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Comcast, Verizon dissolve joint product-development venture (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Basic story a few months old, though adds interesting details. Joint marketing of each other's products in some areas continues, but I wonder how much actually has been sold through this arrangement. I doubt its been much.

T. Rowe Price Wants Time Warner Cable and Charter to Talk (New York Times: DealBook)

Comcast To Trot Out New Tech, Features For Sochi Games (Multichannel News)
Philly will be one of test markets for ‘Instant On Demand’.




Comcast buys majority stake in its Center City HQ, sources say (Philadelphia Business Journal)


IBM And SAP Have A Tough Road Ahead Against Amazon's Low Margin Cloud (ReadWrite)

SAP's master plan: A look at the challenges ahead (ZDNet)

Lessons from the death of a tech Goliath (Fortune)
On Siebel Systems.

Workday rolls out revamped, HTML5-powered user experience (Computerworld UK)

Salesforce.com courts Microsoft .NET developers with new tools (PC World)



eBay CEO Says Icahn PayPal Spinoff Makes No Sense (Re/code)


Lenovo To Buy IBM's x86 Server Business (Information Week)

Quality Systems, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2014 Third Quarter Results (Business Wire)
Quality Systems' core business is NextGen Healthcare, based in Horsham.

MapQuest Transfers Local Listings Management To Yext (Search Engine Land)
MapQuest, which was spun out as a venture from RR Donnelly, originated in Lancaster. It
still has a presence there, last I checked, though its been diminished by Google Maps and AOL management indifference.