Google showed strong growth in its ability to convert Web searches into ads viewed, according to a closely watched industry report quoted by analysts on Thursday, and its shares rose 2.5 percent.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely popular at home for his visits to quake-hit Sichuan, has emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook social networking site.

Liquor and brewing giant Lion Nathan announced today that it deployed number-crunching software to try and cut its mounting telecommunications costs.

Soul Telemedia has hit back at claims that a number of its workers have not been paid entitlements after the company shifted some of its functions offshore, after the departure of former CEO Michael Simmons.

Telecom NZ has beefed up its management team, importing experts from the other side of the world to help tackle its arduous task of operational separation.

PERTH-BASED Skywest Airlines has landed the highly prized contract with Fortescue Metals Group for scheduled charter services to its WA minesite.

The European Union wants a quarter of businesses, public authorities and households to move to the next-generation Internet Protocol by 2010, as the current system is running out of addresses..

Ad supported television, music and videos seem unlikely to make their way to Australian mobiles, since the user numbers just aren’t there yet, and the paid content market is too lucrative.

Google has upgraded its Mini enterprise search tool, including new capabilities to improve the relevance of results and extend the reach of the product.

A FALL in private capital expenditure in the March quarter was disappointing but the outlook for business investment remains strong, economists say.