With so many eyes glued to social media during work time, employers are increasingly considering how sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook can help them hire staff.

Warren Buffet famously said: "I don't invest in things I don't understand." writes Liam Dann. On that basis you can be pretty sure he isn't one of the mega-wealthy US investors who have been buying into kiwi tech stocks.

Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, a figure some sceptical investors are watching closely.

An Auckland social media specialist is eyeing global expansion for his newly launched, web-based "music discovery service".

More than 8000 people are using social media to jostle their way to the front of a virtual queue and win a Samsung phone.

Returned service clubs have embraced Facebook and Twitter - and a controversial sponsorship deal with gambling giant SkyCity - to reach out to younger New Zealanders for this year's Poppy Day appeal.

Facebook users are being warned to secure their profiles after an Auckland woman's account was hacked and more than $300 was charged to her credit card.

If waking up to find your old tweets dredged up and splashed on the front page of a Sunday newspaper wasn't enough of a rude awakening for Paris Brown, the ordeal had only just begun.

Air New Zealand's exposure in China will be boosted in a leading Chinese reality show You Are The One.

A Hokitika man who crashed a party in Greymouth, assaulted a woman and broke a window, tried to avoid prosecution by shaming his accusers on Facebook.

Facebook users have to pay 65 cents to message anyone outside their group of friends - unless they're contacting people like Richie McCaw, who is worth twice that.

A new New Zealand lost pet service is looking to tap into the power of social media.

New Zealand business feeling daunted by emerging technologies need look no further than the example of TradeMe, says a world-renowned expert in e-commerce.

Jesse Ryder has made light of Scribe's taunts in a tweet sent from his hospital bed in Christchurch.

Whither print journalism? It's a question that's been asked ever since the mid 90s.

A Kiwi rapper has caused anger by suggesting Jesse Ryder may have provoked the attack that left him with a fractured skull and punctured lung.

Only 14 months after it began, KiwiYo frozen yoghurt chain already has its sights set on overseas markets