Daily Links 5/9/2013: Clutch launches mobile shopping app; McCain preparing Pay TV overhaul legislation

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McCain is prepping legislation to overhaul pay-TV business (LA Times: Company Town)
Not sure about this given McCain's history as regulating/deregulating legislator.

Dish’s Ergen: we prefer working with broadcasters over Aereo
(paidContent)

Cablevision Swings to First-Quarter Loss (Hollywood Reporter)

Clutch Launches First Unified Mobile Shopping App for Android
Company Introduces Program to Reward Consumers Every Time They Use the Clutch App
(Business Wire)

Clutch Aims To Replace All Your Favorite Shopping Apps (Mashable)

One Social Media Start-Up Rises From the Ashes of Another (New York Times)
On Philly's Curalate.

“Web Clipping 2.0″ Service Clipboard Acquired By Salesforce, Will Be Shuttered On June 30th (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was an early investor.

EPAM Systems Reports Results for First Quarter 2013
(Press Release)

Universal Display Corporation Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Infosys partners with SAP for mobile applications (CIOL)

What to expect at SAP's Sapphire
HANA, the cloud and social software are among the issues on tap (Computerworld)



Think enterprise software is complex? Check out the licences
It's simple economics - and you're the simpleton (The Register)

The CDnow Data Center, Circa 2000 (Peregrine Salon)



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Daily Links 11/8/2011: Bentley Systems makes two acquisitions

Bentley Acquires FormSys to Expand SACS Offerings for Floating Structures (Business Wire)

Bentley Makes Point Clouds Valuable Across Full Infrastructure Lifecycle Through Acquisition of Pointools Ltd (Business Wire)

Liberty Interactive Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)
QVC revenue grows 6%; parent Liberty increases stake in HSN slightly to 34%, buys back shares.


Exclusive: HP weighing sale of webOS unit (Reuters via Fox Business)
Oracle mentioned as one possible buyer.

PHD Virtual Technologies Announces Additional Investment (PR Web)
Insight Venture Partners and Citrix Systems invest again in Philly-based provider of virtualization monitoring solutions.


Getting your staff on board with superior customer service (Washington Post)
By Gary Jackson, chief executive of Philly-based Shunra Software.

Siemens/MobileMD To Play In Accountable Care Arena
The technology giant positions itself for emerging reimbursement environment with purchase of health information exchange vendor MobileMD (Information Week)


Tyco CEO Breen to resign from Comcast board (MarketWatch)

Don't Pull the Plug on Cablevision (Barron's)

Dish Network CEO Ergen: 'We're just not getting our fair share yet' (Fierce Cable)

Sneak peak at Comcast’s Skype on Xfinity service (Gigaom)


Gary Flake names all-star cast of investors in Clipboard’s $1.4M round (Geekwire)
First Round Capital is one of them.

PANL: Gabelli, Avian Doubt Skeptical View Of Patent Hearing (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Wondering who Universal Display's IP attorneys are.

Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

USA Technologies, Inc. Reports Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2012
License and Transaction Fee Revenues Up 62%, Total Revenue Up 51% Compared to a Quarter a Year Ago (Business Wire)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Plosser says Fed should target inflation, not jobs (Reuters)



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