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August 19, 2012, 10:25 PM

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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
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 …
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
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.
More: CNET and Variety
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

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“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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