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Today’s deal between Meridian and Rio Tinto for the Tiwai smelter to remain open another four years provides time for a managed transition for Southland.

  The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems. A third party file sharing service used by the Bank to share and store some sensitive information, has been illegally ...

More than a million New Zealanders think their lives will be better in the coming year. New research finds: 31% of adults (around 1,114,500 people) think their lives will be better. 19% (around 665,000 people) think their lives will be worse. 44% ...

Online celebrations see 80% more data used by Vodafone customers, compared to NYE 2019/2020 This New Year’s Eve saw New Zealanders turn online in massive numbers, with data used across Vodafone NZ’s mobile networks up by approximately 80% compared ...

The Electricity Authority’s Board has concluded its investigation of the undesirable trading situation (UTS) claim made by Haast Energy Trading, Ecotricity, Electric Kiwi, Flick Energy, Oji Fibre, Pulse Energy Alliance and Vocus (the ‘claimants’) ...

OVERVIEW OF QUARTER FOUR (Q4) 2020: STATE OF THE NATION: SEEK job ads are up by 19% quarter-on-quarter (q/q). SEEK job ads are down by 7% in Q4 compared to same period in 2019. Sectors with the highest job ad growth q/q by volume are Information ...

Overview 2020 was Aotearoa New Zealand’s 7th-warmest year on record. The nationwide average temperature for 2020, calculated using stations in NIWA’s seven-station temperature series which began in 1909, was 13.24°C (0.63°C above the 1981–2010 ...

Nostradamus himself could not have predicted the strange series of events that befell our world in 2020 – nor the wild trajectory of New Zealand’s property market, which has gone from “doom and gloom” to “boom and Zoom” in record time. Even ...

According to a new survey* from PriceSpy , almost 50 per cent of Kiwis are looking to shop locally this Christmas in light of Covid-19; The research also found consumers are changing their shopping habits, with one in seven (14 per cent) getting super-organised ...

Noel Leeming Group has been warned by the Commerce Commission for making delivery representations about two products which, in the Commission’s view, it did not have reasonable grounds for at the time the representations were made. The warning ...

W ell, apart from the who, why and how of it, the recent hack of the Reserve Bank’s computer security defences seems crystal clear. It happened. It happened about five months or so after the computer systems at the New Zealand Stock Exchange and several ...

A cyber security expert says attacks like the latest on the Reserve Bank could be due to the type of data systems they are using.

Kiwis put their devices to good use this festive season, connecting with friends and whānau in Aotearoa and internationally, and hitting record highs for data usage across the Vodafone NZ networks. Nationally Vodafone customers consumed 1,178 TB ...

The Electricity Authority’s finding that Meridian caused power prices to rise and extra fossil fuels to be burnt shows the need for renewed focus on electricity market reforms, the Green Party said today. “Power companies were supposed to be ...

Independent power company, Flick Electric, says today’s decision by the Electricity Authority is a landmark outcome but points to major flaws with the country’s electricity market that need to be fixed to prevent more cases of market manipulation and poor ...