Daily Links 8/31/09: ClickEquations Funding, Newspaper Revenues Crash By 29%
Phila. firms fund ClickEquations
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
ClickEquations - Complex Paid Search Campaign Management, Simplified (Web Analytics World Blog)
Henkel Awards Unisys Five-Year Global Outsourcing Contract (Business Wire)
Fairfax County, Virginia, Selects SAP(R) Software to Facilitate Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency
(PR Newswire)
Urban Strongholds Resist Magazine Slump (Forbes)
Interview with Larry Platt.
FREEFALL: Newspaper Revenues Crash By 29%
(Mashable )
The survivor in business and in life (Poder 360)
Interview with Cristóbal Conde of SunGard.
Sungard Builds Grid From DR Workstations (Data Center Knowledge)
Information Today, Inc. Acquires the Search Engine Meeting (Business Wire)
e-Dialog Supports Strong Growth with New and Expanded Global Corporate Headquarters (Business Wire)
Online Document Viewing Available in the Cloud or in Your IT Infrastructure (Vuzit Blog)
The Comcast Video Wall Reloaded (Zatz Not Funny!)
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People News 8/30/09
The Neat(R) Company Names Jim Foster as Chief Executive Officer (eMedia World)
Dataram Announces a Worldwide Vice President of Sales
(Business Wire)
QlikTech Confident of Growing Asia Pacific Business
Leading Business Intelligence Vendor Opens Office in Singapore and Commits Resources in Asia Pacific (Microwire)
Clearwire’s Richardson Exits; Two New Execs Tapped To Chart 4G Path (mocoNews.net)
ERT Appoints New Associate Director of Business Development - Japan
(PR Newswire)
SAP EXECUTIVE PAT HUME AMONG THE TOP 100 WOMEN IN THE CHANNEL (SAP Newsbyte)
Former Delaware State CIO and Cabinet Secretary Joins LexisNexis Special Services Inc. (Business Wire)
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In May, shareholders protested Comcast pay (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Tierney Tries Twitter, Facebook, PR Campaign to Keep Philadelphia Papers (Poynter Online)
Bad Software Design Inhibits Use of Enterprise Apps (Computerworld)
On Electronic Ink founder Harold Hambros and his new book.
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Auction for Philly newspapers slated amid Ch. 11 (Associated Press via Google News)
Man Accused of Stealing Stores’ Data Pleads Guilty (Reuters via New York Times)
ClickEquations Raises $3 Million For Paid Search Platform (paidContent)
ClickEquations is based in Conshohocken.
SDI will get new building for its HQ (Philadelphia Business Journal)
TeamSupport.com Scales Beanstalk
TeamSupport.com today announced a compelling integration with Beanstalk! (PR Log)
Devon IT to Feature New Thin Clients, Software at VMworld 2009 (Business Wire)
Safeguard Scientifics enacts reverse stock split (Associated Press via Philly.com)
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Appeals Court Overturns FCC Cable Ownership Cap
Court throws out FCC cable ownership limit (Reuters)
This is a very big deal for Comcast. It will be interesting to see if the Supreme Court will hear an appeal, if there is one.
Updated: Court Throws Out FCC's 30% Cable Subscriber Cap
The U.S. Court Of Appeals Agrees With Comcast Calling Sub Limit 'Arbitrary And Capricious'> (Multichannel News)
Cable Ruling Won’t Trigger M&A Wave, Bernstein Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
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SAP Told by Jury to Pay $139 Million to Versata Over Patents (Bloomberg)
Those Texas juries.
Oracle Demands Information From Rimini Street (PC World)
Safeguard Scientifics 1:6 Reverse Stock Split Takes Effect Today
Transaction Intended to Broaden Appeal to Institutional Investors (Business Wire)
Safeguard Scientifics Announces Sale of Approximately One-Third of Its Clarient Shares for Approximately $53 Million in Proceeds, Net of Underwriter Commissions (Business Wire)
Verizon Tags TNT, TBS For FiOS 'TV Everywhere'
Telco Inks Online Video Deal With Time Warner Inc. (Multichannel News)
Who's afraid of Comcast's plans?
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)
JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's Bing (Ad Age)
Sound like the old "lawsuit as a cheap form of PR" ploy.
FCC Investigates Wireless Competition
Agency votes to begin wide-ranging probe of U.S. wireless industry. (Forbes)
WiMAX Gear Market to Be Worth $4.9B by 2013: Report (GigaOM)
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Reval Acquires FXpress Corporation
Combines Best SaaS for Corporate End-Users of Derivatives
Raises $16 Million in New Round of Funding to Accelerate Growth (Business Wire)
FXpress is based in Bala Cynwyd.
myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World (TechCrunch)
The Convergence Of Health Care & Information Technology (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Enter Strategic Partnership with ActiveStrategy, Inc. (PR Web)
Pa. lags N.J., Del. in Internet speed (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Who Is Philadelphia’s New Anonymous Newspaper Investor? (WHYY: Its Our City)
Cable Shrs More Alluring Than Telecom, J.P. Morgan Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Comcast DVR Web Scheduling Nears Launch? (Zatz Not Funny!)
TiVo Files Complaints for Patent Infringement Against AT&T and Verizon Communications in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas; Seeking Damages and Injunction (PR Newswire)
IBM, Wipro, Tata, Infosys win BP IT outsourcing deal (ZDNet
Blogs)
Dataram Reports Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)
ShowClix Secures Series A Funding From Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PR Web)
To what extent do these guys compete with Philly's TicketLeap?
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Comcast's Stealth Internet Strategy Evolving Under The Radar (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo Finance)
FCC Chief Vows Net Neutrality Enforcement (eWeek)
Tremor Media Secures Investment from SAP Ventures (PR Newswire)
Smart Grid Cross-Pollination Continued: Siemens Buys SAP Utility Software Integrator (Greentech Media)
Free 24-Hour PA Game Jam at Harrisburg University (Press Release via Central Penn Business Journal)
Verizon Offers New FiOS Home Support Tool
New 'In Home Agent' simplifies some basic troubleshooting... (Broadband Reports)
New Tech Still On Tap For 2009
(Zatz Not Funny!)
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Clearwire Needs Money, So Hopes Cable Needs WiMAX (GigaOM)
SAP Exec Sees Banks, Energy Leading 2010 Recovery (Information Week Blogs)
Heartland Rolls Out Encryption; CEO Blames Auditors for Breach (Credit Union Times)
U.S. payment-card industry grapples with security (Reuters)
Comcast and NFL Network Set to Offer “NFL RedZone” Channel This Football Season (Business Wire)
Guggenheim Looks To Capitalize On Distressed VC Deals (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Guggenheim Venture Partners has offices in King of Prussia and Austin.
OnCourse wins with Lesson Planner (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)
Ticketing Democratized: Touch screen and phone ticketing for all (The TicketLeap Blog)
PA Applies for $108 Million to Expand Broadband Infrastructure, Internet Access, Governor Rendell Says (PR Newswire)
Proposal With a Nice Touch
10 weeks of planning works out (NBC Washington)
Philly-based company helps out.
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People News 8/23/09
Two area scientists were named to MIT Technology Review's TR35, representing top innovators under 35. Ranjan Dash, 32, of King of Prussia's Y-Carbon, is using nanotechnology to develop ultra capacitors that could significantly outperform traditional batteries. Andrew Houck, 30. an assistant professor at Princeton, has developed a method for better protecting data used in quantum computing.
Board of Directors for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Elects Two New Members (Press Release)
Comcast Shores Up Content Brass (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
I-many Expands Leadership Team
P. Kevin Kilroy Appointed President & CEO, David Rode Appointed SVP, Global Markets (Business Wire)
Brolik Productions add Sam Huntington as director of business development (Philly Ad Club News)
Independence IT Promotes Charles Buck to Chief Operating Officer
(PR Newswire)
Former Oracle:Primavera Executive Joins Hard Dollar Corporation
Will Assume VP of Product Strategy and Management (Marketwire)
SAP plans broader launch of Mittelstand program in 2010 (MarketWatch)
SAP looks to India for enterprise market growth (Economic Times of India)
Comcast complaints grow (Atlanta
Journal-Constitution}
Small business lauded
Moorestown manufacturer is recognized for its growth by the governor. (PhillyBurbs.com)
2050: Philadelphia Becomes Orlando (New York Times)
Judging from the weather recently, I think this has already happened.
Does this mean we get our own Disneyworld?
SAP’s Plattner: Oracle control of Java is not a problem (FT.com: Tech Blog)
A Better Way to Manage Receipts for Business Travel (New York Times: Pogue's Posts)
SAS Institute: There Is No For Sale Sign In Our Yard (Information Week)
Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war (ZDNet Blogs)
Happy Cog smiles as Airbag becomes West Coast wing (Philadelphia Business Journal)
U.S. Allocates $1.2 Billion For Electronic Medical Records
The grants will go to regional centers to support implementing electronic health records, as well as state grants to share information nationwide. (Information Week)
DirecTV Could Drop Versus
Carriage Expires Sept.1 Unless New Deal Emerges (Multichannel News)
InfoLogix Files Preliminary Proxy Statement in Connection with Special Meeting of Its Stockholders to Approve Recapitalization Plan (PR Newswire)
GIS/Geospatial Industry Worldwide Growth Slows to 1% in 2009 (Daratech Press Release via Directions Magazine)
Boomi CEO: EDI Lives On In SaaS World (Information Week)
The Internet of Things (SAP TV)
How SAP Technology will help Big Brother track how you drive, and other neat things.
SAP Embraces Real-Time in the Entemrprise (Read Write Web)
SEDONA Corporation Announces Recent Court Ruling (PR Newswire)
Apple reconsidering C64 Emulator for iPhone? (MacNN)
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August 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)
Philadelphia Media Holdings files restructuring plan (Video Press Release)
This seems to cross a line. Someone who is supposed to be an objective journalist (Brandy Bell) presenting a company PR piece.
Bankruptcy Plan Calls for Philadelphia Papers to be Sold to Local Investors (Editor & Publisher)
Hacking Suspect’s Lawyer Criticizes Federal Prosecutors (New York Times: Bits)
A Medical Decision Support System That Learns
Best Practices Winner: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project: Pediatric Knowledgebase (Bio-IT World)
Free For All? Profits Can Be Elusive Online
(National Public Radio)
Peter Fader of the Wharton School weighs in.
Forrester: SAP, Others Will Make Analytics Acquisitions (PC World)
Salesforce.com reports higher quarterly profit (MarketWatch)
Salesforce delivers strong second quarter, ups outlook (ZDNet
Blogs)
DOJ approves Oracle's Sun Micro buy (CNET News)
Accenture Cutting Jobs, Office Space to Trim Costs (Bloomberg)
Last Polaroid cameras and film to be sold at Urban Outfitters tomorrow (Engadget)
Verizon to Cut $20 Billion in Debt by 2011, Finance Chief Says (Bloomberg)
SSI Knowledge Center signs $1.9M hospital contract (Pittsburgh Business Times)
D&E shareholders to vote Sept. 24 on $330 million sale to Windstream (Lancaster Online)
Google to Present at Philadelphia Business Marketing Association's Inaugural Educational Event (Marketwire)
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How’d They Do That? The Virtual Debut of Infiniti’s New M (Wired.com)
Judge in newspapers case assails lawyer for creditors (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Lincoln Sells Fund Unit to Macquarie in Post-TARP Cash Raiser (Bloomberg)
Ben Franklin Tech program invests $1.2M in seven firms (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Seed fund group, Temple to study venture trends (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Tapping a Legion of Smart Programmers (Business Week)
On San Francisco startup and First Round Capital portfolio company Mashery.
Olympic Network was doomed to flame out (LA Times Blogs: Company Town)
Kenexa's Award-Winning Global Recruiting Solution to Integrate QlikView Business Analysis Technology (Marketwire)
Memory Industry Leader Dataram Enters Storage Market
Will soon unveil innovative data storage acceleration product line (Business Wire)
LECG Announces Proposed Merger With SMART, New CEO and $25M Cash Infusion (Marketwire)
Smart Advisory is based in Devon and has more than 300 employees in the area.
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Daily Links 8/18/09: Comcast Fighting The FCC Again
FCC enforcing imaginary laws in P2P ruling, says Comcast
Comcast comes out swinging in court against the spanking it got from the FCC for BitTorrent throttling. We unpack the ISP's legal challenge. (ars technica)
Q2 Slowest In Eight Years For Broadband Growth
Just 634,000 new subscribers on the quarter... (Broadband Reports)
Comcast Enhances Triple Play With Launch of Universal Caller ID(TM) Service
Three-Product Digital Customers in Michigan Can Now See Who's Calling on the TV and PC (PR Newswire)
Tru2way's Retail Forecast: Cloudy (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Boomi Widgets Ease SaaS Integration (Read Wrie Web)
GSI Commerce stock offering snags $87.9 million (Associated Press via Forbes)
Lockheed discusses local impact of cuts (Philadelphia Business Journal
Controversial Anchor Alycia Lane Surfaces in LA
Fired Philly reporter signs with KNBC (Broadcasting & Cable)
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Daily Links 8/17/09: Hackers Charged with Heartland Data Breach
InterDigital is down about 21% so far today after a preliminary ruling on Friday by the International Trade Commission favoring Nokia in the Nokia/InterDigital patent dispute. It was earlier down by 30%.
InterDigital Announces Financial Guidance for Third Quarter 2009
Company to Host Conference Call at 2:00 PM ET to Discuss Recent ITC Determination (Business Wire)
TJX Hacker Charged with Heartland, Hannaford Breaches (Wired.com)
IBM Targets Mainframe At Specific Applications
IBM hopes to counter plummeting System z sales with seven packages of integrated hardware, software, and services tailored to specific application workloads. (Information Week)
Software AG offers to buy remaining Scheer shares (Associated Press via Forbes)
Tibco/SAP Redux: Does Tibco Code Meet SAP Standards? (Information Week Blogs)
Oracle looks to planning apps for future growth
Demand for PPM software growing (Computerworld)
Spotlight to be on Primavera at OpenWorld.
Greater Philadelphia Economy to Turn Upward Later this Year According to New Leading Indicator (Business Wire)
myYearbook Turns A Profit By Getting Users To Pay (paidContent}
Interview with Becki Heller from Trendsta Part 1 (Sparxoo)
Part 2
CoPilot® Live™ GPS Navigation available for iPhone in North America (Business Wire)
Air Force launches 8th new Lockheed GPS satellite (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Hercules Technology extends deadline for InfoLogix (Philadelphia Business Journal
CVPH moving toward total paperless record keeping (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
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People News 8/16/09
Cheng T. Chen Joins ProtonMedia as CTO and VP of Engineering
(Business Wire)
OKI Data Americas Promotes Takabumi Asahi to President, Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)
HighPoint Solutions Names New Solution Lead For Master Data Management Practice
(PR Newswire}
Dr. George E. Daddis Jr. to Join WorldGate as Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)
RCN Appoints Randy Nungester as Vice President, General Manager, RCN PA (Marketwire)
Founder of Pharmaceutical Software DEACOM Named to PharmaVOICE 100 (Newswire Today)
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USOC delays Olympic Channel planned with Comcast
paidContent
Is Comcast poised to do another Disney? (Reuters)
Verizon Tests LTE Network in Boston & Seattle (GigaOm via New York Times)
A Quik Look at QlikView (BI Blogs)
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ITC initial ruling favors Nokia in InterDigital case (Reuters)
This is probably a little bit of a surprise to many people.
Philly newspapers want lenders to wipe out $300M in debt (Poynter Online: Romenesko)
Daily Links 8/14/09: Comcast Opts Out Of Stimulus Funding
Telecom companies reject stimulus money
Government grants to help expand Internet broadband service apparently make the big carriers nervous. (LA Times)
Entrepreneurial boot camp (Phildelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)
SCVNGR Lets You Build Awesome Scavenger Hunts For Any Mobile Phone (TechCrunch)
Boston-based SCVNGR is a 2008 DreamIt Ventures alumnus.
InfoLogix Announces Second Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)
Company issues "going concern" statement.
Companies investing in SAP ERP FI, core financial apps (SearchSAP.com)
What SAP product or service would make your life easier? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)
The Peril of Secret Conditions (New York Times: Dealbook)
Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations (Christine.net)
Philadelphia may become the center of video gaming
(The Triangle)
WorldGate Releases Second Quarter 2009 Results
(Business Wire)
Astea Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results (PR Newswire)
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Daily Links 8/13/09: DreamIt Graduates New Class
Philly's Freshest: DreamIt Ventures Graduates Class of Ten Startups (Read Write Web)
Viddler and Graspr Seek Growth Via AnySource Media’s Connected TV Platform (PR Newswire)
GSI Commerce Announces Pricing of Its Common Stock Offering (Business Wire)
Stock offering sinks GSI Commerce (Blogging Stocks)
Tierney: Philly Papers Will Be a New Version of Poynter-'St. Pete Times' (Editor & Publisher)
Urban Outfitters profit beats estimates (Reuters)
Strong growth in internet & catalog sales; European expansion plans outlined.
SAP Connects Midmarket Channel Partners to LinkedIn to Support Recruiting Efforts
(PR Newswire)
Oracle Unveils Oracle® Revenue Management and Billing for Health Insurance (Marketwire)
Mint Raises $14 Million For Its Online Finance Service (paidContent)
First Round Capital was an early backer of Mint and also participated in this latest round.
WuXi AppTec Purchases Instem’s Provantis Software for Toxicology Facility in China (Business Wire)
Quarterly Shipment Numbers: Q2 2009 (Media Experiences 2 Go)
For Horsham"s Motorola Home and Networks Mobility.
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2009 Inc.5000
The Inc 5000 for 2009 is out. Here are the top 100 in the Philly metro area. Heading the list is DSG of Malvern, which provides clinical trial data collection systems for the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. It ranks 82nd nationally. More on this later.
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A contentious court day for newspapers
Judge says creditors' offer could have led to a breach of the owners' fiduciary obligations (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Philly Newspaper Guild Rejects Request for Contract Extension (Editor & Publisher)
The Digital Philadelphia Vision (Technically Philly)
Excellent work by the guys at Technically Philly.
Comcast Lawsuit Questions FCC Right to Enforce Net Neutrality (GigaOM)
Will Razorfish make Publicis cutting edge? (Stuart Smith's Blog)
Lockheed Martin Breaks Ground Marking Expansion of Newtown, PA Facility (PR Newswire)
Journal Register emerges from bankruptcy protection (Associated Press via Cherry Hill Courier-Post)
SAP Ranked Leader in the Combined Performance Management and Analytic Applications Market for Second Consecutive Year by Leading Analyst Firm (PR Newswire)
Open-Source, Proprietary Vendors Partner on Cloud BI (IDG via New York Times)
Perhaps this is an attempt to better compete against Radnor's QlikTech. A four-way joint venture seems like a difficult to manage, however.
BTW, SAP Ventures is an investor in JasperSoft.
Share your ARIS Express model! (ARIS BPM Blog)
Great Example!
FiOS Broadens Multi-Room FiOS Functionality
Media Manager now free for all DVR/Broadband customers... (Broadband Reports)
PHIMA PANEL DISCUSSES SOCIAL MEDIA (Dinkum Interactive Blog)
Dynasil Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results
(Business Wire)
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Daily Links 8/11/09: Comcast Takes On Godzilla
Comcast Email Service Goes Down for an Hour (PC Magazine)
Comcast Battles Godzilla
Trademark owner not fan of new commercial (Broadband Reports)
Cable's Grip On The Living Room Is Getting Weaker (Silicon Alley Insider)
CHART OF THE DAY: How Comcast Ate Vonage's Lunch (Silicon Alley Insider)
Comcast Spectacor Scores with Acumen-Integrated Salesforce.com (Outbound Call Center)
Publicis lands Razorfish (Medical Marketing & Media)
YouStar ToonUps Embeds User’s Voice and Face in Digital Cartoons to Create Entertaining, Memorable Messages and Presentations (Business Wire)
Deadline near for Mid-Atlantic event (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)
Advanta Reports Loss, Says Survival Tied to New Plan (Bloomberg)
Clearwire posts narrower loss, adds customers (Reuters)
Clearwire adds Huawei to WiMax vendor roster (Computerworld)
Siemens adds to ‘meaningful use’ conversation with roadmap, expertise (CivSource)
Outdated 911 centers can’t handle texting (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Supposedly, fees on mobile phone bills were to cover things such as this, but apparently the funds are diverted for other purposes.
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Microsoft Strikes Razorfish Deal With Publicis (New York Times: DealBook)
Earnings Call: Comcast Questions 4G Competition (mocoNews.net via Washington Post)
MASN Whiffs Against Comcast
Sources Say FCC Bureau Urges No Carriage Mandate (Multichannel News)
COMCAST COO BURKE: 25 MIL EBIF HOMES POSSIBLE BY Q4, CANOE TO BEGIN GENERATING REVENUE BY 2010 (Interactive TV Today)
Tibco shares rise after report says SAP mulling bid (Reuters)
IBM sets its sights on high-end analytics (Computerworld)
VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? (ZDNet Blogs)
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
(New York Times Magazine)
Vuzit Releases DocuPub Platform Version 3 – Enterprise Online Document Viewer and Control Platform (Newswire Today)
Pay cuts to end, 401(k) matches to restart at Kulicke & Soffa (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Target's departure from Amazon creates IT risk; Opportunity for GSI Commerce? (ZDNet Blogs)
Universal Display Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Comcast New Media Exchange: Thoughts and Lessons (Comcast Voices)
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Germany's SAP considering offer for Tibco -report (Reuters)
SAP may also be interested in Teredata, Reuters reports.
As Rivals Branch Out, SAP Is Sticking to Software (New York Times)
Publicis to buy Razorfish from Microsoft
Razorfish Bidding Saga Over: Publicis Buys It For $530 Million; 5-Year Bing Ad Deal Included (paidContent)
As I have previously suggested, the probable combination of Philly-based Digitas Health (owned by Publicis) and Razorfish's
Health practice (paticularly that of its Philly office) should create a powerhouse in Interactive Health Marketing.
GSI Commerce Announces Public Offering of Common Stock (Business Wire)
USA Technologies, Inc. Announces Successful Conclusion of Rights Offering (Business Wire)
The Neat Company raises $7.3 million
Scanner software business nabs capital for sales, marketing, and development (Vator News)
Automated Media-Buying Platforms Gaining Traction (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)
Interesting investment by Safeguard Scientific; perhaps a little different area than most of their recent deals.
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