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The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, is limiting kids’ time on the app to 40 minutes per day and banning all overnight use. Douyin users under the age of 14 with “real name authenticated” ...

Athena Yang learned about Douyin from her boyfriend and she soon became hooked. The 29-year-old, who works at an investment firm in Beijing, now spends her lunch break and evening watching music ...

One of the major storylines in this year’s Singles’ Day is the rapid ascendance of Douyin, the short video app owned by ByteDance, as an e-commerce player. Despite launching its commerce functionality ...

As a middle-age restaurant owner who was neither interested in scrolling through viral videos nor likely to create such videos herself, Zhou Meiying never found a lot of use for Douyin, China’s most ...

HONG KONG, Nov 16 (Reuters) - TikTok owner ByteDance is testing a paywall feature for content creators on its short video platform Douyin in China, a person familiar with the matter said, as the ...

ByteDance, a Chinese company that owns TikTok, withdrew its support for its e-commerce app only nine months after its launch. The company continues to shut down struggling business units amid a ...

The advance of short videos is reshaping how information is created, disseminated and consumed online. Snappy 15-second videos aren’t just for entertainment. On Chinese short-video apps Douyin and ...

Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, has taken down the bitcoin (BTC) price ticker a few hours after it went live on the app. Users searching for bitcoin prices were greeted with a warning on digital ...

One of China's largest video-sharing apps has banned Peppa Pig from its platform. The Chinese government has heavily criticised Peppa Pig for being a "negative influence" on the country's pre-school ...