Daily Links 2/23/2012: Salesforce results top estimates

Comcast’s Netflix Killer Isn’t One Yet. But It Could Be. (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Verizon Wireless Takes Down Comcast Plug (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Mets Asked To Use SNY As Collateral For Comcast And Time Warner Cable Investment
(Forbes)

Salesforce Tops Estimates After New Features (Bloomberg)

Liberty Interactive Plans to Split Into Two Tracking Stocks (Bloomberg)
Liberty Interactive owns QVC.

Liberty Interactive Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)
QVC revenue up 5% in Q4.

QVC Acquires Personalized E-Commerce Site For Fashion Accessories, Send The Trend (TechCrunch)

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Interdigital Q4 Tops Street; Seeks To Sell Some Patents (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Motorola (Mobility) prepares to hail new Google overlords (Gigaom)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results (Business Wire)

Checkpoint Systems posts 4Q loss on restructuring (AP via CBS News)

ICG Group’s revenue guidance misses, stock price lower (Philadelphia Business Journal)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Yammer Integrates Into SAP Software (New York Times: Bits)

Integromics Intends to Reign Beyond Spain
New CEO Michael McManus candidly discusses software market priorities and challenges. (Bio-IT World)
Integromics' US headquarters are in Philadelphia.

ThingWorx Joins Carnegie Mellon, IBM in Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 1/11/2012: Susquehanna Growth Equity invests $35 million in NJ SaaS HCM provider iCIMS

iCIMS, Leading SaaS Provider, Secures $35 Million Minority Investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (PR Web)
iCIMS is based in Hazlet, NJ.


Comcast Completes DNSSEC Deployment (Comcast Voices|Official Comcast Blog)

Comcast’s new set-top streams live TV to DLNA devices (Gigaom)

Universal Sports Transitions From Multicast Distribution, Inking Deals with Six Providers (Multichannel News)
Comcast's NBC Sports Group owns a minority stake in Universal Sports.

Comcast coughs up refunds, revelations of service fee
(WTOP)

Motorola Home Gateway puts your entire home in the cloud, almost (CNET Blogs)


Exclusive: Microsoft Web TV subscription plan on hold (Reuters)

Dell’s Acquisition Strategy: Right On Target? (The VAR Guy)

Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera (Information Week)

UniTek Global Services, Inc. Announces Changes to Senior Management and Board of Directors (Globe Newswire)
UniTek Global Services CEO and chairman resign; shares plunge; former CEO staying on the board (AP via Columbus, Indiana Republic)
Changes seem somewhat sudden; wonder what's going on there? Company wasn't doing too badly, it seems.UniTek is based in Blue Bell.

Coursekit Taps The Hate With #EraseBlackBoard Campaign (BetaBeat)

Smart Grid Monitoring Gets Smarter with Sensei Solutions and ThingWorx Partnership (Business Wire)

Rajant Corporation Enhances Advanced Diagnostic, Monitoring and Administrative Capabilities for Kinetic Mesh Networks (Business Wire)

Integromics announces the release of SeqSolve 2.1 (Press Release via PharmaLive)



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Daily Links 9/15/2011: Google said to be spending hundreds of mllions on video content

September 2011 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)
"Responses to the Business Outlook Survey this month suggest that regional manufacturing activity is continuing to contract, but declines are less widespread than in August."

Manufacturing in Philadelphia-area Contracted in September
(Bloomberg)

Netflix Cuts Its Guidance By 1 Million Subscribers (All Things Digital)
Netflix ended the day down 19%.

Big cable is facing an ‘affordability crisis’ (Gigaom)

Google Is Secretly Spending Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Turning YouTube Into A Cable Alternative (Silicon Alley Insider)


NBCU's conference highlights the growing buzz of social media (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Bentley Invests in Philadelphia-based TEEC, Developer of SpecWave Software to Intelligently Manage AEC Project Specifications (Business Wire)

ISGN Stresses Smartphone/Tablet-Access (National Mortgage News)

Growing Greenphire: KOP clinical research firm doubling staff (Flying Kite)

Integromics Announces New Version Of SeqSolve™ NGS Analysis Software (Integromics Press Release)

SAP's HANA Is Hot, but Still in Early Days (PC World)

Philly's Startup Scene: A New Underdog Story? (Keystone Edge)

Health IT: Is the U.S. in the middle of a bubble? (MedCity News)



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Daily Links 5/24/2010: Comcast's Plaxo introduces Tunerfish (sort of)

FCC Seeks More Information From Comcast Over NBCU Union
Commission Wants Data On Internet Video, TV Everywhere, In Demand, FanCast Xfinity (Multichannel News)

Comcast’s Tunerfish Jumps Out Of The Water At #TCDisrupt (TechCrunch)
Comcast Unveils ‘Tunerfish’ Social TV App (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

U.S. Congress to Consider Updating Communications Law
(Bloomberg Business Week)

Razorfish: Local, In-Game, Digital Out-of-Home To Gain In 2010 (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

SAP quiet on its plans for Sybase (Computerworld)

Can SAP Deliver IT Simplicity?
Apps vendor talks real-time; customers hear "removing IT infrastructure." (Information
Week)

Seven Life Sciences Start-ups Receive More than $700,000 in KIZ Tax Credits (Business Wire)

Pace Was World's Top Set-Top Supplier In 2009: Report
Vendor Displaces Motorola, Technicolor, According to IMS Research (Multichannel News)




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