Tag: bytedance

A day after app-analytics companies were speculating about TikTok’s revenues, its parent company Bytedance has published some official numbers for Douyin – its Chinese short-videos app. They’re big. Douyin now has...

Given the current climate of suspicion around Chinese technology companies, stories about those firms that include the word ‘deepfake’ are bound to get attention. Witness this report from TechCrunch: “TikTok  parent...

Bytedance’s latest music hire will be focusing on its Douyin short-video app in China – the Chinese version of TikTok. The company has recruited Deng Linhai to lead Douyin’s music business, according to news site Technode....

Earlier this month, we reported on Resso, the new music-streaming app that TikTok’s parent company Bytedance is testing in India and Indonesia. We asked journalist Amit Gurbaxani, who has written regularly for Music Ally...

Bytedance has begun testing its new music-streaming service Resso in India and Indonesia. Music Ally received a tip-off yesterday about the app’s availability, and began researching it, but since then Bloomberg has published...

Ole Obermann was Warner Music Group’s chief digital officer until June 2019, when he left the company after reportedly declining to renew his contract. Recent gossip had suggested that Obermann was joining TikTok and/or...

TikTok and its parent company Bytedance have been responding to the growing controversy in the US surrounding the social app’s content-moderation and data-privacy policies. Reuters reported yesterday that Bytedance has...

Could the music industry be in for an early Christmas present of a new streaming service this year? The Financial Times has reported that Bytedance’s long-rumoured music-streaming service “aims to launch as soon as...

US politicians have been expressing unease about TikTok and its Chinese parent company Bytedance in recent weeks. Now it seems the latter company is facing a national-security review of its 2017 acquisition of social app...

Fresh from yesterday’s rumours about the name of Bytedance’s new music-streaming service, now there’s some new speculation about the company’s plans to go public. The Financial Times, no less, reported that Bytedance...

Several reports over the course of 2019 have pointed to TikTok’s parent company Bytedance’s plans to launch a music-streaming service, likely focused on developing music markets, with strong social elements. Now there...

TikTok parent company Bytedance hasn’t published official financial results, but Reuters has an exclusive report claiming insight into the company’s “better than expected” performance in the first half of 2019....