"If you measured the silences in each day of a High Court trial you might gain understanding of time’s relativity, the beauty of a dust mote floating in a shaft of light and the ultimate nothingness of nirvana."

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"No one will ever accuse Andrew Little of being boring after his bold rejection this week of the political centre."

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While the internet has changed the shopping process for almost any product you care to name, the process of buying a new vehicle has remained steadfastly face-to-face.

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As revealed in last week’s column, the economically significant Hauraki Gulf Forum (HGF) is planning to restructure itself after the 2016 triennial local authority elections.

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Winston’s goal may not be government in 2017, but his party supplanting Labour by 2020.

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Is the tide turning?

Orcon (part of the Vocus group) is the latest ISP to announce super-fast "one gig" UFB fibre plans – taking advantage of Chorus' move to extend "giga" service from "Gigatown" winner Dunedin to the whole of the country from October 1 (check out some sample pricing here).

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It was of course appalling that hackers were able to break into Yahoo’s servers in 2014 and steal personal information from 500 million of its users – including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and, in some cases, unencrypted security questions and answers (which can be used to change a password without knowing it).

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More than 75% of chief executives in the US include gender equality in their top 10 business priorities but gender outcomes in the largest companies are not changing.

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Specialty insurer CBL Corporation has raised $60 million in a share placement, which it will use to pay down debt.

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