Popular email security programmes may fail to detect as much as 25% of all emails with malicious or dangerous attachments, a study from Mimecast says.

“Digital is now so widely adopted that its novelty has worn off. In their attempt to declutter, people are being more selective about which products and services they incorporate into their daily lives."

A Central Otago wine company is using augmented reality (AR) and a ‘digital first’ strategy to change the way it builds its brand and engages with customers.

We’ve all seen it: our offices are changing from the traditional four walls - to no walls. A need to reduce real estate costs is a key driver, as is enabling a more diverse and agile workforce.

While it’s easy to become absorbed by the day-to-day running of the business, an SMB’s success depends on the ability to step back.

"Exponential IT must be a way of life, not just an endpoint."

Women are more likely to run larger SMBs, but they’re also more worried, more stressed, and less likely to use an insurance broker for their business than male SMB owners.

"A good employer will ensure they provide suitable training and development for their top candidates, not just from a technical perspective but also from a soft skill perspective."

“Mould and mildew are the new asbestos. But unlike asbestos, detecting the presence – or conditions that encourage growth – of mould and mildew is nearly impossible."

“In one case, the attacker gained access and tracked the business’s emails for at least six months. They gathered extensive knowledge of the business’s billing cycles."

“Marketing and sales are critical to the successful growth of any business, but especially for those in the tech industry.”

"New tech roles are highly paid generating new wealth for regional New Zealand and research has found that for every new tech role created 4.9 other support roles are created in a community."

“You see a lot in the media about the threats facing yellow-eyed penguins in New Zealand, but those reports are mainly based on penguins from the mainland."

“Our growth is an indication of the strength of the small business economy across Australia and New Zealand,” says Xero’s managing director of Australia and Asia, Trent Innes.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Another bidder has entered the bidding arena as the potential sale of Trade Me kicks up a notch.

Too many small businesses will try to keep a sinking ship afloat when really they should be closing up shop.

“Conversation Agents present a huge opportunity to increase customer and employee engagement in a cost-effective manner."

“With more and more aspects of our lives taking place online it’s critical the government takes a lead to ensure New Zealanders have control of how and who uses their identity information,” says Minister Woods.

DanaBot is a Trojan written in the Delphi programming language that includes banking site web injections and stealer functions.

Most companies tend to take a basic approach that focuses on numbers and compliance, without much room for grey areas or negotiation.

10 million workers leave it up to employers to choose their Super fund for them – and the majority of employers are just as passive and unengaged at putting that fund to work.

The people have spoken – GirlBoss CEO and founder Alexia Hilbertidou has been crowned this year’s Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Emerging Alumni of the Year.

“This could have been an extremely disruptive event to online commerce," comments DigiCert CEO John Merrill. 

These trends should keep marketers, customer experience leaders, social media professionals and executives awake at night.

Security needs to move away from the traditional approach of chasing after arbitrary forms of malware.

Quora’s 100 million users are the latest targets in a major data breach, but at least the company has moved quickly to contain it.

The Inspector-General has given the GCSB its compliance tick of approval for the fourth year in a row.

Callaghan Innovation has awarded a $318,000 R&D grant to Auckland-based firm SingleSource, a company that applies risk scoring to digital identity.

Spark Lab has launched a new tool that it hopes will help New Zealand’s small businesses understand their cybersecurity risks.

When employees do their holiday shopping on company resources, security teams have a challenge with the surge in browsing and online transactions.

A Wellington conservation tech company has come up with a way of using Bluetooth to help capture pests like rats and stoats.

So you want to build a stronger business. It’s one of the goals that everyone in your workplace should strive for.

The integration will allow Telesmart’s Cloud Calling for Microsoft Teams to natively enable external voice connectivity from within Teams collaborative workflow environment.

Hamilton-based software firm Company-X has landed a spot on Deloitte Technology’s Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2018 ranking - for the second year in a row.

How thinking out of the box can bring unexpected benefits to small-to-medium businesses.

Many business owners think AI, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles are 'overhyped'.

The New Zealand and Australian governments are working on a joint approach to create trans-Tasman standards to e-invoicing that’ll make it easier for businesses in both countries work with each other and across the globe

The VR headset market returned to growth in 3Q18 after four consecutive quarters of decline and now makes up 97% of the combined market.

The report explores changes in the threat landscape over the past year, uncovering trends and how they are expected to impact cybersecurity in 2019.

Not every business in your market needs to be a competitor.

“This is just the beginning. Through 5G, we are creating truly immersive and revolutionary smartphones that will unlock a whole new user experience."

The ASQA has accredited Blockchain Collective’s Advanced Diploma of Applied Blockchain consisting of eight modules - six core and two electives.