All software patents null and void in New Zealand.....

Do you think this will encourage software developers to locate in New Zealand?- http://iitp.nz/news/archives/1818-It_s_official_Software_will_be_unpatentable_in_NZ

 

What about incorporation in New Zealand (while working in the USA …or elsewhere?)

Chris Christie you lost my vote

Shit product that's why. Bought in 2008 loved it...bought in 2012...scratches, short pieces, crap service....will never deal with them again.
It's pretty simple actually

Arguments over "bigger next silicon valley" New York or Boston

After Wayfair’s successful IPO which valued the the Massachusetts-based company north of $3 billion, Fortune’s Dan Primack wrote a love letter to New York City calling out its technology success – or lack thereof. Primack wrote:

“When it comes to technology success, would you mind waiting a bit longer before adopting the mantle of “next Silicon Valley” or “Silicon Valley of the East?”…At this moment, New York is not the next Silicon Valley. It’s not even the next Seattle.”

Of course, Primack’s post elicited responses. Via Twitter, Shai Goldman of Silicon Valley Bank made a fair comment pointing out that NY’s tech scene is still relatively nascent so it’s hard to judge it yet especially versus Massachusetts with its longer history
- https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/new-york-venture-capital-hype/



The craziest part of this article.....how many people know these NY exits apart from Tumblr (and even then asks your spouses and you'll probably draw blank stares.....).

Spike

Want to know how HuffPo etc always know whats going on around the internet and are quick to "rip off" any new news content or viral stories that are hot on the internet.....theres an app for that.

Check out Spike

Basically Spike is searching for the most shared news items and as soon as an article takes off and shows "share-ability" www.newswhip.com has an app to capture the details and provides HuffPo etc links to the story that can be cannibalized and ripped off for their benefit.

Who needs journo's huh.


Cheers,
Dean

TiVo and Comcast

TiVo and Comcast have agreed to collaborate on a two-way, non-CableCARD security platform
- http://www.multichannel.com/news/tv-apps/comcast-tivo-working-non-cablecard-approach


Great....so allow CableCo to sidestep the deployment of a true 2 way cablecard functionality by offering a proprietary solution.....

Yep the consumers interests are really being looked after by cablelabs....I wonder how that dingo is doing with my baby.

Space.....uhm sort of

Wow I had no idea that these 'space' flights for $200k ......were only for 6 minutes in zero g......90 minutes total.....but only 6 minutes in ZeroG

Pizza Mogul

Interesting business idea out of Australia - Dominos Pizza have started something called Pizza Mogul, basically you create your own pizza and then if someone buys one of your creations....you get a piece of the revenue.

- https://www.pizzamogul.com.au/#!/home

It looks like they are doing this mainly for charities as you can get your revenue directly to a charity but like Launchrock short codes....if something went viral quickly....could really generate some easy cash flow.

Only available in Australia at the moment :(