Daily Links 4/17/2012: SAP insider gripes about intense sales pressure, SAI reports

E-retailer Fanatics acquires a competing merchant of sports apparel and gear (Internet Retailer)
Insight Venture Partners contributing equity to deal. Article says Fanatics revenue grew by 188% in 2011 over 2010.

Path Packs on $30M More (Reuters via PE Hub)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Path.

Insider: SAP Booted Its North American President For Missing One Quarterly Target (SAI: Enterprise)

SAP 'Skins Knee' With First Quarter 2012 Financial Results (Information Week)

Recap: SAP Database and Mobility Event, April 2012 (Derek Loranca/SAP Community Network)

Oracle considered buying RIM or Palm to get into the smartphone game (The Verge)

NBC-Owned Stations, Comcast Sports Group Strike Ad Sales Partnership
Station Group to Sell National Advertising for Comcast RSNs in Philly, DC, New England, Northwest (Multichannel News)

Netflix CEO’s Comcast Complaints Draw in FCC (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Hulu to Boost Spending on Content This Year by 67% (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Facebook Users To Program Philadelphia-Area TV Show (AllFacebook)

The Startup Incubator For Robot Overlords: GRASP (Fast Company)

Philly's "Next American City" Wants To Bring Longform Journalism Straight To Your Inbox (Fast Company)

WordPress Plugin Adds Zuppler Online Ordering to Restaurant Websites (PR Newswire)

WFT Cloud, accredited by SAP Insider for helping SAP customers migrate to Cloud Infrastructure around the Globe (PR Web)

Futura Mobility Announces Strategic Partnership with The Judge Group (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 4/16/2012: Dreams Inc. to be acquired by Kynetic LLC's Fanatics Inc.

Dreams Inc. to be acquired by Fanatics Inc. (MarketWatch)
Fanatics Inc. is a part of GSI Commerce founder Michael Rubin's Kynetic LLC, which is based in Conshohocken. Deal values Dreams Inc. at $183 million including debt.

First Round Capital Is Raising A $135M Fourth Fund (PE Hub)
Slightly larger than reported early this year.

Path Confirms Series B Funding From Redpoint, Richard Branson and Others (All Things D)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Path, though its not clear whether it participated in this round.

Reed Hastings Goes After Comcast, Again, on Facebook. Again. (Peter Kafka/All Things D)


Is IPTV Fundamentally Anticompetitive? (Todd Spangler/Multichannel News)

In Ad Campaign, SAP Looks Beyond Business Customer (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Why SAP needs a chiropractor
(Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

SUP mobile ecosystem slow to take off, SAP admits (SearchSAP)

Google-Oracle trial begins, with implications for all of Silicon Valley (San Jose Mercury News)

Microsoft: Hey, we're an in-memory database player, too (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet Blogs)

Lockheed Loses $70M Over GPS Sat Overruns (Bloomberg)



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