Sunday Highlights: Thomson Reuters’ intellectual property and science businesses taking bids; A new sales technology stack is coming

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Firms launch bids for piece of Thomson Reuters (NY Post)
Although it has units based all over the place, Thomson Reuters’ intellectual property and science businesses appear to be headquartered on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia.
BC Partners and Bain Capital have submitted separate bids and Carlyle Group and Onex Partners are partnering on a third, the Post reports. The businesses may fetch $3 billion in total.

Dolan family celebrates Cablevision sale with colleagues (NY POST)
Had no idea Charles Dolan started HBO.
Now that they are done with Cablevision, maybe they can turn their attention to fixing the Knicks. But on second thought, perhaps they just leave the Knicks alone.

A new sales technology stack is coming (TechCrunch)

Why is Dell really dropping its assets? To fund its EMC acquisition (Channel Life)

"Boomi and Statistica will form the core of cloud, analytics and IoT solutions. TBR believes that once the EMC merger is complete, the standalone Boomi will join vSphere, Photon and Virtustream in the hybrid cloud environment."

Epicor reworking sales culture, channel strategy, in strategic reorientation (Channelbuzz)
This story is from April. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Epicor owner Apax Capital is looking to sell. Epicor has a presence in Bucks County.