Daily Links 12/19/2011: AT&T drops T-Mobile bid

AT&T Pulls $39 Billion T-Mobile Bid After Regulator Opposition (Bloomberg)

Deal means more SAP cloud changes (Computerworld)

Oracle's 2Q to provide snapshot of tech spending (AP via Business Week)

Tech Startup AboutOne Announces Additional Participation in Oversubscribed Series A Funding (PR Newswire)

myYearbook Launches iPad App (Business Wire)

The Franklin Institute Announces the 2012 Franklin Institute Laureates (PR Newswire)

More Low-Key Than His Predecessor, NBC Sports Chief Still Aims High (New York Times)

Charter Communications Names Thomas M. Rutledge as President and CEO (PR Newswire)

AppMobi Solves HTML5 Audio Problems, Accelerates Animation with directCanvas (ReadWriteWeb)

UniTek Global Services Awarded 3-Year Contract With Leading Wireless Carrier (Globe Newswire)

Sprint Sues Time Warner, Comcast Over Digital Phone Technology (Bloomberg)

Exclusive: Falcone's wireless company running out of cash (Reuters)

Don’t cut that fiber just yet (CED Magazine)



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Daily Links 5/19/2011: Dick Ebersol leaves NBC Sports; Mark Lazarus named successor

DreamIt And Comcast Partner For New Program For Minority Entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)

Dick Ebersol to Leave NBC Sports (NY Times)
This New York Post article from about a month ago suggested this kind of conflict might have been brewing.

Dick Ebersol leaves NBC Sports; Mark Lazarus named successor (USA Today)

Comcast yanks funds for nonprofit after tweet about FCC Baker’s jump (Washington Post: Post Tech)
As I tweeted last week, it is Comcast's fate from now on to be thrown into one or two major media controversies each day. Comcast has now said this was a mistake and is trying to rectify
the situation, if the organization will accept.


Philly Fed Firms See Slight Growth in Business Activity (Business Wire)
Philadelphia Area’s Manufacturing Expands at Slowest Pace in Seven Months (Bloomberg)

Salesforce.com raises revenue outlook, shares rise (Reuters)

Liberty Media Makes $1 Billion Bid to Acquire Barnes & Noble (Mashable)
This is strange; not John Malone's typical kind of business.

Comcast Exec Wants 1-Terabit Optical Standard (Light Reading Cable)

Corning cites Verizon for fiber optic boom (Reuters)

Independent Mac retailers emerge from the Apple Store shadow (Computerworld)
Article features Philadelphia's Springboard Media.



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Daily Links 12/6/2010: Monetate raises $5.1 million

Monetate raises $5.1M to help advertisers figure out what works (VentureBeat)
Led by previous seed investor First Round Capital and Floodgate Fund. Conshohocken-based Monetate has been talking about how many people they are trying to hire (20); I guess this is one reason they are able to do that.
Monetate press release

Technology Firm Anexinet Announces Acquisition of Extolutions (Business Wire)

SAP joins the Google Apps Marketplace with a collaborative decision-making app (The Official Google Blog)

Comcast customers hit by another major outage (CNET News)

As Comcast-NBC try to tie up merger, news editorials differ on consequences (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Mark Lazarus Joins Comcast Corporation (Business Wire)
As previous reports had suggested, except that the sports broadcasting exec will not, at least immediately, move into an operating management role over Comcast's existing sports properties.

Amazon to Launch Rival to Netflix (Hollywood Reporter)

Clearwire 'Rounding Second Base' on Spectrum Sale (Wireless Week)

Veeva CRM Selected by Lilly for Global Deployments (Business Wire)
Though based in California, Veeva has significant operation based in the Philadelphia area.

After push to join recycling incentive program, some Gloucester County towns taking hard look at costs (Gloucester County Times)

Azavea Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Phase IIB Grant for HunchLab™ to Support Geographic Forecasting of Crime Events (PR Newswire)