Daily Links 6/27/2011: Comcast may want NFL Thursday Night package

SBJ: NFL Shopping Eight-Game Thursday Night TV Package, Turner, Comcast Interested (MediaBistro)
While Comcast is definitely trying to upgrade Versus, I don't think they want to go head to head with ESPN right now, as some are writing.

Report: Hulu courting a 'range' of potential suitors (CNET News)

Ron Meyer's contract as Universal Studios president extended through 2015 (LA Times: Company Town)

FCC’s net neutrality rules about to be official, and invite lawsuits (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Safeguard Scientifics Leads $35 Million Financing for NovaSom (Business Wire)

Penn Students Leave School to Launch CourseKit With $1 Million Seed Round (TechCrunch)
Will be based out of New York, though.

Growing Philly software firm asks: Where are the engineers?
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)


ICG Commerce Acquires Neuwing Energy Ventures -- Unlocking the Many Sides of Green (Spend Matters)

Oracle Fusion Applications Pricing Revealed (PC World)

Why Google Health Really Failed—It’s About The Money (TechCrunch)

McKesson Buys Portico To Gain ACO Financial Tools (Information Week)

Marimow quits Philly Inquirer for ASU Cronkite School post (Poynter)

Bell and Howell Finalizes Sale to Versa Capital (Business Wire)
Versa Capital is a Philly-based turnaround specialist.



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Daily Links 6/24/2011: Google to shut down Google Health

What's next for Hulu? (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast Added To Goldman Conviction Buy List; Shrs Rise (Forbes: The Tech Trade)

Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Data-Mining (Sorrell v. IMS Health) (MedPage Today)

Corporates outbid private equity for good assets (MarketWatch)
Says SunGard is bidder for Thomson Reuters' Kondor, names several area companies as possible bidders for Thomson Reuters' healthcare info business.

Oracle Declines After Reporting Unexpected 6% Drop in Its Hardware Sales (Bloomberg)

HANA Is HERE: 4 Things to Consider (ASUG News)

Two SMBs take different paths to SAP ERP (SAP Watch)

Google Shuts Down Medical Records And Health Data Platform (TechCrunch)
Google Blog Post

AppLabs to hire 1,000 software testing engineers (Business Standard)
Company expects about 50% revenue growth for year.

Struggling Nokia revamps ops, reels in Navteq (Reuters)
Possible implications for Navteq's Traffic.com operations in Wayne?

Lockheed Martin to Develop Automated System for Intelligence Analysts (Marketwire)

Fitch Upgrades Liberty Media and QVC IDRs to 'BB'; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)

Lawmakers Want to Block LightSquared Approval (PC World)



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Daily Links 9/15/2010: InstaMed raises $6 million

New auction set for Philadelphia newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Air Products Nominees Win Three Seats on Airgas Board (Bloomberg Business Week)

InstaMed Raises $6 Million in Growth Capital
Capital will support InstaMed’s triple digit growth and enhance its bi-coastal data centers (Business Wire)


The World According to Dick Ebersol
The 2010 Broadcaster of the Year reflects on his accomplishments, a successful 2010 and what lies ahead (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast CFO warns that programming costs will continue to go up (LA Times: Company Town)

Canoe CTO: 'T-Commerce' Coming in 2011 (Light Reading Cable)

Main Line tech stock keeps rising (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
On QlikTech.

Microsoft Questions Salesforce.com Cloud Computing Growth Prospects (Intelligent Enterprise)

The making of the Technology Park deal (Philadelphia Business Journal: Real Estate Blog)

Google Health--Rumors of its death have been somewhat exaggerated (The Health Care Blog)

WPCS Reports FY2011 First Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)

C&D Technologies Reaches Agreement in Principle with Group of Major Noteholders on Financial Restructuring Plan (PR Newswire)



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