Daily Links 1/7/2013: Passport Health, Heartland Payment make acquisitions




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PE-backed Passport Health nears deal to buy Data Systems Group: sources (Reuters)
Passport Health Communications, based in Franklin, TN, has significant operations in
King of Prussia dating back to its 2005 acquisition of Healthworks.
Update: The deal has been agreed to, according to a Passport press release.

Heartland Payment Systems® Acquires Ovation Payroll to Position Heartland Payroll Services for Rapid Growth (Marketwire)

Athenahealth to acquire physician favorite mobile app Epocrates for $293M (Gigaom)
Big move by a forward looking Healthcare IT vendor; one I think its CEO had hinted at
before. See Why athenahealth might buy Epocrates from May of last year in Mobile Health News.

Intel confirms partnership with Comcast, brings Xfinity TV viewing to Intel-based devices (Engadget)

Comcast NBC Delays Biggest TV Shows to Avoid Repeats (Bloomberg)

Amazon’s cloud is bigger, more profitable than we think, report says (Gigaom)
At least one piece of Amazon has decent margins, according to research report.

Independence Blue Cross Launches Free Smartphone Service for Members (Globe Newswire)
Teams up with Radnor-based Relay Network.

SunGard Acquires XSP, Beefing Up Corporate Actions
(Wall Street & Technology)

ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013 (Phil Wainewright/Enterprise Irregulars)

Elsevier Acquires Knovel, Provider of Web-based Productivity Application for the Engineering Community (PR Newswire)



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