Fairfax New Zealand

Type: Company

Name: Fairfax New Zealand

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Negative move, or is it positive?

The Beatles in Wellington in 1964.Fairfax is shipping million of news photos overseas for digital scanning and sale. Is this an irretrievable loss of New Zealand history or the opening of a great resource? Will Harvie reports.Fairfax New Zealand has a ... [Published Southland Times - May 14 2013]

Entities: New Zealand, Metadata, Paul Thompson

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

A good deal or a great loss?

Fairfax New Zealand has a problem. The newspaper and media company holds somewhere between 5 million and 8 million photographs, negatives, transparencies and the like in its archives. It is broadly agreed that these archives contain a notably fine collection ... [Published Marlborough Express - May 13 2013]

Entities: New Zealand, Paul Thompson, Metadata

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd

Ren Zhengfei, Huawei's Elusive CEO: We're Not Involved in Cyberattacks In The U.S.

The founder and CEO of the biggest electronic equipment maker in the world has come out of self-imposed media silence after almost three decades, and he's using the chance to reiterate his coldness towards the United States.Ren Zhengfei, who founded Huawei ... [Published International Business Times UK - May 09 2013]

Entities: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Ren Zhengfei, Cyber Attack

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Cars an enduring passion

It's no wonder the gruff 73-year-old has some trouble getting dates and the order of events in his lengthy motor trade career straight."It's quite hard, they've been trying to get me to write a book," he mutters.He is sitting in his office above the showroom ... [Published Timaru Herald - May 07 2013]

Entities: Eric Thompson, New Zealand, Fairfax New Zealand, Scott Dixon

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Preserving 40 years of photos

More than four decades worth of photographs published by the are about to be loaded on to a ship bound for North America.It is all part of a project involving all Fairfax New Zealand newspapers that will see their old photographs digitally copied and ... [Published Taranaki Daily News - May 01 2013]

Entities: Archivist, Fairfax New Zealand, New Zealand

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

McDonald's Corporation

Cat Eats Nothing But McDonald's For A Year!

By Sarah KhanIt's no secret that regularly eating McDonald's (or any fast food) is not good for your health, but apparently no one ever thought to ask weather it was okay for animals! A stray cat in new Zealand confirmed to the world that regularly eating ... [Published TheMagazine.ca - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: McDonald's Corporation, Fast Food, Fairfax New Zealand

First reported Apr 09 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 1 reports

Dotcom: Govt should apologise

Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom says the Government should apologise to anyone illegally spied on by its spy agencies.The release of a critical report on the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has been brought forward to today after details were ... [Published The Press NZ - Apr 09 2013]

Entities: Bruce Ferguson, Illegal, David Shearer, Surveillance

First reported Dec 18 2012 - Updated Dec 19 2012 - 1 reports

Fiji: Trail of destruction after Cyclone Evan hits Fiji

Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Fiji, Samoa 12/18/2012 04:43 GMT by Joshua Kuku SUVA, Dec 18, 2012 (AFP) - Tropical Cyclone Evan left a swathe of destruction across Fiji Tuesday after battering the Pacific nation for more than 12 hours, destroying ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Dec 18 2012]

Entities: Fiji, Lautoka (Fiji Islands), Tsunami, Fairfax New Zealand, Filomena Nelson

Quotes

"Maybe I will open a cafe or a restaurant and have a farm" he was quoted as saying. He didn't disclose a specific date but said it depends whether Huawei still needs him

The man of mystery opens up [Published CHINAdaily - May 16 2013]

"It was prohibitive," says Fairfax group executive editor Paul Thompson. "There was no way, even in more profitable times for newspaper companies, that we could have afforded that."

Negative move, or is it positive? [Published Southland Times - May 14 2013]

...Famed American photographer Ansel Adams, for example, would "turn up the silver, turn down the black or turn up the gray" to achieve his aims, Potton says

A good deal or a great loss? [Published Marlborough Express - May 13 2013]