The government has entered a 25 year contract with Hawaiki Cable worth to secure a new international telecommunications cable capable of handling huge data loads.

Online restaurant sourcing and review business Zomato is strengthening its market presence by acquiring rival New Zealand company MenuMania for an undisclosed sum.

The online abuse aimed at the Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she donated £1 million to the Better Together campaign may have actually been the work of British spies, a senior Scottish politician has claimed.

Alibaba plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, instead of the Nasdaq, cementing the 222-year-old market's newfound strength in technology companies.

A complaint over a racist money box for sale on the online auction site TradeMe has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.

You may have noticed that as you're scrolling through your Instagram feed full of well-dressed bloggers, It girls and fashion stylists there's something new popping up on their posts.

Google have bolstered their presence in the cloud storage space with an industrial strength version of Google Drive aimed at business users.

Security researchers from the US have shown that gadgets such as Google Glass can be used to covertly record PIN codes from distances of 3 meters - even if the target display is hidden.

One of the problems with using passwords to prove identity is that passwords that are easy to remember are also easy for an attacker to guess, and vice versa.

Winemakers in Europe, Australia and California are protesting a decision to move forward with the introduction of .vin and .wine as top-level domains.

Blogger Cameron Slater should be able to claim the mantle "journalist" to protect his sources in a defamation case, the High Court at Auckland has heard.

The internet of things is coming and when it arrives it can beeping well shut up, writes Greg Dixon.

A study shows that women and girls are half as likely to be encouraged to go into computer science fields as men and boys are.

The EU has to rely on antitrust and privacy rules to curb Google's search-engine dominance and can't just break up the company, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

A group of economists have issued a study with a startling conclusion: for a large, well-known brand, search ads are worthless.

Girls play games too - so why aren't there more playable female characters? Siobhan Keogh investigates.

Following Google's $500m acquisition of Skybox Imaging, Slate's Will Oremus looks into the scope of Google's future.

Mana Party Leader Hone Harawira is facing a new challenge in his Te Tai Tokerau seat at this year's election, from his party's former Te Tai Tonga candidate Clinton Dearlove.

The "state of constant distraction" created by the internet, email and instant messaging is killing the traditional literary novel, a leading British author has claimed.

There's plenty to get excited about at E3, but gamers should also be cautious of too much hype, writes Siobhan Keogh.

More than 80 per cent of Kiwis who use the internet have experienced a cyber security breach, but only 39 per cent have then changed their online behaviour, new research shows.

More than 40 per cent of children who use the internet are victims of cybercrime while girls are more likely to be bullied online than boys, a survey has found.

Wireless charging technology developer PowerbyProxi wants to have a $30 million to $40 million capital raising this year.

New Zealand's internet traffic will grow almost threefold by 2018, according to forecasts, mostly driven by a jump in the amount of television, movie and video being watched online.