TikTok Parent Company ByteDance Creates Its Own E-Commerce To Challenge Amazon

ByteDance to set up international e-commerce to compete with Amazon (Techratic)

JAKARTA – ByteDance as the parent company of TikTok is rumored to be the toughest challenger to Jeff Bezos' e-commerce giant Amazon. The China-based company is poised to set up an international shopping platform. ByteDance party posted massive job vacancies.

According to a Gizmodo report, there were dozens of job openings recently posted. However, the details related to the project are still relatively few. Until now ByteDance has not provided more detailed information.

Regarding ByteDance's plans, The Passage revealed that the parent company of TikTok plans to launch an e-commerce application in the near future. According to sources with knowledge of the information, the project equates to AliExpress, which has a direct market to Alibaba's consumers.

ByteDance is currently in the process of working on the e-commerce project. Later, TikTok will display advertisements from e-commerce and can be purchased on the TikTok platform.

Most likely the e-commerce will be integrated with its short video platform. In fact it is almost similar to Douyin which brings in-app trading and payment services to its users.

Gizmodo revealed that ByteDance has massive job openings not only in China but also in other countries. One of the vacancies is a Tech Lead Manager who will be based in Seattle USA to help develop a global e-commerce platform.

"Global e-commerce is an e-commerce content business with international short video products as the operator," ByteDance wrote in the job description.

"It is committed to being the first choice for users to find and buy good products at affordable prices," the statement added.

The company and the e-commerce platform that is being developed can provide great benefits and can provide a different experience in shopping by utilizing short video content. Massive recruitment was also opened in Singapore and the UK.