How do we generate more new business cheaply and easily? That's the magic pill businesses are looking for. Some might feel social media is the answer.

Facebook's valuation, vacillating in recent months between $23bn and $33bn, is highly speculative and almost certainly too high.

Mark Zuckberg has been portrayed as a a hard-hearted genius with a fetish for Asian women who is not above stealing ideas or turning on his friends.

From software to electric bikes, serial entrepreneurs Shaun and Grant Ryan are proving that big ideas run in the family. Karyn Scherer reports.

Internet fraudsters are using Facebook to steal Kiwis' bank and credit card account numbers and identities.

While most online music ventures let us listen for free, Ping revolves around something that for many has become an anachronism - paying for it.

Despite scoring 370,000 new users every day, making money out of its customers has proved a real challenge for Twitter.

For months now I've been using the term "freasy" for social media marketing. Meaning it's free and easy to do.

Depending on your age, gender and tolerance levels for whiny teenage singers with dodgy haircuts, the diminutive Canadian pop and R&B phenomenon is either a heart-melting object of infatuation or a viral contagion infecting the web.

It does nothing to speed up typing; as one user said, it's as if someone is constantly interrupting you to finish your sentences, and always getting it wrong.