ByteDance In The News

Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian joins Frank McCourt’s ‘People’s Bid’ to buy TikTok

"I've spent my entire career building tech that puts power back in people's hands - that's what got me excited about The People's Bid"

From Ole Obermann leaving TikTok to Daniel Ek’s $666m… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

Ole Obermann leaving TikTok for major role at Apple; Tracy Gardner moves into new role at ByteDance

There has been a gigantic leadership shakeup in TikTok/ByteDance's music team.

From the ‘fair use’ win for Reuters to ByteDance building an AI music beast… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

ByteDance has been building an AI music beast… with a little help from The Beatles and Michael Jackson

ByteDance is fascinated with building music AI technologies...

Elon Musk denies interest in TikTok as app’s US future remains uncertain

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO said he would rather build companies from scratch rather than acquire existing ones

TikTok’s parent company quietly launched a music licensing platform called EasyOde

ByteDance appears to have a service in the works that could shake up the global music licensing market.

Trump signs executive order to create US sovereign wealth fund that could buy TikTok

Trump hinted at the fund’s potential role in the TikTok acquisition, saying, “I have the right to do that, and we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund”