What do Periscope and Meerkat mean for broadcasting copyright?

The Premier League is joined by other sports leagues such as the NBA, MLB and NFL in being wary of the march of the live-streaming apps

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

Twitter kills MS-Dos games embedded in tweets

Social network kills MS-Dos gaming fun, saying interactives and games breach its embedded cards terms of service

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

Tweets versus Wall Street: analysts fear for Twitter in the battle for advertising

The social network’s results and revenues are failing to impress investors – especially when compared with Facebook’s and Google’s

Explosive! Behind the internet’s fascination with pimple popping, zit zapping and squeezing cysts

Millions are watching videos of cyst extractions, botfly removals and blackhead treatments. But what’s fuelling the explosive growth of the online community?

Holly Herndon: the queen of tech-topia

Acrylic nails tapping on a smartphone, Skype breakups, pop-up adverts … it’s all music to Holly Herndon. We meet the avant-garde techno producer bringing ‘paradise politics’ to the dancefloor

I know who you Skyped last summer: how Hollywood plays on our darkest digital fears

Hit horror Unfriended takes place entirely on social media and computer screens. So if the genre really is a barometer for the anxieties of an age, what does that say about the world we now live in?

Facebook ‘excited’ about ads potential as it reaches 4bn daily video views

‘We believe mobile video will become more important to marketers over time,’ says Sheryl Sandberg, with 75% of views happening on mobiles

Traders ‘unlike’ Facebook shares after first-quarter revenues miss expectations

Social media company took in $3.54bn, just shy of Wall Street forecasts, as expenses jumped 83% from first quarter of 2014

You’ve sold 17 million albums and you want to pay me nothing? Pat Pope’s row with Garbage

When the managers of indie giants Garbage asked photographer Pat Pope to use his pictures for no fee, he made a stand