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Google maps out North Korea
Detailed maps of North Korea - complete with prison camps - can now be viewed online for the first time thanks to Google.

Google guru has Kiwi break mapped out
Google Maps is famous for getting the commuter, cyclist and pedestrian from A to B; but it is a little known fact that the man who oversaw its development is a Kiwi.

Rain, rain, and more rain - oh the luck of the Irish
The Irish enjoy nothing more than whingeing about the weather. But internet giants say the people of Ireland should be grateful for their damp, cold climate.

Thomas Pippos: Corporate taxation a thorny issue
The debate around the level of tax paid by multinational corporations, and where they pay them, has morphed into a drama involving protagonists.

What Kiwis googled this year
The Olympics, Kony, Marmite, Whitney Houston and images of Jaime Ridge - New Zealanders' internet searches have revealed the motley cast of people and events that have shaped the online year.

Facebook NZ's $14k tax bill
Facebook's "tiny" and "barely believable" tax bill this year makes a mockery of New Zealand's tax loopholes for multinationals, says the Labour Party.

Supercharge your sales
Sales slow? Your business may need a new secret weapon to supercharge its sales. Diana Clement looks at how some businesses do it.

Road Warrior: Driving his business
In the old days, the office drove the business. Diana Clement finds a businessman who’s driving his office.

Juha Saarinen: We are all pirates now
How easy is it to be accused of copyright infringement and potentially be caught up into a months-long legal process, asks Juha Saarinen

Google data centres - Inside the Internet
Photos from inside some of the eight data centres Google already has running in the US, Finland and Belgium.

Google failure slammed
NZ's Privacy Commissioner has criticised Google for failing to destroy private information it collected from WiFi networks during Street View filming.