U Penn Named 4th Best Place to Work In IT (Computerworld)

Computerworld recently released its 100 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN IT 2009, and Penn, as usual, ranked right near the top at #4. Other area companies and organizations in the top 100 were Lehigh Valley Health Network of Allentown (43), The Vanguard Group (67), and Temple University (90).
Some others that have a significant presence in the region are Verizon Wireless (7), Exelon Corp, parent of PECO Energy (23), The Chubb Group (36) , Penn National Insurance in Harrisburg (62), Aetna (70), and some of the large consulting firms.
Does this ring true at all?

Infragistics On The Move To Bigger Things

Infragistics, the prominent developer of user interface development tools for the Microsoft platform, is moving from East Windsor, NJ (near Princeton) up the road north a few miles to a much larger new headquarters in South Brunswick, MyCentralJersey.com reports.
The move, which is expected to occur late this year or at the beginning of next year, will increase the company's space to 72,00 square feet, up from 24,000 currently. About 150 employees will move to the new location, and Infragistice says it plans to double its workforce, and is currently hiring technical document writers, software release engineers and software developers.

Daily Links 6/17/09: SAP chief sees signs of improvement in sector

SAP CTO on Innovation And Cloud Computing (Computerworld)

SAP chief sees signs of improvement in sector (Reuters)

SAP relying more on partners to deliver SAP mobile infrastructure (SearchSAP.com)

Comcast's new debt given investment grade rating (Associated Press via MSN Money)

Collection Marketing Center Raises Series B (PE Hub)

Start Spreading The News: First Growth Wants To Nurture NYC VC (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
First Round Capital to participate.

Urban Outfitters features Top Reviewers in email campaign (Bazaarblog)
Bazaarvoice is backed by First Round Capital.

Salesforce.com Shopping For E-Mail Marketing Company? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Email Marketing is very hot right now.

Synygy On-Demand Sales Performance Management Software Selected by Advanced Sterilization Products, a Johnson & Johnson Company (Business Wire)

Oracle Buys Intellectual Property Assets of Conformia (PR Newswire)
Another step by Oracle into the Life Sciences vertical. Ironically, SAP Ventures had been an investor.

Heartland Payment Systems Selects Voltage Security to Provide Software for End-to-End Encryption (Business Wire)
Heartland Gets Religion on Security (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Construction Group Seeks to Build Support for RFID
(RFID Journal)

DirecTV to Serve Up Targeted Ads (BrandWeek)
Will partner with Princeton-based Invidi.

WHYY ending nightly Delaware newscast
(Wilmington News Journal)



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