Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...

Zhang Yiming has built a $49.3 billion fortune since cofounding ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok. Zhang is highly private and little is publicly known about his personal life. He ...

Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, has a net worth nearing $102 billion, with a 25% increase over the past year. The Hurun India Rich List attributes Ambani’s wealth growth to rising share prices of ...

TikTok's founder Zhang Yiming has become China's richest man with a fortune of almost $50bn (£38bn). Dubbed the "short video king", the 41-year-old topped the Hurun China Rich List for the first ...

SHANGHAI: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is China's richest person, with personal wealth of $49.3 billion, an annual rich list showed on Tuesday, although counterparts in real estate and ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance attends the opening ceremony of the 5th World Internet Conference in ...

The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person. According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute ...