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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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| 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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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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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens — One week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he'd leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page. Ross wrote: — “I'm leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son's best friend Todd …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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