Links 12/11/2014: Ben Franklin Approves $1.6M for Nine Early-Stage Companies

Ben Franklin Approves $1.6M for Nine Early-Stage Companies (Ben Franklin Technology Partners SEP)

eBay planning to cut 10 percent of workforce ahead of PayPal split (TechSpot)

New Cable Subs Gravitating To Broadband-Only Service (Multichannel News)

Casey, Toomey urge approval of Comcast-Time Warner merger (Philadelphia Inquirer)

No vote yet on Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger (Albany Times-Union)
No action yet by New York Public Service Commission.


Michael Wolff on NBC News' Ratings Woes: Too Many Execs, No Real Power (Hollywood Reporter)

FCC on Verge of Giving Online Video Providers a Key Ruling (Hollywood Reporter)


COMCAST ADMITS TO CUSTOMER BILLING MISTAKES (6ABC.com)


LendingClub was forged by the financial crisis (Fortune)

HHS will push broader reach for information technology (Modern Healthcare)

Fact check: Microsoft exec says Amazon is just half a competitor in the ‘hyper-scale’ cloud (Geekwire)

Salesforce introduces custom AppExchange storefronts (Computerworld)


Book Reviews: SAP Nation and Stacking the Deck (ZDNet)

2014 Year in Review: SAP’s Cloud Strategy (ASUG News)

IBC joint venture Tandigm Health selects technology vendor (Philadelphia Business Journal)