New Zealand (NZ) stories

Cyber and AI specialists top tech pay into 2026 as entry-level hiring stalls and burnout surges across Australia and New Zealand.

PharmaCare lifts ANZ warehouse performance with Manhattan SCALE, cutting receiving time 25% and boosting daily pick rates by 20%.

Dell appoints veteran sales leader Richard McLaughlin as APJC president, tasking him with driving AI-era growth across key regional markets.

Asus courts 215 APAC partners in Sydney, tying AI PCs and omnichannel retail to an ambitious 30% consumer notebook market share goal.

Writer’s Toolbox secures Singapore school contracts as the city-state boosts AI investment with SGD $1 billion for research and development.

Ethique founder Brianne West unveils Incrediballs, plastic-free effervescent tablets aiming to replace bottled soft drinks worldwide.

UKG appoints veteran HR tech executive Paul Broughton as Asia Pacific managing director to spearhead regional growth and customer expansion.

EROAD unveils Clarity Edge Multicam, a modular six-camera system that links 360° video with telematics to sharpen fleet safety oversight.

Cloudera brings AI inference, analytics and visualisation into customer data centres, promising tighter control over sensitive enterprise data.

TRENDS taps Boomi to unify 50+ systems, tackling complexity as revenue surges from NZD $10 million to NZD $130 million in a decade.

Trade Me Property debuts a ChatGPT app that lets New Zealand home hunters search live listings via conversational prompts and an interactive map.

As analogue-era banking creaks under digital demand, DeFi is quietly rewiring the rails of global finance, not blowing them up.

Teads partners with Google TV to offer HomeScreen ads on over 500 million devices, boosting global connected TV reach and impact.

Singapore’s young people are the world’s most ready to use AI in work, study and daily life, topping a 120-country digital readiness study.

Rockwell Automation has named Shane Riley as New Zealand country manager, succeeding Mike Greig amid a wider reshuffle of its regional leadership.

New Zealand start-up mA.I Health has launched an AI-powered app giving patients lifetime control of secure, shareable medical records.

Meadow Fresh has launched Fantasy Herd, a Kiwi cow-based fantasy league using live farm data, with players chasing a NZD $20,000 prize.

Cohesity deepens Google Cloud partnership to bake threat intel and sandbox scanning into backup, tackling stealthy malware in stored data.

Empathix launches EMMY, a voice-led AI job search assistant for New Zealand and Australia that swaps job boards for conversational hiring.

Enatel opens a new multi-million-dollar Christchurch hub, uniting 200 staff to scale high-tech battery charger exports from New Zealand.