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Juha Saarinen: What's your Internet banking username and password?

Juha Saarinen looks at some potentially insecure ways of paying online that are being used by some big operators.

Brian Fallow: Poverty beyond counting

How many Kiwi kids are living in hardship? Far too many is the only answer that matters, write Brian Fallow.

Small Business: Travel - Scott Gardiner, MYOB NZ

Small business owner Scott Gardiner shares his tips for successful business travel.

Brent Sheather: Torture file

There is an old saying, popular with economists, that if you torture data sufficiently it will confess to anything, writes Brent Sheather.

Graham McGregor: Added value to differentiate your business

Juha Saarinen: Only losers in the iPhone backdoor saga

Juha Saarinen talks iPhone encryption and the ongoing FBI-Apple saga.

Small Business: Travel - Suzi McAlpine

Small business editor Caitlin Sykes talks to business owner Suzi McAlpine about travel.

Mark Lister: Worth skimming the cream off pricey airport holdings

Our sharemarket's biggest company, Auckland Airport, is proving somewhat of a conundrum to analysts, investors and fund managers.

Harold Hillman: Six signs of a control freak

If your need for perfection is stifling creativity in others, you may indeed qualify, writes Harold Hillman.

John Drinnan: Blogs become new channel for marketers

NZ bloggers are trailing the US, Britain and Australia when it comes to commercially capitalising on their profiles.

Juha Saarinen: Keeping your phone secure, the Google way

I'd rather have the added security of Device Protection than not, but Google... did you have to make it this clumsy and non-obvious to use?

NZ chiefs lag world peers in key drivers of success

Fran O'Sullivan says no CEO worth his or her salt will get far without confidence in their own (and their company's) ability to deliver on its business plans.

What we should learn from adversity

Joyce writes about how we can learn from the tough times, especially those seemingly uncontrollable things that happen at work.

Mike Taylor: Embrace recession as opportunity

While the risk of a depression always exists, we should not fear recessions like our grandparents did, writes Mike Taylor.

Small Business: Instagram - Jordan Rondel, The Caker

Small business editor Caitlin Sykes talks to business owner Jordan Rondel about Instagram.

Robyn Pearce: Let your staff nap on the job

So why do I suggest we let tired people nap on the job? Not only parents of young children, but now also the rest of society is sleep-deprived, writes Robyn Pearce.

Juha Saarinen: Get UFB installed now

Last week's telco talkfest that all the major providers, Spark, Vodafone, Chorus, Kordia, 2 Degrees, Vector, Vocus and others was

Graham McGregor: How to use a 'Rolls Royce' marketing strategy

One marketing strategy you might want to consider trying is what I call a 'Rolls Royce Marketing Strategy', writes Graham McGregor.