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Google NZ sends $1b offshore as it increases profit, threat of digital sales tax melts away
An academic calls out a lack of transparency in two areas.
On The Up: AI disruptors – meet the Kiwis using new tech to boost their businesses and lead the way
We sound out some New Zealanders who have taken AI by the scruff of the neck.
Bill Gates reveals how much of his fortune his kids will really inherit
Most of his wealth will go to charity through the Gates Foundation.
Generation Minecraft: How a pointless video game took over the world
Times: It has retro graphics and no way to 'win' – but the Minecraft juggernaut rolls on.
Tech Insider: Microsoft pulls Windows 10 support unless you pay $50 or upgrade - experts on your level of risk if you’re stranded, promising news for Ubco customers, Being AI finally finds directors
PLUS: Being AI finally finds three independent directors - and they're big names.
‘Tech nightmare’: Consumer NZ urges Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support
It’s feared hundreds of thousands of Kiwis’ computers will become obsolete in October.
The making of Microsoft’s domestic data centre
How Kiwis got Satya Nadella on side.
Outlook appears restored after global outage hits Microsoft email service
Users around the world reported the Microsoft email service as being down.
Spark and Microsoft ink NZ’s ‘largest-ever Microsoft public cloud partnership’
Around half of the telco's staff will get Microsoft's gen AI.
Tech Insider: Google follows Microsoft in raising prices as it bundles AI
Don't want it? Google will add it to its suite and raise the price anyway.
Tech Insider: Size of four rugby fields – Amazon buys more Auckland land
Amazon expands its data centre presence in West Auckland.
Bill Gates: Trump, Musk and how my neurodiversity made me
Times: He frequently failed at school, so how did he go on to become a billionaire at 31?
Nvidia, US stocks close higher after Chinese AI shock
Nvidia clawed back some of yesterday's losses after the DeepSeek shock.
Bill Gates: ‘I would be diagnosed with autism if I were a kid today’
The tech billionaire says he was an obsessive and socially-awkward child.
Meta to lay off 3600 employees in performance-based cuts
Sackerberg? Those identified as low performers will be fired.
Tech Insider: How to avoid Microsoft's 38% price rise, Amazon recruits NZ roles for Project Kuiper
PLUS: A peek over the fence at Amazon's Auckland data centre.
Elon Musk calls on states to force auction of OpenAI stake
Latest salvo in legal battle over ChatGPT-maker’s restructuring as a for-profit company.
Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals
Financial Times: Race on as demand outstrips supply of Nvidia’s most advanced units.
Microsoft global exec on Collins’ AI strategy, security turnaround
Tech giant recalibrated after two serious breaches.
How Big Tech builds data centres
Amazon infrastructure boss reveals how it designs and powers massive data houses.
The AI wars: How Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta are investing
Big tech giants are investing billions to achieve AGI.
Microsoft opens giant data centre in NZ, owned by an Irish subsidiary: Where it is and what it cost
PLUS: The tech giant raises its pricing.
US stocks surge to records on tech gains, Fed rate cut hopes
Even strange behaviour in South Korea and France doesn't dent Wall St optimism.
Microsoft targets Egyptian linked to DIY phishing kits
Attacks have surged in recent months, with criminals increasingly using QR codes.
'Black Fraud Day?': Black Friday scams make for phishy business with QR cons, fake shops
Black Fraud Day? Desperate scammers may entice people desperate for deals.
Microsoft’s revenue beats estimates on AI boom's cloud demand, Meta sees AI spending accelerating
Financial Times: Boom in adoption of AI tools features strongly in Big Tech results.
Google’s strong earnings boosted by cloud computing growth
Financial Times: Shares in parent company Alphabet rose 5% in after-hours trading.