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Hi-Tech Awards – what a night!
Written by hannah.delaney 20/05/13First of all a big congratulations to Robert Bell, who took out the Hi-Tech Young Achiever Award for the second year in a row (if you are wanting to know his secret, please see Fronde's interview w...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #4 – JAMES ROBERTSON
Written by hannah.delaney 15/05/13James spends his days doing what most boys would only dream of - building Robots! Founder of Invert Robotics, these Robots are designed to climb and inspect places that are too dange...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #3 – SAM DAVIES TALWAR
Written by hannah.delaney 14/05/13Chief Executive of Koti Technologies, Sam has not only been helping to commercialise a ceramic coating system that could someday be part of the NASA spacecraft programme, h...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #2 – GUY HORROCKS
Written by hannah.delaney 13/05/13Co-founder the world's first iPhone app company, Polar Bear Farm, Guy got the attention of Apple and helped pioneer the jailbreak market a year before there even was a mobile app store! More recently ...
Hi-Tech Young Achiever Finalist #1 – ROBERT BELL
Written by hannah.delaney 10/05/13What do young achievers look like in 2013? Well, they have won the Financial World Innovation Awards, received and declined multi-million dollar offers for their companies, built robots, and developed...
RealMe: Is it really for me?
Written by John Buchanan 03/05/13RealMe: Is it really for me? The question has been raised; are there any business opportunities associated with RealMe? If so, what are they? Before we delve into that, let’s take a look at what ...
Groundswell at AWS Summit in Sydney
Written by fronde 02/05/13What a day in Sydney last Wednesday! Over 1600 queued to get into the Amazon Web Services client summit. It was a sellout event with Fronde a Gold Sponsor, and was well supported by local Frondies Jam...
Introducing the next generation of Hi-Tech Young Achievers
Written by hannah.delaney 23/04/13What do young achievers look like in 2013? Well, they have won the Financial World Innovation Awards, received and declined multi-million dollar offers for their companies, built robots, and develop...
Come hear us at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Sydney
Written by James Valentine 22/04/13This Wednesday is the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit in Sydney! This will see business and technical people from across Australia converge to hear about the benefits and opportunities AWS can offer....
Technology Innovation Week – An opportunity to celebrate New Zealand’s successful technology sector
Written by fronde 19/04/13New Zealand’s technology sector is continuing to grow export revenue and play an increasingly important part of our economy. In 2012, the Technology Investment Network’s TIN100 companies increas...
AWS Auckland Summit reaches over 50% capacity within 24 hours
Written by hannah.delaney 12/04/13If you are wanting to come to the AWS Summit in Auckland, you had better register fast! Within 24 hours of registrations opening, over 50% of available spaces were snatched up, and it's expected that ...
Imagine Cup Success for OneBeep
Written by James Valentine 26/07/10I've recently returned from Poland, as mentor for the rather fantastic Team OneBeep - New Zealand's finalist in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. 69 teams from around the world were in Warsaw as finalists i...
Imagine a trip to Poland!
Written by James Valentine 04/05/10I've been mentoring a team in Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition - an international competition for tertiary students which "encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and the...
