Steve Jobs has won over legions of new customers since he returned to Apple, but one key group has stubbornly eluded him: big business.
The reason isn’t a mystery. Apple’s mercurial CEO decided a decade ago that corporate IT departments weren’t worth the trouble. Though they buy tech gear by the truckload, when it comes to [...]

Telecom has boosted its standby debt facility to NZ$800 million, providing more flexibility should it be necessary.
The new facility, with Telecom’s existing bankers, replaces the previous standby credit facility which had a limit of US$500 million (NZ$654 million), the company said today.
The increased limit would give the company greater financial flexibility, said new chief financial [...]

Austral Pacific has had four chief executives since 2005, a stake in the “head-scratcher” Cardiff gasfield that has failed to deliver for three years, and now an annual loss of $22 million.
Its shares are down to 85c from $1.90 seven months ago, and $3.90 in 2005.
Its balance sheet at the end of December looked worrisome, [...]