Both are owned by ByteDance ... Spring of using Japanese-style imagery on its bottles. That sparked a social media campaign against the bottled water company: Users filmed themselves pouring ...

the genie appears to be out of the bottle already. It’s unclear whether behavior like ByteDance’s could further inflame the high tensions that already exist between the US and China ...

HONG KONG (AP) — ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming tops the ... individual born in the 1980s to top the Hurun list. Bottled water magnate Zhong Shanshan fell to second place in 2024 with $47.9 ...

Some social media users who fear the looming TikTok ban say they may pivot to Lemon8, a TikTok sister app with similar features—but Lemon8 was also developed by the Chinese company ByteDance ...

President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...

A group formed by billionaire entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has made a formal offer to buy TikTok from its China-based parent company, ByteDance. The group ...

U.S. search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the company's plans ...