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Auckland fitness professional Melissa Chalmers is launching an app called StrongHer to help Kiwi women feel and look their best selves. The app, which launches this week after a few weeks of beta testing, is a full wraparound training, eating, mental health, and motivational companion app for women pursuing personal health. “StrongHer is a personal […]

Having built one of New Zealand’s largest ICT recruitment agencies and as an active early stage investor himself, Josh Comrie is a familiar face in the New Zealand tech startup community. Recently he experienced a case of role reversal when it was his turn to pitch for investment for his new AI startup Ambit. #nzentrepreneur […]

IoT (The ‘Internet of Things’) has the potential to do some amazing things for New Zealand businesses, but at the very heart of it, people will want to know how it will help their organisation grow – or more to the point, bring in greater financial gains. So how can IoT be monetised? And how […]

Innovators have until the end of April to get their ideas entered into a national competition and business incubator programme which is focusing this year on sustainable agriculture. Northland Inc is facilitating the NZ Aerospace Challenge in the region and calling on creative minds to come to them with ideas, prototypes or projects that they […]

The government’s decision to not progress with a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is a smart move – and one many SME owners around the country will be relieved to hear. Although the Tax Working Group’s (TWG) purpose is well intended, its recommendations have come under a lot of scrutiny for its blanket approach in its […]

Listen to the interview “Everybody has a better product. That’s why you need a better story.” When award winning ad man James Hurman set out to provide New Zealand businesses with access to brand consulting services typically only affordable for large companies and household brands, it was this reasoning that drove him. That and a desire […]

Northland businesses will be able to ‘join the dots’ through a new, free business connectivity service launched by Northland Inc this month through www.kiteao.nz. The simple search service, called kiteAO, has been developed in direct response to a need identified by business owners during a series of business and community meetings Northland Inc held around […]

With nearly one third of local SMEs – potentially up to 150,000 businesses – having experienced a cyber attack and a majority of SME operators expressing fears about cyber security, accounting software provider MYOB is calling on the Government to address online security in the financial sector. According to the latest MYOB Business Monitor survey […]