Which of the following company owns the Video app TikTok?

• TikTok is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, which was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012.

• The app was originally launched as Douyin in China in September 2016. The international version, TikTok, was launched in 2017 for markets outside of mainland China.

• ByteDance gained significant global traction after acquiring another popular short-video app, Musical.ly, in November 2017 and merging it into TikTok in August 2018.

• ByteDance is considered one of the most valuable "unicorns" (privately held startups) in the world, owning several other successful platforms like Toutiao (a news aggregator).

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• Despite being owned by the same company, Douyin and TikTok operate on separate servers and have different content to comply with Chinese censorship and data regulations.

• In India, TikTok was banned by the Ministry of Information and Technology in June 2020, along with several other Chinese apps, citing national security and data privacy concerns.

Additional Knowledge:OpenXcel, Consagous Technologies, and RipenApps (Options A, B, and D)

• These are IT service and mobile app development companies.

• They provide software solutions and "app-for-hire" services to other businesses but do not own major global social media platforms like TikTok.