4/7: PA native Urban Rumored for Trump Chief of Staff; MapR File System selected by SAP for cloud storage layer

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Urban Rumored for Trump Chief of Staff (Politics PA)

A western PA native and West Point grad, David Urban has Temple and Penn degrees, spent time at Ballard Spahr, and served as Arlen Specter's chief of staff. Ran Trump campaign in PA.


Alphabet Moves Two Top Google Fiber Executives Off Project (Bloomberg)

GOP Said Moving Toward `Unenforceable' Version of Net Neutrality (Bloomberg)


Xfinity Home’s New Message (Multichannel News)

Comcast’s New Mobile Service Is a Good Deal, But Maybe Not Good Enough (Wired)

Comcast Is Wooing Cord Cutters Over Heavy Mobile Users (Fortune)

MapR File System selected by SAP for cloud storage layer (ZDNet)

Amazon.com wins $1.5 billion tax dispute over IRS
(CNBC)
With a little help from Morgan Lewis.

Philly startup SocialLadder wins “best management team” from N.J. Tech Council (Philly.com)

Online auto parts company Turn5 plans expansion, will add 200 jobs (Delco Times)

The $90 Billion Investor Who’s Out to Fire Wall Street (Bloomberg)

3/20: Dave Watson to Become CEO of Comcast Cable; Behind ModCloth's sale to Walmart

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Dave Watson to Become CEO of Comcast Cable, Replacing Neil Smit (Hollywood Reporter)

Arris Brings ‘RDK-B’ Gateway to Retail (Multichannel News)


Google Fiber goes full Wizard of Oz: We're not in Kansas any more (The Register)

Is Twitter becoming the way Congress interacts with @POTUS @realDonaldTrump ? -- Fascinating to watch 👀 $TWTR https://t.co/oZohKN3hfo

— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) March 20, 2017

Behind ModCloth's sale to Walmart ( Dan Primack / Axios )

Walmart Expands E-Commerce Ambitions With a New Investment Arm (NY Times: DealBook)

How to watch tonight’s interview with Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce in the U.S. (Recode)


ACG Gets Innovative to Attract M&A Millennials (MiddleMarket Growth)

Campbell’s Taps Into Pinterest Data To Soup Up Its Content Strategy (AdExchanger)

IBM Cloud Chief Lays Out Big Blue’s Case (Fortune)

2/21: Comcast’s ‘Tech ETA’ feature goes wide; Probe of China trader shows how Comcast learned DreamWorks was for sale

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Comcast’s ‘Tech ETA’ Feature Goes Wide (Multichannel News)

Probe of China traders shows how Comcast learned DreamWorks was For Sale (Philly Deals)

Tosh in deeper financial doo-doo as banks turn up the pressure (The Register)
Its Westinghouse problem.






Lumos ends fiber spin-out plans, sells to private equity firm EQT Infrastructure for $950M (FierceTelecom)

Following Lumos’ sale, analyst fingers T-Mobile’s possible interest in Zayo (Fierce Telecom)

Google Fiber’s Webpass internet service coming to Seattle, job posting reveals (Geekwire)

Verizon Stock the Cheapest It’s Been in Fifteen Years, Says Moffett Nathanson (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)


Outcome Health snags Salesforce exec (Crain's Chicago Business)
Outcome Health is the former Context Media.


GE’s secret weapon is its training center on Hudson River (Boston Globe)

Sunday highlights: Newtown Square-based My Alarm Center's new DIY division paying dividends

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Daily Links 4/19/2013: SAP misses sales estimates, primarily on Asia

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SAP Software Sales Miss Estimates on Lower Demand in Asia
(Bloomberg)

SAP Co-CEO Upbeat Despite Lower Q1 Results (NASDAQ.com)

SAP co-CEO: Cloud computing business profitable (AP via Miami Herald)

Blackstone bails on Dell (Fortune)

IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash (Ars Technica)

IBM Down 8% on Q1 Miss: Business ‘Resilient,’ Bulls Insist (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Google Fiber Is World-Changing! Or Maybe Not. Or Both! (All Things D)

Shuttered Ad Tech Startup Team Lands at Intel’s Web TV Project (All Things D)

What are Comcast, Samsung and Time Warner Cable cooking up for The Cable Show? (FierceCable)


PHD Virtual Announces 40 Percent Year-Over-Year Growth With 12th Consecutive Record Quarter (Business Wire)




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Google Fiber to take on Comcast in Olathe, Kansas; Comcast responds

Tom Paine

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Google announced last week it had reached an agreement to expand its 1 gigabit per second Google Fiber service to Olathe in suburban Johnson County outside of Kansas City. Olathe is more than 20 miles from Kansas City, Kansas. As I know little about Kansas, I was surprised to learn that Olathe, with a population of 125,872, is the fifth largest city in the state. Olathe represents a bit of a geographic leap for Google, which until now has focused on the two Kansas Cities (Kansas and Missouri) and has struck agreements with three other towns in the inner suburbs. This surprised some observers, who had expected Google to try and maintain a tight geographic concentration.

It also means Google Fiber will be taking on Comcast for the first time. Previously, it has been in areas where Time Warmer Cable has been the incumbent provider and AT&T's U-verse serves some.

Comcast responded with an announcement yesterday that is sure to scare the pants off of Google. It said it would be doubling its download speeds for its Blast tier in Olathe from 25 Mbps to up to 50 Mbps (1/20th of Google's potential speed), and its upload speeds from 4 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps. And all this at no extra charge! In fairness, Comcast has been announcing a similar enhancement in many of its service areas around the country, although the specific timing of this announcement is perhaps curious.

An interesting historical side point is that Milo Medin, Vice President of Access Services for Google, a brilliant engineer who heads up the Fiber project, was a co-founder of @Home Network, in which Comcast was a significant investor as it looked to expand its broadband services to residential customers back in the 90's. Although @Home achieved some success in that objective, a disastrous 1999 merger with Internet search engine Excite and the subsequent tech meltdown led to its bankruptcy in 2001.

Daily Links 2/7/13: Many broadband meters inaccurate; Amazon v. Ariba coming battleground?

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When Will the Rest of Us Get Google Fiber?
Google may choose to expand its service, but there’s little incentive for established players to come up to speed. (MIT Technology Review)

Analysts Discuss Liberty Global's Deal for U.K.'s Virgin Media, Effect on BSkyB (Hollywood Reporter)

More bad news about broadband caps: Many meters are inaccurate (Gigaom)

NBC closes hyperlocal, data-driven publishing pioneer EveryBlock
(Poynter)


Aereo’s big bet to break the TV industry: CEO Chet Kanojia explains (Gigaom)
Aereo is scheduled to expand to Philadelphia and several other cities sometime this year.


SAP User Groups Unhappy with Upcoming Support Fee Increase
The decision to raise Standard Support fees 'makes absolutely no sense,' one group board member says (CIO.com)

Amazon vs. Ariba: The Coming Battleground? (Jason Busch/Spend Matters)

SunGard Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2012 Results (Business Wire)

Student investors VenturePact graduate their first startups (Keystone Edge)


CoTweet founders launch Seesaw for iPhone, an app that gets your friends’ opinion when you need it (The Next Web)

Daily Links 1/17/2013: More on SevOne; Philly Fed Index declines unexpectedly

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Pike Creek's SevOne makes Bain investment deal to expand (Wilmington News Journal)

27-Year-Old Box CEO Plans To Hire 300 More People, IPO In 2014 (Bloomberg via Business Indsider)

Manufacturing in the Philadelphia Area Unexpectedly Shrinks (Bloomberg)

January 2013 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)

Google: TWC Is 'Withholding' Metro Sports RSN in Kansas City (Multichannel News)

Comcast upgrades core network with Ciena (CED Magazine)

OpenX Raises $22.5 Million in Round Led by Samsung Venture Unit (All Things D)
QpenX investors include First Round Capital and SAP Ventures. OpenX acquired King of Prussia-based supply side ad platform LiftDNA last year.

Ten New Ventures Join the Ranks of the Wharton Venture Initiation Program (Wharton Entrepreneurship Blog)

Union agrees to bargain to help save Philly papers (AP via phillyBurbs.com)

New Survey Shows Health Information Exchanges Growing in Pennsylvania (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 11/14/2012: Air Force cans ERP project after $1 billion

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Apple opening Willow Grove store, expanding at King of Prussia Mall (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP plans to add 'mission-critical' features to HANA in-memory database
SAP is getting HANA ready for large-scale ERP deployments (Infoworld)

SAP bolsters cloud portfolio with Financials OnDemand
(ZDNet)

SAP goes big on Windows 8 with six new apps (Computerworld)

Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1B in costs (Computerworld)
Oracle won initial software contract over SAP; CSC served as systems integrator. Of course, SAP has had its own issues with the Army ERP project, which might indicate that its the customer who is the ultimate problem, not the software.

Salesforce.com's Complexity Brings CIOs, Partners Together (CIO.com)

Trident Capital Update and Areas of Investment Interest (Trident Capital Blog)

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps (Ars Technica)

Philadelphia Becomes Epicenter for Information-Sharing in the Manufacturing Industry (News from Rockwell Automation)




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Daily Links 9/14/2012: Google Fiber sets KC buildout schedule

Alteva offices here have Apple-esque ‘innovation center’ (slideshow) (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Audio: Kynetic LLC CEO Michael Rubin on Bloomberg Radio (Bloomberg)

WCAU Exits LNS Content Share
NBC's Philly outlet going its own way, getting its own helicopter (Broadcasting & Cable)

iNovo Starts Its Run at Cisco & Motorola
(Light Reading Cable)

Building 180 fiberhoods—construction order and signups (Google Fiber Blog)

Exclusive: Some Comcast Users Will See 500 GB Cap
Company to Scale Cap Size With Tier Speed (Broadband Reports)

Ad of the Day: Comcast Setting up Xfinity service is a lot easier than body-waxing Sasquatch (Adweek)

Epicor acquires specialized midmarket ERP vendor Solarsoft
The deal gives Epicor a stronger play in manufacturing and distribution (Network World)
Epicor has some operations in Yardley dating from Activant's (now part of Epicor) acquisition of Prophet 21.

Blitz Package: My One-on-One With the CMO of the Philadelphia Eagles (Social Media Today)

Daily Links 9/11/2012: Janney's Wible considers Comcast long-term buy

How Google Fiber is not like Verizon FiOS (The Technology Liberation Front)

Is Comcast really a tech stock? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Janney Capital starts Comcast at 'Buy' (AP via Business Week)

Time Warner Cable Inks 'TV Everywhere' Deal With Viacom (Multichannel News)

Salesforce To Compete Against Box With New, Cloud-Based File Sharing Product (TechCrunch)

iCIMS Acquires Jobmagic, Provider of Innovative Social Recruiting Solutions (PR Newswire)
Based in Matawan, NJ, iCIMS received a $35 million minority investment from Bala Cynwyd-based Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) early this year.

Interview with Dr. David Blumenthal, Former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Medgadget)

Elsevier Acquires ExitCare, Provider of Patient Education Solutions (PR Newswire)

Dominion Announces Acquisition of Eigen X (PR Newswire)
Eigen X is based in Wayne.



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Daily Links 9/10/2012: Warby Parker raises $37 mm; LLR Partners raising new fund

Warby Parker raises $37 million (Fortune: Term Sheet)
Founded by former UPenn students; First Round Capital an early backer.

LLR Partners Is Officially Fundraising For Its Latest Pool (PE Hub)

Meet Dreamit Ventures Philly’s New Class of Startups (PandoDaily)

Penn Researchers Make First All-optical Nanowire Switch (Penn News)

Infosys acquires Swiss SAP consultant Lodestone (CIO.com)

Epicor Goes Upmarket With Cloud ERP, Targets SAP, NetSuite (PC World)

Dell, Ramco join hands to leverage ERP-as-a-service on the cloud (Times of India)

SAP, Adaptive Planning, Good Data Step Up Cloud Competition (Information Week)

Oracle sues ex-partner on similar grounds as SAP, TomorrowNow, Rimini Street (PC World)

Google Fiber is coming to 90% of eligible Kansas City neighborhoods (Gigaom)

Subscriber data from Internet service providers (AP via Business Week)

Futura Mobility, LLC Launches mHealth and Telemedicine Solutions (Business Wire)

Daily Links 9/7/2012: Business Week on John Gruber

Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger (Business Week)
On John Gruber.

Verizon CEO: Samsung could be 'dark horse' with own mobile OS (CNET News)

SAP HANA: Demystified, Discussed and Dissected (ASUG News)

10 questions you need to ask your SAP HANA hardware vendor (John Appleby/Bluefin Solutions)

Verizon may expand DVR capacity with network storage (FierceCable)

With 2 days left, Google Fiber has signed up 21,000 (Gigaom)

Delaware HIE wants to be 'another pillar' of health information (Government Health IT)

Sparta Systems Named 2012 Software Company of the Year by New Jersey Technology Council (Marketwire)
Sparta Systems CEO Eileen Martinson is married to John Martinson, the founder of Edison Ventures.



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Daily Links 9/4/2012: Oracle appeals to have $1.3 billion judgement against SAP restored

Oracle in new bid to wring cash out of SAP in piracy spat
Cheers for the $426m offer, but we were thinking $1.3bn (The Register)

Dreamforce Presentation: Create a Massively Scalable System with Force.com and Heroku (Dell Boomi Blog)

Killing TV to Punish Comcast? It’s the Networks That Take the Hit (Wired)

CTO, Comcast: “We believe in convergence; we believe in change” (Telecoms.com)

Google Wants To Be Your Cable TV Provider, Sources Tell Analyst (Silicon Alley Insider)

Amazon Streams Epix Flicks, In Blow To Netflix
Online Retailer's Prime Instant Video Service Now Offers More Than 25,000 Titles (Multichannel News)

Apply to Open Angel Forum Philly IV (Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)

The AlwaysOn Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 Top Company Competition (AlwaysOn)


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Daily Links 7/27/2012: NBC exec calls London Olympics 'grand experiment'

Why is Verizon in bed with Time Warner and Comcast? (LA Times)

Bernstein Research Skeptical of Google TV
Firm Not Convinced Kansas City Overbuild Can Attract Enough Customers to Turn Profit Without Subsidies (Multichannel News)

NBC Sports Chairman Lazarus: London Olympics are a ‘grand experiment’ (paidContent)


Unisys Wins $139M For IRS Info Cloud; Ted Davies Comment (GovConWire)

In New Jersey, Modules Bloom Along the Turnpike (Data Center Knowledge)

SAP’s Business ByDesign numbers still stuck on 1,000 (SAP Watch)

Amazon CFO 'doesn't see a way to do same-day delivery (The Verge)
I guess that pretty much rules out "Amazon Yesterday Shipping".



Aereo CEO Explains Why the Service Should Not Be Considered a Threat to Broadcasters (TV Week)



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