Facebook to sponsor GOP convention despite Zuckerberg’s veiled dig at Trump
In April, Zuckerberg talked of ‘fearful voices building walls’ – but Facebook insists that sponsorship of Republican convention is not an endorsement
Facebook, Apple and Amazon to lobby next president over tech worker visas
An open letter sent through tech’s trade bodies will pressure politicians on raft of policies, including support for controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
Blame it on the Zodiac killer: did social media ruin Ted Cruz’s campaign?
For the first time in the election cycle, community-generated memes have played a significant role in political discourse – similar to the classic printed cartoon
Ten-year-old receives $10,000 reward for finding Instagram bug
A Finnish boy is the youngest person to get payout for finding bug that allowed comments to be deleted – and says he’ll use the money to buy a football and bike
The budget according to Facebook: tax and negative gearing are users’ key concerns
Climate change and asylum seekers also feature prominently in analysis of 14m users’ conversations
TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war
Hulu, Vice and other new media services are preparing to gather in New York for this year’s NewFronts, as Facebook and Google watch ad dollars pour in
The profits and perils of drilling for crude data
Our online information is the raw resource of the digital age, yet mining it can be risky for the new industrial giants
How much?! Snapchat interns earn $10,000 a month, twice the average US worker
Tech firms such as Snapchat, Pinterest and Twitter are paying summer interns as much as $10,000 a month plus benefits, double the average US national wage
Publishers ‘feeding on scraps from Facebook’, says Bloomberg Media boss
Justin Smith says social network makes far more money from ads in its news feed than news organisations do from linked traffic
Please, Facebook, don’t make me speak to your awful chatbots
The future of apps is chatbots, and it’s going to be terrible
Zuckerberg has given Facebook investors all they need. He wants one thing in return: control
Company is likely to let its co-founder and CEO push that little bit further, given that it’s making more money, from more users
Facebook’s net income triples in first quarter of 2016
Stocks soar in after-hours trading on news that net income was $1.51bn for the first three months of the year, up from $512m in first quarter of 2015
Bradford MP Naz Shah quits as McDonnell’s PPS after antisemitic posts
Labour MP resigns as aide over ‘relocate Israel to US’ post but remains on committee reporting on antisemitism
Tech titans are busy privatising our data
When Facebook and Google finally destroy the competition, a new age of feudalism will arrive
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Social network went from digital directory for college kids to communications behemoth – and it’s planning for prosperity with its global takeover