联想季度营收创历史新高

    苹果股价重挫真相 《纽约时报》

    苹果（Apple）股票投资者有理由担心政府将对资本收益加大征税力度。从2005年起，苹果股价从每股约35美元开始飞快上涨，今年年初达到每股411美元，到9月末便突破了700美元。然而过去几周来，苹果股价一直表现欠佳，周三更是雪上加霜，从峰值下挫20%，跌至558美元。

    近期苹果发生了一系列似乎毫无关联的事件，股价应声下跌。这些事件包括：产品线进行了超过正常范围的重大调整，此举可能会在近期影响盈利水平；高层出现了少有的人事变动。

    三星盖世3超越iPhone 4S成第3季度全球最畅销智能手机 科技网站THE NEXT WEB

    值得关注的是，第3季度由于iPhone 5的推出，4S的销售受到了一定影响。市场研究公司Strategy Analytics称，苹果的这款最新利器售出了600万部，获得了全球智能手机市场3.6%的份额。

    不过，三星智能手机之王的桂冠可能戴多久。iPhone 5毕竟是今年第3季度末才发布的，尔且一开始还受到供货紧张的限制。

    自恋的硅谷 科技博客TECHCRUNCH

    的确，硅谷有一点和洛杉矶及纽约很像。这里的人很少有土生土长的，而且如今待在这里的我们几乎都曾有一刻特别向往来这里。也许是因为我们脸蛋长得不如纽约人或洛杉矶的好莱坞明星那么好看，所以我们更愿意认为自己脑子要聪明点儿。

    “我还记得她刚来这儿时是啥模样，她就是个无名小卒，”这是一段硅谷电视节目中某人对某位来硅谷的姑娘的评价。这个片子根本就没人报道，也没人议论，也绝对没什么首映式要办；没人说它的闲话，或是一边盯着或细读什么融资演讲稿，一边不停地发推特。拉倒吧。我的回应是：“你还记得你刚来时是啥模样吗，你也啥都不是。谁没有过这么一段呢，对不对？”

    谷歌风投扩大规模至每年3亿美元 路透社

    这么大手笔的增资意味着谷歌风投将能参与更后期的融资投资，这种融资往往需要每个投资者投入上千万美元。

    这使谷歌风投有实力与英特尔（Intel）旗下的英特尔资本（Intel Capital）这样实力雄厚的风投相提并论，后者通常每年的投资额在3-5亿美元。

    联想二季度营收创历史新高，PC市场份额创历史纪录

    科技博客ENGADGET

    至少在目前，联想（Lenovo）可以自称全球个人电脑厂商之王了。去年，它的台式机销售也增长了5%。它的移动互联网部门的销售额达到7.18亿美元，同时也是中国第二大智能手机和平板电脑厂商。它也是中国最大的PC机厂商，销量超过了第二名至第五名的总和，并首次赢得了欧洲、中东和非洲地区（EMEA）两位数的市场份额。

    译者：清远

    Product questions and threats of higher tax hit Apple shares [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

    Owners of Apple shares would have good reason to fear higher taxes on capital gains. Apple shares have appreciated mightily since 2005 when they were about $35 apiece; they began this year at $411 and peaked at more than $700 in late September. The drop on Wednesday only added to what has been a grim few weeks for Apple shares, which have fallen over 20 percent from that peak, to $558 on Wednesday.

    The decline has followed a sequence of seemingly unrelated events, including a broader-than-normal overhaul of its product line that is expected to hurt profit margins in the near term and a rare shake-up in Apple's senior ranks.

    Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes the iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012 [THE NEXT WEB]

    It's worth noting that sales of the 4S were tempered by the launch of the iPhone 5 in Q3. Apple's latest handset sold 6 million units and grabbed 3.6% global smartphone market share, Strategy Analytics says.

    Samsung's claim to the smartphone crown is unlikely to be maintained though. The iPhone 5 launched close to the end of the third quarter of the year and suffered limited availability at first.

    The narcissism of minor Silicon Valley differences [TECHCRUNCH]

    Yes, much like Los Angeles and New York, very few people who are here are from here and almost all of us who are here at one point aspired to be here. And, maybe because we're not as pretty as New York or Hollywood, we'd like to think we're smarter.

    "I remember what she was like when she landed here and she was nobody," somebody said about some girl on that Silicon Valley TV show that absolutely no one is writing or talking about, and definitely not hosting premiere parties for or gossiping about or tweeting constantly regarding or poring over the pitch decks for. Ugh. "Do you remember what you were like when you landed here and were absolutely nobody," I responded. "We all at some point were that right?"

    Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year [REUTERS]

    Access to that sizeable checkbook means Google Ventures will be able to invest in more later-stage financing rounds, which tend to be in the tens of millions of dollars or more per investor.

    It puts the firm on the same footing as more established corporate venture funds such as Intel's Intel Capital, which typically invests $300-$500 million a year.

    Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share [ENGADGET]

    For now however, Lenovo can claim the crown as world's largest laptop PC maker, while desktop sales were also up five percent from last year. Its mobile internet division reported sales of $718 million, and is the second largest seller in China of smartphones and tablets. It's also China's number one PC vendor with sales outpacing the next four vendors combined and racked up double digit market share in the EMEA region for the first time.