Yoox Net-A-Porter Group (YNAP) has opened a Tech Hub in London's White City, "reaffirming its commitment to London and investment in the UK", the online retail giant said. the new hub "is key to [its] growth strategy" and part of an investment of more than €500m in technology and logistics across the group, designed to help double the size of the business by the start of the next decade. The 70,000 sq ft unit at White City Place will bring the firm's UK tech teams under one roof with 500 staff and a further 100 jobs created over the next two years. Work there will include developing Artificial Intelligence capabilities, such as personalisation and image recognition, and "creating the next wave of mobile technologies, that will keep YNAP in the vanguard of digital innovation." It should open in September 2017.

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