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August 20, 2012, 12:50 AM

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Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day:
The Facebook - Amazon comparison  —  Henry Blodget gives some healthy perspective on Facebook's stock price in Dear Facebook Employees Here's the Truth About Your Stock Price.  Don't I wish that Business Insider had a social reader on Facebook so I could see how many Facebook employees had read the article.
Tweets: @infoarbitrage and @pkafka
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Hulu CEO faces big changes  —  Jason Kilar set for mega payday; owners to alter content deals  —  “Outline transition plan for new CEO.  Discuss potential candidates and process.”  —  These sentences are the topmost bullet points of a confidential internal memo regarding the business of Hulu obtained by Variety.
More: CNET
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Report: Leaked Memo Indicates Hulu CEO Jason Kilar May Be On His Way Out  —  An internal memo from web streaming company Hulu purportedly obtained by show business industry publication Variety indicates that the company's CEO Jason Kilar may be on his way out the door.
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: The Next Wave for the Wristwatch  —  Cellphones have already muscled onto watches' turf as a time-telling tool.  Now, some of the biggest technology companies are eyeing your wrist, too.  —  Companies like Apple, Nike and Sony, along with dozens of start-ups, hope to strap a device on your wrist.
Tweets: @billg
Amy Feldman / Reuters:
Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too  —  (Reuters) - When Julie Uhrman, chief executive of gaming start-up Ouya Inc, went looking for funding to launch a new video gaming console, she turned to crowdfunding site Kickstarter Inc.  —  The goal: $950,000.
Tweets: @glennf
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Cloud-gaming service OnLive reveals details behind its asset sale and new investor  —  After a wave of criticism about how it treated its employees, cloud-gaming service OnLive revealed details behind the sale of its assets to a newly formed company.  —  The new company will continue …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
AT&T kills on-contract pricing for tablets, effective today  —  Subsidized pricing for tablets has never made much sense — saving $100 upfront in exchange for getting locked in to a very expensive data plan isn't what we'd call a good deal — and now AT&T is getting rid of the option for good.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
A rare look inside Facebook's Oregon data center [photos, video]  —  Follow along our tour as we take you on a rare journey through Facebook's first data center in Prineville Oregon, which houses its Open Compute servers.  We'll bring you along the air flow route, and down into the secret server room:
Tweets: @omelnikov
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
One Month After Selling To Microsoft For $1.2B, Yammer CEO Predicts End Of Silicon Valley  —  There is a pretty fascinating debate happening right now on David Sacks' Facebook page.  Exactly one month after the Yammer sale to Microsoft closed, Sacks is feeling pretty bearish about the startup ecosystem.
Tweets: @mbaratz
Amar Toor / The Verge:
Alleged Droid RAZR HD surfaces in leaked tutorial videos  —  The past few months have seen plenty of leaks and rumors surrounding the Droid RAZR HD, purported to be the next flagship handset from Motorola.  Now, the device may have officially appeared on video, thanks to five leaked tutorials that surfaced over the weekend.

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