Daily Links 3/22/2012: Verizon Wireless/Cable deal gets blowback at Senate hearing

Comcast, Verizon face critics at Senate hearing (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lawmakers fear Verizon Wireless deal with cable firms will limit consumers’ choices (Washington Post)

VZ for VOD? Don’t Bet on It, Says Bernstein (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Tech Talk Episode One: The Cloud(Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

AT&T, Comcast, Other ISPs Urged by U.S. to Step Up Cybersecurity on Home PCs (Bloomberg)

Company dumps SAP support for Rimini Street, funds projects with savings (SearchSAP)


Oracle, SAP getting rattled by the ‘Cloud’
Web-based software attracting bigger corporate customers (Marketwatch)

Discount retailer Five Below eyes IPO -sources (Reuters)
Philly-based company backed in part by LLR Partners, co-founded by Encore Books founder and former Zany Brainy CEO; article speculates that market value could exceed $1 billion.

Kembrel's Killer Business Model: A Pop-Up with Weekly Flash Sales (215 Magazine)

EHR cost debate heats up (Government Health IT)

AWS partners with open-source private cloud provider Eucalyptus (Computerworld)

A video aerial view of Apple's NC data center (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Yummly raises $6M to build its digital kitchen (Gigaom)
First Round Capital was a seed funder of Yummly; its founder, Dave Feller, goes back aways with Josh Kopelman to Half.com.

Dog Vacay Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding Lead by First Round Capital to Fuel Nationwide Expansion (PR Web)



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Daily Links 11/29/2011: Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Very Soon to Xbox

Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Soon to Xbox, Complete With Kinect Voice and Gesture Controls (PR Newswire)

Analyst: T-Mobile to Comcast, instead of AT&T? (Seattle Times)
Comcast has consistently said it doesn't want to own a major wireless network, a position Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis reiterated earlier this month. I believe they mean what they say, but that doesn't mean they don't have a long term interest in wireless as LTE becomes an important alternative to fixed-wire networks for many applications.

Motorola Mobility's Sanjay Jha & Dan Moloney discuss Moto's
set-top box plans (Video: Light Reading)

NetApp Taking on EMC Puts CommVault in Takeover Sights: Real M&A (Bloomberg)
CommVault is based in Oceanport, NJ.


TE Connectivity in Exclusive Negotiations to Acquire Deutsch (PR Newswire)
TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) has its operational headquarters in Berwyn. The acquisition would be valued at about $2 billion.

Oracle, SAP, Infor: Three's a crowd (Computer Business Review)

Is SAP HANA about the “in-memory database”? (Vital BI)

Customer Sues Epicor After ERP Software Project Attempt Ends in 'big Mess' (PC World)

Mint Linux freshens up web searches
We've got our own engine. Swallow that, Google and Microsoft (The Register)
Teams up with Paoli-based DuckDuckGo.

Shop online, try it out in person: Kembrel gives hybrid retail sales the old college try (VentureBeat)
Opens small store location in Philly.

Cyber Monday? It was more like Mobile Monday, according to eBay & PayPal (VentureBeat)
And GSI Commerce.


Business incubator's future in peril as state cuts funding
Ben Franklin Technology Partners in Bethlehem trims payroll, helps fewer clients. (Allentown Morning Call)




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Daily Links 3/22/2011: Verizon Wireless CEO says no interest in Sprint

Cable Could Lose Wireless Bargaining Chip (Light Reading Cable)

Verizon Wireless CEO says no interest in Sprint deal (Reuters via Yahoo News)

Sprint 'Concerned' About AT&T-T-Mobile Deal, Verizon Will 'Be Watching' (PC Magazine)

Sprint Plans Appeal to Congress to Halt AT&T-T-Mobile Deal (Bloomberg)

Mother and Child Reunion … Or Not (Knowledge@Wharton)

appMobi Releases Mobile Web Services Creating Most Comprehensive Mobile App Ecosystem Available (PR Newswire)

NJ Senate puts telecommunications bill on hold (Asbury Park Press)

thePlatform Squelches Buyout Rumor (Light Reading Cable)

NBCU Refines Integrated Media Division With Promotions (paidContent)

Open Angel Forum Philadelphia's First Six Startups (Tedesco's Two Cents)

Cadient Group Expands and Diversifies Client Portfolio (Business Wire)

Half of SAP users 'dissatisfied' with system performance
Is it the software or the infrastructure to blame? (Computerworld UK)

5 Ways Retailers Are Winning Big With Facebook Commerce (Mashable)
One of the examples given is Philly startup Kembrel.



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