????Square終于完成2億美元融資回合，估值達到32.5億美元 科技博客AllThingsD

????幾周前在一次采訪中，移動支付公司Square的首席運營官基思?拉伯斯表示，該公司計劃開始積極進行市場推廣。Square已經投放電視廣告，而于上月宣布與星巴克（Starbucks）達成了內容廣泛的協議。星巴克當時表示，將對Square投資2,500萬美元，并開始使用這筆資金處理它在美國的所有借記卡和信用卡交易。星巴克還將允許客戶使用Square的“面向消費”應用付款購買拿鐵。

????惠普轉型走“時尚”路線 《華爾街日報》

????重新設計PC而不僅僅是換個漂亮外殼?；萏芈蛉舜蛩阒亟M惠普PC事業部，這對于加州帕洛阿爾托的科技巨頭重新扭虧為盈至關重要。PC業務是惠普的最大業務，貢獻了其全部營收的30%。上財季（2012年第三財季——譯注），惠普PC部門營收為86億美元，同比下滑了10%，運營利潤則下挫了27%?；萜丈霞径让墒芰斯練v史上最大的單季虧損。

????蘋果（Apple）股價達到創紀錄的699.78美元，距離700美元僅一步之遙 《財富》

????雖然蘋果股價在過去一年已累計上漲75%，但就標準普爾500指數來看，其股價仍然相對較低。

????蘋果現金貯備高達1,170億美元，居全球公司榜首。過去5年，它的利潤增長率高達60%，與之相比，標準普爾500公司的平均值僅為-1.66%。

????AMD首席財務官托馬斯?塞弗特離職，德文德?庫馬爾將臨時接替其職位 癮科技

????超威半導體（AMD）資深副總裁兼首席財務官托馬斯?塞弗特在加入公司三年后宣布離開。如果你還有印象的話，應該記得塞弗特曾在2011年短暫代理過AMD首席執行官，直到不久后AMD找到羅瑞德來取代他。除了老生常談的“為了尋求其他機會”，塞弗特的離職原因我們不得而知，不過我們了解到，AMD資深副總裁兼財務總監德文德?庫馬爾將臨時接替其職位。AMD公關部門屆時將發布完整公告。

????不出所料，Google+的注冊用戶數超過了4億，現在每月活躍用戶數過億科技博客 THE NEXT WEB

????但最重要的不是4億注冊用戶數，而是過億的每月活躍用戶。谷歌社交平臺Google+的主要競爭對手Facebook對注冊用戶數根本不屑一提，因為它知道這個數字毫無意義。這家社交網絡巨頭只談月度活躍用戶數，截止6月30日，Facebook的月度活躍用戶數為9.55億。Facebook和谷歌（Google）所指的用戶數均包括PC與移動兩大平臺。

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?????Square finally closes $200 million round at a $3.25 billion valuation [ALLTHINGSD]

????In an interview several weeks ago, Square COO Keith Rabois said that the company plans to start marketing itself aggressively. It already has commercials on TV, and a wide-ranging deal with Starbucks announced last month will also help. Starbucks said then that it would invest $25 million into the company, and start using the funds to process all of its debit and credit transactions in the U.S. Starbucks will also allow its customers to pay for their lattes using Square's consumer-facing app.

????H-P tries on a sleeker look [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]

????Redesigning its devices is more than just a cosmetic project. Revamping the PC division, which is H-P's biggest business and accounts for about 30% of its revenue, is critical to the turnaround Ms. Whitman is trying to pull off at the Palo Alto, Calif., company. In H-P's most recent quarter, PC revenue fell 10% from a year earlier to $8.6 billion while the unit's operating income tumbled 27%. Overall, the company reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss.

????Apple closes at a record $699.78, 22 cents shy of $700 [FORTUNE]

????Although the stock is up nearly 75% over the past 12 months, the company is still relatively cheap by the standards of the S&P 500.

????Apple is sitting on a bigger cash hoard ($117 billion) than any company in the world, and the 60% growth rate its earnings have racked up over the past 5 years can hardly be compared with the S&P 500's -1.66%.

????AMD CFO Thomas Seifert calls it quits, Devinder Kumar takes his place on an interim basis [ENGADGET]

????Advanced Micro Devices' Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer, Thomas Seifert, has decided to leave AMD three short years after joining the company. As you may recall, Seifert briefly took the reigns of AMD asinterim CEO in early 2011, until the firm found a permanent replacement in Rory Read later that year. No word on why Seifert has decided to depart the chip maker -- other than "to pursue other opportunities" -- but we do know that Devinder Kumar, AMD's current Senior VP and corporate controller will replace him on an interim basis. The full announcement awaits in the PR after the break.

????As predicted, Google+ passes 400 million registered users, now has 100 million monthly active users [THE NEXT WEB]

????Yet the real story here isn't the 400 million number, but the 100 million one. Google+'s main competitor Facebook doesn't even bother talking about registered users because it know the number is meaningless. The social networking giant only talks about monthly active users, of which it has 955 million as of June 30. Both Facebook and Google are talking about combined desktop and mobile users.