Daily Links 9/28/2012: Oracle plans cloud push at OpenWorld; how Bussmann elevated CIO role at SAP

Oracle Plans Cloud Push to Take On Salesforce, Workday (Bloomberg)

IBM Readies “Project Sparta” Aimed at Simplifying Big Data
(All Things D)

IBM looks to build out its cloud through partners
Big Blue will offer grants for resellers to invest in IBM technology, launch marketing campaigns (Network World)

How Oliver Bussmann Elevated the Role of CIO at SAP
(Wall Street Journal: The CIO Report)

The End of the Cash Register? Urban Outfitters Will Ring You Up With iPads (The Atlantic)

UPDATE: Comcast Employees Approach Relocation Deadline (Doylestown Patch)

Clearwire Slides As Time Warner Eyes Exit; Is Comcast Next? (Forbes)

Allscripts Said to Be Exploring Possible Sale (Bloomberg)


T-Mobile Leases Its Towers for $2.4 Billion to Fund Its LTE Plans (All Things D)

MetroPCS Reportedly Holding Talks With Potential Suitors (Forbes)

Health tech is ‘falling out of favor with VCs’? Not quite (Gigaom)

Podcamp East set for media training (Wilmington News Journal)



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Daily Links 4/30/2012: Comcast Sports Group and Philly-based OneTwoSee Partner to Launch App to Enhance Local MLB Broadcast Coverage

Comcast Sports Group and Philly-based OneTwoSee Partner to Launch a Second Screen Application to Enhance Local Broadcast Coverage of MLB Games (PR Newswire)

In Search of Apps for Television (New York Times)

TV in real dime
Hulu, networks to change model of free streaming (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)

Canoe NYC Office To Shut Its Doors May 23
Operator-Owned Advanced Advertising Venture Refocusing Efforts on VOD Ads (Multichannel News)

Comcast/Verizon Combo Steers Clear of FiOS (Light Reading Cable)

Microsoft buys stake in Nook, college textbook business (Ars Technica)

At last: Violin to push out HANA appliance
It's why SAP invested (The Register)

Teradata Debuts In-Memory System for SAS Analytics (Enterprise Apps Today)


42Floors’ PDA: The War For Talent Among Startups Needs A New Approach. Here’s Why (TechCrunch)

Allscripts names new chairman amid turmoil (AP via Chicago Sun-Times)

Saatchi Healthcare Embraces ‘Science’ (MediaBistro: AgencySpy)
Yardley-based Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare Innovations is now Saatchi & Saatchi Science.



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Daily Links 4/27/2012: Ascentia Health Care Solutions of Wayne acquired by Tennessee firm

SAP throws down the gauntlet in database wars
(Fortune Tech)

Healthways acquires Philadelphia health software company Ascentia Health Care Solutions (Nashville Tennessean)
Ascentia Health Care Solutions is based in Wayne.

Allscripts Plunges After Chairman, Three Directors Leave (Bloomberg)

TicketLeap Introduces Seating Chart Design Tools For Ambitious Event Planners (TechCrunch)

IPv6 Home Networking Pilot Market Deployment Technical Details (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Harleysville Group shareholders vote to sell (Philly.com: Philly Deals)



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Daily Links 6/10/2010: Army Experience Center in Northeast will close

Army Experience Center in Northeast will close (Philadelphia
Inquirer)

Azavea (Formerly Avencia) Awarded NSF SBIR Grant to Explore Use of GPUs for Faster Geographic Data Processing (PR Web)

Franken Grills Varney On Comcast-NBCU-Like Mergers
Assistant AG For Antitrust Assures Senator Justics Doesn't Rely On Promises (Multichannel News)

Cablevision, Charter Among Bidders For Bresnan, WSJ Reports
(Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Comcast owns 30% of Bresnan.

Hulu plans to charge, expand to devices: sources (Reuters)

Google TV Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think (Forrester
Blogs)

Allscripts-Eclipsys Merger: Electronic Health Records Land Grab (Forbes: The Science Business)
This deal raises questions about how Quality Systems Inc., which owns Allscripts competitor NextGen Healthcare of Horsham, will respond.

Internet Week proves New York rivals Silicon Valley in tech savvy (Newark Star-Ledger)

GSI Commerce Founder and CEO Michael G. Rubin Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 Award Winner in Greater Philadelphia (Business Wire)

Search No More: PA Companies Lead Online Marketing Revolution (Keystone Edge)

Would Software AG be a good fit for SAP? (Computerworld)

Software AG, IDS Scheer Employees Face Insider-Trading Probe
(Bloomberg Business Week)

VCopious Announces SAP Software License Agreement
SAP Global Marketing unveils proprietary virtual environment software platform at SAPPHIRE® NOW
(PR Newswire)






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Daily Links 6/9/2010: Google paid $81 million for Invite Media (All Things D)

Comcast lobbyist authored letter signed by Pa. representatives (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Telecom, tech giants seek voluntary net neutrality commitments (Washington Post: Post Tech)
Building Consensus: A New Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group
(Comcast Voices: Corporate Blog)

Google’s Final Price Tag For Invite Media: $81 Million (All Things Digital:
MediaMemo)
Not sure how much the cofounders will each walk away with since I think there were four of them. All Things D puts the VC investment (mostly First Round, Comcast) at less than $5 million but since they were in pretty early they might have a sizable chunk of the company.

Software AG Investor Unlikely to Accept Offers, Chief Says (Business Week)

Allscripts buying healthcare info rival Eclipsys (Associated Press via Google News)
Eclipsys, which once tried to buy Shared Medical Systems (now Siemens Health), has its Mid-Atlantic Region office in Malvern.

Andrew Stern Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SunGard Availability Services (Business Wire)

RCM Technologies adopts shareholder rights plan (Reuters)

Host Analytics Grabs $15M More for Financial Management (VentureBeat via New York Times)

Panaya Secures $7 Million in Series C Funding
Latest Investment Round Led by Battery Ventures (PR Web)
Company's software as a service (SaaS) automates SAP upgrades.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital Announces $111.0 Million in Additional New Closed Commitments (Business Wire)
Includes an additional $1.4 million committment to InfoLogix of Hatboro, which recently said it had "initiated a review of strategic alternatives".


Sprint misstated Evo 4G sales, by a lot (Engadget)

Beige Book-Third District-Philadelphia, June 2010 (Federal Reserve Board)

Emtec Enriches Services Portfolio with Acquisition of Secure Data Incorporated
Acquisition Expands Footprint of Federal and Commercial Clients (Business Wire)




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