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Today in Tech: How fizzling tech stocks are affecting Silicon Valley

Also: Google poised to plunge hundreds of millions more in original content. Did Amazon once offer to buy Netflix for $12 million?

Silicon Valley's Stock Funk [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]

Home prices in the region are still rising, but with wealth ebbing, some agents sense a slowdown.

Nicholas Tarantola, a Realtor with Zephyr Real Estate in San Francisco, said activity has slowed over the past month, with homes that might have received 10 offers MORE

Today in Tech: Microsoft hires TV exec to boost original content

The iPhone 5 reviewed; Yahoo giving shareholders $3.65 billion.

iPhone 5 review: Finally, the iPhone we've always wanted [CNET]

Well, guess what? Now it has 4G LTE and...well, maybe not a giant screen, but a larger screen. That's not all, though: the already great camera's been subtly improved, speakerphone and noise-canceling quality has been tweaked, and -- as always -- iOS 6 brings a host of other improvements, including baked-in turn-by-turn navigation, MORE

Today in Tech: Amazon gets into gaming

Apple's iOS 6 ditches the YouTube app; how Apple and Amazon's security flaws led to one man's 'epic' hacking. 

Amazon jumps into games: New studio makes its debut with a Facebook game [GEEKWIRE]

Amazon's first social game is called Living Classics, a moving object game "featuring a family of foxes that have wandered into active illustrations from their favorite books including Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and King Arthur."

Amazon's new secret weapon: Delivery MORE

Today in Tech: YouTube investing $200 million more in original content

Hulu finally comes to Apple TV; is the social web IPO window closed?

YouTube to double down on its 'channel' experiment [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]

The company says it will put in another $200 million to market the channels as it attempts to upgrade its content from simple user-generated videos and to lure more viewers and advertising. The site has launched nearly 100 new channels so far this year, attracting talent such as MORE

Video: Inside Apple HQ

Corporate recruiting film offers a rare look inside One Infinite Loop

FORTUNE: On Wednesday 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman posted on YouTube a slickly produced Apple (AAPL) video that promotes not a product but the company itself.

[Update: Turns out the film has been available on Apple's human resources website since at least May, when MacMagazine did a piece about it. You can stream the video in high resolution here.]

It's largely narrated by Joel Podolny, the MORE

Homage or hatchet job? 'Steve Jobs' screenwriter supercut

A video of Aaron Sorkin's favorite lines goes viral. The L.A. Times sees trouble for biopic

FORTUNE -- "This video is a tribute to the work of Aaron Sorkin: The recycled dialogue, recurring phrases, and familiar plot lines. This is not intended as a critique but rather a playful excursion through Sorkin's wonderful world of words."

That's the description Kevin T. Porter wrote when he posted his brilliant 7:22 minute homage to Hollywood's MORE

Today in Tech: Google's Nexus 7 tablet reviewed (Hint: It's awesome.)

RIM reports delays, layoffs, and dismal earnings; how YouTube stars get made. 

RIM posts dismal earnings, delays BlackBerry 10 operating system [FORTUNE]

"I am not satisfied with these results and continue to work aggressively with all areas of the organization and the Board to implement meaningful changes to address the challenges, including a thoughtful realignment of resources and honing focus within the Company on areas that have the greatest opportunities," [CEO Thorsten] MORE

Today in Tech: Why YouTube will be a $3.6 billion business this year

The secret to Reddit's massive success; 3 reasons why Microsoft's Surface warrants a serious look. 

YouTube's gigantic year is already here, Citi says [ALLTHINGSD]

The video site should generate more than $3.6 billion in gross revenue this year, says Citi's Mark Mahaney. After distributing some of that to partners, Google probably records net revenue of $2.4 billion, he says.

How Reddit got huge: Tons of fake accounts [MOTHERBOARD]

But in terms of power, not traffic, MORE

Today in Tech: Meet Netflix's biggest user

The introduction of "Expanded Tweets"; the turf war in mobile gaming. 

The day Netflix met its heaviest user [GIGAOM]

Earlier this year, Mark Malkoff embarked on his Netflix challengein an attempt to figure out how much value he could get out of his $8 subscription within a single month. 30 days later, Malkoff had watched 252 movies, beginning to end, including the credits.

The high-school blogger who's been cracking Apple's secrets [FORTUNE]

In the walk-up MORE

Today in Tech: Inside the death of Palm and webOS

How Sean Parker bumbled his new startup's launch; HP CEO Meg Whitman opens up. 

Airtime makes an awkward first impression [FORTUNE]

The company aims to offer frictionless video networking that allows you to chat with your existing friends or with strangers based on location or interests you share on Facebook. Like predecessor Chatroulette.com, it's easy to switch to a new chat partner, but unlike that service, which became known for its shock MORE