Daily Links 8/29/2011: Google, Apple said to step up TV plans

Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say (VentureBeat)

Google TV Will Hit Europe Next Year (Silicon Alley Insider)

Google May Take Competitors to the Gridiron Next (Literally) (PE Hub)

New DirecTV TiVo Launches Next Month (Zatz Not Funny!)

Cable still beating out telcos in broadband adds (Gigaom)

VMware pushes enterprise hybrid clouds in first VMworld announcements (ZDNet Blogs)

SunGard Offers Recover2Cloud (Read Write Cloud)

Microsoft launches new CRM cloud promotion on eve of Salesforce conference (ZDNet Blogs)

PANL Slips: Display Malaise, Or Limited Upside? Bulls Defend (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

PANL Inks Lighting Deal With Panasonic Idemitsu (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

The politics of Sharpton’s new gig (Chicago Sun-Times)
Gets full time slot at MSNBC.

Motorola Is Full Of People Google "Would Never Hire," And That's Why The Merger Won't Take (Silicon Allley Insider)
I'm sure Motorola Mobility employees, who actually do some brilliant engineering, appreciate this kind of talk.


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Daily Links 12/20/2010: FCC expected to approve net neutrality regs

Poptent Hits $1 Million in Video Ad Payouts (MediaPost News)

Qualcomm Shutters FLO TV, Sells AT&T The Spectrum for $1.9 Billion (Gigaom)

Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews (New York Times)

FCC expected to pass net neutrality rule (Washington Post: Post Tech)

The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom (Wall Street Journal)
Opinion piece by Robert M. McDowell, Republican commissioner of the FCC.

Level 3 Escalates Dispute With Comcast, Tries To Block NBCU Merger (paidContent)

DirecTV Enlists SMG To Sell Addressable Ads For 10 Million Subs
Agency Has Committed to Spend Up to $20 Million on Service in 2011 (Multichannel News)

Web Startup AboutOne.com Announces Public Beta Release and Program to Support On-Ramping Mothers (PR Newswire)
Not the same thing as About.Me, which AOL just acquired today.

Vantage Communications Acquires Hosted VoIP Provider Digital Ingenuity (PR Web)

Big Pharma's small voice
Out of fear of federal regulation, drug companies shun social media (Wilmington News Journal)

Why I Started Alphabuyer (Alphabuyer Blog)
Alphhabuyer is a group buying website based in Paoli that just launched.

Daily Links 11/12/2010: Oracle May Not Show Apotheker Testimony, Lawyer Says

InterDigital Sees Q4 Revs Above Ests; Notes Loss Of Customer (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

PIC, Greenlink Merge, Boon To Local TV Advertisers (MediaPost: Media Daily News)
GreenLink Networks, based in Wayne, raised $3.5 million last year from Guggenheim Venture Partners and others.

Comcast prepared to give Ted Harbert big NBC job (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast’s Tunerfish social TV app gets a new face (VentureBeat)

Comcast: Google TV Isn't Compatible With Our 'TV Everywhere' Service
Separately, Hulu Video on MSO's Fancast Site Being Blocked for Business Reasons (Multichannel News)

MedQuist Reports Third Quarter 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

Skyfiber Completes Successful Philadelphia Port Biometric Trial With ePortation (PR Web)

Welcome To The Wild West Of Venture Capital (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Comments largely echoed by Fred Wilson in his A VC post today.

Oracle May Not Show Apotheker Testimony, Lawyer Says (Bloomberg)

BlogWell 2010: SAP’s Social Media Strategy (SAP Web 2.0)

First Round’s Charlie O’Donnell on What’s Right/Wrong with NY Tech Scene (PE Hub)




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Daily Links 9/7/2010: Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC and Brad Galle Acquire JK Group

Resurrecting Mark Hurd: Larry Ellison's War With IBM (Information Week: Global CIO)

Can Oracle, Hurd topple HP, IBM without services? (ZDNet Blogs)

HP Sues Mark Hurd For Violating Severance Agreement (By Joining Oracle) (Silicon Alley Insider)

QlikTech looking at major expansion in India (Economic Times of India)

Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC and Brad Galle Acquire JK Group (PR Newswire)

Allbritton Cites Comcast Harm (Multichannel News)

It's Not Always Sunny for Philadelphia and New York Sports Fans (Huffington Post)

Fall to bring Google TV, just in time for Apple TV faceoff (Ars Technica)

DVIRC Awarded $300,000 National Science Foundation Grant to Connect Regional Assets and Spur Innovation
Project will explore how visual analytics software can help to organize and connect STEM assets in the tri-state area (Business Wire)

Web Host MyHost Expands Name Server Infrastructure to Europe
(Web Host Industry Review)




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Daily Links 5/20/2010: Inquirer to try 3D publishing

Lawmakers rebuff calls to delay Comcast-NBC merger timeline (The Hill)

Comcast To Bring i-Guide To Cisco Boxes
Operator to Extend the IPG to Cisco Markets Starting In June (Multichannel News)


Google’s “smart TV” Platform to Debut Tomorrow
(VentureBeat via New York Times)

Google TV turns on at I/O (Engadget)

Google Moves to TVs With Help From Intel and Sony (New York Times)

PHD Virtual Technologies Announces Citrix Investment
PHD Virtual Announces Joint Investment by Citrix and Insight Venture Partners (PR Web)

May 2010 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia)

Philly Inky to do 3-D (Reuters Blogs: MediaFile)
I guess this was Brian Tierney's secret plan to save the company.

QVC Expands Mobile-Commerce Portfolio
Multimedia Retailer to Launch Apps for Android and BlackBerry, Enhanced QVC iPhone App
(PR Newswire)

NBC To Sell Stake In ShopNBC
Shopping Chanel To Drop NBC Name (Multichannel News)

Nuclear energy leader Westinghouse selects GenSight for Project Portfolio Management (Business Wire)




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