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September 10, 2012, 6:55 AM

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Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD:

HP Previews Windows 8 All-in-One PCs With NFC, Touchscreens — A little over a week ago, HP revealed some of its upcoming Windows 8 Ultrabooks and convertible PCs. Now, the company's playing show and tell with its new all-in-one PCs. — HP Spectre One — The HP Spectre One, HP Envy 23 …

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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba's New Goal: Taking On Android — HANGZHOU, China—While the technology industry is closely watching Apple Inc.'s patent war against rivals using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system, China already has homegrown software that is trying to take on Android in the country's fast-growing smartphone market.

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Melanie Lee / Reuters:

China's Alibaba to pass Amazon, eBay in transaction value: executive — (Reuters) - China's largest e-commerce firm, Alibaba Group, expects to sell merchandise this year worth more than that sold by Amazon Inc and eBay combined, Alibaba's chief strategy officer said on Saturday.

More: Tech in Asia, memeburn and Forbes

Paul Graham:

Black Swan Farming — I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing. — The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners …

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Alexandra Chang / Wired:

How Katy Perry Inspired LinkedIn's Global Redesign — LinkedIn has Katy Perry on its mind. But not in the usual I-have-that-Firework-song-stuck-in-my- head way. The pop singer is the namesake, and underlying inspiration, for the company's largest product design undertaking since its launch in 2003.

Thanks:@nateog

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google For Defamation Over Autocomplete Suggestions — When you search for “Bettina Wulff” on Google, the search engine will happily autocomplete this search with terms like “escort” and “prostitute.” That's obviously not something you would like to be associated …

More: The Verge and SlashGear

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices. — Waiting to use Spotify on the Web? Hang on a few weeks. — Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service? Don't hold your breath. — Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company …

More: Inquirer, Softpedia News, ArcticStartup, TechCrunch, GadgeTell, PC World, PC Magazine and paidContent. See also Mediagazer

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Warby Parker raises $37 million — Eyeglass maker can now see its future a bit clearer. — FORTUNE — Trendy eyeglass maker Warby Parker has raised $36.8 million in new venture capital funding, according to a regulatory filing that indicates the total round could top out at $40 million.

More: The Next Web and TechCrunch. Tweets: @danprimack

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

Lunch with the FT: Tim Berners-Lee — Over iced tea and eggplant pita, the inventor of the world wide web talks about Apple, Facebook and the digital divide — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an intimidating interviewee. It's not so much the worry about keeping up with the brain that invented the world wide web …

More: Tech Europe

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Google Glass Meets Fashion, Smart Glasses To Be Part Of DVF Fashion Show — Google Glass — Google's smart glasses project — is heading into the new world of fashion. Designer Diane von Furstenberg and others have been using them to record preparations for the upcoming DVF Spring 2013 Fashion Show …

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, Engadget, WWD, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Mashable!, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, 9to5Google and AllThingsD

Peter Delevett / Mercury News:

Bogus report of venture capitalist vice arrest seems to have cooled off Rosewood's ‘Cougar Night’ — MENLO PARK — The talk around Sand Hill Road last week was, “Who killed Cougar Night?” — For months, the five-star Rosewood Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley's venture capital community …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @gaberivera, @mikecassidy, @karaswisher, @qthrul and @eldon

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Teaching the F.A.A. That Dogs Don't Buckle Up — If you've ever flown Virgin America, you will have seen the cartoonlike safety video that plays before the flight takes off. — In one scene, about a minute into the video, a man is shown sitting next to a large bull as he fumbles with his seat belt.

Tweets: @digiphile

Wall Street Journal:

Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes?

More: SiliconBeat and Technology Liberation Front

Ashlee Vance / Business Week:

The Startups on San Francisco's Billionaire's Row — In a city full of weird and wonderful thoroughfares, Broadway Street remains one of San Francisco's finest. It begins at the water's edge and runs past the Financial District, the strip clubs and Italian eateries of North Beach, and the eclectic mix of stores in bustling Chinatown.

Thanks:@steverubel

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