Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app

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Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....

Ollie Hill has worked at HP for 20 years…now he’s in charge (and he...

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Most international tech companies exist in the abstract; big, sleek organizations removed from the New Zealand community. Yet Oliver Hill, the Country Manager of HP New Zealand, has a vision for...

Subscription newsletters = new battleground for Big Tech

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Newsletters, like oat milk in your coffee, are very 2021 - but their rise dates back to 2017 when Substack - a platform that enabled writers to easily monetise their content...
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Meet Fruitometry – the Kiwi AI imaging startup helping NZ grow better kiwifruit

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In the early 2000s, software and electronics engineer Christopher Miller was developing world-leading imaging technology to help Emirates Team New Zealand win the America's Cup.  By 2018, he had sold his St...

National’s all ears in fixit tech strategy

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A day before she was rolled as National’s leader, Judith Collins released - via YouTube - National’s “big fix” for the technology sector. In it she identified technology as one of the...
Sharsies vs Hatch fees comparison

Sharesies vs Hatch fees comparison (…for US shares)

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Sharesies and Hatch offer Kiwis largely the same service: the ability to invest in US companies from their smartphones and laptops. The biggest difference between the two companies - apart from...

Police put live facial recognition on pause – for now

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For once, not being up with the latest tech is a good thing - according to the authors of a new 85-page report on facial recognition technology by Nessa Lynch and...

Amazon’s $160m rebate from NZ Govt is VERY shortsighted: Here’s why

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Do you want to be in the film business? Well, you already are - New Zealand taxpayers money has been subsidising the industry for decades. Nothing new there.  But is the memorandum...

Is Facebook really “killing people”?

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“They’re killing people ... the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they’re killing people.” That was President Biden speaking to a NBC reporter on the weekend. It seemed a spontaneous...

What is Matter? And why it makes your smart home smarter

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There’s a perception that the Big Tech companies are in constant competition with one another - and most of the time that’s true - Apple taking a shot at Facebook in...