Accounting software firm Xero has introduced a new combined payroll and accounting software platform to help increase growth in the US.

Exceptionally low oil prices have thrown world financial markets a curve ball by driving bond yields sharply lower and undermining share prices.

In dramatic terms 2014 ended with several big business and economic stories on cliff- hangers.

US investment giant Fidelity Investments has taken a 5.4 per cent stake in accounting software developer Xero.

Cloud-based accounting firm Xero widened its first-half loss after spending more on staff and marketing.

Xero has paid the equivalent of $10m US online payroll company Monchilla to help drive its expansion in the world's largest economy.

New Zealand shares gained for a third day yesterday, paced by Contact Energy and TrustPower, as investors spooked by recent volatility sought high-yield stocks. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare rose to a record.

On Monday Rod Drury, the technology entrepreneur and chief executive of Xero, the small business accounting software company, was sounding very chipper.

Analysts at Wellington's Woodward Partners have suggested Xero abandon its expensive strategy of chasing growth in the United States and instead focus on consolidating its position in New Zealand,....

Investor fears on world markets flowed through into local share trading yesterday as concern mounted about growth in the leading economies of the United States, China, Japan and the European....

Rod Drury, one of New Zealand's most successful businessmen, these days relishes speaking in front of crowds of 1500 or so.

As Xero's CTO, Craig Walker is constantly working in the future, translating boss Rod Drury's vision for the business into hard technical reality.

Xero shares fell sharply this morning after Goldman Sachs slapped a sell recommendation on the New Zealand accounting software developer.

Cloud accounting software firm Xero has snared Andy Lark, an expatriate New Zealander with a stand-out global career, to be its new

Xero has snared Andy Lark, an expatriate New Zealander to be its new chief marketing officer as it moves to strengthen its push into the vital US market.

Peter Karpas, Xero's North America chief executive has quit just six months after joining the cloud-based accounting software company

Xero boss Rod Drury is disappointed with the sell recommendation Craigs Investment Partners has slapped on the company's stock.

Broker Craigs Investment Partners has slapped a sell recommendation on Xero shares after initiating research of the online accounting software firm.

It was a tale of two technology companies yesterday as Eroad stock soared following the firm's NZX debut.

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen takes a look at rural broadband, the Black Hat hacking conference and he reviews the Nomadkey USB cable.

New Zealand shares fell, led by Xero, A2 Milk Co and Pacific Edge, joining a global sell-off as geopolitical risk spooked investors.