Queenstown entrepreneur Boyd Peacock wants people to get home safely.

Google is working on plans to turn smartphones into translators which would allow callers to speak into the phone in their own language.

A major new global plan aimed at forcing multinationals to pay more taxes has been described as underwhelming and disappointing by a Kiwi tax expert.

There are no flash cars parked outside Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, only smart cars.

New Zealand animated short-film Sifted is the first live action film to be produced in what is known as a 'Point Cloud world', which is where 3D points gathered from many photos of the same object are used to calculate their 3d form.

NZ has reached for the sky, backing Google's extraordinary plan to encircle the Earth with helium-filled balloons beaming internet access to billions. Google's secretive research team Google X launched Project Loon yesterday in Christchurch.

Developed in the secretive Google[x] lab, today Google launched a world-first in Christchurch: Sending internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons.

The Google Maps team won’t stop until it has every last inch of the planet stored on its servers. Would we really be so lost without them? asks Tom Chivers.

New Zealand businesses are being urged to follow in Google's footsteps and provide a chilled-out, fun workplace to improve productivity.

Google is growing up. This may seem a strange thing to say about a company that has long been one of the most profitable digital enterprises.

After a significant amount of hype and fanfare, it looks like the recently launched Facebook Home android app has been a failure, writes Pat Pilcher.

Google's new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul recent privacy policy changes.

It used to be that Google was constantly in the news; now Google constantly is the news.

Bored of an evening? You could always create an Algae Biofuel Lab as one 17 year old student in the US did to win a $100,000 science prize.

Tech fans have finally had their first good look at Google Glass, the hotly anticipated web goggles worth US$1500 a pair.

Watching television while simultaneously browsing the net on a smartphone, tablet or laptop is becoming the new norm in New Zealand living rooms, according to Google.

The G20 group of leading industrial and developing countries was talking tough at the weekend about getting multinational corporations to pay more tax.