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  "id": 7755711,
  "title": "ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming becomes Asia’s richest",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/bytedance-founder-zhang-yiming-becomes-asias-richest",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T09:08:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech in Asia",
    "slug": "tech-in-asia",
    "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/news/bytedance-founder-zhang-yiming-asias-richest"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A 2023 share buyback valued ByteDance at US$268 billion.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019 (Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/bytedance-founder-zhang-yiming-overtakes-indias-gautam-adani-to",
        "published": "2026-09-16T11:35:01.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}