Facebook builds European social games team following startups’ success

Stuart Dredge: The rise of Wooga, King.com and Angry Birds is helping drive 'the third generation' of the social network's platform

Facebook’s nudity and violence guidelines are laid bare

Nipples are rude but crushed limbs are OK – a document leak has revealed the social network's attitudes to sex and violence

Zynga edges Wall Street expectations in first results as public company

The maker of internet games FarmVille and Words With Friends posts fourth-quarter revenues of $307m, but shares fall in trading

Sicilian fugitive deported after London whereabouts revealed on Facebook

Michele Grasso tracked down after profile documented visits to Madame Tussauds, Ministry of Sound and London Eye

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon – review

John Kampfner applauds a study of the threats to liberty in the online age

Micah Richards quits Twitter after three months of sustained racist abuse

The Manchester City defender Micah Richards has left Twitter after receiving sustained racist abuse over the last three months

FarmVille firm over the moon after Hasbro deal

Zynga, whose games account for $445m of Facebook's $3.7bn revenue in 2011, to create FarmVille figurines with toy firm

Is it time to leave Facebook?

Journalists James Silver and Elizabeth Day debate the merits of sticking with the social networking giant in the light of more controversy over user privacy

Real hero of the Facebook story isn’t Mark Zuckerberg, it’s the internet

John Naughton: Without the 'permissionless innovation' enabled by the internet, Facebook would not have got off the ground

Facebook prepares for risks and rewards in its future

Facebook's share offer will create new billionaires and millionaires – but analysts worry about its capacity for growth and many users fear for their privacy.

Is Facebook worth $100bn?

After reading Facebook's S-1 document, it's probably not worth $100bn, but at least one analyst has compared it to Google and Apple around the time of their listings, and has backed a $75bn valuation. By Charles Arthur

Zynga shares soar after Facebook IPO

Social network revealed in SEC filing that Farmville, CityVille and Mafia Wars maker accounts for up to 12% of total revenue. By Josh Halliday

Facebook IPO filing reveals mobile risks and opportunities

Stuart Dredge: Social network considering showing sponsored stories in mobile users' news feeds

Facebook expected to be valued at $100bn in stock market flotation

Mark Zuckerberg, the site's 27-year-old founder, hopes investors will accept firm will one day be worth 27 times current revenue