Vettori, Styris and Hadlee promote NZ tech start-up as it tries to expand into India.

Pingar dives into the Chinese market with the launch of its two Chinese language portals, enabling government and major companies access to the company's data management tools.

Bay of Plenty tech company Pingar launched the Chinese-language version of its search platform last night at the Shanghai World Expo.

The ‘intelligent’ platform, which generates dynamic formatted documents in response to natural language queries, is now available for pilot testing in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Speaking to NBR from Shanghai, Pingar managing director Peter Wren-Hilton hoped the launch would further “ongoing conversations” with Chinese universities and government organisations.

Private Bin can’t wait for global roaming rates to drop – twice now, when chasing a juicy lead, the quarry has bolted after revealing they are a) overseas and b) using global roaming.

But a solution is at hand for the technologically savvy.

Speaking from his hotel reception in Shanghai yesterday, Pingar managing director Peter Wren-Hilton apologised for not being willing to pay $6 a minute for the privilege of talking to NBR on his mobile.
 
He then very kindly offered to call Private Bin back using Skype.

As predicted by NBR, Google found a compromise to its stand-off with the Chinese government. Last week, the US search giant relocated its China operation to Hong Kong.

Residents of Hong Kong - a special administrative region - will be able to view uncensored results.

Those in mainland China will still see politically-sensitive searches censored, with the Communist government’s filter able to selectively blog Google’s now Hong Kong-based service, just as it can censor any traffic coming in from outside its border.

Technology developed in New Zealand could be the solution to the world media’s struggle to make money from online content.

Tauranga-based company Pingar has developed a search engine model, one for the enterprise and one for consumers, which compiles a PDF document of a search listing. Pingar director Peter Wren-Hilton said the idea was companies would pay to have their advertisements displayed on the top of the document.