Never let it be said that an impending national app ban and swarming billionaire vultures ever stopped TikTok from plowing ahead.
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We made it to Friday, readers. I'm Paayal Zaveri and it's another busy one today.
There's no way around it: The biggest news of the day doesn't come from the world of tech.
You wouldn’t have seen any mention of it on your social media feeds or even a press release, but TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance, has been quietly rolling out a newer app called Lemon8 in the U.S. and UK. This app bills itself as a place to “discover beautiful, authentic, and diverse content.” All…