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May 22, 2012
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Steve Steger knows how to sell patents. The proof: he’s fresh from selling
bankrupted Canadian telecommunications company Nortel’s patent portfolio for
US$4.5 billion. In comparison, Nortel’s operating
businesses sold for a total of just US$3.2 billion. While this example is at the high end of
the scale, there’s an important message for Kiwi businesses and innovators here: patents can bring in the bucks.
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Israel’s reputation as a startup nation is well
deserved, with a host of tiny, ambitious entrepreneurs earning
disproportionate levels of VC and corporate investment. A key
contributor has been the incubator programme, set up in 1991 to help
translate a wave of scientific knowledge flowing in from Eastern Europe
into business. So what is it about Israel’s incubators that works so well?
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It’s
a he-said, she-said, over-dramatised silly soap opera of political
proportions. In one corner you’ve got John Key, the
Jessica Wakefield of politics, and John Banks as the unremarkable and unoffensive Elizabeth Wakefield. Basically, reckons Hazel Phillips, our politicians all need a big cup of grow the
hell up, or at least an after-school detention to sort them out.
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Tempting Gen Ys back to Aotearoa for some backpacking with Storiesbeatstuff.com
is the driving force behind Tourism New Zealand’s newest work,
something agency Contagion believes is “possibly the largest social
media campaign a New Zealand agency has produced”. The
basic idea is to get people to upload a video or take a picture
detailing what they’d swap – whether it be a partner, dad’s car, one of
their kidneys or a “taxidermy squirrel called Murray” – for an epic
experience in New Zealand.
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Having thrown in the chief executive’s towel at TVNZ, Rick Ellis is heading to Australia to join Telstra in January. Ellis announced he was resigning in order to lead a new division called Telstra Digital Media as
group managing director – digital media, with responsibility for
Telstra’s Sensis, Bigpond, Trading Post and IPTV businesses, and
Telstra’s partnership with Foxtel.
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New Zealand-owned IT firm Simpl has notched up a big win in the global health market, securing a multi-million dollar contract with the National Health Service in the UK.
Simpl will provide the NHS’ Torbay Care Trust with a Single Community Care Record (SCCR) solution, giving office and remote offline access to patient details.
It is a first for the UK and builds on several years of healthcare-related research and development by Simpl.
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We’re all familiar by now with stats about rising
online revenue, and Q3 2011 ticked that box again, with New Zealand
experiencing one of its biggest year-on-year increases in online ad
revenue since 2008, growing 27 percent. But display was the odd one out with a seven percent increase
year-on-year and a decrease from the last quarter for the first time.
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We can be sure of two things in life: death and taxes, the former of which is considerably more straightfoward. Making our system simpler is the only way to fix it. And the best way forward, according to Matt Nolan, is a flat tax .
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Bringing
the taste of the European summer to New Zealand is the Taste of Belgium
gift
pack featuring six different Belgian specialty beers: Stella Artois,
Stella
Artois Legere, Hoegaarden White, Leffe Blonde, Leffe Brun and Leffe
Radieuse – and for another treat, the Hoegaarden White gift pack
featuring four bottles of Hoegaarden
and a hexagonal Hoegaarden Glass to enjoy drinking them
from. Plus a special 12-bottle
Stella Artois Christmas pack; a limited-edition 750ml bottle available
for the first time this year; and a new 24-bottle case.
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