今日科技：初创公司各出妙招拉拢人才

    Facebook7月6日在位于帕洛阿尔托的公司总部举办了盛大的产品发布会，首席执行官马克•扎克伯克宣布了一些有趣的新数据：Facebook用户每天分享的内容量已经达到了去年同期的两倍。7.5亿Facebook用户——你没听错，就是7.5亿人——每天分享的话题达到了40亿个。扎克伯克和公司高管们还在现场发布了三款新产品，分别是群组通讯功能、一个全尺寸的好友名单设计，以及基于Skype技术的视频聊天功能。这些新产品都是大受欢迎的附加功能，不过最后一项才是重头戏。到目前为止，该功能的表现非常令人满意。它无论下载和使用都很容易，而且还有非常出色的视频质量。美中不足的是，它没有类似Google + “Hangout”那样的视频群聊功能。【《财富》(Fortune)】

    谷歌的Google+服务刚刚推出了一周的时间，近日科技网站“搜索引擎天地”（Search Engine Land）就撰文称，如果传闻可以采信的话，那么可以看出Google+服务必将取得一个开门红。因为在短短一周之内，该网站的Google+账户已经有了1，000个粉丝。（相比之下，该网站的Google Buzz账户花了17个月才累积了1，000名粉丝。）与此同时，科技博客Mashable也在Google+上有了9，000名粉丝。【搜索引擎天地(Search Engine Land)】

    据《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）报道，苹果（Apple）已为一款新iPhone的生产订购了零部件，该款新iPhone预计在今年九月末推出。如果消息来源可靠，那么这款新iPhone将与iPhone4极为相像，只不过采取了更轻薄的设计，摄像头也升级到了800万像素。【《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）】

    风行欧洲的音乐流媒体服务Spotify正式来到美国，不过目前还不知道它将于何时在美推出，也不知道它的定价是多少。点击此处即可申请成为Spotify的第一批美国会员。【消费科技博客The next web （The Next Web）】

    视频网站Hulu的首席执行官杰森•基拉尔表示，等到今年夏天结束，Hulu Plus的订阅用户将超过100万人。基拉尔称，Hulu原本预计到今年年底才会突破百万用户大关，没想到竟然提前实现目标。不过Hulu对全年营收入预期仍保持在5亿美元。【科技、互联网、媒体资讯网站All Things D (All Things D)】

    再来看看初创公司留住人才的妙招。从事旅行房屋租赁的初创公司Airbnb为员工提供了“红酒+奶酪”的会餐。从事文件同步服务的初创公司Dropbox里有一间摇滚室，里面摆着吉它和架子鼓。而社交游戏公司Zynga则在公司里提供了豪华的免费午餐和晚餐，其中使用了芥末油和松果汁等昂贵原料。（没错，真是这样。）【《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)】

    移动支付在过去几年里出现了井喷式的成长，据英国朱尼普研究公司（Juniper Research）预测，移动支付市场将从今年的2，400亿美元增长到2015年的6，700亿美元。【科技网站GigaOm(GigaOm)】

    为何拉丁美洲将成为网飞（Netflix）的下一个大市场。【科技网站GigaOm(GigaOm)】

    译者：朴成奎

    During Facebook's big product launch event yesterday at its Palo Alto headquarters, Mark Zuckerberg announced some interesting new stats: users are sharing twice as much content now as they did the same time last year, with its 750 million users -- yes, 750 million -- sharing 4 billion items a day. Zuck and crew also unveiled three products: group messaging, a new full-sized buddy list design and Skype-powered video chat. While all are welcome additions, it was the last feature which made the biggest splash. So far, it's almost everything it ought to be: easy-to-download and easy-to-use, with some pretty stellar video quality. No group video chat a la Google + "Hangout," though. (Fortune)

    It's just over a week old, but according to Search Engine Land, Google + appears to be off to a good start, at least if anecdotal evidence is anything to go by. The Web site already has 1,000 followers. (In comparison, it took the site 17 months to achieve that via Google Buzz.) Meanwhile, tech blog Mashable has 9,000 followers to its name. (Search Engine Land)

    According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple ordered components for a new iPhone it's planning to launch by the end of September. If sources are to be believed, the newest model will closely resemble the iPhone 4, but offer a thinner and lighter design along with an 8-megapixel camera. (Wall Street Journal)

    Popular European music streaming service Spotify is officially coming to the U.S., though no word yet on time frame or pricing yet. Sign up here for an invite to see what all the buzz is about. (The Next Web)

    Hulu CEO Jason Kilar reports the number of paid Hulu Plus subscribers will pass 1 million come end of summer. According to Kilar, that beats the video streaming service's original expectations of hitting that milestone by the end of the year. Hulu also still expects to pull in half a billion in revenues for 2011. (All Things D)

    Another look at startup perks. Apartment-swapping startup Airbnb offers wine-and-cheese mixers, file-syncing service Dropbox has a rock room with guitars and drums, and Zynga serves up free gourmet lunches and dinners using ingredients like wasabi oil and pinecone syrup. (Yes, seriously. ) (Wall Street Journal)

    Mobile payments have taken off in the last few years, so much so that Juniper Research anticipates the space to grow from $240 billion this year to $670 billion worldwide in 2015. (GigaOm)