Links 11/6/2013: Passport Health; with King of Prussia unit Healthworks, acquired for $850 million

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Experian Acquires Passport Health Communications for $850 Million (HISTalk)
Passport's Healthworks unit is based in King of Prussia.

Is Philly's top health insurer cancelling small-business policies? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Official who oversaw botched Healthcare.gov launch resigns (The Verge)

Square Exploring 2014 IPO With Banks (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Jack Dorsey's other venture.



MeetMe Reports Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Workday readies OpenStack cloud (ZDNet)

Thumbing nose at Oracle, Rimini Street to file for IPO (PC World)

Veeva Systems' CEO On Why Pharma Needs His Cloud Software (Forbes)

Henkel signs seven-year ITSM and security deal with Unisys (Computerworld UK)

McGraw-Hill joins edtech accelerator trend, possibly disrupting itself (PandoDaily)
In partnership with Penn.



U.K. tech company to open U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Links 10/23/2013: SAP exec says Business ByDesign will live on

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SAP Business ByDesign will live on, exec says (Computerworld)

SAS and SAP – an important match (Diginomica)

Can Forward halt Unisys' decade of decline? (ZDNet)


Philly tech funding up for first time since 2008 (Philadelphia Business Journal)
According to data from EY, Philly PACT and BFTP-SEP.

Pa. gaming chief: No quick move to Internet gambling (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Labor shortage: Pa. software firm [Monetate] pays $5,000 to refer sales, tech help (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


Lockheed profit tops estimates; raises full-year outlook (Reuters)

Healthcare.gov: Latest Victim Of Federal Acquisition Problems? (Information Week)

IBX cancels 24,000 plans that don't meet Affordable Care Act rules (NewsWorks)


Netflix CEO hopeful for deals with Comcast, others (Reuters)

Rockets Side with Comcast in Petition for Chapter 11 Protection for CSN Houston (Multichannel News)



Pace Makes $310 Million Play for Aurora Networks (Multichannel News)

Oracle buys sales order automation specialist BigMachines
(PC World)

Daily Links 1/7/2013: Passport Health, Heartland Payment make acquisitions

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PE-backed Passport Health nears deal to buy Data Systems Group: sources (Reuters)
Passport Health Communications, based in Franklin, TN, has significant operations in
King of Prussia dating back to its 2005 acquisition of Healthworks.
Update: The deal has been agreed to, according to a Passport press release.

Heartland Payment Systems® Acquires Ovation Payroll to Position Heartland Payroll Services for Rapid Growth (Marketwire)

Athenahealth to acquire physician favorite mobile app Epocrates for $293M (Gigaom)
Big move by a forward looking Healthcare IT vendor; one I think its CEO had hinted at
before. See Why athenahealth might buy Epocrates from May of last year in Mobile Health News.

Intel confirms partnership with Comcast, brings Xfinity TV viewing to Intel-based devices (Engadget)

Comcast NBC Delays Biggest TV Shows to Avoid Repeats (Bloomberg)

Amazon’s cloud is bigger, more profitable than we think, report says (Gigaom)
At least one piece of Amazon has decent margins, according to research report.

Independence Blue Cross Launches Free Smartphone Service for Members (Globe Newswire)
Teams up with Radnor-based Relay Network.

SunGard Acquires XSP, Beefing Up Corporate Actions
(Wall Street & Technology)

ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013 (Phil Wainewright/Enterprise Irregulars)

Elsevier Acquires Knovel, Provider of Web-based Productivity Application for the Engineering Community (PR Newswire)



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