Daily Links 5/4/2012: Philadelphia Enterprise Award winners named, IT innovations lead Wharton Biz Plan competition

The Midas List? Yeah, sure, & I’m Brad Pitt (Om Malik/Gigaom)

Cable TV Subs Fell 5% In 2011: Nielsen
Broadband With Broadcast-Only TV Households Jumped 14% (Multichannel News)

Mobile Industry Faces Spectrum, Deal Paralysis (Reuters via Fox Business)

Verizon Goes on Offense Against AWS Deal Critics (Wireless Week)

InterDigital Announces New $100 Million Stock Repurchase Authorization
Issues Financial Guidance for Second Quarter 2012 (Business Wire)
Second Quarter results will include "solid revenue from a sale of four patent families", which is "unrelated to the company’s broader efforts to create value by monetizing certain larger patent portfolios".

Philadelphia Enterprise Award winners named (Philadelphia Business Journal)

IT Innovations Dominate 2012's 'Great Eight' Business Plans at Wharton (Knowledge@Wharton via Forbes)

Silicon Valley Pioneer Kurtzig Goes After SAP, Oracle (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Boathouse Capital and CMS Mezzanine Invest in
BioPharm Communications, LLC (Boathouse Capital website)

Azavea Announces the Release of GeoTrellis, an Open Source High Performance Geographic Data Processing Engine and Programming Toolkit (PR Web)



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Daily Links 12/6/2010: Monetate raises $5.1 million

Monetate raises $5.1M to help advertisers figure out what works (VentureBeat)
Led by previous seed investor First Round Capital and Floodgate Fund. Conshohocken-based Monetate has been talking about how many people they are trying to hire (20); I guess this is one reason they are able to do that.
Monetate press release

Technology Firm Anexinet Announces Acquisition of Extolutions (Business Wire)

SAP joins the Google Apps Marketplace with a collaborative decision-making app (The Official Google Blog)

Comcast customers hit by another major outage (CNET News)

As Comcast-NBC try to tie up merger, news editorials differ on consequences (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Mark Lazarus Joins Comcast Corporation (Business Wire)
As previous reports had suggested, except that the sports broadcasting exec will not, at least immediately, move into an operating management role over Comcast's existing sports properties.

Amazon to Launch Rival to Netflix (Hollywood Reporter)

Clearwire 'Rounding Second Base' on Spectrum Sale (Wireless Week)

Veeva CRM Selected by Lilly for Global Deployments (Business Wire)
Though based in California, Veeva has significant operation based in the Philadelphia area.

After push to join recycling incentive program, some Gloucester County towns taking hard look at costs (Gloucester County Times)

Azavea Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Phase IIB Grant for HunchLab™ to Support Geographic Forecasting of Crime Events (PR Newswire)

Daily Links 6/14/2010: Comcast looking to Pace set-top box with Intel processsor

NTT DATA and Intelligroup Enter Into Definitive Merger Agreement (PR Newswire)
Intelligroup, which specializes in SAP implementations, is based in Princeton.

Has Cablevision Thrown Another Curve Ball? (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

DirecTV's CEO Wary Of Comcast-NBC Deal (Investor's Business Daily)

Comcast: New Way on Tru2way
Next-Generation Box From Pace Runs On Intel Processor (Multichannel News)

Unisys moves HQ, outsources some IT guys (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


GPU Computing for GIS (Azavea Labs Blog)

Firms using social media
It's a way to keep in constant contact with customers, clients, employees and others around the world. (phillyBurbs.com)

BioClinica Unveils Platform for Integrated Clinical Operations Based on Microsoft Technologies (Business Wire)

Philly Give Camp Summary
(Danny Diaz)




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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 5/7/2010: QVC revenue up 11%

ICG Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
ICG Reports Core Consolidated Revenue Growth of 24% (Business Wire)

FCC Declares War on Broadband (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast May Now Regret Suing the FCC Over Net Neutrality (PC World)

Liberty Media Reports First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
(PR Newswire)
QVC revenue up 11%.

Entercom Communications Corp. Reports First Quarter Results
Free Cash Flow Increased 135% (Business Wire)

Azavea puts Philadelphia on the map (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Battery manufacturer to expand (Allentown Morning
Call)

Samsung, Motorola tops in U.S. mobile subscribers (CNET News)




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Daily Links 3/4/2010: Urban Outfitters' earnings jump 92%

Comcast's thePlatform Posts To Social Nets
Video Management System Provides Hooks into 10 Social Media Sites (Multichannel News)

Analyst talks Comcast-NBC Uni deal
Moffet: 'We don't like the deal, but we do like the stock' (Hollywood Reporter)

4A's: What's Delaying Ad Addressability?
Such platforms allow advertisers to target specific regions, zones, even individual households (Adweek)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software Development Firm Avencia Incorporated Announces New Company Name – Azavea Inc
(Business Wire)

Urban Outfitters Reports Q4 Earnings Jump 92% (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

New Customers Fuel BravoSolution Growth in Challenging Year
Spend management vendor outpaces market to reach $71 Million in 2009 revenue (Business
Wire)

Dot-Mobi Gets New Owner, New Life Still In Doubt (MediaPost: MoBlog)
Top level domain acquired by Ireland-based Afilias, which has its US headquarters in Horsham.

DreamIt Recruiting New Class of Startups (Center Networks)

SAP - The Message Back on Target
(ZDNet Blogs)

Semiannual PostgreSQL User Conference - PG East 2010 - Adds Impressive Line-up of Speakers to Conference Roster (PR Newswire)


SunGard adds EMC Data Domain deduplication to Secure2Disk cloud data backup service (SearchDataBackup.com)


Acurian Generates over 50% of Clinical Trial Patient Referrals from Proprietary Relationships with Online Health Networks & Social Media Platforms (Business Wire)

New Lehigh institute will coordinate business efforts (Allentown Morning Call)




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