Spark, Microsoft sign major public cloud partnership
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Spark, Microsoft sign major public cloud partnership

Spark and Microsoft have signed what they’re billing as the country’s largest-ever Microsoft public cloud partnership.The deal includes an AI focus. It will include “one of the largest Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments in New Zealand”, with an extra 1,800 Spark staff getting Micr...

Staff reporters 20 Feb 2025
NZ sharemarket dips as interest rates cut
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NZ sharemarket dips as interest rates cut

The S&P/NZX 50 Index closed at 13,033.36, down 17.76 points or 0.14%.

Staff reporters 19 Feb 2025
NZME confirms job cuts
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NZME confirms job cuts

About 30 roles are being cut from the NZ Herald newsroom, and several well-known journalistic names – including the political editor – have opted for voluntary redundancy.While the company has reduced the overall number of net redundancies from about 38 to 30, it still expects to...

Staff reporters 19 Feb 2025
Propel Funeral Partners to buy two NZ businesses
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Propel Funeral Partners to buy two NZ businesses

Sydney-based Propel Funeral Partners plans to buy two more New Zealand businesses. The companies, Twentymans Funeral Services and Thames Crematory, which operates in and around Thames and Richmond Funeral Home and Clareville Crematorium in Carterton, Wairarapa, have been operatin...

Staff reporters 18 Feb 2025