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July 4, 2014, 3:30 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 …

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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, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and App Advice. Tweets: @tim

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

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

More: BBC, ITProPortal, The Next Web, Softpedia News, RT and Wired. See also Mediagazer

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

The EU's “right to be forgotten” is a bad idea, and Google is handling it exactly the right way

More: Guardian, Tech Times, Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, CNET, Digital Trends, Nextgov, Network World, WebProNews, BGR and TIME

Tweets: @tonyromm, @shanedingman and @ksablan

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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: Reuters

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, Billboard, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times and App Advice. See also Mediagazer

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, App Advice, VentureBeat, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, 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: Search Engine Roundtable, Gigaom, Tech Times, Silicon Valley Watcher, UK SEO Blog by Dave Naylor, Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, TheDomains.com and PandoDaily

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

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 …

More: European Banking Authority, PC World and Gigaom

Tweets: @coindesk and @douwelycklama

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.

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.

More: Reuters, MarketWatch, Computer Business Review, Inquirer, International Business Times, TechRadar.com, Investing.com, The Register, ITProPortal and SeekingAlpha.com

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