Budget 2013 app is, well, budget
Budget 2013 flaunts digital savvy with fancy app, but falls down at the finish line on the day. More …
Budget 2013: Tax assistance for startups conducting R&D
5The Government has released its 2013 Budget today revealing amongst other things new assistance for startups towards research and development costs. More …
Snakk opens NZ sales office, may scale back share purchase plan
Snakk Media (which listed on the New Zealand Alternative Stock Exchange back in March) has opened a New Zealand sales office, run by former APN group sales manager Rowan Spinks. More …
Review
Review: Sony Alpha 99 camera
All it took was an afternoon alone with the Sony Alpha 99 camera for me to fall in love with it (or at least like it as much as a man can like an inanimate object, without it being creepy ... More …
Vend raises $8 million more towards global expansion
2Don't let Vaughan Rowsell's devilishly good looking mustache fool you, the man knows how to close a deal. Today his Auckland-based cloud point of sale company has announced it's raised NZ$8 million and it's planning ... More …
Podcast: Richard Irvine on social media and the art of slaying trolls
Hosts Paul Spain and Sim Ahmed pick the brain of former Telecom social media manager and current New Zealand Cricket online and social manager Richard Irvine about his career as the voice (and face) of the country's largest telco ... More …
Fairfax digs heels into mobile ad revenue with InMobi deal
Fairfax Media New Zealand is partnering with India-based global ad network InMobi to place mobile advertising across its publications online and in apps. More …
The Wrap: 15 May 2013
The software patents witch is dead, Vend rolls in piles of cash and we take a trip back to 1994. More …
Wynyard eyes IPO to fast track growth
Risk management and digital forensics software provider Wynyard Group is looking towards the New Zealand Stock Exchange to secure growth in its future. More …
InGame gamifies music discovery in time for NZ Music Month
If you've had dreams of managing The Beatles but haven't quite figured out where to begin your management career (or how to build a time machine), Indie Music Manager is the game for you. More …
Opinion
Should I be publishing on Medium.com?
Medium.com has been around for a few months. Another brainchild of Twitter founder @ev and @biz, it’s a clean and simple publishing community for posts longer than Twitter’s 140, but less than a novel. In other words ... More …
The Wrap: 8 May 2013
What I've learned from youthful piracy, Wellington is dying?, and a year without the internet. More …
End of Kiwi virtual world MiniMonos
3The end is nigh for New Zealand online multiplayer game MiniMonos, the primate themed game's maker says there's no money in monkey business (at least not in the Flash-based variants). More …
Review: Microsoft Surface RT
Microsoft surprised the world last year when it unveiled the Surface RT, a tablet manufactured by what is traditionally a software company. I was blown away by its beautiful design and dissimilarities to the iPad. In a field of Apple ... More …
SLI looks to raise $27m in IPO, Trade Me founder invests another $1 million
Christchurch-based SLI Systems looks set to raise $27 million when the software company lists on the New Zealand Stock Exchange later this month. More …