Daily Links 5/8/2013: Comcast shelving Skype Set Top offering; SAP Eyes $10 Billion Sales Boost From Banking Software

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NBC Dumps $25 Million Jimmy Fallon NYC 'Tonight Show' Studio (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast Shelving Set Top Skype Offering
Existing Customers Will Be Supported (Broadband Reports)

Roku CEO Wood: Virtual cable MSOs 'inevitable (FierceCable)

Liberty Interactive Operating Profit Flat (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
QVC's US business grew revenue 4.6% to $1.3 billion.

Web sales increase 13% for QVC in the first quarter
Mobile commerce sales account for 27% of online orders. (Internet Retailer)

Maffei: Charter Investment Could Lead to Further Consolidation (Multichannel News)

CRACKING THE CODE ON THE WEB'S MOST SHAREABLE IMAGES (Fast Company)
Curalate attempts to move from identifying images on the Web to predicting how they'll
do before they are posted.


SAP Eyes $10 Billion Sales Boost From Banking Software
(Bloomberg)

Teradata boosts DRAM on appliances for in-memory queries
You don't need no stinkin' HANA or Exalytics (The Register)

Discover Strikes Deal With SAP Unit for Business Payments
(Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)


NetSuite buys OrderMotion to handle orders better and faster (VentureBeat)


PLEASE DON’T GO, PROFESSOR (Wharton Magazine)
Len Lodish retiring from Wharton as professor.

City, police mapping team snags international GIS award
(Philly.com)


Penn GSE business plan contest winners announced (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 4/3/2013: Leno out, Fallon in next year

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Leno Blesses ‘Tonight Show’ Succession Plan (New York Times)
Changeover to take place next year.

Readying For An IPO, Enterprise SaaS Integration Platform Mulesoft Raises $37M From NEA, Salesforce And Others (TechCrunch)
Although different in some aspects, a principal competitor to Dell Boomi.

Tableau Software Files to Raise as Much as $150 Million (Bloomberg)

A Tableau IPO could validate the big data visualization push — or not (Gigaom)

SAP Accused of Inflating HANA Hardware Numbers (All Things D)

Oracle: ‘CloudWorld’ Positive, but Pricing a Mystery, Says CLSA (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Verizon, New York City to Test Way to Spread Fiber Network (Bloomberg)

Comcast unit wants to run Pa. Convention Center (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Credit Karma raises $30M in funding (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
Round co-led by Bala Cynwyd-based Susquehanna Growth Equity.

Using Visual Story Telling To Build Stronger Relationships With Consumers (Adotas)
Contributed by Curalate CEO Apu Gupta.



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