New Zealand (NZ) stories - Page 3
Prophet bolsters Australian team with two key hires
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Prophet hires Lia Carruthers and Becky McMillan in Australia as it scales from start-up to growth phase and boosts marketing and customer teams.
Employment Hero names James Keene APAC managing director
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Employment Hero appoints long-serving executive James Keene as APAC managing director to drive regional growth and AI-led expansion.
Qualtrics launches synthetic panels & hub to speed research
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Qualtrics unveils AI-driven synthetic panels and Research Hub, promising research-grade insights in hours and cheaper than human panels.
Deloitte offloads Auvenir which rebrands as Streamworks Tech
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Deloitte has sold its audit software venture Auvenir to its management in a buyout, with the business rebranding as Streamworks Tech.
Strong growth for Irish tech imports across Australia and New Zealand
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fintech
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Irish tech exports to Australia and New Zealand have surged nearly 60% in five years, with Enterprise Ireland backing rapid sector growth.
Xero unveils 'Accountable Intelligence' for AI in finance
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Xero launches Accountable Intelligence AI to automate bookkeeping while keeping decisions, audit trails and financial oversight with humans.
Workiva appoints Kristen Pimpini to lead APJ growth
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Workiva names Kristen “KP” Pimpini to spearhead APJ sales and operations, backing its AI-powered reporting push across key regional markets.
Liechtenstein tops global index for internet access
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Liechtenstein has been named the world's best-connected nation, topping MoneySuperMarket Broadband's 2026 Internet Accessibility Index.
SYOS SA200 drone ready for serial build after trials
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SYOS's SA200 heavy-lift drone completes moving-platform autonomy trials, clearing the ship-ready uncrewed helicopter for serial production.
ConnectWise unit maps IT pay trends, automation push
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Service Leadership's 2026 IT pay report links eased wage inflation and new 'Digital Worker' automation metrics to profitability for providers.
EcoOnline report tracks shift to connected risk data
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EcoOnline's first Mega Trends Report charts a shift from compliance checklists to connected risk data and real-time frontline engagement.
Anthropic to open Sydney office in Australia, New Zealand
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Anthropic will open a Sydney office within weeks, expanding its Asia-Pacific footprint and deepening AI partnerships in Australia and New Zealand.
Southland's first 'AI factory' data centre gets go-ahead
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Datagrid wins consent for Southland “AI factory” data centre and subsea cable, paving way for 280 MW campus near Invercargill.
Data centre boom reshapes Asia Pacific loan markets
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Data centre boom drives new financing structures across Asia Pacific loan markets, APLMA whitepaper finds, reshaping risk and investor mix.
Legora raises USD $550m to fuel US & APAC AI growth
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Legal AI platform Legora raises USD $550m at a USD $5.55bn valuation to speed expansion across the US and wider Asia-Pacific markets.
Anthropic to open Sydney office in ANZ AI expansion
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Anthropic will open a Sydney office as its ANZ hub, deepening Claude AI partnerships and exploring local compute capacity in Australia.
Cohesity unveils Enterprise AI Resilience for safe scale
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Cohesity launches Enterprise AI Resilience to protect production AI, contain rogue agents and speed recovery across hybrid data estates.
Cohesity & Cyera integrate DSPM to boost data security
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ransomware
Cohesity deepens its Cyera tie-up, embedding DSPM into its data cloud to sharpen discovery, classification and cyber recovery at scale.
Cohesity boosts AI-ready data security & sovereignty
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Cohesity expands sovereign cloud, AI resilience and threat detection tools, targeting midsize firms with streamlined data security packages.
Confluent says data streaming will enable faster, better decisions
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Confluent says organisations must shift to governed data streaming, with AI agents making millisecond decisions at scale.