Daily Links 5/19/2011: Dick Ebersol leaves NBC Sports; Mark Lazarus named successor

DreamIt And Comcast Partner For New Program For Minority Entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)

Dick Ebersol to Leave NBC Sports (NY Times)
This New York Post article from about a month ago suggested this kind of conflict might have been brewing.

Dick Ebersol leaves NBC Sports; Mark Lazarus named successor (USA Today)

Comcast yanks funds for nonprofit after tweet about FCC Baker’s jump (Washington Post: Post Tech)
As I tweeted last week, it is Comcast's fate from now on to be thrown into one or two major media controversies each day. Comcast has now said this was a mistake and is trying to rectify
the situation, if the organization will accept.


Philly Fed Firms See Slight Growth in Business Activity (Business Wire)
Philadelphia Area’s Manufacturing Expands at Slowest Pace in Seven Months (Bloomberg)

Salesforce.com raises revenue outlook, shares rise (Reuters)

Liberty Media Makes $1 Billion Bid to Acquire Barnes & Noble (Mashable)
This is strange; not John Malone's typical kind of business.

Comcast Exec Wants 1-Terabit Optical Standard (Light Reading Cable)

Corning cites Verizon for fiber optic boom (Reuters)

Independent Mac retailers emerge from the Apple Store shadow (Computerworld)
Article features Philadelphia's Springboard Media.



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Daily Links 4/26/2011: Dell Boomi launches Spring update

Lawson Agrees to Be Acquired by Golden Gate Capital, Infor for $2 Billion (Bloomberg)

New details on Infor's Lawson acquisition (Enterprise System Spectator)

Dell Boomi launches Spring update, certification program (ZDNet Blogs)

Unisys shares slip after company reports 1Q loss (AP via Forbes)

Oracle Goes After Workday, SuccessFactors With Fusion HCM (PC World)

Oracle CFO Epstein Out; Replaced By Safra Catz (Forbes: The Tech Trade)


Investors buy majority stake in online game maker Bigpoint for $350M (VentureBeat)
Comcast Interactive Capital sold its stake, which was originally acquired by NBC's venture arm.

Netflix: We’re a Friend, Not an Enemy, to Cable Networks (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Comcast in Talks to Offer On-Demand Movies 6 to 8 Weeks After Theaters (Bloomberg)

The Disappearing Set-Top (Light Reading Cable)

TimeSight Systems Announces Additional Growth Capital Injection to Extend Market Reach of Breakthrough Video Surveillance Systems (Marketwire)

Verizon Wireless and USA Technologies Partner to Deliver Industry-Leading Cashless Payment Services, M2M Solutions for Vending and Automated Retail Industries (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 9/30/2010: Sprint Execs quit Clearwire board

Plosser Opposes More Fed Bond Buying, Sees Small Deflation Risk (Bloomberg)
Plosser goes to Vineland (of all places).

The John Malone-Barry Diller throwdown (Hollywood Reporter)

Sprint Leaders Quit Clearwire Board (IDG via New York
Times)
Apparently due to Clearwire's antitrust concerns, though strange since Sprint owns a majority of Clearwire. One possible explanation of what's really going on from Light Reading Mobile.

Comcast: We will meet our IPv6 deadline
ISP to release more open source code, begin test of standard this fall (Network World)

Comcast takes free anti-botnet service nationwide (CNET News)

Comcast Interactive Shifts Fandango’s Budkofsky To Run Mobile Ads (paidContent)

Snarls in labor talks with key unions at papers (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Inquirer's latest update sounds more optimistic.

Nicusa Capital Calls for Leadership Changes at BioClinica
(PR Newswire)
BioClinica's response

SAP Torn Between the Old World and the New (CIO.com)

Global CIO: Tibco Surges And CEO Flips Off IBM, Oracle, And SAP (Information Week)


Announcing the Winners of the $10,000 Grant! (Gigabit Genius Grant)




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Google/Invite Media rumors heat up again

Peter Kafka of All Things Digital (Wall Street Journal) reports that Google may be close to a deal for Philly/New York-based demand side advertising platform (DSP) Invite Media, which is backed by First Round Capital and Comcast Interactive Capital among others. There had been rumors about this a few months back. Invite Media CEO Nat Turner,who cofounded the company while an undergraduate at Penn, told Kafka by email that "we have not entered into any agreement with any company" which may seem a little short of a complete denial that something might be happening.
Turner tweeted on Friday, "Haven't gotten anything done today, just been playing Pakman on Google's homepage", which was presumably meant as a tongue in cheek response to speculation.