Facebook users are being warned to secure their profiles after an Auckland woman's account was hacked and more than $300 was charged to her credit card.

If waking up to find your old tweets dredged up and splashed on the front page of a Sunday newspaper wasn't enough of a rude awakening for Paris Brown, the ordeal had only just begun.

Air New Zealand's exposure in China will be boosted in a leading Chinese reality show You Are The One.

A Hokitika man who crashed a party in Greymouth, assaulted a woman and broke a window, tried to avoid prosecution by shaming his accusers on Facebook.

Facebook users have to pay 65 cents to message anyone outside their group of friends - unless they're contacting people like Richie McCaw, who is worth twice that.

A new New Zealand lost pet service is looking to tap into the power of social media.

Jesse Ryder has made light of Scribe's taunts in a tweet sent from his hospital bed in Christchurch.

Whither print journalism? It's a question that's been asked ever since the mid 90s.

A Kiwi rapper has caused anger by suggesting Jesse Ryder may have provoked the attack that left him with a fractured skull and punctured lung.

Only 14 months after it began, KiwiYo frozen yoghurt chain already has its sights set on overseas markets

Twitter has changed many things in short order, including the public's access - perceived or real - to sports stars, writes Chris Rattue.

Hawke's Bay police have turned to Facebook to battle boy racers after a series of fatal crashes in the region.

Social networks will have to make changes if they are to survive as fickle young users look for something new, writes David Glance.

Boy band One Direction have removed a social media request for fans to submit photos and footage of their tattoos after suggestions they were encouraging their young fans to have body art.

The Defence Force has issued a handbook to personnel with guidelines on how to use social networking sites.

Alcohol advertising is so seamlessly blended into social media and smartphone technology that government will struggle to regulate it, a researcher says.

Kiwis bantered their way through this year's census, questioning the questions and suggesting their own:

New Zealand consumers are outpacing those in the rest of the world in terms of the uptake of American burger brand Carl's Jr, according to the global boss of the business.

Police have developed a specialist software tool which mines social media for information.