Huge user base, ever-increasing engagement, hype, salivating VC investors - shame about the business model.

Is Microsoft's new browser good enough to see Windows users dumping Firefox and Chrome?

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

Internet giant's money will help NZ firm develop mass-transit system for use in traffic-clogged, skyscraper-strewn cities.

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

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.

Who knew New Zealand had a space programme? In truth, with the exception of Auckland company Rocket Lab's launch of a rocket 100km into the sky last November, we can't claim to have tried visiting the inky void.

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.

The police have handed the investigation on Google's Street View data gathering back to the Privacy Commissioner.

If a new identity is the only way to escape your online past, maybe Facebook just isn't worth it.

New research has revealed the names of the ten highest earning independent acts on video sharing site YouTube.

Eric Schmidt warns that the amount of personal data people leave online could force them to change their names to escape their cyber pasts.

Apple and Playboy are rather unlikely bedfellows.

Google's Android mobile phone system is set to pip Research in Motion to second place in the global market by the end of this year.