GSK presents data from Phase III STABILITY study of darapladib in patients...
GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today presented data from the pivotal Phase III STABILITY study of darapladib at the American College of Cardiology 63rd Annual Scientific Session in Washington, DC....
View ArticleITF-IUF press release: Unions welcome Thai fisher slavery exposé
Two international union federations working together to fight appalling exploitation of fishery workers have applauded this week’s exposé by the UK’s Guardian newspaper of the use of slave labour in...
View ArticleNew Zealand Rugby and UNICEF announce new international partnership for children
AUCKLAND, 20 June 2014 - New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and UNICEF today announced an international partnership which will see the All Blacks, and all other New Zealand Rugby teams, support UNICEF’s work in...
View ArticleNew Zealand Chief Financial Officers Have the Keys to the Cloud
Auckland, New Zealand, 21/7/2014. IDC New Zealand's recent Asia Pacific (excl. Japan) Cloud survey shows 100% of New Zealand organisations have a cloud budget forecast between now and 2016 and 79%...
View ArticleWestpac NZ Selects IBM to Support Transformation to NZ's Leading Digital Bank
Auckland, New Zealand - 21 Aug 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Westpac New Zealand, part of one of the world’s largest financial services institutions, has selected IBM’s private cloud...
View ArticleFinzsoft Moves to IBM Cloud to Drive Strategic Global Expansion
Finzsoft Solutions Limited (NZX:FIN) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a five-year cloud agreement to move Finzsoft's core and vertical banking applications, including its Sovereign application, to...
View ArticleNew Zealand PC Market On The Verge Of Witnessing Its Best Ever Year In History
Auckland, New Zealand, 2nd December, 2014 – New Zealand PC market shipments totalled 187,000 units in the third quarter of 2014, according to IDC's just released Asia/Pacific Quarterly PC Tracker. This...
View ArticleMember Of Megaupload Conspiracy Pleads Guilty to Copyright Infringement...
A computer programmer for the Mega copyright piracy conspiracy, Andrus Nomm, 36, of Estonia, pleaded guilty today in connection with his involvement with Megaupload.com and associated piracy websites....
View ArticleLong running Auckland dispute ends in win for workers
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is joining its affiliate the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) in celebrating the signing of a new collective agreement for workers at the Ports...
View ArticleCricketers team up to support efforts to end the AIDS epidemic
AUCKLAND/GENEVA, 5 March 2015—Players and officials at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup 2015, being held in Australia and New Zealand, are raising awareness around HIV in...
View ArticleNew Zealand Ministry of Health selects IBM Cloud
Auckland, New Zealand - 12 May 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the New Zealand Ministry of Health has adopted IBM’s government cloud service to meet its all-of-government requirements to...
View ArticleFrom Xero to Hero – Disruption in the New Zealand ERP market
Auckland, New Zealand, 16.06.2015. Xero overtakes SAP to become largest vendor in New Zealand's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market in 2014. read more
View ArticleIn remote Mongolia, telemedicine connects pregnant women to faraway care
Altanchimeg, a midwife, delivers a baby in Ulaanbataar, the capital. She provides expert advice to provincial hospitals around Mongolia through the Telemedicine Network. read more
View ArticleAssistant Secretary Russel Travel to Honolulu, Suva, Port Moresby, Auckland,...
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel will travel to Honolulu on June 26 for the 7th U.S.–India–Japan Trilateral Dialogue, followed by the U.S.– India East Asia...
View ArticleMedia Release - United Nations Development Programme and Australia
Meeting between the Hon Julie Bishop, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator. read more
View ArticleCentaur Equine Specialty Hospital takes shape, specialist hired
Construction continues on the Centaur Equine Specialty Hospital in Shelbyville, Indiana. The $8.8 million, 18,000-square-foot hospital, a satellite facility of the Purdue University College of...
View ArticleDateline Rice for August 1, 2016 (Weekend Edition)
In a find that could transform some of the world’s most energy-intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics have unveiled a new method for uniting...
View ArticleNew Zealand is Addicted to Digital Spending Almost as Much Time on Smart...
AUCKLAND, September 1st, 2016 – IDC New Zealand has released its 2016 ConsumerScape 360° survey findings. The report highlights how, for an increasing number of consumers, using smart devices and...
View Article- New Zealand Consumers are Over the Hype of Wearables
AUCKLAND, 29 SEPTEMBER 2016: IDC's recently published New Zealand Device Landscape study, was based on data contained in IDC's 2016 ConsumerScape 360º survey, which included 1,502 New Zealand...
View ArticleIDC's 2016 Global IoT Decision Maker Survey Finds New Zealand Organisations...
Auckland, New Zealand., September 27, 2016 – Initial results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) 2016 Global IoT Decision Maker Survey show that the market is pivoting away from proof of...
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