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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 …
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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.| 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 … | Matthew Weaver / Guardian: |
Google ‘learning as we go’ in row over right to be forgotten — Google executive says company could be clearer in the way it informs publishers about removal of articles from some results — Peter Barron, Google's director of communications for Europe. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
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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 …
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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.| 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.
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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.
| Nermin Hajdarbegovic / CoinDesk: |
European Banking Authority advises credit, payment and e-money institutions to avoid virtual currencies, wait for regulation — EBA: Financial Institutions Should Avoid Bitcoin, Await Regulation — The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published an ‘opinion’ warning financial institutions … | Kevin Montgomery / Gawker: |
Restaurant Reservation Scalping Site Is Everything Wrong with SF — There are two things startups shouldn't f**k with in San Francisco. One is parking, and the other is restaurants. San Francisco is, after all, a city of foodies. Techies write bots to score competitive reservations.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
China approves IBM, Lenovo server deal — Summary: China has approved Lenovo's proposed buy of IBM's low-end server business for $2.3 billion. — China has approved Lenovo's proposed buy of IBM's x86 server business, leaving only US regulators to decide whether or not to support the purchase.Sponsor Posts
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