Podcast Episodes

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Does Amazon want to play us for fools?

Now, we need to talk about that Amazon announcement yesterday.

These guys have taken us for fools in this country. They've looked at us in New Zealan…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

No upgrade needed: Rimini St’s cost-saving pitch to CIOs

Nasdaq-listed tech services company Rimini Street is challenging the status quo in New Zealand’s enterprise IT market, offering a striking alternativ…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

From hippy to peanut butter hero: The wild adventures of Pic Picot

Pic Picot has lived his life like it's one big experiment. He's tried a bit of this, had success with a bit of that, lived on a commune, sailed the P…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Chris Hipkins: Labour leader on ACT's call to leave the Paris Agreement, Foreign buyers, ditching open-plan classrooms

Labour and National appear to be aligned on the Paris Climate Agreement.  

Yesterday ACT called for New Zealand to leave unless the terms of the deal…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Jeremy Andrews: Key Mortgages broker on more people getting mortgages approved

More people are getting mortgages approved as they prepare for the Official Cash Rate to fall further.

Latest Centrix figures show mortgage enquiries…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister on lifting the foreign buyers ban under new investment visa settings, Amazon date centres going live

The Prime Minister is celebrating tech-giant Amazon's continued moves into the New Zealand market. 

Amazon Web Services' data centres are now open in…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Winston Peters: NZ First Leader on the changes to investment rules that allow foreign investors to buy property

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters says he wasn't dragged kicking and screaming into a new foreign investors deal. 

The Government’s approved ch…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Manuel Bohnet: Amazon Web Services' NZ country manager on Amazon's $7.5 billion investment plan for New Zealand

There's hopes the promised 1,000 new jobs created from Amazon's locally based data centres will go to Kiwis.

The tech giant's investing $7.5 billion …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Carolyn Young: Retail NZ CEO on the impact of Temu on the value of New Zealand's imports

The growing volume of purchases from the likes of Shein and Temu are hitting New Zealand’s import economy hard. 

Stats New Zealand has revised the Na…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Paul Bloxham: HSBC chief economist on trade figures showing economic growth

Stats NZ came out with the latest trade data for New Zealand - and the results show good news for exporters.

Exports were up 9.9 percent in the year …

7 months, 3 weeks ago