Daily Links 7/3/2013: Apple TV reported near Time Warner Cable deal

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Apple Said to Near Time Warner Cable Deal for TV Programs (Bloomberg)

Cox Flirts With Fanhattan (Light Reading)

Streaming Entertainment Startup Boxee Acquired By Samsung For Around $30M (TechCrunch)

Samsung Acquires Startup Boxee to Add Connected TV Set-Top Boxes (Bloomberg)

Comcast, DirecTV vendor Entropic to lay off 10% of workforce (FierceCable)


Telemundo boosts its Philadelphia presence (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Oracle’s biggest cloud customer highlights its biggest cloud problem (Gigaom)

Salesforce, Benioff Must Beware Oracle's Embrace
(Information Week)

Who ate all the flash pie: Samsung, 'course, but hang on... GOOGLE?
Some surprises in SSDS, all-flash array shipments (The Register)

UniTek Global Services, Inc. Receives Commitment Letter for $75 Million Asset-Based Revolving Credit Facility (Globe Newswire)
UniTek is based in Blue Bell.



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Daily Links 11/15/2012: Report discusses Apple TV, Arris involvement, & potential impact on Comcast network

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Over the top: the new war for TV is just beginning (The Verge)

Arris: Jefferies Gauges Apple Television, Google ‘Home’ Prospects (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Projected purchase price of Motorola Home keeps shrinking; Arris technology could show up in Apple TV. Possible impact of Apple TV launch on Comcast's (largest Arris customer) net examined.

Advanced Video Ad Startup Banks VC Cash (Light Reading Cable)
Comcast a customer.


Billtrust Funded to Help Move Business Transactions Into the Digital Age (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Negative November Philly, New York factory gauges
(MarketWatch)
Philly Fed November Business Outlook Survey.

SAP unveils more than 30 new apps for HANA (ZDNet)

20 startups said to buy SAP HANA in-memory database
SAP hopes grassroots approach can help seed a robust HANA ecosystem (Computerworld)

Higher ed's high-tech headache (Robert L. Mitchell/Computerworld Blogs)

Enterprise Technology Parks Partners with Recovery Networks to Provide IT Disaster Recovery to Customers Affected by Hurricane Sandy (Business Wire)

Corbett Administration Accelerates Technology Commercialization, Helps Grow Industry Statewide (PR Newswire)

Pennsylvania's eHealth Collaborative exceeds federal goal for participants (Pittsburgh Business Times)



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Daily Links 7/31/2012: Twitter apologizes for NBC incident; Michael Rubin on hiring Scott Thompson

Comcast begins appeals process in FCC Tennis Channel ruling (LA Times: Company Town)

Hulu, Apple Finally Get It Together: Hulu Plus Comes to Apple TV, Lets You Subscribe With iTunes (All Things D)

Jeffries slaps buy rating on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV; predicts cable/CLEC mergers (FierceCable)

Twitter comes clean, apologizes for NBC-gate (Gigaom)


Box Inc. Receives $125 Million in New Round of Investment (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)
General Atlantic led this round. SAP Ventures and Salesforce led the previous round, and SAP Ventures participated again in this one.

Why I Just Hired Scott Thompson, The Yahoo CEO Caught Lying On His Resume (Silicon Alley Insider)
Michael Rubin didn't actually say it that way in the interview.


SunGard Announces Second Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)

Vishay Intertechnology profit misses estimates (Reuters)

Heartland Payment raises full-year guidance (AP via Businessweek)

Will Internet Companies Open Data Centers in New Jersey? (Data Center Knowledge)

Amtrak Gets on Board With E-Tickets (Mashable)



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Daily Links 6/26/2012: T-Mobile drops opposition to Verizon/Cable deal after spectrum swap

T-Mobile drops opposition to Verizon-cable deal (The Hill)
Following agreement on spectrum deal with Verizon Wireless.

Supreme Court takes on damaged-class issue in suit against Comcast (Philadelphia Inquirer)

New Issue-Comcast Corp sells $2.25 bln 2-pt notes (Reuters)

GRUBER: 'Something Big Is Going On With Apple TV In Cupertino, But It’s Still Being Cooked' (Silicon Alley Insider)


‘PayPal for business’ Traxpay gets $4m to take on US (Gigaom)

Health records support genetics research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (O'Reilly Radar)

TCTV: Interact’s Anthony Coombs Talks About The Philly Tech Scene (TechCrunch)



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Daily Links 6/11/2012: Comcast hunts for new studio COO, plans sports radio network

NBC gears up for massive Olympics coverage online and on TV (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast studio hunts for new COO: sources (Reuters)

NBC Sports To Create Radio Network To Challenge Disney’s ESPN (Bloomberg)

Looking for the Apple TV? Look in Front of You. (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Larry Ellison: His public versus private cloud (Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

Oracle's hardware worries surface again as analysts eye Q4 (ZDNet Blogs)

Oracle-SAP Retrial Delayed (PC World)

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Daily Links 11/30/2011: Clearwire reported to be reaching funding deal with Sprint

Thursday is D-Day for Clearwire (and Sprint) (Gigaom)

Clearwire seen reaching Sprint funding deal (Reuters via Baltimore Sun)

Netflix Viewing Seen Swelling U.S. Users’ Cable-TV Bills Next Year: Tech (Bloomberg)

You Bet Apple TV Is Coming, Says Apple Guru Gene Munster -- Here Are The Details (Silicon Alley Insider)


Comcast Business Services to hook up San Mateo with faster data (CED Magazine)

Jive Pushes Ahead With IPO, Seeking $117M (Bloomberg)
Jive has also been rumored recently to be a possible acquistion target of SAP.


Complaint: medical "copyright over your comments" contracts are illegal (Ars Technica)


Infragistics Growth Continues in Q3 2011 (PR Newswire)

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



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Daily Links 9/1/2010: Sprint ponders possible T-Mobile investment in Clearwire

Kenexa To Acquire Salary.com In $80 Million Deal (TechCrunch)

Three Things Investors May or May Not Like About Kenexa Buying Salary.com (Seeking Alpha)

Philly union says Tierney-could-return rumor is false (Poynter Online: Romenesko)

Startup Incubator TechStars Invades New York City (TechCrunch)

Report: Apple TV to launch with Netflix (CNET News)

Tiny New Apple TV Costs $99, 99-Cent TV Rentals Confirmed (GigaOM)

Sprint debates rival Clearwire investor: report (Reuters)

Clearwire, Sprint, Comcast break Boston's 4G floodgate (Mass High Tech)

Comcast Takes 100-Meg Internet Down Jersey Shore
Business Service Based on DOCSIS 3.0 Priced at $369.95 Per Month (Multichannel News)
Great for surfing.

FCC Asks for More Feedback on Net Neutrality
(IDG via New York Times)


Complex SAP project expected to succeed
Airgas expects many millions in annual benefits, in contrast to recent SAP failures in Marin County and elsewhere (Network World)

Viridity Energy and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Awarded $900,000 from the State of Pennsylvania for Innovative Project to Recycle Energy Produced by Electric Public Transit (Business Wire)

A Smart House at Drexel University in Philadelphia Is a Living Laboratory of Sustainability (Forbes: The CSR Blog)

Motorola Unit to Be Spun Off With $3.5 Billion (Bloomberg)

Healthfirst to Use Portico Systems Solutions to Transform Contracting Process (Insurance & Technology)




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