Polyvore users launch petition after unexpected SSENSE acquisition

Published: 10-Apr-2018
Finance

The US fashion and beauty social commerce website gave no warning before the acquisition and now redirects to ssense.com

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Polyvore users launch petition after unexpected SSENSE acquisition

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Users of the social commerce website Polyvore have united to sign a petition, after the platform was acquired by fashion seller SSENSE without warning.

On 5 April, SSENSE released a short statement explaining that it had

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