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Microsoft seeks to acquire TikTok’s global businesses, including India’s.

WeChat has little presence in the US, but is an integral communication tool for Chinese people overseas.

Likee accumulated more new installs in the US over the past six months than TikTok’s US rivals, says Apptopia.

Overly patriotic Chinese internet users curse the entrepreneur as a traitor to China.

In a statement on Sunday, ByteDance also accuses Facebook of plagiarism and smears.

In recent years, ByteDance has done something that many other Chinese internet companies have not—compete with western tech conglomerates on a global stage.

Of the overall two billion app installs of TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, in April, India accounted for 611 million.

Wei-Ying Ma will join an institute being founded by Baidu’s former president Zhang Yaqin inside the Tsinghua University.