Links 4/9/2014: ShopRunner goes to China?; Huge ad merger off

Awkward Timing for Publicom Failure as Industry Meets in Beijing (Ad Age)

Alibaba, ShopRunner plan to launch joint China service (Reuters)

Former GSI Commerce, EBay exec pleads guilty in insider trading case (Reuters)



At $3.5 billion, Who's Going to Buy ERP Vendor Epicor? (Computerworld)

Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate (The Register)

This is big as in billion: Fieldglass sale topped $1,000,000,000 (Crain's Chicago Business)


Altos Solutions Acquired by Big Data Leader Flatiron Health (Business Wire)

AT&T in Talks With DirecTV on Possible Purchase (Bloomberg)


Fab’s Future Could Be Decided In The Coming Weeks (TechCrunch)


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