Published on the 21/01/2025 | Written by Newsdesk

AppWrap January 2025

16.01 Kiwi pricing engine specialist Flintfox has been acquired by US venture-backed rebate management company Enable for an undisclosed sum. Enable says the acquisition enables it to address the growing demand for end-to-end digitalisation of pricing and rebate processes.

14.01 Scott Technology has won $18m in new contracts with three companies. The deals include an advanced lamb primal system for JBS in Australia, a loin deboner for Silver Fern Farms in New Zealand and multiple bladestop units for Cargill’s North American meat processing operations, Scott Technology says.

06.01 Consumer NZ has laid a complaint with the Commerce Commission over Microsoft’s attempts to push consumers to more expensive Microsoft 365 services containing AI features. Consumers are facing 30-40 percent price hikes for M365 – but it’s not a price increase but rather an upsell – and one many customers can bypass, by pretending to cancel their plan, at which point they’re presented with the Microsoft 365 Classic option, at the old price (and without Copilot), Consumer NZ says. It says it believes the move is a flagrant breach of goodwill and trust and that it is unethical to automatically upgrade customers. Its complaint to ComCom alleges breach of the Fair Trading Act by tricking users to upgrade.

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