Manufacturing expanding at pace
May 16, 2013 Photo / AP New Zealand manufacturing expanded at its fastest pace for three years in April, bolstered by new orders The BNZ-BusinessNZ performance of manufacturing index rose 1.1 to 54.5 in April [...]
Sky remains tight-lipped on uptake of Igloo
May 16, 2013 Sky chief executive John Fellet said uptake for the Sky-lite device had picked up after a slow start. Photo / Natalie Slade Sky Television is refusing to spell out the uptake for [...]
IPO floodgates open
May 15, 2013 Synlait Milk, which is considering an IPO, attempted to raise $150 million in a sharemarket float in 2010. Photo / Supplied Three companies have revealed plans to list on the stock exchange [...]
Software patent plan gets axed
May 9, 2013 Orion Health founder Ian McCrae says software patents are counter-productive and get in the way of innovation. Photo / Kenny Rodger The Government has backed down on a controversial move to make [...]
The man behind The Sartorialist blog
May 2, 2013 Photographer Scott Schuma. Photo / Supplied The one blog that caused a seismic shift the fashion's power pantheon isThe Sartorialist. It was founded in 2005 by photographer Scott Schuman who started taking [...]
Mai Chen: Enter the taniwha and the dragon
May 3, 2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping shares a hongi on his visit to New Zealand in 2010. Photo / NZPA I had a glimpse of the future last weekend at the Taniwha Dragon conference [...]