The country's next batch of aspiring entrepreneurs have been given a crash course on the realities of business in Auckland this week.

Shares in Xero climbed 11 percent after the accounting software developer said it slowed the pace of cash outflow in the first three months of the year.

In the conservative world of company boardrooms, the notion of directors signing up to Twitter and having followers is contrary to their traditional role.

Abano is mulling the extraordinary meeting request from rebel shareholders who want to dump Trevor Janes as chairman and refresh the board.

Goodbye, momentum. Technology companies had a relatively easy time marketing initial public offerings while stock markets were steadily rising.

A rebel shareholder group has launched a campaign to unseat Abano Healthcare chairman, Trevor Janes, in a coordinated attack that also questions decisions by NZX Regulation and a valuation by investment house Grant Samuel.

Restaurant Brands posted a 23% rise in profit after it boosted sales even as increased rivalry forced it to cut prices.

Jewellery chain Michael Hill International reported a 10.5 percent gain in sales for the first nine months of the year, led by growth in Canada and Australia.

Felix Salmon takes a hard look at Michael Lewis’ latest book 'Flash Boys'.

Xero boss Rod Drury says the company's $210m of cash means it can ignore mounting concerns over tech stocks and continue to "drive its business".

The Justice Department is investigating whether traders using ultra-fast computer algorithms are violating insider-trading laws.

NZF Group faces liquidation after the resignation of its auditor scuttled a proposal for a restructure, and left the board with no option but to liquidate the company.

Cloud software firm Xero has joined forces with giant KPMG to provide accounting and tax services to SMEs in the United Kingdom.

Kiwis who accepted low-ball share offers sold their investments at $290,000 below market value in the year to February, despite rules aiming to limit the practice.

The technology company started by Kim Dotcom is heading for the New Zealand sharemarket with a valuation of $210 million.

One of the main shareholders of the company Mega plans to use to achieve a $210m listing on the NZ stock exchange is facing market manipulation charges in Australia.

Mega, the online storage company set up by Kim Dotcom is to list on the NZX. Herald stock market specialist Tamsyn Parker offers some insights on stock exchange back-door listings.

A listed property business with $350 million of real estate is growing into a business managing $1.2 billion of property through a deal

Feltex Carpets' former director Peter Thomas likened the firm's 2004 float to a lemon from which most of the juice had been squeezed out, according to an email.

Many large players pitched for the Kiwi waste business, but Beijing Capital rolled in with a $950 million cheque, and the deal was done, writes Dita De Boni.

Shares in Xero have hit another new high today after an announcement that the tech company will be included in a global index for the first time.