Links 5/21/2014: McDermott now SAP's sole CEO; Comcast Shareholder Meeting draws flack inside and outside Kimmel

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SAP’s McDermott Counts On Faster Decision-Making as Sole CEO (Bloomberg)

SAP says no plan to return to having two CEOs (Reuters)


Cisco CEO: 'Brutal' Times Are Coming For The Tech Industry (Business Insider)

Salesforce Forecast Tops Analyst Predictions on Cloud Sales (Bloomberg)


Flurry of acquisitions redraws Salesforce.com partner landscape (ZDNet)

Perficient Acquires IBM Smarter Commerce Division of Trifecta Technologies (Business Wire)
Trifecta, based in Allentown, is selling its IBM-related Business for $13.7 million to
focus on its Salesforce business.



Netflix Enters Germany, France in Biggest Move Since 2011 (Bloomberg)

Verizon Eyeing Cloud-Based Video Jukebox (Home Media Magazine)


Comcast CEO Grilled Over Company Politics, Employee Wages at Shareholders Meeting
(Hollywood Reporter)

Merger Protests Greet Comcast Corp. Annual Meeting at Kimmel Center (CBS Philly)


Comcast Completes Jersey Shore Upgrades
(Multichannel News)

AT&T-DirecTV deal may smooth path for Comcast-Time Warner approval
(AP via San Jose Mercury News)


Amazon will have 10,000 robots in its warehouses by year’s end, Bezos says (Geekwire)

Google reportedly plans to target businesses with Wi-Fi (Gigaom)

Clutch Unveils ClutchConnect™ Partnership Program (Business Wire)

Links 3/24/2013: More on Comcast/Apple reports; IMS Health readies IPO

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Something smells fishy about that Comcast–Apple TV story (Gigaom)

Some Thoughts On The Latest Apple-Comcast Streaming TV Talks (TechCrunch)

‘Cord-Nevers’: Why Comcast Would Consider a Deal With Apple (Wall Street Journal: Digits)


Apple Has Hired A Crack Team From The Cable Industry To Save (Or Destroy) TV (Business Insider)

COMCAST'S TIES RUN DEEP IN PHILLY AND BEYOND (Politico: Morning Tech)


Apple, Comcast Set-Top Report Sends Arris Stock Down
(Investor's Business Daily)

IMS Health IPO could value company at up to $6.97 billion
(Reuters)
IMS Health has a significant presence in Plymouth Meeting and Collegeville.

Box IPO filing: The key numbers (Fortune)


Cisco Bets a Billion on the Cloud (NY Times: Bits)

Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection (NY Times)





Mobile data traffic dwarfed by fixed network data traffic (RCR Wireless)

Links 12/12/2013: Comcast appoints new strategy chief; Aereo to Supreme Court - Bring it on

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Exclusive: Hellman & Friedman looks to sell HR software firm Kronos - sources (Reuters)
Report says SAP has shown little interest so far.

Avon slams the brakes on SAP deployment, proving once again that enterprise software is hard (Gigaom)

Wait, I Thought SAP Business ByDesign Was Dead? (ASUG News)



Google and fellow tech giants move into shopping malls (Inside Bay Area)

Oracle Seen Losing Share To Cloud Rivals, Downgraded (Investor's Business Daily)

Comcast's Future
Thinking outside the set-top box (The Economist)


Comcast Appoints Strategy Chief Amid Industry Merger Speculation (Bloomberg)

Cablevision: Case against Aereo could destroy cloud computing (and our cloud DVR) (Engadget)

Aereo Won't Oppose Supreme Court Battle (Hollywood Reporter)

Cisco Is Keeping Its TV Set-Top Box Business, and That’s That (AllThingsD)


Pa. pension board: We'll hire investigators (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Daily Links 6/7/2013: TiVO settles with Cisco, Motorola, Time Warner

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TiVo settles with Cisco, Motorola and Time Warner (AP via USA Today)
The settlement with Motorola was for $490 million, but Horsham-Motorola Home has since been acquired by Arris. Google's agreement to sell Motorola Home to Arris capped Arris' liability in the case to $50 million.
Update: $490 million was apparently the total size of settlement for both Motorola and Cisco combined. Cisco is responsible for $294 million of it, according to an SEC filing.

D.C. area has a big presence in cable TV production (Washington Post)

SAP Paying Top Dollar in a Buying Spree (New York Times: Dealbook)

San Jose's HP Pavilion to become SAP Center (San Jose Mercury News)
Surprised Plattner is not naming it the "SAP HANA Center."

Men On A Mission (Philadelphia Business Journal)
On VC firm MissionOG.

Salesforce.com Appoints Oracle Vet As President
(Information Week)

They Acquire, Acquire, Acquire While We Build, Build, Build
(Zoho Blog)
Zoho takes a shot at Salesforce.

SoftBank may have interest in T-Mobile if Sprint bid falls through (The Verge)




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Daily Links 11/19/2012: E-commerce valuations stalling?

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This Is The Blog Post Everyone Is Passing Around To Explain Why Cisco Just Spent $1.2 Billion (Silicon Alley Insider)

Most E-Commerce Froth Since 2000 Stirs Up Investor Doubts: Tech (Bloomberg)
E-commerce valuations stalling?

Akamai to Acquire CDN Software Vendor Verivue
Investors in Verivue Include Comcast, Arris (Multichannel News)

Cable pioneer John Malone says sports costs are out of control (LA Times: Company Town)

GetGlue + Viggle Is a Big Bet Based on Small Numbers (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Bristol, another Tennessee town is getting Gigabit broadband
(Gigaom)

Bentley Systems and Siemens Initiate Strategic Collaboration to Unify Product and Production Lifecycles with Factory Infrastructure Lifecycles (Business Wire)

Inventors' workshop expands to S. Phila. (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Lehigh University opens new 'innovation lab' to boost entrepreneurship offerings (Easton Express-Times)



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Daily Links 6/1/2012: Cisco sues TiVo over DVRs; Roberts says NBCU Earnings Torpedoed By ‘Battleship’ And ‘Five-Year-Engagement’

Cisco sues TiVo over DVRs (Reuters)

Comcast Chief: NBCU Earnings Torpedoed By ‘Battleship’ And ‘Five-Year-Engagement’ (Deadline New York)

Comcast Adds MAX Go, Live CNN And HLN To 'TV Everywhere' Bouquet
MSO Adds Cinemax Service Under Expanded Pact with HBO (Mutichannel News)

The Cable Show scorecard: Who were the winners and losers in Boston? (FierceCable)

Verizon debuts Viewdini, but streaming still subject to caps (Gigaom)

Ex-Cisco Execs Form Cable Set-Top Startup (Light Reading Cable)

Exclusive - Dell talks with Quest break down - sources (Reuters)

Software Raises Bar for Hiring (Wall Street Journal: Capital)



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Daily Links 3/28/2012: News Corp said to plan nationwide ESPN rival

FiOS-Less Cities Complain About Spectrum Deal
Argue it would foreclose the possibility of video/broadband competition via FiOS in their cities (Multichannel News)

The technical and legal realities of Comcast’s Xbox cap spat (Gigaom)


News Corp. Said to Plan U.S. Sports Network to Rival ESPN (Bloomberg via Ad Age)
Didn't Fox go halfway down that road several years ago before pulling back?

Comcast Business takes a continuous improvement model to CEM (FierceTelecom)

Blackboard buys Moodlerooms...And no, this isn't an early April Fools (ZDNet Blogs)

Penn expands beyond banks of Schuylkill for new data center (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Baltimore Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Prices IPO At $13 Per Share (TechCrunch)

Veterans of Cambridge Technology Partners getting the band back together...at Cloud Technology Partners (Boston Globe)
Cambridge Technology Partners was owned by Safeguard Scientifics in the 1990s before going public and later being acquired by Novell.

SuccessFactors Offers Free Version of Jam Software in Hit Against Salesforce.com (PC World)

Kronos pays cash for Branchburg, NJ-based SaaS HR company (Mass High Tech)


Cisco to Buy SPIT Specialist (Light Reading Cable)

What is the difference between a CLEC/ICP and a cloud services provider? (Evolove IP Blog)
A bit slanted, obviously, but interesting nonetheless.



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Daily Links 11/10/2011: Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis: "We have no desire to own a wireless network".

Is SAP finally getting its money's worth from Sybase? (Computer Weekly Development Network)

Cisco's Chambers: 'We Got Very Lucky That Motorola Got Purchased By Google'
CEO Reiterates Commitment to Cable Set-Top Market (Multichannel News)

Senate Declines To Vote On Net Neutrality-Blocking Maneuver (Multichannel News)

Comcast CFO: No plans to go outside footprint with video (SNL Blog)
There is no way the major cable companies would ever invade each other's footprint, at least not in the forseeable future, in my view.
CFO Michael Angelakis also said, "We have no desire to own a wireless network."

Adaptly, A 23-Year-Old's Fast Growing Startup, Hires A Googler To Take On Europe (Silicon Alley Insider)
Adaptly, now based in New York, was in DreamIt Ventures' 2010 Philadelphia class, and raised $2.7 million in VC funding led by First Round Capital. Paul Turner, former Head of EMEA for Invite Media (backed by First Round and acquired by Google), has joined Adaptly in the same role.

Quepasa and myYearbook Announce Completion of Merger (Marketwire)

WVT Communications Group Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Marketwire)
First earnings report reflecting inclusion of Alteva results for part of quarter.

SunGard Availability Services and University of Texas at Austin Partner to Create Cloud Computing Research Center (PR Newswire)

PayChoice Moves to a Private Cloud Infrastructure That Delivers Performance, Advanced Business Continuity Capabilities, and Anytime, Anywhere Accessibility (Business Wire)


Ben Franklin (Northeastern Pennsylvania) announces investments in area companies (Allentown Morning Call)

Rx For Growth: Havas Forms Strategic Alliance With China's MedMed (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Google teams up with Startup Weekend, provides trainings on Google technology (VentureBeat)
Google planning Bootcamps, but none scheduled for Philly yet.

The time for healthcare tech startups is now (Gigaom)



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Daily Links 10/20/2011: Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey shows signs of improvement

Philly Fed Manufacturers See Improvement in October (Business Wire)

Philly Fed factory activity highest since April (Reuters)

Dell Looks in Mirror, Sees Hip Silicon Valley Startup (Wired: Wired Enterprise)
"Boomi engineering team with[sic] remain in Philadelphia, but some sales staff will work out of the new Silicon Valley Research and Development Center", article says. Dell Boomi's Bob Moul responded to my tweet wondering if there might be a gradual shift of Boomi activity towards Silicon Valley, tweeting: "not in the plans - just signed lease to double space in Berwyn. Cool bldg in Santa Clara tho... :-)"

Integration Key to Dell's New Approach to IT (IT Business Edge)

Would Janney have really left city without deal? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

David Kramer Retires as CEO of Digitas Health and Razorfish Health at end of 2011 (Press Release via Philly Ad Club News)

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire BNI Video
Acquisition Will Advance Cisco's Videoscape Service Provider Video Strategy (Cisco Press Release)
Comcast Ventures was a "founding investor" of BNI Video.

BNI Video Seeks Scale With Cisco (Light Reading Cable)

U-verse TV Loses Momentum, Broadband Stalls
AT&T Adds 176,000 TV Subs and Just 3,000 Net Wireline Broadband Customers (Multichannel News)

Analysts Size Up Third-Quarter Pay TV Subscriber Trends (Hollywood Reporter)

SAP Loses ByDesign VP, Gains Global On-Demand Head (Accounting Today)

SEPTA smart card contract delayed
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Siemens and Synthes Launch Software for Preoperative Planning of Trauma Surgery (Medgadget)

The Bigger the Risk the Bigger the Reward (SevOne Blog)
On SevOne being ranked #2 on Deloitte's 2011 Philadelphia Fast 50.

PayChoice: Next generation of payroll/HR software technology set to deliver (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 8/11/2011: Verizon strike in 5th day; LCB panel opposed wine kiosks in 2008

Silicon Valley’s Undertaker: ‘We’re Anticipating a Major Fallout’ (PE Hub)

Accelerators & Incubators: Dreamit Ventures Dreams Big (Portfolio.com)

A Simple PC For Seniors Is Complicated By Its Flaws (All Things Digital)
Walt Mossberg reviews the Telikin, a PC designed with seniors in mind from Chalfont-based Venture 3 Systems LLC.

Cisco's Chambers: 'We Are Very Much Committed' To Set-Tops
CEO Says Scientific Atlanta Group Revenue Up 11% for Fiscal Year 2011 (Multichannel News)


Would-Be Hulu Buyers Will Have Their Checkbooks Ready Next Week (All Things Digital)

Comcast Seeks Safeguards From Failed Blockbuster Disc Rental Venture (Home Media Magazine)


Disney to put its shows behind a pay wall online, too (Gigaom)

Verizon Cites 90-Plus Acts Of Sabotage On Fifth Day Of Strike
Telco Claims 91% of Customer-Service Calls Were Answered Wednesday (Multichannel News)

Verizon sees FiOS less profitable than copper (Reuters)

Pa. Liquor Control Board was warned on wine kiosks
Employees were told to discard copies of committee's concerns (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)


Eisai Inc. Selects Cloud-Based Veeva CRM to Replace Multiple On-Premise Sales Support Systems (Business Wire)
Based in California, Veeva has much of its US customer-oriented operations located in the Philadelphia area.

RentTheCloud.com Debuts to Help CIOs Quickly and Safely Adopt Cloud Computing (PR Newswire)

MondoNet: Rutgers Academics Try to Built a New, Censorship-Proof Internet (Read Write Web)



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Daily Links 7/18/2011: CNN goes to "TV Everywhere" for streaming

Where Canoe Goes From Here
With Exit of CEO Verklin, Industry Reasseses Cable’s Advanced-Ad Venture (Multichannel News)

Rovi Confirms DigiForge Acquisition
Deal Closed June 1, Bringing 45 Employees to Rovi (Multichannel News)

Why Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” Means “Except For Time Warner Cable” (All Things Digital)

Cisco signs over Mexico manufacturing facility to Foxconn (ZDNet Blogs)
Manufactures set-top boxes and other equipment for the cable industry.

Cisco Slashes Workforce By 11,500, Including 15% Of Execs
(Silicon Alley Insider)


Publicis Adds Big Fuel to Vivaki Wing (ClickZ)

Photonic neuron may compute a billion times faster than brain circuits (News at Princeton)

The succession malaise at Big Enterprise Vendors (ZDNet Blogs)

The elephants not in the SaaS room (ZDNet Blogs)

Blackboard Buyer Providence Equity Acquires Personalized Online Learning Platform From PrepMe (TechCrunch)

Daily Links 7/11/2011: Philadelphia Media Network to offer Android tablets, launches new media venture incubator

Philly Papers to Sell Android Tablets (Ad Week)

Philadelphia Daily News to become ‘loud, irreverent, fun tabloid’ (Poynter)
Philadelphia Media Network also announces launch of "Project Liberty", incubator for new media ventures in cooperation with Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Drexel, the Knight Foundation, and DreamIt Ventures.

VCA Antech, Inc. to Acquire MediMedia Animal Health, LLC Unit of MediMedia USA Inc. (Business Wire)
Yardley-based animal health marketing data & communications firm Vetstreet sells for $146 million.

Halma Buys Avo Photonics For Initial Cash Consideration of $9 Million (Dow Jones via Fox Business)
Also potential for additional $11 million payout.


Cisco Set-Top Plant Is for Sale (Light Reading Cable)
Is Cisco considering exiting the business entirely?

After early zeal, TV networks pull back Web series (AP via Boston Globe)

NHL Hands Extensive Ad Sales Responsibilities Over To NBCU (paidContent)

Guess what? Netflix won’t buy Hulu
(Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

TripAdvisor Buys Once-Popular Facebook App Where I’ve Been (All Things Digital)
Where I've Been was actually started by Craig Ulliott when he was in Philadelphia before he got funded and moved to Chicago.

ShopRunner takes to the streets
The shipping service soon will launch a mobile app aimed at shoppers in stores. (Internet Retailer)
ShopRunner is one of the ventures spun out from GSI Commerce prior to its acquisition by EBay and is part of Michael Rubin's new ecommerce holdings.

SAP creates 100 jobs in Ireland to expand technical and R&D functions (Computer Weekly)



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News from The Cable Show: 6/16/2011

Comcast Shows Off 1 Gbps Broadband (Gigaom)

Comcast Uses Cisco Gear In 1-Gig DOCSIS Demo
Vendor's 3G60 CMTS Card, Modems Used on Operator's Chicago Network (Multichannel News)

Did the cloud just kill the set-top box? (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Interview with Comcast's Brian Roberts
(Bloomberg Video)

ICUETV SCORES TCOMMERCE DEALS WITH MAJOR MSOS (InteractiveTV Today)

Cable Show 2011: Ethnic TV Tables Turning To Cable
Bandwidth Improvements, Online Platforms Tilting Field To Cable: Execs (Multichannel News)

Cox: We're Not Selling Our Spectrum (Light Reading Cable)

Motorola Mobility looks to tablets, smartphones as set-tops fade (Crain's Chicago Business)

Daily Links 4/6/2011: ShopRunner Wants to Give Amazon’s Free Shipping Program a Run for Its Money

ShopRunner Wants to Give Amazon’s Free Shipping Program a Run for Its Money (All Things Digital: eMoney)

ShopRunner Launches Enhanced Marketplace Where Millions of Products Are Eligible for Free, Two-Day Shipping (Business Wire)

Dish Network Wins Auction for Blockbuster With $320 Million Bid (Hollywood Reporter)

Dish's Latest Buy Is a Blockbuster (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast to FCC: Keep Hulu info secret (Politico)

Cisco: De-Emphasis, Not Divestiture, Of Consumer, Says Barclays (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Competes with Motorola Mobility in providing technology to the Cable industry.


Analyst: Motorola Xoom and Atrix are duds (VentureBeat)

Dell Boomi Exec Says Architects, SIs Exploring New Cloud Integration Options (Integration Developer News)

Do SAP customers really need in-memory Strategic Workforce Planning? (SearchSAP.com)

Others Drawn Into Oracle, Rimini Street Legal Fray (PC World)

Alteva Receives Unified Communications® Magazine's 2010 Product of the Year Award (Marketwire)

Commodore Announces New Commodore64, VIC Computers (PC Magazine)
A rebirth of sorts for Commodore, the PC pioneer that was based in West Chester, although the current entity has no relationship to the old one or local connection.

Pennridge district readying government-education channel for Comcast (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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Daily Links 9/29/2010: SunGard Higher Ed getting into course management software

Course-Management Software Deal Marks a First for SunGard (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Software firm seeks to close road in Upper Uwchlan corporate park (Daily Local News)
Bentley Systems looks to expand.

Cisco to Unveil an Affordable Home TelePresence Product for Consumers Next Week (All Things Digital: BoomTown)
May start rollout with Comcast, Verizon.

NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker on Content, Convergence, Comcast -- and Conan (Knowledge@Wharton)

Motorists on N.J. Turnpike, Garden State Parkway to get high-tech traffic 'forecasts' (Newark Star-Ledger)

Clearwire throttling at-home WiMAX users? (Engadget)
Clearwire Unclear About Customer Throttling
Many users still confused about Clear's definitions of "unlimited," "excessive" (Broadband Reports)

SAP to buy Sage? (AccMan)

TruePosition talks up commercial proposition for mission-critical LBS (Total Telecom)

Off-Site Options for Mission-Critical Data (Signal Scape)
On the opening of the Philadelphia Technology Park.

PAETEC’s risky business (Inorganic Growth)

Oracle, Sun Labs Form Health Sciences Institute (eWeek)




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Daly Links 3/9/2010: Comcast raising prices again

New Comcast TV, Broadband, Phone Price Hikes April First
Competition? Most broadband and TV packages going up by $2 a month... (Broadband Reports)

Done Deal: Comcast-Spectacor Buys Live Nation's Paciolan (Billboard)

Cable group ask U.S. FCC to end fee disputes (Reuters)
Comcast, curiously, not part of group.

FCC chair, DOJ's Varney to testify on Comcast-NBC merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Cisco's "Change the Internet" event: Technology to drive video (ZDNet Blogs)
Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All (New York Times: Bits)

Cisco Quits WiMax Radio Business
The decision to cease making WiMax base stations gives a boost to Cisco's Long-Term Evolution portfolio. (Information Week)

Safeguard Scientifics Launches Corporate Blog
Blog Increases Transparency and Provides Insight into Safeguard’s Strategy and Performance for Investors and Media (Business Wire)

Can SAP Get Its Supply Chain Mojo Back? (Network World)

Harris Corporation and Sunhillo Corporation Team to Develop Advanced Information Exchange Networks for Aviation Markets (PR Newswire)
Sunhillo is based in West Berlin NJ.

heipha, Biotest, and MODA Introduce Pre-barcoded Culture Media Plates with Automated Solution for Paperless Environmental Monitoring (PR Newswire)




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