Daily Links 9/12/2012: Area newspapers under the gun

Open letter to John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media - In the wake of the Journal Register's second Chapter 11 filing, Bill Grueskin writes a "Dear John" letter about its failed digital strategy (Columbia Journalism Review)

Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC; Combines Four Community News Groups for Growth, Best Practices (Business Wire)

Guild: Philly paper owners want concessions (AP via Sacramento Bee)

SAP Plans Mobile Expansion to Capitalize on Phones, Tablets (Bloomberg)

Amazon Web Services launches marketplace for reselling cloud capacity (ZDNet)

Geek of the Week: Chris Stanchak, Founder & CEO of TicketLeap (Geekadelphia)



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Daily Links 9/5/2012: Journal Register files for bankruptcy, up for sale; Fiberlink M&A target?

Renewed rumors in MDM M&A, spotlight on Fiberlink (451 Group: Inorganic Growth)
Fiberlink is based in Blue Bell, although it recently opened an office in Philadelphia.

10 Questions for Fiberlink CFO Mark Partin (PC World)

Another Tough Step (John Paton/Digital First)
Yardley-based Journal Register files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, will be sold, parent company CEO announces.

Journal Register Company files for bankruptcy (Poynter)


Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds (TechCrunch)

SAP Is Morgan Stanley's New Best Idea; Bullish On HANA (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Oracle Wins Partial Victory in School's Software Project Lawsuit (PC World)

Qlik Shares Rally As Morgan Stanley Turns Bullish (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Astea International Launches ServiceVision(TM): Cloud-Based Solution that Will Transform the Way Small and Midsize Businesses Deliver Service (PR Newswire)
Astea is based in Horsham.

Kenexa Releases the Industry’s First Social LMS, an Integral Part of Its Learning Suite (Business Wire)
Perhaps adds more substance to the emphasis IBM place on "social business" when it announced the acquisition last week.

Cable Industry Courts Network DVR (Zatz Not Funny!)

Good news for Del.: Fisker says Atlantic is a priority (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc)
What is the probability of a single Fisker automobile ever coming out of that Delaware plant?

Daily Links 9/8/2011: DreamIt Ventures launches Fall 2011 Philadelphia Class

DreamIt Ventures Launches Its Fall 2011 Philadelphia Class (TechCrunch)

CSC ‘in last leg' of AppLabs buy-out talks (Hindu Business Line)

Rick Sherlund Is Back! Analyst Likes MSFT, ORCL, CRM, SAP (Forbes: The Tech Trade)

IT pros heading to SAP TechEd 2011 packing questions for vendor (SearchSAP.com)

Dell’s golden opportunity isn’t in servers (Gigaom)

Infonetics Research: Pace overtakes Motorola in pay-TV set-top box (STB) market in 2Q11; STB market to peak in 2011 (Marketwire)

Comcast's thePlatform notches TV Everywhere deal with Liberty Global (CED Magazine)

TruePosition Acquires Intellectual Property from Rosum (Business Wire)
Buying for product development, or just adding to patent portfolio?

Philly tech, U-City to Old City (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
On Vuzit's Christopher Cera.

"It was a dumb idea": newspaper chain fires copyright troll Righthaven
(Ars Technica)
John Paton, on taking over as MediaNews CEO, makes decision.




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Daily Links 9/7/2011: John Paton to run combined Journal Register/MediaNews operation

Paton to serve as CEO of MediaNews and Journal Register Co. (Poynter)

Post fron John Paton's Digital First Blog.

The Coming Local-Newspaper Rollup (paidContent)
Alden Global Capital, in addition to owning Journal Register and having a major stake in MediaNews (I've seen it reported as 40%; don't know if it is larger now), also has a significant stake in Philadelphia Media Network (Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com), so this move could have other implications for the future of news media in the Philly area.

SAP Buying Right Hemisphere for 3-D Visualization (PC World)
A little more in-depth information here from Computerworld New Zealand.

SAP Entering the Mobile EMR Arena (Medgadget)

SAP sees no signs crisis is hitting real economy (Reuters)

Dick Ebersol Returns to NBC Sports as Advisor (Hollywood Reporter)
Missed this item from a week ago.

NBC Super Bowl Ad Spots Selling for up to $3.5 Mil Each (Hollywood Reporter)

NBC Universal Hires Top Morgan Stanley Media Banker (New York Times: DealBook)

Liberty Has Money to Burn
Malone Says Time Many Be Ripe for Acquisitions After Liberty Interactive Split (Multichannel News)
Liberty Interactive is QVC's parent company.

Comcast Slots SeaChange Into Video Gateways (Light Reading Cable)

Philadelphia Named a ‘Code for America’ City for 2nd Time (Government Technology)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Text) (Bloomberg)



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Daily Links 7/27/2011: paidContent profiles Philadelphia newspaper owner Randall Smith

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)


Jim Snabe, co-CEO SAP explains current business drivers (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Co-CEO McDermott Talks up HANA, Mobility and SaaS (PC World)

Google and SAP Team-Up to Help You Visualize Big Data (ReadWriteWeb)

InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Huawei 'puzzled' at InterDigital patent complaint (CNET News)

Who Is Randall Smith And Why Is He Buying Up Newspaper Companies? (paidContent)
About the mysterious character whose company controls Philadelphia Media Network and Journal Register (a Wharton MBA by the way); will Journal Register CEO John Paton have a new job soon?

Founder Office Hours With Chris Dixon And Josh Kopelman: Schedit (TechCrunch)

Gamma Basics Launches grayCAD, Groundbreaking New Medical Radiation Safety Software (PR Web)
Backed by Bentley family interests.

VITA Products Launches Innovative Contactless Payment Program (Business Wire)

The Pros and Cons of Moving Your Business Into the Cloud (Mashable)
Interviews Chris Cera, CTO for Philly-based Vuzit.

Comcast, Level 3 Still At Impasse Over Internet Connection Fees
Level 3 CEO Crowe: 'Huge Battle' With MSO Over Terms of Traffic Exchange (Multichannel News)

Quality Systems Leverages Fed Stimulus In Health IT (Investor's Business Daily)
Quality Systems' primary business, NextGen Healthcare, is based in Horsham.

Beige Book: Third District-Philadelphia, July 27, 2011 (Federal Reserve Board)



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