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September 10, 2012, 12:20 AM

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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 …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version

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Teaching the F.A.A. That Dogs Don't Buckle Up

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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.

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft gives Yahoo name top billing in Microsoft Advertising rebrand — Summary: It looks like Microsoft is rebranding Microsoft Advertising as the “Yahoo Bing Network” and its own online ads as “Bing Ads.” — As reported on September 9 on SearchEngineLand.com, Microsoft seems …

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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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Klint Finley / Wired:

As Heroku Boss Flees to Olive Farm, Where's the Platform Cloud Going? — Sometimes, people call it “platform-as-a-service.” But more often than not, they just point to Heroku, the San Francisco company that pioneered this oh-so-hard-to-explain technology.

More: GigaOM

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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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 …

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Meet The Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon Winners: Livebolt Takes Grand Prize, Auctopus And HeatData Are Runners Up — The night has been a long one for our intrepid crew of hackers, and all their arduous, caffeine-fueled work has led to this moment. A stunning 147 teams have taken the stage …

More: TechCrunch

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been — Anyone who cares about fostering a dynamic, competitive tech industry should be rooting for Nokia. Even if you're not as gaga for Windows Phone as I am—I think it's the best-designed mobile OS on the market—you've got to concede …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Wall Street Journal and eWeek

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Exclusive photos: We put Nokia's controversial Lumia 920 PureView camera to the test

More: Wall Street Journal, PC World, CNET, SlashGear, PetaPixel, 1001 Noisy Cameras and Softpedia News. Tweets: @benedictevans

Zee / The Next Web:

This letter from PayPal's President might just make you believe in the company again — It began in May with a frustrated customer, Andy McMillan, discovering his PayPal had been locked. Nothing new. Frustrating, but usually remediable with a phone call or a couple of emails.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, The Loop, Gizmodo, Storify, AllThingsD and PandoDaily. Tweets: @davidmarcus

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