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Eroad's five year target: doubling unit sales
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Eroad's five year target: doubling unit sales

Eroad took nine years to sell 100,000 of its telematics units and chief executive Steven Newman reckons the firm can more than double that in the next five.Twenty-eight American and Australasian telematics firms have each sold more than 100,000 units, taking on average 12 years t...

Paul McBeth 22 Nov 2019
Blinky boxes and gobbledegook: tips for choosing a cyber-security vendor
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Blinky boxes and gobbledegook: tips for choosing a cyber-security vendor

If a cyber-security expert just tries to sell you a "blinky box" or talks non-stop tech gibberish, change providers.That's the advice of Michael Daniel, a former top White House adviser to the Obama administration on cyber-threats.Scooting through Auckland last week, Daniel paint...

Pattrick Smellie 22 Nov 2019
Govt tick for NZME/Stuff merger difficult, not impossible - Jarden
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Govt tick for NZME/Stuff merger difficult, not impossible - Jarden

Getting government support for a merger between news publishers NZME and Stuff "will not be easy," but investment house Jarden says it can "see an argument" for intervention to allow a deal that both the Commerce Commission and the courts have so far rejected.And if turned down,...

Pattrick Smellie 22 Nov 2019
Ryman warns NZ, Australia to take population ageing more seriously
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Ryman warns NZ, Australia to take population ageing more seriously

Ryman Healthcare says the Australian and New Zealand governments need to take the rapid ageing of the population more seriously.Chief executive Gordon MacLeod estimates there are 143 million people aged over 80 years now and that will jump to 426 million by 2050. And he says the...

Jenny Ruth 22 Nov 2019