A security flaw in Google's Chrome web browser, which lets anyone with access to a user's computer see all their stored passwords, has been discovered by a Kiwi software developer.

Queenstown entrepreneur Boyd Peacock wants people to get home safely.

Google is working on plans to turn smartphones into translators which would allow callers to speak into the phone in their own language.

A major new global plan aimed at forcing multinationals to pay more taxes has been described as underwhelming and disappointing by a Kiwi tax expert.

There are no flash cars parked outside Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, only smart cars.

The world's largest and most popular internet sites are in secret discussions to create a system that could wipe child abuse images from the web.

It appears our biggest domestic terror threat is either Tame Iti's training camps or Dotcom's (alleged) copyright infringements.

NZ has reached for the sky, backing Google's extraordinary plan to encircle the Earth with helium-filled balloons beaming internet access to billions. Google's secretive research team Google X launched Project Loon yesterday in Christchurch.

Developed in the secretive Google[x] lab, today Google launched a world-first in Christchurch: Sending internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons.

The Google Maps team won’t stop until it has every last inch of the planet stored on its servers. Would we really be so lost without them? asks Tom Chivers.

New Zealand businesses are being urged to follow in Google's footsteps and provide a chilled-out, fun workplace to improve productivity.

Google is growing up. This may seem a strange thing to say about a company that has long been one of the most profitable digital enterprises.

Twenty-five years of human expansion and environmental devastation across the globe has been illustrated in interactive time-lapse graphics by Google.

Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, a figure some sceptical investors are watching closely.

After a significant amount of hype and fanfare, it looks like the recently launched Facebook Home android app has been a failure, writes Pat Pilcher.

Google's new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul recent privacy policy changes.

It used to be that Google was constantly in the news; now Google constantly is the news.

Bored of an evening? You could always create an Algae Biofuel Lab as one 17 year old student in the US did to win a $100,000 science prize.

Tech fans have finally had their first good look at Google Glass, the hotly anticipated web goggles worth US$1500 a pair.