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March 2, 2013, 11:40 PM

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Evernote:

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 …

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.

More: Ars Technica

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.

More: Examiner, Marco.org, SlashGear, BetaNews, The Next Web, VatorNews, Avinashtech, Gizmodo, InformationWeek and canada.com

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.

More: The New Yorker, NYT Bits, Chicago Business, TIME and Guardian

Tweets: @benpopper, @pkafka, @semil, @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.

More: Yahoo! Finance, USA Today, Bloomberg and The Next Web

Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company:

Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO

More: Business Insider, The Verge and The Awl

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 …

More: ParisLemon

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google tests data compression proxy feature to speed up Chrome for Android, like Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk — Google's Chrome for Android team is experimenting with a new data compression proxy feature to speed up browsing similar to the methods used by Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk.

More: google+, PhoneArena, Liliputing, Google Operating System, gHacks and Google Plus Daily

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 …

More: CNET. Tweets: @karaswisher

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.

More: Fortune, MarketWatch, 24/7 Wall St., Motley Fool, MarketWatch, Fortune, MarketBeat, TechnoBuffalo and Tech Trader Daily

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.

More: The Verge, Softpedia News, CrackBerry.com and Pocket-lint

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.

More: NYT Bits, Hillicon Valley, ITworld.com, WebProNews and Softpedia News

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