Brian Tierney Speaks Out Of Both Sides Of Mouth

Tierney Disputes Time.com Blog - Says 'If This is Journalism, God Save the Democracy'
(PR Newswire)
"the Daily News is not going anywhere" -Brian Tierney, March 11, 2008


" The Inquirer, either way, will survive. The question is will The Daily News survive."

Brian Tierney, as quoted by the Daily Pennylvanian from a speech at Penn recently.

Half.com Lives (in a way)

In case you didn't know, Half.com, the online retailer co-founded by Philly entrepreneur and VC Josh Kopelman and sold to eBay in 2000 for $350 million, still exists in cyberspace, though with a somewhat limited scope. Used textbooks seem to be a big seller. Now eBay is announcing that Half.com listings will be included on eBay itself, starting in May. As Kopelman tweets, "WOW - eBay finally agrees to integrate Half.com listings. Great news, just 9 years too late... "

Wal-Mart Plans to Market Digital Health Records System (New York Times)

SAP, Sybase plan iPhone, Windows Mobile software (Reuters)

Comcast says it's now No. 3 US home phone provider (Reuters)

Ben Franklin Technology Partners stakes 11 companies (Philadelphia Business Journal)

DormNoise Helps College Students Plan Events and Manage Personal, Student Group, and Campus Schedules from One Location
Integrates with Mainstream Calendar and Mobile Applications; Ad Revenue Split with Colleges (Business Wire)

Red Tettemer Creates ScapeNation, Then Invites Tweens to Save it (PR Newswire)

Rodale's Best Life Folds (Media Bistro: Fishbowl NY)

InterDigital Announces $100 Million Stock Repurchase Program (Business Wire)

Oracle's Golden Goose, Maintenance Revenue, Contains Flight Risk (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

Salesforce.com Smells Blood, Hunts Bigger CRM Prey: Enterprise Cloud Customers (CIO.com)

The Reinvention of Innovation Works (Pop
City)
What Ben Franklin Technology Partners is up to on the other side of the state.

SMI Health and InfoSlate Partner to Educate Patients with Interactive Touch Screens in Physicians’ Offices (Business Wire)

XO Communications Deploys Ethernet Over Copper Services for DCANet (Marketwire via CNN Money)

Delaware Law Weekly Launches New Web Site Design, with Expanded Content and Complete Access to Case Digests and Archives (Business Wire)

Working Off The Tab (Forbes)
On Drexel's co-op program.

Spotlight on Creativity March 2009
(Innovation Philadelphia)



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