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South Korean Naver acquires Wallapop
Madrid – Naver, a South Korean technology company often referred to as the "Google" of its home country, has acquired Wallapop, the popular Spanish second-hand platform. Founded in Barcelona in 2013, Wallapop is credited with popularizing consumer-to-consumer (C2C) resale in Spain, including for fashion items and accessories. This acquisition is...
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Fashion |Interview
When fashion meets protein fibres: “Biotechnology can be a powerful force for good”
Spiber a is bio-venture from Japan that has been harnessing the power of fermentation to produce fibres. How does one have to picture this? It started with bioinformatics researchers Kazuhide Sekiyama and Junichi Sugahara investigating methods for producing spider web fibres through fermentation in 2004. Three years later, they used their...
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