The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
"Here's Why Andreessen Horowitz Placed a Big Bet on Ringly" (Venture Beat)
"Without really thinking about it, Ringly founder Christina Mercando started a company that might represent the future of wearable technology."
"Retailers Must Reinvent Their Stores, Says Report" (The Business of Fashion)
"Retailers and brands must reinvent their physical stores to better suit the behaviours and expectations of today's hyper-connected consumers, says a report published by PSFK."
"Health and Beauty Marketplace Wahanda Acquires App Agency to Hit Mobile" (TechCrunch)
"Wahanda, the Health and beauty marketplace — which has grown to be Europe's largest to date — has acquired Lithuanian-based Lemon Labs for an amount understood to be in the seven figures."
"How Paper Magazine's Web Engineers Scaled their Back-End for Kim Kardashian" (Medium)
"There was one part of the Internet that Paper didn't want to break: The part that was serving up millions of copies of Kardashian's nudes over the web."
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"A Startup That Pairs Stylists With People Who Are Too Busy To Shop Has Raised $6 Million" (Business Insider)
"In January 2013, Han and Mak founded Keaton Row, an online platform that pairs women who are too busy to shop with stylists who can pick out clothes for them."
"High-End Malls Get Boost From High-Tech Stores" (The Wall Street Journal)
"At a time when some big department stores are struggling and Internet shopping is on the rise, the mall industry is doing surprisingly well."
Successful social media acquisitions require keeping both talent and technology in place. Neither is likely to happen in a deal for the Chinese app, writes Dave Lee.
TikTok’s first time sponsoring the glitzy event comes just as the US effectively deemed the company a national security threat under its current ownership, raising complications for Condé Nast and the gala’s other organisers.
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion's technology and e-commerce professionals this month, to help you decode fashion’s commercial and creative landscape.
The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to ByteDance overall operations, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely.