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Air New Zealand recognised for corporate social responsibility

Air New Zealand’s sustainability efforts have been recognised for the second consecutive year in the 2018 Annual Review of the State of CSR (corporate social responsibility) in Australia and New Zealand, with the airline taking out a New Zealand CSR Top 5 Award.

Entries are open for the 2018 New Zealand International Business Awards,

Entries are open for the 2018 New Zealand International Business Awards, which celebrate the success of New Zealand businesses on the world stage.

The end of ownership: The subs economy booms

It’s not new, but then again, it kind of is. Goodbye pay-per-product - the subscription economy has come of age writes Jaonathan Cotton for iStart

Thiel backs bitcoin trading platform startup

Billionaire Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund is backing a startup that aims to bring Wall Street electronic trading expertise to the bitcoin market, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tagomi Systems expects to be the bitcoin version of a broker-dealer, executing orders to buy or sell …

Victoria University launches new cyber-security initiatives

Staff from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Engineering and Computer Science are in Samoa this month as part of an initiative to bring cyber-security education to the Pacific and beyond.

Politics and science aims to shut down water bottling giant

More than one billion litres of water could be bottled and shipped to China from Otakiri Springs. A chinese-owned water bottling company's bid to bottle three million litres of drinking water each day from a Bay of Plenty spring as come under fire from iwi for being against Tangata Whenua.

NZ fintech sector out pacing rest of the world

New Zealand is the least corrupt country in the world, but it needs to learn from larger fintech markets like Australia, Singapore and London and more rapidly adapt to technologies such as like blockchain and crypto-currencies, a Kiwi fintech expert says.

GMP Pharmaceuticals announces general manager appointment

This is a supplied media release. Newly appointed general maanger Rowland Ong has extensive experience in food and supplement manufacturing, including holding senior management and consulting roles within New Zealand's complementary medicines / health supplement industry for over a …