Web pioneer reveals details of acquisition of blogging platform, as site's 26-year-old founder tells staff: 'Fuck yeah'. By Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday
Critic and director Mark Cousins is receiving rave reviews at Cannes for his inspirational film about cinema and childhood. He tells Charlotte Higgins why it's the decade of the cine-essay
James Franco's adaptation of William Faulkner's novel is perhaps not entirely successful, but it's a brave and interesting attempt to pull off a film with a high degree of difficulty, writes Peter Bradshaw
Charles Arthur: Setting up her own Tumblr, dropping Google+ from her Twitter profile, rolling with the zeitgeist - the chief executive of Yahoo has got internet style to burn
The US gossip website Gawker is attempting to raise $200,000 in donations to buy a video alleged to show mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine
Sarah Silverman and Owen Wilson kicked off YouTube's seven-day comedy extravaganza – and David Brent is displaying his guitar skills. We're aiming to cover the lot