Nevil Gibson's roundup of business travel news also includes 'drip pricing' fines and a controversial new Dubai-New York service

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In the eyes of the world, Mark Warminger has been marked down as a “bad man."

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Hopefully, the Commerce Commission was this week paying close attention to the media monopoly that is Jacinda Ardern.

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Election 2017 looks set to be a re-run and a remix of two previous election years - 1996 and 2005

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Like a classroom of unruly kids suddenly silent as one is disciplined for talking out of turn, the financial community has kept mostly zipped on the fate of fund manager Mark Warminger.

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In his Weekly Hit, Matthew Hooton says English's superannuation announcement is nothing more than a PR stunt

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TeamTalk says it's in discussions with other parties and has advised shareholders to wait after Spark confirmed its $22.7 million takeover offer for the network minnow. The deal would give the country's biggest telecommunications group ownership of fibre in Wellington and a wireless rural internet service provider.

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Large-scale transformation at the Warehouse Group is necessary to turn the business around, its chief says. The retailer, which used to be New Zealand’s largest but was recently overtaken by Briscoe Group, has been struggling to adapt to challenging retail conditions.

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Can Spark be squeezed for a few dollars more? The telco’s hostile 80c/share offer for TeamTalk went live today. The offer values the Wellington network operator at $23 million or an 82% premium on its average market cap over the three months before Spark went public with its intentions.

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Kiwis spent about $424 million on video games in 2016, a 7% increase on the previous year, according to data from the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association.

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