Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Buzz ... the list of places to promote your business online appear almost endless.

In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp spent US$580m on MySpace. Four years later he hired AOL's Jonathan Miller to rescue it. He fired founder Chris De Wolfe and hired Owen Van Natta from Facebook. Ten months later, he's out too.

A new survey of 520 NZ companies finds 67 per cent have no policies to regulate staff use of social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

British prisoners have been disconnected after they used Facebook to plot with other criminals and intimidate their victims.

There are slim pickings on the spam front in my email these days.

Google is making a belated attempt to force its way into the social networking sphere - but the industry has come out swinging.

A NZ blogger denying five charges of breaching suppression orders has revealed on a website the name of a child porn offender who has name suppression.

Party's MPs join chorus of condemnation at the permanent name suppression given to a Manawatu man who downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images, many of them picturing children.

Kiwi celebrities are being targeted by social networking frauds, who are forging Twitter and Facebook accounts in their names.

The biggest story you've never heard of in the last decade had nothing to do with September 11, 2001 or the War on Terror.

The founders of a new website that dishes up city-specific New Zealand news and information say they are tapping into a growing international demand for "hyper-local" web content.