TikTok owner ByteDance marks 10th anniversary without founder Zhang Yiming as firm’s IPO plans remain up in the air

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TikTok owner ByteDance , the world’s most valuable unicorn , on Friday marked its 10th anniversary in a muted celebration that was broadcast online to its employees, an event where billionaire founder Zhang Yiming was conspicuously absent. Chief executive Liang Rubo, who co-founded ByteDance in 2012 and took over its leadership role at the end of last year , quoted some of Zhang’s past comments in a speech to employees, whom he urged to move forward with a sense of mission to “inspire creativity, enrich life”, according to three people who attended the online event. The heads of the company’s...