💵Fleek Secures $20M to Transform Wholesale Second-Hand Clothing Market
Fleek, a marketplace connecting second-hand clothing wholesalers with retailers, has raised $20 million to expand its global platform, aiming to simplify sourcing for resellers and bring structure to the fragmented industry.
💵Fleek Secures $20M to Transform Wholesale Second-Hand Clothing Market
Fleek, a marketplace connecting second-hand clothing wholesalers with retailers, has raised $20 million to expand its global platform, aiming to simplify sourcing for resellers and bring structure to the fragmented industry.
But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. The picture was mixed overseas. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.6%, under pressure from U.S. regulatory scrutiny on New York-listed Chinese companies. Stocks were more buoyant in Europe, where Frankfurt’s DAX surged 1.4%. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat.
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