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August 19, 2012, 8:25 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: @pkafka and @infoarbitrage
Wall Street Journal:
Forget the Web, Start-Ups Get Real  —  Entrepreneurs Design Appliances, Guitars as Economics of Electronics Change  —  A long-shunned Silicon Valley technology sector - consumer-electronics start-ups - is showing some surprising signs of life.  One San Francisco couple is making …
Tweets: @laureni
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
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.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Apple responds to iPhone text message spoofing, reminds us how secure iMessage is  —  If you're a frequent texter, and the iPhone is your weapon of choice, there's a good chance you've been a wee bit concerned since yesterday's report that the device is vulnerable to a certain SMS spoofing attack.
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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