Fonterra's botulism scandal was one of the "greatest gifts" the company could have given to the Chinese Government, according to a visiting foreign correspondent.

Chorus would get "windfall gains" and have an incentive to "go slow" building the ultra-fast broadband network if the Govt intervenes in the copper internet market, says Vector.

Cloud accounting software provider Xero has become a $3 billion company.

The US Senate has passed legislation to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown along the strict terms set by US President Barack Obama.

French food giant Danone says it will lose more than half a billion dollars in sales in the current financial year as a result of Fonterra's botulism false alarm.

Two Kiwi entrepreneurs have been left stunned after raising more than $300,000 in a crowdfunding campaign for their start-up travel gear company.

Lizzi Hines, managing director, Spaceworks, which does interior design and fitout and furniture procurement for the office, hospitality and retail sectors. Spaceworks is a team of eight designers (all women).

What do you do with an old America's Cup campaign yacht? Oracle and Boeing are working out how to reuse three tonnes of carbon fibre.

Sir Peter Maire's Fusion Electronics has secured a lucrative deal to supply its audio systems to Australia's Jayco.

An infant formula exporter has slammed the service a taxpayer-funded business support centre in Shanghai provided to a delegation of New Zealand companies.

NZ's market regulator has cancelled the allegedly misleading offer documents of a company that claimed it would use investor money to set up dialysis clinics.

Brinkmanship in the US threatens the business and consumer confidence on which its economic recovery depends, says AMP chief economist Bevan Graham.

An airline group says regulation of airport landing fees is too light.

An Auckland property developer defending fraud allegations told a journalist in 2009 that he'd misled a trustee company caught up in an alleged $50 million loan scam, a court has heard.