Daily Links 11/8/2012: NBC & American Express team up on "second-screen" t-commerce

NBC Universal and American Express Try to Bring Dawn of 'Television Commerce'
Using 'Second-Screen' Devices to Make Impulse Buys Is Still in Infancy (Ad Age)

DirecTV CEO: "Regional Sports Networks' Structure Is Broken" (Videonuze)

I've Always Thought Cable Companies Would Be Fine When TV Collapsed, But They May Actually Be Screwed... (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)
Not too convinced by this argument. Wireless has a long way to go to catch up with cable internet's (Docsis) potential, and incremental wireless capacity is still very expensive.

Verizon's Shammo: We'll finish LTE buildout by mid-2013 (FierceWireless)



Tennis, Bloomberg Defend FCC Carriage Decision (Multichannel News)


Startup Weekend Reveals Lehigh Valley's True Colors (Keystone Edge)


Oracle buys Instantis, yet another “cloud” company (Gigaom)
Complements Oracle Primavera, which has much of its operations in Bala Cynwyd.

USA Technologies Reports Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2013 (Business Wire)
Revenue up 25%; USA actually posts small profit.



BioClinica Reports 15.7% Growth in Service Revenue and 26.1% Increase in Non-GAAP Operating Income for Third Quarter (Ad Age)

Comcast Boxes Cause Stir in Georgetown (The Georgetown Dish)

UniTek Global Services, Inc. Reports Record Quarterly Results and Confirms Full Year Adjusted EBITDA Guidance
Announces Plans to Divest Non-core Wireline Assets (Globe Newswire)

Daily Links 8/5/2011: SAP sets sights on NetSuite

DirecTV CEO downplays interest in Hulu (Gigaom)

NBCU Targets End Of August To Pick Online Content Partners
Comcast Also On Track With VOD/Online PEG Project (Multichannel News)

Comcast Touts Low-Cost Broadband In Miami, Delaware (Multichannel News)

SAP sets sights on Netsuite conquest (BusinessCloud9)

Crossing the SAP Channel: ByDesign Updated, Business One Sales Still Up (ASUG News)

SAP's cloud app Sales On Demand leaves some questions unanswered (Cloud Pro/Dennis Howlett)

SAP Will Issue Patch for NetWeaver Vulnerability (PC World)

LCB's wine kiosk experiment may be ending (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Another fiasco brought to you by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.

SkillShare Is Closing A Round Of Funding At A "Healthy" Valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)
Getting ready to launch in Philadelphia.

So what happens to Clearwire’s WiMAX network (Gigaom)

Lockheed nets $6M military wireless pact (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 12/10/2010: Unisys introduces hosted 'Private Cloud'

Two Wharton Pals Take Same Road To Riches (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Nate Turner (Invite Media) and Jack Abraham (Milo Inc.)

End near? Comcast, NBC meet with FCC, Justice on proposed Internet video conditions (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Internet issues bog down Comcast-NBC merger (LA Times)

Verizon, DirecTV Testing LTE-Based Home Broadband
As our leaked photos from September suggested... (Broadband Reports)

Netflix Unworried About Broadband Caps
Though maybe they should be... (Broadband Reports)

Net Neutrality and the Academics Who Love It (The Atlantic)

Salesforce and SAP: an obvious comparison (ZDNet Blogs)

Did Salesforce Just Announce Support for Client/Server Computing? (Software As A Service)

Unisys Offers 'hosted Private Cloud' (PC World)

How do you select an energy provider for your datacenter? (ZDNet Blogs)
With a Pennsylvania perspective.

Daily Links 7/22/2010: Comcast’s NBC Purchase May Mean Selling Stations (Bloomberg)

Comcast, GE: Character Assassins Shouldn't Shoot Down NBCU Deal
Parties Believe FCC Should 'Expeditiously' Approve The Union (Multichannel News)

Comcast’s NBC Purchase May Mean Selling Stations or Arbitration (Bloomberg Business Week)

New DirecTV chief looks beyond the fizz (LA Times)

QlikTech Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering of Common Stock and Exercise of Over-Allotment Option (Business Wire)
Sold full over-allotment of 1,680,000 shares in addition to initial offering of 11,200,000 shares.

SAP-Sybase: What to Expect in the First 90 Days (PC World)

Tyco Electronics posts quarterly profit (Reuters)

SEI Investments reports 2Q income growth (AP via Bloomberg Business Week)

DreamIt Aims To Accelerate New Business Development (Forbes)

SeatGeek Lands $1 Million for Predictive Ticket Pricing (Digital Media Wire)
NY-based graduate of DreamIt Ventures program.

SunGard Acquires Fox River Execution (PR Web)

Cobblestone | Harris Williams Advises E-Mon, LLC, in its Sale to Strategic Buyer Honeywell International (Business Wire)
E-Mon, which is based in Langhorne, manufactures smart energy submeter systems and integrated energy intelligence software.

Dow Electronic Materials Inaugurates New Facility to Serve Fast Growing OLED Market (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 6/25/2010: DirecTV, Dish Ask For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia

Oracle Q4 Profit Jumps 24 Percent (IDG via New York Times)

Salesforce Countersues Microsoft In Patent Brawl, Brings David Boies To The Fight (TechCrunch)

You Don’t Want ISPs to Innovate (Wired: Epicenter)

Hulu Subscription-Service Rumors Heat Up
Pay service could launch as early as next week (Broadcasting & Cable)

DirecTV, Dish Formally Ask For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (Multichannel News)

Unisys to locate in St. Louis, bring IT jobs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Pharma and Cloud Computing: Are We There Yet? (PharmExec Blog)

SAP Labs logs on to new strategy to improve efficiency (Hindu Business Line)