NZBusiness July 2019

Launched officially in 2018, Nowsnapp (www.nowsnapp.com/nz/) is an instant services app now available across New Zealand, Hong Kong and France. The app has a strong French connection. It was the brain-child of French entrepreneur, Laurent Guillon, who teamed up with partners and shareholders Emmanuel Gimeno (chief brand officer), Jérôme Daste (CTO), Jimmy Alanoix (business intelligence director) and Brian Isaacs (GM business intelligence) and based them out of the Ka¯piti Collective, a co-working space an hour’s drive north of Wellington. Nowsnapp allows for the uploading and acceptance of small jobs such as car washing, gardening, carpooling, all the way through to professional services such as photographers, hairdressers and professional trade services.  The app also encourages and supports independent earners to make

Fuji Xerox New Zealand solutions architect Ross Wilkinson explains the vulnerability of office printers and MFDs to online attack, and how to successfully address the risk. Your company’s office network security is only as good as the weakest link. Attackers will test every loophole. They might know you’ve got valuable data stored somewhere or that you will be willing to pay Bitcoin for a cyber ransom, if only they can break through your defences.  The attackers might be online vandals wanting to wreak havoc for fun or they might have a sinister intent – such as using your technology to launch a future botnet attack. The way this game works is that teams of attackers scour the Internet looking for