Daily Links 4/16/2012: Dreams Inc. to be acquired by Kynetic LLC's Fanatics Inc.

Dreams Inc. to be acquired by Fanatics Inc. (MarketWatch)
Fanatics Inc. is a part of GSI Commerce founder Michael Rubin's Kynetic LLC, which is based in Conshohocken. Deal values Dreams Inc. at $183 million including debt.

First Round Capital Is Raising A $135M Fourth Fund (PE Hub)
Slightly larger than reported early this year.

Path Confirms Series B Funding From Redpoint, Richard Branson and Others (All Things D)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Path, though its not clear whether it participated in this round.

Reed Hastings Goes After Comcast, Again, on Facebook. Again. (Peter Kafka/All Things D)


Is IPTV Fundamentally Anticompetitive? (Todd Spangler/Multichannel News)

In Ad Campaign, SAP Looks Beyond Business Customer (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Why SAP needs a chiropractor
(Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

SUP mobile ecosystem slow to take off, SAP admits (SearchSAP)

Google-Oracle trial begins, with implications for all of Silicon Valley (San Jose Mercury News)

Microsoft: Hey, we're an in-memory database player, too (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet Blogs)

Lockheed Loses $70M Over GPS Sat Overruns (Bloomberg)



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