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July 11, 2014, 1:25 PM

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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

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 …

More: PandoDaily and The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @joshconstine, @rich_barton, @taylorcaby, @ryanlawler, @monkbent, @mokoyfman, @davemorin, @benedictevans, @johndoerr, @thecleanmachine, @stevesi, @bgurley, @trengriffin, @besvinick, @teamcleveland, @sameerpatel and @sacca

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China Calls iPhone a Security Risk — State-run China Central Television has labeled Apple's iPhone location-tracking feature a “national security concern,” in the latest backlash against U.S. technology companies.

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: MacRumors, Associated Press, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Mashable, bizjournals, GSMArena Blog, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET and App Advice

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: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, France 24, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Local, The Next Web and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and a 3-5% stakes at $500-600M valuation — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd. …

More: TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, RAIN News and Engadget

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:

Salesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M — The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can't beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com's $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email …

More: Re/code, RelateIQ Blog, Forbes, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Thomson IR and bizjournals

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Lyft hit with restraining orders from NY Attorney General, Taxi Commission — The service was set to give free rides to locals starting this week — The New York Attorney General and the Taxi and Limousine Commission filed temporary restraining orders against ridesharing company Lift today …

More: Techdirt

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

FCC Approves Controversial $2 Billion School Wi-Fi Plan — Schools will soon be able to apply for grants from a $2 billion fund to help pay for Wi-Fi networks in schools under a plan approved Friday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted to set aside funds …

More: Washington Post and United States Senator …

Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

Samsung's new Exynos processor includes an LTE radio for the first time — If you pick up a high-end Samsung smartphone, like the Galaxy S5, it will be running a Qualcomm processor, despite Samsung's large and sophisticated chipmaking business. That's because Qualcomm has been basically …

More: EE Times, DailyTech, Droid Life, 9to5Google, SamMobile, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo and Android Central

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Digg revives News.me as Digg Deeper, revealing the best links your friends are sharing on Twitter — Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places …

More: Digg Blog and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mcandrew

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: TIME, Tech Trader Daily, Fortune, Quartz, Beyond Devices and CITEworld

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

A chat with Microsoft's CEO: why Apple and Google haven't won yet

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

Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:

Apple, Coca-Cola, others join SupplierPay, a White House effort to speed payments to small businesses — Apple, Coca-Cola Among Firms Signed on to White House Plan for Small Suppliers — Obama Set to Announce Voluntary Program Called SupplierPay to Speed Payments Down the Supply Chain

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and USA Today

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: NEWS.com.au, ABC News, Guardian, Gizmodo, Gigaom, Reuters, Electronista, Salon, NBC News, VentureBeat, Mashable, WebProNews, Digital Trends, Re/code, InfoWorld, InvestorPlace, The Next Web, VatorNews, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Register, Forbes, GeekWire, The Verge, Business Insider, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Engadget and Fortune. Tweets: @gerryfsmith. Thanks:@richardjnieva

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, Ars Technica, BGR, The Verge, Gigaom and Washington Post

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