Daily Links 1/7/2013: Passport Health, Heartland Payment make acquisitions

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PE-backed Passport Health nears deal to buy Data Systems Group: sources (Reuters)
Passport Health Communications, based in Franklin, TN, has significant operations in
King of Prussia dating back to its 2005 acquisition of Healthworks.
Update: The deal has been agreed to, according to a Passport press release.

Heartland Payment Systems® Acquires Ovation Payroll to Position Heartland Payroll Services for Rapid Growth (Marketwire)

Athenahealth to acquire physician favorite mobile app Epocrates for $293M (Gigaom)
Big move by a forward looking Healthcare IT vendor; one I think its CEO had hinted at
before. See Why athenahealth might buy Epocrates from May of last year in Mobile Health News.

Intel confirms partnership with Comcast, brings Xfinity TV viewing to Intel-based devices (Engadget)

Comcast NBC Delays Biggest TV Shows to Avoid Repeats (Bloomberg)

Amazon’s cloud is bigger, more profitable than we think, report says (Gigaom)
At least one piece of Amazon has decent margins, according to research report.

Independence Blue Cross Launches Free Smartphone Service for Members (Globe Newswire)
Teams up with Radnor-based Relay Network.

SunGard Acquires XSP, Beefing Up Corporate Actions
(Wall Street & Technology)

ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013 (Phil Wainewright/Enterprise Irregulars)

Elsevier Acquires Knovel, Provider of Web-based Productivity Application for the Engineering Community (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 2/7/2011: Zucker says NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months

SAP's Business ByDesign Gets Software Development Kit (PC World)

SAP Business ByDesign Graduates From App To Platform (Information Week)

Salesforce.com Rides Chatter Momentum Toward $2 Billion (Information Week)

Epocrates Opens The Door For Health IT (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

A Duck & a Wiki Team Up Against the Content Farms (Read Write Web)

Lehigh Valley angel investor group launches (Allentown Morning Call)

Zucker: NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months, couldn’t agree on price (Poynter)

COMCAST SPOTLIGHT TOUTS SURVEY CLAIMING 67% OF COMCAST SUBS INTERESTED IN INTERACTIVE TV (Interactive TV Today)

Saying goodbye to cable
More TV consumers are using the Internet or even an old-fashioned antenna (Wilmington News Journal)



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Daily Links 2/2/2011: Marin County files RICO suit against SAP, Deloitte

Marin County alleges SAP, Deloitte engaged in racketeering (Computerworld)
RICO suite. Somewhat surprising to see SAP included, since most reports I had read had laid the blame more on Deloitte rather than SAP.

Two Hints at Stepped-Up Media Rivalry in Online Streaming (New York Times)

Comcast App Now Playing Video On iPads
Streaming Content Includes Shows and Movies from HBO, Turner, Showtime, Starz (Multichannel News)

Comcast Versus President Davis to Exit Sports Channel After NBC Merger (Bloomberg)

Mark Lazarus Named President of NBC Sports Cable Group (Press Release via Hollywood Reporter)
Ebersol names management team for newly formed NBC Sports Group.

NBC Sports Group restructures in wake of Comcast deal (LA Times: Company Town)


Time Warner Cable Buys Enterprise Hosting And Cloud Services Company NaviSite For $230M (TechCrunch)

U.S. court rejects Verizon request for same judges (Reuters)

Unisys' 4th-quarter profit falls 13 percent (Bloomberg)

SunGard Availability Services Announces General Availability of Enterprise Cloud Services (PR Newswire)

Gartner Quadrant Reports BI Split (Information
Week)
QlikTech in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for first time.

Epocrates shares rise on higher IPO pricing (AP via Forbes)

U.S. Tries Open-Source Model for Health Data Systems (New York Times: Bits)

SAP Extends Ecosystem via Google Docs Alliance (IT Business Edge)

iPads become reality in Wharton classrooms (Daily Pennsylvanian)



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Daily Links 1/25/2011: Comcast to hold kickoff "Town Hall Meeting" on Thursday

Comcast: Take the bus, park the golf carts at the office (LA Times: Company Town)

Verizon Profit Misses Estimates as Customers Pay Less for Voice (Bloomberg)

Verizon backs off $30 unlimited data plan for iPhone (CNN Money)

Verizon Tacks On 182,000 FiOS TV Subs In Q4
Wireless Shines While Wireline Declines in Fourth Quarter of 2010 (Multichannel News)

Verizon Wireless to Pay ‘Fair Dividend’ to Vodafone (Bloomberg)

Comcast SportsNet buys 2 blogs (Washington Business Journal)

Comcast's Program-Guide Chief Exiting (Light Reading Cable)

Business is growing for Phila. energy suppliers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Epocrates, Mobile App Developer Since Palm Days, Preps for IPO—And for Push Into Electronic Medical Records
(Xconomy San Francisco)

Will SAP’s Stock Pop Again? (Forbes)

MicroStrategy Ramps up Its BI Strategy for IPad, IPhone (PC World)

LMC Software Solutions and Alliance Global Services Form Strategic Partnership (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 7/19/2010: Verizon preparing for LTE rollout

As Niche Gets Crowded, Studio Watches Its Back (New York Times)
Comcast rumored as possible suitor for DreamWorks.

Verizon's LTE rollout is imminent, computers updated for 4G SIM cards (Engadget)

NSN to Buy Moto's Wireless Biz for $1.2B (Light Reading Mobile)

Worst VC investment year since ’96 (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Google's growth in city puts Pittsburgh in top tier of regional sites (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Founders of Venmo (Inc.: 30 Under 30)

Swift to acquire SunGard's Ambit Messaging Hub (Finextra)

SAP Walks Tightrope Selling Business ByDesign (CIO.com)

SAP extends offer period for Sybase buy to July 26 (Reuters)

Down To Business: Oracle Suit Casts Shadow On Rimini Gains
Alternative provider of software support services gaining enterprise customers, despite Oracle suit's chilling effect. (Information Week)

Epocrates plans $75 million IPO, again (Mobile Health News)




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