Facebook秘密研发智能手机又有新动作

Facebook死磕智能手机（来源：《纽约时报》）

    Facebook的员工和透露这一计划的人称，公司已经招了至少六个此前为苹果公司（Apple）开发iPhone的软硬件工程师，还有一位是iPad的开发人员。一位了解该计划和一位刚进公司的员工表示，这将是Facebook第三次尝试打造智能手机。

Facebook股价跌至30美元以下，美国当局开始调查其IPO（来源：《卫报》）

    尽管上周美国股市止跌反弹，Facebook的股票在早市时还是下跌了6%，报收于29.78美元——比IPO时38美元的发行价已跌去8美元多。对Facebook和承销投行来说，股票的销售情况实在惨不忍睹。针对该公司有选择地向部分投资者透露关键信息这一指控，美国监管当局正开展调查。

RIM库存价值超过10亿美元，或再次减记（来源：彭博社）

    由于销售严重下滑，Research In Motion公司去年的黑莓手机和PlayBook平板电脑库存暴增三分之二，使公司自12月以来有第三次减记的可能性上升。

Facebook联合创始人萨维林：我不记恨扎克伯格（来源：美国有线电视新闻网）

    据Facebook的发家故事记述，当网站发展起来时，萨维林受到扎克伯格的怠慢。所以很多人相信，他就是《偶然的亿万富翁》（The Accidental Billionaires）一书主要的爆料者。《社交网络》（Social Network）这部电影就是以该书为原型改编的。不过他说，最后的结局“很美满”。而且，他也从来没有像电影里饰演他的好莱坞影星安德鲁•加菲尔德那样，怒火中烧地拿起笔记本电脑砸向扎克伯格。由于萨维林性格内向，所以《观察周刊》（Veja）的法比奥•奥特曼认为，他的说法十分可信。

谷歌钱包这一年（来源：科技博客）

    尽管这项服务可能并没有如谷歌公司（Google）所预期的那样迅速蹿红，过去这一年对它而言仍然算是个多事之秋——虽然所发生的都是谷歌希望用户忘掉的各种状况。而明年，由于这项服务将会面临更激烈的竞争，它将遇到更多挑战。

高德纳称：全球移动支付交易金额将超过1,715亿美元（来源：高德纳公司）

    据高德纳公司称，2012年全球移动支付交易金额将超过1,715亿美元，比2011年的1,059亿美元增长61.9%。2012年，移动支付用户数量将达2.122亿人，比2011年的1.605亿人大幅增长。

    译者：清远

Facebook tries, tries again on a smartphone [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

    The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said. This would be Facebook's third effort at building a smartphone, said one person briefed on the plans and one who was recruited.

Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO [THE GUARDIAN]

    Even as US stock markets bounced back from falls last week, Facebook's shares slumped over 6% in early trading, to $29.78 -- more than $8 below the $38 price set at their IPO earlier this month. The share sale has proved a disaster for Facebook and its bankers. US authorities are investigating allegations that the company gave critical information to some investors and not others.

RIM writedown risked with $1 billion inventory [BLOOMBERG]

    Research In Motion Ltd.'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's third writedown since December.

Facebook co-founder Saverin: I don't resent Zuckerberg [CNN]

    Many observers believe Saverin, who, according to the Facebook origin story was slighted by Zuckerberg as the site grew, was a primary source for the book "The Accidental Billionaires," on which "Social Network" is based. But the end result was "fantasy," he said. And, no, he never angrily threw a laptop at Zuckerberg as his Hollywood counterpart, Andrew Garfield, did in the film. It's a statement Fabio Altman, of magazine Veja, writes is instantly believable given Saverin's reserved nature.

Google Wallet: one year later [THE VERGE]

    While it might not have taken off quite as quickly as Google would have liked, the past year has still been a fairly eventful one for the service -- albeit occasionally for reasons the company would prefer you forget -- and the next year proves to be even more challenging as the service faces increased competition.

Gartner says worldwide mobile payment transaction value to surpass $171.5 billion [GARTNER]

    Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will surpass $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011 values of $105.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The number of mobile payment users will reach 212.2 million in 2012, up from 160.5 million in 2011.