Links 11/7/2013: Ewing's Universal Dislpay posts strong gains, raises guidance

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Twitter Flies On Its First Day As A Public Company: Shares Pop 74% On First Trades, Debuts At $45.10 And $31.8B Valuation (TechCrunch)

IBM or Amazon Web Services? Place your bets, engines are running (Diginomica)

Should you build on Force.com? (VentureBeat)

Is A Tsunami Of SAP Attacks Coming? (Dark Reading)



The Philadelphia Inquirer is melting down (Eric Wemple/Washington Post)

Jeff Bewkes: HBO’s Streaming Deal With Comcast Won’t Promote Cord Cutting (Deadline)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Profitable as revenue than doubles on strong materials sales; raises guidance.

Cloudnexa Announces Strategic Business Investments (PR Newswire)
Raises $2.3 million; Locates at Philadelphia Navy Yard.


Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results (Business Wire)
Shares down 22% today on reduced guidance.

Links 10/25/2013: QlikTech falls nearly 20% on Europe & Asia weakness, guidance cut

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QlikTech says order delays to hurt quarter; shares sink (Reuters)
Shares fall 19% today.

NetSuite Reports Q3 Sales Growth, Declares Victory Over SAP (CRN)

NetSuite's Nelson mocks SAP for halting work on its, er, 'NetSuite-killer' (The Register)


SAP sees strong MDM demand to meet BYOD trend as BlackBerry use wanes (V3.co.uk)
Echoes this recent article that mentions Blue Bell-based Fiberlink moving in to replace BlackBerry (for MDM) in large Canadian auction house.

Amazon Web Services Revenue: New Details (Information Week)



Source: Oracle Paid Over $400 Million For BigMachines To Grab More Salesforce Customers (Business Insider)

Zients: HealthCare.gov's problems will be fixed in a month (USA Today)


Schiller to Leave NBCU For Twitter Post (Multichannel News)

Don't let the cheap Comcast HBO deal fool you, cord-cutters (CNET News)

Links 10/24/2013: Variety on changes at NBCU; Safeguard Scientifics takes hit on PixelOptics

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NBC Staff Unsettled As Steve Burke Reshapes the Top Exec Ranks
(Variety)

Comcast COO Watson: Virtual Xfinity 'opens a myriad of possibilities' (FierceCable)

Did Comcast just take a first step towards unbundling HBO? (Gigaom)


Arris RDK Boxes Coming Soon (Light Reading)



Safeguard Scientifics Announces Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Safeguard may have hit dry well with $37 mm investment in Va-based PixelOptics, a developer of electronically focusing prescription eyewear. Safeguard wrote its carrying value down to $0 and says it "does not intend to deploy substantial additional capital", and that the company looking to recapitalize from other sources to launch its next generation product. The risk that comes with investing in bleeding edge technology.

Real Food Works Receives Investment From First Round Capital and StartUp PHL’s Innovative City-Backed Fund (PR Web)

QlikTech Delivers Solid Third Quarter Revenue Growth (Business Wire)

Amazon Web Services continue to tear it up (Gigaom)


Convercent, Compliance Software in the Cloud, Lands $10 Million From SAP Ventures (All Things D)

Quality Systems, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2014 Second Quarter Results (Business Wire)
Quality Systems' primary business unit is Horsham-based NextGen Healthcare.

SFX Buys Readability Developer Arc90, Fame House and Tunezy To Give Its Electronic Dance Music Business A Digital Content Spin (TechCrunch)
Fame House is based in Philadelphia.