In fact, it’s never existed there. Instead, there’s a different version of TikTok — a sister app called Douyin. Both are owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, but Douyin launched ...

Others are here to stay. Douyin makeup falls in the latter category. On TikTok, the hashtag has over 1.3 million views and you’ve probably seen at least one or two videos land on your FYP.

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 ...

ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company’s cash cow and a China mainstay. By Claire Fu and Daisuke Wakabayashi Reporting ...

By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States ...