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Bits & Bytes | Coach Closes TMall Shop, Mode Media Shuts Down

This week, Coach stops selling handbags on Alibaba's TMall and digital lifestyle media company Mode Media shuts down.

Helena Pike

20 September 2016

"Coach Closes Handbag Shop on Alibaba's TMall" (Wall Street Journal)
"Coach said it would continue to provide online shopping via its own website and its WeChat account."

"Mode Media Said to Shut Operations at Once-Hot Lifestyle Startup" (Bloomberg)
"Mode Media Corp, the lifestyle media startup formerly known as Glam Media, is shutting down operations."

"Your Next Pair of Shoes Could Come From a 3-D Printer" (The New York Times)
"With the rise of new technologies like smartphones and 3-D printers, fashion start-ups like Feetz are changing the ways goods are ordered, made and sold."

"Warby Parker Is Getting Better Results by Reducing Managers' Control Over Workers" (Quartz)
"The company invented a process that invites all of its 800 workers to help manage the business."

"The Age of Apple Is Over" (The Observer)
"The signs that Apple has hit its ceiling are there and have been for some time."

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