2/14: NBC News names Oppenheim president, returns Deborah Turness to Europe; Closing the digital gap in pharma

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Foxconn group to see iPhone 8 windfall in the second half of 2017 (South China Morning Post)

Apple’s Eddy Cue says the future of TV is much more interactive (The Verge)

Here’s What an Apple Exec Says About a Big Media Acquisition (Fortune)

NBC News Names Noah Oppenheim President, Deborah Turness Moves to International Role (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC takes a 25 percent stake in the European network Euronews.

Comcast to Launch ‘Xfinity Stream’ App on Feb. 28
(Multichannel News)

SAP: Hidden Figures (Vinnie Mirchandani / Enterprise Irregulars)

Amazon Is Quietly Becoming a Major Player in Enterprise Software (The Street)


Closing the digital gap in pharma (McKinsey & Co.)

Untapped Opportunity Lies in Pharma’s Supply Chain
(Supply Chain Executive)

Linode challenges DigitalOcean with its new $5 instances (TechCrunch)
Linode's been mostly quite for a while. Meanwhile, no word on when it might complete its previously announced move to Philadelphia.

Excited about our partnership with @Rubicontalent - thanks @markjburns88 #SportsBiz https://t.co/5UGjE6NMM1

— Wayne Kimmel (@waynekimmel) February 15, 2017

Links 10/28: Comcast put down a $1.8B deposit for the FCC’s wireless incentive auction, analysts say

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Comcast put down a $1.8B deposit for the FCC’s wireless incentive auction, analysts say (FierceCable)

Telecoms’ Ambitions on Targeted Ads Seen Curbed by F.C.C.’s New Privacy Rules (NY Times)

Apple debuts “TV,” a TV guide and watchlist app for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad (TechCrunch)


Why AT&T Is Making a Huge Mistake by Acquiring Time Warner (Fortune)

Moffett: DirecTV ‘Playing a Dangerous Game’ With OTT-TV Service (Multichannel News)


This NetSuite Shareholder Says Oracle Should Raise Its Bid
(Reuters via Fortune)
Given Ellison's close to controlling stake, can NetSuite really shop itself around to others? Doubt it.

How SAP Engaged Its Best Customers to the Close of $27 Million (MarketingSherpa)

Corporate research moving in at Pennovation complex (Philly.com)

Blackline surges 40% in software IPO (TechCrunch)
Before starting Blackline 15 years ago, Therese Tucker served as CTO of SunGard and SunGard Treasury Systems.

Links 6/13: Apple announces new IoT app called Home; FanDuel, DraftKings in Merger Talks

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Highlights 10/16: Comcast, Maybe Apple, Aim To Get Skinny TV Right; Comcast: We'll take an incremental approach to deploying 100G

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Should Comcast Woo Unhappy AT&T DSL Subscribers? (Investor's Business Daily)


Are Verizon and AT&T ‘locking up’ the market for business Internet? The FCC will investigate. (Washington Post)



Comcast, Maybe Apple, Aim To Get Skinny TV Right (Investor's Business Daily)

Comcast: We'll take an incremental approach to deploying 100G (FierceTelecom)

NBC10 and union agree on new contract, ending camera operators' strike
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

SAP's Orca leaps from the depths early, Needled by Amazon (The Register)

Amazon makes nice (sort of) with hybrid cloud crowd (Fortune)


Prediction: VMware competitors will cash in on the heels of Dell/EMC merger
(Tech Republic)

So how much is Uber really worth? (CNBC)

Links 12/10/2014: Charter's Rutledge: OTT is ‘Playing With Fire’; First IBM-Apple niche apps released

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Virginia-based Canvas raises $9M for enterprise mobile app platform (VentureBeat)
Return investor Osage Venture Partners participated in the round.

Marketing tech: $6.2 billion in funding and acquisitions in last 3 months (VentureBeat)


News Analysis: Inside the First Industry-Specific Mobile Apps by the IBM MobileFirst for Apple iOS Partnership ( R "Ray" Wang / Enterprise Irregulars)

IBM Apps For Apple iOS: Not Siri Meets Watson (Information Week)

2014 Year in Review: Evaluating SAP
(ASUG News)


SAP Jam is Now iOS App Ready
(Mobile Enterprise)


Engineers on the rise (Philly.com)
Check out the way Philly.com's new website design is used in this story.

Comcast on home Wi-Fi lawsuit: Customers get “real benefits” (San Francisco Chronicle)

Rutledge: OTT is ‘Playing With Fire’ (Multichannel News)

Exclusive: WeWork finalizing massive new funding round (Fortune)
Can't find any plans for Philadelphia now.

Lending Club Prices I.P.O. at $15 a Share, Surpassing Expectations (New York Times: DealBook)

Meet Xtium’s new Chief Executive Office
(Xtium Blog)

The Effect Of HubSpot’s CRM Launch On Salesforce (TechCrunch)

Links 11/11/2014: SAP links up with Samsung; Neat cites seamless integration with Intuit QuickBooks Online

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Virtustream Nears $100 Million Revenue, Plans IPO in Year (Bloomberg)
Virtustream is rather closely aligned with SAP in terms of technology and running SAP applications in the Cloud, and SAP's VC arm is a major investor. In fact, I had thought that Virtustream might be a SAP acquisition candidate.

Lew Cirne’s New Relic Files to Go Public (Re/code)

SAP helps business embrace the internet of things (Beta News)

Samsung And SAP Partner On Mobile Devices For Business (TechCrunch)
Samsung's recent acquisition of IoT startup SmartThings one of the keys to partnership.

SAP hopes to help bring IoT to logistics and manufacturing (PC World)


SAP Helps Marketers Use Facebook Customer Data (Information Week)

Exclusive: Apple's enterprise assault gets into higher gear (Reuters)



AWS partners fight to fill gaps in Amazon’s hybrid cloud story (Gigaom)

Amazon Increasingly Duels Microsoft, Google in Cloud (Bloomberg)


Obama sparks fears over Comcast-Time Warner deal (CNBC)



STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S COMMENTS ON THE OPEN INTERNET AND NETWORK NEUTRALITY (Comcast
Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Canoe: 10 Billion VOD Ads Served (Multichannel News)

Neat Announces Seamless Integrations with Intuit’s QuickBooks Online (PR Web)

Report: Several cable execs will be at Apple event

Tom Paine

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Dave Zatz, tech blogger (Zatz Not Funny!) and video tech expert, posted this tweet early this morning:

New Apple TV? Professional courtesy? Something else? Sources say several cable execs will be in attendance today...!

— Dave Zatz (@davezatz) September 9, 2014

No further explanation at this time, but you might check his blog for more info.

Links 7/15/2014: Apple teams up with IBM to go after enterprise; Comcast's customer service misstep on tape?

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Why is tech M&A booming?(Fortune)
Panel discussion including Josh Kopelman.

Microsoft’s Nadella Pokes Google: They Sure Are Great Marketers (Re/code)


Google Smart Lenses Get Boost From Alcon Owner Novartis (Bloomberg)

Apple Teams Up With IBM For Huge, Expansive Enterprise Push
(TechCrunch)

Apple and IBM team up on big enterprise push (Computerworld)


Cohen: Competitive Market Is 'Tipping' In Consumers' Favor
(Multichannel News)
Comcast EVP to pitch Senate panel tomorrow.

The FCC is so swamped with net neutrality comments, it’s extending the deadline (The Washington Post)


Comcast 'Embarrassed' By The Service Call Making Internet Rounds (NPR: All Tech Considered)

SAP, Esri Build Stronger Mapping Ties (Information Week)

Links 6/2/2014: Apple adds DuckDuckGo to Safari as private search option; SAP apps to run on IBM's SoftLayer

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Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option (Search Engine Land)

If Comcast Doesn’t Want to Be Hated, It Might Want to Avoid Ads Like This One (Video) (Re/code)

Tierney returns, Lexie Norcross out at Inquirer parent (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP to create cloud services for industries (PC World)


IBM launches SAP apps on SoftLayer (ZDNet)

HP Releases New Hardware for Running SAP HANA (Re/code)

ExactTarget Co-Founder Scott Dorsey Leaves Salesforce, McCorkle New CEO (TechCrunch)

Battle-scarred Unisys still fighting fit as better days loom (The Australian)

Links 5/20/2014: SAP to acquire SeeWhy; NBC wins prime-time for first time in decade

Tom Paine

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4 years on, OpenStack still can't get in the door (Infoworld)

SAP to Acquire SeeWhy, the Real-Time Behavioral Marketing Company (SeeWhy Blog)

SAP To Acquire SeeWhy For Marketing Push
(Information Week)

SAP and Microsoft: The Frenemies’ Next Partnership is in the Cloud (ASUG News)



Jibe Secures $20 Million to Transform Hiring Market (Business Wire)
Round led by SAP Ventures; this is Jibe, not Jive, which SAP Ventures is also an investor in. (Correction: SAP Ventures was not an investor in Jive.)

Salesforce Rises On Earnings Beat, Improved Outlook (Re/code)


Verizon Absolutely Does Not Want to Buy Dish Network (The Wire)

Apple reportedly will pay ISPs for direct network connections (Ars Technica)

Protest Planned for Comcast Shareholder Meeting (Multichannel News)

NBC Wins Prime-Time TV Ratings for First Time in a Decade (Bloomberg)


Democrats grill FCC chairman on Internet fast lanes and ISP mergers (Ars Technica)

Urban Outfitter shares take a spill (AP via Business Week)
Sales at Urban Outfitter-branded stores dive.

DuckDuckGo Relaunches & Starts To Look Like A Real Search Engine
(Search Engine Land)

Links 3/24/2013: More on Comcast/Apple reports; IMS Health readies IPO

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Something smells fishy about that Comcast–Apple TV story (Gigaom)

Some Thoughts On The Latest Apple-Comcast Streaming TV Talks (TechCrunch)

‘Cord-Nevers’: Why Comcast Would Consider a Deal With Apple (Wall Street Journal: Digits)


Apple Has Hired A Crack Team From The Cable Industry To Save (Or Destroy) TV (Business Insider)

COMCAST'S TIES RUN DEEP IN PHILLY AND BEYOND (Politico: Morning Tech)


Apple, Comcast Set-Top Report Sends Arris Stock Down
(Investor's Business Daily)

IMS Health IPO could value company at up to $6.97 billion
(Reuters)
IMS Health has a significant presence in Plymouth Meeting and Collegeville.

Box IPO filing: The key numbers (Fortune)


Cisco Bets a Billion on the Cloud (NY Times: Bits)

Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection (NY Times)





Mobile data traffic dwarfed by fixed network data traffic (RCR Wireless)

Links 10/1/2013: LLR invests $50mm in Cigital; Heartland Payment invests $20mm in Leaf

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Cigital Secures $50M Investment from LLR Partners (LLR Partners)

Square Competitor Leaf Scores $20 Million Investment From Payments Giant Heartland (All Things D)
First question: What does this mean for Heartland's relationship with LevelUp?

After Raising $20M from Heartland, Aron Schwarzkopf's Vision for Leaf Grows (VentureFizz)


Artisan Adds Two New Products to Its Mobile Experience Management Platform (Business Wire)

AT&T attempts to out-Google Google in Austin fiber race (CNET News)

CableLabs Exec Joins Apple (Multichannel News)

Comcast forms VIPER team to deliver IP video to Apple, Microsoft, Samsung devices (FierceCable)

NBC Digital Hit With Layoffs (Variety)

Intel boss joins Hulu CEO contenders (NY Post)

Intel and Sony Ambitions for Internet TV Services Meet Skepticism (New York Times)



Merck reorg reimagines sales force (Medical Marketing & Media)

Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. (TechCrunch)

Links 9/20/2013: BlackBerry to cut 4500 jobs; Sprint will cut 75% of Clearwire workforce

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iPhone 5s gold rush begins, as crowds line up for new phone (Macworld)
Includes photos and coverage from Philly.


Nirvanix Shutdown: Small File Users May Fare Worst (Information Week)
San Diego-based cloud storage provider has apparently told its customers they have two weeks to get their data out.

Sprint cuts staff at Clearwire: 75% of workforce to lose jobs (GeekWire)

BlackBerry Plans to Cut 4,500 Jobs (New York Times)



The future of 'demo days' in an era of general solicitation (Fortune Term Sheet)
Startups should take note of the implications of this.


Sources: Flyers finalists for 2015 Winter Classic (Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia)
Game would be played in Washington.

Verizon adds out-of-home viewing to FiOS Mobile apps (FierceCable)

DreamIt Health accelerator expands to Baltimore with Johns Hopkins partnership (Med City News)

CHOP teams up with venture capital fund (Philadelphia Business Journal)

The Predictive Analytics Hole that SAP Wants KXEN to Fill (ASUG News)

Links 8/14/2013: Comcast's Roberts plays golf with President on Martha's Vineyard

Tom Paine

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Apple Scoops Up Matcha.tv To Pack More Smarts Into Apple TV (TechCrunch)

President Golfs with Comcast Chief
(Broadcasting & Cable)

OLEDs Get Lift From New Devices, TVs (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
Highlights new products from Universal Display.

Battle for fed cloud work heats up: IBM, one of ten winners, claims the big prize
(Gigaom)
Unisys, Lockheed Martin also among qualifiers.


Has the mobile balance shifted in T-Mobile and Sprint’s favor? UBS thinks so (Gigaom)

How ModCloth Went From a College Dorm to $100 Million a Year (Mashable)

InsPro Technologies Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)

MVP Interactive Receives Additional Funding from Seven Crowns USA to Spur Expansion into Retail and Entertainment Markets (Business Wire)

How East Coast Tech Startups Became a Downtown Phenomenon (The Atlantic Cities)
Philadelphia not mentioned in article; only comes up in comments.

Dissed by Google, Baltimore eyes new broadband strategy (Baltimore Business Journal)

CBS Radio move will bring 100 employees to Philadelphia (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Links 8/13/2013: Alteva eliminates dividened; LeadiD raises another $1 million from Genacast

Tom Paine

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Carl Icahn Discloses ‘Large’ Stake in Apple in Tweet (Bloomberg)

Alteva kills dividend; shares skid (Philly.com: Phlly Deals)

LeadiD Receives $1 Million Capital Infusion to Support Accelerated Growth (PR Web)

Comcast Expands Low-Cost Internet Plan, Ups Speed (ABC News)

Cable Europe Labs Merges With CableLabs (Multichannel News)

Business Intelligence Startup Looker Raises $16M From Redpoint, First Round (TechCrunch)

TIM ARMSTRONG: I Made An Emotional Mistake Firing That Guy (Business Insider)


The quiet successes that drive Silicon Valley (Jeff Richards/TermSheet)

Long-time tech execs' new company goes global (Philadelphia Business Journal)

PointRoll Settles 'Safari Hack' Lawsuit (MediaPost)

USA Technologies Launches ePortGO, a One-Stop Solution for the $11 Billion Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Market (Business Wire)

Daily Links 7/1/2013: Drexel launching seed fund & incubator; Apple store opens at Quaker Bridge Mall

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Salesforce.com Abandoning Its Postgres Flirtation?
(ReadWrite)

Oracle’s Expanding Cloud Ecosystem? (Michael Fauscette/Enterprise Irregulars)

ABC rolling out Watch ABC app to Los Angeles and other markets (LA Times: Company Town)
Initially available only in NY & Philly, but now will require cable subscription.

InterDigital loses first round of US case against Huawei, others (Reuters)


Apple Mania at the Quaker Bridge Mall (Planet Princeton)

Drexel launching seed fund, incubator (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Vanguard's decision in 1990s was boon to jobs here
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Icahn Says He Has Secured Financing for Alternative to Dell’s Buyout (New York Times: DealBook)

Oracle rolls out analytic apps for E-Business Suite (PC World)

Softmart Announces Its Involvement in the Microsoft Devices Program (PR Newswire)
Downington-based company one of ten Microsoft resellers/distributors to handle Surface
devices.



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Local firm's lawsuit vs Apple causes big headaches for Morgan Lewis

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A little over a year ago, I posted about a lawsuit filed by FlatWorld Interactives LLC, a Villanova-based firm founded by U of Arts Professor Dr. Slavko Milekic against Apple, claiming it violated at least one patent he was awarded related to touch screen technology. The lawsuit was dismissed by many observers at the time of being typical "patent troll" behavior. The FlatWorld lawsuit claimed that virtually every Apple device incorporating touch screen technology violated its patent(s).

Although FlatWorld made some small efforts at commercialization, they didn't seem to get very far.

Ars Technica revealed in an article by Joe Mullin published last week that John McAleese, an attorney (as of know, formerly) with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which does considerable IP work for Apple, controlled 35% of FlatWorld and played a key role in initiating the legal action. My report from last year had identified his wife, Jennifer Wilson McAleese, as a partner in FlatWorld, but did not make the connection to her husband. John McAlesse was an environmental law litigator at Morgan Lewis, not typically involved in technology patent issues.

John McAleese claims that he did not dip into proprietary, confidential data that Morgan Lewis maintained for Apple, but Apple disputes that, and is arguing that the Seattle law firm the McAleeses used to file the suit, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, be removed from the case since it is now tainted by alleged access to privileged information obtained through Mr. McAleese at Morgan Lewis.

Beyond the scope of the case itself and its potential impact on Morgan Lewis' important relationship with Apple in the future, the situation may also raise broader issues about controls at Morgan Lewis regarding client confidentiality and potential conflicts of interest.

Ars Technica provides much more detail on the story.




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Villanova law professor, tax expert, testifies in Apple tax hearing

Tom Paine

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J. Richard Harvey, a tax expert at Villanova University School of Law, testified Tuesday in front of a Senate panel exploring Apple's tax strategies, saying "I suspect that what Apple has done is within the bounds of what's acceptable in international tax law." But he also said he nearly 'fell out of my chair" when he read that Apple said it did not rely on tax gimmicks.

Of course, the definition of "gimmick" is open to interpretation. My experience is that large corporations spend as much as they need to in order to legally minimize tax bills, as long as the ROIs from those expdenditures are adequate. And most corporations consider it their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to do so, again as long as it is clearly within the law.

Harvey joined the Villanova School of Law as Distinguished Professor of Practice in 2010, according to Villanova's website. He has extensive high level experience at Treasury and the IRS under several administrations, as well as being a retired Managing Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was one of two academic tax experts to testify in front of the panel, the other being Stephen E. Shay of Harvard Law School.

Daily Links 4/23/2013: Comcast Ventures' Toth focused on B2B; Aereo on to Boston

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Q&A: Louis Toth backs B2B startups for Comcast Ventures (Silicon Valley Business Journal)

Aereo targets Comcast subscribers with Boston launch
Online video platform will debut in Beantown on May 30 (FierceCable)

Apple Returning $55 Billion to Investors as Forecast Trails (Bloomberg)
Had to doublecheck this headline to make sure a hacker hadn't gotten into Bloomberg's twitter feed. I half-expected Apple to give it to charity.


Feds seize Fisker loan reserve
Energy Dept. taps Fisker reserve on eve of loan payment (Wilmington News Journal)

Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was an early investor.

DailyWorth Raises Additional $1 Million For Series A (TechCrunch)
Although its based in New York, DailyWorth's founder and CEO Amanda Steinberg lives in Philly; Investors include Philadelphia's RobinHood Ventures and Gabriel Investments.

The InstaMed Healthcare Payments Account Revolutionizes the Way Providers Get Paid (Business Wire)

Infor Bets $500 Million On Enterprise App Refresh (Information Week)

Lockheed profit beats view; budget cuts hit sales outlook (Reuters)

Lockheed IS&GS unit has trimmed more than 650 employees this year
(Washington Post: Capital Business Blog)
Lockheed IS&GS has significant employment in King of Prussia.




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Daily Links 11/14/2012: Air Force cans ERP project after $1 billion

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Apple opening Willow Grove store, expanding at King of Prussia Mall (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP plans to add 'mission-critical' features to HANA in-memory database
SAP is getting HANA ready for large-scale ERP deployments (Infoworld)

SAP bolsters cloud portfolio with Financials OnDemand
(ZDNet)

SAP goes big on Windows 8 with six new apps (Computerworld)

Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1B in costs (Computerworld)
Oracle won initial software contract over SAP; CSC served as systems integrator. Of course, SAP has had its own issues with the Army ERP project, which might indicate that its the customer who is the ultimate problem, not the software.

Salesforce.com's Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together (CIO.com)

Trident Capital Update and Areas of Investment Interest (Trident Capital Blog)

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps (Ars Technica)

Philadelphia Becomes Epicenter for Information-Sharing in the Manufacturing Industry (News from Rockwell Automation)




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