Daily Links 6/13/2012: DOJ reported to be investigating Cable moves in online video

Constant Contact Acquires Business Listings Startup SinglePlatform, Deal Worth Up To $100M (TechCrunch)
SinglePlatform is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Congratulations: Single Platform Acquired by Constant Contact (Howard Morgan/Way Too Early)

FCC to let cable firms stop carrying local TV in analog (LA Times)

U.S. Probing If Cable Operators Hamper Netflix, Online Video (Report) (Hollywood Reporter)

First GPS III Launch Delayed by Up to a Year, OCX by Two Years (Inside GNSS)
Doesn't appear to be Lockheed's fault.

Quality Systems, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2012 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results (Business Wire)
Quality Systems' principal business is NextGen Healthcare of Horsham.

What do Qliktech customers gain from Expressor? (Research with Results/Aberdeen Group Blog)

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Daily Links 4/16/2012: Dreams Inc. to be acquired by Kynetic LLC's Fanatics Inc.

Dreams Inc. to be acquired by Fanatics Inc. (MarketWatch)
Fanatics Inc. is a part of GSI Commerce founder Michael Rubin's Kynetic LLC, which is based in Conshohocken. Deal values Dreams Inc. at $183 million including debt.

First Round Capital Is Raising A $135M Fourth Fund (PE Hub)
Slightly larger than reported early this year.

Path Confirms Series B Funding From Redpoint, Richard Branson and Others (All Things D)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Path, though its not clear whether it participated in this round.

Reed Hastings Goes After Comcast, Again, on Facebook. Again. (Peter Kafka/All Things D)


Is IPTV Fundamentally Anticompetitive? (Todd Spangler/Multichannel News)

In Ad Campaign, SAP Looks Beyond Business Customer (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Why SAP needs a chiropractor
(Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

SUP mobile ecosystem slow to take off, SAP admits (SearchSAP)

Google-Oracle trial begins, with implications for all of Silicon Valley (San Jose Mercury News)

Microsoft: Hey, we're an in-memory database player, too (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet Blogs)

Lockheed Loses $70M Over GPS Sat Overruns (Bloomberg)



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Daily Links 1/13/2012: SAP beats quarterly profit estimates

SAP Quarterly Profit Beats Estimates (Bloomberg)
Looks like very strong results in this environment, especially compared to Oracle's most recent quarter.

SAP Q4 Revenues Jump 11 Percent (PC World)


SAP Names New Marketing VP, One With a History (All Things D)

Rue La La operator lays off 65 workers, plans to shutter SmartBargains (Boston Business Journal)
An update on story posted yesterday, with company confirmation and actual numbers.

Retail Convergence closes the curtain on its longest running e-commerce show
Retail Convergence, part of Kynetic LLC, will consolidate SmartBargains.com. (Internet Retailer)

Wharton MBA candidates size up online clothes shopping experience (Flying Kite)

FCC commissioner questions whether Comcast misled regulators (The Hill)

U.S. Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Third and Fourth GPS III Satellites (PR Newswire)

Deacom Adds Supply Chain Execution Tools to ERP (TechMATCH Pro)

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Daily Links 9/13/2011: SAP to pay $20 million in Oracle criminal case

SAP will pay $20 million in Oracle criminal case (Reuters)

Rating the Comcast-NBCU Merger: The New Culture Settles In (The Wrap)

Comcast reacts to policy fights with big hires (Politico)

FCC's Internet rules clear a review hurdle (Reuters)


NBC Sports Network the favorite here to win new NFL package (Sports Business Journal)

QlikTech and Deloitte Join Forces to Bring QlikView Business Discovery Solutions to the U.S. (Business Wire)

Motorola Mobility Invests In Video Publishing Platform Ooyala (TechCrunch)

What to expect from SAP TechEd 2011 + Sybase TechWave (Computer Weekly)

SAP HARNESSES THE POWER OF SAP HANA™ PLATFORM TO DELIVER NEW REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS (SAP Press Release)

SAP's Sikka preaches HANA-led 'renewal'
In-memory computing will transform SAP's portfolio, according to executive board member Vishal Sikka (Computerworld)

Turntable.fm Closes That $7 Million Round, Fred Wilson Joins Board (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was an early investor in what was then called Stickybits.

Tremor Video Lands $37 Million to Fuel Acquisitions (Ad Age)
Previous investor SAP Ventures participated again in this round. A First Round Capital portfolio company named SanScout merged with Tremor Video last year, although it is not known whether First Round currently has an equity stake in Tremor.

RCN not seeing strong demand for 60 Mbps service (Fierce Cable)

Philadelphia groups get federal money to aid startups (Philadelphia Business Journal)

In Newtown, U.S. Senator Casey pushes for GPS program to support national security and jobs at Lockheed Martin (Bucks Local News)



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Daily Links 7/5/2011: Philly's CityRide gets funding and methodology validaton

CityRyde Gets Funded, and Methodology Validation to Turn Bike Rides into Cash (PR Web)

Slideshow: Most Active VC Firms to Date in 2011 (PE Hub)
First Round Capital fifth most active in terms of number of deals.

Sun Valley Moguls Shift Focus to Media Models (Bloomberg)

Verizon to kill unlimited data plans on July 7 (VentureBeat)

LightSquared gets $265M as the FCC weighs its fate (Gigaom)


Lockheed Martin Team Completes Design Milestone for GPS III Program (PR Newswire)

SAP Business One Gets New Hosted, Subscription Model (PC World)

Deloitte Wants Software Lawsuit Kept Away From Jury (PC World)

ASG Software Group Completes Acquisition of PERFMAN (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 3/15/2011: Ex-FCC chief Powell to head top cable trade group

Will HP buy or merge? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP: the road to redemption (ZDNet Blogs)

Ex-FCC chief Powell to head top cable trade group (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Netflix's Brick Wall (The Wrap)

Liberty Media CEO Discusses Earthquake's Effect on QVC Japan (Hollywood Reporter)

Time Warner Brings Live Cable TV to iPad (Zatz Not Funny!)

Blackstone Offers to Sell Florida Theme Park (including ‘Revenge of The Mummy’ Ride) to NBC (PE Hub)

PhillyInc: Video-phone firm WorldGate facing big cash crunch (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cuts workforce by 65%.

Lockheed's GPS III Team completes Key Flight Software Milestone (Inside GNSS)

Downtown-based Compliance Assurance secures $1.25M in financing (Pittsburgh Business Times)
Philly-area firms among investors.

GSI Commerce Closes Acquisition of Fanatics, Inc. (Business Wire)
Also closes on new credit line, sets share repurchase plan.


Gift from Peter Detkin to Launch Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic at Penn Law (Penn Almanac)

Campbell Soup exec wins Temple business school IT award (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 6/21/2010: Comcast responds to merger critics

In NBC-Comcast Deal, Quiet Concerns (New York Times: DealBook)

Comcast responds to merger critics (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast Wants Box Options
Enlists NDS to ‘Harden' the CableLabs Tru2way Stack (Multichannel News)

Verizon offers FiOS try-out (Reuters)

DirecTV Co-Owner John Malone Trash Talks FiOS
'Returns on FiOS are atrociously bad...' (Broadband Reports)


SAP showcases more Web 2.0 with "Elements" project (SearchSAP.com)

Software AG: clarifying the story. On being a Global company, an interview with Dr Peter Kuerpick (Enterprise Irregulars)

Cloudera teams up to connect Oracle and Hadoop (CNET News)

Foursquare Competitor SCVNGR Gives Its Users An Identity (TechCrunch)
DreamIt Ventures alum now based in Massachusetts.

Lockheed Martin Team Completes Requirements Milestone for GPS IIIB Program (PR Newswire)

School of the future focuses on the basics (CNN)

Daily Links 4/19/2010: Lockheed Martin says GPS III team on schedule

News Analysis: Oracle Acquires Phase Forward For $685M And Gains A Foothold Into The Lucrative Life Sciences Market (A Software Insider's Point of View)

Digital Printing and Information Management Industries Converge in Philadelphia Next Week -- April 19-22 -- at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Marketwire)

Comcast Denies Connection to RightNetwork (New York Times:
Media Decoder)
Lots of people in the media apparently got taken on this one.

NDS Leads $20M Bet on BlackArrow
(Light Reading Cable)
Comcast venture arm invests again.

Comcast P2P Settlement Lawyer Thinks You Should Take That $16
(Broadband Reports)

Enterprise IT: Inside an SAP customer (ZDNet Blogs)

Lockheed Martin GPS III Team Advancing On-Schedule in Critical Design Review Phase (PR Newswire)

Paoli Company Creates Some of the Greenest Computers (KYW Newsradio)

Greater Utilization of Geospatial Technology is Theme of Gubernatorial Roundtable Hosted by PA-MAPPS
(PA-MAPPS Press Release via Directions Magazine)




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