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The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is privately held ... and dual-class structures do away with it. Ascendant among Silicon Valley firms since Google’s 2004 initial public offering in ...
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TikTok is almost out of time to find a buyer. Here’s what we know
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is on the hook to sell the app’s US operations by April 5, after President Donald Trump extended the deadline in January, or face a ban in the United States. What ...
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How Chinese Tech Giants Are Outpacing Silicon Valley by Letting Go
Meanwhile, at ByteDance, home of TikTok ... Too many founders in Silicon Valley still try to control growth instead of enabling it. They insert themselves in every decision, bottleneck every ...
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Apple, Meta, TikTok Sue EU as Africa Watches
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act just left the runway—and three of Silicon Valley’s biggest names have already ...
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East Asia is challenging Silicon Valley – by being like Silicon Valley used to be
Silicon Valley has been a universal symbol of innovation ... controlled” and to outlaw its use in the US. Huawei and Bytedance’s TikTok have faced similar calls in the past.
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The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is privately held, but it’s reportedly controlled by a co-founder, Chinese national Zhang Yiming, via a dual-class structure. As a professor of corporate ...
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The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Regardless of how this all shakes out, the TikTok fight underscores deeper ...