Mortgage market wars have cooled lately and the battleground has shifted to term deposits.

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Spark has revealed an active customer number for Skinny Mobile for the first time. In the scheme of things, it’s a modest number.

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A Korean news agency report that Samsung is recalling its Note 7 has been splashed across 1000 tech news sites.

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I don't know about you, but when I hear another Dotcom case has hit the courts I sigh so deeply I fall into a coma. It's beginning to feel like re-runs of Mr Ed – entertaining at first but descending into self-parody and a fair measure of manure. But still, the blogosphere lights up and the conspiracy theorists, libertarians, nutters and media wonks develop a breath-shortening sense of anticipation, hitting their social media networks so hard you would think another Kardashian had exposed herself. But an eight-week trial?

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Consolidation and innovation are major trends in the food and drinks business, globally and here in New Zealand.

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"Transport Minister Simon Bridges this week provided the perfect vignette of the state of the nation.

I refer to his PR stunt with Domino’s Pizza promising a “world-first” pizza delivery by drone because of the minister ensuring transport regulations are tech-savvy and forward-looking."

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"Police Minister Judith Collins has announced a new directive requiring the police to attend all household burglary complaints as a “priority offence.”

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Lots of people don’t like maths. There is even a mathematics anxiety rating scale (MARS) developed in 1972 by psychologists Frank Richardson and Richard Suinn, which attempts to measure “feelings of tension and anxiety that interfere with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of mathematical problems.”

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Nevil Gibson's Carry On roundup of business travel news includes Taiwan's first A350 XWB

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Auckland mayoral contestants’ free speech is being restricted at a meeting tonight to discuss the living wage.

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