????? 谷歌（Google）正在開發一款具有人臉識別功能的移動應用程序，以幫助用戶獲得被拍攝者的谷歌個人主頁（Google Profile）聯系信息。谷歌工程部總監哈特穆特?內文（Hartmut Neven）表示，當涉及隱私問題時，谷歌將“非常謹慎”。[美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）]

????? 域名注冊服務商GoDaddy的首席執行官鮑勃?帕森斯有麻煩了，因為關于他非洲冒險的一段視頻在網上瘋傳。視頻中，帕森斯射殺了一頭大象，而且還讓一幫村民將象肉瓜分。他射殺大象的原因？因為它偷吃村民的糧食。（Silicon Alley Insider）

????? 寶馬（BMW）宣布將在紐約成立總額達1億美元的新創企業孵化投資基金，以投資并扶持在移動和基于地理信息服務領域的公司。新近成立的BMW i Ventures總經理喬戈?萊曼向《快公司》（Fast Company）表示：“作為一家汽車廠商，我們非常關注移動領域的服務，即便它們可能與汽車毫無干系。我們并非從汽車（角度），而是從消費者（角度）來考慮問題。”（《快公司》）

????? Facebook的每月移動用戶數達到2.5億。為了慶祝這一成績，這家全球領先的社交網絡即將發布全新的更出色且統一的移動網站。（TechCrunch）

????? 官方消息：Quick Bar——批評者們稱其為#Dickbar——被移除。Quick Bar是Twitter iPhone客戶端內嵌的信息欄。這個黑乎乎、令人生厭的家伙會時不時地在Twitter消息列表頂端顯示熱門話題和促銷廣告，幾乎無處不在。應用程序商店（App Store）中上架的最新版Twitter應用程序已移除Quick Bar。（TechCrunch）

????? Twitter宣布其注冊用戶數已達1.75億，不過到底有多少用戶是活躍的？其活躍度又如何呢？在一些擁有Twitter API（應用程序接口）完全訪問權人士的幫助下，Silicon Alley Insider做了下統計。該公司報道稱1.19億Twitter賬號關注了1個或多個其它賬號，8500萬賬號擁有1個或多個粉絲，5600萬賬號沒有關注任何賬號，還有9000萬賬號則沒有任何粉絲。（Silicon Alley Insider）

????? 華納兄弟（Warner Bros）、索尼（Sony）、環球電影公司（Universal）以及20世紀福克斯公司（20th Century Fox）將聯手為Direct TV公司的家庭首映（Home Premiere）服務推出30美元電影租賃方案。這些公司的影片將在公映后兩個月提供給用戶。首批上架的影片為連姆?尼森的《不明身份》（Unknown ）和亞當?桑德勒的《隨波逐流》（Just Go With It）。（Variety）

????? 日前，Groupon聯合創始人布拉德?基維爾和埃里克?萊夫科夫斯基向Qwiki注資100萬美元，后者是一項網絡服務，主要從互聯網提取信息，并創建多媒體版的維基頁面/演示。Facebook聯合創始人愛德華多?薩維林也對Qwiki有投資。大佬們的闊綽出手使得這家新創公司在最新一輪融資中募得約900萬美元。[《紐約時報》（New York Times）/DealB%k]

????? 蘋果公司（Apple）負責全球營銷的副總裁艾莉森?約翰遜即將離職。她將與Facebook公關部前高管布蘭迪?巴克共同創立一家營銷與公關公司，不過公司名稱尚未確定。（AllThingsD）

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????? Google is developing a mobile app with facial recognition technology that pulls up the Google Profile contact info for people snapped in photos. Google engineering director Hartmut Neven says the company will be "extra careful" when it comes to privacy issues. (CNN)

????? The CEO of domain name registrar GoDaddy, Bob Parson, is in some hot water thanks to a viral video chronicling his African adventures. In it, Parson shoots an elephant and lets a bunch of villagers make off with its flesh. His reason? The animal was eating all the villagers' crops. (Silicon Alley Insider)

????? BMW announced plans for a New York City-based start-up incubator with a $100 million investment fund that will invest in and encourage the growth of mobile and location-based companies. "As a mobility company, we are focusing on mobility services that may not even have anything to do with cars," Joerg Reimann, a managing director of the recently-formed BMW i Ventures, told Fast Company. "We're not coming at this from a car [perspective], we're coming from a consumer [perspective]." (Fast Company)

????? Facebook now has 250 million mobile users a month and to celebrate that, the social networking champ is launching a new, spiffy and unified mobile web site, as seen on the right. (TechCrunch)

????? It's official: The Quick Bar -- or as detractors affectioned dubbed it, #Dickbar -- is dead. The obtrusive black bar that inserted trending topics and promoted ads at the top of Twitter streams on iPhones everywhere was removed from the latest Twitter app update in the App Store. (TechCrunch)

????? Twitter claims 175 million million registered users, but just how many of them are active, and to what degree? With the help of someone with full Twitter API access, Silicon Alley Insider did some math and reported that 119 million Twitter accounts follow one or more other accounts, 85 million accounts have one or more followers, 56 million accounts follow 0 accounts, and 90 million actually have 0 followers. (Silicon Alley Insider)

????? Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox are rolling out $30 movie rentals for the service Home Premiere on Direct TV, offering films two months after their theatrical release date. The first movies up for grabs will be the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown and Adam Sandler's Just Go With It. (Variety)

????? Groupon founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky invested $1 million in Qwiki, a service also funded partially by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin that basically pulls information from the Internet and creates multimedia-rich wiki pages/presentations. Their generosity brings the start-up's latest round of funding to some $9 million. (New York Times/DealB%k)

????? Apple VP of worldwide marketing Allison Johnson is leaving to co-found a new, as-of-yet unnamed marketing and communications firms with former Facebook PR executive Brandee Barker. (AllThingsD)