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SAP rejects calls for a pan-European IT champion (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)

Burberry points to SAP as driver of ‘operational excellence’ (Computerworld UK)

UK & Ireland User Group to put pressure on SAP to help with new tech adoption (Computerworld UK)


SaaS is cloud computing's quiet killer app (David Linthicum/InfoWorld)

INE Ventures Launches Fund to Invest in Israeli Technology Startups (Business Wire)
Focus on transplanting Israeli startups to Philadelphia, New York.

Comcast Xfinity Broadband is now one the largest IPv6 network (Gigaom)

Comcast hiring engineers for Excalibur Back Office project (FierceCable)

Charter seeks to raise $25 billion to fund Time Warner Cable bid: report (Reuters)

Obamacare's Small Business Site Won't Work for Another Year
(Business Week)

Steve Duin: Ducking for cover in the Cover Oregon debacle (The Oregonian)
Is it Oracle's fault?

Fisker sale may be approved Jan. 3, bankruptcy judge says (Bloomberg via Automotive News)

How and Why to Launch LinkedIn Showcase Pages (PeopleLinx Blog)

Daily Links 4/12/2013: DOJ Clears Arris/Motorola Home deal

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Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service
Trial expected to start in May in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco areas (Network World)

DoJ Clears Arris/Motorola Home Deal
Arris Expects to Close Proposed $2.35 Billion Transaction on or about April 17 (Multichannel News)
Comcast will own a small stake of Arris, along with Google.

Broadcasters counter Aereo with aerial dongles (CED Magazine)

Dish Said to Have Approached Deutsche Telekom About T-Mobile Bid (Bloomberg)

One year later, SAP hasn't blown it with SuccessFactors (Fortune Tech)

UBS Hires SAP’s Oliver Bussmann as Chief Information Officer (Bloomberg)

Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA (PC World)

eBay Hires A VP Of Data To Focus On Personalization Across The Marketplace And Other Properties (TechCrunch)

Intel releases Web-based app programming kit (CNET News)
Based on app development platform it acquired from Lancaster-based appMobi in February.

Rockmelt says goodbye to its social web browser, says hello to Rockmelt for Web (Engadget)
RockMelt is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Lockheed Martin completes design review in GPS III program (phillyBurbs.com)

Back home in PA, at least for now, FastFig enjoys exponential growth (Keystone Edge)




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Daily Links 6/6/2012: Oracle unveils Cloud offerings

Oracle joins public cloud party after six years in development (ZDNet Blogs)

Independence Blue Cross launches $150,000 health innovation contest (Philadelphia Inquirer)

inVentiv Health Announces Acquisition of Kazaam Interactive (PR Newswire)
Kazaam Interactive is based in Newtown.

World IPv6 Launch gets 27 percent of pageviews on IPv6 (Ars Technica)

Sports Retailer Fanatics Growth Game Plan (CNBC)
A part of Michael Rubin's Kynetic LLC holding company. Interesting article, though it may contain one or two inaccuracies.

Fanatics Completes Acquisition of Dreams; Receives $150 Million in Equity Funding (Business Wire)

Google Pitches Marketing Dashboard for Agencies, Advertisers (Ad Age)
"As part of this, Mr. Mohan said Invite Media -- which allows advertiser to buy audiences across many websites -- has been rebuilt from the ground up and will become 'DoubleClick Bid Manager.'"

When you absolutely need a limousine in five minutes ... Uber Technologies (Peter Key/Philadelphia Business Journal)
Uber officially launches in Philadelphia.

NetProspex scores $7 million for crowd-sourced business contacts database (The Next Web)
Edison Ventures leads round in Boston-based firm.

SDI Closes Additional Investment with Premiere Private Equity Firms (PR Newswire)
Philadelphia-based LLR Partners one of the investors.

Comcast's ThePlatform Moves Down-Market With MPX Essentials
Entry-Level Packages Aimed at Small and Midsize Customers (Multichannel News)

Netflix plan seen as no big threat to content delivery firms (Reuters)

Can Barry Diller Upend the TV Industry Again? (Susan P. Crawford/Bloomberg)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Aereo.

Apax Funds to Sell Plex Systems, Inc. to Francisco Partners (PR Newswire)
Plex. a leader in cloud-based ERP software for manufacturers, was considered by some as a possible acquisition target for SAP.

M&A in the Cloud - Plex Online now part of Francisco Partners (Brian Sommer/ZDNet Blogs)

Federal Reserve Board Beige Book- June 6, 2012: Philadelphia (Federal Reserve Board)



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Daily Links 6/4/2012: Salesforce announces Buddy Media deal; SAP doubles Brazil staffing

Salesforce To Buy Buddy Media For $689 Million In Social Push (Bloomberg)
Price a little less than earlier reports had suggested.

Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal (Computerworld)

Marc Benioff Uses His $700 Million Purchase Of Buddy Media To Trash A Rival (SAI: Enterprise)
SAP?

SAP Doubles Staff In Brazil To Capture Growth Opportunities (Bloomberg)

QVC looks to television to make big online splash (MarketWatch)

Comcast Achieves World IPv6 Launch Milestone
(Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Verizon Offers Buyouts to 1,700 Union Land-Line Employees (Bloomberg)

Exclusive: new Verizon FiOS plans coming June 17th, 300Mbps service to cost $204.99 per month (The Verge)

Huawei Looks Beyond Docsis (Light Reading Cable)

The growing industry of Higher Education Big Data (ZDNet Blogs)
On startup backed by First Round Capital.

Meet the startup helping sites like Fab and Etsy court their customers (Gigaom)
Another NY-based web analytics startup founded by Wharton people.

Small Business: Virtual office, or real? That is the question (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Profiles Wildbit and Dolphin Corp.



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Daily Links 4/27/2012: Ascentia Health Care Solutions of Wayne acquired by Tennessee firm

SAP throws down the gauntlet in database wars
(Fortune Tech)

Healthways acquires Philadelphia health software company Ascentia Health Care Solutions (Nashville Tennessean)
Ascentia Health Care Solutions is based in Wayne.

Allscripts Plunges After Chairman, Three Directors Leave (Bloomberg)

TicketLeap Introduces Seating Chart Design Tools For Ambitious Event Planners (TechCrunch)

IPv6 Home Networking Pilot Market Deployment Technical Details (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Harleysville Group shareholders vote to sell (Philly.com: Philly Deals)



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Daily Links 4/13/2012: SAP stumbles on North American execution issues; Comcast to face antitrust trial

SAP Profit Rises on Sales of Mobile Applications, Analytics (Bloomberg)
But somewhat below analyst's estimates. See SAP Press Release.

SAP sees Q1 stumble on North America execution issues (ZDNet Blogs)
Connection between "North America execution issues" and last week's departure of SAP North America President Robert Courteau? Good guess.

Judge orders Comcast trial in antitrust complaint (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Comcast Is First U.S. ISP to Offer IPv6 to Home Gateway Users (Network World)

Bentley Systems Releases 2011 Annual Report Online
Record Revenues, Key Milestones, and Strategic Initiatives Are Highlighted in Bentley’s Annual Reporting to Its User Organizations (Business Wire)

Video Innovation Continues as Motorola Mobility Offers New Higher Density and Flexible Transcoder IRD Products (PR Newswire)

City is too app-happy (Philadelphia Daily News)



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Daily Links 3/29/2012: Comcast's thePlatform teams up with Conshy's Empathy Lab on TV Everywhere portal for small operators

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet (New York Times)
Mentions Jenn Lukas (photo) and Girl Develop IT.

Contest to see if Lehigh Valley's tech-savvy can hack it (Allentown Morning Call)

Inside SAP's radical makeover (Fortune Tech)

SAP, ORCL To Ride Wave of ‘Apps Revolution,’ Says Credit Suisse (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

20 Facts from SAP’s 2011 Form 20-F (ASUG News)

IPO Boom: Millennial Media Doubles At Open (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)
Millennial Media is based in Baltimore.

Comcast Unit Targets Synacor's Turf (Light Reading Cable)
Comcast's thePlatform unit teams up with Consohocken's Empathy Lab to provide TV Everywhere portals for smaller cable operators.

Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout, Citing Netgear Modem Glitch
MSO Says Retail Cable Modem Has a 'Critical IPv6-Related Defect' (Multichannel News)

Wharton Venture Award, Early Supporter of Past Recipients InviteMedia, Milo, Warby Parker, Selects Wharton School Entrepreneurs to Receive $50,000 for Summer Venturing (PR Web)

NextGen Healthcare Enters into Reseller Agreement with Nuance Communications
Relationship to provide more streamlined, cost-effective approach to patient data entry (Business Wire)

Oracle acquires cloud-based clinical apps provider ClearTrial (ZDNet Blogs)

Looking for a wine or liquor? LCB has an app for that (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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Daily Links 11/9/2011: Comcast begins rollout of IPv6 network

SAP Pumps up Its In-memory, Mobile and Cloud Strategies (PC World)

Universal Display posts Q3 profit, shares rise (Reuters)

Comcast begins rollout of IPv6 production network (Network World)
Comcast Blog Post.

Comcast and the Multiscreen Play (Pipeline Magazine)

Lazarus: NBC Sports Network Changes Will Be 'Done Well, Not Fast'
NBC Sports Group Chairman Says Network Will Look To Build Trust With Viewers, Advertisers, Distributors (Multichannel News)

The children are our future, and they’re not paying for TV (Gigaom)

Senate Debates Net Neutrality Regs
Sens. Hutchison and Rockefeller square off on joint resolution to nullify rules (Broadcasting & Cable)

U.S. web sales grow 16% for QVC in Q3 (Internet Retailer)

Fan (Richmond) tech firm expands in NoVa, Philly (Richmond BizSense)

Unisys Strengthens Enterprise-Class Cloud Offerings with New Version of Secure Private Cloud Solution (PR Newswire)

SunGard Availability Services Announces Managed Recovery Program to Deliver Expert Management of Recovery Lifecycle (PR Newswire)

A more grown-up CRM for BusinessOne users (SAP Watch)

The Lawmakers Sponsoring a Very Facebook-Friendly Bill (The Atlantic Wire)
Toomey, Carper cite Wawa, W. L. Gore as possible beneficiaries.

Hey, Siri, send Jenn $5 (VentureBeat)
Venmo's app for Siri.

BioClinica Announces Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 2/15/2011: Tafler Steps Down As CEO of Conshohocken's PointRoll

Should Viddler Be AOL’s Next Acquisition? (CenterNetworks)

Comcast, Time Warner join IPv6 test program (CNET News)

Fitch assigns investment-grade rating to NBCU (Bloomberg)

College and Business Will Never Be the Same: Philadelphia University Integrates Design, Engineering and Commerce
(Xconomy San Francisco)

Pointroll’s Tafler Steps Down As CEO; Sales Head Gatto Will Succeed Him (paidContent)
PointRoll is headquartered in Conshohocken.

QVC has become a fashion force (Philadelphia Inquirer)

MEDecision to Release Mobile Application for Access to Clinical Summaries
InFrame Mobile App Enables Users to View Clinically Validated Electronic Health Records on Smartphones, Tablets and Other Devices (Business Wire)

Cloud-based content management in the Veeva Vault (MedAd News)

Oracle Unveils Health Care Analytics Application for Supply Chain (eWeek)

Virginia Museum Launches "Augmented Reality" Picasso Shows in New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Starbucks (Art Info)




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Daily Links 1/31/2011: Comcast Kicks Off IPv6 Over DOCSIS Test (just before Internet runs out of addresses)

Verizon Ripping Cloud Valuations To Pieces (CRN)
Implications for value of SunGard Availability?

PhillyInc: Malvern's Rajant Corp. finds big success in exporting (Philly.com)

Git Hacking: A Social Layer for GitHub (Read Write Web)
Winning project developed at Philly Startup Weekend.

Philadelphia’s 2nd Annual Global Game Jam [Recap] (Geekadelphia)

Philadelphia Media Network Announces Several Design, Content and Product Enhancements at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and philly.com (PR Newswire)

Hoping Xfinity brand connects (Denver Post)

Comcast Kicks Off IPv6 Over DOCSIS Test
MSO Runs 'Dual Stack' With Cable Modem Users in Colorado (Multichannel News)

NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke Drops Comcast COO Title
Neil Smit is adding an executive vp title at the cable giant. (Hollywood Reporter)

Amazon rolling out Netflix-like unlimited video streaming for Prime subscribers? (Engadget)


'World School' announces 1st of 20 campuses in NY (Reuters)
Perhaps a bit of an unusual investment ($37.5 million) for Philly-based LLR Partners. Do they have a past relationship with Christopher Whittle?

Isn’t it time for Amazon to grow up? (Internet Retailer)
Discusses GSI Commerce's ShopRunner.



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Daily Links 9/30/2010: Sprint Execs quit Clearwire board

Plosser Opposes More Fed Bond Buying, Sees Small Deflation Risk (Bloomberg)
Plosser goes to Vineland (of all places).

The John Malone-Barry Diller throwdown (Hollywood Reporter)

Sprint Leaders Quit Clearwire Board (IDG via New York
Times)
Apparently due to Clearwire's antitrust concerns, though strange since Sprint owns a majority of Clearwire. One possible explanation of what's really going on from Light Reading Mobile.

Comcast: We will meet our IPv6 deadline
ISP to release more open source code, begin test of standard this fall (Network World)

Comcast takes free anti-botnet service nationwide (CNET News)

Comcast Interactive Shifts Fandango’s Budkofsky To Run Mobile Ads (paidContent)

Snarls in labor talks with key unions at papers (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Inquirer's latest update sounds more optimistic.

Nicusa Capital Calls for Leadership Changes at BioClinica
(PR Newswire)
BioClinica's response

SAP Torn Between the Old World and the New (CIO.com)

Global CIO: Tibco Surges And CEO Flips Off IBM, Oracle, And SAP (Information Week)


Announcing the Winners of the $10,000 Grant! (Gigabit Genius Grant)




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Daily Links 4/22/2010: FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling

Verizon Reports Continued Growth in Cash Flow in 1Q; Solid FiOS, Wireless Growth in Customers and Revenues (PR Newswire)

FiOS TV Tops 3 Million, As Its Growth Slows
Verizon Serves as Many Video Subs as Cablevision (Multichannel News)

Verizon FiOS: get ready for a public hearing, Baltimore-style (Baltimore Sun: BalTech)

CenturyTel to Buy Qwest in Stock Swap to Add Services (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Google Invites AT&T, Comcast, Verizon To Fiber Party
Whenever they actually get a network built... (Broadband Reports)

FCC moves to open television set-top box for Internet, competition (Washington Post: Post Tech)

FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling (GigaOM)

Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service
(LA Times: Company Town)

IPv6 gear almost ready for Comcast trials (CED Magazine)

Philly Papers to revise bid for Inquirer publisher
* Toll-led group to enter new bid by Friday deadline (Reuters)

Microsoft to Direct Small Businesses Seeking Unified Communications Solutions With VoIP Integration to Alteva
New Offering Integrates Voice With Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server
(Marketwire)


Quintiq Lands Contract with US FAA Worth up to $17.6 Million (Business Wire)

Software misuse develops as theme at Perzel hearing (Philadelphia
Inquirer)




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Daily Links 3/24/2010: Senate panel sets Phila. hearing on Web surveillance

Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year (Wired: Threat Level)
Albert Gonzalez, also Heartland Payment Systems hacker, expected to be sentenced this week.

Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because (CrunchGear)

Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity
Experts say IPv6 is attracting more users and content, but it's still a fraction of Internet traffic (Network World)

Big Cable Joins the Broadband Stimulus Fray (Light Reading Cable)

Senate panel sets Phila. hearing on Web surveillance (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Introducing LoKast! (A Portfolio of One)

$15M injection
Growth spurt for Hanover Township firm (Wilkes-Barre Times Leader)
BabyAge.com.

Startup Rolls out Phalanx of SAP Mobile Apps (PC World)

WorldGate Announces New Corporate Headquarters Location
Company Growth and Continuous Innovation Drive Move to New Building (Business Wire)

Boenning says it cut workers to narrow focus (Philadelphia
Business Journal: Law & Finance Blog)




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Daily Links 3/19/2010: Comcast and ISC offer IPv6 transition tool

Commodore 64 Awakes From Slumber With Makeover (IDG via New
York Times)

Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool (Network World)

Cuttyhunkers Win Comcast Net Reversal
(Vineyard Gazette Online)

Android set-top box may be coming to a living room near you (Ars Technica)

Parents oppose Philly school webcam spying lawsuit (Associated Press via the Times Herald)

Morningstar buying rater of structured finance (Reuters)
Horsham-based Realpoint.

PHIXing medical record sharing
(Daily Pennsylvanian)

Report: mHealth had $1.5B in 2009 revenues (Mobile Health News)

Mikros Systems Corporation Announces $26 Million Contract Award for the Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Testset (ADEPT) (PR Newswire)

Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philadelphia (ZDNet Blogs)




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