Oculus Rift: Mark Zuckerberg targets 50m-100m headset sales in 10 years
Facebook boss: ‘When you get to that scale, that’s when it starts to be interesting as a business’. By Stuart Dredge
Facebook share price falters after warning on costs
Social network reports positive quarterly results but then admits that costs will rise and revenues will slow
Canadian publisher on brink of big deal reports fall in advertising revenues
Company's president sees Google and Facebook as his competitors
20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week
Ruby Tandoh, Flickr, Angry Birds Transformers, Best Fiends, Inbox by Gmail, Toca Boo, Skylanders and more. By Stuart Dredge
Ello raises $5.5m while banning itself from ever taking ads
The ethical social network has used a legal manoeuvre to ensure it can never sell user data or display adverts. By Alex Hern
Australian Greens want Facebook audited over tax loophole
Christine Milne says Australian Securities and Investments Commission should target ‘smaller enterprise’ exemption
Facebook pays no UK corporation tax for a second year
Social media company reports a pre-tax loss of £11.6m for 2013, despite its US parent making a net profit of £900m. By Mark Sweney
Candy Crush Soda Saga: will it pop King’s app store bubble?
Publisher wants to move beyond its formula: ‘We need to keep innovating... bugging people for lives is not truly social’. By Stuart Dredge
Tech employment: nice perk if you can get it…
Tech companies are trying to outdo each other with their wacky workplaces and staff benefits. Michael Hogan looks at some of the quirkier offerings
Facebook Safety Check will help tell friends you’re safe during disasters
New feature will be a quick way to signify your status and check that friends and family aren’t in harm’s way. By Stuart Dredge
Jo Baka: the Gujarati internet meme that went viral
From jokes between friends to public health messages, a traditional phrase is sweeping though Indian communities worldwide, thanks to Facebook, WhatsApp and a good dose of humour
Freezing women’s eggs? The tech industry isn’t modern, it’s Neanderthal
Zoe Williams: It claims to be the ‘new frontier’, working to ‘new rules’, but the culture is too often old school misogyny
Freezing eggs for female staff is great in theory. But it offers no guarantees
Facebook’s offer of $20,000 of egg-freezing to attract more female staff could be socially groundbreaking, but there are complications
Apple and Facebook offer to freeze eggs for female employees
Facebook will pay up to $20,000 while Apple will provide perk from January in effort to attract more women
Union berates Bono for supporting tax breaks for multinational corporations
Unite says Bono’s remarks on 12.5% corporation tax will be ‘regarded with derision’ by Irish people living in poverty