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July 11, 2014, 12:10 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

More: SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, The Official Google Blog, CNET, PandoDaily, Computerworld, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Mashable, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, Wired.co.uk, Electronista 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 …

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @mokoyfman, @thecleanmachine, @davemorin, @bgurley, @monkbent, @teamcleveland, @trengriffin, @benedictevans, @stevesi, @besvinick, @johndoerr, @sameerpatel and @sacca

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, Mashable, bizjournals, TechnoBuffalo, GSMArena Blog, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET and App Advice

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.

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

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: Tech Trader Daily, Beyond Devices, Computerworld, TIME, The Official Microsoft Blog 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 and Pocketnow. Tweets: @savasp

Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:

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

More: Quartz, The Register, Dice News, MacDailyNews and Microsoft Corporation. Thanks:@citeworld

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

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

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

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., in exchange for an agreement not to sue the startup for copyright violations, according to people with knowledge of the plans.

More: TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, RAIN News and Engadget

Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:

Apple, Coca-Cola, others join SupplierPay, 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, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and USA Today

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

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

David Cohen / AllFacebook:

Facebook Updates Desktop App Ads To Allow For Direct Sales Of Virtual Goods — Developers with games that use virtual goods can now sell those virtual goods directly via ads in Facebook's News Feed or right-hand-side ads following an update to the social network's desktop application ads.

More: Facebook Developers, Inside Facebook, TechCrunch, Marketing Land and WebProNews

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