Daily Links 8/20/2012: FinancialForce Adds Key Partners, Manager from SAP

ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Motorola Mobility (ReadWriteWeb)

Comcast Informs Customers of Tennis Channel Move
But MSO's Bill Notice Says to Check Periodically Given Court Challenge to FCC-prompted Channel Position Upgrade (Multichannel News)

Dish says it needs wireless partner to build network (Reuters)

FinancialForce Adds Key Partners, Manager from SAP (Accounting Today)

Inside FundersClub, The Equity Crowdfunding Platform Destined To Redefine Venture Capital (TechCrunch)

Urban Outfitters profit climbs 8%, shares jump (MarketWatch)

HIT Application Solutions Contracts for Notifi® at South Jersey Healthcare
Automated Appointment Reminders and Mobile Technology Amplifies the Quality of Patient Care and Delivers Patient Satisfaction (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 8/13/2012: Google cuts 4,000 at Motorola, but says impact at Horsham "minimal"

Motorola Set for Big Cuts as Google Reinvents It (New York Times)
It sounds as if this round might be mostly aimed at the handset business. Reports have suggested that Google may have decided to sell the Horsham-based home business, but this article doesn't clarify that.
Update: Some cuts at Motorola Home, but company says "the impact on Horsham is minimal", Light Reading Cable reports.

Google Faces a Big Set-Top Overhang With Expected Sale of Moto Home (Multichannel News)


Pay TV should be “afraid, very afraid” of Google Fiber, SNL Kagan says (paidContent)

Dish Network's Ergen predicts a pay TV provider will launch a sports-free service (FierceCable)


Study Examines “Clubby” World of Venture Capital (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Study by RJMetrics' co-founder Robert Moore finds that some VCs such as First Round Capital often co-invest with certain firms, while others like Edison Ventures frequently go solo.

Stick a Fork In It: Dell Is Done (PandoDaily)

Dell Is Done? Just a Little Premature (PandoDaily)
An alternative view.

Salesforce.com Just Landed Its Biggest Deal Ever, But Can’t Brag About It (All Things D)

T-Mobile USA Said To Be Target Of Trujillo Buyout Attempt (Bloomberg)

Echo Therapeutics Announces $20 Million Financing with Platinum-Montaur Life Sciences (PR Newswire)


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News from The Cable Show 5/23/2012: Ramping up Docsis, Conan O'Brien speaks

Does Docsis Have a 10-Gig Future? (Light Reading Cable)

Cable Show 2012: Motorola Envisions 'Whole-World DVR'
Vendor Says an MSO Customer Will Launch Basic Network DVR Trial by End of 2012 (Multichannel News)

Cable Show 2012: Conan O'Brien Evangelizes Social Media, Admires Walt Disney (Hollywood Reporter)

Cable Execs Root for TV Everywhere, But No Timeline on Mass Adoption
From ESPN to Discovery, a Quest to Get Viewers to 'Authenticate' (Ad Age)

Cable Show 2012: NCTA President Praises FCC's Broadband Campaign (Hollywood Reporter)


Comcast Asks FCC to Revoke Boston's New License to Reregulate Rates
FCC's Media Bureau had recertified the city in April (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast CEO Roberts not attending The Cable Show (FierceCable)


CableLabs Nears End of CEO Search (Light Reading Cable)

Carlyle's Cable Muscle (Light Reading Mobile)



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Daily Links 5/21/2012: SAP integrates Sybase; Motorola Mobility busy at Cable Show on eve of Google deal close

NetSuite and SAP: a tale of three development modalities (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Swallows Sybase, CEO John Chen's Role Uncertain (Information Week)

SAP Business ByDesign: an integral part of SAP’s Cloud portfolio (SAP on the Cloud)
by SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard,

VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam (NBC Bay Area)


Motorola Mobility Says $12.5B Google Deal To Close Tuesday Or Wednesday. Layoffs Coming? (TechCrunch)
How will Motorola's Horsham operations be effected?

Motorola reinvents the TV interface with DreamGallery concept (video) (Engadget)
This is a big product for Motorola Mobility. Will it fit into Google's TV plans?

Cable Show 2012: Motorola's Moloney: 'We'll Still Be Here Tomorrow'
Exec Says Google Intends to Run Division as a Standalone Business (Multichannel News)

Fred Wilson: We invested in DuckDuckGo for the Reddit, Hacker News anarchists (VentureBeat)



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Daily Links 5/18/2012: Salesforce.com Reports Torrid Q1 Growth, Slams SAP

Schilling bad pitch (NY Post)
Report: Rubber check for $1 million payment by his video game to Rhode Island.

SAP Gets Serious About The Large Enterprise Application Cloud (Forrester Blogs)

Salesforce.com Reports Torrid Q1 Growth, Slams SAP (Information Week)

Janney planning 5-10 percent adviser growth: CEO (Reuters)

Bentley Introduces Shared 'OpenRoads' Information Modeling Functionality in InRoads, GEOPAK, and MXROAD V8i (SELECTseries 3) (Business Wire)

Motorola Mobility Showcases the Evolution of TV and a Smart, Simple Connected Home at The Cable Show 2012 (PR Newswire)


For This Social Enterprise Accelerator in Philadelphia, It's All About Rigor (Forbes)
GoodCompany Ventures' application deadline is Monday.



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Daily Links 5/7/2012: Franken wants Administration to investigate Comcast

Diane Mastrull: Stroll sprints to keep its marketing machine growing (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SAP Brings Process Modeling to the Masses (PR Newswire)

Infonetics Research: Comcast, Verizon top Infonetics Business VoIP Services Scorecard for North America (Business Wire)

Mobile Carriers Cutting Down on Phone Subsidies: WSJ (Fox
Business)

Google infringed on some Oracle Java copyright: jury (Reuters)

AT&T Unchains Home-Security Plans
Telco Plans Trials in Dallas, Atlanta This Summer (Multichannel News)
Takes on ADT, Comcast, Verizon, anong others.

Sen. Franken Wants Obama Administration to Investigate Comcast (The Wrap)

Google makes plans to move Motorola Mobility to Chicago (Crain's Chicago Business)
No indication as to whether this would effect Moto Mobility's Horsham operations.

App will let residents zap problems to 3-1-1 (Philadelphia Daily News)

A trip to the (virtual) grocery store (Ars Technica)

Synchronoss Drops 16% Despite Q1 Beat (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Synygy Reports Another Record-Breaking Quarter (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 4/13/2012: SAP stumbles on North American execution issues; Comcast to face antitrust trial

SAP Profit Rises on Sales of Mobile Applications, Analytics (Bloomberg)
But somewhat below analyst's estimates. See SAP Press Release.

SAP sees Q1 stumble on North America execution issues (ZDNet Blogs)
Connection between "North America execution issues" and last week's departure of SAP North America President Robert Courteau? Good guess.

Judge orders Comcast trial in antitrust complaint (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Comcast Is First U.S. ISP to Offer IPv6 to Home Gateway Users (Network World)

Bentley Systems Releases 2011 Annual Report Online
Record Revenues, Key Milestones, and Strategic Initiatives Are Highlighted in Bentley’s Annual Reporting to Its User Organizations (Business Wire)

Video Innovation Continues as Motorola Mobility Offers New Higher Density and Flexible Transcoder IRD Products (PR Newswire)

City is too app-happy (Philadelphia Daily News)



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Daily Links 3/20/2012: Philly's Venmo in public launch

After 2 Years of Testing, Venmo Opens Payment Service to Public (New York Times: Bits)
Venmo is based in Philly; investors include Accel Partners (though Times reporter apparently couldn't find that out).

Oracle Reports Q3 GAAP EPS Up 20% to 49 Cents; Q3 Non-GAAP EPS Up 15% to 62 Cents (Marketwire)
Meets revenue guidance, exceeds soft EPS guidance. Hardware revenue continues sharp decline.

Oracle Exceeds Estimates on Corporate Demand
(Bloomberg)

QVC Announces China Joint Venture (PR Newswire)

Google Says Motorola Buyout Boosts Choice as China Extends Probe (Bloomberg)

Motorola Hops Into CDN Market With EdgeCast
Vendor Targets Cable Operators Worldwide With Content Delivery Network Offering (Multichannel News)

Comcast Presents Consumer Benefits of Spectrum Assignment to Senate (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)


Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems in Second-Biggest Takeover (Bloomberg)
The key purpose of Amazon's acquisition of Quidsi in 2010 was probably to learn from what Quidsi was doing to automate the warehouse. Getting the warehouse inventory picking process under control is critical to Amazon's mass distribution strategy. Quidsi was deploying Kiva's products.
Meanwhile, Amazon and New Jersey are reported to be close to a deal that would give Amazon a sales tax exemption in the state in return for building warehouses that would provide up to 1500 jobs.

Edmund Optics “Goes Live” With SAP® Business All-in-One and Other Solutions From SAP, Deployed by Answerthink (Business Wire)
Edmund Optics is based in Barrington, NJ.

Leading Professional Services Company Launches New ARAMARK Healthcare Technologies Brand (PR Newswire)

Thomson Reuters Healthcare Unit, We’ve Been Here Before
(Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)



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Highlights: Last week on Philly Tech News (3/5/2012 to 3/11/2012)

I reported on Bentley Systems' 2nd annual corporate update conference call; growth seems to be picking up again and the main message I took away from the call was the emphasis on China.

I wrote about Philly & New York-based Solve Media's effort to expand its CAPTCHA branding business to pre-roll advertisements for online videos.

Netflix is looking for cable operators to partner with, but Comcast quickly said it wasn't going to play that game.

The FCC signaled that it wasn't going to give Verizon Wireless and several cable operators a quick pass on their proposed spectrum sale and marketing joint venture, requesting more (unredacted) information from all parties involved.

Fortune Magazine profiled Comcast's strategy for its NBC Sports Group to double down on sports.

The New York Post broke a story that Google was looking to unload Motorola Mobility's Horsham-based set-top box business even before the acquisition was completed. Although there has been no confirmation, many industry observers would not be surprised if it were true.

PE Hub reported on SAP Ventures' plans for its next fund. SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said in an interview at CeBIT that collaboration software would be the company's next product category to expand in; that doesn't necessarily require an acquisition but nonetheless his comments got the rumor mills going again. SAP also rolled out at CeBIT what it referred to as a multitenant Cloud version of its Business One ERP suite for smaller enterprises, although some analysts questioned whether it was a true multitenancy architecture.

Exton-based Scala introduced several new offerings at Digital Signage Expo 2012, including what it calls CxO Board, a digital display scoreboard that enterprise managers can use to monitor key performance metrics.

Fisker, with its plans to produce autos in Delaware delayed, had a Karma it delivered to Consumer Reports break down almost immediately on the testing grounds.

And a somewhat altered group now said to be headed by Lewis Katz and Gerry Lenfest apparently has exclusive rights to bargain for Philadelphia Media Network; Ed Rendell's position in the group is not clear at this time.

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Daily Links 3/9/2012: Bloomberg on Wayne-based SkillSurvey; SAP looks to partner with startups on HANA

Cloud Integration in 2012: Dell Boomi, Taleo Focus on End-to-End Business Processes (Integration Developer News)

Working In ‘HANA Time,’ SAP Looks To Build Ties With Start-Ups (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)


Google May Be Ready to Sell Part of Motorola, but Who Will Buy? (Mari Silbey/Zatz Not Funny!)

SkillSurvey Helps Employers Get ’Honest’ References for Potential Hires (Bloomberg)
SkillSurvey is based in Wayne.

Philadelphia advertising community hands out ADDY award (Philadelphia Business Journal)

South Philly's entertainment venue Xfinity Live! set to open at sports complex (Philadelphia Daily News)

Bad Karma: Our Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid breaks down (Consumer Reports)
Any new model (particularly from a totally new company) is going to have issues, though you wonder if they are pushing cars out too quickly because of financial pressures and the need to show they can be viable. Fisker is going to need a lot of financial help, and the prospect of getting that Delaware production line going seems further and further away.



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More news from HIMSS 12: 2/22/2012

Possible ICD-10 Delay Rankles IT Industry
(MedPage Today)

Siemens Healthcare Unveils Two Cloud-based Solutions to Optimize Image Management and Radiology Workflow (PR Newswire)

CenTrak, Provider of Healthcare's Most Accurate Real-Time Location System (RTLS), Broadens Portfolio with Integrated Wi-Fi Capabilities (PR Newswire)

Verizon, Motorola Mobility, BoxTone Unveil New Mobile Solution for Health Care Industry (PR Newswire)

Growing List of Providers Accelerate Revenue Cycles, Improve Clinical Documentation Through True Computer-Assisted Coding with Natural Language Comprehension™
Advisory Board issues review of precyseCode™ one year after debut at HIMSS 2011 (PR Newswire)

QlikView Gains Momentum as the ‘New Prescription’ for Boosting Cost Management, Productivity, and Medical Outcomes (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 2/13/2012: DOJ, EU approve Google/Motorola Mobility deal

Can Fisker keep its promise?
It started with good feelings and a pledge to bring thousands of jobs to Delaware (Wilmington News Journal)

Comcast's new Xfinity stores aim for an Apple Store experience — and Katy's the first test market (CultureMap Houston)

Comcast intros free text messaging; integrates Twitter, Facebook in Xfinity Connect portal (FierceCable)

Triple play for your 'smart' home
Systems combine security, automation, energy control (Wilmington News Journal)


Cox-to-Time Warner Cable Firms Hit Phone Grip on Hospitals (Bloomberg)

Justice Dept, EU Approve Google’s Motorola Purchase (mocoNews)

Why Oracle May Really Be Doomed This Time (PandoDaily)

Workday’s Financials: Maturing (Ventana Research)

Information is beautiful: Lars Björk of QlikTech (Ernst & Young)

Baltimore files $9M suit against Unisys over tax system (Baltimore Business Journal)

AppMobi Bets on Monetizing the Mobile HTML5 Apps Ecosystem With playMobi (ReadWriteWeb)
AppMobi is based in Lancaster.

DreamIt Ventures Formalizes Focus on Minority-Owned Startups With DreamIt Access NYC (BetaBeat)

ULL, Drexel planning research center (The Advocate of Baton Rouge)

ARI to Implement SAP HANA to Slash Fleet Report Processing Time (Marketwire)



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Daily Links 2/10/2012: Perelman, Blatstein complain about PMN bid process (or lack of); Blatstein threatens to start his own

Report: Perelman complains he's being shut out of PMN bidding (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Blatstein: I'll start my own paper (Philadelphia Daily News)

After Motorola Deal Approval, Can Google Hardware Be Far Behind? (Time Business)

Amazon: No plans to launch a standalone video service soon (Gigaom)

NBC entertainment chief spending big bucks as pink slips loom for marketing department (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)

ShopNBC parent's stock falls hard after bad news on sale (Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal)
Comcast/NBC holds a minority stake in ValueVision Media.


Verizon Invested More Than Half a Billion Dollars in Pennsylvania's Wireline Communications, IT Infrastructure in 2011 (PR Newswire)
Says more than 1.5 million homes and businesses in state have access to FiOS services.

Roll up, roll up! Oracle digests Taleo (Oliver Marks/ZDNet Blogs)

Workday Talking to Bankers. The S1 Is Coming. The Revenge Is Almost Complete (PandoDaily)

SAP Cloud Integration: IT, Process and Roadmap Challenges Ahead (ASUG News)

Heart monitoring company CardioNet makes $6 million acquisition (Med City News)



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Daily Links 1/27/2012: Datatel says 'fewer than 40' cuts after SunGard HE deal closes

Datatel cuts 'fewer than 40' after deal with SunGard Higher Ed closes (Washington Business Journal)

Motorola Mobility's Cable Sales Fall 11% In Q4
Set-Top Shipments Down 3% in Fourth Quarter But Up 6% for Full-Year 2011 (Multichannel News)

Like Sports On Cable? Pay Up. Don’t Like Sports On Cable? Pay Up, Anyway (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Comcast's Split-Personality Problem (Jonathan Takiff/Philadelphia Daily News)

SAP Takes On Oracle Database, Salesforce Cloud
(Information Week)

SAP Extends Offer For SuccessFactors While Government Entity Investigates (CRN)

Ametek Q4 beats Street, sees strong 2012 (Reuters)
Also acquires O'Brien for about $175 million from Industrial Growth Partners.


Investors bet $16 million on growth in application delivery market (Computerworld)
On Kemp Technologies, New York-based firm in which Edison Ventures just led $16 million round.

The Neat Company Is Putting Paperless in the Cloud [Macworld / iWorld 2012] (Cult of Mac)
Neat's soon to be launched Cloud services may open new opportunities for it.

More Venture Capital Dollars Flow To Health IT (Information Week)

FiOS Being Installed in East Mt. Airy (Mt. Airy Patch)


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Daily Links 1/11/2012: Susquehanna Growth Equity invests $35 million in NJ SaaS HCM provider iCIMS

iCIMS, Leading SaaS Provider, Secures $35 Million Minority Investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (PR Web)
iCIMS is based in Hazlet, NJ.


Comcast Completes DNSSEC Deployment (Comcast Voices|Official Comcast Blog)

Comcast’s new set-top streams live TV to DLNA devices (Gigaom)

Universal Sports Transitions From Multicast Distribution, Inking Deals with Six Providers (Multichannel News)
Comcast's NBC Sports Group owns a minority stake in Universal Sports.

Comcast coughs up refunds, revelations of service fee
(WTOP)

Motorola Home Gateway puts your entire home in the cloud, almost (CNET Blogs)


Exclusive: Microsoft Web TV subscription plan on hold (Reuters)

Dell’s Acquisition Strategy: Right On Target? (The VAR Guy)

Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera (Information Week)

UniTek Global Services, Inc. Announces Changes to Senior Management and Board of Directors (Globe Newswire)
UniTek Global Services CEO and chairman resign; shares plunge; former CEO staying on the board (AP via Columbus, Indiana Republic)
Changes seem somewhat sudden; wonder what's going on there? Company wasn't doing too badly, it seems.UniTek is based in Blue Bell.

Coursekit Taps The Hate With #EraseBlackBoard Campaign (BetaBeat)

Smart Grid Monitoring Gets Smarter with Sensei Solutions and ThingWorx Partnership (Business Wire)

Rajant Corporation Enhances Advanced Diagnostic, Monitoring and Administrative Capabilities for Kinetic Mesh Networks (Business Wire)

Integromics announces the release of SeqSolve 2.1 (Press Release via PharmaLive)



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Daily Links 12/22/2011: Safeguard Scientifics makes two investments, including West Chester software firm Hoopla

Workday Is Said to Plan to Raise as Much as $500 Million in a 2012 IPO (Bloomberg)
Workday is considered by many experts to be the most threatening Cloud-based challenger to SAP.


Is there a cloud bubble? (Fortune Technology)

Safeguard Scientifics Adds Crimson Informatics and Hoopla Software as New Technology Partner Companies (Safeguard Press Release)
Hoopla Software is based in West Chester.

Phorum National Cloud Computing Conference to be Held in Philadelphia (PR.com)

Motorola Mobility Acquires Video Guide Startup SetJam (TechCrunch)

Verizon Preps FiOS TV Media Server (Zatz Not Funny!)

What's next for Rue La La, fast-growing 'flash sale' specialist based in Boston? (Boston Globe)



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Daily Links 11/29/2011: Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Very Soon to Xbox

Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Soon to Xbox, Complete With Kinect Voice and Gesture Controls (PR Newswire)

Analyst: T-Mobile to Comcast, instead of AT&T? (Seattle Times)
Comcast has consistently said it doesn't want to own a major wireless network, a position Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis reiterated earlier this month. I believe they mean what they say, but that doesn't mean they don't have a long term interest in wireless as LTE becomes an important alternative to fixed-wire networks for many applications.

Motorola Mobility's Sanjay Jha & Dan Moloney discuss Moto's
set-top box plans (Video: Light Reading)

NetApp Taking on EMC Puts CommVault in Takeover Sights: Real M&A (Bloomberg)
CommVault is based in Oceanport, NJ.


TE Connectivity in Exclusive Negotiations to Acquire Deutsch (PR Newswire)
TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) has its operational headquarters in Berwyn. The acquisition would be valued at about $2 billion.

Oracle, SAP, Infor: Three's a crowd (Computer Business Review)

Is SAP HANA about the “in-memory database”? (Vital BI)

Customer Sues Epicor After ERP Software Project Attempt Ends in 'big Mess' (PC World)

Mint Linux freshens up web searches
We've got our own engine. Swallow that, Google and Microsoft (The Register)
Teams up with Paoli-based DuckDuckGo.

Shop online, try it out in person: Kembrel gives hybrid retail sales the old college try (VentureBeat)
Opens small store location in Philly.

Cyber Monday? It was more like Mobile Monday, according to eBay & PayPal (VentureBeat)
And GSI Commerce.


Business incubator's future in peril as state cuts funding
Ben Franklin Technology Partners in Bethlehem trims payroll, helps fewer clients. (Allentown Morning Call)




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Daily Links 11/18/2011: Clearwire shares plummet on default fears

Urban Outfitters Losing Investors With Failing Fashions (Bloomberg)


ACS Transit nets $130M SEPTA fare-system upgrade (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Salesforce Tumbles After Billings Miss Analysts’ Estimates (Bloomberg)

‘Sup with SAP? (Gigaom)
Some possible SAP acquisition targets.

Site Tracks 'love,' 'hate' of SAP, Oracle and Other Software Vendors (PC World)

Motorola Mobility shareholders vote yes on a buy-out by Google (VentureBeat)

Cable-Tec Expo: SCTE Lures More Than 10,000 To Atlanta Confab
Attendance Up 24% from Last Year's Event in New Orleans (Multichannel News)


Can cable take the lead on social TV? (Fierce Cable)

Q&A: How Comcast is adjusting to our changing TV habits (GeekWire)
Interview with Tom Blaxland, senior director of product management for Comcast Interactive Media.

Clearwire shares plunge 31 percent on default fears (Reuters)



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Daily Links 11/10/2011: Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis: "We have no desire to own a wireless network".

Is SAP finally getting its money's worth from Sybase? (Computer Weekly Development Network)

Cisco's Chambers: 'We Got Very Lucky That Motorola Got Purchased By Google'
CEO Reiterates Commitment to Cable Set-Top Market (Multichannel News)

Senate Declines To Vote On Net Neutrality-Blocking Maneuver (Multichannel News)

Comcast CFO: No plans to go outside footprint with video (SNL Blog)
There is no way the major cable companies would ever invade each other's footprint, at least not in the forseeable future, in my view.
CFO Michael Angelakis also said, "We have no desire to own a wireless network."

Adaptly, A 23-Year-Old's Fast Growing Startup, Hires A Googler To Take On Europe (Silicon Alley Insider)
Adaptly, now based in New York, was in DreamIt Ventures' 2010 Philadelphia class, and raised $2.7 million in VC funding led by First Round Capital. Paul Turner, former Head of EMEA for Invite Media (backed by First Round and acquired by Google), has joined Adaptly in the same role.

Quepasa and myYearbook Announce Completion of Merger (Marketwire)

WVT Communications Group Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Marketwire)
First earnings report reflecting inclusion of Alteva results for part of quarter.

SunGard Availability Services and University of Texas at Austin Partner to Create Cloud Computing Research Center (PR Newswire)

PayChoice Moves to a Private Cloud Infrastructure That Delivers Performance, Advanced Business Continuity Capabilities, and Anytime, Anywhere Accessibility (Business Wire)


Ben Franklin (Northeastern Pennsylvania) announces investments in area companies (Allentown Morning Call)

Rx For Growth: Havas Forms Strategic Alliance With China's MedMed (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Google teams up with Startup Weekend, provides trainings on Google technology (VentureBeat)
Google planning Bootcamps, but none scheduled for Philly yet.

The time for healthcare tech startups is now (Gigaom)



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Daily Links 10/12/2011: Verizon denies interest in Clearwire

Verizon denies Clearwire talks, eyes LTE devices (Reuters)

Intel Abandons Plans to Get Its Processors Into Televisions (Bloomberg)

IBM launches platform-as-a-service effort, beefs up cloud focus (ZDNet Blogs)

LevelUp app aims to keep coupon users coming back (CNN Tech)
Originally available in Boston and Philly, SCVNGR's LevelUp launches today in New York and San Francisco.

SCVNGR Unveils QR Code Payment System (Mashable)

Hot New York Ad Startup MediaMath Is Looking At Raising A Big Round (Business Insider)
Safeguard Scientifics is a major backer of MediaMath.

Verizon Opens Door To 'Smart Home'
Home-Security Monitoring Features Not Currently Part of Offering (Multichannel News)
Developed with Motorola Mobility.

Universal Dumps $60 Home Video Rental Plan (All Things Digital)

S&P: TE Connectivity to replace Cephalon (AP via Business Week)
TE Connectivity has its operational headquarters in Berwyn. Frazer-based Cephalon's acquisition by Teva will be completed on Friday.

eBay Officially Launches X.Commerce Developer Platform (Mashable)

Datatel Adds SaaS Deployment Option to Industry-Leading Datatel Colleague (Business Wire)
Not sure if this is really SaaS or not.
Datatel is working torwards completing its announced acquisition of SunGard Higher Education.