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July 11, 2014, 9:50 AM

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David Drummond / Guardian:

Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate — We need to talk about the right to be forgotten — After the European court ruling, we at Google want to encourage debate on where the public interest lies in restricting web searches

More: Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, PC World, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Electronista, Wired.co.uk, Search Engine Land, The Verge and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd:

How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber's Potential Market Size — On June 18, Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “Uber Isn't Worth $17 Billion.” This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post …

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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

A chat with Microsoft's CEO: why Apple and Google haven't won yet — “Guess what, you're just not a consumer.” — Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft for five months, and he's made it clear he intends to change and re-focus the software behemoth as it navigates the next generations of technological change.

More: Windows Phone Central, Gigaom Research, Ubergizmo, WMPoweruser and Pocketnow. Tweets: @savasp

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:

Satya Nadella's Microsoft Vision is Strikingly Different From Steve Ballmer's Microsoft Vision — Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad at an event in San Francisco on March 27, 2014 — At 6am this morning, Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella, sent his colleagues a long memo spelling out his vision for the company.

More: Beyond Devices, Computerworld, USgamer.net and CITEworld

Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:

The three most important things in Satya Nadella's mega-memo

More: Quartz, The Register, Wired, TIME and Microsoft Corporation. Thanks:@citeworld

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple's sapphire-covered ‘iWatch’ to enter mass production in November — Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has provided relatively accurate information on future Apple product plans in the past (but frequent misses on timing), has issued a new report today indicating …

More: Associated Press, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, AppleInsider, Business Insider and App Advice

Donna Tam / CNET:

Amazon asks FAA to let it ramp up drone development — The company says its drones can now fly up to 50 miles per hour, and it wants to test them outside the federal government's current restrictions. — Amazon's Prime Air prototype. — Amazon — Amazon is asking the federal government …

More: VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, NBC News, InfoWorld, Reuters, VatorNews, ZDNet, Re/code, The Register, Forbes, GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget, Bloomberg, SlashGear and Fortune. Tweets: @gerryfsmith. Thanks:@richardjnieva

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Amazon sidesteps French ban on free shipping by charging a penny — France's “anti-Amazon” law prohibiting free shipping and discounts has now gone into effect, and Amazon quickly announced that it had conformed — technically. Though it no longer ships books for free, it only charges 0.01 euro …

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, France 24, The Local and WebProNews

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Cuts Some iTunes Song Previews From 90 Seconds to 30 Seconds — Back in 2010, Apple extended iTunes song previews from 30 seconds in length to 90 seconds on songs longer than 2 minutes and 30 seconds, to give users a longer listening period before making a purchase.

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, App Advice and iPhone Hacks

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google, Microsoft, IBM And Others Collaborate To Make Managing Docker Containers Easier — It's not often that you see this combination of backers, but today, Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack all banded together to support Google's open-source Kubernetes project for managing Docker containers.

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, InfoWorld, Microsoft Azure Blog, CoreOS Blog, Softpedia News, MS OpenTech, The Register, Neowin, Data Center Knowledge and Gigaom. Tweets: @nmacdona

John Cook / GeekWire:

Supercomputer maker Cray lands $174M contract to help protect U.S. nuclear stockpile — Shares of supercomputer maker Cray Inc. soared more than 13 percent Thursday after the Seattle company announced that it had won a $174 million contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration.

More: ABC News, eWeek, Wall Street Journal, HPCwire Soundbite, RTTNews, Washington Technology, Chippewa Falls Herald and RTTNews

Ina Fried / Re/code:

AT&T Slowly Expanding “Toll-Free” Data Trial, but Still No Big-Name Customers — AT&T grabbed a lot of attention back in January when it announced plans to offer companies the option to pay for data used by their customers. — Syntonic Wireless — Since then? Crickets.

More: DSLreports, The Verge, BGR, Gigaom and Washington Post

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems raises $28.4M — D-Wave Systems Raises $28.4 Million Round — Quantum computing technology company D-Wave Systems has raised a new $28.4 million round of funding, according to a new filing on the SEC's site. — This latest round …

More: VentureBeat and Gigaom

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

TSMC Starts Shipping Microprocessors to Apple — iPhone and iPad Maker Seeks to Diversify Suppliers After Samsung Dispute — Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has started filling orders for the brains in Apple's iPhones and iPads, a significant step in Apple's push to diversify its suppliers.

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