Ben Kepes is a technology analyst, commentator and consultant. His
Humans are facing the fastest rate of change and some
Massey University students Fraser Callaway and Oliver Ward found design graduates were battling the transition to employment. They responded by creating a cunning and
The endless round of meetings and emails is preventing us actually getting any work done. Is your work day being chopped into pieces that
Mary Poppins reckoned a spoonful of sugar did the trick with unpalatable medicine. Now a bunch of students have applied the Mary P principle
... the climate cliff, the fat lady singing - aka the money we've invested in fossil fuels we haven't dug up and burned yet.
Doing good and doing well aren’t such unlikely bedfellows, writes Rebekah White, and business is no exception
When Google snapped up Nest recently, more than a few people wondered how it planned to put ads on a thermostat. But the acquisition
At Idealog’s recent Pitch Circus we gave new entrepreneur Rebekah Craig from Mbuba three minutes and 33 seconds to sell her idea about making
The winning entry from Idealog's recent Pitch Circus event has a solution for all of us facing the “63 shopping days till Christmas, and
We look at the many layers and intricacies of the top winner at this year's PANZ Book Design Awards.
Andy Mitchell used to create containers to send products around the world; now, he's designing personalised, transport-friendly, nail-free coffins.
Look around you. Beards are making a massive comeback. But what does your chin wig say about you – and your business?
The Honest Food Company Belinda Tuki makes the case for her startup that serves up a dose of healthy eating to busy mums
Coming as news to absolutely no one: New Zealanders have a housing problem. Skyrocketing prices coupled with a lack of supply and quality; we
A Facebook auction company, with former NZX boss Mark Weldon as an investor, and McDonalds and Thomas Cook as new clients, is proving there
SUVs have come a long way since the early gas-guzzling tanks made the evolutionary crawl from farm land to inner-city soccer run. New Zealand’s
You are what you eat, right? Setting aside the implications of cannibalism (and that is considered to be VERY naughty these days) it does
Tapping on your tablet or smartphone is so early 21st century These days the cool kids aren’t carrying their gadgets – they’re wearing them.
Just Google ‘kid backseat divider’ and you’ll be amazed how many desperate parents are asking for help.
BMW's first all-electric car, the i3, is as cute as a button. But it's what's under the hood that's turning heads.
Agony Lance advises on: the best way to launch your web-based business (the answer is slowly); how to time a start-up brand campaign
Team Oracle snatched victory not just because of money. It was what money bought: data. Jane Cherrington uncovers what so smart about data
You'd have thought the way business works that a five-day work week came down with Moses on a stone tablet. Actually God's working week
Sad but true. You might never get to be an All Black. But what if you could learn the secrets of the All Blacks’
What was the Flappy Bird madness of 2014 really all about? We may never know, but these snazzy graphs and numbers might help.
Kiwi startup Puteko is taking good old-fashioned colouring and bringing it to life with augmented reality.
Stellar Library is a cloud-based document storage and sharing system created by a pharmacist and backed by a guy who made his money from
What if everything we thought we knew about leading a longer, healthier life was wrong?
He sold a pet crematorium, but turned down a bondage dungeon. Now Aaron Toresen is taking his business brokerage Link to the US.