
Australia's Commonwealth Bank leads research on social robots to work with humans
By Fiona Rotherham Sept. 13 (BusinessDesk) - One of the biggest opportunities to revolutionise technological design is developing social robots that can work alongside humans, says Commonwealth Bank of Australia innovation solutions manager Will Judge. He was one of the spe...

Xero CEO Rod Drury says machine learning and AI at heart of its new products
By Fiona Rotherham Sept. 9 (BusinessDesk) - Rod Drury, founder and chief executive of accounting software company Xero, says it’s poised to introduce a number of smart services through machine learning and artificial intelligence. Xero has now completed the two-year migrati...

Wellington start-up Fuelled offering cash-flow product to SMES via Xero
By Fiona Rotherham Sept. 8 (BusinessDesk) - Wellington-based Fuelled is offering small businesses a quick way out of their cash flow difficulties in a partnership with accounting software firm Xero. The partnership was announced today at Xerecon, Xero’s annual rock-n-roll s...

RESEND: Software start-up 9 Spokes to launch online dashboard in October
(In 9th paragraph, 9 Spokes clarified the Propel by Deloitte is a pilot) By Fiona Rotherham Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - ASX-listed software startup 9 Spokes says its online dashboard for small businesses will launch in October. The New Zealand company co-founded four years...