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Meet Zhang Yiming, the extremely private billionaire behind TikTok who is now China's richest person
After running ByteDance for nearly a decade, Zhang stepped down as CEO in 2021, reportedly telling …
Sarah Jackson,Taylor Nicole R…
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From Alibaba's Jack Ma to JD.com's Richard Liu: Here are China's 'old guard' tech founders who have walked away from leadership roles amid Beijing's tech crackdown
The crackdown has dented investor confidence and hurt company earnings. Last month, Alibaba and soc…
Weilun Soon
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TikTok owner Bytedance's cofounder Zhang Yiming steps down as CEO, saying he's not an 'ideal manager'
Zhang said in a memo that he's "not very social" and would have a bigger impact in a role that didn…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick pitched buying TikTok to potential partners, including Sam Altman: report
Bobby Kotick floated the idea of buying TikTok to both ByteDance cofounder Zhang Yiming and OpenAI'…
Geoff Weiss
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TikTok leaders are pretty surprised that a bill to ban TikTok is zooming through Congress: report
Proposed legislation to ban TikTok was put up for a vote and unanimously approved by the House Ener…
Hannah Getahun
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TikTok's billionaire Chinese founder is fighting to retain control of his company amid international tensions
As President Trump threatens to ban TikTok in the US, the app's Chinese founder is struggling to ma…
Ben Gilbert
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TikTok's CEO left 3 months into the job after getting boxed out by ByteDance during TikTok's biggest moment of crisis
Kevin Mayer thought he would be in charge of TikTok decision-making as CEO. But as a potential sale…
Paige Leskin
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The CEO of TikTok's parent firm says Trump's 'real objective' is to ban TikTok, not force a sale to Microsoft
ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming reportedly told employees the US government's true objective was to forc…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Critics in China reportedly called ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming an 'American apologist' as talk of Microsoft's potential TikTok acquisition picks up steam
Online critics said Yiming was a 'coward' after the CEO confirmed ByteDance was discussing a deal w…
Katie Canales
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ByteDance's billionaire co-founder Zhang Yiming steps down as chairman following company reshuffle: reports
This comes on the heels of news of a major company reshuffle, including TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew ste…
Huileng Tan
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TikTok's Chinese owner boosts annual profits to a record $25 billion, report says
ByteDance was valued at $300 billion last year, making it the world's most valuable privately owned…
Jyoti Mann
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It's wild that Western governments have decided that TikTok might spy for China. The app hasn't helped itself.
The viral video app is facing mounting pressure from the US to address security concerns over its C…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Meet Zhang Yiming, the secretive, 35-year-old Chinese billionaire behind TikTok who made over $12 billion in 2018
Zhang Yiming, the 35-year-old software engineer who founded the app's parent company, now has a net…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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The billionaire founder of China's Amazon, JD.com, has dumped nearly $1 billion of company shares since stepping down as CEO 3 months ago
Richard Liu stepped down as CEO in April. Soon after, he began cashing out $1 billion worth of shar…
Weilun Soon
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Bigwigs at 'China's Uber' Didi and Lenovo have retreated from the social media platform Weibo, joining other Chinese tech moguls who are hiding from public view
Didi's Jean Liu and her father, Lenovo head Liu Chuanzhi, are the latest tech leaders to pull back …
Weilun Soon
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China says it will send government officials to inspect Big Tech firms over their use of algorithms
China wants to review Big Tech algorithms, saying they could promote fake news, online addiction, a…
Jyoti Mann
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A fourth Chinese billionaire founder-CEO has stepped down as Beijing keeps up the pressure on its tech giants
E-commerce giant JD.com's founder Richard Liu is the latest to leave a tech leadership role in Chin…
Weilun Soon
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China minted 62 billionaires last year, more than any other country
Despite Beijing's sweeping tech crackdown, the tech sector produced almost a third of China's new b…
Weilun Soon
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The Jeff Bezos of China said he'll donate $2.3 billion to charity. He's the latest tech mogul pledging away billions in China's tech donation rush.
Richard Liu's planned donation comes after similar promises from other prominent Chinese tech found…