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Technology Editor, NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/chris-keall/
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Elon Musk and his cost-cutting US DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers. Syndicated from the Washington Post (free) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/elo...

Maria Slade: "I've been chasing Haven Living Management around for a few months, uncovering more and more. Strikes me it's a case-in-point of why the government should never have abandoned the planned regulation of property managers" businessdesk.co.nz/article/prop...

Please think twice if a North Korean agent approaches you in a bar and offers you some cheap crypto www.nzherald.co.nz/world/north-...

Mighty Ape - now on to its third CEO since being bought by ASX-listed Kogan for $128m in 2020 - said first-half results were “significantly impacted” by technical issues following the upgrade of its website last October www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

Recent promises remind me of 2018, when Trump 1 turned up for the groundbreaking of what Foxconn said would be a $10 billion plant in Wisconsin. But despite a truckload of subsidies, the build was shrunk to a faction of the original promise www.wsj.com/articles/fox...

Mayday mayday mayday www.facebook.com/watch/?v=167...

Sky faces competition from DAZN for New Zealand Rugby media rights deal: Gregor Paul www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/...

Backers have included the taxpayer via just over $1 million in grants from the soon-to-be-extinct Callaghan Innovation www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/y...

"If you don’t answer, like you’re sort of semi-fired" - great to see Trump clarifying the situation www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...

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But hey, still owns a chunk of property around Wanaka, so I guess that's living the Kiwi Dream www.nzherald.co.nz/business/us-...

Bayly's had issues - possibly big issues - with the way he treats people. But at a policy level, he understood the Commerce and Consumer Affairs portfolio - including the tricks some companies play to delay reform - far better than his immediate predecessors www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Genesis is interested in buying the liquidated SolarZero, but its complicated commercial structure would have to be sorted before serious consideration could be given, says its chief executive Malcolm Johns businessdesk.co.nz/article/mark...

Levy not a tax. Phew! www.nzherald.co.nz/business/per...

I'm so old I've lived through 15 or 20 quantum computing "breakthroughs". It used to be an IBM breakthrough, about every 18 months, that would change everything

Back on the chain gang

What brings a person to a place in their life where they'll triple-block?

Cafe has ratio wrong

Includes some of the more brutal comments I've ever fielded from an analyst (prem) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/spa...

Ports of Auckland former CEO Tony Gibson to pay $190,000 after death of stevedore Pala’amo Kalati (prem) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/por...

Media Insider: Sky TV reclaims Black Caps, White Ferns cricket rights in new six-year deal (prem) www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/cricke...

Ugly result at Spark, looks like more job cuts on the way (free) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/spa...

“Elon Musk’s immersion in right-wing politics appear to be diverting his attention from Tesla at a perilous moment for the electric car company. “Tesla’s car sales fell 1 percent last year even as the global market for electric vehicles grew 25 percent” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

"It has been a great week in the health system. Nobody in its top echelons has quit this week. But hey, it is only Thursday" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

DeepSeek, WeChat, Red Note and Cap Cut banned from the Beehive www.nzherald.co.nz/business/dee...

Netsafe did quite savage Meta in a recent open letter, to be fair - and it's up to our lawmakers to give some teeth www.nzherald.co.nz/business/net...

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"What’s worse than losing record numbers of 25-year-olds? Losing record numbers of 35-year-olds" On Monday Stats NZ released numbers that showed a 72,000 loss of citizens – the largest ever for a calendar year www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...

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