Technology

21 Dec 18, 10:05am

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Matthew Bartlett and Geoffrey Roberts of Citizen AI look at the geopolitics of AI, China's digital dystopia in the making, the transport and energy transformation, building digitally inclusive communities and more
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Unlocking Open Banking

18 Dec 18, 9:46am

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KPMG's James Dowle says if Open Banking is to take off, more needs to be done to quell fears from customers about data security, while banks and other providers need to really demonstrate the true value and benefits
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Faafoi: If tech companies take from banks, they need to give too

15 Dec 18, 9:31am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi says reciprocity key to preventing open banking from seeing the big four tech companies gazump banks
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What Trump doesn’t understand about business could fill a truck

30 Nov 18, 9:33am

David Cay Johnston

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DCReport's David Cay Johnston says US President Donald Trump's reaction to GM layoffs shows he doesn’t get automakers, technology or his own new tax law
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We are no better than Trump

29 Nov 18, 8:55am

Peter Dunne

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Peter Dunne says it seems that where China is concerned, New Zealand has become very reluctant to say a word out of place, presumably for fear of the economic consequences
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Cigna on track to become first insurer to offer robo-advice

22 Nov 18, 2:49pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

Cigna follows Kiwi Wealth and Nikko Asset Management in getting FMA clearance to provide digital personalised advice
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ASB follows BNZ and Co-op Bank and launches bank account by selfie app

21 Nov 18, 12:49pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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ASB, like BNZ and The Co-operative Bank, adopts facial recognition technology to enable new customers to apply for a bank account in 15 minutes without entering a branch
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This week's guest Top 10

16 Nov 18, 10:18am

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Motu researchers on the history of wellbeing, robot ethics, whether the left or right hand should pay tax, the 1918 flu epidemic, prestige and value for money, the effect of cash transfers, protecting large carnivores, and the expansion of the culture war
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Technology, tariffs, and peak globalisation

14 Nov 18, 11:06am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson suggests future historians will say the 2008–2009 crisis marked 'peak globalization' and we're now heading down the other side of the mountain
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This week's Top 10

9 Nov 18, 10:00am

Gareth Vaughan

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Gareth Vaughan on Francis Fukuyama & identity politics, Silicon Valley & the radicalisation of the world, Corbyn the Trotskyite, Goldman Sachs cops a kicking, Bolsonaro & the Amazon & more
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Energy, the root of all wealth. Part 2; Looking forward

9 Oct 18, 10:39am

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Murray Grimwood, aka interest.co.nz commentator Power Down Kiwi, says NZ needs a strategic plan with all-party political support to achieve energy resilience
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$1 bln up for grabs in R&D tax incentives

3 Oct 18, 10:13am

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EY's Tim Benbow and David Snell say the Government's new R&D plan is a bold initiative
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The FAANG phenomenon gives bite to global equities

2 Oct 18, 1:11pm

Guest

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Mercer's David Scobie assesses technology in an investment sense, how its prominence can be justified & how this might be something to be wary of
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The Trump trade war recession?

2 Oct 18, 9:23am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin says the Trump tariffs could end the conditions that justified them. Something similar happened before, during the most famous trade mistake in US and global history: the 1930s Smoot-Hawley tariffs
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Machines will do half our work by 2025

30 Sep 18, 6:38am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson argues we must prepare now for the mass upheaval coming as machines take humans' jobs
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China for the trade win?

25 Sep 18, 7:45am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin says it will take a long time to see how the US-China trade confrontation shakes out, and meantime we’ll see both sides alternately throwing and absorbing punches and the winner could even be a third party that may not exist yet
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A Top 10 for the weekend

23 Sep 18, 9:07am

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Motu researchers on predicting obesity rates from space, reinventing cities, genes associated with education, and the Ig Nobel Prizes
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Chinese growth spurt

17 Sep 18, 9:30am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin relates some short stories about positive events in China, which demonstrate that China has good news, and even some fabulously great news, much of it quite compelling
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$100,000 for doing (almost) nothing

14 Sep 18, 10:52am

Gareth Vaughan

28 comments

Government to pay Derek Handley $100,000 plus expenses after offering him the role of Chief Technology Officer and then changing its mind
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China's command innovation

10 Sep 18, 9:18am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin delves deep into China and concludes that if it’s possible for a centrally planned economy to achieve sustainable long-term growth, China will be the one to do it
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