Daily Links 3/29/2012: Comcast's thePlatform teams up with Conshy's Empathy Lab on TV Everywhere portal for small operators

A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet (New York Times)
Mentions Jenn Lukas (photo) and Girl Develop IT.

Contest to see if Lehigh Valley's tech-savvy can hack it (Allentown Morning Call)

Inside SAP's radical makeover (Fortune Tech)

SAP, ORCL To Ride Wave of ‘Apps Revolution,’ Says Credit Suisse (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

20 Facts from SAP’s 2011 Form 20-F (ASUG News)

IPO Boom: Millennial Media Doubles At Open (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)
Millennial Media is based in Baltimore.

Comcast Unit Targets Synacor's Turf (Light Reading Cable)
Comcast's thePlatform unit teams up with Consohocken's Empathy Lab to provide TV Everywhere portals for smaller cable operators.

Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout, Citing Netgear Modem Glitch
MSO Says Retail Cable Modem Has a 'Critical IPv6-Related Defect' (Multichannel News)

Wharton Venture Award, Early Supporter of Past Recipients InviteMedia, Milo, Warby Parker, Selects Wharton School Entrepreneurs to Receive $50,000 for Summer Venturing (PR Web)

NextGen Healthcare Enters into Reseller Agreement with Nuance Communications
Relationship to provide more streamlined, cost-effective approach to patient data entry (Business Wire)

Oracle acquires cloud-based clinical apps provider ClearTrial (ZDNet Blogs)

Looking for a wine or liquor? LCB has an app for that (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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Daily Links 3/28/2012: News Corp said to plan nationwide ESPN rival

FiOS-Less Cities Complain About Spectrum Deal
Argue it would foreclose the possibility of video/broadband competition via FiOS in their cities (Multichannel News)

The technical and legal realities of Comcast’s Xbox cap spat (Gigaom)


News Corp. Said to Plan U.S. Sports Network to Rival ESPN (Bloomberg via Ad Age)
Didn't Fox go halfway down that road several years ago before pulling back?

Comcast Business takes a continuous improvement model to CEM (FierceTelecom)

Blackboard buys Moodlerooms...And no, this isn't an early April Fools (ZDNet Blogs)

Penn expands beyond banks of Schuylkill for new data center (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Baltimore Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Prices IPO At $13 Per Share (TechCrunch)

Veterans of Cambridge Technology Partners getting the band back together...at Cloud Technology Partners (Boston Globe)
Cambridge Technology Partners was owned by Safeguard Scientifics in the 1990s before going public and later being acquired by Novell.

SuccessFactors Offers Free Version of Jam Software in Hit Against Salesforce.com (PC World)

Kronos pays cash for Branchburg, NJ-based SaaS HR company (Mass High Tech)


Cisco to Buy SPIT Specialist (Light Reading Cable)

What is the difference between a CLEC/ICP and a cloud services provider? (Evolove IP Blog)
A bit slanted, obviously, but interesting nonetheless.



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Daily Links 3/27/2012: More cuts loom at PMN; Comcast to offer new Cloud-based business voice service

35 more jobs in jeopardy at papers, website (Philadelphia Daily News)
Other details on possible deal.

10 years later, two members of the Rigas family that founded Adelphia maintain their innocence (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Comcast Rolls Business Voice Into the Cloud (Light Reading Cable)

Microsoft Xbox Live to add Comcast, HBO Go today (Gigaom)

Xbox Pipes In Comcast VOD, HBO Go And MLB.TV
Microsoft Claims U.S. Xbox Live Gold Members Spend Average of 84 Hours Monthly With Service (Multichannel News)


EPAM Systems Reports Earnings Results for Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011
Fourth Quarter revenues up 10.1% sequentially and 34.4% year-over-year (Business Wire via MarketWatch)
First quarterly results for Newtown-based EPAM since going public last month. Its shares are up 20% today after beating estimates, issuing guidance.

Gartner: Software as a Service Market to Grow 17.9 Percent to $14.5 Billion (PC World)

One of the Most Powerful People in Silicon Valley? He Lives in Baltimore (PE Hub)

Millennial Media IPO drawing strong buzz(MarketWatch)

Astea International Announces Profitable Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 8/19/2010: QlikTech reports 56% revenue growth for quarter

QlikTech Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Reports revenue growth of 56%.

August 2010 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)
Index turns negative; far below expectations.

Philly Fed factory activity index contracts in Aug (Reuters)

Comcast takes space at Bell Atlantic Tower (Philadelphia Business Journal)
And still on the prowl for more.

Politico parent Allbritton Communications goes to battle at FCC over Comcast-NBC Universal deal (LA Times: Company
Town)

How the latest twist in the Oracle v SAP lawsuit is a win for Oracle
(ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Outlines Sybase Development Plans
Business Suite apps will go mobile within nine months. In-memory technology will spread to Sybase products. (Information Week)

Tastiest Tidbits From SAP/Sybase Media Day (ZDNet Blogs)


Big Name Investors Back SaveWave, "A Mobile Couponing Play" (Silicon Alley Insider)
Investors include First Round Capital.

The Q4 Verizon FiOS TV Updates (eSATA, HD UI) (Zatz Not
Funny!)

Salesforce Posts Record Revenue In Q2, Net Income Drops (TechCrunch IT)

Research In Motion shopping for a mobile ad network (Fierce Mobile Content)
Talks with Baltimore's Millennial Media reportedly hung up over price.


Instem Announces Global Partnership Agreement with SAS in Life Sciences (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 3/8/2010: Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes

eXo Accelerates U.S. Operations with $6 Million Series A Financing (PR Newswire)
Philly area tech exec/entrepreneur Bob Bickel to serve as Chairman.

Comcast's Burke Touts One-Stop Shopping
Wants to offer cross-platform buys in entertainment, sports and women (Broadcasting & Cable)

NBC, Comcast Not Expecting Zucker To Testify This Time Around
Sources Say NBCU President Will Miss March 11 Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Joint Venture (Multichannel News)


IPhone Network Jams Open Market for Time Warner Cable (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes (Silicon Alley Insider)

SEI Adds 250 Advisers In Sign Independent Channels Are Growing (Dow Jones Newswires)

Vertex tracks sales tax increases around the nation (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Startup story: Millennial Media (Baltimore Sun: BaltTech)

ICT Group plans not formulated
(PhillyBurbs.com)

University of South Carolina Selects SunGard Higher Education to Support Transformation of Business Processes, Information Tools and Digital Resources (Business Wire)




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