{"id":1749,"date":"2021-06-06T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/06\/losing-depop-to-us-ownership-makes-the-british-tech-sector-look-secondhand\/"},"modified":"2021-06-06T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:41:50","slug":"losing-depop-to-us-ownership-makes-the-british-tech-sector-look-secondhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/06\/losing-depop-to-us-ownership-makes-the-british-tech-sector-look-secondhand\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Depop to US ownership makes the British tech sector look secondhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fashion resale app and its young users represents the likely future of retail: more online, more sustainable, and more social<\/p>\n<p>Depop, the fashion resale app, has joined fellow British tech companies such as Arm Holdings and DeepMind in heading to a deep pool of investment outside its homeland.<\/p>\n<p>London-based Depop\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2021\/jun\/02\/etsy-buys-second-hand-clothing-app-depop-to-tap-into-gen-z\" title=\"\">acquisition by Brooklyn-based Etsy for $1.6bn <\/a>(\u00a31.1bn) last week came just days after Oxford-based WaveOptics, a maker of displays used in augmented-reality glasses, was bought up by the Santa Monica-headquartered owner of Snapchat for $500m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/06\/losing-depop-to-us-ownership-makes-the-british-tech-sector-look-secondhand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c33c7069920630fee7564aa5083b36dc6d7d2e56\/0_452_6675_4006\/master\/6675.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=75c436cb4f7cfde2e42c3919ec0fb015\" title=\"Losing Depop to US ownership makes the British tech sector look secondhand\" \/>The fashion resale app and its young users represents the likely future of retail: more online, more sustainable, and more social<br \/>\nDepop, the fashion resale app, has joined fellow British tech companies such as Arm Holdings and DeepMind in heading to a deep pool of investment outside its homeland.<br \/>\nLondon-based Depop\u2019s acquisition by Brooklyn-based Etsy for $1.6bn (\u00a31.1bn) last week came just days after Oxford-based WaveOptics, a maker of displays used in augmented-reality glasses, was bought up by the Santa Monica-headquartered owner of Snapchat for $500m. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fashion resale app and its young users represents the likely future of retail: more online, more sustainable, and more social Depop, the fashion resale app, has joined fellow British tech companies such as Arm Holdings and DeepMind in heading to a deep pool of investment outside its homeland. London-based Depop\u2019s acquisition by Brooklyn-based Etsy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/06\/losing-depop-to-us-ownership-makes-the-british-tech-sector-look-secondhand\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Losing Depop to US ownership makes the British tech sector look secondhand<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}