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Who owns Trade Me NZ?
Apax bought Trade Me through its US$9b Apax Europe IX fund, which was created in 2016 specifically to buy out software, information technology and healthcare companies worth between US$1b and US$50b.29 Māe 2023
Trade Me private equity owners eyeing sharemarket float in 2024
NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz › markets-with-madison › tra…
Anything of ours in NZAO worthwhile is bitten, sucked, spat out and sold off. Have they got you yet? Perhaps you were viewed, tried, and found wanting. Whatever, you’ll end up wanting.
‘The Loneliness of the Long distance Runner?’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531325/snapchat-and-voice-messages-truckie-s-timeline-hours-before-fatal-crash
Truck driver Sarah Schmidt left her home in Dannevirke about 5.38am on the day she killed Caleb Baker.
About three minutes later, driving north, she reached into the centre console of her Volvo truck and trailer unit, picked up her phone and unlocked it by scanning her face.
Still driving, she looked at the device for about five seconds and put it down again.
Three minutes later, at 5.44am, she picked up her phone and scanned her face again. This time, she held it for longer – about two minutes – and used it to send a Snapchat message.
Over the next two hours, while driving to the Port of Napier and starting on a return trip towards Palmerston North, Schmidt reached for her phone at least 11 more times.
The 24-year-old driver, who had been behind the wheel of trucks since she was 19, spent a total of 44 minutes using her phone while driving – 38 percent of her time on the road….
This is part of the book review about the runner referred to above. ‘The boy experiences social alienation and turns to long-distance running as a method of both emotional and physical escape from his situation.’
‘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loneliness_of_the_Long-Distance_Runner
This NZAO driver on her own from early in the morning, isolated, possibly with inadequate breakfast, reaches out to others for some social connection. Very sad happening but think about the background for the guilty one. At it for five years, since age 19. In a social internet world where most are constantly connected to their devices. USA dietician Adele Davies took an interest in the eating habits of long-haul drivers there and found they didn’t eat properly and could become unbalanced. One deliberately caused damage with their truck.
What a world, it doesn’t give me a positive feeling of what we have left for us of our society and culture. Unless those who can think individually pool our ideas and pull together, be sceptical of the so-called advantages of tech and connect with those of warm blood and cool thinking well…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531353/pensioner-loses-224k-after-being-tricked-by-ai-deepfake-christopher-luxon-cryptocurrency-investment-scam
And these people have voting rights in that take us near the edge. Invest in a local trust that trains young people if you want to throw your money away overseas. Come home , stay home and give NZAO a burl and its youngsters and that would be a nice old lady’s example to us all.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531321/airline-boss-blasts-government-over-lack-of-support-in-wake-of-axed-service
Regional operator Sounds Air is canning its Wellington to Westport route from the end of the year in the face of tough economic headwinds.
Managing director Andrew Crawford said in his 21 years at the helm, nothing compared to the post-Covid-19 financial challenges. He backed a call from another regional airline, Barrier Air, which earlier this week said small airlines needed some help from the government.
In response, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones said there might be a need for a dedicated fund to help the airlines survive.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/531309/leaked-documents-show-us-intelligence-on-israel-s-plans-to-attack-iran-sources-say
The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity.
The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN.
The documents, dated October 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called “Middle East Spectator”.
They are marked top secret and have markings indicating they are meant to be seen only by the US and its “Five Eyes” allies – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
We’re friendly with the nice lion. Or is it tigers that can run up trees and catch sloths \?
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