Mar 07, 2023 08:31 PM

Tech Insider: TikTok Twin Takes On E-Commerce Titans, Tech Agenda Pushed at ‘Two Sessions’

A man poses in the TikTok photobooth at the international media center during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok on November 18. Photo: VCG

Welcome to Caixin’s Tech Insider, your twice-weekly wrap on the movers, shakers and deal-makers in China’s tech scene.

TikTok’s Chinese sibling takes on Alibaba and Meituan on their home turf

ByteDance Ltd.’s Douyin, the Chinese version of its enormously popular short-video app TikTok, is challenging bigger rivals Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Meituan for a slice of the e-commerce and local services business in China.

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