phillytechnews twitterfeed 9/3 to 9/4 2012

phillytechnews: RT @WSJ: Breaking: Apple announced a Sept. 12 media event, where it is widely expected to unveil a new iPhone. http://t.co/u90uzHul Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT phillytechnews: RT @WSJ: Breaking: Apple announced a Sept. 12 media event, where it is widely expected to unveil a new iPhone. http://t.co/u90uzHul

phillytechnews: Philly Tech News Events Calendar: Updated 9/3/2012 http://t.co/di7JMsJt Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:06 AM PDT phillytechnews: Philly Tech News Events Calendar: Updated 9/3/2012 http://t.co/di7JMsJt

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Highlights last week on Philly Tech News (8/27/2012 to 9/2/2012)

IBM announced it would acquire Wayne-based talent management SaaS vendor Kenexa for just less than $1.3 billion. I also looked at IBM's motivations behind the buy and what it might mean for Kenexa's future within IBM.

I took a look at Time Warner Cable's decision to build out fiber to selected New York City business locations, and asked whether Comcast had any similar plans.

Upstart cloud-based SAP & Oracle competitor Workday formally filed for its IPO, which could raise $400 million or more and put a valuation of several billion dollars on the company.

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott appeared in front of the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. He recounted what happened when he and Jim Hagemann Snabe were first appointed co-CEOs, and also a phone call with Steve Jobs.

Google was reported to have hired a banker (Barclays) to shop its Horsham-based Motorola Home unit, which engineers equipment and software for the cable industry.

Philly digital health agency Razorfish Health merged with another Publicis unit, Publicis Healthware.

The Harrisburg Patriot-News became the latest Advance Publications daily to announce a move to printing three day per week, raising the question of whether Advance's New Jersey dailies would be next.



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Eric S. Raymond to speak at Philadelphia Linux User Group tomorrow (Wednesday, the 5th) night

Eric S. Raymond, a pioneer and thought leader in the Linux and open source software worlds who resides in the Philly area, will speak tomorrow night, September 5, at the Philadelphia Linux User Group (PLUG) Central Meeting.

The meeting will run from 7 to 9 pm at the University of Sciences in Philadelphia. Raymond's talk will start at 8.

See this brief bio here.



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Daily Links 9/4/2012: Oracle appeals to have $1.3 billion judgement against SAP restored

Oracle in new bid to wring cash out of SAP in piracy spat
Cheers for the $426m offer, but we were thinking $1.3bn (The Register)

Dreamforce Presentation: Create a Massively Scalable System with Force.com and Heroku (Dell Boomi Blog)

Killing TV to Punish Comcast? It’s the Networks That Take the Hit (Wired)

CTO, Comcast: “We believe in convergence; we believe in change” (Telecoms.com)

Google Wants To Be Your Cable TV Provider, Sources Tell Analyst (Silicon Alley Insider)

Amazon Streams Epix Flicks, In Blow To Netflix
Online Retailer's Prime Instant Video Service Now Offers More Than 25,000 Titles (Multichannel News)

Apply to Open Angel Forum Philly IV (Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)

The AlwaysOn Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 Top Company Competition (AlwaysOn)


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