Daily Links 8/5/2013: Safeguard Scientifics leads $5.3 miilion round in Ned Moore's startup Clutch

Follow @phillytechnews

 Subscribe in a reader
Subscribe to Philadelphia Tech News by Email


Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos (Washington Post)

Cablevision CEO on a Possible Sale, the Online Future of TV and His Family (Hollywood Reporter)

Time Warner Cable CEO Offers a-la-Carte Proposal in CBS Dispute (Bloomberg)

For Cable-TV Operators, Bigger Is Looking Even Better (Business Week)

Safeguard Scientifics Leads $5.3M Series B Financing for Clutch
Backs successful entrepreneur, Ned Moore, who previously co-founded Portico Systems, which was acquired by McKesson (Business Wire)

Mobile Shopping Companion Clutch Raises $5M Series B, Acquires Gift & Loyalty Platform Provider ProfitPoint
(TechCunch)


Small Agency of the Year, 11-75 Employees: Red Tettemer O'Connell & Partners (Ad
Age)

Accenture and hybris Team to Implement Multichannel Commerce Solutions for Global Enterprises (Business Wire)
Accenture release dated today doesn't mention that hybris is now owned by SAP, though acquisition closed on August 1. Odd.

Forrester Sees Shifting Sands In Retail As Roles And Channels Converge (Ad Exchanger)
Talks alot about eBay and its GSI Commerce (now eBay Enterprise) unit.


Can Infor upset the Oracle-SAP duopoly? (Infoworld)

Google’s Motorola Mobility Faces MPEG-2 Lawsuit
Mitsubishi, Philips & Thomson Target Company That Sold Set-Top (Multichannel News)

HighPoint Solutions, a Company that Keeps On Growing
(PR Newswire)
Health IT consultant says its adding 100 more jobs in East Norriton.


U Delaware Hack Hits 72,000 Staffers (Campus Technology)
That's about half the state, isn't it.

Daily Links 4/23/2013: Comcast Ventures' Toth focused on B2B; Aereo on to Boston

Follow @phillytechnews

 Subscribe in a reader
Subscribe to Philadelphia Tech News by Email


Q&A: Louis Toth backs B2B startups for Comcast Ventures (Silicon Valley Business Journal)

Aereo targets Comcast subscribers with Boston launch
Online video platform will debut in Beantown on May 30 (FierceCable)

Apple Returning $55 Billion to Investors as Forecast Trails (Bloomberg)
Had to doublecheck this headline to make sure a hacker hadn't gotten into Bloomberg's twitter feed. I half-expected Apple to give it to charity.


Feds seize Fisker loan reserve
Energy Dept. taps Fisker reserve on eve of loan payment (Wilmington News Journal)

Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was an early investor.

DailyWorth Raises Additional $1 Million For Series A (TechCrunch)
Although its based in New York, DailyWorth's founder and CEO Amanda Steinberg lives in Philly; Investors include Philadelphia's RobinHood Ventures and Gabriel Investments.

The InstaMed Healthcare Payments Account Revolutionizes the Way Providers Get Paid (Business Wire)

Infor Bets $500 Million On Enterprise App Refresh (Information Week)

Lockheed profit beats view; budget cuts hit sales outlook (Reuters)

Lockheed IS&GS unit has trimmed more than 650 employees this year
(Washington Post: Capital Business Blog)
Lockheed IS&GS has significant employment in King of Prussia.




permalink

Daily Links 2/22/2013: Enterprise Software Roundup

Follow @phillytechnews

 Subscribe in a reader
Subscribe to Philadelphia Tech News by Email

SAP Speeds Up With Its Hana Database Software (Businessweek)

The Second Question (Vijay Vijayasankar/Vijay's thoughts on all things big and small)
Why run SAP BW on HANA?

Coke bottler picks SaaS over SAP (Computerworld)


Brit SAP house G3 Global slurps 2e2's SAP house
Diagonal moves from Morse to 2e2... to an SME in Weybridge (The Channel)
Diagonal is based in Berwyn, PA.

Informatica Stitches Workday and NetSuite Together (All Things D)

Infor: a grown-up stealth start-up (Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

4Q12 Performance for Trident Capital’s SaaS Portfolio; Nice Way to End the Year (Trident Capital Blog)




permalink

Daily Links 3/16/2012: Philly-based Ascentive Agrees To $9.6M 'Scareware' Settlement

SAP aims to become major database software maker (Reuters)
Announcement planned for April 10.

SAP Steps Up Commitment To Predictive Analytics
SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis will integrate with Hana, take on SAS and IBM SPSS modeling and analysis tools. (Information Week)

Analysis: Analysts worry that something's amiss at Oracle (Reuters)

An Update on the Infor – Salesforce Partnership (Michael Fauscette/Enterprise Irregulars)

NJ VENTURE FUND INVESTMENTS OFFER EARLY STAGE TECH COMPANIES (NJTC TechWire)
Invests in Osage and NextStage funds; both PA firms will open New Jersey offices.

Apple Enthusiasts Camp Out For The New iPad (CBS Philly)

RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 1 (CNET News)

Philly-based Ascentive Agrees To $9.6M 'Scareware' Settlement
(MediaPost News)

Verizon offering EBIF-based NCAA bracket app (CED Magazine)

Data, Analysis, Research Power Comcast SportsNet Sales (Broadcasting & Cable)



permalink

Daily Links 1/4/2012: CloudMine, ElectNext and SnipSnap are chosen for Project Liberty incubator

Why Enterprise Software Will Never Be the Same (PC World)

Ben Franklin Announces Project Liberty Digital Incubator Inaugural Class (Ben
Franklin Technology Partners Press Release)
CloudMine, ElectNext and SnipSnap are chosen.

Disney and Comcast Link Up for Another 10 Years (All Things Digital)

Comcast, Disney Reach Major Carriage Deal
UPDATED: ESPN available online to Xfinity subscribers (Broadcasting & Cable)


Amazon staffs up for new digital media service effort (Gigaom)

MetroPCS Launching Live Mobile TV Service Later This Year (TechCrunch)

TiVo shares soar after AT&T settlement (AP via CBS News)

Roku Streaming Stick delivers TV apps in a flash drive package (VentureBeat)

Solve Media Now Works With 3,000 Publishers And It's Closing In On A ~ $6 Million Series B Round (Silicon Alley Insider)
Solve Media was started in Philadelphia and backed by First Round Capital; moved to New York but still has office in Philly.

Echo Therapeutics Announces $3.6 Million Warrant Exercises (PR Newswire)

Independence Blue Cross gears up to launch mobile apps (Mobile Health News)

Shell completes transition of SAP-based HR application services to Accenture
(Computerworld UK)

Infor shows strong growth (ZDNet Blogs)



permalink

Daily Links 11/29/2011: Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Very Soon to Xbox

Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Soon to Xbox, Complete With Kinect Voice and Gesture Controls (PR Newswire)

Analyst: T-Mobile to Comcast, instead of AT&T? (Seattle Times)
Comcast has consistently said it doesn't want to own a major wireless network, a position Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis reiterated earlier this month. I believe they mean what they say, but that doesn't mean they don't have a long term interest in wireless as LTE becomes an important alternative to fixed-wire networks for many applications.

Motorola Mobility's Sanjay Jha & Dan Moloney discuss Moto's
set-top box plans (Video: Light Reading)

NetApp Taking on EMC Puts CommVault in Takeover Sights: Real M&A (Bloomberg)
CommVault is based in Oceanport, NJ.


TE Connectivity in Exclusive Negotiations to Acquire Deutsch (PR Newswire)
TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) has its operational headquarters in Berwyn. The acquisition would be valued at about $2 billion.

Oracle, SAP, Infor: Three's a crowd (Computer Business Review)

Is SAP HANA about the “in-memory database”? (Vital BI)

Customer Sues Epicor After ERP Software Project Attempt Ends in 'big Mess' (PC World)

Mint Linux freshens up web searches
We've got our own engine. Swallow that, Google and Microsoft (The Register)
Teams up with Paoli-based DuckDuckGo.

Shop online, try it out in person: Kembrel gives hybrid retail sales the old college try (VentureBeat)
Opens small store location in Philly.

Cyber Monday? It was more like Mobile Monday, according to eBay & PayPal (VentureBeat)
And GSI Commerce.


Business incubator's future in peril as state cuts funding
Ben Franklin Technology Partners in Bethlehem trims payroll, helps fewer clients. (Allentown Morning Call)




permalink

Daily Links 9/1/2011: Comcast-NBCU deal wins Court approval

Comcast-NBC Universal Merger Wins Approval (Bloomberg)

Netflix Loses Starz Deal, Stock Crushed In After Hours Trading (Silicon Alley Insider)


Urban Outfitters prepares to grow online (Internet Retailer)

Urban Outfitters and WebLinc launch shopterrain.com (WebLinc Blog)

Salesforce.com Gets Into ERP With Infor, Workday (PC World)

Salesforce Chief Calls Accounting Criticisms "Ludicrious" (Silicon Alley Insider)

T-Mobile Antitrust Challenge Leaves AT&T With Little Recourse on Takeover (Bloomberg)



permalink

Daily Links 4/26/2011: Dell Boomi launches Spring update

Lawson Agrees to Be Acquired by Golden Gate Capital, Infor for $2 Billion (Bloomberg)

New details on Infor's Lawson acquisition (Enterprise System Spectator)

Dell Boomi launches Spring update, certification program (ZDNet Blogs)

Unisys shares slip after company reports 1Q loss (AP via Forbes)

Oracle Goes After Workday, SuccessFactors With Fusion HCM (PC World)

Oracle CFO Epstein Out; Replaced By Safra Catz (Forbes: The Tech Trade)


Investors buy majority stake in online game maker Bigpoint for $350M (VentureBeat)
Comcast Interactive Capital sold its stake, which was originally acquired by NBC's venture arm.

Netflix: We’re a Friend, Not an Enemy, to Cable Networks (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Comcast in Talks to Offer On-Demand Movies 6 to 8 Weeks After Theaters (Bloomberg)

The Disappearing Set-Top (Light Reading Cable)

TimeSight Systems Announces Additional Growth Capital Injection to Extend Market Reach of Breakthrough Video Surveillance Systems (Marketwire)

Verizon Wireless and USA Technologies Partner to Deliver Industry-Leading Cashless Payment Services, M2M Solutions for Vending and Automated Retail Industries (Business Wire)



permalink

Daily Links 3/14/2011: Franken: "The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely"

HP’s New CEO Has a Big Day Planned, and a Bigger Job Ahead (All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)

Leo Apotheker lays out his strategy for first time as HP CEO (VentureBeat)

Executive hopes to stop losses.
Putting focus on Comcast customers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

AT&T to introduce data caps on DSL (CNET News)

AT&T’s New Bandwidth Cap Is Bad News for Netflix (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’ (Politico)
Franken: "The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely".


Green LEEDs to platinum: SAP America earns distinction for utilizing environmental sources for newest building (Delco Times)

Infor's Offer for Lawson Could Spark Bidding War (PC World)

WorldGate denied loan, running out of cash (phillyBurbs.com)
Is WorldGate on the last of its nine lives? Just not sure where its product stands in today's world of smartphones and tablets. But it is a company with a fascinating history.

USA Technologies To Raise $10.7 Million In Common Stock Private Placement (Business Wire)

Report: Proposed bill to deregulate telephone service would raise prices, hurt consumers (NJ.com)

Q&A: Rob Walters, SunGard Availability Services (Web Hosting Industry News)



permalink

Daily Links 10/26/2010: SunGard CEO outlines Cloud Plans

Comcast Opens Xfinity TV Online To All Video Subs
'TV Everywhere' Service Provides 55,000 Movies and TV Shows (Multichannnel News)

Is Comcast’s Xfinity TV a Trojan Horse? (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Netflixity… Time to Buy? (Cable360)

Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan wants sitdown with News Corp. at FCC headquarters (LA Times: Company Town)

Unisys hit by mainframe, services declines in Q3
Apple deal misunderstood and overblown (Channel Register)
Unisys Press Release

Ametek Q3 earnings beat Street; ups FY earnings view (Reuters)

Sungard outlines cloud plans: a CEO Q&A (Computer Business Review)

SAP, Oracle… Infor? (FT.com: Tech Blog)

SAP sued over 'Run Smarter' slogan (Computerworld)

BravoSolution: More Applause Deserved (Part 1) (Spend Matters)
The one thing that did come out of VerticalNet.

TruePosition Awarded Patent that Enables Advanced Mobile Phone Triggering (Business Wire)

Software development company opens new facility
Infragistics CEO has lived in So. Brunswick for over 20 years (North South Bunswick Sentinel)

Dataram chooses Issaquah for new testing, development center
(TechFlash: John Cook's Venture Blog)
Dataram is based in Princeton.

Judge reverses ruling on man's suit against Penn (Philadelphia Inquirer)





permalink

Daily Links 10/25/2010: Comcast's TV Everywhere service goes nationwide

Apple Enlists Unisys to Help With Corporate, Government Deals (Bloomberg)

Unisys’ license plate-scanning award boosts border security (Washington Technology)


Carlyle Bids to Take CommScope Private (New York Times: DealBook)


SAP TechEd 2010: Redeeming the NetWeaver Platform (Feeding the SAP Ecosystem)

SAP and Siemens Team Up on EVs (Greentech Media)

Charles Phillips Named CEO of Infor (PC World)
Latest move in the Enterprise Software game of musical chairs.

QlikTech uses IPO cash to expand globally (Information Age)



106 software jobs being created by US company in Newry (BBC)
Philadelphia-based Market Resource Partners.

Copps Talks Comcast/NBCU On Visit To Allbritton Facilities
Execs warn of merger's 'grave' implications on D.C. market competition (Broadcasting & Cable)

TV wedding (Washington Post)
Editorial supports approval of Comcast/NBCU merger without net neutrality conditions.

Xfinity and beyond: Comcast's TV Everywhere service goes nationwide (CED Magazine)


TicketLeap: Agile Teamwork and Responsive Customer Service (Ben Franklin Technology Partners: Keynotes)

Entrepreneur's Corner: Evisors (Wharton Journal)




permalink

Daily Links 6/28/2010: Conshohocken's CardioNet sees shares fall on Medicare reimbursement news

Qlik Technologies Sets IPO Terms (PE Hub)
Planned pricing would put market cap in $600-700 million range.

CardioNet Shares Down; Push For Broader Medicare Coverage Fails (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
Down 15% for the day.

Kenexa Puts Its Pieces Together (Human Resource Executive Online)

Canoe Launches Clickable 30-Second Ads With Comcast, TWC
Cable Joint Venture Debuts RFI Overlays With Unnamed Networks, Advertisers (Multichannel News)

Phila. tours? There's now an app for that (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The Supreme Court Punts On Business Method Patents (TechCrunch)
Decision in Bilski case.

Clearwire Expands 4G Wireless Service (Information Week)

Infor buddies up with Microsoft (IDG via Bloomberg Business Week)

ExpertPlan Expands Into 401(k) Retirement Plan Consulting (PR Web)