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Azzet appoints Henry Stoever to board for global push
Azzet names governance veteran Henry Stoever to its board as it accelerates the global rollout of its premium asset marketplace.

Remara selects 10x Banking for core modernisation drive
Remara picks 10x Banking’s cloud-native core to speed new lending and investment products and fuel ANZ and Southeast Asia expansion.

Hype & Dexter rebrands to Avidly APAC in ANZ shift
Hype & Dexter has rebranded as Avidly APAC, aligning with Avidly Group to scale HubSpot-focused services across Australia and New Zealand.

Springboards ad warns AI may narrow creative choices
Springboards’ new ad warns rapid generative AI may erode originality in advertising, narrowing creative choices and raising copyright risks.

Analytic Partners named Forrester Wave Leader for 2026
Analytic Partners named a Leader in Forrester’s 2026 marketing measurement Wave after topping current offering and scoring highly on strategy.

Councillor who wouldn’t go to meeting at marae ‘will always be welcome’, says kaumatua
Steve Gibson was “not comfortable participating in council business where religious or spiritual practices form part of official proceedings”.

Gas leak forces evacuations in Taupo after digger strikes line
Residents in parts of Taupo have been asked to evacuate after a gas leak was reported on Friday.

Tamaki says ‘I am not a law-breaker’, has defiant protest march plans for weekend
Police say they will stop anyone from attempting to march across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, without permission.

Photographer caught breaching Mount Maunganui landslide cordon
Cordons have been in place around the campground where six people were killed.

Court extends travel ban on Braverman amid probe into alleged ‘midnight meeting’

Mitsubishi Electric seals USD $1bn Nozomi Networks deal
Mitsubishi Electric completes USD $1bn purchase of OT and IoT security specialist Nozomi Networks, which will continue to run independently.

Oracle OPERA Cloud gains approval across IHG hotels
IHG adds Oracle OPERA Cloud to its approved hotel systems list, giving franchisees a new global option for core property operations.

Contact centres report rising morale but AI doubts grow
Contact centre staff report rising morale and stronger support, yet many remain uneasy and undertrained as AI tools spread through their work.

Ni-Vanuatu RSE worker pleads not guilty to Pukehina orchard murder
The 50-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, is accused of murdering a female Ni-Vanuatu tourist with whom he was in a family relationship.

Privacy teams in Oceania face stress & budget cuts
Oceania privacy teams face rising stress, shrinking budgets and smaller staff as rapid tech change outpaces compliance and risk controls.

IDeaS unveils hotel rate intelligence tool for APAC
IDeaS launches Rate Data Advantage in APAC, promising hotels deeper real-time rate intelligence and sharper revenue decisions.

Offender flees scene of assault in Christchurch suburb
One person taken to hospital with moderate injuries after Lake Terrace Road incident.

Visit the North Sea oil field used to store greenhouse gas
Hundreds of miles from Denmark's coast a project is underway to inject CO2 into an old oil field.

Al Jazeera to host Iranian FM, Hamas leader, and CCP propagandist at its forum in February

Israeli media cite official accepting Hamas figure of 70,000 war dead

Prometheus boosts APAC push with three Sydney leaders
Prometheus expands its APAC enterprise push, hiring three senior leaders in Sydney to drive marketing, customer success and solution engineering.