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TikTok owner ByteDance Revenue Jumps over $7 billion in First Quarter
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TikTok owner ByteDance Revenue Jumps over $7 billion in First Quarter

ByteDance, which was loss-making in the first-half, also posted a profit in June and was confident of making a profit in the second half of the year, one of the people said, declining to be identified as the company has not made a public announcement. Robust growth has led the Beijing-based startup to revise its revenue target for 2019 to 120 billion yuan from an earlier goal set late last year of 100 billion yuan, a second person said. Earnings figures for last year were not immediately available. According to online tech news outlet The Information, ByteDance revenue for the whole of 2018 was $7.2 billion. ByteDance declined to comment. The seven-year-old startup, which separate sources have said was valued at $78 billion late last year, also owns Chinese news aggregat...