Dunedin computer game developer RocketWerkz has landed a major investment from Chinese giant Tencent.

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Transport Minister, Simon Bridges, says the government will help pick up the tab if the Auckland City Rail Link (CRL) goes over budget.

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A2 Milk [NZX: ATM] will become a takeover target again if the shares remain at current levels says a fund manager who has just topped up its stake in the company.

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Noting that two polls – including the only public one so far – show long-serving Mt Roskill Labour MP Phil Goff “with a considerable lead,” Mr Thomas says he’s been “considering my position” in the contest on the basis that “a Phil Goff mayoralty would not deliver the new leadership that Auckland needs.”

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A local start-up trying to use virtual reality to teach languages has launched a small Kickstarter campaign to fund a world tour so it can create content.

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It shows a complete lack of joined-up thinking at the top of Labour: worse, it shows plot and bottle-loss, says Rob Hosking

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Waste Management NZ has announced it is moving toward electric vehicles as part of an ongoing sustainability commitment.

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Batteries are likely to be the biggest game changer in the electricity industry.

That’s the view of Professor Lew Evans of Victoria University who says batteries mean that people can shift electricity through time and to different locations and are no longer constricted to the services delivered by wires to each house.

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The country’s first licensed real estate agency to offer online property auctions believes it is the first in the world to do so.

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A New Zealand start-up is raising funds to target the Korean property market.

Founded by David Kim and Shaan Joshi, Venn aims to address a gap in South Korea’s commercial real estate market, where there is no listings aggregator that encompasses major agencies, minor agencies and direct listings.

Read more ($): http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/kiwi-company-crowdfunds-launch-south-korea-cs-p-194191