8/31: BroadSoft Said to be Exploring a Sale; Universal Display Stock Soars On Bullish Analyst Report




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BroadSoft Said to be Exploring a Sale (Telecom Ramblings)
Comcast is a major BroadSoft customer.

DCK Investor Edge: Few Moves Left on the N. Virginia Chessboard (Data Center Knowledge)
Running out of land?

Business continuity is the ultimate killer application for cloud (ZDNet)


AWS could pay a price for Amazon’s broader ambitions (TechCrunch)


Universal Display Stock Soars On Bullish Analyst Report (IBD)

Campbell expects sales drop as people shun packaged (USA Today)

Lourdes Health System to join Cooper University Health Care (Philly.com)

Uber’s market share has taken a big hit (Recode)

Workday rides subscription revenue growth to Q2 earnings beat (ZDNet)

Why Wells Fargo Might Not Survive Its Fake Accounts Scandal (Fortune)
Written by Wharton prof who will teach a course on subject this Fall.







Veeva Systems CEO details cloud giant's push into quality... (CNBC VIDEO)

Veeva Systems CEO details cloud giant's push into quality assurance from CNBC.




Weekend Highlights: Speculation mounts as Uber nears CEO decision; The Envelope please




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Veeva Gets Positive Reviews On Earnings, But Stock Tumbles (IBD)
Off 14% Friday, probably on some excessive expectations.

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will be offered the job as Uber’s new CEO (GeekWire)


Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy to lead Uber? Nope, not going to happen (GeekWire)

Jeff Immelt Pulls Out of Running for Uber CEO (Bloomberg)


SAP touts 150 new Delco jobs, but also what it adds to community (Delco Times)

IBM, SAP reveal first joint cloud based cognitive solution (Computer Business Review)

PIGS FLY — AT&T brings 500Mbps home Internet to cities outside its territory (Ars Technica)
To include some buildings in Philly.

When it comes to digital health M&A, who is the biggest acquirer of them all? (Med City News)








8/23: NBC Sports Rebrands Comcast RSNs; Billtrust Expanding, Creating 200 New Jobs In New Jersey




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NBC Sports Rebrands Comcast RSNs (Multichannel News)

Billtrust Expanding, Creating 200 New Jobs In New Jersey (Business Facilities)


Roku is the top streaming device in the U.S and still growing, report finds (TechCrunch)

Oracle’s Larry Ellison Takes Another Jab At Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (Fortune)

Uber is still a growing business despite its leadership strife (The Verge)

Penske Logistics to build DC in Romulus, Mich. (DC Velocity)
Penske Logistics is based in Reading.





8/22: USA Technologies' progress; Cerner's John Glaser on how to finally fix EHR usability




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USA Technologies Logs Record Revenue In Latest Quarterly Results (Pymts.com)
After years of struggling, Malvern-based USAT is on to something.

Cerner's John Glaser: How to finally fix the EHR usability problem (HealthCare IT News)
Glaser was CEO of Malvern-based Siemens Health Services prior to its acquisition by Cerner. He is now Cerner's senior VP of population health and global strategy,

Blue Apron Fires Recruiting Staff and Implements Hiring Freeze (Fortune)


Salesforce slides past its $10B annual run rate target (TechCrunch)

Salesforce's partnership with Amazon is helping solve one of its biggest problems (CNBC)

Why AT&T May Dump Home Security Biz (Light Reading)

IBM teams with Nestle, Wal-Mart on blockchain solutions (DCVelocity)



Cable has ILECs on the ropes, analyst says (FierceCable)



Two firms hiring: CHOP-backed Haystack and Comcast-backed Jornaya (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Ascensus: Philly firm counts America's billions in the cloud (Philly.com: Philly Deals)



ADP snubs Bill Ackman’s nominations to its board (NY Post)


Weekend Highlights: Urban Outfitters: Shares Up But "Still a Hot Mess"; Ascensus: Philly firm counts America's billions in the cloud




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Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt close to becoming Uber’s CEO (TechCrunch)

Urban Outfitters: Shares Up But Still a Hot Mess (Barron's)

Beyond Amazon and Alibaba: what’s next for e-commerce?

India’s Infosys Faces a Recruitment Headache After CEO’s Dramatic Exit
(Fortune)

Cable has ILECs on the ropes, analyst says (FierceCable)


Two firms hiring: CHOP-backed Haystack and Comcast-backed Jornaya (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


Ascensus: Philly firm counts America's billions in the cloud (Philly.com: Philly Deals)



ADP snubs Bill Ackman’s nominations to its board (NY Post)



8/18: Report: AT&T might exit home security business; Apple, Comcast considering movie rental plan



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Infosys CEO resigns after long-running feud with founders (Reuters)
SAP's former CTO, Vishal Sikka.


AT&T considers sale of home security business, say sources: Reuters (Reuters)

Hollywood, Apple Said to Mull Rental Plan, Defying Theaters (Bloomberg)
Comcast also said to be actively involved


Biotech startups ditch New York and Boston over rising rent prices (VentureBeat)
More for Philly?


For Uber, a Quiet Investor Becomes a Sudden Thorn (NY Times)

Veracen says it will hire 60+ at Berwyn fund group (Philly.com)

QVC: Real-Time Data is the Future of ECommerce (Information Week)





8/17: Comcast goes system-wide with Xfinity Mobile; KeyBank takes equity stake in Billtrust




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Walker Takes Aim At Foxconn Pennsylvania Spin (Maciver Institute)
One POV.

Comcast Goes Wide With Xfinity Mobile (Multichannel News)

Comcast’s licensed X1 producing mixed churn results for Cox, Shaw early on (FierceCable)

As internet demand increases, RCN launches 1-gigabit speed in Lehigh Valley (Morning Call)

Uber’s Possible $12 Billion Deal Hangs on Outcome of Courtroom Brawl (Fortune)

KeyBank takes equity stake in (Hamilton NJ) fintech firm Billtrust (Crain's Cleveland Business)

Microsoft acquires cloud-computing orchestration vendor Cycle Computing (ZDNet)
Connecticut startup.

A Start-Up Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass (NY Times)






Haystack Informatics Closes Funding Round and Expands Solution Offerings to Solve Major Challenges in Healthcare

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Haystack Informatics Closes Funding Round and Expands Solution Offerings to Solve Major Challenges in Healthcare
August 15, 2017 11:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Haystack Informatics, a behavioral analytics company that helps healthcare organizations safeguard and optimize their operations, announced today it has closed an additional funding round to expand software solution offerings.

“After ingesting billions of EMR data points, we’ve realized our extensive knowledge of behavior and interactions can be applied beyond privacy.”
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The financing round was led by Rittenhouse Ventures with participation from DreamIt Ventures and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Jayson Tischler, Principal at Rittenhouse Ventures, notes, “One of the biggest challenges in healthcare is transforming the vast amount of data captured by electronic health records systems (EHRs) into valuable actions. Health systems and their staff are struggling to balance the demands of data management with the efforts necessary to improve operational efficiency and patient satisfaction. Haystack has already created a best-in-class software platform for health systems to manage patient privacy, using behavioral patterns from EHR records; now, the company has leveraged that same data and behavioral analytics to maximize EHR utilization and to streamline staff workflows and patient pathways.”

Co-founders Dr. Bimal Desai and Adrian Talapan developed their original privacy solution to allow health systems to monitor employee behavior and meet privacy monitoring requirements. After deploying their privacy solution across numerous health systems and observing billions of interactions between providers and patients, they realized that their deep knowledge of employee behavior could be further applied to other challenges. Working with a team of data scientists that came out of Harvard University, they developed a novel approach to understanding employee activity in a healthcare setting, or “Haystack Intelligence.”

“Our privacy solution offered a new approach to patient privacy by understanding employee behavior patterns and patient interactions in the context of care delivery. This approach drastically improved how health systems monitor patients’ records,” says co-founder and Chief Health Informatics officer at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Bimal Desai. “After ingesting billions of EMR data points, we’ve realized our extensive knowledge of behavior and interactions can be applied beyond privacy.”

Through extensive discussions with executives at leading health systems, the company has identified four new applications for their Haystack Intelligence approach: EHR Workflow Optimization, Operational Improvements, Service Cost Management and Patient Experience. The company has already received significant interest from health systems to use their Haystack Intelligence solutions to guide operational or behavioral changes, as well as measure the benefits of such changes.

“At its core, Haystack Intelligence uses data to provide a mirror of the patient experience and employee interactions,” explains Adrian Talapan, co-founder and CEO. “This objective view of data provides a compass to guide health systems towards areas of variability in behavior and performance across locations, service lines, or even providers. Significant variability results in wasteful health spend, an estimated nearly trillion-dollar problem in the US. By revealing patterns of variability, our intelligence allows health systems to discover the behaviors that most impact the bottom line, while identifying the behaviors that promote a better experience for both patients and providers.”

Haystack Informatics is currently piloting its new solutions with health centers in the Philadelphia area. In addition to working directly with health systems, the company is also partnering with healthcare consultants to guide recommendations and monitor progress. The company plans to explore similar partnership opportunities with consulting organizations and software providers interested in integrating the Haystack Intelligence software in their own offerings.

“Bimal and I set out to revolutionize patient privacy when we created Haystack, and in the process, we’ve developed extensive knowledge of user behavior and interactions. We are excited to apply that understanding to new areas, as we work to safeguard and optimize healthcare. We look forward to working with health systems and partners to achieve that mission,” said Talapan.

About us:

Haystack Informatics, spun out from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is a digital health company that helps leading health systems monitor patient privacy and improve operational efficiency. Using activity log data from electronic health records (EHR) systems, our technology makes sense of the interactions that exist between health system employees and patients, identifying anomalous activity patterns, and guiding towards the most impactful areas for EHR and staff optimization.

Contacts
Haystack Informatics
Kevin Klick, 215-539-3653
VP Sales
kevin@haystackinformatics.com


HAYSTACK INFORMATICS
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Haystack Informatics develops a new solution offering to advance patient care and closes funding round




8/16: WebLinc, Agilence get new funding; Retail is in 'panic mode,' says Dick's Sporting Goods CEO




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Workday acquires the team behind Pattern, a young startup founded by ex-Googlers (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital one of Pattern's investors.

Goldman Sachs breaks down how Amazon can jump into health care (CNBC)


Retail is in 'panic mode,' says Dick's Sporting Goods CEO (CNBC)

Urban Outfitters Inc. reports a better quarter than expected (Philly.com)

Apple is reportedly investing $1 billion in original video content (The Verge)

CT's Horizon stakes Philly's WebLinc (Hartford Business)

Agilence Receives US$4m in Financing (Finsmes)

Verizon Video Woes Pile On (Light Reading)




Osage leads round in Charlottesville-based VividCortex

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In a Series A-1 funding announced today, Charlottesville-based VividCortex has raised $8.5 million led by Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners. Bull City Venture Partners also participated in the round, as did all existing investors, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Battery Ventures.

While another earlier OVP investment, SevOne, focused on an enterprise's network performance, VividCortex concentrates on database performance. VividCortex’s Database Performance Management platform provides insights into database workload and query performance, enabling teams to proactively resolve database issues faster, the company says. It claims customers such as DraftKings, Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, Shopify, and Yelp.

OVP Partner David Drahms has been appointed to the VividCortex Board of Directors. To date, VividCortex has raised $15 million.

OVP might disagree, but I see in it leading this round with such prestigious partners to be perhaps a sign that it is becoming more widely visible in the enterprise software investing space.

Read the press release.




CT's Horizon stakes Philly's WebLinc (Hartford Business)

Agilence Receives US$4m in Financing (Finsmes)

Verizon Video Woes Pile On (Light Reading)





8/14: Hulu, FICO go with AWS; Comcast Launches DOCSIS 3.1 in Philadelphia, Baltimore




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Hulu Rolls With Amazon’s Video Cloud (Multichannel News)

AWS infrastructure is now behind three main streaming media providers (ZDNet)


Comcast Launches DOCSIS 3.1 in Philadelphia, Baltimore (Multichannel News)


Domain name registry Donuts raises $110M in financing to help fund $213M acquisition of former rival Rightside (GeekWire)
Radnor-based TL Ventures led a $54M Series C in Donut in 2015.

What Is SoftBank's Endgame in the U.S.? (Hollywood Reporter)

Wasting millions on failed tech upgrades hurts Philadelphians (OpEd/Philly.com)



Weekend Highlights: Uber Board Considers 3 Investment Offers to Buy Company’s Shares ; How Nutrisystem lost flab and got into fighting shape




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Altice Is Considering Seeking Equity Funds for Charter Bid (Bloomberg)

America's 'Cable Cowboy' Lays the Groundwork for Internet Dominance Beyond the U.S. (Dow Jones)


SoftBank’s Plan B: Win over Uber investors who aren't Benchmark (Recode)

Uber Board Considers 3 Investment Offers to Buy Company’s Shares (NY Times)


The HR process is filled with bias, and SAP is selling tech to change that (Quartz)

How Nutrisystem lost flab and got into fighting shape (Philly.com)
Nutrisystem must be on a PR offensive, had a simultaneous feature article in the WSJ (subscription).





8/11: After the Seeso is over: TuneIn raises $50 million led in part by Comcast Ventures




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Seeso postmortem: Stop treating OTT like linear TV, analyst says (Fiercecable)

Nokia Wants To Demo Its Small Cell Technology for Comcast (Wireless Week)

TuneIn Raises $50 Million to Prove Online Audio Can Make Money (Bloomberg)
Comcast Ventures one of the leads. Always wondered if Comcast should have a radio strategy, in spite of that segment's problem.
TuneIn seems to be monetizing radio content over the internet that used to be free, which I don't particularly like.


Some startup founders are ‘nervous’ about dealing with Benchmark after it sued Uber (Recode)

Exclusive: Uber shareholder group wants Benchmark off board (Axios)

Blue Apron is stuck in a dangerous cycle that has nothing to do with Amazon (Recode)






8/10: Benchmark Capital sues Travis Kalanick for fraud; Payment giant PayPal buys Philly-area's Swift




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Scoop: Benchmark Capital sues Travis Kalanick for fraud (Axios)

Longtime Uber exec Ryan Graves to leave company but remain on board (LA Times)
"It was also Graves, the CEO at the time, who brought in the venture capital firm First Round Capital as Uber’s first big investor."
Maybe so, but I had always assumed it was Josh Kopelman's prior relationship with Garrett Camp through StumbleUpon that led to the connection.

Blue Apron Stock Is Now Worth Far Less Than One of Its Meals (Bloomberg)

Payment giant PayPal buys Philly-area's Swift
(Philly.com)
This is very interesting.


Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It (Gizmodo)

Amazon could start selling event tickets in the U.S. (TechCrunch)

Rethinking ERP buyers, from cloud ERP to vendor selection – with Gabriel Gheorghiu (Diginomica)

Salesforce’s Disruptor Won’t Be A CRM Company (Tom Tunguz)
Microsoft would be a good bet, by his thesis.




8/9: SunGard LBO Shines In Its New Home; PRA to buy Conshohocken-based Symphony Health for $530M+



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That Once-Troubled SunGard LBO Shines In Its New Home (Bloomberg)


PRA to buy Conshohocken-based data and analytics company for $530M+ (Triangle Business Journal)
Symphony Health.

AG SOFTWARE COMPANY GRANULAR ACQUIRED BY DUPONT
(Agriculture.com)
Granular had raised $25 in two rounds, according to CrunchBase.

Altice weighing takeover offer for Charter: sources (Reuters)



Birchbox has held acquisition talks with several retailers, including Walmart (Recode)


8/8: Softbank and Its Vision Fund Are Investing $1B in Fanatics; How Major League Baseball Is Disney’s Secret Weapon Against Netflix




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UPDATE: Softbank and Its Vision Fund Are Investing $1B in Fanatics - DJ (Street Insider)

SoftBank invests $1 billion in sports e-commerce firm Fanatics: sources (Reuters)

How Major League Baseball Is Disney’s Secret Weapon Against Netflix
(Fortune)


Departure of Ruckus channel chief confirms Arris’ confidence in pending takeover, insiders say (FierceCable)

So about this Dell digital transformation story. Pivots. (Redmonk)

Philly wastes time, money on computer system upgrades (Philly.com)

Fidelity Brings Bitcoin Tracking to Traditional Investor Portfolios (CoinDesk)



8/7: Uber co-founder says Kalanick is not coming back; Cloudamize's return to its investors




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Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp says Travis Kalanick is not coming back as CEO (Recode)

Dish misses profit expectations but limits subscriber losses (Reuters]

Analysts want answers on ESPN’s OTT service (SportsBusinessDaily)

How Cloudamize yielded '52% a year' for local investors (Philly.com)

Square Mile Lends $91M on Booming Philly Suburb Office Space (Commercial Observer)`

Boxed Pays for Worker Weddings. Will the Perk Survive Automation? (Blooomberg}





Weekend Highlights: V-22 Osprey crash in Australia; Vertex in new King of Prussia headquarters




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The V-22 Osprey: A Crash Decades in the Making (Fortune)
V-22 Osprey built by Boeing at Ridley Park, Delco.


Salesforce's second-largest business just hired its fourth new leader in four years as growth slows (CNBC)

Blue Apron falls on misleading layoff reports (Marketwatch)



Activist Ackman Looks for Board Seats, Better Returns at Payroll Firm ADP (NY Times)

Dow, DuPont Set Aug. 31 for Closing of Historic Chemical Merger (Bloomberg)

Vertex settles in to new King of Prussia headquarters (Daily Local News)



Thoma Bravo to Acquire Malvern-based Frontline Education (Press Release)


Thoma Bravo to Acquire Frontline Education
Transaction Marks A Significant Investment In Education Technology by Leading Private Equity Firm

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SAN FRANCISCO and MALVERN, Pa., Aug. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm, today announced that it will acquire Frontline Education ("Frontline"), an integrated insights partner serving more than 12,000 educational organizations across America. The transaction is expected to close late in the third quarter of 2017, subject to usual and customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Insight Venture Partners, a prior investor in Frontline, will retain a minority stake in the company. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Frontline, with its awarding-winning administrative and HR software solutions, serves more than 12,000 educational organizations across America, and enables them to make evidenced-based decisions that drive better outcomes for both educators and students. Across North America, major educational organizations rely on Frontline's trusted solutions, with more than 5 million education employees and 1.2 million substitutes logging into its systems on a daily basis.

"This investment by one of the nation's most astute evaluators of technology companies is extremely gratifying," said Tim Clifford, President and Chief Executive Officer of Frontline Education. "We are a company of people passionately devoted to K-12 education, and our partnership with Thoma Bravo will allow us to become even more valuable to educators, school districts, communities and, most importantly, students."

"Under Tim's leadership Frontline has become one of the preeminent technology solutions providers focused on the human capital needs of K-12 school districts," said Holden Spaht, a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo. "We look forward to supporting the company's growth, both organically and through strategic acquisitions, while maintaining the high level of customer service for which Frontline is known."

Brian Jaffee, a Vice President at Thoma Bravo, added: "Frontline is an incredible organization. We are thrilled about the partnership and the opportunity to work with the management team to help enhance Frontline's market-leading platform of HR and administrative software solutions for the K-12 market."

In the past three years, Frontline Education has significantly expanded its solutions-based portfolio through organic growth and 10 strategic acquisitions. The businesses acquired by Frontline Education have been similarly mission-driven to improve outcomes in K-12 education.

"Our relationship with Insight Venture Partners has built incredible momentum for Frontline in our efforts to better serve the education community, and we look forward to continuing that momentum via our partnership with Thoma Bravo," said Mr. Clifford.

Frontline has approximately 650 employees in five locations around the U.S. The acquisition by Thoma Bravo is not expected to change the corporate headquarters, management team or employee base of the company.

UBS Investment Bank served as the lead investment advisor and Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP and Cooley LLP served as legal advisors for Frontline Education. Thoma Bravo was advised by Kirkland and Ellis LLP.

About Thoma Bravo, LLC
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors. With a series of funds representing more than $17 billion in capital commitments, Thoma Bravo partners with a company's management team to implement operating best practices, invest in growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings, with the goal of increasing the value of the business. Representative past and present portfolio companies include industry leaders such as Blue Coat Systems, Deltek, Digital Insight, Global Healthcare Exchange, Hyland Software, iPipeline, PowerPlan, Qlik, Riverbed, SailPoint, SolarWinds, SonicWall, Sparta Systems and TravelClick. The firm has offices in San Francisco and Chicago.

For more information, visit ThomaBravo.com.

About Frontline Education 
Frontline Education is an integrated insights partner serving more than 12,000 Educational Organizations and millions of educators, administrators and support personnel in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners. With nearly 20 years of experience serving the front line of education, Frontline Education is dedicated to providing actionable insights that enable informed decisions and drive engagement across school systems.

Bringing together the best education software solutions into one unified platform, Frontline makes it possible to efficiently and effectively manage the administrative needs of the education community, including their recruiting and hiring, employee absences and attendance, professional growth and special education and interventions programs. Frontline Education corporate headquarters are in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with offices in Andover, Massachusetts, Rockville Centre, New York, Salt Lake City, Utah and Chicago, Illinois.

Learn more at FrontlineEducation.com

Media Contacts

Thoma Bravo Media Contact:
Matthew Gorton
Hiltzik Strategies
212-776-1161
mgorton@hstrategies.com

Frontline Education Media Contact:
Andrea Fitzpatrick
484-983-8688
afitzpatrick@frontlineed.com

SOURCE Thoma Bravo



8/4: Early reports mischaracterize Blue Apron NJ layoffs, much smaller # effected




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Blue Apron is laying off a quarter of its staff (TechCrunch)
1270 jobs reported cut in Jersey City.

Blue Apron Is Closing Jersey City Facility and Moving 1,270 Jobs (Bloomberg)
To beautiful Linden. The rest of the story.

Blue Apron Corrects Layoffs Rumor: Only 470, Or Fewer, It Says (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)




Drug pricing pressure weighs on AmerisourceBergen forecast (Reuters)

SAP Says Restrictions on New Recruitment not a General Hiring Freeze (Fortune)


So What’s Up with Oracle Cloud? ( James Governor / Enterprise Irregulars)

TiVo’s Q2 revenues spike 67% after merger; ‘making progress’ on Comcast litigation (FierceCable)


Alumni from top Georgia incubator see 145% increase in funding this year (VentureBeat)


8/3: Entercom invests in podcast network Dgital Media; Universal Display Rising: Q2 Crushes Consensus




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More money for podcasting: Radio network Entercom invests in podcast network Dgital Media (Recode)

Dell Shuffles Thin-Client Exec Deck As IGEL Comes On Strong (CRN)

How Boston has transformed itself into a powerful digital health ecosystem (Med City News)

Universal Display Rising: Q2 Crushes Consensus, Raises Year Revenue View (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Charter has moved millions of customers to new—and often higher—pricing (Ars Technica)

She's back! Jessica Rosenworcel returns to FCC as America's net neutrality row heats up (The Register)

Uber’s Stock Price Plunged After CEO Travis Kalanick Resigned (Fortune)



8/3: Amazon's massive jobs fair in Mercer County; EvolveIP buys its way into Europe; says sales will top $100M



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Philly cloud provider buys its way into Europe; sales top $100M (Philly.com)

Alibaba moves to take on crowded US cloud market (CIODive)


Comcast has ‘global opportunity’ with home automation wholesale, Xfinity Home chief Herscovici says (FierceCable)

We visited Amazon's massive jobs fair at a warehouse in New Jersey, where people lined up around the block hoping to score a job (Business Insider)
Robbinsville, Mercer County.

Tableau’s loss shrinks as subscription sales grow (Seattle Times)
Cites improvements at Qlik and Microsoft.



"Vanguard, whose $7.5 billion U.S. Growth Fund owns shares in Uber, cut the value of its position by 15% in June" ( Fortune Term Sheet)




8/1: Unisys Combines Services, Enterprise Teams In Response To Revenue Drop; Seed funding wilting?



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Lawsuits likely if Pa. expands online sales taxation (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Unisys Combines Services, Enterprise Teams In Response To Revenue Drop (CRN)

Seed funding wilts as Silicon Valley investors fret about valuations and IPO market
(VentureBeat)

Villanova announces Master's of Accounting with Data Analytics program (Accounting Today)

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup (Bloomberg Business Week)