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• Artificial Intelligence: It’s not stealing your jobs

  But businesses must put both their clients and customers in the driving seat, giving them control and quashing any false claims that AI will replace humans at work, writes Sam Daish of Xero

• How Xero reached over 1M subscribers across New Zealand and Australia

  The penetration of cloud accounting in ANZ is around 40 per cent, more than double what it is worldwide, says Craig Hudson, Xero managing director of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

• Xero on machine learning: From wishful thinking to practical tool for decision-making

  Touts new capabilities to transform machine learning from wishful thinking to practical features that will help SMBs in decision-making, at Xerocon 2018

• CIO upfront: The importance of data-driven insights

  Surveys can be really useful, but when it comes to business trends and insights, cold, hard, factual data tells us what we really need to know, writes Craig Hudson of Xero.

• Xero embarks on global brand update, reveals new tagline

  Says the time is right to update its ‘Beautiful accounting software’ tagline to ‘Beautiful business’

• Xerocon 2017: ‘It's the golden age of accounting’

  Xero launches biggest wave of products at annual Asia Pacific conference.

• MYOB invests in new ERP tech

  The acquisition of this technology demonstrates our commitment to the Greentree platform, says MYOB's Carolyn Luey
  

• Xero works with Microsoft Power BI to provide ‘quick insights in seconds’

  SMBs and their advisors cannow analyse live updates and identify trends as they are evolving

• HP hits former Autonomy execs with $US5bn suit

  The UK's Serious Fraud Office may have dropped its investigation of software firm Autonomy earlier this year, but that doesn't appear to have done much to allay HP's ire. HP -- which acquired Autonomy in 2011 -- has confirmed that it plans to sue Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain, Autonomy's former CEO and CFO, for $5.1 billion.

• Doing business with Stuart Stitt of Fujitsu New Zealand

  The former CFO and now managing director of Fujitsu New Zealand talks about working with tech savvy teams on both sides of the Tasman, and welcoming millennials into the workplace.

• NZ’s digital divide: Nearly half of small and medium businesses are offline

  They are at a disadvantage as firms with websites and social media activities earn more and expect growth, says MYOB CTO Simon Raik-Allen.
  

• Futurist Tim Longhurst: Focus on core operations and ‘edge thinking’

  Shares pointers on how to do this in a business environment buffeted by change
  

• Crowe Horwath partners with MYOB cloud accounting

  Will help SMB clients migrate to AccountRight Live and LiveAccounts.