The deal is undisclosed but sources tell TechCrunch that Bytedance, the company behind China’s top news aggregator service Toutiao, will pay between $800 million and $1 billion to buy Musical.ly ...

ByteDance executive Louis Yang Luyu, co-founder of lip-synch video app Musical.ly that was absorbed by TikTok in 2018, has quit the world's most valuable unicorn amid a sweeping corporate ...

Louis Yang, a co-founder of Musical.ly -- the app acquired by ByteDance in 2017 and merged with TikTok -- quit his job at the Beijing-based firm last week, according to a person familiar with the ...

ByteDance was founded by Zhang Yiming, a former Microsoft employee, ... It also bought popular lip syncing app musical.ly, and moved those users onto TikTok in 2018.

Donald Trump hints at extending ByteDance's TikTok sale deadline, after twice delaying a ban initially set under the 2023 law ...

In August 2018, Musical.ly became TikTok overnight. ... ByteDance has a very different point of view, which is that what you care about has nothing to do with what your friends care about.

TikTok will go offline on June 19 unless it can find a buyer or President Trump extends its sale deadline again.

TikTok is a creative home to some 170 million Americans but is facing a potential U.S. ban. Here's who owns TikTok and parent company ByteDance.

TikTok is a creative home to some 170 million Americans but is facing a potential U.S. ban. Here's who owns TikTok and parent company ByteDance.

ByteDance – the Chinese parent company of social media app TikTok – is the world’s most valuable startup. Even at a valuation of $220 billion, down from a peak of $500 billion in the ...

ByteDance executive Louis Yang Luyu, co-founder of lip-synch video app Musical.ly that was absorbed by TikTok in 2018, has quit the world’s most valuable unicorn amid a sweeping corporate ...