Daily Links 3/22/2013: Comcast finalizes $1 billion 30 Rock buy; FCC Chair Genachowski leaving

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Comcast’s $1B ‘Rock’ solid deal (New York Post)

Comcast's Brian Robert's interviewed at the Economic Club of Washington (Video)
Interesting perspective - looking both to the past and the future.


FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Stepping Down After Contentious Term: Reports (Time)

Genachowski’s FCC Tenure Featured Push to Open Wireless Spectrum (Video) (All Things D)

SAP Lifts Co-CEO Pay by 41%, Beating Volkswagen CEO Pay
(Bloomberg)

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners’ Initial Venture Capital Fund to Wind Down; Sell Remaining Portfolio Assets (Business Wire)

Accel Closes $475M Fund To Invest Mainly In Europe And Israel, Focusing On Its Series A “Sweet Spot” (TechCrunch)
Cites QlikTech as one of its major European successes.

CEO Marc Benioff Says Chatter Will Become Primary Interface For Salesforce, A Bold Yet Risky Move (TechCrunch)

Journal Register Approved to Sell Assets in Bankruptcy Court (Bloomberg)




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Daily Links 2/25/2013: Christie expected to sign Internet gambling bill tomorrow; Warby Parker raises $41.5 mm

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$30 million Bethlehem project targets tech companies (Lehigh Valley Business)

First Round Capital Funds Another $500K Student-Run Venture Fund in New York (All Things D)

Warby Parker Grabs New Investment From American Express & J. Crew CEO, Closing $41.5M Round (TechCrunch)
Founded at Wharton; First Round Capital was an early investor.

Workday competitor SilkRoad selects banks for IPO -sources (Reuters)

FCC Roughed Up in D.C. Circuit
Judges have lots of issues with statute of limitations on carriage complaint and First Amendment implications of remedy (Broadcasting & Cable)
On Comcast/Tennis Channel dispute.

Awaiting the Dimming of G.E. at 30 Rock (New York Times: City Room)

Motorola Brings ITV to Older Set-Tops With ActiveVideo Software (Multichannel News)

Gov. Chris Christie expected to sign bill allowing Internet gambling on Tuesday (Press of Atlantic City)

Wharton and Cisco Show Off the Telepresence Classroom of Tomorrow (Time Tech)


SideCar Says Three Philadelphia Drivers Caught In ‘Sting’, But It Plans to Continue Operations (TechCrunch)

Xtium Expands Partnership with YASH Technologies
Partnership brings increased deployment velocity, economic benefit to managed cloud hosting market (PR Web)

MeetMe® Launches in Chinese, Russian and Japanese
(Marketwire)




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Daily Links 2/1/2013: NBC News Chief Capus to depart

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Dell Could Announce Deal to Go Private As Soon As Monday (All Things D)

Dell Unveils SAP HANA, Server Bundles (Information Week)

SAP partner program expands to account for cloud applications
Some 500 SuccessFactors partners will be rolled into the fold this year (IT World)

NetSuite Stock Up On Q4 Beat; SAP Responds To Jab (Investor's Business Daily)

IaaS Market—Who Wants It? ( Denis Pombriant/Enterprise Irregulars)

ANALYSIS: SAP Chairman Plattner's medical vision (USA Today)


CLWR Still Mulling DISH Offer; Sprint Talks ‘Not Faring Well,’ Says BTIG (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

NBC News Chief Steve Capus Steps Down (Hollywood Reporter)
Suburban Philly native, WCAU vet.

Who’s In Line to Take Over at NBC News? (MediaBistro: TVNewser)

Time Warner Cable CEO Britt to step down by year end: report (Reuters)

30 Rock Gets In One Last Comcast Dig Before Going Off The Air (Consumerist)

"Angel Investor' Tax Incentives Now Law in New Jersey (NewJersey Newsroom)




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