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The 5th edition of the DreamHack Bucharest event that took place over the weekend at the Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest has marked several new firsts in the electronic sports world, according to a release to AGERPRES.

Photo credit: (c) Ilie BUMBAC / AGERPRES PHOTO

YouTube announced on Monday the start of its partner programme in Bulgaria, which will provide new opportunities for Bulgarian content creators.

YouTube offers unlimited opportunities to all authors, allowing them to earn from quality content, to analyse their effectiveness, and to reach new places and international audience in innovative ways.

According to news reports, Turkey?s Family and Social Policies Ministry is considering a ban on the game Minecraft, concerned it promotes violence and social isolation. This ban is opposed by Turkish scholars who are concerned research does not support it and the ban amounts to censorship. I?m an American scholar who studies video game violence, so I follow these issues closely.

Facebook said April 22 that profit in the first quarter plunged 20 percent from a year ago but revenues got a lift from robust growth in mobile advertising.

Turkey's leading academics on game studies have launched a petition against the Family and Social Policies Ministry's controversial initiative to ban Minecraft, a popular videogame.

"Computer games cannot be reviewed as if they are bonzai," said the petition launched on change.org on April 18, referring to a synthetic illegal drug.

The European Commission said on Wednesday it has opened antitrust proceedings against Google over what it alleged was abuse of a dominant position.

A photograph posted on Facebook last Friday by noted local author Auguste Corteau, showing the man kissing his ? husband, was apparently too much for the world's foremost social media site, which promptly took it down.

Greece was amongst the top countries where fans of the hugely successful Game of Thrones series rushed to download the first four leaked episodes of the new season.

News that the first four episodes of the fifth season were available in pirated form over the Internet caused millions of fans to use their PCs to watch the versions.

A court has threatened to block Google in Turkey, if the world's most popular search engine does not comply with its ruling against the publication of images showing a prosecutor who was killed during a hostage crisis in Istanbul.

Turks spent more than 35.5 billion Turkish Liras ($13.3 billion) on telecommunications last year, up from 32.2 billion liras ($12.2 billion) in 2013, according to a report released by the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) on March 27.

Over 80 percent of the amount spent went on Turkey's top four telecommunication companies, the report stated.