Cashed up with more than $10 million in fresh capital, Auckland software firm Wherescape is in expansion mode and considering listing on the NZX.

Euribor-EBF has chosen New Zealand's Global Rate Set Systems to collect, process and distribute its financial benchmarks from May.

Milford Asset Management has spent $2.3 million buying into Mercer Group, building a 5.2 per cent stake in the stainless steel producer.

Meridian Energy sold more electricity in the first six months of the current financial year than in the previous year, but prices achieved were significantly lower.

Michael Hill International expects first-half earnings to rise after reporting a 10 per cent lift in sales over the period.

Labour is looking at the Norwegian model for regulating the oil and gas industry, including stronger environmental safeguards and steeper taxes.

Moody's has cut Chorus's credit rating to the bottom of its investment grade band over the prospect of enforced copper price cuts.

Wynyard Group has signed a global partnership deal with UK-based Arquebus Solutions to deliver gun crime intelligence software for the law enforcement market.

NZX minnows Vetilot and NZF Group have been fined and censured over the late filings of their respective annual reports.

Big international oil and gas recruitment company Air Energi is moving into New Zealand in what is being described as a vote of confidence in the sector here.

Revelations that a "worst-case" oil well blowout in New Zealand waters could take five weeks to plug.

It can be used in a plethora of ways, but Bitcoin's lead developer says his best purchase with the virtual currency was made right here in NZ, on the edge of Lake Wanaka.

Xero, whose shares soared 333 percent in 2013, has put down a rising share price to positive press.

The first taste of petroleum money could be just weeks away in Dunedin, as oil giant Anadarko prepares to move its drilling ship into Otago waters.

Two southern cities are battling it out for hosting rights to an oil and gas base, after confirmation oil giant Shell wants to drill a test well in the deep south.

A significant gas find in the Great South Basin would provide the largest economic boom to NZ people would ever remember, an analyst said.

Shell hopes drilling will produce Maui-size gas reserves

Diligent's share price has continued to rally and was up a further 10 per cent in morning trading.

Kiwi wireless power firm mulls listing as it signs a pact with Texas Instruments.