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July 11, 2014, 11:20 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: PC Magazine, CNET, PandoDaily, Search Engine Land, The Official Google Blog, Computerworld, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Mashable, Electronista, Search Engine Land, Business Insider, The Verge, Wired.co.uk 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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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, bizjournals, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, AppleInsider, Business Insider and App Advice

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, CNET, 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, MacDailyNews, The Official Microsoft Blog and Microsoft Corporation. Thanks:@citeworld

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, The Next Web, France 24, The Local and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

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.

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

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

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, Gigaom, VentureBeat and bizjournals

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, BGR, The Verge, 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: Techvibes Global News, Gigaom and VentureBeat

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

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, App Advice, Ubergizmo and iPhone Hacks

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