Richemont has come to an agreement for Mytheresa to acquire its online YNAP business, including Net-A-Porter, Mr Porter, Yoox and Outnet brands.
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Coupang Gives Farfetch A Lifeline, Throwing Good Money After Bad
Farfetch Holdings, the online luxury marketplace and technology platform, reached the precipice of insolvency late last year. A last-minute $500 million bridge loan from the $21 billion South Korea’s Coupang gave the company a lifeline. Currently, Farfetch has a market value of $258.4 million.Since going public in 2018, Farfetch has proven to be a black […]
Confused About the Metaverse? Visit Zuckerberg’s Meta Store
The Meta Store has just opened on Meta’s (the company formerly known as Facebook) Burlingame campus. It is a living lab where people can experience the metaverse for themselves and Meta’s Reality Labs HQ programmers and developers can learn from customers.“Once people experience the technology, they can gain a better appreciation for it,” said Martin […]
Social Commerce Is the Next Shopping Revolution
The internet is undergoing a global social revolution. Nearly all of the 4.8 billion internet users worldwide are also on social media, some 4.5 billion people. That means 57% of all the people in the world are using social media.It’s made social media their front door to the internet. As of July 2021, social media […]
Amazon’s Hold on Millennials Is Steadfast, But Competitors Can Break Its Clutches
Since its inception, Jeff Bezos has been playing the long game at Amazon. He put everyone on notice in his first shareholder letter in 1997: “We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be shareholder value we create over the long term. We choose to prioritize growth.” Profits took a back seat to […]
