COMMENT: Tech companies are mostly powerless despite their enormous wealth, Juha Saarinen writes.

It didn't take an Einstein to get who Bill English was really talking about at his Chinese New Year dinner speech, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

COMMENT: Who earns interest on bank holidays? And what's the best use of cash? Mary Holm answers your questions.

COMMENT: LinkedIn, you've got to be kidding me with the awful and completely informal word 'congrats'.

COMMENT: This is an ideal moment to get your money humming for the year.

COMMENT: Google managed the transition from the big screen to the small screen expertly, but the move to no screen is a different beast entirely.

COMMENT: Trump's ascendancy has induced business and consumer caution.

COMMENT: The sale of UDC Finance continues a disturbing trend over the past 30 years.

US tech billionaire Peter Thiel got his New Zealand citizenship fair and square, under what is a legal exception to the rules, says Fran O'Sullivan.

COMMENT: TVNZ's new money programme will be 100 per cent funded by Kiwibank, and the funding model could be used again, John Drinnan writes.

COMMENT: Is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership the death of open economies or just a setback, Brian Fallow writes.

The IRD recently released information regarding income distributions of NZ individual taxpayers from 2007 to 2015 which makes interesting reading.

COMMENT: How can we combat these various forms of fraud? And how can we protect employees from risk and danger?

COMMENT: If you would like to double your sales in 2017, here is a simple plan that may help.

COMMENT: Big databases which store all sorts of information about our day-to-day activities are lacking in security, Juha Saarinen writes.

COMMENT: Bill English should act sooner rather than later if he wants to get a bilateral trade deal with the US on the table, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

COMMENT: You may want to change your spark plugs for the 2017 road trip.

COMMENT: Tips on how you can write an effective to do list to help you to meet your goals.

COMMENT: Kiwis love a good freebie. In the cut-through world of credit cards banks fight hard to grab our attention with juicy perks.

COMMENT: The clear winner of 2017's first brickbat is Auckland International Airport, writes Brian Gaynor.

COMMENT: Jon Voight adds the star factor to event studded with Trump insiders.

COMMENT: Juha Saarinen reviews the Fujifilm X-T2 camera.

Actuaries' work is no longer confined to the world of finance.

COMMENT: The overall growth numbers look solid. But some of the details are not so encouraging, Brian Fallow writes.

COMMENT: Big merger decisions are soon to be revealed, writes John Drinnan.

COMMENT: There's a saying that everyone in New Zealand is connected by two degrees of separation.

COMMENT: Make sure you clearly associate what you sell with what people are thinking about right now.

COMMENT: Some practical steps to help you sustain your holiday joie de vivre past the first few hours back at work.

COMMENT: The new game in Washington DC will be about "balanced trade", not free trade.

COMMENT: Few could resist entities with faster, cheaper services.