Daily Links 9/5/2012: Journal Register files for bankruptcy, up for sale; Fiberlink M&A target?

Renewed rumors in MDM M&A, spotlight on Fiberlink (451 Group: Inorganic Growth)
Fiberlink is based in Blue Bell, although it recently opened an office in Philadelphia.

10 Questions for Fiberlink CFO Mark Partin (PC World)

Another Tough Step (John Paton/Digital First)
Yardley-based Journal Register files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, will be sold, parent company CEO announces.

Journal Register Company files for bankruptcy (Poynter)


Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds (TechCrunch)

SAP Is Morgan Stanley's New Best Idea; Bullish On HANA (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Oracle Wins Partial Victory in School's Software Project Lawsuit (PC World)

Qlik Shares Rally As Morgan Stanley Turns Bullish (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Astea International Launches ServiceVision(TM): Cloud-Based Solution that Will Transform the Way Small and Midsize Businesses Deliver Service (PR Newswire)
Astea is based in Horsham.

Kenexa Releases the Industry’s First Social LMS, an Integral Part of Its Learning Suite (Business Wire)
Perhaps adds more substance to the emphasis IBM place on "social business" when it announced the acquisition last week.

Cable Industry Courts Network DVR (Zatz Not Funny!)

Good news for Del.: Fisker says Atlantic is a priority (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc)
What is the probability of a single Fisker automobile ever coming out of that Delaware plant?

Daily Links 8/15/2012: First Round Capital moving from Conshy to Philly

Hello Philly! (Redeye VC)
First Round Capital moving from Conshohocken to Philadelphia.

SevOne P2P Sharing and Big Data Clusters For Monitoring On A Massive Scale (TechCrunch)
SevOne is based in Newark, DE.

Verizon, Comcast Agree to U.S. Demands on Airwaves (Bloomberg)

Here's Comcast's Coming Speed, Pricing Lineup
Competitive (FiOS) Areas to See Changes First (Broadband Reports)

Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and others team up to create new mobile wallet solution (The Verge)

OLED displays to hit sales of $44B by 2019, with growth in TVs and mobile devices (VentureBeat)
If accurate, would be promising news for Ewing-based Universal Display.

Astea Reports Profitable Second Quarter 2012 Results (PR Newswire)
Horsham-based provider of field service management solutions grows revenue 32% and swings to net income of $885,000 from a loss of $839,000 a year ago.

USA Technologies Enters Mobile Acceptance Market
ePort Mobile Brings Turn-key ePort Connect Service Platform to Smart Phones and Tablets for Business Customers (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 11/15/2011: SAP plans to double workforce in China

SAP Plans to Double China Workforce, Budgets $2 Billion Spending by 2015 (Bloomberg)

SunGard Availability Services Brings Enterprise-class Availability for SAP to the Cloud (PR Newswire)

In a full-court press, SAP looks to add developers to the HANA bandwagon (SAP Watch)

Octagon Sees Data Standards as Driver of Significant Business Growth and International Expansion
-- Company reports strong third quarter and 2011 YTD revenue growth --
-- New offices opened in UK and India -- (Business Wire)

Sony proposes over-the-top TV service (Gigaom)

Cable-Tec Expo: Cox's Esser: Cable Has To Compress Innovation Cycles
Operator Developed App for Live TV in About Nine Months (Multichannel News)

Astea Reports Profitable Third Quarter 2011 Results (PR Newswire)
Horsham-based provider of Field Service Management systems reports 32% revenue growth in break-even quarter.

Kenexa expands Frisco offices, plans to hire 80 more employees (Dallas Business Journal)

MedCity Media opens Philadelphia bureau (Crain's Cleveland Business)



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Daily Links 8/16/2011: More on the Google/Motorola deal

NRG Energy to Acquire Philadelphia-based Energy Plus Holdings, Adding Immediate Scale and Unique Sales Channel to Expanding Northeast Retail Business (Business Wire)

4-year-old West Philly energy marketer sold for $190 million (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Apple Covets RIM, NOK, InterDigital Assets In Patent ‘War,’ Says Jefferies (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Is Google Turning Into a Mobile Phone Company? No, It Says (New York Times: DealBook)

THE VERDICT: Google-Motorola Will Be A Colossal Disaster* (Silicon Alley Insider)

Google’s Motorola Mobility Takeover May Survive U.S. Regulatory Scrutiny (Bloomberg)

Time Warner Cable’s future is in broadband, not TV (Gigaom)

Skillshare raises $3.1M to make every person a teacher (Gigaom)

Accelerating Product Innovation: Introducing CIM Lab Week (Comcast Voices/ Official Comcast Blog)

SCTE, WICT Launch ‘Women's TechConnect' Initiative
Effort will work to encourage women engineers and technologists in cable (Multichannel News)
The SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) is based in Exton.

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires CQI Solutions, Inc. (Business Wire)
Will become part of Quality Systems' Horsham-based NextGen Healthcare.

Appearance: PPUG meets Saturday in Philadelphia (ZDNet Blogs)

Astea Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results (PR Newswire)

Workday launches Workday 14, wins Thomson Reuters deal (ZDNet Blogs)



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Daily Links 3/25/2011: Zurich Inks Contract with Radnor-based SaaS Vendor Unirisx

Starz to delay new series on Netflix streaming, movies may follow (LA Times: Company Town)

Time Warner Cable Moves Ahead With Its Controversial iPad App (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast's Xfinity TV app for iOS updated with more streaming and customization (Engadget)

Zurich Inks Contract with Unirisx
(Insurance & Technology)
Unirisx, based in Radnor, provides a SaaS-based policy administration platform for the Insurance industry, and the deal with Zurich is considered a major win for them. I had missed the news that former Harleysville Group CIO Akhil Tripathi, considered a top industry expert, became CEO of Unirisx late last year.

SunGard Opens Cloud Services To Channel (CRN)


Oracle Delivers on Earnings and on Its Promise to Profitably Acquire Sun (All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)

SAP: Time To Buy? (Forbes: The Tech Trade)


Was Google’s Fiber Plan Just Saber Rattling? (Gigaom)

Motorola Mobility Revival Means Weighing Google Alternatives (Bloomberg Business Week)


Astea zooms to four-year high on Q4 results (Reuters)



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