Enlighten Designs’ Damon Kelly – on creating technology that has a positive impact on...

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Software and design companies come and go - few have been around as long as Hamilton-based Enlighten Designs which was formed in founder and CEO Damon Kelly’s caravan in 1998; today...

Exclusive: James Dyson talks about talented Kiwis, embracing failure, and what happened to the...

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For someone who has earned billions over a lifetime of design and engineering, at 75, Sir James Dyson is very willing to accept that not everything he touches turns to gold....

Interview with IGEA CEO Ron Curry – on gaming’s gains during the pandemic

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The gaming industry in New Zealand is worth an estimated half-a-billion dollars and is one of our fastest growing tech success stories. Indeed, 96 percent of local creators’ income comes from...

Q&A with Hamish McKenzie (the Kiwi co-founder of Substack) on how writers can make...

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Michael Moore joined Substack the other day. So did Dan Rather, Alison Roman, and even Edward Snowden. They join Andrew Sullivan has joined Substack as have Glenn Greenwald, Cheryl Strayed, Patti...

Interview with A/NZ Zoom head Michael Chetner – “putting people at the forefront of...

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The pandemic and the overnight move to hybrid working has meant enormous growth for Zoom - whether it be for business, education, entertainment or just catching up with family and friends...

Veteran Kiwi writer Simon Sweetman tried Substack – here’s his verdict

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Since March 2021, music and pop culture essayist Sweetman has been publishing on Substack multiple times a week – often nearly every day. He told theBit it all began when a...

Meet the curator of Steam’s New Zealand games collection

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This week I opened Steam on my desktop to be greeted by a sight I’d never seen before: a celebration of PC games made in New Zealand, with discounts of up...
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Exclusive: 1Password is giving passkeys a grand ‘first impression’

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1Password CPO Steve Won talks to us about the password manager's move to passkeys, abolishing passwords in our lifetime, and the importance of making a good first impression for all.

Annie Taunga – Behind the scenes at Weta Digital

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The Lord of the Rings holds a special place in Annie Taunga’s heart; it was her first visual effects project and the first time she saw her name in credits.   The series...

RUSH’s Danu Abeysuriya’s No BS cybersecurity tips “…proactivity goes a very long way.”

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RUSH Digital’s CTO and founder Danushka Abeysuriya has watched with growing horror the recent spate of cybersecurity attacks directed at New Zealand businesses. He doesn’t usually write content focused on helping everyday...