Daily Links 11/1/2012: First Round Capital adds partner, capital; more enterprise, hardware?

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First Round Capital Adds Former LiveOps CEO Bill Trenchard As Partner; Raises Over $20M More (TechCrunch)

First Round gets a new partner, jumps into enterprise and hardware (PandoDaily)

Welcoming Bill Trenchard (Redeye VC)

Newly-Minted Billionaire Is Spinning eBay Scraps Into Gold (Forbes)
On Kynetics LLC's Michael Rubin.

FCC: Cable Outages Drop to 12%-14%
Commission Says Getting Fuel to Generators is Priority (Multichannel News)

SAP goes after Salesforce.com with new social software products, strategy
SAP Jam links software acquired with SuccessFactors to SAP's StreamWork (Computerworld UK)

JDA Software to go private in $1.9 billion deal (Reuters)

SunGard: A Day In the Cloud Documentary (Video/ChannelPartner
Online.com)
PR-ish, but worth a look. Inside view of SunGard Availability's Spring Garden Street
operations center, and explanation of its Cloud strategy.

SunGard Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)
Shrink management expert experiences continued shrinkage.

Heartland Payments rises on 3Q, stronger guidance (AP via NBCNews)

Monetate Growth Continues to Surge Driven by Online Marketers' Demand for Real-Time Personalization (Marketwire)

Netflix: Thanks For the Advice, Carl (Peter Kafka/All Things D)



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