Apple's asset-shuffling puts $270m value on PowerbyProxi

Apple's asset-shuffling puts $270m value on PowerbyProxi
Paul McBeth
Multinational tech company Apple valued PowerbyProxi at almost $270 million as it shifted the Kiwi firm's assets to a related US entity, more than nine times what investors put into the wireless power developer. Apple bought PowerbyProxi in 2017 for an undisclosed sum, and while the Overseas Investment Office has remained mum on what the world's biggest technology firm paid, annual accounts filed to the Companies Office show a hefty premium to the book value of PowerbyProxi's platform technology, patents and licences when they were sold to a...

More Services

SPQR owes more than $2 million
Services Free

SPQR owes more than $2 million

The first liquidator’s report on iconic Auckland restaurant SPQR shows the business owed more than $2 million to Inland Revenue and other creditors.The Ponsonby Rd establishment was placed into liquidation last Thursday by special resolution of the shareholders and is no longer t...

Staff reporters 18 Jul 2024
Consumers agree on what constitutes fairness: FMA
Finance

Consumers agree on what constitutes fairness: FMA

NZ consumers have a remarkably consistent understanding of fairness, research finds.

Tom Raynel 18 Jul 2024
$1.65b project to simplify switching banks a 'flop'
Finance

$1.65b project to simplify switching banks a 'flop'

Open banking has hindered competition rather than helping it, says lobby.

AAP 04 Jul 2024
Hundreds of ECE centres backtracking on pay parity
Policy

Hundreds of ECE centres backtracking on pay parity

96% of daycares have opted into pay parity, but govt funding doesn't match the costs.