
Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Tech start-ups well placed to weather Covid chill
For tech startups attempting to avoid the fallout of covid-19 and instead treat it as an opportunity, timing is everything. Soul Machines, the Auckland-based developer of AI-powered digital avatars and assistants, revealed on Jan. 8 it had secured US$40 million in series B inv...

Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Time to join Australia’s bubble on tech regulation
As someone who lost a chunk of my income when the NZ Listener shut down three weeks ago, news of the government’s $50 million support package for the media is bittersweet.

Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Covid-19 tracing complexities require a better approach
As we prepare to emerge from level 4 lockdown, uncertainty remains over one important area of the government’s epidemic response — contact tracing.

Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Zoom will struggle to profit from its coronavirus boost
Who’d have thought when we departed for our Christmas holidays that a quarter of the way through 2020 we’d be Zooming five or six times a day?That’s the new reality for many of us, though we could just have easily been Skyping instead. Microsoft’s missteps since buying the world’...