Candace Kinser, CEO of NZ Technology Industry Association (NZTech), chats with ComputerWorld NZ on the important issues facing the country’s ICT sector and how the association is working with both the government and the industry to enable faster, stronger growth in the future.
Online accounting software firm Xero has appointed Silicon Valley executive, Simon McIver, to the position of head of global sales and marketing operations.
From a distance, Silicon Valley may look like a center for technical innovation. But it's more than that. Look closer and you'll find a home for social outcasts, radical libertarians and nerdy geniuses who dream of fleeing society entirely and building their own tech-utopias.
For nearly 30 years, John Hagel has advised corporate executives on how to use IT to push business strategies or create new business models. So when the renowned author and management consultant was approached by officials at Deloitte & Touche USA to help launch a research centre for technology and business strategy in Silicon Valley, he leaped at the chance.
Growing up in Hamilton, Scott Bain always dreamed of going to work in Silicon Valley.
Alex Dunayev, the 25-year-old director of software company AXI Web Solutions, has been awarded the Fulbright-Platinum Triangle Scholarship in Entrepreneurship. The US$100,000 award will allow him to complete a Master’s degree at a top US university.
In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future.
The company that will provision and run the 1,500 square-mile wireless mesh network in Silicon Valley that was announced rrecently is an almost unknown, privately held network operator based in Grand Haven, Michigan, home of the world’s largest musical fountain.
For the first time in four years, tech sector jobs in Silicon Valley have edged upward, marking a welcome show of strength in the rough-and-tumble employment market.