MAKE TECH EASIER - Ex-employees of ByteDance contend the company scraped content from sites such as Instagram and Snapchat for Flipagram, another site owned by the company, later renamed Vigo Video. The ex-ByteDance employees are not aware of when the scraping project ended. A couple of them contend that the purpose of the scraping was to train the "For You" algorithm with U.S.-based content to appeal more to U.S. users.
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Ex-ByteDance Employees Say the Company Scraped Other Sites for Flipagram
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Douyin's New Rules: More Control Under the Pretext of "Protecting Minors"
BITTER WINTER - Douyin will implement stricter rules and prohibit "deviant" and "anti-government" discussions. The rules for Douyin, coming into force this month, claimed that they are needed to prevent minors from being harmed by cyberaddiction, unscrupulous video game companies, and the excessive passion for celebrities, expressed through fan clubs to teenagers devote an excessive amount of time. However, to achieve these laudable aims, broad rules are enacted that control and forbid many activities that have nothing to do with teen cyberaddiction.
by Tan Liwei
See full article at Bitter Winter
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ByteDance Marks Its 10th Anniversary Without Founder Zhang Yiming
SCMP - ByteDance marked its 10th anniversary in a muted celebration broadcast online to its employees, but the founder Zhang Yiming was conspicuously absent. CEO Liang Rubo quoted some of Zhang's past comments in a motivational speech to employees. The head of the company's 6 business groups took turns speaking after Liang, following his lead to motivate the employees. The company has become one of the internet industry's most successful start-ups, with a reach that covers 1.9B people every month.
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TuneCore Partners With Douyin
WFMZ - Leading independent DIY digital music distributor TuneCore, a division of global digital music company Paris-based Believe, has launched a new store, Chinese social platform, Douyin. "By adding Douyin to our suite of the digital store and streaming partners, TuneCore continues to offer more ways for independent artists to find fans from around the world," Andreea Gleeson, CEO of TuneCore, said.
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ByteDance Creates Stand-alone Shopping App
SCMP - ByteDance has created a stand-alone shopping app in China, called Douyin Box. Douyin Box app signals that ByteDance, the world' most valuable start-up, is betting big on e-commerce in China. The new app is rapidly gaining traction, ranking No 6 among all iOS shopping apps in China.
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TikTok Emerges as Most Downloaded Non-gaming App for Oct
IANS - TikTok emerged as the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for Oct 2021 with ~57M installs. The countries with the largest number of installs were from Douyin in China at 17%, followed by the US at 11%.
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ByteDance Reorganization Offers Glimpse Into Its Future
TECH CRUNCH - ByteDance will group its apps and operations under six new "business units." The six newly minted business units are useful indicators of ByteDance's strategic focuses in the foreseeable future. They are TikTok, Douyin, Dali Education, Lark, BytePlus, and Nuverse.
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Douyin Is Limiting Kids to 40 Mins a Day
CNN BUSINESS - Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, introduces a "teenage mode" that will limit the number of times children under the age of 14 spend on the short-form video app to 40 mins a day. The measure will apply to all Douyin users under 14 who have registered for the app using their real names. Douyin will also be unavailable to those users between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
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Chinese Apps Among World's Top-earning Apps in 1H of 2021
SCMP - June 30 - Chinese apps, led by TikTok, made up five of the world's top-10 earners of app store revenue in 1H of 2021. Consumers are estimated to have spent ~$920M on TikTok and Douyin over the six-month period. Tencent Video and iQiyi came in fourth and fifth among the top app store revenue earners. For overall revenue, they were sixth and eighth, respectively. Youku and QQ Music were among the top 10 app store revenue earners at eighth and 10th place, respectively.
by Tracy Qu
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ByteDance Reports S$45B Net Loss for 2020
THE BORNEO POST - June 18 - ByteDance recorded a $45B net loss last year, mainly due to accounting adjustments. ByteDance also said that it suffered an operating loss of $2.1B over 2020, partly attributed to higher costs for employee compensation payments, according to the sources close to the matter. ByteDance also reported a double rise in the revenue to $34.3B over the last year, adding that some 1.9B users were active on all of its platforms.
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Founder of ByteDance Resigns as CEO
THE VERGE - May 21 - ByteDance's CEO has announced he's stepping down from his role leading the company, whose success with TikTok led it to become the world's most valuable startup. Zhang Yiming, who co-founded ByteDance in 2012, will move to another position at the company, and fellow co-founder Liang Rubo will become the new CEO. Liang presently runs HR at ByteDance.
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Douyin Gets WeChat-style Friend-finding Function in Social Networking Push
SCMP - Apr 30 - Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, launched a location-based social feature on Monday that allows users to find people nearby by shaking their phones, replicating a feature almost identical to one that has long existed in Tencent Holdings' WeChat in a move widely seen as a challenge to the latter's dominance in social networking. To encourage people to try the new feature, Douyin introduced a 5-day campaign allowing users to win prizes such as KFC coupons after shaking their phones and befriending others.
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Douyin Has 550 Million Search Users, Takes on Baidu
TECH CRUNCH - Feb 19 - More than two years after Douyin incorporated a search function back in mid-2018, the feature reached 550M monthly active users. There's still room for Douyin's search feature to grow, as the app last reported 600M daily users in September, so its monthly user base should be above that. Search is a territory that had long been dominated by Baidu in China. As of December, Baidu's flagship app had 544 million monthly active users, so it's safe to say as many people are searching on Douyin as on Baidu.
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China Court Accepts ByteDance Case Filing Against Tencent Over Alleged Monopoly
TECH CRUNCH - Feb 9 - ByteDance is bringing its battle with archrival Tencent to the court at a time when the Chinese government moves to curve the power of the country's internet behemoths. The Beijing Intellectual Property Court has permitted a ByteDance lawsuit brought against Tencent to proceed. ByteDance alleged that Tencent's restrictions on Douyin, the Chinese TikTok, are in violation of China's anti-monopoly draft rules. For 3 yrs, Tencent has blocked Douyin from its networking apps WeChat and QQ, which bans users from viewing or sharing content from Douyin. Tencent's behavior "no doubt" constitutes "monopolistic behavior achieved by abusing market domination to exclude and limit competition," which the proposed anti-monopoly law prohibits, Douyin said.
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Douyin Sues Tencent Over Alleged Market Monopoly
GLOBAL TIMES - Feb 3 - Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, confirmed that it has filed a lawsuit with the Beijing Intellectual Property Count (BIPC) against what it claims is a monopoly by Tencent. Douyin stated that Tencent blocked users from sharing content from Douyin on its social networking platforms WeChat and QQ, and such a move constituted "the monopoly of abusing market domination as well as excluding and restricting competition," which is regulated under China's anti-monopoly law. As such, Douyin asked the court to order Tencent to stop the practice, publish a statement removing its negative impact, and compensate Douyin's economic losses and reasonable expenses totaling $13.9M. Tencent said that ByteDance's move is "maliciously framing it" and the company will sue ByteDance for illegal infringement.
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