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Have we got a deal for you! 12 years of Idealog / 12 month subscription / 12 days / $12

Back on Idealog's tenth birthday, we bravely/foolishly offered a $10 subscription deal. On our 11th birthday, we offered an $11 subscription deal. And this year, we're doing it again, offering an annual subscription for just $12. This would normally sting you $32.80, so it will only be another 21...

How Annabelle Rose created the activewear of her dreams

Auckland designer Annabelle Rose launched her activewear label Rose Road to provide women with high-quality exercise tights in bold colours, but creating the right product wasn’t easy.

Indian startup helps women rise in business

A new Indian customer-to-customer platform aims to help local women build home-based retail businesses. The post

New earthquake-resistant concrete could help save lives

A sprayable concrete could significantly enhance the resistance of vulnerable structures to earthquakes. The post

Decoy sea turtle egg is a tracker for poachers

A new low-cost device uses geotagging technology to deter and reduce the illegal wildlife trade. The post

Eye For An Eye and the (terrifying) world of VR horror

Just in time for Halloween: a new feature-length horror film - in VR. Enter Eye For An Eye.

Moulding the music tastes of a generation: Inside the world of Australia and New Zealand’s Spotify music editor

Spotify has revolutionised the access consumers have to music through its technology, but behind the machine, there’s humans like Spotify Australia and New Zealand senior music editor Alicia Sbrugnera helping craft playlists to people’s different wants and needs. We went behind the interface and ...

Angel investment in New Zealand: Making it rain or drying up?

More money is coming into New Zealand – or at least more people are investing in New Zealand companies.

NZTech Q&A: Priti Ambani

Chantal Thomas asks the newly appointed 

New book comes out THIS week on 1st Nov - congrats

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What work will look like in 2027

To celebrate the anniversary of 40-hour working week, Todd Selwyn from Samsung Electronics New Zealand casts an eye over what a New Zealand workspace might look like in ten years’ time.

BrandAid helps brew a rebrand for Emerson's

With the explosion of craft beer up and down the country, Dunedin’s iconic Emerson’s Brewery felt it needed to bring something fresh to the market, so it called in BrandAid to help with a rebrand.

The Spinoff's Ātea helps bring Māori perspectives to the mainstream

In early October, lauched Ātea, a dedicated Māori perspectives section on their site.