New Zealand’s first mobile wallet has been launched this morning by technology company Semble in collaboration with national mobile operators and banks.The free application will be available to android users and customers with ASB…
Your Business: Workplace diversity – Tiffany Zyp, Blastacars Drift Karts
Can you tell me a bit about Blastacars Drift Karts? We have two race tracks – one in Auckland and one in Hamilton. They’re similar to go-kart tracks, but the difference with our karts is they’re specially designed to drift. Blastacars…
Dreamliners' missing seats prompt Boeing to park 787s in desert
Boeing is temporarily storing two new 787 Dreamliner jets in California’s Mojave Desert, usually a resting place for decrepit aircraft, as it works through a seat shortage that has caused production hiccups since late 2014.The measure…
The central banker who saved Russian economy from the abyss
Panic reached the inner sanctum of the Russian central bank.It was December 16 – the day Russian traders would later christen Black Tuesday – and the ruble was in a freefall.”Intervene! Intervene!” a central bank official shouted.Governor…
New building consents showing signs of decreasing
Residential building activity is continuing to recover annually but on a seasonally adjusted basis, the latest monthly figure showed a drop.Statistics NZ data just out showed 24,766 residential consents were issued nationally in…
US ranches paying a premium to tap prime beef boom
Perhaps more than ever, the money in the beef business is in the marbling.Joe Mayer knows this well.At his ranch in Guymon, Oklahoma, a small, wind-swept town along the High Plains north of Texas, Mayer dotes on the “super bull”…
Solar-powered plane lands in China on round-the-world flight
BEIJING (AP) ” A groundbreaking solar-powered plane successfully flew from Myanmar to central China early Tuesday as part of an historic round-the-world journey promoting renewable energy use.The organizers of the Solar Impulse…
PAYE in for biggest proposed shake-up since 1957
The Government is floating the idea of businesses paying their tax on a pay-as-you-go (PAYE) basis, like individual taxpayers, in the biggest proposed shake-up of one of the building blocks of the income tax system since its introduction…
KiwiSaver: First home snag with Australian funds
My husband and I moved back home to New Zealand from Australia in January 2014.When we tried to bring our super across there was a lot of confusion (mainly from bank here) as to rules regarding what we could access should we want…
Yellen touts a slow, steady approach
US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said on Friday that any increase in rock-bottom interest rates to “more normal” levels would be gradual and that rates would remain low “for some time” while the economy continues to recover.But…