Gwen Stefani, Dr Dre and Stephen Fry, along with a swarm of experts from the worlds of technology and fashion, last week made their annual pilgrimage to Cupertino, California.

Increased KFC sales helped boost Restaurant Brands revenue 5.8 per cent to $108 million in the second quarter.

An Auckland man had the equivalent of NZ$136,452 in Chinese Yuan seized by Customs when he tried to take the cash out of New Zealand without declaring it.

Vista has been issued a please explain by NZX regulators after its stock gained 24 per cent since the start of the month.

Markets rise and fall because they are driven by human emotion and those who are savvy enough to recognise them, are also savvy enough to take advantage of them.

Peter Karpas, Xero's North America chief executive has quit just six months after joining the cloud-based accounting software company

Invivo Wines co-founder Tim Lightbourne says an NXT listing is a capital raising option the company is considering.

Mega's chief executive doesn't think the seizure of 20 per cent of the company's shares will cause problems for its backdoor listing on the New Zealand stock exchange.

An Auckland stockbroker who admitted fraud has today been sentenced to six years in prison.

Shares in Skellerup Holdings declined after the industrial rubber goods maker missed analyst estimates for annual profit.

Despite decades of academic research, there is little agreement about the precise definition of entrepreneurship.

NZ could become a "superpower" of the global craft beer market, with demand for Kiwi brews expected to triple, according to research by ANZ.

Meridian Energy has fattened its dividend and is hinting of a possible return of capital next year after beating prospectus forecasts in its first annual result.

Oil and gas exploration and development spending was up 7 per cent last year to almost $1.6b, according to the latest official figures which also show a big jump in gas reserves.

It was a tale of two technology companies yesterday as Eroad stock soared following the firm's NZX debut.

Broker Craigs Investment Partners has given its picks on some of the possible highlights and lowlights of this month's earnings season.

Sam Morgan, who made his fortune when Trade Me was sold to Fairfax, has built a substantial shareholding in security software developer Wynyard Group.

Nuplex Industries has posted full-year profit growth of 18 percent as the chemicals manufacturer fattened its margin on coating resins in Asia and Europe.

As David Chaplin writes, financial literacy - a major theme of the recent Workplace Savings NZ conference - is tough going.