Daily Links 6/18/2013: Inky on Loren Brichter; Neat updates mobile app

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He's the 'high priest' of app design (Philadelphia Inquirer)
On Philly resident Loren Brichter.

Neat Announces Comprehensive Mobile App Update for its Cloud-Based Digital Filing System
Neat's mobile app creates expense reports and offers other time saving features (PR Newswire)

Liberty Global Offers $10B For Kabel Deutschland (Multichannel News)

Set-top box is not dead, says Arris (Digital TV Europe)

Oracle's Q4 results: What to expect (Computerworld)

SAP users slack, slow and backward on security
Some systems unpatched since 2005, says researcher (The Register)

How SAP hopes to win from the Internet of Things (CiteWorld)


Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M (All Things D)
First Round Capital is an investor in Xobni; Yahoo's purchase price may be less than capital invested in it.

Gartner Predicts CRM Will Be A $36B Market By 2017 (Enterprise Irregulars)
Huge revision from prior estimate.

Salesforce, Others in Race to Create One-Stop Shop for Marketing Data (Ad Age)

Dish abandons Sprint bid for now to focus on Clearwire (Reuters via Yahoo Finance)




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Daily Links 12/3/2012: Blackstone LaunchPad expands to Philadelphia, puts up $3M

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Blackstone LaunchPad expands to Philadelphia, puts up $3M for student entrepreneurship (Newsworks)
Blackstone LaunchPad Press Release

Telling the Story of PHL (Also Known as Philadelphia) (New York Times)


Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps (Gigaom)
Back in Philly from California.

SAP Clings To A Dated Cloud Apps Strategy (Doug Henschen/InformationWeek)

Why VMware is spinning off Cloud Foundry and SpringSource (Gigaom)

Morgan Lewis on both sides of HP disaster? UPDATE (Philly.com: Philly Deals)



Rocky Road for Rodale Inc.
Gunning for New E-Commerce Amid Executive Departures (Ad Age)
Rodale is based in Emmaus, PA.

FTS Acquires Dependable Payment Processing and Discount Payment Processing (Business Wire)
FTS is based in King of Prussia.



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Tweetie's Philadelphia roots

iPhone/Mac Twitter client app Tweetie, acquired last week by Twitter, was apparently started in Philadelphia by Loren Brichter - well, he was living here for a while anyway. A native New Yorker, Tufts graduate, and former Apple employee, Brichter wlll be joining Twitter, which probably means he'll be heading to California.
His company, atebits, was more or less a one-person shop, as I understand it. Twitter will re-release "Tweetie" as "Twitter for iPhone" and eliminate the $2.99 price. No word on how much Twitter paid to buy the app.