4/20: Analysts see Verizon-Comcast combination as a tough sell; Verizon earnings, revenue miss Street estimates as wireless sales fall year-over-year

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Analysts see Verizon-Comcast combination as a tough sell (SNL)

Verizon earnings, revenue miss Street estimates as wireless sales fall year-over-year (CNBC)

Verizon CEO Comments About Media M&A “Taken Out Of Context” – Update (Deadline)

Verizon Loses 13,000 FiOS Pay TV Subs in First Quarter (Hollywood Reporter)

$VZ CFO says rise of OTT/vMVPDs, mobile offerings and more aggressive competition led to net loss of video subs in Q1 #goodluckbundle

— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) April 20, 2017

🥞LOL, @Verizon. You OK? Cause nobody sucks this much unless you’re #VerHIGHzon https://t.co/bZYQlHl5yt

— John Legere (@JohnLegere) April 20, 2017

Billtrust, CardConnect Partner To Support Invoice Payments Via Card (Pymnts)
Two leading area companies hook up.

An X-ray of what Amazon really looks like.

Alexa team almost half the size of retail.

And look at the big blue AWS area.

Wake up call pic.twitter.com/hgPFB5MNlw

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) April 20, 2017

Beacons help Waze users navigate Pittsburgh's tricky tunnel exits (Marketplace)

Comcast Joins LoRA Alliance (Multichannel News)
Will host IoT-focused organization’s all-members rendezvous in June in Philadelphia.

Oracle’s PaaS/IaaS progress – becoming real
(Brian Sommer / Diginomica)

Siemens Healthineers buys health tech firm
(Philly.com)

Baseball CFO Looks to Win with CPM Software (CFO)
Philly native, ex-Comcast guy.

Links 9/29/2013: Hasso Plattner responds to Oracle's barbs at HANA; QVC launches Pinterest-like offering

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Cable shopping channel QVC launches toGather, a Pinterest-like social network (Gigaom)

Oracle Debuts New Cloud Services (CRM Magazine)
One early adopter is CardConnect, which is based in King of Prussia.

SAP BW on HANA trial at Amazon – will they come? (Diginomica)


Haaso Plattner on HANA and Oracle (Hasso Plattner Blog)

Sceptical markets snub Violin Memory: Can the flashy biz bounce back? (The Register)

Shake Up: Salesforce Taps New CMO as Two Presidents Head for Exits (All Things D)


Monetate Adds "Open time" Personalized Email and Display Advertising Products to its Cloud Offering
(PR Newswire)

Glen Mills' Versify Solutions get a jolt with new contract, venture capital (Keystone Edge)

His business is to enhance your social business (Philly.com)
On PeopleLinx's Nathan Egan.

Penn Engineering's GRASP Lab and Wharton's Mack Institute Take the Y-Prize Global (PR Web)

Links 8/8/2013: Monetate introduces new segmentation offering; Unisys & Intel join forces on new computing platform

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Accenture Enhances Drug Development from Discovery to Approval with Launch of Accenture Accelerated R&D Services
Company investing more than $200 million to help clients modernize R&D and accelerate new products to market through the combination of cloud computing, mobility and analytics
(Business Wire)
Curious whether "more than $200 million" figure includes cost of acquiring Octagon Research Solutions.

Office Max Tests Back-to-School Segments Down to Political Leanings (Ad Week)
Testing Monetate's LivePredict system, which is being announced today.

Monetate Launches LivePredict, Automated Customer Segment Discovery Connecting Smart Segmentation and Personalization with Real-Time Action
(PR Newswire)

Amid Strategy Shift, T-Mobile Adds 1.1 Million Customers in Second Quarter (All Things D)

SAP Supports Customer Growth in Emerging Markets by Combining SAP® ERP With Mobile, Analytic and Cloud Innovations (PR Newswire)

Unisys to forge new Xeon iron with homegrown s-Par partitioning
Mainframe virtualization is better – and more secure – than x86 alternatives (The Register)


Unisys and Intel Join Forces on Breakthrough Secure Computing Platform for Cloud Computing, Big Data and RISC Migration (PR Newswire)

Oracle rolls out virtual appliances for its 12c database (PC World)

Shares of Tableau soar after revenues rise 71% in first earnings report post IIPO (GeekWire)

MeetMe Reports Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Revenue significantly exceeds previously stated expectations; Transition to mobile revenue
sources seems to be gaining traction.

Arris Braces For Cable’s Set-Top Transition
Fills Pipeline With IP-Capable Products As MSOs Leave Legacy Boxes Behind (Multichannel News)

CardConnect Acquires SmartPay from Onsharp
Enterprise billing tool eliminates need for paper invoices, allows payment processor’s customers to bill online (Business Wire)
CardConnect is based in King of Prussia.


AMETEK Reports Record Second Quarter 2013 Results (PR Newswire)

Daily Links 4/2/2013: Tableau Software, Marketo file for IPOs

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A Start-Up Fund That Lets College Students Make the Decisions (New York Times)

Wolff: Someone at NBC should be fired (USA Today)

Vodafone Jumps on Report AT&T and Verizon Mulling Joint Bid (Bloomberg)

Tableau files for $150M IPO (TechFlash)
One of QlikTech's strongest competitors; strength in data visualization.

Marketo Files For $75M IPO To Grow SaaS Marketing Platform
(TechCrunch)

Dell CEO Says Business Unit Is Making Progress Amid LBO Talks (Bloomberg)

PHD Virtual Acquires VirtualSharp Software
Acquisition Provides the Industry’s Best Value in Virtual Backup and Disaster Recovery Assurance Solutions (Business Wire)

Financial Transaction Services Rebrands as CardConnect, Relocates Headquarters to Philadelphia
Payment processor changes name, brings its growing workforce to Philadelphia region
(Business Wire)

The genie is out of the bottle: Aereo’s court victory and what it means for the TV business (Gigaom)

Aereo Wins a Court Battle, Dismaying Broadcasters (New York Times)

Artisan Research Indicates that Native Mobile Apps are a Top Priority for Most Retailers (Business Wire)

ElectNext Raises $1.3M To Provide Contextual Political Data To News Sites (TechCrunch)

MeetMe® Launches Native Feed Advertising Powered by Flurry (Marketwire)

Newsbyte: SAP Plans Delivery of Accelerated Reporting and Real-Time Information for Supply Chain Customers (PR Newswire)




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