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3/17: Alarm.com has 5mm subs with Icontrol deal; SAP Updates Vora Query Engine for Better Business Analytics

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Alarm.com Has 5 Million Subs in Wake of Icontrol Deal (Multichannel News)
Also nets multi-year exclusive deal with ADT.

SAP Updates Vora Query Engine for Better Business Analytics (CIO Today)

Analyst: AWS growth could ‘moderate’ as Microsoft and Google see new cloud momentum (GeekWire)

To Compete With AWS, Oracle Will Need More Data Centers (Data Center Frontier)

ModCloth announces it has been bought by Wal-Mart's Jet.com (Pittsburgh Business Times)

Ohio Taxpayers on the Hook as Venture Fund Can't Pay Bondholders
(Bloomberg)

2/28: Amazon outage breaks large parts of the internet; YouTube to launch pay OTT service

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Roku Got Close to $400 Million Revenue in 2016 (Variety)
Roku is reported to be raising at least $200 million at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Comcast coy about revised DOCSIS 3.1 rollout strategy following Tuscaloosa announcement (FierceCable)

BREAKING: YouTube to launch $35/mo. TV streaming service in a few months, which will carry 40+ channels including major broadcast networks.
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) February 28, 2017

YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, wants to sell you TV for $35 a month (Recode)

Comcast Takes Full Control of Japan Theme Park in Global Push (Bloomberg)

Hersheys to reduce global workforce by 15 percent (Reuters)

https://t.co/Zr40mxJeSc Likely the problem I, others experiencing #AwS
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) February 28, 2017

Amazon outage breaks large parts of the internet (Engadget)

Amazon’s web servers are back online after more than four hours of disruption (The Verge)

Why It’s So Hard to Build the Next Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)

Salesforce Revenue Forecast Falls Short as Cloud Rivals Gain (Bloomberg)

Philadelphia to offer free rent to lure suburban companies: Report
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
Sounds like it might be targeted toward WeWork. Need more info as to how this came about.

Workday's CEO says turmoil with Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite helped bolster a historic quarter (CNBC)
DuPont is a Workday customer, and Workday confirmed yesterday that it is assisting Dow Chemical in anticipation of the merger being completed.

Workday Falls: FYQ4 Beats, Street Annoyed ‘Billings’ View Taken Away
(Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Changes in Oracle's Report Card
( Bill Kutik/HR Executive Online)

Why eBay’s Former CEO Is Joining This $1.4 Billion Cloud Company (Fortune)
John Donahoe was CEO of eBay when it acquired GSI Commerce in 2011. He left Michael Rubin with what turned out to be its most valuable business - Fanatics. How's Michael Rubin's Fanatics doing? OK.

On IoT Strategies: AWS, GE, Siemens

Siemens and General Electric gear up for the internet of things (The Economist)

Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing (NY Times: Bits)

Links 12/1: First Round Capital: State of Startups 2016; 70 years ago, 6 Philly women became world's first digital computer programmers

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EXCLUSIVE: MIKE ALLEN AND JIM VANDEHEI REVEAL THEIR PLAN FOR MEDIA DOMINATION (Vanity Fair)
Ex-Politico chiefs discuss new venture.

AWS stays on 2016 trend with AI product push (Diginomica)

Here's Why Amazon Budged on What It Says Is the Best Cloud Model
(Fortune)

Workday Rising: FYQ3 Earnings Offer Surprise Profit; Rev Outlook Beats (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Ad tech company AppNexus has filed for an IPO (Business Insider)
Long anticipated IPO planned for NY-based company; First Round Capital was an early backer.

First Round Capital: State of Startups 2016 (First Round Capital)

Entrepreneurs sense power shift back to VCs in annual First Round Capital survey (TechCrunch)

Bullpen closes its third fund at $75 million to back post-seed stage startups (TechCrunch)
Led by bi-coastal Philly area native Paul Martino.

WPP has formed a new unit that wants to create a rival to Google, Facebook, and Apple ID (Business Insider)
WPP's recent purchase of a stake in Princeton-based Invidi could certainly contribute to its plans.

Former baseball stars launch Dugout Ventures (PitchBook)
Who could turn down a term sheet offer from Big Papi?

70 years ago, six Philly women became the world's first digital computer programmers (Philly Voice)

Comcast's Fandango Buys Online Ticket-Seller Cinepapaya (Reuters via Fortune)

Internet of medical things: Malvern heart-tracker maker buys Mass. diabetes firm (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Links 10/13: SAP’s CEO Is on a Mission to Reform Healthcare; Verizon Says Data Breach ‘Material’ to Yahoo Deal

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Is Once-Rising Salesforce-Microsoft Partnership Now In Descent? (Investor's Business Daily)

SAP's S/4HANA Migration Pivot Offers Lessons For IT Pros (Information Week)

SAP’s CEO Is on a Mission to Reform Healthcare (Fortune)

VMware’s new cloud service will run on AWS (TechCrunch)

Amazon cloud boss Andy Jassy fires back at Oracle's Larry Ellison, says stats were 'made up' (Business Insider)
Ellison does throw out pure BS.

Berlin firm seeks $140 million tax break (Courier-Post)

Verizon Says Data Breach ‘Material’ to Yahoo Deal (Multichannel News)

Medical software’s search for a prescription to cure the ailing beast (Diginomica)

Sunday Highlights: Analytical Graphics, Birchbox

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Salesforce's data centre team 'fought' AWS cloud outsourcing (The Register)

Google's Nest may become a different kind of IoT company after CEO Fadell leaves (PCWorld)

Planetary Resources Raises $21.1 Million In Series A Funding; Unveils Advanced Earth Observation Capability (SpaceRef)
Analytical Graphics of Exton is one of several partners to this startup which seeks to identify and eventually mine valuable mineral-laden asteriods in space.

Update: Planetary Resources is now focused on using satellites equipped with its thermal infrared and hyperspectral sensors to record images of crop formations on earth, containing enough detail to improve crop productivity. Some big names in addition to AGI are partners.

Analytical Graphics has over 900 employees on LinkedIn (doesn't necessarily mean it has that many), of which about 170 are based in the Philly area.

Retail analytics: Big and Getting Bigger (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Birchbox Finds Cute Boxes Filled With Makeup Aren't Enough (Bloomberg)
Birchbox, backed early by First Round Capital, has been a big trendsetting hit, but still hasn't reached profitabiliy. So one of the things its trying is the old retail concept of brick and mortar.

Birchbox, which has raised more than $70 million to date, laid off 15% of its staff in January.

First Round Capital made Birchbox cofounder and former co-CEO Hayley Barna a venture partner early this year.

For all things and all seasons, a subscription box (CNBC)
BirchBox started the trend.

The rise of SDDC and the future of enterprise IT (ZDNet)