I’ve written in the past about the good things that New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the Government’s enterprise development body, does for New Zealand business. They have a large variety of programmes, all aimed at helping New Zealand business…
This isn’t my normal topic, but I can’t resist. I’ve secretly always harbored a dream that NZ might really make something of itself. Do what Germany & Japan did post WWII & Ireland have done recently & recreate their…
Bernard writes over on ReadWriteWeb about the interesting battle-to-come between LinkedIn and Xing. For me the most interesting line comes at the end; [the] conclusion that you have to move to the Valley…is increasingly flawed and Xing illustrates why.…
There’s been a fair amount of hyperbole this week over the closure of two carpet making plants in the North Island. To give a synopsis of the situation, a few years ago Feltex carpets went bust. After a length…
Our esteemed Reserve Bank Governor, Allan Bollard, gave a speech yesterday during which he enunciated what everyone has known and talked about (OK apart from Real Estate agents but they only marginally fall into the category of people). Cullen…
The final update Rod filled me in on is one that will be exciting and welcome to all Xero investors: Xero is now fully live in the UK. Some of the UK functionality (automatic bank feed for example) is…
News this morning that a NZTE survey of some of New Zealand’s main trading partners show that they consider us unsophisticated when it comes to business accumen.Interestingly enough Australia took a differing point of view but then again they…
Peter Griffin writes about his experience witnessing the Dutch program of Government rolling out Fibre to the Home (FTTH) throughout Amsterdam. Peter says; The Dutch, you see, are where New Zealand needs to be this time next year –…
An article in The Press newspaper this morning caught my eye. It’s election year here in New Zealand and both main parties are pushing teen education as an election year issue. The labour party has suggested compulsory education until…