Chris Keall

3 days ago | nzherald.co.nz | Chris Keall

A Wellington man racked up an unexpectedly big bill when he used Google BigQuery. Photo / New York TimesWellington tech contractor Drew Broadley says he racked up a surprise $15,760 bill during May using Google BigQuery, an online tool that’s part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The tech giant describes BigQuery as “a fully managed, AI-ready data platform for managing and analysing data”. Broadley says it’s left him worried about how he’ll pay his family’s bills.

4 days ago | nzherald.co.nz | Chris Keall

Spark could get $47 million for selling its shares in ASX-listed Hutchison Telecommunications Australia. Photo / Chris KeallHong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison has launched a takeover offer for its ASX-listed subsidiary Hutchison Telecommunications Australia - in which Spark holds a 10% stake through an accident of history. If the deal goes through as it stands, Spark would receive around A$43 million ($47m) for its shares (the stock closed on Friday at A3.2c for a market cap of A$443m).

6 days ago | nzherald.co.nz | Chris Keall

Crimson Education co-founder and current Harvard student Fangzhou Jiang says the Trump administration will struggle to implement a block on visas for Chinese students with ties to the Communist Party or studying "critical fields". The Herald spoke to two students at Harvard caught in the middle of Trump’s war on Harvard – ex-Epsom Girls Grammar pupil Nensy Tsyan, who graduated this week, and ex-Rangitoto College dux Fangzhou Jiang – who still has a semester to go.

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Chris Keall

"Harvard was founded in 1636, has a US$53 billion endowment and will outlive any President" – Crimson founder Jamie Beaton. Crimson founder Jamie Beaton is taking Trump’s war on Harvard personally - but it also has potential to affect his business. He answers that threat, and also Crimson adviser Sir John Key’s musing about him entering politics. TIN’s Greg Shanahan – best known as the ranker of our tech exporters – has a shot at generating his own offshore revenue.

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Chris Keall

Infratil chief executive Jason Boyes. Photo / Mark Mitchell Morrison has received a bumper fee for managing Infratil whose assets include One NZ, CDC Data Centres and a range of infrastructure investments. Infratil’s annual report, released at the same time as its full-year result, showed Morrison was paid $456.2 million in the year March – more than double the $214.6m it received in the prior year.