Daily Links 6/18/2012: Oracle reports earnings early; Verizon launches FiOS Quantum with 300Mbps down

Don’t Forget: TechCrunch Is In Philadelphia Tomorrow (TechCrunch)

Oracle Reports Q4 GAAP EPS Up 11% to 69 Cents; Q4 Non-GAAP EPS Up 10% to 82 Cents (Marketwire)
GAAP revenue up 1%. Oracle moved earnings release up from Thursday, as reports surfaced that a key exec (said to be North American sales chief Keith Block) is leaving company. Block's emails critical of Mark Hurd and Sun's hardware business came out during HP trial.

Oracle's sales and profit rise in latest earnings report (San Jose Mercury News)

Yep, it’s a tablet: Microsoft introduces the Surface (paidContent)

Verizon debuts FiOS Quantum with crazy 300Mbps download speeds (VentureBeat)

Ivan Seidenberg Joins Perella Weinberg Partners as Advisory Partner (Business Wire)

GSI in the New York state of mind (GSI Commerce Blog)

Oracle reportedly revealing 'key resignation' this week (ZDNet Blogs)

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Daily Links 7/22/2011: Reports (doubted by some) that Apple might bid on Hulu

Apple Said to Consider Making Bid for Hulu (Bloomberg)

Don’t Hold Your Breath on That Apple Hulu Deal (All Things Digital)

Analyst: Comcast Stock Price Values NBCUniversal at 'Close to Zero' (Hollywood Reporter)

Big Cable Braces For A Lousy Quarter (All Things Digital)
Comcast reports earnings on August 3.

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Steps Down, COO Lowell McAdam Steps Up (TechCrunch)
I admire Seidenberg greatly for challenging the Telco culture and investing in FiOS; whether that will ultimately be judged to have been a good investment remains to be determined.

IPhone Bolsters Verizon Results (New York Times)

FiOS Sizzles In Verizon's Q2, Topping $2 Billion
Fiber-Optic Network Services Now Represent 57% Of Telco's Consumer Wireline Business (Multichannel News)

Congress, FCC hit brakes on T-Mobile, AT&T merger (The Hill)

Show Us the Money: Five PA Venture Capitalists to Watch (Keystone Edge)

Digital Media-Buying Platform MediaMath Nets $20 Million
Startup to Expand Into Video, Social and Mobile Ad Buying (Ad Adge)
Previous investor Safeguard Scientifics leads Series B round.

SAP BusinessObjects Customers Await New Platform (Information Week)


Anexinet rebounds, seeks software pros (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Publicis Revenue Increases on Latin America, Digital Media (Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle)

Lovell Minnick To Exit ALPS After 6 Six Years (PE Hub)

Ben Franklin TechVentures Named to Inc. Website’s Top-10 List (Press Release)
DreamIt Ventures also made the Inc. list (which I am not going to link to because their slide show keeps crashing my computer).



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