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Beyond Paris Fashion Week, and on past SXSW, here’s your round-up of the latest fashion and technology stories to know from the month of March…

  • In the age of the algorithm, top Instagram brand Valentino needs to rethink its strategy [Digiday]
  • Yoox Net-a-porter Group, IBM partner on software, tech development [WWD]
  • Lacoste enriches its brand campaign with augmented reality book [PSFK]
  • The North Face to launch insanely smart Watson-powered mobile shopping app next month [Venture Beat]
  • True Religion is equipping its sales staff with Apple watches [Apparel News]
  • ‘It can bottle our energy’: Why Bloomingdale’s is going all in on Snapchat [Digiday]
  • Bloomingdale’s spurs branded conversation through emoji app [Luxury Daily]
  • Why Uniqlo is now selling through mobile shopping app Spring [Fashionista]
  • American Apparel offering on-demand delivery via Postmates partnership [TechCrunch]
  • Alibaba spreads its wings into VR sector [China Daily]
  • L’Oreal creates unbranded content hub to woo beauty fans [AdAge]
  • Net-a-Porter’s digital chief on how brands can get up close and personal to consumers [Marketing Magazine]
  • In the store of the future, your shopping bag connects to the internet [Fast Company]
  • How do you bring personalised shopping technology to stores? Adobe has an idea [Fashionista]
  • More influencers, fewer posts: How Instagram’s algorithm will affect fashion brands [Digiday]
  • In the future, Instagram and Facebook could be amongst the largest retailers online [WWD]
  • To big brands, from a millennial: Snapchat filters are where it’s at [AdAge]
  • How Pinterest knows who’s down to shop and who isn’t [AdAge]
  • Personal shopping services seek scale [BoF]
  • Brotailers market to millennial men who hate to shop [BrandChannel]
  • Venture capitalists: e-commerce funding to tighten [WWD]
  • Flush with tech wealth, San Francisco warms to fashion [BoF]
  • E-commerce in Brazil gets more mobile [eMarketer]
  • FedEx to expand e-commerce reach in China, Japan [WSJ]