When the co-founders of gopher.co.nz started to look for a new market in Southeast Asia, they were told to steer clear of Indonesia.

I'm not an economist, but I do understand what a net loss or a net gain is, writes Susan Chalmers. Most people will be familiar with the concept - at the end of the day, are you better or worse off?

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.

Broadband services are returning for hundreds of thousands of Telecom customers following an outage this morning.

A teenager whose private photos have been used without permission to attract bisexual women to a website feels violated and scared.

More than 2.8 million New Zealanders spent an average eight hours each on social media sites in October, according to figures out today.

The hijacking of world telecommunications regulations ?

TVNZ has complained to Facebook after the publication of weight-loss ads using stars such as Petra Bagust, Toni Street and Shavaughn Ruakere.

Telecom has ruled out compensation for the thousands of customers across the country who went without broadband for several hours this morning.

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.

A visiting cyber-bullying expert is urging schools to make students take driver licence-style tests before they can take mobile phones and tablets to class.

Do it early - that's the advice an internet safety expert has for parents worried about how and when they should address concerns about their children's online activity.

Thousands of teenagers are being exposed to graphic sexual material, violence, drug abuse and high levels of profanity on school-themed Facebook pages run by students.