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

Cheniere Energy's Charif Souki emerged as the highest paid US executive in 2013, receiving $142 million.

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.

Make way, bitcoin: A competing digital currency, litecoin, is angling for the spotlight.

Last week, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell was visiting Putin's residence, saying, "We are very keen to grow our position in the Russian Federation."

The brinksmanship between Abano Healthcare and two shareholders owning 19 per cent of the company continues.

The bitcoin mining rush is sputtering. Speculators, known as miners, are finding that the enterprise isn't as profitable as it once was.

Bathurst Resources, which has cut jobs and delayed the start to its Denniston mine, may raise up to $6.87m in a discounted share placement.

A 2013 McKinsey survey asking board members where they would most like to spend additional time found two out of three picked strategy.

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

Technology stocks have been through a roller-coaster of a ride this week leaving investors wondering if it's the start of a crash or just a temporary blip.

A Crown appeal against the sentence of a businessman who avoided home detention for breaching the conditions of his second bankruptcy has been dismissed by a High Court judge.

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.

Net oil imports to the US could fall to zero by 2037 because of robust production in areas including North Dakota and Texas's Eagle Ford formation.

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 fog was just beginning to lift on the Houston Ship Channel on March 22 as a bulk carrier and a fuel barge found themselves on a crash course.

A twice-bankrupted businessman may have to return from Ireland to serve a sentence of home detention if a Crown appeal is successful.

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

In 1945 Jan Arps published a formula, which has become one of the most widely used measures, to predict how much crude oil a well will produce.