Internet search companies such as Google have come under pressure to block child porn after a children's charity said that the sites "fuel the fantasies" of paedophiles who then sexually assault children.

Social networking site Twitter is becoming increasingly popular with teenage girls.

Children as young as 3 will benefit from being taught about Twitter and other social media, New Zealand's early childhood educators have been told.

Lance Wiggs' Punakaiki Fund plans to seek as much as $50 million in an initial public offering to invest in New Zealand companies.

An online car dealer that placed thousands of fake bids on more than 500 of its own auctions has been fined $42,000 this afternoon.

When Usain Bolt sprinted clear of compatriot Yohan Blake to complete an unprecedented second straight Olympic 100m-200m golden double.

An online car dealer has been snared placing thousands of fake bids on more than 500 of its own auctions.

After publicly issuing media guidelines for players to follow on their coming tour of Australia, the Lions lost the plot with their official account.

Yahoo's chief executive is making a US$1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) bet on the online blogging forum Tumblr as Marissa Mayer tries to make a former internet icon cool again.

It's 6.58 on an unremarkable Tuesday night in Mt Wellington, and influential sports jock Andrew Mulligan is about to go live on air.

Australia's internet gambling king Tom Waterhouse is feeling the blast from outrage over live betting odds.

It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

A Swedish co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from an IT services company with ties to the Swedish tax authority and other government agencies.

Alan Perrott finds out just how different @DanCarter is from the real Dan Carter ...

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an internet pioneer that has fallen behind the times.

Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the internet company's website and mobile applications.

Few top businesspeople in this country think social networks such as Twitter and Facebook place their firms' reputations at risk, new research suggests.

Telecom is keeping its powder dry on its plans for internet television and revealed little about what entertainment services could be in the pipeline during its strategy update to investors.

A beauty therapist who was caught treating salon clients at home after leaving her Facebook page open at work has been ordered to pay damages.

A self-proclaimed "home-free" hitchhiker who became an internet celebrity earlier this year for using a hatchet to stop a fight is suspected of beating a lawyer to death.

Twenty-five years of human expansion and environmental devastation across the globe has been illustrated in interactive time-lapse graphics by Google.

The IT industry is backing a change to planned new patent rules which has put an end to fears that computer software might be covered by new patent protection.

Natasha Razak, founder of Sample Bar, an online beauty subscription service that launched in October 2012 after six months of business preparation.