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Gartner examines the #FAIL safe way to start a tech business...

You're a technologist, and you want to know how to start a company or a product, how to generate a division or develop a new opportunity. Get rejected: Fail.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 12th Aug 2014

Semiconductors

Silicon Valley veteran joins PowerbyProxi to focus on international growth

PowerbyProxi has appointed Dr. Gani Jusuf, a leading Silicon Valley technology executive, to its board of directors.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Wed, 21st May 2014

Fintech

Homegrown tech export cracking America

New Zealand tech firm ActionStep breaks into the US market, delivering cloud-based legal practice management solutions aimed at over 45,000 law firms.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 16th Jan 2013

Information Communication & Technology

New Zealand fails to make tech grade

New Zealand's top cities, including Auckland and Wellington, failed to crack the Global Startup Ecosystem Index's top 20 tech hubs, unlike Sydney and Melbourne.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Fri, 30th Nov 2012

Data Analytics

Who Am I? Revealed

Explore the lives of tech giants from Robert Noyce to Virginia Rometty in our Who Am I? feature, and celebrate their contributions to the industry.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Nov 2012

Data Privacy

Should Google's CEO reveal his mystery illness?

Larry Page has missed one engagement and cancelled his appearances at two others, but no-one wants to explain why.

By Mike Borgfeldt • 1 min read • Tue, 26th Jun 2012

Developers

Competition winners offered trips to the home of tech entrepreneurship

Leaders of top teams at Auckland and Wellington Startup Weekend events to win four weeks promoting their startups in San Francisco.

By Mike Borgfeldt • 2 min read • Mon, 11th Jun 2012

Fintech

US tech investor's $15m kiwi contribution

US tech investor Peter Thiel is boosting New Zealand's tech scene with a NZD $40 million fund, pledging NZD $15 million via his firm Valar Ventures.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 23rd Mar 2012

Google

Virgin America goes Google - saves a fortune

Virgin America adopts Google Apps across its workforce, cutting email system costs by half and saving over 18 terabytes of storage as it moves to the cloud.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 28th Oct 2010

Fintech

Xero gets $4 million for US expansion

Xero secures NZD $4 million from Peter Thiel to fuel its US expansion, with Thiel joining the US Advisory Board to challenge Quickbooks.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 22nd Oct 2010

Comworth

Silicon Valley selects Comworth

Zultys picks Comworth as its NZ distributor, enhancing IP telephony offerings with award-winning tech for the local market.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Mon, 16th Aug 2010

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Silicon Valley natives to visit New Zealand

Wharf42 has announced two of Silicon Valley's thought leaders will visit NZ to share what they know about the current tech and investment landscape.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Wed, 29th Apr 2015

Fintech

Magic Memories, theme-park snappers, lure Silicon Valley funds with 'R&D by M&A' strategy

Magic Memories, which built a $50 million global business taking photographs at tourist attractions and theme parks, has sped its growth by buying.

By Pattrick Smellie • 4 min read • Fri, 13th Feb 2015

EduTech

Silicon Valley trip encourages Kiwi students to choose ICT

This year, 39 Wellington East Girls' pupils were taken on a trip to the United States to see what the ICT sector is like.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Tue, 16th Dec 2014

Kiwi Landing Pad

Secure a internship in Silicon Valley with Winternz...

Kiwi Landing Pad's Winternz offers top New Zealand IT and Marketing students a paid 12-week Silicon Valley internship this summer. Apply by August 15!.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Fri, 1st Aug 2014