2013-04-23 08:50:11 // Idealog
More than half of Kiwis are doing personal shopping online, an increase of 11 percent since 2009, according to Statistics New Zealand.
2013-04-22 15:00:32 // Esther Goh
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Frustrated at not being able to find eco products when and where she needed them, Lisa Madarasz launched EcoDeals in February, an e-commerce hub that brings deals on eco-friendly products directly to your inbox twice a week.
2013-03-12 10:39:57 // Esther Goh
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Less than a year on from launch, cloud-based customer reward and engagement programme Plenfy is on the verge of launching a dedicated app, having grown rapidly on the back of partnership with other web-based services.
2013-03-04 09:41:18 // Idealog
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It was just a couple of months ago that The Warehouse picked up Noel Leeming Group for $65 million and now it's set to spend up to $33 million on online sporting gear retailer Torpedo7 .
2013-01-15 13:25:39 // Elizabeth Davies
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New trip-planning website Trovolo launched this month, a homegrown service made by travellers for travellers that encompasses a variety of tools.
2012-11-16 09:31:05 // Idealog
Icebreaker is joining the world of online retail, launching an e-commerce store today with free shipping on purchases over $100.
2012-11-07 15:22:22 // Sam Mickell
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With a career spanning Australia, Europe, Asia and now New York, at only 40 New Zealand-born Jonty Kelt is already onto his fourth startup, Group Commerce.
2012-11-06 09:05:04 // Idealog
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A group of marketers and a former TradeMe exec have joined forces to launch PlanetGoodness.com – a website where shoppers can buy green/ethical (or 'planet positive') products and support Kiwi charities at the same time.
2012-10-29 10:12:55 // Idealog
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There's been no shortage of e-commerce and auction sites popping up recently, and the latest to join the fray is Pricemaker, a platform for buying new, higher-priced items from traditional bricks and mortar retailers.
2012-10-05 10:06:18 // Idealog
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List Sell Trade brought its launch forward to this week to match online auction site Wheedle (which crashed and burned on just its second day) but has already stalled due to an "overwhelming response".
2012-10-04 11:42:31 // Design Daily team
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We've just come across Makeably – another online marketplace, yes, but one focusing on custom projects rather than the sale of ready-made or mass goods.
2012-08-13 10:21:28 // Esther Goh
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'Where everyone gets a bargain' – that's The Warehouse's catchcry, and the red sheds are extending that philosophy by wading into the frenzy that is the daily deals market.
2012-07-31 17:30:22 // Design Daily Team
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Online design store Endemic World hit the market back in 2007, quickly cementing its place as the home of cool, clever and creative New Zealand design. And last month it relaunched with a refined strategy, unveiling a new and specific focus on art and design prints and the tagline “saving blank walls, one print at a time”.
2012-07-04 14:21:22 // Kaleb Francis
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We're now halfway through 2012 and traditionally posts about new trends are written at the beginning of the year. But like the seasons, things change and they do so quickly.
2012-06-25 10:33:48 // Esther Goh
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Swipe HQ, a Kiwi offering with echoes of US payment technology Square, is on track to hit the market in August.
2012-06-22 09:18:14 // Idealog
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Wellington's PartsTrader Markets Ltd is entering the US, having won a contract with a major insurer to set up an online market for vehicle parts.
2012-06-06 09:25:30 // Idealog
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In this day and age it's hard to believe not all businesses are online, but MYOB research shows that as many as two-thirds of Kiwi companies are holding out. In conjunction with Westpac, it's launching GetOnline.co.nz , a new initiative to make free websites available for all New Zealand businesses for a year.
2012-05-11 12:49:28 // Hazel Phillips
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After noticing the explosion of artisan food and our thirst for more and more goodies, Greig Buckley decided to give it an e-commerce twist.
2012-04-30 17:41:08 // Idealog
Telecom, Auckland Transport and Westpac plan to start trialling a mobile wallet system from next month in collaboration with Gemalto, Thales and Paymark.
2012-04-16 09:42:09 // Idealog
TradeMe and global e-commerce platform ChannelAdvisor have cemented a new relationship that will let online retailers sell their wares directly through the auction site.
2012-04-10 15:12:30 // Josh Martin
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The saying ‘sharing is caring’ makes up the essence of one Aucklander’s social experiment – a website that gives away goods and services for free.
2012-04-10 15:03:49 // Kaleb Francis
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If you've been ignoring the rise of e-commerce and social media, it's not too late.
2011-11-04 10:10:02 // StopPress Team
Capitalising on the mobile and online movement, Reachmedia has released the next version of its catalogue viewing platform, which effectively takes catalogues, resizes them and publishes them in a Facebook environment and on mobile apps.
2011-11-02 16:03:18 // Esther Goh
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Your phone is already your calendar, your camera and more – and soon it could be your wallet, too.
2011-11-01 15:35:38 // Idealog
GrabOne’s quest to dominate the daily deals world continues today, with the launch of its seventh vertical, GrabOne Families.
2011-10-25 10:02:38 // Idealog
Telecom, Vodafone and 2degrees have reached an agreement to let customers to purchase apps and digital content on their cell phone and have it charged to their phone bill.
2011-08-10 17:13:58 // Esther Goh
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Just a year old, Kiwi startup Vend has raised a big chunk of capital from Europe and now has its sights set firmly on the US market.
2011-08-04 13:00:23 // StopPress Team
Auckland mobile marketing company Pocketvouchers has a bit of a spring in its step after signing deals with global payment processor ePay and local daily deal site GrabOne recently.
