COMMENT: Momentous times for media, including Facebook - even if it refuses to accept that it is a media company.

COMMENT: "John Key was kidnapped in Peru by drug lords." If you saw that message on social media, you might just think it's true, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: A simple gratitude marketing strategy you might like to use in your own business.

COMMENT: Four ways to tell whether you are really okay with imperfection.

COMMENT: Looking for socially responsible funds? There are more than ever to choose from.

COMMENT: Australia has enjoyed an uninterrupted and unprecedented run of economic growth - but now it's holding the country back.

COMMENT: As much as we'd like his wall to block off the Trump-effect from the rest of the world, no one is immune in the still globalised world.

COMMENT: If your house burns down and the insurance company doesn't pay, it's likely to affect you financially for much of the rest of your life.

COMMENT: Why did the exchange pursue a hugely expensive, and ultimately unsuccessful, legal claim?

COMMENT: The Garmin Fenix Chronos smartwatch looks like a Swiss designer watch, but is it worth the big price tag?

COMMENT: The emotional aspect of retirement is important when considering retirement savings, Carmel Fisher writes.

Kate Reid, general manager of Orion Health NZ, faints at the sight of blood.

COMMENT: The $500,000 proposal to change Auckland's slogan received predictable criticism, writes John Drinnan.

COMMENT: It is a welcome development that Statistics NZ is now producing household living-cost price indexes.

COMMENT: 'Blinking' words sound important, but nobody knows what they really mean.

COMMENT: For many a nightmare has begun and the name of the beast is Donald Trump, Brent Sheather writes.

COMMENT: Where can you start to find future sales - outside of your existing clients and advertising?

COMMENT: What are you going to do in your business so you get off to a fast start in 2017?

COMMENT: Key and his cohorts face a rethink on the Government's fiscal priorities to allow for another significant rebuild.

COMMENT: It's Fraud Awareness Week. Here's why we all need to look out for each other and those money traps out there.

COMMENT: Investors take a glass-half-full approach and focus on hopes spending will get US economy moving again.

COMMENT: If Trump carries out his trade and defence threats, NZ would face the risk of slower global economic growth, higher interest rates and fewer capital flows.

COMMENT: Many citizens have lost faith in the political and business establishment.

COMMENT: Tempted by top-performing shares? Be careful, those gains may not last.

US media will be asking themselves how and why they failed so badly, writes John Drinnan.

If Jacqui Nelson's motto for life and work could be summed up in a few words, it would be: just give it a crack.

COMMENT: Taking Donald Trump at his word, his election heralds a trade war, a recession, and a setback for climate change efforts.

COMMENT: How do you create an amazing experience for your customers?

COMMENT: Brace yourself for a global economy that is about to get horribly, horribly complicated, writes Liam Dann.

COMMENT: You don't need to be a world-famous franchisor to get value from attention to detail.