Philly Tech News Quotes & Tweets 1/23/2015

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Ebay CFO Bob Swan during this week's earnings call, following announcement of job cuts and plans to shed Ebay Enterprise: "It will get worse before it gets better."


“In reality, it’s not a billion-dollar company, never was.” -Fab CEO Jason Goldberg to Fortune Magazine this week. It was widely publicized to be valued at $1 billion or more after a financing round.

$VZ CFO "Title 2 is an extreme and risky path that will jeopardize our investment ”

— Walter Piecyk (@WaltBTIG) January 22, 2015

Verizon CFO Shammo on Google - Sprint - T-Mobile MVNO buzz: “Another reason why this industry does not need to be regulated.”

— The Donohue Report (@donohuereport) January 22, 2015

"We're not ready for a third tower but when we signed the original lease, it was for 75 percent of the building and we have decided to take the remaining 25 percent." - Comcast SVP David Cohen, talking about Comcast's revised plans to take up all office space in new tower.


“Whether we go against Workday in the HCM space, Salesforce in the CRM space… or more traditional competitors that you know well, I don’t think there’s a better positioned company in the business software industry.” - SAP CEO Bill McDermott during this week's earnings call.

All the was missing in BMD answer to competitive pressures was another "99 mile hour fastball" type quote :-) #SAP

— Jarret Pazahanick (@SAP_Jarret) January 20, 2015

From LinkedIn: R "Ray" Wang is celebrating a work anniversary! 115 years at University of Toronto Rotman School of Management this January

— tom paine (@phillytechnews) January 20, 2015

@holgermu Oracle's new lost cost hdw strategy--isn't that the strategy they gave up when they de-emphasized Sun's commodity server biz?

— Frank Scavo (@fscavo) January 22, 2015

@larryellison says @Oracle's engineered systems 'cost less,' doesn't say less than what, doesn't mention software license fees cough cough

— chriskanaracus (@chriskanaracus) January 21, 2015

More than 30 #nonprofits came to #givecamp this yr. Projects included: #mobileapp, #database, #website & #wordpress.

— Philly GiveCamp (@phillygivecamp) January 18, 2015