Oculus focuses on British VR startup
Facebook buys Surreal Vision, founded by three Imperial College students, to bolster Oculus’s virtual reality development
Sorry, Facebook, but the finest art is always about sex and death
The social media site’s ludicrous attempt to ban Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece reveals its ignorance about life itself
BBC global audience passes 300 million
Television overtakes radio as most popular platform for international news for first time in corporation’s history
Unfriend request: Mark Zuckerberg’s neighbourhood privacy settings
Facebook’s founder owns four properties surrounding his California home, and a huge, sparse estate in Hawaii. Why do so many tech billionaires crave isolation?
We can treasure the BBC, but it has to make its own way in the digital world
There’s fear over what new culture secretary Whittingdale might do about the licence fee, but the last thing the BBC needs is to be kept in a gilded cage
Facebook to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour for contractors and vendors
Company also announces other benefits including 15 vacation days and a $4,000 bonus for having a child, as Fight for $15 movement gains steam across the US
Facebook Instant Articles: BBC News and Guardian sign up to initiative
New initiative, which also involves BuzzFeed and the New York Times, speeds the process of loading news articles on the social network
People smugglers using Facebook to lure migrants into ‘Italy trips’
Using phrases more suited to tourist magazines and images of luxury yachts, smugglers based in Egypt and Turkey openly advertise services on social media
Facebook algorithms no match for users’ own decisions on feeds, study finds
Facebook study considered the political leanings of news posts by US users before determining which posts were reached via the site’s social algorithms
Digital grief isn’t necessarily insincere
Sheryl Sandberg was quick to post a eulogy to her husband on Facebook. Who are we to judge her?
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will ship in early 2016
After months of rumours that the first commercial model of VR headset would slip beyond 2015, company confirms the news
Sheryl Sandberg’s moving tribute to the husband who died: ‘Dave was my rock’
Facebook executive posts a heartfelt eulogy to her husband, David Goldberg, saying she was grateful for every minute they had together
Swedish islanders seek status update after Facebook dumps them in Norway
Residents of Gotland bemused by a Facebook glitch that places them just north of Oslo, and local businesses worry it might affect the tourist trade
Q&A with Caroline Criado-Perez: ‘What happened to me was a wake-up call for society’
Writer and feminist Caroline Criado-Perez on the £10 note campaign, Twitter abuse – and her light-bulb moment
Silicon Valley CEO Dave Goldberg, husband of Sheryl Sandberg, dies at 47
Chief executive of Survey Monkey died suddenly on Friday. Goldberg married the Facebook COO and Lean In author in 2002