Jannat Maqbool: My career in tech

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The technology industry has grown exponentially in the last few decades, however, only 26 per cent of employees are females. With this in mind, Techwomen was developed in order to encourage...

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....

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...

Shopify’s Shaun Broughton – on innovating in a pandemic, the future of shopping and...

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For the uninitiated, Shopify isn’t a consumer-facing app you can shop through - although Shopify does have one of those Shop (but more about that below) - but an immensely-powerful commerce...

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...

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...

Meet Scott Brown – the Kiwi carpenter with 275K subs on YouTube

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Scott Brown's face may be familiar to many of you. The Auckland-based carpenter has over 275,000 followers on YouTube, and if you've ever searched the web for carpentry-related DIY advice, you've...

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...

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...

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...