Links 1/20/2014: Workday appoints former SAP exec to lead in Europe; Monetate teams with SAP's hybris on new offering

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TWC’s Marcus Stands Firm Amid Bids, Jabs (Multichannel News)


Workday appoints former SAP exec to lead European expansion (Computerworld UK)

Monetate Partners with SAP's hybris to Address Global Ecommerce and Multichannel Marketing Demands (PR Newswire)

Accenture’s ClientHouse buy shows there’s more room for cloud software in Europe (VentureBeat)
In addition to Salesforce products, ClientHouse sells and integrates Veeva CRM and QlikTech offerings.




Ellucian Acquires CampusIT to Accelerate Delivery of New Solutions (Ellucian Press Release)
Ellucian was formed through the merger of SunGard Higher Education with Datatel in 2012. It is now based in Fairfax, VA, though it still has at least a couple of hundred employees in the Philadelphia area according to its LinkedIn page.

202 tech startups reap Pennsylvania tax credits (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review)
You can see a complete list of tax credit awardees here (pdf)

Tax Break as a Not-So-Secret Weapon (New
York Times)


Phila.-area firms got $420M in venture funding in 2013 (Philadelphia Inquirer)



Vocera acquires mobile-enabled, medical alarms company mVisum for $3.5 million (Mobile Health News)

Glaser reflects on decade of health IT (Healthcare IT News)
John Glaser, a pioneer in health IT and electronic health records, is currently CEO of the Malvern-based Health Services Business Unit of Siemens Healthcare.



Dell in talks with IBM to buy Big Blue’s x86 server business
(Ars Technica)

Links 10/2/2013: Monsanto acquires Climate Corp for $1 billion +; First Round Capital early investor

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SAP launches $650 million fund, highlights corporate venture growth (Reuters)

Rumors of the Death of SAP Business ByDesign Greatly Exaggerated
(Mint Jutras)

Monsanto Acquires Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For $930M (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was early investor; should be a good exit for them. In fact, FRC's Howard Morgan was apparently in personally in Angel round.

Why a Stage 2 Extension May Not Happen for a While (Healthcare Informatics)
Siemens Healthcare's John Glaser comments.


Comcast’s Inadvertent ‘X2’ Preview (Multichannel News)

Bain Capital’s Burlington Surges After $227 Million Offering
(Bloomberg)

New Pa. insurance system debuts with some glitches (AP via York Dispatch)


Tech firm led by former Markell aide secures equity partnership with NASCAR (Delaware Inc.)

The industry’s hot new entrepreneurs
The tech startups to watch, and how they’re changing real estate in NYC (The Real Deal)
Details several interesting east coast real estate information startups, including Philadelphia-based BuyerMLS.

Two visions of the future of Healthcare IT; John Glaser and Agent Smith of "The Matrix"

First, John Glaser, PhD, CEO of Malvern-based Siemens Healthcare, Health Services, and an acknowledged industry visionary, gives a 3 minute presentation at this past winter's HIMSS Conference in New Orleans on the future of the Electronic Health Record. Glaser sees the EHR moving from being largely a transactional record to becoming an "intelligent" record.







GE Healthcare came up with this curious commercial using Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) of "The Matrix" fame. The result is rather odd but perhaps strangely effective.








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Daily Links 2/16/2012: QlikTech revenue up 42% for 2011; ICG Commerce renamed Procurian

SuccessFactors Partners Applaud SAP Acquisition (PR Newswire via MarketWatch)
Deal closes.

SAP Gets Set to Embrace HTML5 (IT Business Edge)

Rebrand or Remake? ICG Commerce Becomes Procurian, Introduces "The New Procurement" (Spend Matters)

HIStalk Interviews John Glaser, CEO Health Services Business, Siemens Healthcare (HIStalk)
A must read if you follow Healthcare IT.

QlikTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Revenue increases 33% in Q4 and 42% for 2011; somewhat slower growth forecasted for 2012. Small GAAP net profit for full year.

Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day (A VC)

YOU SHOULDN’T LIE TO DAVID CARR AND NYT (JimRomenesko.com)

Philly Fed index hits four-month high in February (MarketWatch)
Software spending index particularly strong.
February 2012 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)

Retrans ammo: Aereo could help cable operators bring broadcasters to their knees (FierceCable)

Barry Diller's OTT Service Aereo Is Dead On Arrival (StreamingMediaBlog.com)

MSG, Time Warner meet as demand for Knicks games grows (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)



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