Derek Forbes believes Kiwi companies have to "Americanise" their businesses in order to compete in a local market saturated with brands.

Technology innovation is coming thick and fast in Auckland as more start-ups eye the lucrative international marketplace.

"The Valley" has long been the world's number one hub of high-tech innovation.

For most of its history Microsoft was a software company. Make that the software company. A decade ago it was the world's largest company by market capitalisation.

Kiwi entrepreneurial companies will converge on LA in June for a high-powered innovation summit.

Xero's Rod Drury reckons it's time for New Zealand to rebrand itself and become a "digitally-connected" nation.

It's important to measure how NZ stacks up internationally and learn from those further along the innovation journey.

Greg Shanahan, MD of the Technology Investment Network (TIN) talks to Greg Hall about key trends impacting NZ companies.

Paul Viskovich started the North American business for Orion Health in 2002 and now heads the sales operation globally.

Vodafone CEO Russell Stanners says our most exciting technology developments are taking place in rural New Zealand.

What does it take to turn a dream into a reality? The answer inevitably involves money, and usually quite a lot of it.

The man behind the wildly successful CicLAvia, Aaron Paley has become an icon to Angelenos as a city planner turned philanthropist.

Last year Spark announced it was moving the business beyond the brand overhaul.

Clean technology and green innovation is big business.

A hunger for burritos and an eye for convenience led Ben Polkinghorne to develop the Bangerritos - burrito filling in a sausage casing.

Vodafone New Zealand is helping to boost education in refugee areas with the development of its instant classroom - a digital "school in a box".

Auckland's Harbour Bridge will light up tonight as part of celebrations for the city's 175th birthday, thanks to telco 2degrees.

Kiwi drone company Aeronavics has closed its crowdfunding offer at $1.5 million in capital using crowdfunding platform Snowball Effect.

In November last year Datacom attended the New Zealand Job Fair in Sydney, organised by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

In the final part of our Future Auckland series, we aim to stimulate debate.

Nanotechnology is the future, says Revolution Fibres co-founder and managing director Iain Hosie, and he is pushing to be at the leading edge.

The Government has spelled out its masterplan for reversing skyrocketing house prices across the country - but will the 10-point plan work?

Here are five New Zealand disrupters which, with a little fortune, could make a bigger splash in the coming months.

How often do we see a great new product or a new business model and find ourselves saying, "I had the same idea and wish I had done something about it"?

From ambitious app makers and user-friendly financial modelling, to promises of a Harvard education, this year's Angel Investment Showcase was an entrepreneurial smorgasbord...

Ian Bishop was buried in paperwork. He was spending almost as much time in front of his computer as with clients on the tennis court.

Kiwis are used to making a living off a sheep's back.

Kleenex Cottonelle, Resene and Fuji Xerox are much more commonly associated with decorating, printing and cleaning than fashion, however a group of New Zealand Fashion Technology students have used....