The logo for ByteDance's Jinri Toutiao mobile app is displayed inside the company's headquarters in Beijing. Photo: Bloomberg

TikTok operator ByteDance buys video gaming start-up in move likely to sharpen rivalry with Tencent

ByteDance operates the popular short video app Douyin, known as TikTok outside China, which competes with Tencent-backed Kuaishou and others

Topic | TikTok app

Yingzhi Yang in Beijing

Published: 1:32pm, 18 Mar, 2019

Updated: 1:32am, 28 Apr, 2019

The logo for ByteDance's Jinri Toutiao mobile app is displayed inside the company's headquarters in Beijing. Photo: Bloomberg

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Yingzhi Yang

Yingzhi Yang is a Beijing-based technology reporter focusing on the rise and fall of tech firms in China and impact they exert in domestic and international society.