Microsoft confirms it’s developing mobile version of ‘Age of Empires’ franchise with Klab + MORE

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While Google has not featured heavily in the news these past few weeks, eclipsed by Microsoft’s Xbox One and Apple’s Worldwide Design Conference, the employees of the Mountain View, California based company have not been idle. A new version of Google Groups was announced today that will provide improved moderation abilities and a shared inbox feature that will improve the product’s usability…

At the beginning of the year, we wrote about the Top 25 Brands on Instagram and how they were using the site to connect with consumers.
Since then, Instagram has grown from 90 Million to now 130 million monthly active users uploading 16 Billion photos in just six short months.
With the introduction of Hashtags on Facebook and Videos, the potential for impressions on branded Instagram accounts are greater than ever…

Facebook has made it easier to turn your daily status updates into eye-catching advertisements with the introduction of Promoted Posts. But in order to be successful, you need to get readers interested in your brand rather than turning them off.
As a marketer, there are several important but hazy lines that you must walk…

Facebook is working on a fresh way to read news, a source tells TechCrunch. It’s not based on RSS, and Facebook isn’t rushing the launch of a product that could compete with Flipboard. That’s because news reading is a high-stakes, long-term project that could get us to invest even more time in the social network…

Following a report that said Microsoft will bring gaming titles from the PC and Xbox platforms to Apple’s iPhone through a partnership with the Japanese gaming firm Klab, the software giant has spoken up to clarify that only the “Age of Empires” franchise will be developed into a mobile version…

Ahead of the mysterious June 20 product announcement, some tech media pundits believed that Facebook was about to launch some kind of reader, where Facebook users could receive news and updates from pages and blogs they care about. Especially with the eminent death of Google Reader, Facebook seems like a logical place for this to happen…

On Thursday, Instagram launched video recording — and users could not wait to try out this new feature. Facebook reported that one year’s worth of video was uploaded in the first eight hours after launch.
Additionally, there were 5 million uploads within the first 24 hours. The company also saw a peak of 40 hours of video uploaded per minute during the decisive seventh game of the NBA Finals…

With the NBA Final going to the Miami Heat, who beat the San Antonio Spurs 4-3 in the best-of-seven series to secure their second-consecutive NBA Championship, basketball fans are looking to Thursday to see how the 2013 NBA Draft goes down.
The best place to catch the action? Twitter.
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Are you looking to tap into the power of Google+? Is your business leveraging all that Google+ has to offer? Have you created a personal profile or business page on Google+, but want more influence? Why Google+? According to GlobalWebIndex, Google+ now has 359 million active users, which puts it ahead of Twitter’s 200 million […

In terms of box office revenue, the family-friendly Pixar film Monsters University was the biggest film in the country this weekend, but World War Z, starring Brad Pitt, is the most popular movie on Facebook.
PageData statistics show that there’s more Facebook buzz around World War Z than any other movie in theaters right now…

Some users have seen a new sidebar ad aimed at gaining more page likes.
In the sidebar, Facebook shows three pages users should like under the header “Get Important News.” An Inside Facebook reader tipped us off to this new sidebar ad.
This could be one of Facebook’s new ad units coming to fruition, with the simple goal of obtaining more likes, or just a refresh of sidebar like ads…

Last week, Kickstarter responded to criticism over its handling of a controversial “seduction guide” that seemed to advocate violence against women by apologizing and donating $25,000 to the group RAINN.
Today, RAINN launched a own crowdfunding campaign to ask Internet users to “turn outrage into action” by helping it support survivors of sexual violence — but it turned to Indiegogo to do it…

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What happens when your favorite childhood movie meets one of the most controversial video games of our generation? Bittersweet destruction.
An online user created a character mod of Grand Theft Auto using Toy Story’s most recognizable figure, Woody…