Michael Wines / New York Times:
China Requires ID for Mobile Phone Numbers — BEIJING — China’s government began on Wednesday to require mobile phone users to furnish identification when buying SIM cards, a move officials cast as an attempt to rein in burgeoning cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.
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Craig Pirrong / Seeking Alpha:
Would The Fed Take Facebook Shares As Collateral? — Friday’s news was dominated by the Facebook (FB) IPO. I don’t have much to say about Facebook qua Facebook or IPOs: Not my area. I will just say that it is hard to justify the valuation. The only rationalization I could provide …
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
FTC names Internet privacy expert as senior adviser — The Federal Trade Commission has named an Internet privacy expert to advise on mobile privacy and competition issues as the agency takes on high-profile investigations of potential harm to consumers by the Web’s biggest firms.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform — It sounds like the setup for a very old, stale joke. Three guys walked into a bar in Brooklyn to complain about the state of journalism … except by the time these guys were done chatting and plotting, they had come up with an actual business.
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
David Karp: CrunchFund now an investor in Tumblr — Tumblr CEO David Karp announced today at that the Michael Arrington-led CrunchFund has joined as an investor in his popular blogging company. — Karp was speaking with CrunchFund partner MG Siegler on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Google giving Cornell University 22k square feet of free office space at its NYC HQ for 5 years — Google’s Larry Page today announced that the company would be giving over the use of 22,000 square feet of its New York City headquarters to CornellNYC Tech, while the university builds its new campus on Roosevelt Island.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Well, Now That Everyone Has Sobered Up, Let’s Figure Out What Facebook Is Actually Worth… Thank goodness that’s over. — The Facebook IPO could have been a major disaster for millions of individual investors. — If the stock had “popped” to a truly ludicrous level on IPO day …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Google Missed The Boat On Buying Twitter. “Hasn’t Been Interested Since They Committed To Google+” -Fred Wilson — Michael Arrington says Dick Costolo gave Google the chance to buy Twitter, but the search giant passed. Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures founder and former Twitter board member …
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
AnchorFree Raises $52 Million From Goldman Sachs to Scale Leading Secure Web Browsing Solutions — AnchorFree, maker of the world’s most popular consumer virtual private network (VPN), has closed its Series C financing to the tune of $52 million, led by Goldman Sachs.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Microsoft Launches Socl Social Network: A Look Inside — Congrats, Mark Zuckerberg. You went public on Friday, got married on Saturday, and as a special present from part-owner and best partner Microsoft, now have a new social network to content with: Microsoft’s So.cl. But don’t worry too much.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Report: Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemous Content, Facebook Complies? [Update: Back Up] — Another day, another example of a country making it harder for its people to use the web and some of its most effective channels of communication? There are reports coming in from Pakistan …