1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (214+ words) New Zealand’s youth unemployment rate hit 15.2 percent in the September 2025 quarter, up from 13.1 percent a year earlier. That is close to three times the wider working-age rate of 5.3 percent. Drill down and it gets worse: 22.3 percent of 15 to 19 year-olds and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (420+ words) Forget the pitch-deck projections that usually accompany tech stories. Flicket, the Mount Maunganui digital ticketing and visitor management platform, is on track to process $350 million in transactions across 4,000 events in 2026. That is current operating scale, not ambition, and it is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (317+ words) When Kmart put $99 Anko Camera Glasses on its shelves in August 2026, it did something regulators had been dreading. It turned covert recording from an early-adopter novelty into a mass-market impulse buy. Premium devices like Meta’s Ray-Ban and Oakley ranges were…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (376+ words) Every press release will lead with it. AI adoption has hit 91% of New Zealand businesses, according to Datacom’s fourth annual AI Index survey, published on 28 August 2026 and based on 207 senior managers polled in late July and early August. It sounds…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (213+ words) That company, Techmatics Robotics, was founded in Christchurch in 2016. A decade on, its Cerberus-X robots are used by NZ Police in New Zealand and Australia. That distinction matters. This is not a grant-fed innovation pitch dressed up as a business....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (189+ words) The jobs picture is concrete. BCG estimates a 1GW construction programme would create about 3,500 jobs at peak construction, with roughly 60% in electrical and mechanical trades and 21% in civil trades. Operational sites sustain about one role per megawatt, adding roughly 1,000 ongoing jobs…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (400+ words) New Zealand runs an export-led economy at the far end of the world’s supply chains, and yet no single person in Cabinet is answerable for how goods actually move through it. That is the core argument in the National Road…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (467+ words) New Zealand’s copyright review has walked straight into the fight over whether AI companies can train models on other people’s work without paying for it. And the country starts from a very different legal position than the United States, one…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (481+ words) Datagrid NZ chief executive Rémi Galasso is not underselling it. He says the project will be “not just the largest data centre project in New Zealand, but also one of the most sustainable data centre projects of that scale in…...