Daily Links 6/4/2012: Salesforce announces Buddy Media deal; SAP doubles Brazil staffing

Salesforce To Buy Buddy Media For $689 Million In Social Push (Bloomberg)
Price a little less than earlier reports had suggested.

Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal (Computerworld)

Marc Benioff Uses His $700 Million Purchase Of Buddy Media To Trash A Rival (SAI: Enterprise)
SAP?

SAP Doubles Staff In Brazil To Capture Growth Opportunities (Bloomberg)

QVC looks to television to make big online splash (MarketWatch)

Comcast Achieves World IPv6 Launch Milestone
(Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Verizon Offers Buyouts to 1,700 Union Land-Line Employees (Bloomberg)

Exclusive: new Verizon FiOS plans coming June 17th, 300Mbps service to cost $204.99 per month (The Verge)

Huawei Looks Beyond Docsis (Light Reading Cable)

The growing industry of Higher Education Big Data (ZDNet Blogs)
On startup backed by First Round Capital.

Meet the startup helping sites like Fab and Etsy court their customers (Gigaom)
Another NY-based web analytics startup founded by Wharton people.

Small Business: Virtual office, or real? That is the question (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Profiles Wildbit and Dolphin Corp.



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