Business

NZ suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty, reviews export settings
Economy

NZ suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty, reviews export settings

The New Zealand government has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and is reviewing its treatment of military and other strategic exports into the city following China's passing of a national security law for the Chinese administrative region. Foreign Minister Wins...

Brent Melville 28 Jul 2020
Breast cancer AI firm Volpara sees strong cash receipts
Services

Breast cancer AI firm Volpara sees strong cash receipts

ASX-listed Volpara Health Technologies collected its highest quarterly cash receipts since listing in 2016. Wellington-based Volpara, which focuses on early detection of breast cancer using artificial intelligence, said it received nearly $5.0 million in the first quarter to J...

Rebecca Howard 28 Jul 2020
Dreaming of billions: This Kiwi startup wants to be great, not good
Services

Dreaming of billions: This Kiwi startup wants to be great, not good

At 31-years-old, James Broadbent is now working for his biggest company. And it is the one he co-founded.Narrative, an Auckland-based tech company targeting professional photographers, now has 11 staff and a few contractors chipping in, but is on the talent hunt – currently recru...

Vector partners with Amazon for new energy services
Infrastructure

Vector partners with Amazon for new energy services

Vector is partnering with cloud-computing specialist Amazon Web Services to develop a new platform to manage consumer data for the energy industry in Australia and New Zealand. The New Energy Platform will combine the data from the more than 1.6 million smart meters energy dis...

Gavin Evans 28 Jul 2020