Links 11/20/2013: Safeguard Scientifics leads $16mm round in Apprenda; NY Times on why RJMetrics will start commission plan next year






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PaaS player Apprenda nets $16M to expand led by Safeguard Scientifics (Gigaom)

For Some, Paying Sales Commissions No Longer Makes Sense (New York Times)
But Philly-based RJMetrics is going in the other direction, implementing a commission plan
next year after not having one before, the Times reports.


SAP CEO Envisions Younger, Greener, Cloudier Company (Information Week)

Bridgestone files massive fraud and deception suit against IBM over SAP implementation (Nashville Post)


SAP Jam adds work patterns, processes (ZDNet)


Salesforce Finally Melds Itself With the Heroku Cloud (Wired)

Box strikes back at Dropbox with $100M raise at $2B valuation (VentureBeat)

Google Wallet debit card announced, available now (The Verge)

Insight: For Intel, Hollywood dreams prove a leap too far (Reuters)



Xbox One in the living room: The dazzling, erratic everything box (CNET News)

Broadcasters’ Fight Against Aereo Doesn’t Serve Their Interests (New York Times: DealBook)

About 520,000 Add Broadband in the Third Quarter of 2013
(Leichtman Research Group via FierceCable)

Inquirer owners' settlement talks break down (Philadelphia Inquirer)