Finisar Corporation Completes Combination With Optium Corporation (Marketwire via CNN Money)
The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page (TechCrunch)
Nofouls Puts Your Local Basketball Games on the Map (The Startup Review) (Mashable)
This is a neat app!
Anthillz Helps You Build an Online Work Reputation (CenterNetworks)
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People News
BravoSolution Names New CEO (BusinessWire)
MDA Lending Solutions Names Mortgage Industry Veteran John Walsh as New President of MDA DataQuick Division (BusinessWire)
RCM Technologies (RCMT) CFO/Treasurer/Secretary to Resign (StreetInsider.com)
EDELBROCK APPOINTED TO LEAD PENN STATE GREAT VALLEY (Press Release)
Bio-Imaging Technologies Announces Election of Adeoye Olukotun to Board (BusinessWire)
Ballard Adds Prominent Patent Lawyers
Philadelphia-Based Attorneys Complement Atlanta-Based IP Group (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)
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International Rectifier rejects Vishay's buyout offer (Reuters)
Vishay-IR deal could end or turn nasty (EE Times)
Comcast Sets Bandwidth Threshold For Residential Customers
(Information Week)
Announcement Regarding An Amendment to Our Acceptable Use Policy (Comcat Web Site)
Comcast’s 250 GB Cap and Some Inside Info on Network Management (Zatz Not Funny!)
Comcast sees a customer windfall in digital TV (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Canoe Ventures' First 'Smart Channel.' Yeah, We Missed it Too. (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)
Why Verizon Will Win The Communications War (The Bulletin)
Musser 2.0 (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
User Group Hosting Discussions On SAP Price Hikes (Information Week)
On College Campuses, Video Games Are More Than Just Play (gamernewsbits.com)
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Comcast Preps TiVo Marketing Launch (Multichannel
News)
Comcast 250GB Monthly Cap Goes Live October 1
Official word should drop sometime today.... (Broadband Reports)
Breaking News: Google Announces Android Market, Tackles Apple (information Week)
Ricoh to buy Malvern's Ikon Office Solutions (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Hot Technology That Could Change Health Care (Forbes)
Infosys Makes British Acquisition (Business Week)
India's Wipro May Buy SAP Service Provider in Germany (Bloomberg)
SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service (SaaS). (ZDNet)
Urban Outfitters Fashions Growth Plan (Wall Street Journal)
Movie company sets stage (Norristown Times
Herald)
Beyond the Blue Bin
We leave a trail of waste that recycling alone cannot erase. (Philadelphia City Paper)
On Philadelphia dumping RecycleBank, among other things.
ProtonMedia Announces "Go Green, Go Virtual" Initiative (BusinessWire)
GalleyPlayer Pulls Plug On TV Buyers (Twice)
Paragon Technologies boosts share buyback amount (Associated Press via Forbes)
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Japan's Ricoh to buy Ikon Office for $1.6 bln (Reuters)
Activist Steel pushed Ikon's sale to Ricoh: analyst (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
SAP to Innovate Heavily in SMB On-Demand Suite
Business intelligence to pervade enterprise software giant's forthcoming products. (InternetNews.com)
Business ByDesign isn't dead. Its just resting.
Is the SAP skills shortage pushing buyers to Oracle, Microsoft? (SearchSAP.com)
Refused its sign, Unisys reconsiders move to city (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Entrepreneurs help nonprofits and pols get Net savvy (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Bentley Expands Professional Services for Structural Engineering and Plant Application Users in North America (BusinessWire)
Google's wireless efforts drawing political fire
AT&T lobbies against WiMax network primed for forthcoming 'Google phones' (MarketWatch)
Clearwire Has 12 Months' Worth of Cash
Will the company survive long enough to get Sprint deal done? (DSL Reports)
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, Comcast again sparring over carriage (Baltimore Business Journal)
Philly Newspaper Staffers vote to defer Raises (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)
Open source for the future. Art, music, and sustainablity at Monome (Red Hat Magazine)
Linux Foundation announces end user summit (ZDNet Blogs)
Tales From The Boom: The Open Cybercafe Thread (Philebrity)
Philebrity's Philly Internet History Week has a number of interesting vignettes like this.
AZ Adds an Electronic Component to Direct Mail
(PharmExec.com)
Dataram Reports Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Financial Results (BusinessWire)
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Unisys turned down on Center City sign (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Unisys to Reenter Competition for Transportation Security Administration Contract (BusinessWire)
A good news/bad news kind of day for Unisys.
5 Questions About Comcast’s New Bandwidth Throttling Plan (GigaOM)
Google Makes a Stronger Bid for TV Ad Biz
(Wired Blogs: Epicenter)
MGM Seeks Capital 'Enhancements' (Business Week)
SAP CEO Defends Price Hikes as Customers Gripe (InternetNews.com)
SAP Pursues Software’s Holy Grail (Wall Street Journal: Business Technology Blog)
AOL Seeks Directions for a MapQuest Facelift (GigaOM)
MapQuest is partially based in Lancaster.
Proxy advisors back Quality Systems board (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Quality Systems' major business segment is NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.
GSI to keep running e-commerce for Dick’s (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Q&A with Susan Callahan of Safend (The Tech Herald)
Global Supply Management Expert BravoSolution Continues Financial Growth with Strong 2008 Start (BusinessWire)
USA Technologies Launches Next Generation, Lower Cost VM2iQ® EnergyMiser® (BusinessWire)
Arrow Electronics Hosts 20th Annual Arrowfest
Coast-to-Coast Technology Exhibition Launches Sept. 4 (BusinessWire)
Coming to Philly on September 4.
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Bits and Pieces
Philadelphia Magazine's Daily Examiner looks at preparations for the next round of cuts that is probably coming at the Inquirer and Daily News. This time, they are going after non-guild management (who needs those guys, anyway?)
Oliver Picher of Fun With Networking reports that another blogphiladelphia conference is in the planning stage, though the details are being more closely guarded than Obama's VP pick was.
Interested in Larry Mendte's post-plea confessional? Here it is, though I don't really care to get into it (Its all Alycia's fault). Way too much information, Larry. Though I'm sure he would fit in fine at WIP.
Chris Stanchak, TickeLeap's founder and CEO, learned a lesson about the value of using Google Alerts, when he found someone advertising for
programmers to create a "clone" of his company's website.
Fwix, a local news and information aggregation site, has expanded its
service to Philadelphia, though I don't see too much content there yet.
Anybody know if there is an iPhone developers meetup or user group in the area? Not that I'm one, just interested and haven't seen anything like that going on.
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Moorestown’s Lockheed Martin packed with secret military projects (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Microsoft Looking to Pawn Razorfish After Short Lived Romance (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)
Razorfish has a large Philly office.
India's Infosys to buy UK's Axon Group for $753 mln
(Reuters via The Guardian UK)
Privacy: Your Cable Box Knows You So Well (GigaOM)
MGM says not for sale, eyeing capital enhancements (Reuters)
Comcast holds a major stake in MGM.
Turning Point for Touch Screens
(New York Times: Prototype) Free registration
Calvin Klein Launches Full-Scale Branded E-Commerce Site For U.S. (BusinessWire)
Powered by GSI Commerce.
New firm venturing into NEPA (Scranton Times Tribune)
AMETEK Completes Acquisition of Xantrex Programmable Power
--Unit of Xantrex Technology Broadens Scope of AMETEK’s Power Business-- (BusinessWire)
Maxwell Systems Releases Management Suite to Integrate with Estimating Solutions
(PRNewswire)
Tales From The Boom: Digital City Philadelphia (Philebrity)
MapQuest Adds More Content in Select Search Results (MapQuest Blog)
CSL Behring's Innovative HeliTrax(SM) System Helps Physicians Manage Hemophilia A Patients (PRNewswire)
eMergent Benefit Solutions, LLC Announces Plan for Next Generation Benefits Administration Technology (PRWeb)
Breakaway Technologies Becomes SAP(R) Services Partner (PRNewswire)
Chamber on ombudsman mission
James Street Investment District in partnership (Lancaster Sunday News)
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SAP has a new chief and a new course
(Reuters via International Herald Tribune)
Comcast's on the line (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Broadband rollouts stir
complaints over utility boxes (Associated Press via Google News)
Qwest Wants Comcast Taxed Like A Telco In Utah
Asks State Tax Commission To Consider If Op Should Pay Corporate Assessments (Multichannel News)
IMS Health, Verispan under fire (Associated Press via Delaware Online)
Gartner Tech Forecast: Cloudy and Getting Cloudier (New York Times: Bits-free registration)
NY comptroller: ditch $2 billion wireless network (Reuters)
A unit of Berwyn-based Tyco Electronics has the contract.
Changing Skyline: Letter-imperfect: Signs of too much sky writing (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Local companies on list of fastest-growing firms (Lancaster Sunday News)
What's up with that? (Raleigh News & Observer)
Traffic.com comes to town.
Capital Briefings Registration (Ben Franklin Technology Partners)
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People News
Janney Continues Growth with Addition of New CIO (BusinessWire)
Orduna heads to Canoe Ventures as CTO
(CED Magazine)
Barclaycard US Appoints Michelle Bottomley as Chief Marketing Officer (PRNewswire)
Cadient Group Appoints Andrew le Blanc as Creative Director (PRNewswire)
AppLabs Strengthens European Management Team (Free Press Releases)
ValueVision ousts new CEO after five months (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Archer Group Adds Dennis Egen, Andrew Fishman and Ben Levin to Management Team (Philly AD News)
Lattice Appoints Steve Brown as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing (BusinessWire)
CardioNet Appoints Two Directors to Board (PRNewswire via Philly.com)
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Computerworld's 2008 list of IT Schools to Watch has been released and includes 56 schools. Penn was ranked among the top ten innovators, and this profile features Penn's masters program designed people without undergraduate computer science/engineering degrees.
Other area schools included are Penn State (University Park), Drexel and Princeton. Also, surprisingly (to me anyway), Rutgers-New Brunswick made the list.
What is interesting is that if you look at the map on the first page of the article (I'd embed it here if I could), you'll notice the heavy concentration of schools in the Northeast United States, and the relative sparseness elsewhere. This would seem to bode well for high technology in this part of the country, but of course, how much formal IT education did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have?
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Verizon, Google getting chummy on mobile search? (ZDNet Blogs)
TV news anchor admits to hacking, leaking colleague's e-mail
Philadelphia's Mendte pleads guilty to accessing a protected computer (Computerworld)
Drop the ball, ING Direct tells PNC
Wilmington-based direct bank sues over VirtualWallet (Delaware Business Ledger)
Gemalto's Smart Card Trick (Forbes)
Hot Neuron's Clustify Document Clustering Software Named a Trend-Setting Product by KMWorld (BusinessWire)
Sessions planned for tech-firm funding (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Sandvine: We're Fine (Light Reading:
Cable Digital News)
Lockheed Martin Interruption Technology Makes Debut on USS Sterett (PRNewswire)
Get Schooled in Business: Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs (Phillypreneurs)
CRM magazine Announces Winners of 2008 CRM Market Awards (BusinessWire)
Time for Code Camp 2008.3 - Oct 11, 2008 (Schwammy Says...)
SAP's Hopp Gives Hoffenheim Chance in German Soccer Big League (Bloomberg)
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The Inc. 5000 for 2008 is out. While I don't put too much stock in these lists because short-term revenue growth can be influenced by a lot of things (such as one contract) that are not necessarily indicative of longer-term success, they are nonetheless useful for benchmarking the progress of known companies and identifying others that may not have previously been on the radar.
The Philly Metro Top 100 features NeatReceipts as number one, with revenues of over $11.7 million. It will be interesting to see what they do this year now that they have entered the Mac universe.
Another company that could be on this list is ProfitPoint, a provider of gift and loyalty card services, which ranked 59th nationally in revenue growth rate.
Although listed as being in Tennessee, ProfitPoint apparently has its headquarters in Clifton Heights.
Here also are links to all companies listed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
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Nanospheres moving faster than light? (ZDNet Blogs)
Research done at UPenn.
Business Outlook Survey, August 2008 (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Comcast To Bring Web-Style 'Widgets' To TV With Intel
MSO Will Integrate The Intel-Yahoo Widget Channel Framework With CableLabs' Tru2way (Multichannel News)
Intel, Yahoo, Comcast to partner on widgets for live TV (BetaNews)
Comcast Says No New Traffic Management Plan Yet (IDG News Service via New York Times)
Verizon: we need freedom to delay P2P traffic when necessary (ars technica)
Philly Guild to Members: More Pain on the Way (Editor & Publisher)
Gemalto Shares Surge as Profit Doubles on Phone Cards (Bloomberg)
Gemalto was formed by the merger of Montgomery County's Gemplus with Axalto in 2006.
IAC, Spinoffs Mainly Higher As Breakup Becomes Official (Dow Jones NewsWires via CNN Money)
It will be interesting to see what happens to Home Shopping Network (HSNIV) now that it is publically traded, after Malone and Diller sparred so much over its value. It is now trading at $12.61, giving it a market value of about $700 million.That seems to me to be a good bit less than what Diller thought it was worth.
Parexel COO on ClinPhone (ClinPage)
ClinPhone's US headquaters were in East Windsor, NJ before its merger with Paraxel.
More tidbits on Siemens Medical layoffs (HISTalk Blog)
Aria Systems Wins CRM Magazine's 2008 "Rising Star" CRM Market Award (Marketwire)
Brand Yourself! Viddler’s new customizable player (The
Viddler Spotlight)
LEGO Store opening in King of Prussia (geekadephia)
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FCC finalizes Comcast's filtering penalties (CNET
News)
Comcast's Diet For Bandwidth Hogs: A 20-Minute Timeout (CMCSA) (Silicon Alley Insider)
Intel, Yahoo Unveil Partnership to Redesign HDTVs (PC Magazine)
Comcast to Work with Intel to Bring Interactive Applications to the TV
Comcast First Service Provider to Embrace Widget Channel Framework (BusinessWire)
I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services (New YorkTimes-free registration)
Workday: The Next Software Power?
PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is building another software upstart that is attracting a lot of attention (Business Week)
Salesforce.com acquires InStranet, adds knowledge management to CRM suite (SearchCRM.com)
Salesforce.com Profit Doubles; Forecast Falls Short (Bloomberg)
Virtus Partners Becomes Anexinet
Name Change Supports Recent Merger of Two Philadelphia-based Information Technology Providers (PRWeb)
Local M&A deals slow 4%, nationally they tumble 19% (Philadelphia Business Journal)
MDA To Combine DataQuick® and MindBox® with Lending Solutions (BusinessWire)
Gannett eliminates N.J. jobs (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)
Air Products' Skychain Inventory Monitoring Technology Helps Customers Offset Soaring Delivery Costs (PRNewswire)
What’s future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet (ZDNet
Blogs)
Enterprise Support reveals a continental divide among SAP user groups (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)
SAP, Wipro launch ready-to-use ERP solution for mid-market cos( Economic Times of India)
Innovative Solutions & Support Revises Financial Targets for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2008
(BusinessWire)
Boomi.com - On Demand Integration - First Impressions (Zodeno.com)
Magazine Names Drexel's Campus Ugliest in the Nation (KYW NewsRadio)
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A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake? (New York Times-free registration)
On FiOS.
A Bear Speaks: Why Verizon’s Pricey FiOS Bet Won’t Pay Off (New York Times-free registration)
Clearwire Expects Finished Sprint Deal By Year's End
Assuming regulators and AT&T don't get in the way... (Broadband Reports)
Comcast, DirecTV Play HD Numbers Game (Wired Blogs)
Gannett Orders Its TV Stations To Promote Its Mommy Sites, Now (Silicon Alley Insider)
Both major Gannett papers in the area have "Mom" sites: the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill and the Wilmington News Journal.
ING Direct Expands its 'Banking Barista' Model (Brand Week)
City of Philadelphia Receives Prestigious President’s Award at ESRI’s 2008 User Conference (GISuser.com)
City would restrict cell-phone use by drivers (Philadelphia Daily News)
New Jersey Transit Deploys Saaspoint Mobile Field Scheduler via Salesforce.com’s App Exchange (BusinessWire)
Does position equal power? (Computerworld
Blogs)
Another look at the Downingtown School District's decision to hire a CIO.
Three SAP Vice Presidents Sue Company For Disguised Dismissal (China Tech News)
Don't know quite what to make of this story. Not the way they do things in Walldorf.
BI and Performance Management Evolve at SAP-Business Objects (Intelligent Enterprise)
SAP acquisition opens up world of opportunities for Business Objects, according to execs (SearchDataManagement.com)
Unisys To Manage Republican National Convention IT Services (Information Week)
What could possibly go wrong?
Breakaway Technologies Wins Cognos' Sales Excellence Award (PRNewswire)
NetQuest Launches First 10 Gigabit Test and Monitoring Access Solution to Optimize Tool Port Usage for Service Providers (BusinessWire)
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Cable boxes vexing residents
(phillyBurbs.com)
GSI Preps Services Push (AD Week)
iStreet Solutions, an SAP(R) Certified Hosting Partner, Accelerates Its Business Expansion with Data Center and Disaster Recovery Solutions
(PRNewswire)
Don't let Vishay offer distract you, International Rectifier tells employees (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Rich clickings for myYearbook founder (TimesOnline UK)
Regulations and risk will oblige banks to spend on IT (Financial Times UK)
Accenture bets big on pharma offshoring with end-to-end services (Financial Express India)
Qwest, Fiberlink deliver all-access remote endpoint security (Telecommunications Magazine)
Lockheed Martin Develops Context-Aware Computing for Intelligence Analysts
(PRNewswire)
Comcast’s blazing fast Internet is half the speed of DSL
(TG Daily)
Green from Green: Rising Energy Costs May be Good News for 'Clean Tech' Firms -- and Their Investors (Knowledge@Wharton)
Who Makes What: GPON Equipment (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Missionomics Releases CircleDog
Now Available: The World’s First ‘Uncomplicated’ Customer Management Software (BusinessWire)
Officials add tech chief to district staff (Daily Local
News)
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Can Comcast Deliver TV 2.0?
Inside the cable giant’s plan to marry television and the Internet (Multichannel News)
MSOs Admit To Tracking Consumers’ Online Activity
Cable One, Bresnan and Others Have Tested 'Tailored Ads' (Multichannel News)
Int'l Rectifier Finds Something Vishay In $1.5B Bid (Forbes)
Update: International Rectifier to make no immediate response to Vishay's $1.6 billion bid
(EE Times)
Phila. high-rise ruckus sign of the times (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Great news for MicroStation users - the Luxology announcement (BE Communities: On the Platform)
Strohl/Sungard Update (JAY BABEL WEBLOG)
Siemens Medical Solutions Layoff Rumors (HIS Talk)
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People News
Evan Malone joins Liberty Media board
(Denver Business Journal)
ESPRiT Consulting Appoints Alex Collevecchio as President of ESPRiT Consulting USA (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)
Rodale Promotes Prevention Editor-in-Chief Liz Vaccariello to Senior Vice President (BusinessWire via Philly.com)
MRO Corp. Promotes John Walton to Vice President of Client Relations (BusinessWire)
Career Management/Exec Search Consultant Elva Bankins Joins Kelleher Associates as Senior Partner (MMD Newswire.com)
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Vishay offers $1.6 billion for International Rectifier (Reuters)
Vishay offers to swallow International Rectifier for $1.6B (Tech Condfidential: The Deal)
HighPoint Solutions Acquires Aptiv Technology Partners (PRNewswire)
Dayak.com raises $1.2 million from area venture firms (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
HCSC Acquisition of MEDecision Supports Insurer's Strategy to Improve Health, Reduce Costs
(PRNewswire)
VoxWare Customers are Speechless (CIO.com)
VoxWare is based in Lawrenceville.
SAP CRM customers taking new application off the shelf
(SearchCRM.com)
SAP wrap and transparency points (ZDNet Blogs)
Comcast boasts service boosts
New technologies designed to benefit customers — and technicians
(Lancaster Intelligencer Journal)
Sanders: Free Comcast box doesn't cut it (Rutland Herald)
Explanation and Apology From Dick’s Sporting Goods ((The Unofficial Redskins Blog)
A big mistake by GSI Commerce.
Now Sun has a social network server, too (CNET
News)
Feds Want Berwyn Businessman Held Without Bail For Trading With Iran (KYW NewsRadio)
Astea Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)
Commodities costs curtail profits at SL Industries (Philadelphia Business Journal)
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CardioNet Corporate Headquarters Impacted by Local Fire; Patient Monitoring Services Fully Intact (BusinessWire)
Was this the same fire as the apartment fire?
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Big Ten Network to debut on Comcast (Indianapolis Star)
Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory (CNET News)
Keep It Simple: PhrazIt Offers 30 Character Long Reviews (TechCrunch)
Urban’s 79% profit increase defies retail downturn (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Internet and catalog sales up 42 percent.
Intrinsyc Launches RapidRILTM and Announces First Licensee
Wireless Software Solution Enables Telephony Support on Windows Mobile® Handheld Devices with InterDigital® SlimChipTM Modem Solution (Marketwire)
SAP fires back at Waste Management (Network World)
Greater Pacific To Invest $32.5 Million In Ahmedabad-Based KPO Azure Knowledge (Venture Chronicle)
Azure's US offices are in Blue Bell.
Acorn Energy Completes Acquisition of Coreworx, Leading Energy Infrastructure Software Provider (PRNewswire)
Emtec Global Services (EGS) Acquires eBAS and Aveeva
Acquisition Adds Over 300 Consultants and Global Delivery Capability (PRNewswire)
Pa. company buys Pittsford-based Tel-e-Atrics Inc. (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)
NitroSecurity Secures $10M in Funding (Dark Reading)
Funding led by Radnor's NewSpring Capital, which also backed Conshohocken's RippleTech which was acquired by NitoSecurity
last month.
Parexel Closes the Acquisition of ClinPhone
Combined Capabilities Create the Industry's Largest eClinical Technology Offering (PharmaLive)
ClinPhone's US headquarters have ben in East Windsor, NJ. I don't know yet how the completed acquisition will effect its
local presence.
The Almost-Meteoric Rise of SaaS on Wall Street (Wall Street & Technology)
Architect: Unisys sign would mar Liberty Place
A 3d public hearing will be held Aug. 26 (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Gannett Confirms Cut in 1,000 Jobs
(Editor & Publisher)
Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working
(Workforce Management)
American Express and H&R Block offices mark 20 years in Linton (Emmons County Record: North Dakota)
Originally a Rosenbluth Travel office.
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Tribal DDB's Executive Creative Director Joins GSI Interactive (ClickZ)
Best Buy to sell iPhone (Associated Press via Google News)
QVC® to Implement Quintiq’s Multi-Resource Scheduling Solution (BusinessWire)
AT&T & Verizon to Carry QVC HD (TVPedictions.com)
Verizon Ads Bash Cable Rivals in Northern Jersey
Telco Talks Up Its FiOS Service In Latest Campaign (Multichannel News)
SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do (ZDNet)
Business Objects Summit Q&A (Intelligent Enterprise)
SAP, Oracle Holding Out on Ubuntu? (InternetNews.com)
Unisys skyscraper sign gets public hearing tomorrow (Philadelphia Inquirer)
iNetU Opens Fifth Data Center (Web Host Industry News)
Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports First Quarter Results (PRNewswire)
Dynasil Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)
Philadelphia's Premiere UnConference Returns for a Second Year
PodCamp Philly Is Dedicated to Providing an Intense Event With Discussions, Demos and Interaction From All Participants
(Marketwire)
Digital Signage Expo East: Bright lights, new city
(Digital Signage Today)
Welcome to New Jersey, Media Wasteland (New York Observer)
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I had been trying to get an idea of how big PointRoll, the Conshohocken-based web advertising firm, is and how fast it is growing. Gannett owns PointRoll, and its 10-Q doesn't give much of a clue. Its financial results are buried in a category called "other" along with commercial printing services.
But a recent piece in Knowledge@Wharton on the online advertising market, which discusses PointRoll in some depth, says it now has 260 employees, up from 50 three years ago. (I would assume they are generating well over $100,000 per employee). The article describes PointRoll as a leader in delivering "rich media" banner ads, the market for which is expected to be $5.9 billion this year and as much as $8 billion by 2011.
Separately, PointRoll today announced a partnership with in-stream video ad network ScanScout.
Note: If you access the article in Knowledge@Wharton after August 23, free registration may be required.
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SAP: Financials Are Rosy, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Ecosystem (CIO.com)
SAP links corporate performance management to supply chain (SearchSAP.com)
SAP Business Objects Takes Next Steps on Performance Management, BI (Intelligent Enterprise)
The End of Best-of-Breed (Wall
Street Journal: Business Technology Blog)
Malone eyes Time Warner stake swap for AOL dial-up (Financial Times)
Liberty Entertainment Group Q2 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking Alpha)
Malone is always entertaining.
Go Ringside for Social Activities
(Thoughts from the Ringside)
EchoStar Inks Tru2way Accord (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)
Comcast to launch action movie VOD channel with MGM (Associated Press via Google News)
Quality Systems names Steven Plochocki CEO (Associated Press via CNN Money)
Quality Systems' major business unit is NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.
Lockheed Martin Develops Early Warning for Maritime Security (PRNewswire)
Bentley’s Forthcoming MicroStation Release to Incorporate Luxology’s Photorealistic Rendering Engine (BusinessWire)
Journal Register Company Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (Marketwire)
Not very good.
Shunra Software Releases Powerful Testing Package Reducing Root Cause Discovery Time from Weeks to Hours (BusinessWire)
Extreme Commuter: Traveling three states for love (am New York)
Internet giant gets free help from high schoolers (Crain's New York Business)
" The students said they didn’t mind working without a paycheck because they received valuable work experience at a major conglomerate in exchange." (They've got something to learn.)
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Liberty Media Reports Second Quarter Financial Results (PRNewswire via MSN Money)
QVC revenue up 4%.
MobileAware Raises New Round (Private
Equity Hub)
MobileAware's US headquarters are in Cranbury, NJ.
Computerworld Honors: Software that saves lives (Computerworld)
QlikTech.
Verizon disses cable-centric video tech, asks FCC to act (ars technica)
Tough Times Ahead for U.S. Phone Companies? (GigaOM)
JDA Software scoops up i2 for $346 million (ZDNet Blogs)
FolioDynamix buys SunGard Advisory Technologies (Finextra)
Semiconductor IP Players: InterDitigal and Tessera (Seeking Alpha)
New Jersey girl behind myYearbook.com is a millionaire at 18
(New York Daily News)
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences Deploy Instem’s Hosted Provantis Solution (BusinessWire)
Viddler Powers New Media Expo and Launches Fully Customizable Player (CenterNetworks)
Genoa, Italy, Selects Bentley Systems To Facilitate Sustainable Development Plan (PublicWorks.com)
Autodesk Geospatial Acquires 3D Geo GmbH (Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)
Sounds like a move by Autodesk to increase its presence in a segment that Bentley is very strong in.
Build Delaware into bigger economy (Delaware Online)
MedQuist Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)
Emtec Federal Receives $17 Million U.S. Air Force Award (BusinessWire)
Emtec is based in Marlton.
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The question of which jobs Blues would cut in a merger (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Close to 500 IT jobs could be eliminated.
Christopher Maguire Prioritizes IT at Philadelphia Insurance Cos. (Insurance & Technology)
Figuring Out News Roles: Philadelphia as Crucible
(Poynteronline)
The Cable-Telecom Wars (Fox Business)
Verizon, union reach tentative labor contract (Reuters)
The 'Low' Down On Local Social Networking Site Orbius (The Bulletin)
NitroSecurity Buys RippleTech (dark reading)
I Knew this deal was in the works, but I guess I missed the announcement last month. Rippletech, based in Conshohocken, apparently had some very good data security technology, but not enough to support a stand-alone business going forward.
Ragan A. Henry, pioneering media mogul and lawyer, dies at 74 (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Turning the Electronic Eye on Google (eWEEK)
Showing off its speed, NFLShop.com sets record with Brett Favre jersey (Internet Retailer)
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People Moves
TruePosition Appoints Alan Larrabee as Vice President of Research and Development (BusinessWire)
Lightwave Logic Hires New CEO (PRNewswire)
Cadient Group Appoints Todd Greene to Strategic Engagement Director (PRNewswire)
Kane Partners Announces Tom Rinaldi as Managing Director for Philadelphia (MMD Newswire.com)
Avenue A | Razorfish Promotes Boyle, Gorden and Steigerwalt (Philly Ad Club)
Goldblatt Named Executive Director of Marketing and E-marketing at Univ. of Sciences (Philly Ad Club)
Harry Rein Resigns as Director of CardioNet (Business Wire)
MedQuist Announces Changes to Board of Directors (PRNewswire)
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The PricewaterhouseCoopers/MoneyTree Q2 Venture Capital report for Philadelphia Metro is now online (free registration). There is always a link to it in the right sidebar.
Most of these deals have been covered here previously but a few have not been:
-SillSurvey, online reference checking, Berwyn; $7 million, Lambda Funds
and another undisclosed firm.
-Elanti Systems, network traffic management, Princeton; $1.4 million, Innovation Capital Associates and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
-Circadiant Systems, optical component testing, Allentown; $525,000, EnerTech Capital and TL Ventures.
-GlobalPrint Systems(DBA: PrintPOD), kiosks for mobile printing, Marlton; $200,000, New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
-Monetate, targeting for ecommerce, Conshohocken; $600,000, Ben Franklin Technology Partners Southeastern PA, First Round Capital.
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IDS Scheer Profit Declines on Lower License Revenue (Bloomberg)
IDS Scheer's North American headquarters are in Berwyn.
Quality Systems Reports First Quarter Results and Increases Dividend (BusinessWire)
Quality Systems rallies on 2Q results (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Quality Systems' NextGen Healthcare Information Systems unit is based in Horsham.
KKR to Underwrite Portion of SunGard Data's $1 Billion Debt (Bloomberg)
Behind the Maps – Flying the UltraCam (Mark Brown's Virtual Earth Blog)
Video about Philadelphia company that does aerial mapping for Microsoft's Virtual Earth.
E-Commerce: Fertile Ground for Venture Investors (E-Commerce Times)
Written by Kevin Kemmerer, senior vice president and managing director of the technology group at Safeguard Scientifics.
Verizon unions set Sunday deadline for labor talks (Reuters)
Inquiring minds will just have to wait (Good Morning Silicon Valley)
New policy at the Inky.
Versus Gets Jacked
Sports Net Will Integrate SportTop Ap Into Versus.com Web Site (Multichannel News)
Comcast's Versus is based in Philadelphia.
QVC Rolls Out ‘Uncommercial’ Ad Campaign
New Spots Feature Spontaneous Outtakes From Traditional Shoots (Multichannel News)
Metrocorp Launches New Websites for Boston Magazine and Philadelphia Magazine Created by Format-Studio (PRNewswire via Yahoo Finance)
2008 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Nominations Announced
(Philly AD News)
Your PPM Boxes Have Arrived. Now What? (Radio World Online)
Catholic Health East Selects Mediture's EHR Software for PACE Programs (Marketwire)
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Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)
Room for Comcast to grow
(Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Lawsuit Seen After FCC's Comcast Ruling
Just how much did the FCC's landmark ruling advance the Net neutrality debate? (InternetNews.com)
Verizon, District Reach Deal on FiOS (Washington Post)
Universal Display Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)
SAP’s Bill McDermott offers growth clues (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)
Nasdaq Shares Rise Most in Three Years on Profit Gain ((Bloomberg)
Eliminates 100 positions at Philadelphia exchange.
InterDigital's Stolen Spotlight (Motley Fool)
SunGard warns of trouble in H2 (Finextra)
NAVTEQ, go2 Bring Traffic Information to Mobile Users (TMCnet: Gadgets)
LLR Partners Provides Capital for Surveillance Data Acquisition of Verispan (BusinessWire)
Synygy Continues Growth Streak in Second Quarter (BusinessWire via Philly.com)
FCC asks appeals court to dump E-911 rules (RCR Wireless News)
Could benefit TruePosition.
Build Your Own tru2way App!
(Media Experiences 2 Go/Motorola Blog)
Tribune Co.’s ShopLocal Merges Into PointRoll, Cuts Workers (MidWestBusiness.com)
PointRoll is based in Conshocken.
DISH, DirecTV mum on merger report (Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin)
RCM Technologies, Inc. Reports 2008 Second Quarter and Year - to - Date Results (BusinessWire)
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InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)
Comcast-DailyCandy: Interview: Sam Schwartz, EVP, CIM; Pete Sheinbaum, CEO, DC (paidContent)
Checkpoint's Profit Woes (Forbes)
SunGard Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)
Kulicke & Soffa Reports Results for Its Third Quarter 2008 (BusinessWire)
Kulicke & Soffa 4Q outlook short of estimates (Associated Press via Forbes)
Ben Franklin organization announces new investments (Phialdephia Business Journal)
QlikTech/QlikView update (DBMS2)
Financial Worries Deepen at Philadelphia Media Holdings (Philadelphia Magazine: The Daily Examiner)
MedQuist Announces Completion of Transaction (PRNewswire)
Verizon: Labor Strike Won't Affect FiOS (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Verizon: No Way on tru2way (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)
SAP Looks Strong (Seeking Alpha)
BioNanomatrix Awarded New NIH Grant for Development of Nanoscale Platform for Single-Molecule DNA Mapping and Haplotype Applications (PRNewswire)
AlcaLu looking for a peerless leader (FierceTelecom)
Comcast's Burke under consideration.
Comcast's private history (Philly.com:Philly Deals)
Catching Comcast (Salon.com: Machinist)
O-I Glass Business Selects Lead Time Technology for Supply Chain Process Improvement
(PRNewswire)
Revolution Health Seeks Life Preserver (Chilmark Research)
Synchronoss earnings decline sharply (Associated Press via NJ.com)
Before the launch of the 3G, Synchronoss handled most customer activations for the iPhone. Based in Bridgewater, NJ, Synchronoss has much of its operations based in the Lehigh Valley.
Rodale Reports 2008 Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
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ChannelWeb has issued its 2008 CRN Fast Growth 100. ChannelWeb focuses on VARs, resellers, IT consultants and system integrators. Three area based companies made the list: EPAM Systems of Lawrenceville, which does a lot of outsourcing work in Eastern Europe, reported 2007 revenues of $114 million, up from about $40 million in 2005. The other two are Lattice Inc. of Pennsauken's consulting division ($13.9 million in 2007, up from $3 million in 2005), and e-brilliance of Conshohocken ($5.6 million in 2007, up from $3 million in 2005).
Several others on the list do significant business in the area.
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