for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship | Butterfield to partner with the PGA TOUR for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship
Sep 14 2021
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA, AND HAMILTON, BERMUDA - The PGA TOUR today announced that Butterfield, the leading, independent offshore bank and trus... |
| 18.08.2021 | PGA TOUR's Matthew Wolff wins the Aon Risk Reward Challenge and $1 million prize | Winning LPGA Tour player will claim an equal $1 million prize at November's CME Group Tour Championship
Season-long competition rewards players who make better decisions on the most strategically challenging holes on the PGA TOUR and LPGA T... |
| 17.08.2021 | Aon : PGA TOUR's Matthew Wolff wins the Aon Risk Reward Challenge and $1 million prize | LIBERTY NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, NEW JERSEY, AUGUST 17TH, 2021 -Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, and the PGA TOUR today announced that Matthew Wolf... |
| 10.08.2021 | Tencent wins copyright infringement case against Douyin | A court case where Tencent sued Douyin for copyright infringement has reached a verdict. Douyin was sued by Tencent for violating copyright law when it circulated clips of Honor of Kings, one of Tencent’s most popular game titles, on livest... |
| 30.07.2021 | Стартапы Японии и Китая: самые успешные стартапы 2021 года | Стартапы Японии и Китая: самые успешные стартапы 2021 года |
| 07.07.2021 | Китайские фермеры зарабатывают миллионы в TikTok, продавая фрукты и овощи | В 2018 году Цзинь Гоуэй (Jin Guowei) был по уши в долгах и продавал фрукты туристам на улицах китайского города Лицзяна. Теперь он Brother Pomegranate, интернет-сенсация с 7,3 млн подписчиков и 300 млн юаней ($46 млн) от продаж в 2020 году.... |
| 20.04.2021 | Cityneon Raises S$235 Million; Well Positioned for Next Growth Chapter | The global experience entertainment company gets a S$235 million shot in the arm, closes its private fund raising in April 2021
Investors both new and existing include Singapore’s Pavilion Capital, Seatown Holdings International and EDBI, Q... |
| 12.03.2021 | How ByteDance plans to crack the gaming industry | For the last few years, ByteDance, the parent company of short video app TikTok, has been working to diversify its revenue streams beyond advertisement and find more ways to monetize its hundreds of millions of users. One area it is targeti... |
| 17.02.2021 | TikTok’s China twin Douyin has 550 million search users, takes on Baidu | The advance of short videos is reshaping how information is created, disseminated and consumed online. Snappy 15-second videos aren’t just for entertainment. On Chinese short-video apps Douyin and Kuaishou, people can get their daily dose o... |
| 01.10.2020 | News apps in the US and China use algorithms to drive engagement, discovery | Algorithms are reshaping many parts of our lives, including how news gets to us. Around the world, entrepreneurs make use of algorithms to program their ideal news apps, and while they normally agree on universal objectives like fighting fa... |
| 31.08.2020 | ByteDance to comply with China’s latest tech export rules, complicating TikTok sale | Tiktok-owner ByteDance said on Sunday in a Toutiao post that it will “strictly comply” with China’s new tech export restrictions, which now include “personalized content-recommend technology based on data analysis,” complicating a sale of T... |
| 03.08.2020 | Chinese internet users brand ByteDance CEO a ‘traitor’ as TikTok seeks US buyer | ByteDance is not backing down from its ambitions to become a global technology powerhouse, even as TikTok loses its largest market (India) and faces insurmountable challenges in the U.S. But some in China are blasting the Beijing-based comp... |
| 03.08.2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Microsoft moves ahead with TikTok purchase as Trump grants 45-day deadline | Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) will continue talks with ByteDance over a purchase of TikTok in the US aiming for a conclusion by September 15, following a conversation between CEO Satya Nadella and President Trump, the company said in a blog ... |
| 09.07.2020 | Massive Crypto Scam Busted in China, With Ferraris, Villas and $10.3 Mln Worth of ETH, BTC, USDT Confiscated | Contents The "Huobi Global Moving Brick Arbitrage" scam10 con artists arrested: crypto, luxurious cars and villas confiscated
On her Twitter page, the Head of Marketing at HashKey Hub has shared an article about a big crypto-relat... |
| 30.06.2020 | Cityneon Announces Acquisition of Global Touring Exhibition Based on James Cameron’s Blockbuster Film AVATAR | SINGAPORE – Media OutReach
– 1st July 2020 – Cityneon Holdings has announced that its
subsidiary, Victory Hill Exhibitions, has acquired multi-year licensing rights
for the global touring exhibition based on James Cameron’s blockbuster film... |
| 13.05.2020 | CEO da Xiaomi é criticado por usar iPhone ao postar em rede social | Lei Jun, CEO da Xiaomi, publicou uma mensagem na rede social Weibo com sugestões de livros para os seguidores. O que deveria ser algo trivial acabou ganhando proporções maiores devido a um pequeno detalhe: o aviso “publicado via iPhone”. O ... |
| 02.03.2020 | WeChat targets ByteDance’s collaboration app Feishu in latest restriction | Tencent’s super app WeChat has blocked external links on its platform from ByteDance’s enterprise communication and collaboration platform Feishu, also known as Lark overseas, according to an announcement released Saturday by Feishu on news... |
| 27.11.2019 | ByteDance’s Toutiao on mission to build next generation’s search engine | WISE New Economy Conference 2019 | China’s ByteDance has been on a mission to make its own search engine to challenge the current market dominator Baidu, and the man who’s behind the effort, Zhu Wenjia, newly-appointed CEO of the company’s news aggregator app Toutiao, shared... |
| 14.11.2019 | ByteDance’s news aggregator tests larger search bar on Android, betting bigger on online search | Jinri Toutiao, Bytedance’s news aggregator, has been testing a redesigned search bar for its app on some Android devices, as the valuable startup is vying for a toehold in the online search market while Baidu Search is lagging behind in the... |
| 21.10.2019 | Is there room for a US equivalent to China’s No. 1 news app? | In China, Toutiao is literally big news.
Not only has its parent company ByteDance achieved a $75 billion valuation, two of its apps — Toutiao, a news aggregator, and Douyin (Tik Tok in China) — are chipping into WeChat’s user engagement nu... |
| 16.09.2019 | Chinese Private Satellite Developer GalaxySpace Completes Another Round of Fundraising | GalaxySpace, a private Chinese satellite constellation provider, has finished another round of financing led by JIC Technology Investment on September 16.
With no information yet on the total funds raised, the company is valued at over 5 bi... |
| 12.08.2019 | ByteDance’s search engine goes online | Less than two weeks ago, ByteDance, China’s most valuable startup set out to recruit technical personnel to build its own search engine from scratch, separate from the general search function that lives within its Toutiao content aggregator... |
| 11.08.2019 | ByteDance launches a new search portal that returns a mix of results from the Web and its own platforms | ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today. Called Toutiao Search, the portal is part of the website for Toutiao, the news aggregator owned by ByteDance, and currently optimized only for mobile... |
| 03.06.2019 | Qutoutiao’s editor-in-chief follows the CEO out of the door | Xiao Houjun, editor-in-chief of China’s second-largest news aggregator platform, Qutoutiao, left the company last week, competitor Jinri Toutiao reports.
His departure comes two weeks after Qutoutiao’s co-founder Lei Li resigned as CEO, wit... |
| 17.04.2019 | Is Amazon calling it quits after 15 years in China? | |
| 06.03.2019 | ByteDance starts commercialising its search business to challenge Baidu’s core revenue source | ByteDance, the company behind phenomenal short-video app TikTok and news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, has started commercialising its search business earlier this year in a move that pits it against Baidu in the latter’s core business.
ByteDan... |
| 26.02.2019 | Toutiao Rival Yidian Zixun Closes USD500 Million Funding, Is Said to Plan China IPO | (Yicai Global) Feb. 26 -- Unicorn news aggregator Yidian Zixun, a competitor of Bytedance Technology's sector-leading Jinri Toutiao, has closed a USD500 million round of financing and reportedly aims to go public on China's stock markets, i... |
| 26.02.2019 | Toutiao Rival Yidian Zixun Closes USD500 Million Funding, Is Said to Plan China IPO | (Yicai Global) Feb. 26 -- Unicorn news aggregator Yidian Zixun, a competitor of Bytedance Technology's sector-leading Jinri Toutiao, has closed a USD500 million round of financing and reportedly aims to go public on China's stock markets, i... |
| 24.10.2018 | Toutiao completes over $3b pre-IPO financing at $75b valuation | Bytedance Technology, the developer of news distributor Toutiao and short video app Douyin, has just completed its pre-IPO financing at a valuation of US$75 billion, according to China biztech media 36Kr (link in Chinese), our parent, citin... |
| 27.09.2018 | India’s new technology infrastructure has created a platform to build domestic tech giants | In the two years since Indian social media app ShareChat raised $4 million in funding from Lightspeed Ventures the converging trends of increasing smartphone use, wireless internet connectivity, and cashless banking have combined to create ... |
| 17.08.2018 | China’s most popular news app Toutiao looks to raise $3b ahead of 2019 IPO | China’s Toutiao, also known as ByteDance, is raising between US$2.5 and 3 billion at a valuation of between $4.5 and 5 billion, sources told local Chinese media, in a round that leads up to a rumoured Hong Kong stock exchange floatation nex... |
| 14.08.2018 | Toutiao launches ad network Pangolin to compete with Baidu/Tencent for ad money | Jinri Toutiao, meaning Today’s Headlines, China’s most popular news aggregator app, announced today (link in Chinese) an ad network dubbed Pangolin, shifting the already intense competition for web ad money amongst Chinese internet giants l... |
| 03.08.2018 | Google developing a news-aggregation app for China: Report | Google, according to a Thursday The Information story citing sources, is developing a news-aggregation app for China on the heels of a censored search engine for China the company reportedly has been working on.
The news-aggregation app, wi... |
| 21.06.2018 | Tencent: Jinri Toutiao's USD35 Mln Valuation Target Is 'Fake News' | (Yicai Global) June 21 -- Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao has denied rumors circulating online about its aim to seek funding to reach USD35 billion valuation.
News about Jinri Toutiao's valuation, as well as the alleged involvement of... |
| 08.04.2018 | Unicorn startups: Billion-dollar startups (2018 updated list) | You’ve probably heard the phrase “unicorn startups.” As Wikipedia defines it, “a unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more.” Most of these startups are based mostly in the United States and... |
| 18.01.2018 | KrAsia Daily: Grab Enriches Its Indian Think Tank By Acquiring Mobile Payment Startup Ikaaz | Editor’s note:
India is increasingly becoming Grab’s think tank.
Last March, the Singapore-based company announced it is set to build an R&D center in Bangalore, hiring 200 engineers to focus on its mobile payment service GrabPay.
The a... |
| 17.01.2018 | KrAsia Daily: JD Expand Its E-Commerce Footprint in Vietnam by Becoming Tiki’s Largest Shareholder | Editor’s note:
JD’s investment in Tiki is likely to hit the news with sensational headlines such as Chinese tech moguls are coming after the e-commerce market in Southeast Asia.
Last year, when Alibaba invested US$1 billion to speed its Asi... |
| 19.12.2017 | Kr-ASIA Daily: Google Cloud Launches a $2.4 M Proptech Program with IFCA MSC Berhad in Malaysia | In the bike-sharing industry, all companies, including top players and others following them, are under pressure, in different ways though. For ofo and Mobike, the pressure comes from some investors, pushing a merger between the two compani... |
| 24.08.2017 | Baidu sells food delivery business to its rival Ele.me | The online food ordering-and-delivery market, once very hot, appears to be cooling down a little in China. Today Baidu, the country’s search giant, announced an exit from the business: Baidu has confirmed that it has sold its Xiaodu food de... |
| 11.08.2017 | Chinese startup Toutiao raising funds at over $20 billion valuation: sources | By Kane Wu, Julie Zhu
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese news aggregator Toutiao, backed by Sequoia Capital and CCB International, is raising at least $2 billion at a valuation of over $20 billion in its latest funding round, people f... |
| 11.08.2017 | China: Sequoia-backed startup Toutiao raising at least $2b in funding | Premium
Chinese news aggregator Toutiao, backed by Sequoia Capital and CCB International, is raising at least $2 billion at a valuation of over $20 billion in its latest funding round, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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| 11.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, Aug. 11 | BLIND EYE TO SIDE EYE
Hello. How about that slow news day yesterday?
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| 07.04.2017 | China: News app Toutiao nabs $1b from Sequoia, CCB International at $11b valuation | Premium
One of the most talked about startups in China Toutiao, a personalized news app, has pocketed $1 billion in a series D funding round from returning backer Sequoia Capital and CCB International, the investment arm of China Constructi... |
| 01.02.2017 | Chinese news app acquires LA video startup | |
| 12.01.2017 | News roundup: China smiles at Vietnam while consumers snap up Japanese products | |
| 11.01.2017 | News roundup: Taiwan scrambles jets | |
| 08.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 8 | Et cetera
I’m going to take a wild guess that many of you are reading Term Sheet from a long polling line. Here’s a few news items to help you pass the time:
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| 10.03.2016 | Chinese cloners copy Supercell’s Clash Royale hit in just a week | This was inevitable, but the speed at which it happened is surprising. A Chinese company has already come up with a clone of Supercell’s No. 1-ranked mobile game, Clash Royale, according to a Chinese web site.
Above: Fake Clash Royale game
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| 10.03.2016 | Chinese cloners copy Supercell’s Clash Royale hit in just a week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This was inevitable, but the speed at which it happened is surprising. A Chinese company has already come up with a clone of Supercell’... |
| 05.08.2014 | Join TechCrunch In Beijing Next Week | Shortly after the launch of TechCrunch.cn last year, we brought TechCrunch’s International City Event, organized by our official partner TechNode, to Shanghai, China.
This year the event is coming to Beijing. It will take place on August 11... |
| - | TikTok Parent ByteDance Fired an Intern for Sabotaging AI Training | In a story that will fan the flames of concern about the safety of generative AI, TikTok’s parent company has admitted some of its training models have been sabotaged by one of its interns.
ByteDance went on the record with the news, after ... |
| - | First image of NextEV’s all-electric supercar leaked: a ~1MW/1,360hp machine | You might know NextEV for its team in the all-electric Formula E championship, but that’s only a glimpse of what the electric vehicle company has been working on. The China- and California-based automaker, known to be well-funded by Chinese... |
| - | Монетизация блогов и современные медиа в мессенджерах: чему можно поучиться у Китая | Пока западные медиа сражаются (и иногда проигрывают) в неравном бою с гигантами типа Google и Facebook, Китай выбрал особый путь. За последние несколько десятилетий он поставил цивилизованный мир в технологическую зависимость (здесь произво... |
