Links 3/7/2014: AT&T worried about Comcast

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Comcast Has AT&T Worrying About the US (Wall Street Journal: Corporate Intelligence)

Will Comcast's Mega-Merger Spin Off an All-New Cable Company? (Bloomberg Business Week)


Verizon offers discount to wireless and Fios triple-play customers (CNET News)


Salesforce at 15 (Denis Pombriant / Enterprise Irregulars)

Eight eye-openers from Salesforce.com's annual report (PC World)


Box Said to Project $200 Million in Revenue as IPO Nears
(Bloomberg)

Andreessen Horowitz leads $37.2M investment in high-flyer DigitalOcean (Gigaom)


Unitrends talks investment and acquisition (Channel Pro)
Unitrends acquired Philly-based PHD Virtual late last year.

Links 2/18/2014: Instacart comes to Philly: Revzilla ramping up at Navy Yard

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Delivery start-up Instacart follows rain to Philly
(USA Today)

Revzilla adds larger building at Navy Yard
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)


Netflix Talks for Time Warner Cable Carriage Said to Slow
(Bloomberg)

Will Comcast’s Merger with Time Warner Give It Too Much Power? (Knowledge@Wharton)



Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal rekindles Charter-Cox Communications speculation (MarketWatch)

Comcast readies for Washington war (Politico)

How the US could block the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger (Ars Technica)


Schumer Has Family Ties To Comcast Time Warner Cable Deal (Gothamist)

Arris ‘Holding Our Breath’ On Comcast/TWC Deal (Multichannel News)



Reaching Every Enterprise in the World: Welcome Graham Younger (Box Blog)
Joins Box from SAP, where he was SVP & GM of Global Sales for SuccessFactors / SAP Cloud.

Links 1/31/2014: Newsworks on RCA legacy in Camden; Aereo 'sold out' in New York

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When Camden was Silicon Valley — and glimpses of a med-tech turnaround (Zack Seward/Newsworks)

Box Said To Have Filed For IPO, Could Go Public As Early As April
(TechCrunch)

SAP is devoid of innovation, says Salesforce EMEA president (Computing News)

Don't go away, IBM and SAP – Larry's not finished with you yet (The Register)

Amazon reports rare profit and is punished by Wall Street (The Register)
But Amazon Web Services growth may have slowed some in quarter.

IT's Losing Battle Against Cloud Adoption (ReadWrite)


Wesco Aircraft Holdings to Acquire West Chester-based Haas Group Inc. for $550 million in cash (Business Wire)
Wesco cites Haas' proprietary IT systems as one key factor for acquiring supply chain
management company.

Charter may raise Time Warner Cable bid within weeks - sources
(Reuters)

Aereo Adding Antennas as New York City Service Sells Out
(Bloomberg)

@RichBTIG @KarlBode @Aereo Yes we are sold out. Will reopen as we get more capacity deployed

— Chaitanya Kanojia (@ckanojia) January 31, 2014

Verizon Wireless Prepares Network for TV Broadcasting (New York Times: Bits)

Links 11/20/2013: Safeguard Scientifics leads $16mm round in Apprenda; NY Times on why RJMetrics will start commission plan next year

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PaaS player Apprenda nets $16M to expand led by Safeguard Scientifics (Gigaom)

For Some, Paying Sales Commissions No Longer Makes Sense (New York Times)
But Philly-based RJMetrics is going in the other direction, implementing a commission plan
next year after not having one before, the Times reports.


SAP CEO Envisions Younger, Greener, Cloudier Company (Information Week)

Bridgestone files massive fraud and deception suit against IBM over SAP implementation (Nashville Post)


SAP Jam adds work patterns, processes (ZDNet)


Salesforce Finally Melds Itself With the Heroku Cloud (Wired)

Box strikes back at Dropbox with $100M raise at $2B valuation (VentureBeat)

Google Wallet debit card announced, available now (The Verge)

Insight: For Intel, Hollywood dreams prove a leap too far (Reuters)



Xbox One in the living room: The dazzling, erratic everything box (CNET News)

Broadcasters’ Fight Against Aereo Doesn’t Serve Their Interests (New York Times: DealBook)

About 520,000 Add Broadband in the Third Quarter of 2013
(Leichtman Research Group via FierceCable)

Inquirer owners' settlement talks break down (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Links 11/8/2013: Comcast testing IP video service targeted to universities; Seamless, Box said to be planning IPOs

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Comcast Tests IP Video Service Targeted To Universities (Multichannel News)

Looks like Comcast is quietly pushing a 300 GB cap and overage charges (Gigaom)


Supremes Grant Aereo More Time to Respond to Broadcasters
Extends reply deadline to Dec. 12, but amicus briefs are still due Nov. 12 (Broadcasting & Cable)




EPAM Systems Reports Results for Third Quarter 2013 (Thomson One)
Revenue up 27% to $140 million for Newtown-based EPAM.

Universal Display blows past 3Q expectations (CNBC)
Shares up 25% on the day.

Seamless Eyeing IPO For 2014 (Business Insider)
Conshohocken-based SeventySix Capital was one of Seamless' early backers; Aramark acquired it and later spun it off to private equity firms.


Neat Cuts The Cord With The New NeatConnect Scanner (TechCrunch)

EXCLUSIVE-Hot tech start-up Box picks banks for '14 IPO -sources (Reuters via Fox Business)



Nine Questions for Andy Jassy, Head of Amazon Web Services (All Things D)

Three of the dumbest things you can do with clouds (David Linthicum/Gigaom)


SAP Targets SMEs with PartnerEdge (ASUG News)

Links 9/16: Wolters Kluwer adding more than 100 jobs in Center City

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LinkedIn’s Market Cap Passes Salesforce, Long The Bellwether Symbol Of Cloud Services (TechCrunch)

Straddling the chasm at Workday Rising (Diginomica)

Is Tableau the New Leader in BI? (BI Scorecard Blog)

Big questions ahead of Violin Memory's IPO (Fortune Term Sheet)

Wolters Kluwer Health adds more than 100 jobs in Center City (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Wharton School to Create Call-In Business Channel for Sirius XM (Bloomberg)


Big Comcast fundraiser for Kathleen Kane Sept. 30 (Philadelphia
Inquirer)

Retailers Are Increasingly Using Real People's Social Pics (Ad Week)
Testing new platform from Curalate.

Mutual fund firm moves bosses to Main Line from New England (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Box Becomes Document Creation Platform (Information Week)

Daily Links 7/8/2013: HBR on "Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved"

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Cable consulting group thrives on Phila. as base (Philadelphia Inquirer)

DirecTV among pay-TV distributors seeking over the top rights (LA Times: Company Town)

Arris' Horsham unit largely escapes job cuts (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved (Justin Fox/Harvard Business Review Blogs)

DirecTV Makes Hulu Bid as Time Warner Cable Seeks Stake
(Bloomberg)


Proxy firm ISS backs Michael Dell's offer for PC maker (Reuters)

Amazon’s Diapers.com Founders Jump Ship (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
Jersey City-based Diapers.com (Quidsi) had several UPenn connections, including backing
from MentorTech Ventures.


The Ad Tech Shakeout is Coming (Digiday)

Mercer entrepreneurs see surge in angel-level investing (Times of Trenton)

Sources: Hundreds Of Oracle's Most Experienced Salespeople Have Quit — Or Want To (Business Insider)

Box launches comprehensive Salesforce app (PC World)

Predictive analytics software provider to help hospitals improve outcomes raises $20M (Med City News)

Princeton University Creates Bionic Ear With Superhuman Hearing Abilities (Video) (Medgadget)



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