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May 22, 2012
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Blowing out all previous records, online electricity retailer Powershop has claimed the top spot on this year’s Deloitte Fast 50 with a massive 5280 percent growth, the highest-ever in the index’s 11-year history. Mobile network 2degrees came second with a 3762 percent
growth and Wellington-based telecommunications finance company Telecom
Rentals – 2010’s Fast 50 winner – was third, with 987 percent.
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LanzaTech is at it again, this time securing its first
commercial customer by way of Concord Enviro Systems (CES). The
Mumbai-based
company has broad ranging investments in various forms of renewable
energy, with municipal solid waste being the largest of them. The
move
represents LanzaTech’s first technology sale in a key strategic market,
using
what is deemed to be a “critical waste segment”.
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We may have come away from the Maggies empty-handed, but we’re still celebrating at Idealog HQ: our sister mag Good’s
December/January 2011 issue took the awards by storm and beat out
competition from across all five categories to emerge as Magazine Cover
of the Year.
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One Hutt Valley distiller is bringing
old-fashioned satire back to modern day politics almost 30 years after New Zealand’s infamous snap election. Ulf Fuehrer, maker of traditional German schnapps Zumwohl, says one of his greatest
passions in life (apart from schnapps, of course) is politics – and he’s finally found a way to bring the two together – giving away a bottle of Zumwohl every day of the campaign for the cleverest or
funniest tweet about the election.
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Last week it was announced
that Westpac New Zealand outperformed its Australian parent with a 41 percent
boost in earnings. And perhaps proving that profitability doesn’t have to come
at the expense of sustainability, Westpac also cleaned up at this week’s 2011 NZI National
Sustainable Business Network.
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The Conservative Party, with its shiny, three-month-old
new-ness, is certainly making the most of the honeymoon. Right-wingers
scrambling for choice after Act spontaneously combusted (or just those
who hate everything else on offer) have another option. But, really, writes Briar Douglas, it’s a right-wing party that’s polling at around 1 percent, led by a well-off white man. It’s Act in won’t-sell-your-assets clothing.
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Translating Hergè’s iconic panels onto the big screen was most
definitely not a task for the faint of heart. And if you’re curious to
find out just what went into it, AnimFX will be presenting the ‘making-of’ ahead of the New Zealand release of The
Adventures of Tintin in December
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The more Paul Allen uses technology, the more he values walking into a
shop and interacting with staff or picking up the phone and
talking to someone. The online experience should enhance offline personal interactions, he writes – not replace them.
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