Booyah boss Jason Willig talks My Town 2 and social location games

Stuart Dredge: And why the big guns of the social gaming world aren't having it all their own way on the App Store

UK Facebook and Twitter users reject big brands’ marketing

Nearly two-thirds of Britons do not want to engage with brands on social networks, survey finds. By Josh Halliday

Stuart Dredge: X Factor-spawned boy-band get gamified, but they're just the starting point for UK startup

Google+ Pages allows businesses to interact with customers in challenge to Facebook. By Josh Halliday

Foreign secretary, in challenge to China and Russia, tells cyber summit global treaties to police web would be counter-productive

Datacentre will be powered mainly by renewables and handle all data processing from Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Wii console maker predicts loss of ¥20bn as yen soars and online and mobile games surge in popularity. By Juliette Garside

Social network will be audited by Irish data protection commissioner after Austrian law student registers 22 complaints

Online discount firm plans IPO of less than 10% of company valued at 'just' $12.5bn – original estimates were $20-30bn

Stuart Dredge: Says social network's expansion of its applications platform to mobile will boost social discovery of apps

How games and social networks that encourage sharing are blurring old ideas of personal property – and even identity

Internet search company posts 26% rise in net profits and claims 'people are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate'

Paparazzi singer succeeds in banning animated character from performing songs on YouTube. By Mark Sweney

Media Monkey: Mr Bean's international appeal has made him number one on Facebook. No kidding …

Stuart Dredge: 'Mobile is huge, and all developers on Facebook realise that," says founder Ben Savage