Naming your company is not the end of it for a business. Over its lifetime you will have to protect it as competitors seek to benefit from the qualities the name bears.

International competitors have often thought the marketplace here not sufficiently important, giving companies such as Fisher & Paykel, Douglas Pharmaceuticals and Glidepath opportunities to establish themselves.

Opponent says islanders would never have seen money if Epsom mansion sold.

The Auckland Council is withdrawing a $106,500 claim for costs against community groups involved in the Masonic Hotel heritage case.

They stole our chance at winning the 2007 Rugby World Cup. This year, they're at it again, wearing fake moko for a photoshoot.

Google is the only one not in a consortium buying a portfolio of thousands of technology patents from bankrupt firm Nortel Networks.