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May 22, 2012
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A young New Zealand entrepreneur has taken out the
top prize in the 2011 AUT Venture Fund with his concept for a tablet
app that enables children to create their own picture books. Business student Nick Barrett and his business partner Paloma Ozier’s Create a Story Picture Book was named the best big idea and awarded a total of $7300 last week, ending four months of planning, presentations and development.
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The New Zealand economy is still on track to get
back in the black, finance minister Bill English says, despite the
double downgrading of the country’s credit rating last week. When asked by Guyon Espiner on TVNZ’s Q&A programme
what he planned to do to win back the confidence of the
credit rating agencies, English defended his fundamental policies as
“credible”, although he said the government was more optimistic about the plans than the agencies.
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HaloIPT, an Auckland-based tech company, is realising a dream straight out of the future – wirelessly transmitted energy. It has invented a way of charging cars quickly and wirelessly by induction
via a doormat-sized plate in the ground that matches a plate beneath the
car, and so far has worked with companies such as Rolls Royce to
create the ultimate sustainable, silent Phantom, and UK firm Drayson
Racing, to develop an all-electric prototype race car.
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The demise of GeoCities was a milestone in web history. But the now-defunct platform has been revisualised as a city
map with neighbourhoods and property sites. At deletedcity.net,
a group is creating an installation described as “digital
archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century”.
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Industrial Research Limited (IRL) and the University of Auckland’s
commercialisation company UniServices are planning to team up to boost business innovation in the high-value
manufacturing sector. Both organisations specialise in the provision of R&D and are investigating business models to
formalise a collaboration offering expertise to the industry, which they hope to confirm by the end of the year.
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An entire New Zealand community has joined together to
sponsor a national sports team in its quest for Olympic glory in what it’s calling a world first. The
Hawke’s Bay has partnered with our national hockey teams –
the Black Sticks men’s and women’s teams – to give them the support they
need to take on the world’s best next year in London. The
sponsorship agreement is the brainchild of Vector Arena co-owner and
the man behind the phenomenally successful ‘Walking with the Dinosaurs’,
Bruce Mactaggart.
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The smallest-ever folding bike, Jelly Tip in a tub, digital DJ-ing
… and the list of worthy homegrown business ideas goes on. As
promised, we’ve rounded up the definitive list of People’s Choice
finalists for the 2011 Innovators Awards – and now it’s your turn to be
heard. Vote now!
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