Daily Links 9/7/2012: Business Week on John Gruber

Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger (Business Week)
On John Gruber.

Verizon CEO: Samsung could be 'dark horse' with own mobile OS (CNET News)

SAP HANA: Demystified, Discussed and Dissected (ASUG News)

10 questions you need to ask your SAP HANA hardware vendor (John Appleby/Bluefin Solutions)

Verizon may expand DVR capacity with network storage (FierceCable)

With 2 days left, Google Fiber has signed up 21,000 (Gigaom)

Delaware HIE wants to be 'another pillar' of health information (Government Health IT)

Sparta Systems Named 2012 Software Company of the Year by New Jersey Technology Council (Marketwire)
Sparta Systems CEO Eileen Martinson is married to John Martinson, the founder of Edison Ventures.



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Daily Links 7/3/2012: SAP, Ariba get second DOJ request for info

Jive Bids Seen Spurred by Microsoft-Yammer Deal: Real M&A (Bloomberg)

UPDATE: SAP, Ariba Get Second Request for Information on Deal (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Dell Ramps Up its Cloud (Wired: Cloudline)

Multiple Generator Failures Caused Amazon Outage (Data Center Knowledge)

The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In (Daring Fireball)

Passport to hell: why thin client desktops must die (Ars Technica)


Sashi Reddi to invest Rs 100 cr in start-ups (Business Standard of India)
AppLabs founder remains active investor in US, India. He is among the investors in Newtown Square-based Healthcare IT startup konciergeMD.



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Daily Links 6/26/2012: T-Mobile drops opposition to Verizon/Cable deal after spectrum swap

T-Mobile drops opposition to Verizon-cable deal (The Hill)
Following agreement on spectrum deal with Verizon Wireless.

Supreme Court takes on damaged-class issue in suit against Comcast (Philadelphia Inquirer)

New Issue-Comcast Corp sells $2.25 bln 2-pt notes (Reuters)

GRUBER: 'Something Big Is Going On With Apple TV In Cupertino, But It’s Still Being Cooked' (Silicon Alley Insider)


‘PayPal for business’ Traxpay gets $4m to take on US (Gigaom)

Health records support genetics research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (O'Reilly Radar)

TCTV: Interact’s Anthony Coombs Talks About The Philly Tech Scene (TechCrunch)



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Daily Links 4/19/2011: Comcast, NHL reach 10-year deal reported to be worth $2 billion

NBC Sports, NHL Reach New TV Deal (Hollywood Reporter)
Press conference planned for 1pm ET.

Comcast Extends U.S. NHL Rights; Deal Said to Reach $2 Billion (Bloomberg)

With $4 Million From Comcast, Fwix Launches Its Own Open Places Databases (TechCrunch)

Sprint to pay Clearwire $1 billion for wireless services in new pricing deal (AP via Washington Post)

Sprint & Clearwire Kiss & Make Up. But Where’s WiMAX? (Gigaom)

Sprint/LightSquared Deal Expected Soon (Light Reading Mobile)

Symphony Technology Buys Drug Info Co. ImpactRx From VCs (Dow Jones LBO Wire)
Mt Laurel-based ImpactRX had previously raised about $37.5 million from VCs.

SAP’s Wookey Departure: Much Ado About Nothing (ASUG News)

Wolfram|Alpha & DuckDuckGo Conspire to Eat Google's Lunch (Search Engine Watch)

Gruber ruminates on Apple's cloud (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Phillies Science Day at the Ballpark: Robot to Throw First Pitch Tomorrow?! (Geekadelphia)



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Daily Links 2/16/2011: Comcast beats estimates and raises dividend

Comcast Tops Estimates, Boosts Dividend, Stock Buyback Plan (Bloomberg)
Comcast Press Release

New NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke: NBC Network Turnaround Will Take Years (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast Sub Losses Slow; Is TV Everywhere Working? (Gigaom)

McDowell: Deal Desperation Fueled Comcast Acquiescence to Net Rules (Multichannel News)

Cablevision Eyes $50 Set-Top (Light Reading Cable)

Safeguard Scientifics Deploys $5 Million in Series B Financing for ThingWorx (Business Wire)
Downingtown-based startup provides platform for "Internet of Things" applications.

Webstock: An interview with the Daring Fireball (New Zealand Herald)
Interview with Philly blogger John Gruber from a faraway place.

Air Products Abandons Airgas Takeover Bid After Judge Upholds Poison Pill (Bloomberg)


Advanced Advertising 3.0: Addressability's The Goal
Panelists Weigh Short-Term Interactive Add-ons Vs. Targeting Technologies (Multichannel News)

If Sprint Bails on WiMAX, What Happens to Clearwire? (Gigaom)

Are Technology M&A Prices Getting Out Of Hand? (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

SAP's McDermott Interview on Business Environment (Bloomberg)
Interesting-longer than the usual TV interview.

HP's Half Step Back Into Data Warehousing
Vertica acquisition fills a big gap, but it also raises questions about Hewlett Packard's alliances and broader ambitions. (Information Week)

Heartland Payment's Q4 profit misses Street, ups div (Reuters)



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Daily Links 11/10/2010: Court knocks $500 million off potential damages in SAP/Oracle trial

SAP: Court lops $500M off Oracle's potential damages (Computerworld)

New COMCAST-NBCU Organization Nov. 15 (Deadline Hollywood)

Comcast Faces Government Questions on Online Video in NBC Universal Deal (Bloomberg)

Hulu CEO: We’ll make $240M in 2010 (VentureBeat)

Uwchlan supervisors oppose road closure (Daily Local News)
Bentley Systems wants it closed for its headquarters expansion.

Apple Writer John Gruber: That White iPhone I Tweeted About Was A Toy (Silicon Alley Insider)

Ask.com to Return to Old Service (New York Times)
Shutting down its Edison, NJ office.

USA Technologies, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal 2011 First Quarter
Company on Track to Achieve over 100,000 Connections by December 31, 2010 and Anticipates being EBITDA Positive for quarter ending December 31, 2010 (Business Wire)

Oracle and ATG Redux (Enterprise Irregulars)

TelcoTV 2010: Future of TV Is Tablets, Moto Says (Light Reading)




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