Alibaba has grown from an online experiment in Jack Ma's living room that offered two dozen items for sale to a venue for 7 million retailers.

Web-based tests have become a key gateway to landing a job, a potent screening tool that can effectively bump a CV to the top of a manager's pile.

The internet is a big place, especially when compared with your local shopping mall or high street.

It's a London few have seen before. Data sets about people, property, burgeoning banker numbers and haemorrhaging of hedgehogs have been mapped and brought alive.

Tracey Topp is the founder of online merino clothing retailer Cosy Toes

Internet-connected clothes, watches, glasses - Kiwis are poised to add record numbers of gadgets to their networked lives, writes Rob O'Neill

Nasty messages threatening and abusing MasterChef finalists Jaimie Stodler and Bec Stanley were posted on a TVNZ Facebook page and visible to the public this week.

Have you ever browsed overseas websites dreaming of being able to buy so cheaply or to have such choice? I'm guilty of doing that on Zappos.com, writes Diana Clement.

A Google software designer has stormed out of a conference in San Francisco after taking umbrage with the size of his audience.

Stephen Sutton, the 19-year-old cancer sufferer who has raised millions for charity, has hit back at claims he “duped” followers because his condition has improved.

After the excesses of the weekend, it’s natural to worry about the effects on the body. Now scientists have found Monday is the day we fret most about our health.

Talk on the outside says the fibre fast track process can only lead to one thing - the price going up and yet again favouring Chorus shareholders, writes Chris Barton.

Australia is becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that could shut down power grids.

You couldn't get much further from Bollywood but a Kiwi student is fast becoming a sensation in India after winning an online singing competition.

Intense competition in the Kiwi broadband market is proving a boon for consumers. This month, Telecom and Vodafone began offering unlimited data plans (at $109 a month), so users can download as much content as they like.

It seems hardly a week goes by without a major cyber security flaw exposed that could be exploited across millions of internet and mobile connected devices.

They’re the kids born totally wired, the first generation who will spend their whole lives in a world where the planet’s accumulated wisdom is available instantly at the touch of a finger. And the first of them have just left school.

Gwyneth Paltrow's website has crashed after she used it for a "super classy yard sale" of old clothes including items once owned by Miranda Kerr.

Whether you use Android, iOS, Blackberry or another system, you are vulnerable. On some systems, more than 40,000 pieces of malware exist to infect your device.

Facebook has advice for New Zealand travel firms: get a good app.

Microsoft has warned users of security flaw its Internet Explorer browser that could allow hackers to take “complete control” of a user’s computer.

A 12-year-old maths whiz who is studying at university is trying to help other students learn.

An Ohio couple awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of a man screaming "wake up baby!" before realising a hacker had hijacked the wireless baby monitor.

A teen from terminal cancer, whose fundraising campaign has been backed by a host of celebrities, has seen his condition improve after "coughing up a tumour".

The Chinese government has shut down thousands of websites and social media sites in a bid to purge the internet of online pornography, it was revealed today.

This is not a column for the faint-hearted. It's about All Black Aaron Smith and the puzzling trend of athletes and politicians choosing