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FILE PHOTO: Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic\/Illustration<\/figcaption>

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing-based ByteDance plans to move the chief of its Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, Zhu Wenjia, to Singapore to head global research and development for its hit short video app TikTok, two people familiar with the matter said. The role is newly created and would be the first senior R&D position for TikTok. Zhu will be in charge of the app\u2019s product and technologies including its recommendation algorithms, the people said. His position will be parallel to TikTok\u2019s interim head, Vanessa Pappas, and will report directly to ByteDance founder and Chief Executive Zhang Yiming, they said.<\/p>\n

ByteDance declined to comment. The sources declined to be named as the information is not public.<\/p>\n

TikTok had come under pressure from the Trump administration in the United States to divest the app\u2019s U.S. operations over concerns that user data could be passed on to China, which TikTok has repeatedly denied.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported last year that TikTok moved its key research capabilities outside China and had approached employees from tech giants.<\/p>\n

Kevin Chen, a former Didi Chuxing executive who recently joined ByteDance, will replace Zhu as Toutiao\u2019s new CEO, the sources said, adding that the personnel changes have not been internally announced and are still subject to change.<\/p>\n

Zhu, now based in Beijing, joined ByteDance in 2015 and became Toutiao\u2019s CEO in 2019. Prior to ByteDance, he worked as an architect at China\u2019s search engine giant Baidu.<\/p>\n

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