Daily Links 1/31/2012: Facebook reported ready to file for IPO in morning

Alden Global maneuver sets off speculation about Philly newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Facebook to file for $5 billion IPO: IFR (Reuters)

Amazon’s Sales Miss Estimates, Profit Drops 57% (Bloomberg)


Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 (ReadWriteWeb)

Dell plans to expand Silicon Valley staff as it looks to innovate (Dow Jones via Total Telecom)

Unisys Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Financial Results; Third Consecutive Year of Profitability and Positive Free Cash Flow (PR Newswire)

Infor Revamps Support Services, Heightens Competition Against SAP, Oracle (CIO.com)

SAP 2011 Earnings Call with Bill McDermott (You Tube)

Internet Essentials Progress Report (Comcast Voices|Official Comcast Blog)
Enhancements in response to criticisms of program's shortcomings?

Music Choice Rebrands As 'MC'
New Logo, Brand Strategy to Span Linear, VOD and Online Properties (Multichannel News)

Comcast snags another customer for its Metro Ethernet service (Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine)
Widener University.

Panasonic Exits US Cable Set-Top Biz (Light Reading Cable)

PSC, Drexel Light Up Cross-State Optical Link (HPC Wire)

Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Infragistics Blog)

Multiband calls off WPCS acquisition (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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Daily Links 9/7/2011: John Paton to run combined Journal Register/MediaNews operation

Paton to serve as CEO of MediaNews and Journal Register Co. (Poynter)

Post fron John Paton's Digital First Blog.

The Coming Local-Newspaper Rollup (paidContent)
Alden Global Capital, in addition to owning Journal Register and having a major stake in MediaNews (I've seen it reported as 40%; don't know if it is larger now), also has a significant stake in Philadelphia Media Network (Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com), so this move could have other implications for the future of news media in the Philly area.

SAP Buying Right Hemisphere for 3-D Visualization (PC World)
A little more in-depth information here from Computerworld New Zealand.

SAP Entering the Mobile EMR Arena (Medgadget)

SAP sees no signs crisis is hitting real economy (Reuters)

Dick Ebersol Returns to NBC Sports as Advisor (Hollywood Reporter)
Missed this item from a week ago.

NBC Super Bowl Ad Spots Selling for up to $3.5 Mil Each (Hollywood Reporter)

NBC Universal Hires Top Morgan Stanley Media Banker (New York Times: DealBook)

Liberty Has Money to Burn
Malone Says Time Many Be Ripe for Acquisitions After Liberty Interactive Split (Multichannel News)
Liberty Interactive is QVC's parent company.

Comcast Slots SeaChange Into Video Gateways (Light Reading Cable)

Philadelphia Named a ‘Code for America’ City for 2nd Time (Government Technology)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Text) (Bloomberg)



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