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How does the Bytedance algorithm work?
Bytedance flagship Jinri Toutiao doesn’t require an editor-in-chief to lead its content strategy like other news platforms do.

How the Bytedance search engine compares
Last month, Bytedance launched a new search engine, Toutiao Search, adding another new product as it seeks to expand beyond news and short video.

A tour of Bytedance headquarters
Last week, TechNode visited Bytedance HQ, located along Beijing’s North Third Ring Road. It’s the capital of company’s empire.

How different are China’s Douyin and global TikTok?
Despite Bytedance’s efforts to convince people that TikTok and Douyin are the same product, they are actually two separate apps.

Bytedance makes a bet on education ventures
Bytedance may have made its name with short-video and news aggregator apps, but it seems determined to break into the education sector.

Bytedance in focus: Who runs Bytedance’s biggest apps?
To the world, it’s the company behind Tiktok. But in China, the company is often called by the name of Bytedance’s biggest app: Toutiao.

Bytedance in focus: Game start
Last June, we reported that longstanding Bytedance app Jinri Toutiao had launched “Jinri Games,” its version of WeChat mini-games, or lightweight games which run on WeChat’s platform. In focus / ByteDance #10 ////////////////////////////////////// TechNode’s ByteDance newsletter, one of the first in-depth looks in English at the now-giant upstart startup, was published from March 13 to Oct. 23, 2019.…

Bytedance in focus | The investment portfolio
This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the investment portfolio of Bytedance to determine its future technology priorities.

Charting the 13-app ByteDance ecosystem
This week, we provide an overview of the Bytedance app ecosystem. This is our first attempt to thoroughly recap most—if not all—of their products.

Getting personal with ByteDance
Alongside a renewed surge of interest in Huawei, some major media outlets are alarmed about a more frivolous offering: the ByteDance short-video app TikTok.
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