Last week, we brought you a story about a New Zealand animal charity that is teaching dogs to drive cars. Well, that program was a success and one of the dogs drove pretty well considering he's a dog.
You know how that lamp in Pixar that makes you believe cold metal could actually be a great cuddle buddy? That's what a team from New Zealand has created: a little loveable lamp that can both see and hear you.
Online accounting software company Xero raises $67 million from venture capitalists, shareholders to take on QuickBooks' US dominance.
Fresh off rebranding his defunct MegaUpload service as a sparkling new file-sharing service called Me.ga -- yes that's Mega, but it's also ME dot GA -- Dotcom now wants to help build a new fat pipe to online content in the U.S.
Who knew file-sharing badboy Kim Dotcom had a future in pop music? The iconic Kiwi transplant released a music video this past week, and with his German accent it’s totally Arnold Schwarzenegger doing little-kids rap.
But the new poster boy …
Kim Dotcom, whose file-hosting service Megaupload was shut down by the New Zealand and U.S. governments for copyright infringement at the beginning of the year, has had plenty to say about the case until now. But as he awaits news …
A New Zealand judge has pushed back the extradition of Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom to March 2013, a move that will give him more time to prepare for an eventual trial in the U.S.
Dotcom’s contentious extradition hearing was scheduled …
The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they do grind. Who they grind, of course, is another matter.
And whether or not you believe that Kim Dotcom’s file-sharing business MegaUpload was a legal business or a thin front for …
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel must have a thing for Kiwis. He’s launching another venture fund focused on the otherwise unheard of New Zealand technology scene.
The fund, which Thiel is executing through his venture capital firm Valar Ventures, totals $32 …
A teenage prank on Twitter turned into the hack heard round the world Tuesday — and VentureBeat now has the story behind it. Through an exclusive interview with the two New Zealand kids whose code spread around the world in …
