Activision’s Bobby Kotick ‘in Myspace talks’

Chief executive of games giant involved with investor group seeking controlling stake from News Corp, according to reports. By Juliette Garside

E3 2011: Battlefield to get ‘Battlelog’ social networking feature – for free

Electronic Arts announces free service to let Battlefield players set up and manage friends lists and other community features. By Keith Stuart

Roland Bunce leads Next model competition

Bunce is most voted for entrant, thanks to tens of thousands of Facebook users

Google missed out on ‘the friends thing’, says Eric Schmidt

Former chief executive, now executive chairman, admits he was slow to get Google involved in the social networking revolution

Hidden camera app snaps stolen laptop suspect

Owner able to gather information including pictures, Facebook account and work details leading to suspect's eventual arrest

Call of Duty: Elite will supercharge multiplayer games, says Eric Hirshberg

Call of Duty: Elite is 'a tremendous ongoing investment', Eric Hirshberg, chief executive of Activision Publishing, tells Keith Stuart

Call of Duty Elite FAQ

Keith Stuart: Everything you need to know about the Call of Duty Elite social gaming platform

Call of Duty Elite ‘social service’ revealed by Activision

Keith Stuart: Activision announces multiplayer subscription service for its Call of Duty franchise, but will gamers be willing to pay to fight their friends online?

Only a fool or Nicolas Sarkozy would go to war with Facebook

The French president's desire to rein in the web is hopelessly misguided, writes John Naughton

Twitter buys UK’s TweetDeck for £25m

TweetDeck acquisition puts Britain's web entrepreneurs on map

Facebook founder Zuckerberg tells G8 summit: don’t regulate the web

Mark Zuckerberg and Google chief Eric Schmidt give lukewarm reception to Sarkozy's plan for 'premature regulation'

Should kids be allowed on Facebook?

Mark Zuckerberg wants to open up his social-networking website to children under 13 – but is that such a good idea? Two parents take up the debate

Twitter traffic sees 22% spike in rush to find identity of injunction footballer

Twitter traffic swelled 22% on Saturday, 10% higher than for site's previous busiest day in the UK, according to research. By Charles Arthur

Facebook tool inspires name for Israeli couple’s third child

Daughter named Like Adler adds to modern trend of inflicting unusual names on children

Astro Ape on why mobile social games need to be more innovative

'No one's really trying to push the bar,' says Monsterz Revenge developer