Cherry Hill's icueTV teams up with Groupon at The Cable Show

icueTV, the Cherry Hill-based provider of an interactive apps platform for cable tv, will team up with Groupon today to demo an interactive app which TV viewers can use for Groupon, the Chicago Tribune reports.


The application will enable viewers to subscribe to Groupon using their remote controls. The Tribune story says the demo will not show a user being able to sign up directly through the TV for an actual voucher, "but icueTV technology does encompass this kind of functionality". No word yet on whether this is only a demo, or if Groupon and icueTV have specific plans to roll this out.


icueTV made a lot of noise at the Cable Show two years ago, as I reported then, but has been almost invisible (publicly, at least) since then. A variety of factors, some technical and some marketing related, have slowed the adoption of interactive apps.

Channel Intelligence Announces Acquisition of ClickEquations
(Business Wire)
CI is backed by Internet Capital Group. Conshohocken-based ClickEquations has been a First Round Capital portfolio company, and also has had backing from ICG. ClickEquations has been working with Channel Intelligence for some time, judging from this 2008 press release (ClickEquations was then known as Commerce360).
Update: A little more on the deal from the ClickEquations blog. ClickEquations President Craig Danuloff will continue as Chief Product Officer at Channel Intelligence.

SAP Rolling out New Analytics for SMBs (PC World)

BioLeap Moves Headquarters and Expands Staff to Meet Demand for Its Novel Molecular-Design Services
New Jersey Company’s Proprietary Technology Serves Research For Drug Discovery, Consumer Products, and Agrochemicals (Business Wire)

Lockheed Martin Space Systems to Eliminate Approximately 1,200 Positions (PR Newswire)
Includes cuts in Delaware Valley.

Ericsson to Buy Telcordia for $1.2 Billion (Bloomberg)
Telcordia is based in Piscataway.

News from The Cable Show: 6/14/2011

Comcast to Offer Customers Skype Video Calls on Their TVs (NY Times)

COMCAST TEAMS WITH SKYPE TO OFFER VIDEO CALLS ON TV (InteractiveTV Today)
Interview with Comcast's Neil Smit and demo.

Comcast Taps Facebook for Enhanced TV Experience (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast Confirms Xcalibur Partners (Light Reading Cable)

CableLabs Melds Comcast's CMAP And TWC's CESAR
R&D Consortium Releases Technical Report Defining 'Converged Cable Access Platform' (Multichannel News)

Arris' cable technology teases us with 4.5Gbps download speeds (Engadget)

Motorola Mobility and Time Warner Cable Collaborate To Deliver an Advanced Video Gateway Platform
DCX3600M provides entertainment hub for the evolution of TV and video content sharing in the home (Motorola Press Release)

Comcast Spotlight Licenses Ensequence iTV Manager® Platform for Local Interactive Advertising (Marketwire)


Cable Show 2011: Cutthroat Chicago A Cable Kind Of Town (Multichannel News)

Media chiefs confront challenges facing cable TV industry (LA Times: Company Town)


@ Cable Show: Britt: ‘No Such Thing As A TV Anymore’ (paidContent)



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