Peter Griffin
@petergnz.bsky.social
BusinessDesk tech columnist, co-host of The Business of Tech weekly podcast, New Zealand Listener tech writer (2011 - ), ITP Tech blog editor, media trainer and comms consultant. www.petergriffin.co.nz
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Peter Griffin
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· Apr 9
📻 On The Business of Tech podcast, Vanessa Sorenson, Microsoft's NZ managing director, joins me to talk about the hits and misses of Microsoft's 50 years, the differences between Bill Gates and his CEO successors, and the evolution of Microsoft's 34 year-old New Zealand operation.
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📻 On The Business of Tech podcast, Vanessa Sorenson, Microsoft's NZ managing director, joins me to talk about the hits and misses of Microsoft's 50 years, the differences between Bill Gates and his CEO successors, and the evolution of Microsoft's 34 year-old New Zealand operation.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
📻 On The Business of Tech podcast, Vanessa Sorenson, Microsoft's NZ managing director, joins me to talk about the hits and misses of Microsoft's 50 years, the differences between Bill Gates and his CEO successors, and the evolution of Microsoft's 34 year-old New Zealand operation.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Spare a thought for your science friends today (again). Whatever it is will undoubtedly leave everyone feeling a bit of uncertainty
Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed
A long-delayed report expected to overhaul the science sector is due to be released.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Spare a thought for your science friends today (again). Whatever it is will undoubtedly leave everyone feeling a bit of uncertainty
Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
So Judith Collins loses science, tech and research portfolio, which goes to Shane Reti. So much for tech and innovation being central to powering economic growth.
January 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So Judith Collins loses science, tech and research portfolio, which goes to Shane Reti. So much for tech and innovation being central to powering economic growth.
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So the app we've been calling RedNote is actually ... Charlwin Mao's Little Red Book??? Someone please reboot the simulation
A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain (Financial Times)
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January 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So the app we've been calling RedNote is actually ... Charlwin Mao's Little Red Book??? Someone please reboot the simulation
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Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
January 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities
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I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
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Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried
Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried
Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions. Announced on Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and answer questions about people it “sees” in…
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December 5, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried
🕴 Really enjoyed having Steve Vamos on The Business of Tech this week to reflect on what he has learned from an impressive career in leadership at IBM, Microsoft, Apple, NineMSN and Xero. Plus @bentm.bsky.social and I discuss all that's wrong with Aussie's social media ban. lnkd.in/gDcNGzUq
December 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM
🕴 Really enjoyed having Steve Vamos on The Business of Tech this week to reflect on what he has learned from an impressive career in leadership at IBM, Microsoft, Apple, NineMSN and Xero. Plus @bentm.bsky.social and I discuss all that's wrong with Aussie's social media ban. lnkd.in/gDcNGzUq
🧾 On The Business of Tech this week, Projectworks' Matthew Hayter and Mark Orttung on the company's recent US$5 million raise, building a team in the US, and the power of the Xero ecosystem. 📻 Streaming wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to 2degrees. @bentm.bsky.social
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November 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM
🧾 On The Business of Tech this week, Projectworks' Matthew Hayter and Mark Orttung on the company's recent US$5 million raise, building a team in the US, and the power of the Xero ecosystem. 📻 Streaming wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to 2degrees. @bentm.bsky.social
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The UK phased out coal-fired electricity in 2024 after a decade of declining generation. Gas generation is also on the decline. If you want to meet growing electricity demand, it’s now cheaper to do so with renewables than fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡 www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/30/1...
The UK is done with coal. How’s the rest of the world doing?
The country’s final coal-fired power plant just shut down, marking a major milestone for the notoriously polluting fossil fuel.
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November 24, 2024 at 5:42 PM
The UK phased out coal-fired electricity in 2024 after a decade of declining generation. Gas generation is also on the decline. If you want to meet growing electricity demand, it’s now cheaper to do so with renewables than fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡 www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/30/1...
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What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights?
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights
Key details about what happens inside ICE Air would still be hidden if not for a group of Washington activists and researchers, who are now using a live video feed from the tarmac to document the…
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November 25, 2024 at 4:00 AM
What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights?
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.