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TikTok boss Zhang Yiming, 38, QUITS after amassing incredible $44bn fortune from controversial app
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
May 20 2021, 8:38 ET
ONE of the billionaire brainboxes behind TikTok is stepping down as CEO of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the hit video app.
Zhang Yiming, 38, said Thursday he will leave the role because he lacks managerial skills and preferred reading and daydreaming to running the tech giant.
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Zhang Yiming, 38, is stepping down as CEO of ByteDance, the company behind hit video app TikTokCredit: Reuters
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President Donald Trump says Republicans scored a victory in Wednesdays congressional hearing, and he is declaring the impeachment inquiry “over.”
During a visit to an Apple assembly plant in Texas, Trump highlighted the testimony of Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, who testified that the president wanted “nothing” from Ukraine.
Trump says, “Not only did we win today, it’s over.”
But Sondland also declared that Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, explicitly sought a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, leveraging a White House meeting for political investigations of Democrats. Sondland testified it was his “understanding” the president was holding up nearly $400 million in military aid in exchange for the countrys announcement of the investigations.
That has vexed immigrant advocates and experts who note the White House proposed a bill this year to address the same issue involved in the case. The proposed U.S. Citizenship Act, which faces long odds, would let Sanchez and Gonzalez apply for green cards given their current status – no matter how they entered the country. Look, this is a no brainer, said Paul Wickham Schmidt, a Georgetown University law professor and former immigration judge. Why waste time on it? The administration has indicated they d like to regularize many [TPS beneficiaries] and.instead they re defending a gimmick cooked up by Stephen Miller, Trump s onetime policy adviser.