A tech-food start up has won competition Start Tel Aviv for its meat-free food alternatives.

COMMENT: Businesses are facing new forms of competition, digital disruption, and staying relevant to customers.

COMMENT: If we invest in infrastructure and education that fosters and enables innovation, we could create an almost bulletproof economy.

The best of NZ Herald Business: Robots, virtual reality, artificial intelligence -- will they kill our jobs? And how do we future-proof our children?

BIG READ: Self-driving cars are the future, not fantasy, says an expert on the technology - and it isn't far away.

Data is good but acting on it is better, writes Helen Twose.

COMMENT: Technology does so much to improve lives and makes products and services accessible and affordable.

A website founder says the gender gap in recruiting requires 'a lot of different approaches to fix.'

Education futurist Frances Valintine fears New Zealand risks being left behind in the global digital revolution.

The social network is finding new ways to lower its tax rate.

COMMENT: Technology is giving Kiwis the chance to diversify beyond rental property and more recently Kiwi Saver investing.

NZ company Rocket Lab is a step closer to lift off, today saying it had done a deal for three satellite launches .

COMMENT: Robots are a perfect addition to any growing innovative or entrepreneurial firm.

Facebook plans to roll out secret conversations protected by end-to-end encryption to more users later this summer.

COMMENT: The thought of letting my car drive itself seemed frightening. Then I let go of the steering wheel.

COMMENT:We shouldn't forget that big companies are critical players in the innovation game.

Work-wearables are computers worn on the body that help get the job done.

An Auckland exhibition combining art and cutting-edge innovation has proven an eye-opening exercise for two Kiwi film-makers.

COMMENT: Don't suffer "bad Wi-Fi".

San Francisco has picked a fight with Airbnb that it probably can't win.

Kiwi tech company StretchSense has secured its first major international investor from listed Japanese firm Start Today.

WATCH: NASA has tested rocket boosters that it hopes will power its new rocket to fly to Mars.

An Australian inventor has combined two of technology's hottest and most controversial trends: selfies and drones.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Stratolaunch airplane is designed to carry rockets and "air launch" them into orbit.

The Pentagon looks to the lessons of Silicon Valley to regain technological superiority.

A peek inside the secret innovation lab at British drinks giant Diageo.

Creating the world's largest moving robots to transport iron ore across the vast Australian Outback is proving more complex than expected.

COMMENT: Nobody needs a self-balancing board that's propelled by an electric motor.

A New Zealand company has developed technology that promises to deliver real-time data for farmers - from the sky.

New Zealand's primary sector needs to innovate and reinvent itself if it is to thrive, KMPG says.