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Reddit downgrades technology section to teach a lesson to lazy moderators

Reddit’s once-popular technology section is no longer a "default subreddit". This means that the new users will no longer have the access to r/technology as one of the two dozen communities offered to them.

Facebook To Launch Its Mobile Ad Network: Report

Facebook is going to launch its mobile-ad network in the F8 Developer Conference to be held in San Francisco next week, according to a report in Re/code. The testing had started earlier this year in January as announced by Facebook through their blog post:

Facebook is “The Most Marketing Friendly” Social Platform : DMA scorecard

Facebook has emerged as the favourite marketing platform amongst the UK marketers, according to a poll by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

Facebook Releases its Second Global Government Requests Report: Not happy with Government Probes

Facebook released its second Government Requests Report which covers the second half of 2013. The report is sort of an upgraded version of the previous report covering the period between January and June 2013. It includes two new factors- the statistics for content removal requests and Facebook-owned photo-sharing app, Instagram’s data.

The report details for the US -

Celebrate Earth Day with Rufous Hummingbird, Veiled Chameleon, Moon Jellyfish, Dung Beetle, Puffer Fish and Macaques: Thanks to Google

Google celebrates the 44th Earth Day with 6 interesting creatures that include puffer fish, veiled chameleon, moon jellyfish and Rufous hummingbird. The Doodle’s accompanied by a photo sharing initiative on G+ called #MyBeautifulEarth.

The Rufous hummingbird got a lot of attention by the users. Reason - the Hummingbird update. Here're some of the other lovely creatures in the Doodle -

Google + Post Ads Now Available To All Advertisers

Last year Google introduced +Post ads to a select number of advertisers including +Toyota USA and Mondelez brands +RITZ crackers and +Cadbury UK. On April 16, 2014 the search giant announced that +Post ads would be available to all Google+ brand pages that have more than 1,000 followers. Also, Google announced that it's piloting two new features - promoted Hangouts on Air and automatic post promotion.

Apple Makes More Profit Than Google, HP, Intel, Cisco COMBINED: SV150 Report

Apple is clearly the winner of the San Jose Mercury News' SV150 annual ranking; based on information from Bloomberg’s data and company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple’s profit during the last 4 quarters was higher than the combined take of Hewlett-Packard, Google, Intel, and Cisco.