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May 22, 2012
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Larger-than-life Air New
Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe has confirmed he will be leaving the
airline at the end of the year after seven years at its helm guiding the company through tough times. Chairman John Palmer said it expected significant international interest in the role and that
there were some very strong candidates from within Air New
Zealand’s existing executive management team.
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New Zealand-headquartered Gentrack has signed a
deal to provide one of the world’s busiest airports with its
aeronautical billing system. Gentrack, a provider of airport
management solutions, prevailed against a large number of competing
companies in an “exhaustive global selection process”, it said in a
statement. Its Airport 20/20 will consolidate four existing billing systems
at the Hong Kong airport and integrate with the existing operational database.
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There are few things more depressing than seeing a
modern human try to function without a cell phone. For marketers, these
devices offer some very exciting creative possibilities, and MediaWorks
has jumped on the social TV bandwagon and released Pluk, an app that that uses audio recognition technology to deliver content from the TV straight to the user’s phone.
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Outgoing NZX chief executive Mark Weldon is to be succeeded by expat Tim Bennett from May 7. Singapore-based Bennett was previously a partner in Oliver
Wyman’s retail and business banking practice and has
advised a broad range of financial institutions on topics
relating to strategy and organisational transformations
through markets and mergers, according to the NZX.
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As Brancott Estate rolls out a contemporary new look across its entire wine range, it’s also releasing a new app bringing together the worlds of wine and entertainment via QR code. The World’s Most Curious Bottle App continues the Stay Curious campaign and the
company says it’s a first for a New Zealand wine brand, offering 14
consumer experiences from virtual visits to Brancott Vineyard in
Marlborough, tasting notes and food-matching information, and a fully
interactive guide to Marlborough’s weather across the seasons.
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Those eager to create games or start a company in
one weekend are already catered for, but now those in the service sector
have an event of their own to embrace. Just like a music jam session, friends, Service Jam brings people together to design, research and prototype a brand new service in just 48 hours. The jam originated in Germany and had a successful start during its
first run last year, when participants in 50 cities around the world
created more than 200 service concepts from recipe-sharing services to a
community safety network.
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Seaweed may be good for much more than just rolling your sushi in – researchers at Bio Architecture Lab and the University of Washington in Seattle have created
a microbe capable of digesting seaweed and converting it into fuel. BAL synthetic biologist Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team took E. coli and modified it to give it the ability to turn the sugars in an edible
kelp called kombu into fuel, as detailed in Science. The new E. coli, when mixed with water and kombu, created an ethanol solution at temperatures
between 25 and 30 degrees, without requiring the use of
additional energy.
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