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A Kiwi eye specialist has invented a simple tool that turns a smartphone into a diagnostic tool – and now it has won the

A Wellington start-up is connecting Chinese students in New Zealand with Kiwi businesses looking to tap into the world’s largest market.

Forget cut-throat competition, the hot topic these days is collaboration. Whether it’s companies in shared working spaces exchanging ideas around the water cooler, entrepreneurs

On a clear day in May, Auckland commuters gazing up to the sky for some relief from the gridlocked traffic might have spotted something

Working Style has chosen the late Sir Ian Athfield’s signature home Athfield House as the backdrop for its Summer 2015/16 collection campaign.

The emissions scandal at Volkswagen is one reason New Zealand should be taking electric cars far more seriously than it is. Environmental writer Andy

How the crazy cartoons of a Pulitzer prize-winning American engineer became the crazy inventions of a Kiwi software developer, who became the subject of

From the New Zealand siblings who brought us the Robo Fish (one of the biggest-selling toys of all time), comes what could be this

Successful companies lodge international patents. We Kiwis invent stuff and hide it under our raincoats

American journalist Andrew Goldman's film "The Desk" (about Paul Henry) makes Idealog columnist Vaughn Davis reconsider the role of an amateur journalist.

Looking for a good time in central Auckland? Idealog spent a few hours at AUT’s Colab, and came away buzzing.

Coming up with a great idea and translating it into a marketable product is one thing. But with everyone screaming for ‘fresh and new’

In the 2011 movie Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the cash-strapped Oakland Athletics baseball team. Using a heap of

Almost nine out of 10 Fortune 100 companies use Myers-Briggs personality profiling in some way to check out how their employees view the world

Idealog’s own ad guru wonders if there wasn’t some merit in an employment regime where firing someone still had a weapon involved

Algorithms won't replace journalists while there are still people willing to pay to get information

How – and why – Deloitte’s decided to radically revamp its performance appraisal system

The internet is great. But there’s no substitute for bumping into real people for getting our creative juices flowing

Why those who tell the stories rule the world. And those who rely on dull presentations don’t.

When Cantabrians protest the disappearance of the old cathedral, they are simply following a long and noble tradition of resistance to altering the status

New Zealand has been reaping benefits from the influx of Chinese tourists, Chinese students, Chinese investments in property and business. Kiwis are no doubt

It’s been going almost 80 years and is still New Zealand’s second best-loved brand. So how did we all become Tip Top fans?

A design student’s boot cleaning station may be key to fighting New Zealand’s killer kauri disease.

In a world where you ain’t anyone unless you have an online presence, the sex industry has also embraced fast-changing technology, with many independent

The name may make it sound like alien tech, but the MARS imaging scanner has the potential to revolutionise medicine – and it’s being

Business success doesn’t just happen because you want it to. You have to work hard at putting the foundations in place. One of those

When it comes to advertising, sometimes you just need to say it as it is.

Bosses set the standard for the office and workplace attitude - to do work, or to not?