Links 3/19: Two First Round Capital-backed adtech companies team up; SAP raises dividend payout

Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages
(TechCrunch)

Rebecca Rimel’s Millions in Compensation at Pew Charitable Trusts and Elsewhere (Nonprofit Quarterly)

AppNexus Buys Yieldex for $100 Million
(Wall Street Journal: MoneyBeat)
First Round Capital is an investor in both New York-based AppNexus and Colorado-based Yieldex, which are adtech companies. AppNexus had a valuation of $1.2 billion as of its last round.

Enterprise Software Values Drop on Public Markets, But Not in VC (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)


Oracle salesmen get SEVENFOLD salary boost for flogging its cloudy aaS produce (The Register)

Suddenly, more tech workers want to get poached by Oracle (Business Insider)
Comcast, SAP not in top 40, but don't know how broad a sample is represented.


Dell Boomi Launches API Management Cloud Service (eWeek)

SAP Announces $1.4 Billion Dividend as It Boosts Payout Ratio (Bloomberg)

Plex – the modern face of manufacturing software (Diginomica)

Demo Pit Finalists Announced for Phorum 2015 (Business Wire)


Philly Fed business index slips to new low (CNBC)