TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed ...

Platforms like Douyin (TikTok in China), Kuaishou and ... focusing on seamless integration of livestreams and shopping carts. While the U.S. market is ahead in terms of consumer adoption, it ...

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 ...

Of course, live-selling tactics on Douyin won't necessarily translate well to TikTok in the US. Social shopping has been sluggish to take off in North America compared with Asia, as bringing ...

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok that has been aggressively pushing online shopping as a way to convert eyeballs into revenues, said its gross merchandise volume (GMV) on the platform grew 80 ...

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 ...

Douyin, the domestic sister app of short video hit TikTok, has achieved steady growth in its local services business although it is still some way off from challenging Meituan’s dominant market ...