News Links: Yuan Limit Down for Ninth Straight Session

Financial news links for 12 December 2011 including stories on privacy, the European sovereign debt crisis, China and India

News Links: Ten days of secret planning to rescue markets

News links for 3 December

Letterman’s Top Ten Apple Excuses for Tracking You

Here’s David Letterman with the ten reasons Apple needs to track your every move

Amazon: Privacy Concerns, Digital Music Lockers and Pandora’s Box

As I was thinking about the competitive landscape for e-Commerce and Amazon’s foray into the streaming music scene, it occurred to me that Amazon has a huge data mining opportunity here and that this will almost certainly raise privacy concerns.

At present, the story in the press is about the music industry’s concerns over licenses. Sony has said it is not happy that Amazon has launched its product without licensing agreements from the music industry given that Apple and Google are negotiating agreements. Ostensibly, this is what has given Amazon the jump on those competitors.

But I want to talk about something else: privacy

The Onion: CIA’s Facebook Program ‘A Dream Come True’

This video by The Onion is funny – both in a good way and in a bad way! All hail CIA Agent Mark Zuckerberg, code name ‘The Overlord&#

The Future of Facebook and the World as We Know It

By Rick Bookstaber (A cross post by Rick Bookstaber which originally appeared at rick.bookstaber.com.) The following reflects my views and not those of the SEC or its staff. Where will Facebook be in ten or fifteen years? In our immediate euphoria, such a long term view may be like taking a good joke too far.

SNL Spoof of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks

A funny look at Time’s selection of Mark Zuckerberg for Person of the Year over Julian Assange

The Future of Facebook

by Vedran Vuk filling in for David Galland Facebook will certainly be talked about in business books for a long time, but will it be the endless growth story that many predict? With a possible IPO in a few years, I thought to myself, “Opportunity of a lifetime or just another good company.” I’m somewhere