About Karen Joy
Karen Joy Bacudo
Finance Editor
Karen wears two hats at TechDay, balancing her role as an editor while assisting with finance tasks. She bridges writing content and reconciling numbers to support the team, with the same level of accuracy and precision.
Stories by Karen Joy - Page 3
HSBC & Sage launch digital tax tool for sole traders
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HSBC UK and Sage unveil in-app tax tool for sole traders and landlords as Making Tax Digital for Income Tax rules loom from April.
RobCo raises USD $100m to scale Physical AI robotics
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RobCo secures USD $100m in Series C funding to scale its Physical AI industrial robots across the US and Europe and deepen factory autonomy.
IAG taps Codafication’s Crunchwork to streamline claims
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IAG is rolling out Codafication’s Crunchwork platform to unify property claims data, automate workflows and cut delays across suppliers.
Older Asia-Pacific founders chase unicorn valuations
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Asia-Pacific startup founders are growing older but no less ambitious, with most over 45 and four in ten still chasing unicorn valuations.
Polestar & Volvo lead NordEast’s rapid NZ EV growth
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volvo
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evs
Polestar and Volvo drive NordEast’s rapid NZ EV surge, posting triple-digit and strong double-digit growth in their first full year.
Xero unveils customisable homepage packed with widgets
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data analytics
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digital transformation
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fintech
Xero rolls out a redesigned, widget-led homepage that surfaces real-time profit, cash flow and tasks in a custom view for each user.
AIB bakes AI literacy into revamped Australian MBA
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risk & compliance
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Australian Institute of Business has overhauled its MBA to embed AI literacy, ethics and governance as central skills for future managers.
AI, risk & security reshape Australian jobs for 2026
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risk & compliance
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AI, risk and job security are set to redefine Australian careers in 2026 as workers shun moves, chase pay rises and cling to hybrid work.
Remara selects 10x Banking for core modernisation drive
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digital transformation
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fintech
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blockchain
Remara picks 10x Banking’s cloud-native core to speed new lending and investment products and fuel ANZ and Southeast Asia expansion.
Mangopay backs Club Employés in Europe benefits push
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crypto
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Mangopay partners with Club Employés to power multi-party employee benefits payments as the French platform accelerates its European expansion.
Castles to supply Android payment terminals for Loomis Pay
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commerce systems
Castles Technology secures Loomis Pay deal to roll out Android payment terminals and tools across Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Spain.
TerraPay, MilX team up on global creator payouts push
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crypto
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fintech
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risk & compliance
TerraPay partners with MilX to speed cross-border payouts, giving YouTube creators faster local-currency access to earnings in 70+ markets.
Voicescape buys Enterprise RPA to boost housing tech
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digital transformation
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rpa
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risk & compliance
Voicescape acquires Enterprise RPA to fuse AI tenant engagement with housing automation, targeting stretched landlords and local authorities.
Exclusive: We rank NZ tech distributors by revenue & employees
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New Zealand’s IT distributors clock over NZD $2.1b in 2024 turnover, with Ingram Micro, Dicker Data and TD Synnex leading the pack.
Principal media buying expands amid budget pressure
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martech
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supply chain
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risk & compliance
Principal media buying surges as budget-squeezed marketers seek cheaper, outcome‑guaranteed deals despite rising transparency concerns.
Dynatrace unveils agentic AI system for autonomous ops
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devops
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hybrid cloud
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digital transformation
Dynatrace launches an agentic AI operations layer to automate cloud and AI-native workloads, aiming for self-healing, autonomous observability.
GitHub Copilot surges as Agent HQ targets AI ecosystem
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devops
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data analytics
GitHub Copilot tops 4.7m paid users as GitHub pitches Agent HQ as the central hub for multi-vendor coding agents across its platform.
LevelBlue buys Fortra Alert Logic MDR services arm
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partner programmes
LevelBlue to acquire Fortra Alert Logic managed services arm and form long-term tech partnership to expand MDR and XDR security reach.
Big banks back AI while keeping core software in place
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crm
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digital transformation
Big banks and AI leaders signal they will layer new AI tools on top of, not instead of, core enterprise software systems.
Avalara expands AWS Marketplace access for tax tools
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digital transformation
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hyperscale
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fintech
Avalara inks multi-year AWS deal to push its AI-driven tax tools via AWS Marketplace, promising simpler cloud procurement and billing.