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Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset — Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect your data …
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @edbott and @1password
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details — Evernote is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts.
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| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Evernote resets all passwords after user information stolen in security breach — Popular note-taking service Evernote has reset all user passwords after information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords was stolen in a security breach.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Goodbye Groupon: Andrew Mason's dance with the devil — An aspiring entrepreneur partners with an experienced operator with a checkered past — In the wake of Andrew Mason's firing as CEO of Groupon, there's been a lot of negativity towards the young entrepreneur.
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Tweets: @semil, @benpopper, @pkafka, @sarahcuda and @tcarmody
| Bloomberg: |
Mason Ouster Leaves Groupon Seeking CEO to Uncover Coupon Profit — Groupon Inc. (GRPN)'s decision to fire Andrew Mason puts pressure on Chairman Eric Lefkofsky to find a replacement who can create a money-making business after the daily-deal provider lost $723.8 million in the past three years.
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Firefox OS is repeating the mistakes of others and hoping for a different outcome — I feel bad for Mozilla, I really do. Competitors and the march of time are closing in quicker than it can raise its defenses. Her crown jewel, Firefox, is feeling the squeeze as Chrome encroaches … | Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Apple Stock Just Crashed To A New Low — It was an up day for the market and most technology stocks, but not for Apple. — Apple stock fell another 2.5% to close at $430—its lowest closing price since the stock's slide began last September. — Apple is now down almost 40% from its peak.
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Tweets: @danielpunkass and @penenberg
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Sprint Won't Be Offering BlackBerry's Flagship Z10 Model — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) will be the only major U.S. carrier not to offer BlackBerry's new flagship Z10 touch-screen model when it debuts this month, opting instead to wait for the keyboard-equipped Q10.
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The Verge, Softpedia News, CrackBerry.com and Pocket-lint
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed — Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …
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Wall Street Journal, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, CNET, MSN Philippines News, Deadline.com, Business Insider, ReadWrite, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, BGR, TUAW, digitaltrends.com, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Neowin, Fortune, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, App Advice, The Next Web and GigaOM
Tweets: @fosspatents and @fosspatents
| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Do Not Track bill reintroduced: ‘They have dragged their feet long enough,’ says senator — Do Not Track is back in the spotlight today as senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) reintroduced a bill that would let people opt out of having their online activity tracked by advertisers.
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NYT Bits, Hillicon Valley, ITworld.com, WebProNews and Softpedia News
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
HitBliss, The Pandora Of Ads, Will Pay You To Watch Commercials — We've been bombarded by advertisers for so long it's rare we even remember this, but advertising is still valuable. — HitBliss, a new service launching into beta, is looking to put the control back in the hands of consumers …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Mashable!, Forbes, AdAge, Fast Company, Hollywood Reporter, paidContent and ECPM BLOG
| Wall Street Journal: |
Disney, News Corp. Discuss Hulu's Future — News Corp . and Walt Disney Co. have begun discussions about resolving uncertainty over their jointly controlled online video site Hulu LLC, with one possible outcome being that one or the other company sells their stake.
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Bloomberg, Engadget and Deadline.com
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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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