Auckland businessman blackmailed and threatened after sending nude picture to French woman

A corporate manager in Auckland is reeling from the "embarrassment" and mental strain of being blackmailed by a young French woman whom he sent a nude picture to over the weekend. The businessman in his 70s has spoken to the Herald... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Flight Centre staff numbers plunge by half this year due to Covid crisis

Flight Centre has laid off a further 230 staff, which means its workforce is half of what it was at the start of the year.The company has lost 600 staff since Covid-19 hit and says the latest redundancies come as the wage subsidy... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Auckland University alumni, donor info caught up in ransomware attack

"A recent data security breach involved information on alumni, donors and other related groups from the University of Auckland," alumni (ex-students) were told in an email from the university this afternoon."Although the encrypted... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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How Amazon's 'smiling assassin' Jeff Bezos went from super-geek to king of the world

Amazon's Jeff Bezos is never low-profile, but the deca-billionaire is facing one of his biggest public tests yet as he goes before Congress, says Laurence Dodds of the Daily Telegraph When the future king of the world deigned... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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The dark side of smart technology: Enabling domestic abuse

A few years ago, a group of workers at tech giant IBM were joking over lunch about how they could use the smart technology in their homes to play tricks on their families. "They were openly laughing about how they were remotely... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Air New Zealand suspends new bookings to Australia

Air New Zealand has put a hold on any new bookings to Australia until the end of August to minimise further disruption for passengers.It follows an announcement of a further pause in inbound bookings for a further two weeks revealed... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Double whammy for Wellington café operating in Civic Square ghost town

Nikau Café in Wellington's abandoned Civic Square is back to square one after council staff ditched the precinct and then Covid-19 hit. What should be the heart of the city has turned into a graveyard of buildings plagued with seismic... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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New Zealand firm Dawn Aerospace unveils sub-orbital plane

A Kiwi-Dutch company hoping to revolutionise space transport has today unveiled its reusable test plane that takes off from small airports around the country.Dawn Aerospace rolled out the carbon fibre Mk-II Aurora fitted with avionics... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Breast cancer AI firm Volpara sees strong cash receipts

ASX-listed Volpara Health Technologies collected its highest quarterly cash receipts since listing in 2016.Wellington-based Volpara, which focuses on early detection of breast cancer using artificial intelligence, said it received... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Vector partners with Amazon for new energy services

Vector is partnering with cloud-computing specialist Amazon Web Services to develop a new platform to manage consumer data for the energy industry in Australia and New Zealand.The New Energy Platform will combine the data from the... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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