Philly Tech News

Former GoInternet.net owner pleads guilty to fraud (Philadelphia Inquirer)

CardioNet, Inc. Provides Update on Mobile Cardiovascular Telemetry Reimbursement (Business Wire)

Three Philly Area Companies Receive Smart Grid Grants

Three Philly-area utility companies received grants under the "Smart Grid" program unveiled by President Obama today:

PECO, Philadelphia:

Deploy 600,000 smart meters and supporting sytems ($200,000,000)

PPL, Allentown:

Deploy a distribution management system and smart grid
technologies to monitor and control the grid in real-time ($19,054,516)

PJM Interconnection, LLC, Valley Forge

Deploy over 90 phasor measurement units and other
digital monitoring and analysis technologies across 10 states that will provide real-time data on the operating conditions of the transmission system, improving reliability and reducing congestion. ($13,698,091)

Atlantic City Electric Company also received a grant for $18,700,000 to improve grid efficiency.

See Grants by State

Obama Promotes ‘Smart-Grid’ Projects (New York Times:The Caucus)

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Daily Links 10/27/09: GSI Commerce to Acquire Retail Convergence

Comcast says some stimulus bidders may be ineligible (Bloomberg via Chicago Daily Herald)

Comcast: FCC Action Unlawful, Should Be Reversed
(PC Magazine)

Comcast Thinks Big With ITV (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

GSI Commerce to Acquire Retail Convergence and Enter Private Sale Space with Addition of Rue La La (Business Wire)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)

Ametek Q3 results beat Street, shares up
(Reuters)

Vishay Announces Intention to Spin Off Measurements and Foil Resistor Businesses to Stockholders (Business Wire)

Vishay Reports Results for Third Quarter 2009 (Business Wire)

ING to sell Delaware-based bank in 2013 (Wilmington News Journal)

Fisker to make plug-in hybrids at former GM plant in Delaware (USA Today)

RYAN DAVIS NAMED PRESIDENT OF PHILLY.COM
(Press Release)

Nokia, SAP form anti-piracy services firm (Reuters)

SAP regaining its mojo? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP: Days of the database are numbered
(ZDNet UK)

3-D Tool Rises to the Next Level (Engineering News Record)

CityRyde Launches Revolutionary Spark Bike Share Software, and It's Only the Beginning... (PR Newswire)

Viddler Analytics – Video statistics made easy. (The
Viddler Blog)

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Daily Links 10/26/09: NY Times Decides Comcast shouldn't buy NBC (After all, the Times has managed its business so well)

Verizon Profit Exceeds Estimates on Wireless Gains (Bloomberg)
Verizon Wireless, FiOS Growth Slows, But Quarter Fine (Silicon Alley Insider)

Verizon Launches BlackBerry Storm 2 This Week; OS 5.0 for Storm Today (jkOnTheRun)

A Big Deal, but Not a Good One (New York Times: The Media Equation)
On Comcast and NBC-U.

Comcast COO: Nat'l Platform Key to Interactive Ads (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast Zeros In On Spammers
Operator Deploys Cloudmark's Spammer-Monitoring System (Multichannel News)

Cohen: Comcast's Plant tru2way-Capable By End of Year
Allows operators to deliver interactive TV content, pplications to compatible devices including TVs and set-tops
(Broadcasting & Cable)

Motorola Introduces New Products Expanding Fiber Deep and CablePON Portfolios for Cable Operators (PR Newswire)

Fisker to Manufacture Plug-in Hybrids at Former GM Delaware Plant (Automobile Magazine)

Obama plans big smart grid announcement (Reuters)

ING to Split in Two Amid $11.3 Billion Rights Issue (New York Times: Deal Book)
Wilmington's ING Direct USA to be broken off by 2013.

Virtua Selects NextGen® EHR to Support Quality Initiatives
Multi-Hospital Health Care System to Implement Award-Winning Product across Its Virtua Medical Group Network
(Business Wire)

Why Your Next IT Job Will Be In Healthcare (Information Week)

Unisys Closes 1-for-10 Reverse Split (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

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Philly Tech Events Calendar

Lender Capmark Financial Group Files for Bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
Formerly GMAC Commercial Holding Corp., based in Horsham.

Digitas Health Social Media POV

View more documents from Sarah Larcker.

People News 10/25/09

Boomi Hires Key Sales Executive to Advance its Leadership in Cloud Integration
Scott Crawford, formerly of IBM and Ascential Software, to Lead Company's Global Sales Efforts (PR Web)

SAP APPOINTS NEW HEAD OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES (SAP Press Release)

Americas’ SAP Users’ Group’s Interim CEO Accepts Permanent Post
Bridgette Chambers, Former Chief Executive Officer of Voile Enterprises, Named as Permanent CEO (Business Wire)

Second Drexel professor elected as IEEE president (The Triangle)

Kenexa Strengthens RPO Expertise With the Appointment of International RPO Development Director (Marketwire)

Mikros Systems Corporation Names Paul G. Casner, Jr. Chairman of Board (PR Newswire via Reuters)

Wolters Kluwer Health Bolsters CME Organization, Appoints Dr. Karen Overstreet as Executive Director of its Lippincott CME Institute (PR Newswire)

SevOne Names William J. Conners Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development (Marketwire)

New Hire Supports CRM manager's Commitment to Cloud Computing
CTO with Expertise to Lead force.com Development and Integration Practice (PR Newswire)

USA Technologies Appoints Steven D. Barnhart and Jack E. Price to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

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Net neutrality faces political, legal hurdles (CNN via CNET)

Q&A: FCC’s Baker Sounds Alarm Over 'Anecdote’-Based Regulations (Multichannel News)

Digitas and Razorfish Take First Steps Toward Combining Health Practices

Razorfish Execs Leave for Microsoft After Publicis Deal
(Advertising Age)
The most significant implication of this story locally is a possible first step towards the integration of Digitas Health and Razorfish's (now both part of Publicis) health practice. Katy Thorbahn, former GM of Razorfish Philadelphia, will now head up Razorfish health, reporting to Digitas Health CEO David Kramer, though both will retain their own brands for now at least.
See my story from March on Razorfish Phildelphia and Katy Thorbahn.

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Deloitte Philly Fast 50

The Deloitte Philly Fast 50 is out, representing Deloitte's take on the 50 fastest growing companies in the area.
Unlike the Philadelphia 100, the Deloitte list does include publicly traded companies. Unlike the Inc. 5000 , revenue is not shown for Deloitte companies unless they are also on Deloitte Fast 500 nationwide rankings.
As I reported earlier, The Neat Company was the top area company on the "Fast 500" and is also tops on the Philly Fast 50. However, another company that did not appear on Fast 500, eZanga, an internet advertising firm in Middletown DE, is ranked #2 on the Philly Fast 50.

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Brian Tierney's time, money, luck slipping away from his Philly news empire (Daily Finance)

Governor Rendell Says $22 Million Investment Will Create 375 Jobs Statewide, Stimulate Pennsylvania's Technology Sector (PR Newswire)
It looks like the amount of funds Ben Franklin Technology Partners will distribute to its four regional BFTPs this year will be $16
million($4 million each), down from $27.6 million for each of the past several years. This is a decline of about 42%.

Big difference in Dow, PricewaterhouseCoopers venture reports (Philadelphia Business Journal:
Technology Blog)

Microsoft Reports Pre-Windows 7 Declines For Revenues And Profits. No More Excuses. (TechCrunch)

Verizon, Comcast Still Fighting Over Silly VOD 'Channel' Counts (Broadband Reports)

FCC Begins Examination of Potential Internet Regulation (Comcast Voices)

Four things SAP must consider before a Teradata acquisition (SearchSAP.com)

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Daily Links 10/22/09: FCC Votes to Move Forward on Net Neutrality

Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint to Launch 4G in Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle (Business Wire)

Competing With Hulu a Bad Move for Comcast (Read Write Web)

FCC moves forward on net neutrality rule-making in unanimous vote (Washington Post: Post Tech)
FCC Agrees to Set Rules on Net Neutrality (GigaOM)
FCC proposes network neutrality rules (and big exemptions) (ars technica)

Watch Comcast CEO Brian Roberts at the Web 2.0 Summit 09 (Comcast Voices: Video)

Early Tremors: Is It Time for Another Social Network Shakeout? (Knowledge@Wharton)

Dow Chemical Says Sales Volume Slides 9%, Recovery ‘Slow’ (Bloomberg)

IMS Health takes 3Q loss on restructuring charges (Associated Press via Forbes)

SAP India MD: Ranjan Das, the man who loved Mumbai (Economic Times of India)

SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up? (ZDNet Blogs)

Unisys protests TSA’s $493M award to CSC (Washington Business Journal)

Lockheed Martin Moorestown unit gets $1B missile defense contract (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Alteva and SimpleSignal Form IP Peering Alliance
Leading Service Providers Collaborate to Create Cross-Platform, HD-to-HD IP Calling (Marketwire)

Milestone: Motorola Ships One Millionth Fiber-to-the-Home Optical Network Terminal (PR Newswire)

Allentown firm's Socialtivity gives marketers social media liquidity (Keystone Edge)

Announcing the Dream Widget Challenge (The Boomi Blog)

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Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end (Associated Press via Google News)

SAP India Head Ranjan Das passes away (Silicon India)

Newspaper owners improve offer to lenders (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SAP says Siemens renews contract for 3 years (MarketWatch)

Challenges Await Head of New SAP User Group (PC World)

Synygy Announces New ETL Process for Fully Automated SAP Data Integration (Business Wire)

SEI Investments Q3 profit tops Street (Reuters)

Beige Book: Third District--Philadelphia (Federal Reserve Board)

Is Net Neutrality a FCC Trojan Horse? (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

FCC set to take on aggressive role as Internet traffic cop (San Jose Mercury News)

Verizon brings FiOS to Allentown (Fierce Telecom)

Diapers.com Raises $30 Million (PE Hub)
Philly-based MentorTech Ventures return investor in new round.

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Deloitte 2009 Fast 500

Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500 is out. Haven't had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but the top Philly-area IT related companies appear to be The Neat Company of Philadelphia (42) and Clear Align of Eagleville (128).

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LIVE: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts At Web 2.0 Summit (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast CEO: We are not a dead duck (CNET News)

Phillies provide boost to bottom line (Pottstown Mercury)

SAP Preps For Cloud Future Via New Intel Partnership (Information Week:
Global CIO)

Web 2.0 Summit - Time To Imagine (Information Week)
Brian Roberts is the kickoff speaker.

InfoLogix defaults, lender Hercules Technology gives more time (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Lockheed 2010 Forecast Trails Analysts’ Estimates (Bloomberg)

Both Sides Ramp Up As Neutral Net Meeting Approaches
AT&T Sends Letter To Employees Asking Them To Weigh In On Issue (Multichannel News)

Whippany consulting firm acquires Pennsylvania peer (NJBIZ.com)

Bentley Systems Announces Be Together: The Be Communities ‘Live' Conference (Water Online)

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IMS Taking Bids from PE firms

IMS in talks with private equity firms-sources (Reuters)

Daily Links 10/19/09: Franklin Institute award winners named (some guy named Gates)

Report: GE and Comcast in Due Diligence on NBC Universal Deal (Portfolio.com)
Is The Vivendi-GE-NBC Universal-Comcast Deal $500 Million Away? (paidContent)
A Surprise Adviser for Comcast Bid: Peter Chernin (New York Times: Media Decoder)

11 winners announced of Franklin Institute awards (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Dow Jones venture numbers in for 3Q (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

InterDigital may appeal ITC ruling in Nokia patent case (Reuters)

After New Ads, Doubts Grow About a Verizon iPhone (New York Times: Bits)

Verizon Offers 'Quadruple Play' Discounts
Finally begins offering discounts for bundling wireless with DSL, FiOS (Broadband Reports)

In Oracle Vs. SAP, IBM Could Tip Balance To SAP (Information Week: Global CIO)

Global BusinessObjects Network (GBN) and Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) Host Customer-Led Conference for SAP BusinessObjects Users (Business Wire)

Teradata Announcements Target Public, Private Clouds PC World)

Web Giants Facebook, Amazon, Twitter Join Support For Net Neutrality Rules (Washington Post: Post Tech)

TIBCO Spotfire and Integromics Unveil New Genomics Data Analysis Solution to Speed Drug Research, Development (Marketwire)
Integromics' US headquarters is at the Science Center in Philadelphia.

BPM Modeling Tool Vendor Celebrates 20 Years of Being First (PR Web)

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Top Social Networking Sites in September 2009 (ClickZ)
myYearbook's share of US visitors down 40% from a year ago, according to Hitwise.

Catching Flak On Neutrality
Genachowski's Codification Plan Assailed By Many Sides (Multichannel News)

The Daily Docket: Charter Plan Gets Thumbs Up (Wall Street Journal: Bankruptcy Beat)

Cable's Canoe Heads for Scalable Waters
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast announces rate hike (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Nitro PDF Software Partners With Vuzit to Deliver New Release of PDF Download, the World's Most Popular PDF Web Browser Extension (Marketwire)

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People News 10/18/09

Lockheed Names President, COO
Firm's Kubasik Gets Combined Role to Improve Oversight (Washington Post)

20nine Adds President & Announces New Business
Agency Poised for Continued Growth In 2010 with New Additions (Business Wire)

Tipton Communications Hires Nicole I. Miller as Senior E-Solutions Consultant (Business Wire)

Arris Hires Galione As Sales VP For Comcast Account
Exec Previously Led Cisco Divisional Account Team Dedicated to MSO (Multichannel News)

Project Management Institute Announces 2010 Board of Directors and Officers (Business Wire)

Dave Caputo was promoted to vice president, content production at QVC from director, Multichannel News reports.

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Media World: Will NBC dump Jay Leno? (Daily Finance)

Some Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality (IDG via New York Times)

Comcast cutting 64 jobs at advertising division (Boston Globe)

BofA weighs radical changes at Del. card centers (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Princeton's MuseAmi Raises VC Funds

MuseAmi Inc., a Princeton-based music software startup, has raised $1.5 million in VC funding, according to regulatory filings dug up by PE Hub.
It had previously been seeded by Mohr Davidow Ventures, but it is not clear where this current round came from. MuseAmi's website, which is basically just a placeholder right now, describes itself as follow:

"A cutting edge music software company with new transformational technology that empowers you to play, share, create, learn, and teach music - all in the palm of your hand. We are creating a virtuous cycle of consumer handheld embedded products synergistic with web products powered by MuseAmi technology."

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Daily Links 10/16/09: DreamIt Ventures companies hit NYC Demo Day

Oracle envisions rosy life with Sun
(Reuters)

Earnings: NBC Universal Profits Rise 13 Percent As Revenues Slide 20 Percent (paidContent)

Malone: GE Advisor Goldman Sachs Is On NBCU Listening Tour
Praises Comcast's Roberts For 'Being Logical Counterpart' To Potential Deal (Multichannel News)

Herley shares off after quarterly loss widens (Reuters)
Herley is based in Lancaster.

DreamIt Ventures companies hit NYC Demo Day (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Penn Medicine Inks $135 Million Contract with Siemens (Healthcare Informatics)

InterDigital Receives Notice That Commission Found No Violation of Section 337 in ITC Patent Infringement Action against Nokia (Business Wire)

WorldGate Offers Complete Digital Voice and Video Phone Services with Announcement of New Agreement with deltathree (Business Wire)

AGI to Showcase New Dynamic 3-D Visualization Software at GEOINT
Lightweight programming library renders movement over time and increases accuracy of GIS applications (PR Newswire)

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Daily Links 10/15/09: Redlasso is Back

Business Outlook Survey: October 2009 (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Philly Fed factory gauge slips in October
(Reuters)

Vivendi Said to Hold Off on NBC, to Focus on GVT (Bloomberg)

Microsoft Says It Can Recover 'Most' Sidekick Data (Washington Post: Faster Forward)

BioNanomatrix Awarded Supplemental Funding to Accelerate Commercialization of Innovative Single-Molecule Analyzer
(PR Newswire)

Redlasso is Back!
Popular Clipping Service Relaunches at Blog World (Business Wire)
But content doesn't appear overwhelming at first glance.
Redlasso Relaunches With Clippable, Shareable Videos From Over 100 TV Stations (paidContent)

Company Math vs VC Math (Redeye VC)

Clear-er sailing for Clearwire?
RESEARCH FIRM UPGRADES MOBILE WIMAX PLAYER (RCR Wireless)

T-Mobile 'everything unlimited' plan to offer voice, SMS, MMS, data for $50? (ZDNet Blogs)

Oracle unwraps Fusion Applications, new user support portal (SearchOracle.com)

Oracle Enhances Both Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Contract Management (Marketwire)

SAP ties knot with Open Text for ECM (Computer Business Review)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Awarded Major Contract for Multiple Tactical Flight and Aircrew Training Simulation Devices (PR Newswire)

Live Sixers games on the Internet? Perhaps (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Daily Links 10/14/09: Vivendi Has No Comment On NBC Discussions

Newspapers appeal ruling on credit-bidding (Philadelphia Inquirer)

French media company Vivendi mum on possible NBC Universal sale (LA Times: Company Town)

codeMantra’s collectionPoint to Utilize MarkLogic Server in New SaaS Offering for Publishers (Business Wire)

Bentley acquires Santa Rosa software firm gINT (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Bentley and Pointools Sign Continuous Technology Transfer Agreement to Incorporate Vortex Engine in Bentley Platform (PR Newswire)

Top 7 Tech Disasters of the Decade
Sidekick Data Loss Is Latest Technology Debacle (ABC News)
Heartland Payment Systems breach also included.

U.S. Stocks Primed for Takeovers, Goldman Sachs Says (Bloomberg)
Heartland Payment among those mentioned.

Hands On: WiMAX in Philadelphia (Media Experiences 2 Go)

Comcast: Programmers Control 'TV Everywhere' Ad Model
Exec Cites Uncertainty Over Consumer Tolerance For Ad Load Online (Multichannel News)

As DirecTV feud drags on, could Bettman's VS gamble pay off? (Yahoo Sports)

Pfizer gets final clearances for Wyeth acquisition (MarketWatch)

Publicis Closes Razorfish Acquisition; Microsoft Gets 3.3 Percent Stake In Ad Holding Company (paidContent)

Benioff At Oracle Open World: This Could Be A Trend (Enterprise Matters)

Internet Capital Group setting stage for up to $150M in stock sales (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Second Quarter and Year To Date Fiscal 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

MedQuist Announces Reseller Agreement With Clario (PR Newswire)

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Business Week Recognizes Young Philly Entrepreneurs

Plenty of ink (or pixels) for companies with Philadelphia roots in Business Week's 25 2009 Finalists for America's Best Young Entrepreneurs (under the age of 25). Three are currently Philly-based:

Nat Turner, his partners Zach Weinburg, Scott Becker, and Michael Provenzano, and their Philly-based Internet advertising firm Invite Media.

Brian Ruby and his Malvern company Carbon Nanoprobes, which makes molecular imaging equipment for imaging microscopic objects.

Sister and brother Catherine Cook and David Cook and their teen-oriented social networking site myYearbook.com of New Hope.

Two others named grew out of Philly's Dreamit Ventures incubator: SCVNGR, now out of Boston, and NoteHall, which is
apparently based in Tuscon.

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Daily Links 10/13/09: Comcast, GE Getting Closer? Decision Time For Vivendi

Comcast & NBC-U: 'They've All Agreed to Agree' (The Wrap)

Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL. (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

QlikTech Appoints New President of the Americas
Tim Wassman Adds Industry Expertise to Fuel Continued Growth in the Region (PR Web)

Bentley Celebrates 25th Anniversary (TenLinks.com)

Bentley Adds Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Capabilities Through Acquisition of gINT Software (Bentley News Release)

Bentley Acquires South Korea's 9SQ, Maker of PlantWAVE (TenLinks.com)

Bentley to Acquire KSJ Beijing, Maker of BridgeMaster (TenLinks.com)

Comcast Gets Dynamic With VoD Ads (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Clear Align, not DSG, is fastest-growing firm in Philadelphia area (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Instem Continues Global Growth Adding 12 New Clients, More Resources and More Offices (Business Wire)

The Buzz at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (Computerworld)

Ellison Frenemy Benioff Takes The Stage At Oracle OpenWorld (TechCrunch)

Novell, SAP bring together security, compliance wares
Integration deal certifies software running together (Network World)

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Daily Links 10/12/09: Level 3 Expands Ops in Philadelphia

Vivendi's plans may determine whether NBC Universal ends up in Comcast's hands (LA Times)

News Corp, Liberty Media interested in NBC - report (Reuters)

Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6 Billion In Third Quarter. Most Of That Went To Vinod Khosla. (TechCrunch)

T-Mobile Sidekick U.S. Users Face Personal Data Loss (Reuters via Wired Epicenter)

Level 3 Expands Operations in Philadelphia (Business Wire)
Level 3 Takes Local Road to Philadelphia (Telecom Ramblings)

Comcast to Put Botnet Cops on the Security Beat (GigaOM)

SAP and Oracle going head to head (ZDNet Blogs)

Capgemini and Microsoft combine forces for global ERP initiative (Inside SAP)

InfoLogix considering private placement (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Financial Software Systems buys Spot Systems (Finextra)
Financial Software Systems is based in Horsham.

Philadelphia PD Meets Mission Demands With GIS (PR Newswire)

Philly native uses Twitter to feed his Google-killer site (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Philadelphia Launches Web Site to Focus on Regional Social Innovations and Social Entrepreneurs (PR Newswire)

Boston’s Startup Scene is Starting To Be Seen (PE Hub)

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People News 10/11/09

McCreesh Global Head of Operations Digitas Health
(PharmaLive)

SAP Names Chuck Christopherson to Lead Public Administration Unit (PR Newswire)

DMW Worldwide taps Rich Grosskettler as Director of Interactive Services (Philly Ad Club News)

Philadelphia Agency Launches New “Digital Video” Division (Company Press Release)

imc2 adds Michael Davis as CCO and Dr Urvashi Pitre as senior vp Relationship Analytics (Philly Ad Club News)

Tech Industry Braces for More Antitrust Scrutiny (Associated
Press via New York Times)

Could Del. lose its corporate role? (Wilmington News Journal)

InfoLogix Announces News Related to its Recent Corporate Development Initiatives
Retains SSG Capital Advisors as Investment Banker (PR Newswire)

Philadelphia 100 Gathers At Penn (The Bulletin)

Comcast Said to Favor Keeping NBC’s Zucker, Management Team (Bloomberg)

A Touchdown for Comcast?
Wall Street may not like the cable giant's bid for NBC Universal, but it could make sense (Business Week)

FCC To Probe Google Voice
Some Rural Calls Are Being Blocked (Washington Post)

Daily Links 10/9/09: NBC Employees Worry About Comcast Health Plan

Does Comcast See The Writing on Cable's Slippery Wall? (Business Week)

NBC Employees Fret About Potential Buyer Comcast's Health Plan (Silicon Alley Insider)

Hey Comcast (& ISPs), No One Needs Your Convergence Devices (GigaOM)

How To Build A $170 Million Company From Scratch (Silicon Alley Insider)

Wireless options heating up in Phila. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Clearwire Married to WiMAX for 2 More Years (GigaOM)

Philly Newspapers' Creditors Can Use Debt They're Owed to Bid for Company, Judge Rules (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

Penn prof Kearns addresses a need (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Does SAP have to give away CRM? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

SAP, HP to Deepen Ties Around BI (PC World)

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Daily Links 10/8/09: Mistras IPO Priced Below Target

Comcast's Rivals For NBC (Forbes)

SAP 2.0 Promises Business Value Over Products: Can It Deliver? (Information Week: Global CIO)

SAP Is Testing Flat-Rate Pricing For Large Enterprises (Information Week: Global CIO)

Mistras prices below range, Omeros at bottom in IPOs (Reuters)
Mistras is based in Princeton Junction.

Feds Investigating IBM Over Mainframe Monopoly (Silicon Alley Insider)
Thought I had accidentally come across a headline from 40 years ago.

Alphion Corporation Announces Selection by BSNL as GPON Technology Provider
GPON network equipment to support deployment of multiple play services in the India Telecoms Network (Business
Wire)

Comcast Snares a CLEC (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast alerts customers to infected PCs
(CNET News)

My Interview With FCC Chairman: No Retreat On Net Neutrality (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Essent, Backed by Goldman Sachs, Buys Triad Assets (Bloomberg)

PivotLink and Boomi Expand SaaS Business Analytics to Over 70 Enterprise Applications (Marketwire)

Revisiting Entrepreneurs Who Ride the Economic Waves (New York Times)

Verisk Analytics of Jersey City raises $1.9B in stock offering (Newark Star-Ledger)

Interead Picks QVC To Launch Its “Cool-er” e-Reader In U.S. (paidContent)

D&E, Windstream merger will cut 290 jobs in Pa. (Central Penn Business Journal)

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Google Remembers Invention of Barcode (Drexel Connection)

Google has a barcode-looking thing on its home page this morning. Not sure why. (Update: Explained here). Any discussion of the history of the bar code must include reference to its Philly (specifically Drexel) roots.
See Drexel Press Release.

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