Daily Links 12/13/2012: Roberts on what Comcast has learned from Apple

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Comcast CEO: What we learned from Apple (Fortune)

ShopRunner’s CIO: The Cloud Won’t Run Itself (BizTech Magazine)

HP Former CEO Says Board Shares Blame for Autonomy Deal (Bloomberg)

Michael Dell: Our Transformation Is Complete (InformationWeek)

Sprint Offers to Buy Rest of Clearwire
(Bloomberg)

Comcast’s rollout of Streampix nearly complete (CED Magazine)

The Xfinity App Lets You Download Shows Now (Gizmodo)

Oracle Acquires DataRaker to Expand in Smart Meters, Sensors (Bloomberg)

Manufacturing solutions (phillyBurbs.com)
EFE Laboratories still growing after more than 50 years.

Connectify Dispatch Combines Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and 4G to Turbocharge Internet Speed
(PR Newswire)

Philadelphia Startup SnipSnap Gets More Social With Its Updated Coupon Clipping iOS App (TechCrunch)



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Daily Links 11/20/2012: HP takes $8.8 billion charge on alleged Autonomy accounting fraud

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HP reports $8.8 billion 'impairment charge' due to allegedly fraudulent Autonomy accounting (The Verge)

What Exactly Happened at Autonomy? (All Things D)
Only $5 billion of impairment charge was related to Autonomy.

Leo Apotheker: Due Diligence of Autonomy Was Meticulous (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

A Year Ago, Oracle Said Autonomy CEO's Mike Lynch 'Has A Very Poor Memory Or He’s Lying'
(Silicon Alley Insider)

Salesforce Matches Estimates on Larger Software Deals (Bloomberg)

Oracle, SAP fight for market share in India as enterprises become more reliant on technology (Economic Times of India)

SAP should be clearer on cloud migration, says User Group (Computer Business Review)

SAP discounts maintenance: Blip or start of trend? (ZDNet Blogs)

Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell: 'Cable companies are at the mercy of content companies' (The Verge)
Fortunately for Comcast (perhaps), its both.

The silver lining in Delaware's Fisker plan (NewsWorks)




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Daily Links 3/1/2012: Is Leo Apotheker launching comeback?; Datatel+SGHE partners with Blackboard

Advanced Advertising: Comcast's Jenckes Sees Plenty of ITV Ad Opportunities
Exec Also Bullish on VOD Mid-Roll Dynamic Ad Insertion (Multichannel News)

No More Free Ride with Comcast Video on Demand (Zatz Not Funny!)

'Battleship' shows a big course change at Universal Pictures (LA Times)

Universal keeps peace with Redbox, spurning Warner Bros. (LA Times: Company Town)

FiOS Installed Throughout Most of Mt. Airy (Mt. Airy Patch)

Q&A with LiftDNA Founder & CEO Vadim Telyatnikov (OpenX Blog)

Datatel+SGHE and Blackboard Partner to Integrate Colleague and the Blackboard Learn Platform Through the Intelligent Learning Platform (PR Newswire)

Is Leo Apotheker launching a comeback? (Gigaom)

The King is Dead, Long Live the King: The end of ERP and the birth of the Hybrid Enterprise
(Josh Greenbaum/Enterprise Irregulars)

5 Reasons Why Multicast Video Probably Won’t Save Bandwidth in an IP World – Part 1 (Motorola Mobility Home Blog)



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Daily Links 12/30/2011: Verizon Wireless drops $2 "convenience charge" idea; Mark Hurd letter released

Today’s Cable Guy, Upgraded and Better-Dressed (New York Times)

Comcast Unsurprisingly Kills Internet2Go Wireless
On Heels of Massive New Deal With Verizon Wireless (Broadband Reports)

Verizon Kills Planned $2 Convenience Charge Following Uproar (All Things Digital)

Trail Blazers expand viewing options by streaming Comcast games in areas where the network is unavailable (Oregon Live)

“Uncomfortable Dance”: Here’s the Sexual Harassment Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired (All Things Digital)

Apotheker’s Galling Paycheck Tops Year’s Worst, Says Footnoted (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Liberty Criticizes Harleysville Merger After Its Bid Said to Be Rejected (Bloomberg)

BCBS of Delaware, Highmark deal approved (Philadelphia Business Journal)

COME MEET BOB MOUL THE NEW PSL PRESIDENT! (Philly Startup Leaders)



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Daily Links 9/30/2011: PennSERS reported to be trying to sell up to half of PE assets

PennSERS Is Trying to Sell up to Half ($3B) of Its PE Assets (PE Hub)

S&P upgrades Liberty Interactive after split (AP via Bloomberg)

SAP co-CEO sees big future in lots of data (USA Today)

FAQ: Oracle OpenWorld's Burning Questions (PC World)

Apotheker's HP payout dwarfs new CEO's salary (Reuters)

Wi-Fi Hotspot App Connectify Gets New Funding From ITQ – The Firm That Finds New Tech For CIA (TechCrunch)

Vishay Intertechnology Announces Acquisition of Specialty Resistor Company (Business Wire)

Verizon Expands Home Monitoring Service Plans (Light Reading Cable)

Philadelphia’s Choice Cable Provider RCN Exclusively brings TiVo Premiere to Philly (PR Web)
RCN's cable services are not actually available within the city of Philadelphia itself, a company spokesperson confirmed, but in areas of bordering Delaware County, as well as parts of the Lehigh Valley.



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Daily Links 9/22/2011: Its official: Apotheker out, Whitman in at HP

Philadelphia bill could regulate satellite dishes (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Exclusive: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close (and Not for the Interim Either) (All Things Digital)
HP Press Release announcing change.

Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him (New York Times)

HP’s Apotheker Said to Have Been Unaware of Plan to Oust Him (Bloomberg)

icueTV partners with SeaChange to launch “Watch & Buy” t-Commerce application to SureWest customers (Business Wire)
icueTV is based in Cherry Hill.

Net Neutrality Rules to Be Published Sept. 23
Rules to Go Into Effect Nov. 20; Verizon Plans to Re-File Suit (Multichannel News)

Comcast taps Johnathan Rodgers to replace Decker Anstrom on board (LA Times: Company Town)

Amazon story lands big for small paper (Washington Post)




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Daily Links 8/19/2011: HP down 20% on day; What are implications for SAP?

Europe Losing Autonomy to HP Signals Software Boom as SAP May Be Targeted (Bloomberg)

HP Tumbles as Shift Undermines Confidence (Bloomberg)

Does Apotheker need an apothecary? Why HP is exiting the PC business (Ars Technica)

Public sector is turning to SaaS while SAP and Oracle dither (Cloud Pro)

SAP Business ByDesign strengthens channel efforts (SearchITChannel.com)

SAP going mobile: How big ERP is embracing small technology (ZDNet Blogs)

Will Google Be Good for Cable? (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast Drops Its Lawsuit Against DirecTV After Just Two Weeks (paidContent)

Datatel Acquiring SunGard: T+10 and Counting (The Higher ED CIO)

NewSpring Capital Leads Mezzanine Investment in Emtec, Inc. (NewSpring Press Release)

Dow’s success helping Newark (Newark Post)

Infradapt Launches Next-Generation Cloud Computing Solution for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 3/14/2011: Franken: "The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely"

HP’s New CEO Has a Big Day Planned, and a Bigger Job Ahead (All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)

Leo Apotheker lays out his strategy for first time as HP CEO (VentureBeat)

Executive hopes to stop losses.
Putting focus on Comcast customers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

AT&T to introduce data caps on DSL (CNET News)

AT&T’s New Bandwidth Cap Is Bad News for Netflix (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’ (Politico)
Franken: "The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely".


Green LEEDs to platinum: SAP America earns distinction for utilizing environmental sources for newest building (Delco Times)

Infor's Offer for Lawson Could Spark Bidding War (PC World)

WorldGate denied loan, running out of cash (phillyBurbs.com)
Is WorldGate on the last of its nine lives? Just not sure where its product stands in today's world of smartphones and tablets. But it is a company with a fascinating history.

USA Technologies To Raise $10.7 Million In Common Stock Private Placement (Business Wire)

Report: Proposed bill to deregulate telephone service would raise prices, hurt consumers (NJ.com)

Q&A: Rob Walters, SunGard Availability Services (Web Hosting Industry News)



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Daily Links 3/9/2011: ING preparing to sell Wilmington-based ING Direct USA

SAP ups its in-memory computing ante (Computerworld)

Apotheker Seeks to Save HP's `Lost Soul' With Expansion in Cloud Software (Bloomberg)


ING preparing to sell Wilmington-based ING Direct USA (Reuters)
Price could be as high as $10 billion, according to some reports.

Fresh off budget, Corbett tours Microsoft Technology Center (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Along with Steve Ballmer.

IBM Names Smarter Cities Winners (Information Week)
Philadelphia one of the initial 24.


Comcast Sees Bucks In Premium Tech Support
MSO's Xfinity Signature Support Service Priced From $4.95 to $19.95 per Month (Multichannel News)

Comcast, Zoom Settle Dispute Over Modem Certification
Manufacturer Had Complained MSO's Testing Requirements Were Unreasonable (Multichannel News)

Comcast Corp. hires cable industry lobbyist to oversee D.C. efforts (LA Times: Company Town)

SAP sees BI on tablets gaining ground with mobile workers
Software maker has 3,500 iPads in the field connected to business intelligence software (Computerworld)

Sprint CEO Hesse: 4G strategy shortly, Clearwire is included (ZDNet Blogs)

Baltimore becoming a "Startup City" (Baltimore Sun: BaltTech)
Starting a DreamIt Ventures-like incubator program this summer.

Philly Pro Launches Smaller Shop To Avoid Registration (PE Hub)



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Daily Links 11/12/2010: Oracle May Not Show Apotheker Testimony, Lawyer Says

InterDigital Sees Q4 Revs Above Ests; Notes Loss Of Customer (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

PIC, Greenlink Merge, Boon To Local TV Advertisers (MediaPost: Media Daily News)
GreenLink Networks, based in Wayne, raised $3.5 million last year from Guggenheim Venture Partners and others.

Comcast prepared to give Ted Harbert big NBC job (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast’s Tunerfish social TV app gets a new face (VentureBeat)

Comcast: Google TV Isn't Compatible With Our 'TV Everywhere' Service
Separately, Hulu Video on MSO's Fancast Site Being Blocked for Business Reasons (Multichannel News)

MedQuist Reports Third Quarter 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

Skyfiber Completes Successful Philadelphia Port Biometric Trial With ePortation (PR Web)

Welcome To The Wild West Of Venture Capital (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Comments largely echoed by Fred Wilson in his A VC post today.

Oracle May Not Show Apotheker Testimony, Lawyer Says (Bloomberg)

BlogWell 2010: SAP’s Social Media Strategy (SAP Web 2.0)

First Round’s Charlie O’Donnell on What’s Right/Wrong with NY Tech Scene (PE Hub)




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Daily Links 11/11/2010: Is Hulu The OPEC Of Online Video?

Report: NBC’s Jeff Gaspin Out In The Comcast Reshuffling (Forbes: Moneywood)

Internet TV battles come to head at FCC (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Why Hulu Is The OPEC Of Online Video
(TechCrunch)

Verizon FiOS Launches Free Flex View Service (PC Magazine)

H-P’s new CEO spotted by employees
But he is staying far, far away from Silicon Valley (MarketWatch)

SAP hopes to make users’ work easier with better UI designs (SearchSAP.com)

Quintiq Expands in North America, Opens 2nd U.S. Office in San Francisco (PR Newswire)
Quintiq's North American headquarters are in Wayne.

Rembrandt IP sues Seagate, Western Digital (AP via Business Week)
Rembrandt IP, of Bala Cynwyd, is considered by some to be a "patent troll".

Cisco's Cable Sales Get Hammered
Set-Top Sales in North America Drop 40% Year-Over-Year (Multichannel News)
Interesting that Cisco's cable business is getting hammered even as Motorola's comparable business seems to be recovering somewhat.
Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett's view.


A Conversation with QlikView Architect Håkan Wolgé (The QlikView Blog)

The Busiest Woman in Philly: Roz Duffy Puts Innovation on Two Stages in November (Keystone Edge)

UniTek Global Services Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Its Common Stock and Commencement of Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market (Marketwire)




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Daily Links 10/27/2010: Comcast, SAP post earnings

Comcast Quarterly Profit Tops Estimates on Higher Cable Bills
(Bloomberg)

Comcast CEO: iPad, tablets give us ability to 'start from scratch' on TV interface (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast Says Its Disappearing Subscribers Aren’t Cord-Cutters (All
Things Digital: MediaMemo)

Cablevision makes Fox an offer it hopes can't be refused (LA Times: Company Town)
Fox has rejected that offer.

SAP Q3 results miss expectations, hits out at Oracle strategy (ZDNet Blogs)

Oracle's Ellison Vows to Prove New HP CEO in on Scheme (PC World)

SAP: Larry Ellison Is Wrong About HP CEO Apotheker (PC World)

Where in the World Is Léo Apotheker? (New York Times: Bits)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2010 Third Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)
GSI Commerce posts wider Q3 loss, shares fall (Reuters)

InterDigital Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results
(Business Wire)
Says it will begin paying regular quarterly dividend.

Sprint CEO: In Talks With Clearwire On Financial Options (Dow Jones
Newswires via Nasdaq.com)

UberCab’s Masterstroke: Forgoing Buy-In from San Francisco Officials (PE Hub)

Three Reasons Why Apple-Unisys Is a Smart Partnership (ZDNet Blogs)




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Daily Links 4/13/2010: Philly Daily News to launch weekend edition in October

Twitter Starts Advertising Service in Bid to Boost Revenue (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Philly Daily News to launch weekend edition in October (Poynter Online: Romenesko)

Policy Watch: Will the FCC Declare War? (Light Reading Cable)

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski delivers tough love to broadcasters (LA Times: Company Blog)

Opinion: Eshoo: FCC already has the power to regulate free, open Internet (San Jose Mercury News)

An Internet for Everybody (New York Times Op-Ed: Susan Crawford)

Lockheed Martin Completes First Live Tracking Exercise With New Multi-Mission, Open Architecture Aegis Signal Processor (PR Newswire)

SAP Shuffles Management Board Responsibilities, FTD Reports (Bloomberg)

Ex-SAP CEO Apotheker joins U.S. software firm (Reuters)

EDSA, Viridity Energy Announce Ground-Breaking Collaborative Technology Effort for UC San Diego Microgrid Effort (Business
Wire)

WorkSmart Acquires 2 Firms in 12 Months (PR Newswire)

Communications firm to set up shop in Lower Makefield (PhillyBurbs.com)

iPad in Healthcare: A Roundup (Medgadget)

Allscripts and dbMotion Selected by Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson University Physicians to Provide HIE for Advancing Patient Centered Medical Home (PR Newswire)

Neurobiology and Video Compression (Media Experiences 2 Go)




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Breaking: Apotheker to resign immediately as SAP AG CEO

SAP AG said today that the SAP Supervisory Board has reached a mutual agreement with CEO Leo Apotheker not to extend his contract as a member of the SAP Executive Board, and that Apotheker has resigned as CEO and member of the SAP Executive Board effective immediately.
SAP will function now with two CO-CEOs; Co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of field organization, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development.
The implications of this announcement are astounding, frankly. SAP has had some problems recently, but I've never heard a clue of anything like this going on, and it is so unusual for SAP to make a change like this that isn't planned out over a long period of time.

Press Release

SAP CEO Apotheker steps down after seven months (Reuters)

SAP: Apotheker gone, co-CEO's appointed
(ZDNet Blogs)
Dennis Howlett not very surprised.

SAP: New leadership, same old story? (ZDNet Blogs)



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