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July 4, 2014, 10:35 PM

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Jenny Cosgrave / CNBC:

Apple hires sales director of luxury Swiss watch maker TAG Heuer to help with the iWatch launch — Apple poaches Swiss watch exec for iWatch launch — Apple has hired the sales director of luxury Swiss watch maker TAG Heuer to help with the launch of its new iWatch …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Insider, Gigaom, Quartz, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, Geeky Gadgets, The Verge, BGR, Computerworld, Connectedly, TUAW, Engadget, USA Today, SlashGear and iLounge

Tweets: @benedictevans, @markgurman and @boygenius

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires Patrick Pruniaux, VP of Tag Heuer Sales and Retail, for iWatch marketing — Earlier today, the CEO of Tag Heuer revealed to CNBC that Apple has hired one of the watch-makers sales directors. However, the company did not announce the name of this “director” or the person's exact position.

More: CNET, Reuters, Softpedia News, TechCrunch and App Advice

Tweets: @markgurman and @tim

Maria Antonova / Agence France-Presse:

Russian parliament passes bill requiring cloud services to store citizens' data on servers in Russia by September 2016 — Russian lawmakers pass new bill restricting Internet AFP 1 hr ago — Moscow (AFP) - Russia's parliament passed a bill on Friday requiring Internet companies …

More: The Verge and Reuters. Tweets: @godlypghdad. See also Mediagazer

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The EU's Right To Be Forgotten Is A Mess & How Google's Making It Worse — “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU's Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google's attempt to meet new obligations under it.

More: TechHive, BBC News, Softpedia News and BGR

Tweets: @harrymccracken, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Feds charge convicted hacker Cameron Lacroix with 2013 Burger King, Jeep Twitter account breaches — Feds unmask mystery hacker who “hamburgled” Burger King Twitter account — Federal prosecutors have charged a previously convicted hacker with illegally accessing millions of records sent …

More: Contra Costa Times, Imperial Valley News and bizjournals. Tweets: @securityninja

Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net:

Oculus suspends Rift sales in China after “extreme” reselling — “If you are an enthusiast, we kindly ask that you wait for the consumer Rift.” — Oculus has suspended sales of its Rift virtual reality headset in China because people are reselling it. — Oculus recently began shipping …

More: Engadget, Games in Asia, Electronista, FanSided, Explosion, Connectedly, Gamenguide, MCV: Home Stream, PC Gamer, VideoGamer.com, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Gamasutra, VG247, Geeky Gadgets, Polygon, GamesIndustry International and HEXUS.net Latest Content

AnandTech:

LG G3 review: near perfect device, but high-resolution display comes with reduction in battery life and viewability trade-offs — The LG G3 Review — While the enthusiast segment is no stranger to LG smartphones, for the most part LG hasn't received nearly the amount of attention that Samsung has.

Tweets: @narenbalaji

Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog:

Sunrise for Mac launches with offline mode, apps, native notifications and more — Sunrise, the popular and free replacement for Apple's stock Calendar in iOS, has been making some notable strides. — Just last month, for example, the team added third-party app integration to Sunrise for iOS.

More: iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gigaom, Sunrise, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac and Lifehacker

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:

Google's webspam lead Matt Cutts taking leave for a “few” months after 15 years at the company — On Leave — I wanted to let folks know that I'm about to take a few months of leave. When I joined Google, my wife and I agreed that I would work for 4-5 years, and then she'd get to see more of me.

More: Tech Times, Search Engine Roundtable, Gigaom, Silicon Valley Watcher, PandoDaily, Search Engine Land, UK SEO Blog by Dave Naylor, Softpedia News, Search Engine Journal and TheDomains.com

Tweets: @seo, @codinghorror, @mathewi, @jeffjarvis and @dannysullivan

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Lead designer of Samsung Gear Fit Dennis Miloseski explains how the device came to be — Gear Fit: How Samsung's fitness tracker got its curve — For Samsung designers in San Francisco, the Gear Fit represents fashion-forward thinking and an effort to make the Korean electronics maker a trendsetter.

More: USA Today. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Music Streaming Eats Downloads With On-Demand Up 42% Over 2013, Digital Sales Down 12% — Nielsen's U.S. music report on the first half of 2014 shows digital music consumption rapidly shifting from downloads to streaming. On-demand streaming was up 42% over the first half of 2013, racking up 70 billion play in the first half of 2014.

More: AppleInsider, Variety, New York Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Billboard and Los Angeles Times. See also Mediagazer

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