Philly Tech News Tweets & Quotes of the week 11/16/2014






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"Let me put it in plain English, Uber." "This is your last chance with this commission ... to abandon its anarchist ways and to finally become a responsible, lawful corporate citizen."
-PUC board member John H. Cawley, after reluctantly voting yes to proposal to grant two-year license to Uber X allowing it to operate in Pennsylvania (but not Philadelphia).



Comcast CEO Brian Roberts: Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger going "full steam ahead."

"There is one important technical legal difference of opinion between the President and Comcast: we do not support reclassification of broadband as a telecommunications service under Title II."
-Comcast EVP David L. Cohen in Comcast blog Comcast Voices.




"The momentum is the shift of power from the enterprise to the consumer, [from] the Information Age to the Age of the Customer.”.... Companies are now “in an arms race to build customer service [and experience] access across multiple channels.”
Jonathan Brassington, CEO of Wayne-based LiquidHub, quoted in VentureBeat on the attraction of digital marketing firms to technology integrators.

"The Philadelphia region doesn’t have enough great companies, nor great entrepreneurs, to justify their 70-minute train ride or flight down from NYC or Boston."
-Michael Kopelman, General Partner, Edison Partners, paraphrasing the comments of a panel of out-of-town investors at 2014 IMPACT Capital Conference last month in
Philadelphia.



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