Battle for tea-time electricity looms as electric cars gain popularity
By Pattrick Smellie March 13 (BusinessDesk) - Electric vehicles recharging at home will start competing with households cooking dinner and watching TV, creating strain on existing electricity networks and forcing change to the way power is currently priced, say two new reports...
Tensions between traditional and extended company reporting laid bare in new report
By Pattrick Smellie March 13 (BusinessDesk) - Some three-quarters of the chief financial officers of New Zealand public companies are either unaware of or not interested in emerging methods for extending reporting beyond traditional financial indicators, according to research...
Outdated copyright law makes NZ 'less attractive' for innovation investment, says Deloitte
By Pattrick Smellie March 13 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's current copyright laws are outdated and are likely to hamper digital innovation and experimentation, Deloitte says in a report commissioned by global search engine Google. The use of a prescriptive 'fair dealing' t...
NZ seeks exemptions from US steel and aluminium tariffs
By Pattrick Smellie March 12 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand is actively seeking exemption from the punitive tariffs imposed on imports of steel and aluminium to the United States, arguing the country has a relationship with the US "not unlike Australia's", is running a trade de...
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