Links 8/27/2013: Potential Fisker buyer has plans to start Delaware production

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After soaking up $1.4B of investment, Fisker might sell for just $25M (VentureBeat)
German group's plans include starting up production at Wilmington plant.

Flash-Memory Firm Violin Memory Reveals Finances In IPO Filing (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
SAP one of its investors.

VMware’s Cloud And The Fit With IT, Cloud Foundry And OpenStack (TechCrunch)

Workday's Q2 stronger than expected, outlook raised (ZDNet)

America's most hated device: The cable box (Fortune Tech)

AllThingsD nears split with Dow Jones (Fortune Tech)
Report cites Comcast's NBCU as one possible bidder.


Apple TV Gets Vevo Music Videos, Disney And Disney XD, The Weather Channel And Smithsonian Content (TechCrunch)

Vertex Enterprise® Recognized as Visionary Technology by Ventana Research (Business Wire)

ThingWorx Expands Global Reach Through Value-Added Reseller Partnership with SPIMESENSE Technologies (Business Wire)

Resilience Capital Partners Acquires CableNet Services Unlimited As An Add-On Investment To Its Aero Communications Portfolio Company (PR Newswire)
CableNet is based in Boothwyn. It provides cable installation and support services; apparently Comcast is a customer in the Philadelphia area.

Daily Links 3/29/2013: Fisker preparing for possibe bankruptcy filing?; Dell filing details declining fortunes

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Christie touts missile defense contract with Lockheed Martin in Moorestown (NJ.com)

Fisker hires law firm to prepare possible bankruptcy filing -WSJ
(Reuters)

Dell’s Go Private Case Emerged as Business Eroded (All Things D)

Oracle Flim-Flam Alakazams Missed 3Q Earnings (ReadWriteEnterprise)

The First Ever Honest Cable Company Ad (Mashable)

In march towards IPO, Salesforce rival SugarCRM snags another $15.1M (VentureBeat)

Daily Links 3/13/2012: Intel wants to get into Cable biz?

Intel Seeking Media Rights to Start Online Pay-TV System (Bloomberg)
Join the party.

Intel's Plan To Become A Cable Company Is One Of The Dumbest Ideas Ever (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)


Did NBC miss the boat on 'Downton Abbey'? (Philadelphia Inquirer)

S&T, icueTV Demo Political-Donation ITV App
Vendors Demo "Click to Text" EBIF Application at CableLabs Winter Conference (Multichannel News)
icueTV is based in Cherry Hill. CableLabs' Winter Conference is being held in Philadelphia.

SAP: Bernstein Ups to Buy on ‘Hana’ Prospects (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

SAP ports HANA database to financial planning app
Latest move by SAP to seed HANA throughout its product portfolio. (Computerworld)

Sameer Patel joins SAP and why it matters (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

Dell Steels Software Biz With SonicWall (Wired Enterprise)
$1.2 billion deal, WSJ reports.

Apple to spend $11bn on Samsung parts in 2012 claims exec (SlashGear)
OLED might be in the plans, which if true could be good news for Universal Display.


SalesCrunch makes $1 bid for Cisco's WebEx (Reuters)
SalesCrunch is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Turntable.FM Signs Licensing Deals With All Four Major Labels (Hollywood Reporter)
Another FRC portfolio company.

Urban Outfitters’ Margins Sink, 4Q EPS Misses Mark (Barron's Blogs)

Fisker electric Karma was pushed to market before it was ready (Gigaom)
According to one former employee, anyway.



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Highlights: Last week on Philly Tech News (2/6/2012 to 2/12/2012)

Questions were raised about how open Philadelphia Media Network's bidding process is after groups represented by developer Bart Blatstein and members of the Perelman family claimed they were being shut out of it. PMN (non-editorial) spokesman Mark Block actually requested that two stories about Blatstein's interest be taken down, and they were. Blatstein, who purchased the Inky building last year, threatened to start a competing paper and website. It was unclear what other bids may have been received other than one from an Ed Rendell-led group.

Oracle announced a $1.9 billion acquisition of cloud talent management vendor Taleo; some saw it as a direct response to SAP's pending SuccessFactors deal, while others wondered whether it might have had more to do with the rising competitive threat from Workday.

Newtown-based systems development outsourcer EPAM Systems, Inc. completed its IPO last week after cutting back on its offering price and size; it currently trades at $13.65 up from the initial offering price of $12, and has a market cap of $555 million.

Questions were raised concerning Fisker Automotive's viability as it faced a cash crunch when the Feds held up the balance of a $529 million loan pending a review. Fisker laid off 26 employees in Delaware and halted
subcontracting work there. The Wilmington News Journal has provided excellent ongoing coverage of Fisker's troubles.

Two Philly area companies made fairly small but potentially important acquisitions. Amazon Prime competitor ShopRunner, part of Michael Rubin's holding company, acquired California-based startup Shopsanity, which helps ecommerce shoppers keep track of data about their various purchases. And Wayne-based Kenexa agreed to acquire OutStart, a Boston-based provider of SaaS e-Learning solutions, for $38.9 million.

Bob Moul, former GM of Dell Boomi and current President of Philly Startup Leaders, got back on the entrepreneurial side by becoming chairman & CEO of Philly-based appRenaissance, a mobile app development startup.

And I wrote about a new book by Joseph Turow of Penn's Annenberg School, "The Daily You", which raises issues about how all the data being collected on us through our online activities is being used.



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Daily Links 2/13/2012: DOJ, EU approve Google/Motorola Mobility deal

Can Fisker keep its promise?
It started with good feelings and a pledge to bring thousands of jobs to Delaware (Wilmington News Journal)

Comcast's new Xfinity stores aim for an Apple Store experience — and Katy's the first test market (CultureMap Houston)

Comcast intros free text messaging; integrates Twitter, Facebook in Xfinity Connect portal (FierceCable)

Triple play for your 'smart' home
Systems combine security, automation, energy control (Wilmington News Journal)


Cox-to-Time Warner Cable Firms Hit Phone Grip on Hospitals (Bloomberg)

Justice Dept, EU Approve Google’s Motorola Purchase (mocoNews)

Why Oracle May Really Be Doomed This Time (PandoDaily)

Workday’s Financials: Maturing (Ventana Research)

Information is beautiful: Lars Björk of QlikTech (Ernst & Young)

Baltimore files $9M suit against Unisys over tax system (Baltimore Business Journal)

AppMobi Bets on Monetizing the Mobile HTML5 Apps Ecosystem With playMobi (ReadWriteWeb)
AppMobi is based in Lancaster.

DreamIt Ventures Formalizes Focus on Minority-Owned Startups With DreamIt Access NYC (BetaBeat)

ULL, Drexel planning research center (The Advocate of Baton Rouge)

ARI to Implement SAP HANA to Slash Fleet Report Processing Time (Marketwire)



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