ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming has seen a surge of about $14 billion to his fortune since the beginning of 2025.

Although Zhang has handed over corporate roles to Liang Rubo, he is widely seen as the real decision maker at the tech giant.

The online speculation began when several users took to social media to question whether Zhang Yiming had made the move to acquire Singaporean nationality. This question gained traction amid a ...

Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance and TikTok, is now China's richest person with a $57.5 billion net worth. From launching ByteDance in 2012 to leading TikTok’s global rise, his tech vision turned ...

China's five wealthiest individuals, led by Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, have a combined net worth of ...

The investors claim ByteDance sabotaged their acquisition of the social media giant during the first Trump administration by ...

Zhang, who co-founded ByteDance—the parent company of popular video-sharing app TikTok and news aggregator Toutiao—has become ...

When Congress passed a law in 2024 to ban TikTok unless it came under U.S. ownership, lawmakers argued that the app's Chinese ...

Since the beginning of 2025, ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming has seen his wealth jump by nearly USD 14 billion—even as some of the world’s richest, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, have lost ...

From ByteDance founder’s citizenship status to Hong Kong cinemas closing, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance and China’s richest man, has not obtained Singaporean citizenship, according to a statement from Douyin, the Chinese sister app of TikTok. Douyin said it ...