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New Zealand 05th Aug, 2022 13:33 PM

Zenno Astronautics wants to move spacecraft around using electromagnets, not fuel

It’s easy to think about satellites as a bunch of mini-moons, orbiting the Earth seamlessly and without any (noticeable) movement. But that’s not...

Australia 29th Jul, 2022 05:33 AM

Twitter is increasing the price of Twitter Blue from $2.99 to $4.99 per month

Twitter is increasing the price of its subscription service, Twitter Blue, from $2.99 to $4.99 per month. Starting in October, existing subscribers...

Amazon 25th Jul, 2022 15:18 PM

Big Tech’s push to self-regulate harmful content in New Zealand is ‘weak attempt to preempt regulation’, critics say

Big technology companies including Facebook’s parent Meta and Google have signed a pact to self-regulate themselves over harmful content shared...

Carepatron 13th Jul, 2022 19:03 PM

Carepatron is passionate about helping solo practitioners and small healthcare practices

The founders of New Zealand-based Carepatron, a healthcare platform used by providers and patients, say they are passionate about solo practitioners...

audio streaming 02nd Jul, 2022 07:03 AM

Spotify is testing in-app podcast creation tools

Spotify New Zealand gives us a lot of ideas about what kind of features we can expect with in-app podcast recording on Spotify.

aerospace 28th Jun, 2022 15:18 PM

Astrix Astronautics’ Fia Jones on wooing Peter Beck to launch her startup

Astrix has figured out how to use inflation to deploy a very large surface area from a compact volume, which allows for ease of access to power in...

api 08th Jun, 2022 13:45 PM

The race to create the perfect home setup service is on, as Just Move In raises $5M

In recent years startups have turned their attention to what’s known as ‘home setup services’. This is where utilities and moving-in are all...

api 08th Jun, 2022 09:45 AM

Bud raises $80M more to expand its AI-based open banking platform, used to power lending tools and more

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their...

biomaterials 26th May, 2022 14:45 PM

New Zealand’s Humble Bee Bio is using bees to create bioplastics

Humble Bee Bio is on a mission to create a biodegradable alternative to plastics by synthesizing the biology of bees. While the New Zealand-based...

Australia 26th May, 2022 11:45 AM

Viola Credit closes $700M fund to provide asset-based lending FinTech startups

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit, has closed its latest $700 million fund which provides asset-based lending...

4chan 18th May, 2022 23:50 PM

NY AG is investigating Twitch, Discord and 4chan for their role in the Buffalo mass shooting

New York Attorney General Letitia James will launch an investigation into the role that social media and online message boards played in the tragedy...

4chan 17th May, 2022 21:45 PM

Facebook and Twitter still can’t contain the Buffalo shooting video

Ten people were murdered this weekend in a racist attack on a Buffalo, New York supermarket. The eighteen-year-old white supremacist shooter...

4chan 16th May, 2022 21:00 PM

There are no easy answers for tech in the aftermath of the Buffalo tragedy

As a gunman wrought terror in a Buffalo, New York supermarket over the weekend, the violence was, yet again, streamed live online. The latest U.S....

Alexis Ohanian 03rd May, 2022 23:35 PM

Daily Crunch: Startup that transforms real-world items into NFTs raises $6.9M seed round

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blockchain 02nd May, 2022 20:35 PM

New Zealand gets its first crypto, web3-focused VC fund

New Zealand-based VC Global from Day 1 (GD1) launches $5 million web3/crypto fund, the country's first dedicated fund in the crypto, blockchain...

africa 27th Apr, 2022 23:35 PM

Daily Crunch: US dangles reward up to $10M for info on 6 elite Russian military hackers

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artist 08th Apr, 2022 14:50 PM

Spotify continues testing a TikTok-like discovery feed

This feed will show users in select countries 15 song recommendations per day.

augmented reality 05th Apr, 2022 20:35 PM

Niantic makes another acquisition, absorbing AR studio NZXR

These strategic acquisitions are part of Niantic's overarching plan to build what it calls a "real-world metaverse," which is...

austria 24th Mar, 2022 16:35 PM

Mozilla launches paid subscriptions to its Developer Network

Mozilla today launched its new MDN Plus subscription product with features like offline reading, collections and notifications. Paid tiers start at...

Ahimsa Investments 21st Mar, 2022 19:35 PM

Miruku replacing animals with plants to create dairy proteins

Miruku is breeding and engineering plant crops to turn their cells into dairy proteins using energy from the sun.

africa 03rd Mar, 2022 23:50 PM

Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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Ajay Gupta 03rd Mar, 2022 17:40 PM

NZVC creates fund for early-stage New Zealand ventures

NZVC’s fund is targeting the seed to Series A gap to help New Zealand companies grow.

launches 01st Mar, 2022 18:50 PM

Watch Rocket Lab launch a StriX satellite from its new launch pad in New Zealand live

Update: Successful launch and payload deployment per Rocket Lab. For its first launch of 2022, Rocket Lab is sending to orbit a StriX satellite for...

Apple 03rd Feb, 2022 17:30 PM