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Social media trail rumbles moonlighter
A beauty therapist who was caught treating salon clients at home after leaving her Facebook page open at work has been ordered to pay damages.

Small business: Brand ambassadors - Scott Gardiner
MYOB New Zealand executive director, Scott Gardiner on establishing ambassadors for your brand instead of doing it all yourself.

Top 25 most followed musicians on Twitter
Check out this list of the most popular musicians on Twitter.

Business guru Kawasaki points the way
Former Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more enchanting on his upcoming visit here on Wednesday.

Strike a balance with social media use
With so many eyes glued to social media during work time, employers are increasingly considering how sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook can help them hire staff.

Liam Dann: Is the tech market ready for Warren Buffett?
Warren Buffet famously said: "I don't invest in things I don't understand." writes Liam Dann. On that basis you can be pretty sure he isn't one of the mega-wealthy US investors who have been buying into kiwi tech stocks.

Music site thinking global
An Auckland social media specialist is eyeing global expansion for his newly launched, web-based "music discovery service".

Phone fans in digital queue
More than 8000 people are using social media to jostle their way to the front of a virtual queue and win a Samsung phone.

Kiwi DJ's 'sexist' rap tweet
The Edge DJ Dominic Harvey is facing a hail of criticism over a 'sexist' tweet saying it's hardly ever a good idea for women to rap.

RSA makes friends with Facebook
Returned service clubs have embraced Facebook and Twitter - and a controversial sponsorship deal with gambling giant SkyCity - to reach out to younger New Zealanders for this year's Poppy Day appeal.

Fleeced after Facebook hack
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.

Police role dies with tweets
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.

Man names, shames accusers on Facebook
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 fans forced to pay up
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.

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

Most annoying parental habits
Parents be warned - cutesy voices, bombarding Facebook with baby updates and putting babies on the phone are the three most disliked parents' habits.

E-commerce: TradeMe shows the way
New Zealand business feeling daunted by emerging technologies need look no further than the example of TradeMe, says a world-renowned expert in e-commerce.

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

Print journalism - game set and match?
Whither print journalism? It's a question that's been asked ever since the mid 90s.

Scribe's Ryder tweets spark anger
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.