Links 11/15/2013: Report - Comcast to sell digital movies through cable boxes, website

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Comcast to sell digital movies through cable boxes, website (Reuters)

Is Verizon using Redbox Instant and Ellipsis to build a virtual pay TV platform? (FierceCable)

Dish-DirecTV Merger 'Makes A Lot Of Sense,' Says Ergen (Forbes)



Retailers take on Silicon Valley (Kansas City Star)
QVC is one of them.


Lockheed's Newtown facility upgraded in 2010 (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Two LLR Partners execs start Radnor-based software PE firm (PE Hub)

CaseWinn launches as software-focused private equity firm (Fortune TermSheet)


Gus Hunt to Help LLR Target New Govt Market Investments; Jason Rigoli Comments (GovConWire)

How Amazon is building substations, laying fiber and generally doing everything to keep cloud costs down (Gigaom)

Barclays Ups SAP To Buy As Cloud Strategy Takes Hold (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

IBM Faces a Crisis In the Cloud (Bloomberg Businessweek)


Online Casinos Hobbled as Credit-Card Issuers Reject Bets
(Bloomberg)

Links 10/4/2013: Comcast's Philadelphia market antitrust case lingers on

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Her business helps clients use cloud computing smartly (Philadelphia Daily News)
Khushboo Shah of Cloudamize.


Procurian in Accenture: The Profitable Son Returns (Spend Matters)
More insights into Procurian's history and rise to success.

How Pa. startups are getting $75M more in state funding (Newsworks)

Bentley Extends SACS’ Leadership in Engineering Software for Offshore Structures with Acquisition of MOSES
(Business Wire)

Case on Comcast cable customers won't go away (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Expands CBS Deal for VOD, Online Streaming Rights (Variety)

Lockheed to furlough 3,000 workers due to U.S. shutdown (Reuters)



Oracle’s Ellison Forgoes Payout to End Pillar Buyout Suit (Bloomberg)

Violin Memory is winning flash-supply race – Quadragon™ rivals (The Register)

Sparta Systems and Veeva Systems to Deliver End-to-End Quality Solution (Marketwire)


Reliance Globalcom Partners with Philadelphia Technology Park to Provide Expanded Global Network Connectivity (Business Wire)

Daily Links 4/23/2013: Comcast Ventures' Toth focused on B2B; Aereo on to Boston

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Q&A: Louis Toth backs B2B startups for Comcast Ventures (Silicon Valley Business Journal)

Aereo targets Comcast subscribers with Boston launch
Online video platform will debut in Beantown on May 30 (FierceCable)

Apple Returning $55 Billion to Investors as Forecast Trails (Bloomberg)
Had to doublecheck this headline to make sure a hacker hadn't gotten into Bloomberg's twitter feed. I half-expected Apple to give it to charity.


Feds seize Fisker loan reserve
Energy Dept. taps Fisker reserve on eve of loan payment (Wilmington News Journal)

Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was an early investor.

DailyWorth Raises Additional $1 Million For Series A (TechCrunch)
Although its based in New York, DailyWorth's founder and CEO Amanda Steinberg lives in Philly; Investors include Philadelphia's RobinHood Ventures and Gabriel Investments.

The InstaMed Healthcare Payments Account Revolutionizes the Way Providers Get Paid (Business Wire)

Infor Bets $500 Million On Enterprise App Refresh (Information Week)

Lockheed profit beats view; budget cuts hit sales outlook (Reuters)

Lockheed IS&GS unit has trimmed more than 650 employees this year
(Washington Post: Capital Business Blog)
Lockheed IS&GS has significant employment in King of Prussia.




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Daily Links 3/5/2013: Lockheed wins new Aegis contract; Safeguard & Osage invest in Massachusetts startup

EMC The Target Of Violin Memory-Toshiba Partnership
(Investor's Business Daily)

EMC further embraces in-server flash storage with more memory cards (Gigaom)

Business Data Modeling And Planning Software Company Anaplan Raises $33M From Meritech, Shasta And Others (TechCrunch)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2012 Results (Business Wire)
Shrink management company continues to shrink.

Lockheed Martin wins new contract (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Keeps Aegis program in Moorestown, with some 4,000 jobs.

Pneuron gets $6M Series B funding to expand the biz (Boston
Business Journal)
Safeguard Scientifics leads with $5 million; Osage Venture Partners contributes $1 million.

Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Prime Competitor, “Google Shopping Express” (TechCrunch)
Wonder if they would have an interest in Conshohocken-based ShopRunner, which is also
trying to compete with Amazon Prime? (Of course, eBay owns 30% of ShopRunner.)

Verizon Is Said to Seek to Resolve Vodafone Relationship (Bloomberg)

News Corp. unveils long-anticipated Fox Sports cable channel (LA Times: Company Town)

Universal Display to bank on smartphones until OLED TVs take off (Reuters via Yahoo News)

SAP Courts Pro Sports With Scouting App (Information Week)

Six HIT heavy-hitters announce interoperability organization (Healthcare IT News)
Epic, Siemens not among them right now.

At HIMSS 2013, Siemens Demonstrates Care Coordination Across Healthcare Communities (Business Wire)

Deacom Breaking Through Walls, Literally and Figuratively (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 3/1/2013: Comcast tells FCC its overdelivered on NBC pledges

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Salesforce.com Caps Record Year, Eyes Acquisitions (Information Week)
Would Salesforce try to buy Marketo, which is apparently moving closer to an IPO? It would be expensive.

Salesforce Shares Reach All-Time High As Stock Pops 7.2% In Wake Of Favorable Earnings (TechCrunch)

Internal document suggests SAP's goal of simplifying licensing will be a tall order
SAP still requires 131 pages of fine print to describe software licensing rules for its products (Infoworld)

Savvis launches hosting service for SAP's new hit database software
(St. Louis Business Journal)

Lockheed sees material effect of budget cuts on sales, earnings
(Reuters)

Comcast to FCC: We've Overdelivered on NBC Promises
Files Second-Year Status Report on Voluntary Deal Conditions (Multichannel News)

CoreDial Announces Record Growth For 2012 (CoreDial Website)



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Daily Links 2/8/2013: Report: BI vendor Tableau picks bankers for summer IPO

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Lockheed Martin Completes Major GPS III Flight Software Milestone (PR Newswire)

Fox to unveil sports channels for ad buyers in challenge to ESPN (Reuters)

Software maker Tableau picks banks for summer IPO - sources (Reuters)

SAP’s “Platform Agnostic” Approach to Mobile Devices (ASUG News)

Kopelman on VC branding and the PR hype machine (PandoDaily)

Synchronoss Spikes As Q4 Results Cruise Past Estimates
(Eric Savitz/Forbes)
Synchronoss is based in Bridgewater, NJ, with Engineering R&D in Bethlehem.

Apple hires AMOLED TV Application Expert James (Jueng-Gil) Lee from LG (9to5Mac)


Christie sets terms for online gambling (Asbury Park Press)




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Daily Links 12/17/2012: Medecision to lay off 83; Phorum 2013 to be focused on harnessing disruptive technology

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2 Chesco companies report combined 168 layoffs (Daily Local News)
Chesterbrook-based Medecision to lay off 83, mostly in software and tech support.

Philadelphia to Host National Business Technology Conference, Phorum 2013, Focused on Harnessing Disruptive Technology
Acclaimed Author and Innovation Thought Leader, Don Tapscott, Landed as Keynote Speaker (PR Web)


How the NHL's Lockout Hurts NBC (Analysis) (Hollywood Reporter)

Who's Behind Comcast's Video Downloader? (Light Reading Cable)

Sprint, Clearwire Agree to Sweetened Offer (Multichannel News)
Comcast still owns small stake.

Court Reverses FCC Denial of Station License Reallocation to New Jersey, Delaware (Broadcasting & Cable)
Not sure offhand what this means, practically.


Lockheed’s Stevens Says Budget Impasse Unnerves Business (Bloomberg)
Lockheed has almost 10,000 employees in the Philly area, as well as numerous subcontractors.


SAP HANA: A real-time challenge to the Oracle empire (ZDNet)

Official Document Reveals the Rules of Oracle's Cloud (Computerworld)

Exclusive sneak peek at SAP's new Centennial Tower digs (San Francisco Business Times)

ING Direct Rebrand to Capital One 360 Irks Orange Ball Loyalists
(BrandChannel)
Missed this from a month ago.

Research: Agile developers rule the roost, experience trumps toolsets (Gigaom)

SunGard receives ISO 27001 Certification for cloud services (Datacenter Dynamics)

Heartland Payment Systems® Acquires ECSI, Gains Additional Campus-Related Services and More Than 1,800 Higher Education Relationships (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 11/13/2012: NBCU reported to be cutting 450 jobs

NBC Universal Said to Cut About 450 Jobs Across Its Units (Bloomberg)

Michael Eisner's Tornante Co. in deal with Universal Pictures (LA Times: Company Town)

Lockheed says cyber attacks up sharply, suppliers targeted (Reuters)

SAP Takes Big Step Putting CRM On Hana
(InformationWeek)

Oracle gets a piece of PaaS with Engine Yard investment (Gigaom)

7-Elevens Get Crowded as ShopRunner Launches E-Commerce Lockers (Wired)
Starting around Philadelphia.

Verizon, Vodafone Get $8.5 Billion Wireless Dividend (Bloomberg)
Verizon Wireless pays out.

Are You Ready For Faster Internet Speeds Kansas City? Google Fiber Starts Wiring Homes For Service (TechCrunch)

Bentley Systems by the Numbers (Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)

Saturday Highlights 10/10/2012: Lockheed, DuckDuckGo

Lockheed’s Incoming CEO Kubasik Quits After Relationship With Subordinate Revealed (Bloomberg)

Lockheed to vacate Cherry Hill site, relocate 300 jobs (South Jersey Courier Post)
Some jobs may leave area, but Advanced Technology Laboratories will remain intact.


Ducking Google in search engines (Washington Post)
On Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo.

One-third of Europe's software industry is SAP (ZDNet)

Why Does Microsoft HQ Use SAP Instead of Microsoft Dynamics ERP? (ERP Software Blog)

A snapshot of enterprise cloud adopters at Workday Rising
(ZDNet)



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Daily Links 10/2/2012: Deutsche Telekom reported near deal with MetroPCS; Clearwire may delay LTE build

iPipeline Announces Appointment of Paul Melchiorre as New President (Business Wire)

Ex-Ariba, SAP exec takes top job at iPipeline (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

NetSuite Updates With “Two-Tier” Version for Larger Companies
(All Things D)
Marketing partners will include Dell Boomi.

Oracle sheds more light on database 12c, Exadata X3 (Computerworld)

Oracle's Ellison focused on Cloud, not deals (Reuters)

SAP Exec: Oracle CEO's Claim 'Fries My Brain' (SAI: Enterprise)


Deutsche Telekom Said to Near Deal With MetroPCS in U.S. (Bloomberg)

Clearwire May Delay Network Buildout as Comcast Converts Stake (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Meet The Ubuntu Women - They're More Involved Than You Think (ReadWriteWeb)
Features former Philadelphia resident Elizabeth Krumbach.

SunGard Partners with Regus to Power Expansion of its Workplace Availability Business to 550 Cities Worldwide
Agreement represents a 2,000% growth in available workplace recovery facilities for SunGard Availability Services’ customers (Business Wire)

Fisker CEO Still Aiming to Make Plug-in Cars in Delaware (Bloomberg)

University City District celebrates 15 year anniversary (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Internet-only grocer now making rounds in Philly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lockeed Martin win: Protest of big defense contract by SAIC denied (Philadelphia Business Journal)


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Daily Links 10/1/2012: Workday sets IPO range; would value company at up to $3.85 billion

Workday sets IPO terms valuing company at up to $3.85 billion (Reuters via San Jose Mercury News)
Scheduled to be priced on October 11.

Oracle’s Ellison Says Server, Database to Challenge SAP (Bloomberg)

SAP to Reach 2015 Cloud Target Without More M&A, McDermott Says (Bloomberg)

SAP: Warm, Good Vibe About ‘Hana,’ Says Barclays (Barron's: Tech Trader
Daily)

Here's What Happened When We Got On The Phone With Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson (Silicon Alley Insider)

How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
Federal Circuit Appeals Court marks 30 years of spreading the "patent gospel."
(Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
Timothy B. Lee is a Philadelphia-based writer on tech policy issues.

Did Lockheed Martin Just Win Virginia for Obama? (The Atlantic Wire)
A bit of an overstatement, I'm sure. But its worth noting that Lockheed is the eighth
largest employer in the Philly area with 9200 employees, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Comcast SportsNet Houston to launch Monday (Houston Business Journal)

Comcast protests fiber firm's plan to piggyback on Ramsey County project (St. Paul Business Journal)

Value Of Early Fisker Stake Drops By Two-Thirds After New Money (Green Car Reports)

Devon IT Expands Offices In China and India Sparked by Growing Demand for Thin Clients and Virtualized Desktops in Asia Pacific Market (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 4/25/2012: ShopRunner acquires PickUpZone to compete with Amazon's Lockers

SAP Sees ‘Very Solid Pipeline’ as Quarterly Profit Rises (Bloomberg)

SAP Backs 2012 Targets After Profit Rise (CNBC)

Bricks Vs. Clicks: ShopRunner Takes Aim at Amazon’s Lockers With PickUpZone Acquisition (All Things D)
ShopRunner, based in Conshohocken, is part of GSI Commerce founder Michael Rubin's Kynetic LLC.

InterDigital Rallies On Report It Resumes Shopping Patents (Forbes)

InterDigital Shopping 'Modest Portion' Of Patent Portfolio (Forbes)

Salesforce Moves into the Government Cloud and Social (New York Times: Bits)
To be announced today at CloudForce in DC.

Is Netflix Doomed? (The New Yorker)

Comcast to open first Phila.-area Xfinity store (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Amazon Supply Launches -- New Competition for Industrial Distributors, Ariba, SciQuest and Others (Spend Matters)
Amazon tries to take on the B to B world.

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires Matrix Management Solutions
Acquisition Brings NextGen(TM) Practice Solutions Additional Resources and Expertise for Addressing Increased Market Demand for Revenue Cycle Services (Business Wire)
Quality Systems' NextGen Healthcare is based in Horsham.

A Look at Bentley’s New Release of ProjectWise, Focused on 3D Image Processing (Directions Magazine)

T-Mobile Loads Up LTE Spectrum Ammo (Light Reading Mobile)

GPS III Endures Bad Press (GPS World)
Article says Lockheed overrun problems not as severe as some reports have suggested.

IBM Acquires Pittsburgh-based Enterprise Search Software Company Vivisimo To Boost Big Data Analytics (TechCrunch)

Development Team Expansion and New Technology Partnership Poises RES Software for Accelerated Growth
New development center and strategic partnership signal RES Software commitment to product innovation, quality and faster time to market (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 6/13/2011: Comcast teams up with Skype on video chat

Comcast bringing Skype video chat into the living room (Gigaom)

Cable Operators Chip at $20 Billion Business Market as Video Growth Slows (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg to Make Good on Threat, File Comcast Complaint with FCC
(MediaBistro: TVNewser)

Moto, Comcast Team on In-Home TV Streamer (Light Reading Cable)

eBay Settles Lawsuit Over $2.4B GSI Commerce Acquisition, Deal Expected To Close This Week (TechCrunch)

Tale of two data center strategies: Apple vs. Facebook (ZDNet Blogs)
Apple's new data center apparently using SAP's HANA, along with many other tools.

Oracle Exadata Gains Certification for SAP Applications (PC World)

HP’s Big Shakeup: Bocian and Mott Out; Livermore Steps Down, Joins Board (All Things Digital)

MEDecision Announces Highmark Inc.'s Selection of Its Collaborative Health Management Platform (Marketwire)

IMS Strengthens Payer Capabilities with Acquisition of Med-Vantage
Software Provider Brings Leading Technology Platform, Clinical Expertise and Proven Provider and Member Engagement Solutions (Business Wire)

USAF Decisions On GPS IIIB Could Affect FAA (Aviation Week)

ExpenseWatch.com Goes Mobile -- Releasing Expense Reporting Apps for the Android, Blackberry and iPhone Smartphones (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 3/15/2011: Ex-FCC chief Powell to head top cable trade group

Will HP buy or merge? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP: the road to redemption (ZDNet Blogs)

Ex-FCC chief Powell to head top cable trade group (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Netflix's Brick Wall (The Wrap)

Liberty Media CEO Discusses Earthquake's Effect on QVC Japan (Hollywood Reporter)

Time Warner Brings Live Cable TV to iPad (Zatz Not Funny!)

Blackstone Offers to Sell Florida Theme Park (including ‘Revenge of The Mummy’ Ride) to NBC (PE Hub)

PhillyInc: Video-phone firm WorldGate facing big cash crunch (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cuts workforce by 65%.

Lockheed's GPS III Team completes Key Flight Software Milestone (Inside GNSS)

Downtown-based Compliance Assurance secures $1.25M in financing (Pittsburgh Business Times)
Philly-area firms among investors.

GSI Commerce Closes Acquisition of Fanatics, Inc. (Business Wire)
Also closes on new credit line, sets share repurchase plan.


Gift from Peter Detkin to Launch Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic at Penn Law (Penn Almanac)

Campbell Soup exec wins Temple business school IT award (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 11/23/2010: FCC to delay December meeting, heightening speculation about Net Neutrality regs

Pre-Merger Pragmatism Nothing New For Comcast’s Burke (paidContent)

Comcast: NBCU Still Controls NBCU
Cable Company Responds To Sen. Franken's Request To Justice To Check Into Exec Changes (Multichannel News)

FCC top lawyer suggests agency not gutted by Comcast case
(The Hill: Hillicon Valley)


FCC Pushes Back December Meeting (National Journal: Tech Daily Dose)
Adds to speculation that net neutrality plan may be forthcoming.



Get Some Insight into Xfinity TV App Development (Comcast Voices |Official Comcast Blog)

Blekko Partners Up With Search Engine DuckDuckGo (TechCrunch)

Oracle, SAP suit goes to jury with no one's dignity intact (IT World)

On The Call: HP's New CEO Leo Apotheker (AP via ABC News)
Now that SAP/Oracle case has been sent to jury, Apotheker finally appears in Palo Alto.

SAP's Co-CEOs: Are Two Heads Better Than One? (Computerworld)

SAP responds to criticism of Business ByDesign (computing.co.uk)

Lockheed Martin Announces Completion of $815 Million EIG Divestiture (PR Newswire)
The SI Organization, Inc. Becomes an Independent Company (PR Newswire)
The SI Organization is the new name for what was formerly Lockheed's Enterprise Integration Group, based in Valley Forge.

$85,000 Awarded to University City Keystone Innovation Zone through Competitive Grant Program (Business Wire)

AdExchanger.com Predictions for 2011: The Investment Community (AdExchanger.com)
Quotes First Round's Chris Fralic and Genacast Ventures' Gil Beyda.




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Daily Links 10/13/2010: Lockheed sells Valley Forge consulting unit EIG for $815 million

Lockheed Sells EIG Consulting Unit to Veritas Capital (Bloomberg)
EIG is based in Valley Forge.

Sony’s Google TV-Powered Devices Have Arrived (Mashable)

Clearwire Said to Seek Up to $5 Billion in Spectrum Auction (Bloomberg)

Philly's their game
City places and faces enliven a first-of-its kind app coming from a flourishing indie game community. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Joe Nocera Pleads Ignorance in Fiancée-Based Conflict of Interest (Gawker: Valleywag)


SAP Workflow use spreading beyond financials to compliance, utilities, HR (SearchSAP.com)

QlikTech : There is a Huge Untapped Opportunity in BI (Channel World)

Almac Successfully Moves its Clinical Technologies Business Unit Into New North American Headquarters (PR Newswire)

Salesforce.com and Veeva Systems Announce Expanded Alliance to Serve the Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry (Business Wire)
Though based in California, Veeva has much of its sales and client services functions in Malvern.

NextGate and NextGen Healthcare Form Partnership to Deliver Health Information Exchange Solutions (Business Wire)

Drexel Engineers May Soon Replace E-Z Pass Box with Transparent Antenna (PR Newswire)