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Telecom to pay $1.6 million to Vodafone, Orcon

Telecom has settled with the Commerce Commission for USD $1.6 million after complaints from Vodafone and Orcon about anti-competitive behaviour.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 9th Jul 2010

Investment

Weighing the value

Businesses often overlook the strategic value of IT, seeing it as an expense rather than a driver of reliability, capability, and capacity.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Thu, 1st Jul 2010

Facebook

AOL closer to selling Bebo

AOL is reportedly finalising a deal to sell social network Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners, two years after buying it for USD $850 million.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Fri, 18th Jun 2010

Symantec

Symantec offers partners new growth

A new program has been established to reward partner investment in Symantec solutions and services that will come into play at the end of the year.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 28th Apr 2010

Google

Google reports 23% year-on-year growth

Google reports revenue increase of 23% for first quarter, reaffirms commitment to innovation and heavy investment.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 16th Apr 2010

Facebook

Bebo faces closure

AOL is looking to sell or shut down the online social site Bebo, just two years after buying it for US$850 million.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Wed, 7th Apr 2010

Storage

Dell partners with Simms International in NZ

Dell appoints Simms International as its New Zealand distributor for SMB products, enhancing its local presence and aligning with its global expansion strategy.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 2nd Feb 2010

Stories from Other Regions

Investment stories

Investment

NZ online ad spend up 12.31%

The Interactive Advertising Bureau of New Zealand (IABNZ) has said that online advertising spend has seen healthy growth in Q1, 2010.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 25th May 2010

Ovum

ANZ software market set to recover

Ovum predicts the ANZ software market will grow nearly 5% in 2010, reaching USD $5.6 billion by 2013, but pre-recession levels won't return until at least 2012.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 16th Feb 2010

Unified Communications

Fibre in the ground this year

Prime Minister John Key is promising that physical work will<br />have begun on the Government's Ultra Fast Broadband plan by the end of the<br />year.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 9th Feb 2010

Risk & Compliance

PM celebrates with Mako Networks

PM John Key lauds Mako Networks' groundbreaking PCI DSS solution, highlighting New Zealand's need to innovate and invest GBP £1.5b in high-speed networks.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 5th Feb 2010

Management

Acronis introduces free deduplication offer

Acronis to offer free deduplication solution with new purchases of its backup software, aiming to help businesses cut storage costs.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 2nd Feb 2010

Investment

Modest yet solid recovery for ANZ IT

According to the latest Ovum report, the ANZ IT services market will show a modest recovery with growth above 4.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2010

TelstraClear

TelstraClear's role in the govt.'s network

TelstraClear rules out direct investment in the government's USD $1.5 billion Ultra Fast Broadband network but sees partnership opportunities.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 15th Jan 2010

NZX

CityLink shareholders sell out to TeamTalk

It began 14 years ago with 17 shareholders putting up $5,000 each, but now CityLink has been completely gobbled up by the publically listed company TeamTalk.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Thu, 3rd Dec 2009

Network Infrastructure

China set to dominate fibre deployments

China will soon dominate fibre to the home deployments (FTTH) and become the global leader in the next two years, according to the FTTH Council Asia Pacific.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 23rd Nov 2009