{"id":1036294,"date":"2026-09-17T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036294"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:50:41","slug":"tiktok-parents-revenue-grows-as-ai-spending-pressures-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/tiktok-parents-revenue-grows-as-ai-spending-pressures-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok parent\u2019s revenue grows as AI spending pressures profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance\u2019s artificial-intelligence spending pressured profit in the first half of the year, but the TikTok parent\u2019s revenue accelerated as a U.S. regulatory overhang cleared, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue rose more than 30% to $120 billion during the period, buoyed by growth in the company\u2019s international advertising, livestreaming and TikTok e-commerce business, the people said. Net profit eased to $20 billion, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance\u2019s artificial-intelligence spending pressured profit in the first half of the year, but the TikTok parent\u2019s revenue accelerated as a U.S. regulatory overhang cleared, people familiar with the matter said. Revenue rose more than 30% to $120 billion during the period, buoyed by growth in the company\u2019s international advertising, livestreaming and TikTok e-commerce business, the people said. Net profit eased to $20 billion, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036296,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036294\/revisions\/1036296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}