Gina Rinehart is more powerful than the Prime Minister, according to Forbes magazine, which has named the mining magnate as one of the top 100 most powerful women in the world.

Anti-pokies senator Nick Xenophon has bewailed Helen Coonan's decision to take up a lucrative position on the board of James Packer's Crown Casino.

They are the titans of Australia's tech sector – the regulators, executives and entrepreneurs who decide the shape of our tech sector.

Not sure whether One.Tel’s special purpose liquidator Paul Weston is Rasputin or Dracula, but he’s certainly proving hard to kill. More than ten years after Jodee Rich’s fabulous phone company collapsed with close to $1 billion of the Packers’ and Murdochs’ money, Weston has risen again to threaten another legal action for damages.

Gina Rinehart’s life is set to be investigated by Fairfax journalist Adele Ferguson, who will soon write an un-authorised biography of the mining magnate.

Analysts have long speculation about what an Apple future free of the man who pushed the company to such dizzying heights might look like.

Suncorp chief executive Patrick Snowball is set to collect a healthy pay rise after committing to stay on with the insurer until at least 2015 and finish the overhaul of the company he started in 2009.

It manufactures the No.1 icon of the Australian backyard, but it seems nostalgia could do little to help the financial results of Hills Holdings, makers of the Hills Hoist clothesline.

The timing couldn’t have been worse: BlueScope chief executive Paul O’Malley has received a bonus of more than $720,000 on top of his $2 million annual salary.

Marathon running investment banker Jeremy Balkin is set to challenge former Howard chief-of-staff, Arthur Sinodinos, for Helen Coonan's Senate seat, says the Australian Financial Review. But don't expect him to win the race.