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Farfetch launches Start-Up Technology Accelerator: 'Dream Assembly'

London - Luxury online retailer Farfetch is launching a new technology start-up accelerator, entitled 'Dream Assembly'. The online platform has already enlisted heritage fashion house Burberry and global venture capital form 500 Startups as its first partner organizations. Dream Assembly is set to offer a number of the 'most promising' start-ups...

Apr 20, 2018

Business

LVMH launches accelerator programme, supporting 50 start-ups

London - LVMH has launched a new accelerator programme which aims to support 50 start-ups a year, which includes start-ups focusing on artificial intelligence, augmented reality as well as the internet of things. “Innovation is an integral part of the history of our Maisons, which are often centuries old. This is why we know, perhaps better than...

Apr 10, 2018

Fashion

From Libya's migrant hell to Italy's handbag fashion world

From forced labour in Libya to a job as a founding member of an Italian fashion start-up, Bassirou has come a long way in two years, thanks to his skills with scissors. The 26-year-old Burkina Faso native is the star student of a novel project aimed at training asylum seekers in one of Italy's most emblematic crafts: making leather handbags And...

Dec 7, 2017

Management

Global firms join rush to bet on Indonesia as next start-up frontier

Big-name investors including Expedia and Alibaba are pumping billions of dollars into Indonesian tech start-ups in a bid to capitalise on the country's burgeoning digital economy and potential as Southeast Asia's largest online market. Indonesia has seen a surge of cash into its technology sector over the past two years, helping support dozens...

Oct 8, 2017