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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Daily Links 4/2/2013: Tableau Software, Marketo file for IPOs

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A Start-Up Fund That Lets College Students Make the Decisions (New York Times)

Wolff: Someone at NBC should be fired (USA Today)

Vodafone Jumps on Report AT&T and Verizon Mulling Joint Bid (Bloomberg)

Tableau files for $150M IPO (TechFlash)
One of QlikTech's strongest competitors; strength in data visualization.

Marketo Files For $75M IPO To Grow SaaS Marketing Platform
(TechCrunch)

Dell CEO Says Business Unit Is Making Progress Amid LBO Talks (Bloomberg)

PHD Virtual Acquires VirtualSharp Software
Acquisition Provides the Industry’s Best Value in Virtual Backup and Disaster Recovery Assurance Solutions (Business Wire)

Financial Transaction Services Rebrands as CardConnect, Relocates Headquarters to Philadelphia
Payment processor changes name, brings its growing workforce to Philadelphia region
(Business Wire)

The genie is out of the bottle: Aereo’s court victory and what it means for the TV business (Gigaom)

Aereo Wins a Court Battle, Dismaying Broadcasters (New York Times)

Artisan Research Indicates that Native Mobile Apps are a Top Priority for Most Retailers (Business Wire)

ElectNext Raises $1.3M To Provide Contextual Political Data To News Sites (TechCrunch)

MeetMe® Launches Native Feed Advertising Powered by Flurry (Marketwire)

Newsbyte: SAP Plans Delivery of Accelerated Reporting and Real-Time Information for Supply Chain Customers (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 2/22/2012: Cable syndicate scuttles much of Canoe Ventures

Auction plot thickens (Philadelphia Daily News)

A cloud-based cap table for startups (ZDNet Blogs)
TicketLeap's CFO creates cool product for startups.

Canoe Ventures Pulls the Plug on Interactive TV Commercials Business (Ad Age)
Cable TV-backed venture cuts 120 employees and closes New York office.

Tableau thinking IPO next year (Dan Primack/Fortune: Term Sheet)
Rapidly growing competitor to QlikTech.

SAP and SuccessFactors Accelerate Unified Product Direction (PR Newswire)

SAP lays out product direction post-SuccessFactors deal
Analyst: SAP's plans reflect competition from the likes of Workday for cloud-based HR software (Computerworld)

Samsung and SAP to Push Corporate Use of Android (Bloomberg)

Dell Falls After Forecast Misses Estimates: San Francisco Mover (Bloomberg)

Halfpenny Technologies Secures $2.25 Million in Capital Investment
Funding Will Support Halfpenny’s Continued Accelerated Growth as It Expands Its Lab and EHR Integration Offering for Hospitals, Labs, Physicians, Payors, HIEs, and Regional Extension Centers (Business Wire)
Halfpenny Technologies is based in Blue Bell.

Safeguard Scientifics Leads $2.5M Series A Financing for Lumesis
Financial Technology Company Supports Market Participants during Transformation of Municipal Bond Market (Business Wire)
NextStage Capital also invests in Connecticut-based startup.

T-Mobile, MetroPCS Try to Block Verizon-MSO Deal (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast's Avgiris: Verizon Wireless Adds Muscle To Triple Play
Q&A With MSO's EVP for Data and Communications (Multichannel News)

Gartner BI And Data Warehouse Quadrants: More Science, Less 'Magic' ( Doug Henschen/Information Week)

Who are Vibrant Media, WPP and PointRoll? (Washington Post)
PointRoll was named as one of the companies going around Safari's privacy settings, but Rob Gatto, CEO of the King of Prussia-based online advertising firm, said in a blog post that it was a limited test that ended on February 8.

Gannett Touts Digital Growth Plans, Partners With MLB (ClickZ)

Gannett’s Big Paywall Play: Will It Work? (paidContent)
First noticed this yesterday on Wilmington News Journal site.

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Universal Surveillance Systems, Paving Way for Antitrust Lawsuit Against Checkpoint Systems (PR Web)

Checkpoint Systems Launches Broad Portfolio of Solutions for Large-Scale RFID Deployments in Apparel Retail (Business Wire)



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