Checkpoint's 2Q Profit More Than Triples From Year-Ago Period Hurt by Litigation Settlement (AP via Yahoo News)

Checkpoint Raises 2007 Adjusted Guidance (AP via Yahoo News)


Internet Capital Group Announces Second Quarter Financial Results (BusinessWire)


Buyout Latest in Hot BPM Market
MetaStorm-Proforma deal underscores growing interest from VCs and private equity in market for business process management software. (Red Herring)
Internet Capital Group owns a stake in MetaStorm

Vishay Reports Results for Second Quarter 2007(BusinessWire)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2007 Results (BusinessWire)

Safeguard Scientifics invests in operator of shopping Web sites (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Interesting because Safeguard hasn't been doing much on the IT side recently

TVGuide.com operator buys stake in BuddyTV
$2.8 million to help build online groups (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Two Wharton MBAs' newest venture.


Database Mapper Gets $3.5M
Sypherlink sees opportunity in homeland security, M&A. (Red Herring)
Battelle Ventures of Princeton participated in round

Disney, Comcast, Time Warner may bid for Yankees TV network (BloggingStocks)

Comcast opens Lynnwood call center (Everett, WA Herald)


Update on Comcast's switch from Microsoft TV (seattlepi.com blogs)


Fast Cities Struggle to Go Wireless (Fast Company)

PPL Telcom completes Philadelphia gateway (Lightwave)

High tide meets high-tech at beach of the future (AP/MIT Technology Review)
Ocean City, NJ


Readily Readable
A marketing company slashes the time and effort it spends creating reports with the help of performance management software. (destinationcrm.com)
About Philadelphia-based HardMetrics' software


Apprise Software, Inc. Opens Office in Nanjing, China; Expands Operations (PR Newswire)