Daily Links 11/29/2012: Zucker named CNN President; Cable Biz Services revenues continue to soar

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? (PandoDaily)

CNN Names Jeff Zucker President
(Ad Age)

Workday Posts Strong Start As Public Firm
Workday post-IPO financial results exceed expectations and it sets lofty goals for market share gains against Oracle and SAP. (Information Week)

AWS fattens EC2 cloud for big data, in-memory munching
Data Pipeline service links data sources, automates chewing and spitting (The Register)

Analyst, SAP dispute over reported support discounts reveals murky picture (Computerworld)


Accenture Acquires Octagon Research Solutions as Competition Heats Up in Pharma (HfS Research via Octagon Research website)

Cable's Cut of the Biz Services Pie to Eclipse $7B (Light Reading Cable)

Rajant Teams with Northrop Grumman for Exclusive Distribution Rights for a Series of Risk-Reduction Exercises in the U.S. Army Network Integration Evaluations (NIE) (Business Wire)


Carter Validus Buys Philly Enterprise Data Center (Data Center Knowledge)
The data center is under long-term lease to Vanguard, the Business Journal reports.

Nine Mercer County tech firms win aid (Times of Trenton)

Instem Releases New Version of OmniViz Data Mining and Visual Analytics Software (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 11/28/2012: Workday signs on DuPont; Roberts in group meeting with President

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Jeff Zucker Nearing Deal to Run CNN (Report) (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast's Roberts Among Execs Talking Budget With President (Broadcasting & Cable)

Va Beach/Kings/Arena Details worked out (WAVY)
Comcast-Spectacor would co-manage arena. More funding from state sought.

Humax's take on an IP-connected TV box for Comcast passes through the FCC
(Engadget)

Workday Sales Beat Estimates on Corporate Cloud-Computing Demand (Bloomberg)

Workday’s First Earnings Report Beats the Street (All Things D)

SAP Predictive Analytics goes GA, with a visual twist (SAP Watch)


Google buys Cambridge online marketing firm (Boston Globe)
This one's for real.

New SevOne appliance ratchets up the density
(Computerworld)

Tierney vs. Tierney: What's in a name? (Philadelphia Daily News)

Red Tettemer’s Annual Facebook Swag-athon Commences (MediaBistro: Agency Spy)

Amazon Supply: Changing the Face of MRO? (Spend Matters)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Text) (via Bloomberg)
"The overall outlook appears less optimistic relative to the views expressed in the last Beige Book."




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Daily Links 2/7/2011: Zucker says NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months

SAP's Business ByDesign Gets Software Development Kit (PC World)

SAP Business ByDesign Graduates From App To Platform (Information Week)

Salesforce.com Rides Chatter Momentum Toward $2 Billion (Information Week)

Epocrates Opens The Door For Health IT (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

A Duck & a Wiki Team Up Against the Content Farms (Read Write Web)

Lehigh Valley angel investor group launches (Allentown Morning Call)

Zucker: NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months, couldn’t agree on price (Poynter)

COMCAST SPOTLIGHT TOUTS SURVEY CLAIMING 67% OF COMCAST SUBS INTERESTED IN INTERACTIVE TV (Interactive TV Today)

Saying goodbye to cable
More TV consumers are using the Internet or even an old-fashioned antenna (Wilmington News Journal)



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Daily Links 12/9/2010: Edison Ventures increasing New England presence

SERS to cut private funds, buy stocks and bonds (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Could have an impact upon some area PE and VC firms.

Edison Ventures growing Boston investment deals (Mass High Tech)

The Real Mobile News from the SAP Influencer Summit (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Cloud Platform, App Store Set For 2011
(Information Week)

What’s Next for NBC’s Jeff Zucker? Maybe Private Equity (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

Kerry Asks Copps, Clyburn To Back Net Neutrality Compromise
The chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee says item may not be perfect but is good enough (Multichannel News)

InterComponentWare Enterprise Master Patient Index Achieves First Milestone at New York State HIE (PR Newswire)

Air Products Makes Best and Final Offer for Airgas; Increases All-Cash Offer to $70 Per Share (PR Newswire)

Tyco Electronics Completes Acquisition of ADC (PR Newswire)

Larry Ellison Vows To 'Go After' HP; Is Alliance Dead? (Information Week: Global CIO)

Wolters Kluwer Health Announces the Acquisition of iCare Educational Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Software (PR Newswire)

AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Is Already Working On A Secret New Project (Silicon Alley Insider)
Hamoui founded AdMob while at Wharton.




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Daily Links 9/29/2010: SunGard Higher Ed getting into course management software

Course-Management Software Deal Marks a First for SunGard (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Software firm seeks to close road in Upper Uwchlan corporate park (Daily Local News)
Bentley Systems looks to expand.

Cisco to Unveil an Affordable Home TelePresence Product for Consumers Next Week (All Things Digital: BoomTown)
May start rollout with Comcast, Verizon.

NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker on Content, Convergence, Comcast -- and Conan (Knowledge@Wharton)

Motorists on N.J. Turnpike, Garden State Parkway to get high-tech traffic 'forecasts' (Newark Star-Ledger)

Clearwire throttling at-home WiMAX users? (Engadget)
Clearwire Unclear About Customer Throttling
Many users still confused about Clear's definitions of "unlimited," "excessive" (Broadband Reports)

SAP to buy Sage? (AccMan)

TruePosition talks up commercial proposition for mission-critical LBS (Total Telecom)

Off-Site Options for Mission-Critical Data (Signal Scape)
On the opening of the Philadelphia Technology Park.

PAETEC’s risky business (Inorganic Growth)

Oracle, Sun Labs Form Health Sciences Institute (eWeek)




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Daily Links 9/24/2010: Clearwire in discussions with T-Mobile; Zucker to leave NBCU

Official: Jeff Zucker leaving NBC Universal
Says he'll step down once Comcast deal is finalized (Hollywood Reporter)

Did Comcast Boot the Best Guy To Run Its Cable Networks? (GigaOM: NewTeeVee)

Comcast’s Burke: NBC Title Contender or Behind the Scenes Power? (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

Clearwire open to funding from T-Mobile USA (FierceWireless)

Hackers who disrupted Comcast.net site sentenced (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Kenexa: Piper Upgrades (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Oracle Wants a Chip Company? Which One? (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)

MLB Beefs up At Bat App With New Ballpark Features (PC World)

ETC’ 293% boost in gov’t sales boosts 2Q (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Holy Redeemer Partners with MobileMD to Deliver Health Information Exchange Services to Care Community
(PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 8/2/2010: Key Democratic Congressman for Comcast/NBCU approval (with limits)

SAP Releases New Version of SAP® Business ByDesign™ (PR Newswire)

SAP Business ByDesign 2.5 arrives: what now? (ZDNet Blogs)

Clearwire isn’t Even Halfway to its 4G Coverage Goals (GigaOM)
Turns on service in Wilmington.

Is NBC’s Zucker Hinting at a Second Act? (Wall Street Journal Blogs: Deal Journal)

CBS Signs 10-Year Contract Allowing Comcast to Carry Its Television Shows (Bloomberg)

Comcast-NBC Deal Should Be Approved With Limits, Boucher Says
(Bloomberg)

Technitrol Announces Sale of AMI Doduco and Reports Strong Q210 Results (Business Wire)

Not beach reading: Elsevier’s big seller is anatomy atlas
(Philadelphia Business Journal: Media & Marketing Blog)

Ben Franklin (Northeast) to Invest $304,100 In Regional Economic Development (Ben Franklin Technology Partners Northeast)




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Daily Links 6/3/2010: Google confirms acquisition of Invite Media

More On Invite Media And Google; Looking At Fetchback And GSI; M&A Mayhem! (AdExchanger.com)

Google Explains Its Invite Media Buy (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)

Google’s Invite Media Acquisition Raises Conflicts of Interest (GigaOM)

CDI Corp. Proposes Acquisition of RCM Technologies for $5.20 per Share of Common Stock (PR Newswire)
A hostile bid valued at about $67.6 million.

Comcast COO: We’re Not Competing with Google TV (NewTeeVee)

Genachowski Affirms Focus on Gateway Device, Spectrum Allocation
FCC Chairman Says Cable Card Has Not Work, Apps Coming To TV Set (Multichannel News)

No Zucker ‘Exit Package,’ But What a Bonus (The Wrap)

Former NutriSystem CEO Michael Hagan Breaks into Home Security Market
Like NutriSystem Revolutionized the Diet Category, LifeShield Security is Poised to Steal Market Share from ADT and Broadview Customers with its Direct-to-Consumer Model (Business Wire)

The Founders Behind Diapers.com Launch Soap.com: “All The Robots Are In Place” (TechCrunch)
Diapers.com, which is based in Montclair, NJ, has several Wharton connections among its top people and was funded in part by Penn-related MentorTech Ventures.

Niche cloud computing firms in M&A spotlight (Reuters)
Kenexa named as one possible takeover target.


NetSuite surprises: launches manufacturing edition (ZDNet Blogs)

Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance, Eastern Technology Council form PACT (Philadelphia Business Journal)




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