Daily Links 1/25/2011: Comcast to hold kickoff "Town Hall Meeting" on Thursday

Comcast: Take the bus, park the golf carts at the office (LA Times: Company Town)

Verizon Profit Misses Estimates as Customers Pay Less for Voice (Bloomberg)

Verizon backs off $30 unlimited data plan for iPhone (CNN Money)

Verizon Tacks On 182,000 FiOS TV Subs In Q4
Wireless Shines While Wireline Declines in Fourth Quarter of 2010 (Multichannel News)

Verizon Wireless to Pay ‘Fair Dividend’ to Vodafone (Bloomberg)

Comcast SportsNet buys 2 blogs (Washington Business Journal)

Comcast's Program-Guide Chief Exiting (Light Reading Cable)

Business is growing for Phila. energy suppliers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Epocrates, Mobile App Developer Since Palm Days, Preps for IPO—And for Push Into Electronic Medical Records
(Xconomy San Francisco)

Will SAP’s Stock Pop Again? (Forbes)

MicroStrategy Ramps up Its BI Strategy for IPad, IPhone (PC World)

LMC Software Solutions and Alliance Global Services Form Strategic Partnership (PR Newswire)




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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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Daily Links 3/2/2010: Venmo gets funded

Rovi Pulls Out Of GuideWorks Venture With Comcast
Vendor Also Expands Deal With MSO for Metadata and Patents Across Mobile, Online (Multichannel News)

SAP co-CEOs hope for love on promises of continuity
* Co-CEOs reiterate targets, strategy (Reuters)

SAP, Sybase Release Joint Mobile Apps
Sales and workflow apps developed on the Sybase mobile platform extend SAP CRM and Business Suite to iPhone and Windows devices. (Information Week)

Venmo Wants You To Pay Your Pal, Over the Phone. What Will the Carriers Think? (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

E-mail Marketer ExactTarget Buys Twitter Enterprise Client CoTweet (paidContent)
CoTweet originally started out of Central Pennsylvania and was backed by First Round Capital, among others.
CoTweet, Internet start-up from central Pennsylvania, bought by ExactTarget (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Ben Franklin group to invest in 5 Phila.-area companies (Philadelphia Business Journal)

USDA International Technology Services Awards Emtec Federal a Contract with Ceiling Value of $82.5 Million (Business Wire)

Registration Now Open for 'Be Together: The Be Communities LIVE Conference,' Being Held May 17-20, 2010, in Philadelphia (PR Newswire)

HIMSS: Meaningful Use Goes Over The Top (Information
Week: Heathcare Blogs)

Siemens' Dillione is HIMSS' smartest executive
(ZDNet Healthcare)

Pew Study: Philadelphia’s 311 System Shows Progress; Philly311 Made Contacting City Hall Easier but Challenges Remain in Handling Service Requests (PR Web)

Sungard earnings weeks behind past schedule (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
SunGard has since announced its earnings will
be released on March 15.





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