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HomeTop NewsLosing Depop to US ownership makes the British tech sector look secondhand

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

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’s acquisition by Brooklyn-based Etsy for $1.6bn (£1.1bn) 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.

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