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Thursday Night NFL bids reported to be due in tomorrow
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John Ourand of Sports Business Daily reports that bids on the NFL's Thursday night package are due in tomorrow, and most of the major networks are expected to enter bids, including Comcast's NBC. Ourand says ABC is especially eager to get back in the NFL, as its the only major over-the-air network without an NFL package (although its owner Disney does have MNF on ESPN).
Ourand says the NFL would like the Thursday night package to be on a broadcast network. But Joe Flint of the LA Times thinks a cable network may be a more likely possibility, mentioning NBCSports Network, which has long been rumored to be interested in Thursday night to boost its ratings and recognition, as a candidate.
Another issue the NFL must determine is how many games to put in a Thursday night package. It does not want to leave its own NFL Network too bare.
Update: Flint wrote today (Sunday) that NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt declined to confirm that NBC had entered a bid on the Thursday night package, but said "we’d love to have more NFL games," and "Thursday night games might be really interesting to us." Greenblatt's comments came at the semiannual Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena on Sunday.
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Will DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Go Pay-As-You Go? (Multichannel News)
Here’s what Jeff Bezos has to say about Amazon’s pursuit of CIA contracts (Washington Post)
How Workday does cloud (Diginomica)
TV ratings: Broncos-Ravens NFL game wins Thursday night for NBC (LA Times: Company Town)
Why all the rumors about Comcast, NBC and its real estate? (Philadelphia Business Journal)
His company is trying to change health care one family at a time (Philadelphia Daily News)
On Plymouth Meeting-based Accolade.
Nutter welcomes Brand.com to new HQ in Center City Philadelphia (NewsWorks)
Alteva Announces Sale of the Assets of USA Datanet
(Marketwire)
iMomentous Puts Employee Recruitment at Your Fingertips (Hatboro-Horsham Patch)
Booker will give away ownership stake in Waywire, start-up company criticized by opponents (NorthJersey.com)
Daily Links 7/29/2013: CSC partners with ThingWorx; iMomentous wins best unknown business in America competition
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Avoiding Detroit's crash (Opinion/Philly.com)
NBC Chief Bob Greenblatt: 'There's Still Room for Improvement' (Hollywood Reporter)
Cable TV Subscriber Losses: Will Q2 Be Replay Of Q1? (Investor's Business Daily)
SC Unveils New Machine-to-Machine Solution
Developers in Manufacturing Industry Can Build Custom M2M Applications within Days (Business Wire)
In partnership with Exton-based ThingWorx.
Forget Pagers, Philly Startup Seratis Wants To Bring Hospital Communication Into The 21st Century (TechCrunch)
Bessemer Venture Partners Launches $100 Billion Cloud Index
(All Things D)
Is Silicon Valley Losing Out on Business Software Companies? (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
OpenView Ventures Partners Managing Director Adam Marcus (OpenView investments include Monetate, NextDocs, and Xtium) points out that many of the most successful cloud enterprise software companies are located outside Silicon Valley.
SAP expands partner program for application development (PC World)
NetSuite’s improbable growth steams cloud froth (PandoDaily)
Dish is likely eyeing new acquisitions after losing Sprint (PC World)
Gregory FCA and Safeguard Scientifics Name Best Unknown Businesses in America (Business Wire)
Horsham-based iMomentous and Lehigh Valley-based Bridgeway Academy the winners.
Daily Links 5/8/2013: Comcast shelving Skype Set Top offering; SAP Eyes $10 Billion Sales Boost From Banking Software
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NBC Dumps $25 Million Jimmy Fallon NYC 'Tonight Show' Studio (Hollywood Reporter)
Comcast Shelving Set Top Skype Offering
Existing Customers Will Be Supported (Broadband Reports)
Roku CEO Wood: Virtual cable MSOs 'inevitable (FierceCable)
Liberty Interactive Operating Profit Flat (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
QVC's US business grew revenue 4.6% to $1.3 billion.
Web sales increase 13% for QVC in the first quarter
Mobile commerce sales account for 27% of online orders. (Internet Retailer)
Maffei: Charter Investment Could Lead to Further Consolidation (Multichannel News)
CRACKING THE CODE ON THE WEB'S MOST SHAREABLE IMAGES (Fast Company)
Curalate attempts to move from identifying images on the Web to predicting how they'll
do before they are posted.
SAP Eyes $10 Billion Sales Boost From Banking Software
(Bloomberg)
Teradata boosts DRAM on appliances for in-memory queries
You don't need no stinkin' HANA or Exalytics (The Register)
Discover Strikes Deal With SAP Unit for Business Payments
(Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
NetSuite buys OrderMotion to handle orders better and faster (VentureBeat)
PLEASE DON’T GO, PROFESSOR (Wharton Magazine)
Len Lodish retiring from Wharton as professor.
City, police mapping team snags international GIS award
(Philly.com)
Penn GSE business plan contest winners announced (Philadelphia Business Journal)
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Daily Links 3/28/2013: Is Comcast mismanaging NBC talent shuffle?
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Court Rejects Antitrust Suit in Victory for Comcast (New York Times)
NBC Crises Leave Comcast Guys Looking Flat-Footed (Variety)
Workday May Make ‘Small’ Acquisitions: Co-CEO (Bloomberg TV)
Workday Focuses on Its Post-IPO Future (IT World)
Oracle To IBM: Your 'Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged' (SAI: Enterprise)
Is the new T-Mobile too good to be true? (VentureBeat)
T-Mobile Deal for MetroPCS in Doubt, Hopes Rise for Sweeter Deal (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
Checkpoint’s deeply discounted divestiture (Inorganic Growth)
Social App MeetMe Introduces In-Feed Advertising With Flurry Partnership (TechCrunch)
Google tiptoes into same-day local delivery service (CNET News)
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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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Comcast unveils new corporate logo (with Peacock)
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Comcast has unveiled a new corporate-wide logo that incorporates the NBC Peacock. The copy of the logo shown above was downloaded from the media resources library on Comcast's website.
The Wall Street Journal just reported (subscription required) that Comcast hasn't yet formally announce the change, but the new logo was showcased in a staff meeting Monday led by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
No truth to the rumor that Comcast plans to put a ten-story high, illuminated version of the logo atop the Comcast Center.
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Daily Links 11/21/2012: NBC wins November Sweeps; News Corp takes 49% stake in YES Network
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NBC Wins November Sweeps for First Time in Nine Years (Bloomberg)
News Corporation Completes Deal for 49% Stake in YES Network (New York Times: Media Decoder)
Microsoft Reportedly Plans Stripped Down Xbox Set-Top Box To Compete With Apple TV, Roku (TechCrunch)
FCC chairman backs Dish Network plan to compete with wireless giants (Washington Post)
With caveats.
Salesforce CEO on SAP, Oracle: We're the 'customer company' (ZDNet)
Autonomy Founder Says HP Accounting Claim Doesn’t Add Up (Bloomberg)
In Hewlett’s Claims About Autonomy, Legal Costs Could Pile Up (New York Times: Dealbook)
SAP maintenance revenues: another turn of the screw? (Dennis Howlett/Enterprise Irregulars via ZDNet)
Mastering SAP HANA data modeling for maximum performance (SearchSAP)
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Daily Links 10/11/2012: Comcast warned on Huawei; Softbank may buy Sprint?
House report urges Comcast to stop using Chinese supplier (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Comcast’s Laggard NBC Network Turns Leader in New TV Year (Bloomberg)
Sizing Up a Softbank Takeover of Sprint (Wall Street Journal: Corporate Intellignce)
Workday Commands IPO Premium With Web Challenge to Oracle (Bloomberg)
Workday may be valued at 20X trailing revenue.
Digital Ad Growth Slows, but Mobile Doubles (Peter Kafka/All Things D)
Unisys Rolls Out More Intel-Based ClearPath Mainframes (eWeek)
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Daily Links 10/9/2012: Workday raises IPO price range; ThingWorx raises Series C
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Workday raises IPO price range to $24-$26 per share (Reuters)
Workday is an upstart Cloud competitor to SAP and others. If it prices in the middle of its range, Workday's initial market value would be $4 billion.
ThingWorx Raises Series C to Capitalize on Connected World Growth (Business Wire)
Inverness Graham Investments Announces a Controlled Recapitalization of RACO Wireless (Business Wire)
Inverness Graham Investments is based in Newtown Square.
Cisco rounds out SAP HANA server, appliance line-up (ZDNet)
SuccessFactors announces Headlines analytics software (SAP Watch)
Box announces partnership with SAP to promote better mobile and cloud security (The Next Web)
U.S. Panel Cites Risks in Chinese Equipment (New York Times)
First Round Capital Launches A Platform For Startups To Hack PR (TechCrunch)
Announcing hackPR – a New Way for Startups and the Press to Connect (Redeye VC)
Amazon Proves It Is Ready To Spend Massive Amounts Of Money To Destroy Hulu And Netflix (AMZN, NFLX) (Silicon Alley Insider)
Walmart Gives Same-Day Delivery a Shot in Four Cities (All Things D)
Philadelphia is one of them.
NBC regroups under Comcast with new cuts, spending (AP)
NBC News Shakes Up Management Team, New EP at ‘Rock Center’ (MediaBistro: TVNewser)
Governor Corbett Visits Award-Winning Ben Franklin TechVentures2 Business Incubator; Praises Impact on Job Creation in the Northeast
(PR Newswire)
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Daily Links 8/21/2012: Leno jabs NBC, Comcast, while ABC moves Kimmel to 11:35
Jay Leno jabs NBC, Comcast about ‘Tonight Show’ budget cuts [VIDEO] (Washington Post)
Jimmy Kimmel to Move to 11:35 in January, ABC Announces (New York Times: Media Decoder)
Verizon, Comcast Airwaves Deal Said to Have Votes at FCC (Bloomberg)
Comcast Calls Tennis Channel Decision 'Nakedly Content-Based Restriction"
Reiterates to Court that FCC is Micromanaging Speech Via 'Unprecedented','Distorted' Ruling (Multichannel News)
SAP Sues Insurer Over Waste Management Lawsuit Settlement (PC World)
Kony Solutions Buys Aussie Sky Technologies As Mobile Enterprise Consolidates (TechCrunch)
Sky Technologies specializes in mobile SAP implementations.
Workday 17: more significant enhancements (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)
After Making Millions, Two 20-Somethings Have Founded A Startup To Help Fight Cancer (Silicon Alley Insider)
Invite Media co-founders Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg's new startup.
Feds To Break Up Tech’s Investor Party (Wired)
Dell Profit Falls On Lower Sales, Shares Down (MarketWatch
via Fox Business)
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Daily Links 5/14/2012: SAP Sapphire kicks off in Orlando
Sapphire: will the Clouds clear over some of SAP's big questions? (BusinessCloud9)
SAP Rolls out New Mobile Apps, Boosts HTML5, IOS, Android Support (PC World)
QlikTech Promises 'Gorgeous Genius'
The Business Intelligence vendor behind QlikView says next release will blend seductive interfaces with smart, comparative-analysis capabilities. (Information Week)
DSG Launches Salesforce.com, NetSuite Collaborator Built on Dell Boomi (PR Newswire)
LightSquared declares bankruptcy after GPS worries sank its mobile dream (Computerworld)
Comcast’s NBC Bets on Comedies to Boost Last Place Schedule (Bloomberg)
Upfronts 2012: NBC's Harbert calls for better measurement tools (LA Times: Company Town)
Former campaign specialist Audience Partners raises $750 (Philadelphia Business Journal)
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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 2/6/2012: NBC's Super Bowl most watched TV program ever
Kenexa Agrees To Acquire OutStart, a Leading Provider of Next Generation e-Learning Solutions (Business Wire)
Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 (Business Wire)
Company says it paid $38.9 million for OutStart, from which it expects $13.5 million in GAAP revenue for 2012.
Local company's acquisition puts it on the global map (Wilmington News Journal)
NBC's Super Bowl XLVI most-watched show in TV history (USA Today)
What kind of bounce will NBC get?
Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox (AP via LA Times)
Verizon teams up with Redbox to cash in on video (Gigaom)
Hands on with AnyPlay: Live Comcast video on your iPad (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Is Workday Silicon Valley's Next Big IPO? (Daily Beast)
Workday certainly deserves some hype, although this article perhaps provides too much of it.
Be everywhere: Google’s real social strategy (ZDNet Blogs)
By Will Reynolds of Philly's SEER Interactive.
Newgrounds Undergoing Redesign (GameKudos.com)
Newgrounds is based in Montgomery County.
Fisker lays off workers in Delaware, California (Wilmington News Journal)
SAP community portal launch date unclear due to bugs (Infoworld)
Greenphire trying for larger place clinical-trial information business (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Someone’s Trying to Frankenstein a Sports Blog Monster That Will Crush Philly.Com (Philly Mag: The Philly Post)
Q&A: Russ Fadel, CEO, ThingWorx – “Hooked on Entrepreneurship” (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)
Daily Links 11/3/2011: SAP says Cloud strategy coming, while Oracle defends its own and criticizes Salesforce
SAP Readies Comprehensive Cloud Strategy
Co-CEO Bill McDermott says SAP is ready to "unleash the tiger" in the cloud computing market in 2012. (Information Week)
Oracle defends its cloud, tears into Salesforce.com (Ars Technica)
NetSuite Q3 better than expected (ZDNet Blogs)
HDS to release converged computing platform for SAP
SAP HANA will be available later this year (Computerworld)
Competition and a weak economy plague cable TV (CNET News)
DirecTV Reports Third-Quarter Subs, Profit Increase (Hollywood Reporter)
How Much Does an NBC Turnaround Even Matter Any More? (Ad Age)
TE Connectivity beats, warns on consumer markets (Reuters)
TE Connectivity, formerly Tyco Electronics, has its operational headquarters in Berwyn.
ICG Announces Third Quarter Financial Results (Globe Newswire)
Says delays in contract signings impacting second half, lowers revenue guidance.
Business Intelligence Decisions and Directions (Sandhill)
Interview with Radnor-based QlikTech's Donald Farmer.
Intel Capital Leads $35.5M Round In TV E-Commerce Platform Delivery Agent (TechCrunch)
VCs Turn Gloomy About Their Prospects: Report (PE Hub)
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Daily Links 10/17/2011: What will happen to Daily Deals market; too many small startups?
SAP boosts third quarter profit on TomorrowNow loss writedown
Currency fluctuations hit operating profit (Computerworld UK)
Cloud impact: SAP changes upgrade and maintenance policies (ZDNet Blogs)
Supply Chain Consultants, Reflecting Its Evolution and Growth as a Software Provider, Changes Name to Arkieva (Business Wire)
Is Boston spawning too many start-ups, and starving growth companies for talent? (Boston Globe: Innovation Economy)
Does the same question apply to the Philadelphia area?
How Critical Is TV Everywhere?
It May Be the Future of Pay Television — But Not All Are Sold (Multichannel News)
Jonathan Storm: Peacock looking plucked as NBC cancels shows (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Scoop: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio (Gigaom)
Hulu Owners May Seek IPO for Video Website After Halting Auction (Bloomberg)
Why SEI shares lag the market (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
AMETEK Acquires Reichert Technologies (PR Newswire)
One of Ametek's largest deals in a while.
Are daily deals really dying? (GSI Commerce Blog)
Microsoft's plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices (ZDNet Blogs)
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News from The Cable Show: 6/15/2011
Okay, Okay, Maybe Netflix Is a Problem for Cable After All (All Things Digital)
@ Cable Show: Netflix And Hulu On Cable Set Tops? (paidContent)
@ Cable Show: Comcast’s Roberts Shows Off 1Gbps Potential (paidContent)
Comcast likely to show off gigabit cable broadband (Gigaom)
What You Need to Know About Comcast Xcalibur (Zatz Not Funny)
NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt Shares His Plan to Rebuild the Network (Exclusive Q&A) (Hollywood Reporter)
How thePlatform Fits in Xfinity (Interview: Light Reading Cable)
Comcast To Stage Network DVR Trial
MSO Plans Small Trial of Technology Later This Year (Multichannel News)
Motorola Hooks Up With Honeywell For Home Security
Joint Solution to Combine 4Home Systems With Honeywell Alarm Panel Hardware (Multichannel News)
The Cable Show 2011: Genachowski: Broadband Adoption 'Just Not Good Enough'
Praises cable for deployment and adoption efforts to date, but wants more (Broadcasting & Cable)
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Daily Links 6/8/2011: Google And Invite Media One Year Later
Comcast Scales Up Home Security Push
Expands Broadband-Based System to Seven Markets, Including Philadelphia, Houston, and Portland, Ore. (Multichannel News)
How Will NBCUniversal's Olympics Deal Affect Comcast's Stock? (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC finally ‘gets it,’ will kill the Olympic tape delay (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)
GE, Capital One Said to Vie for ING Online Bank; Bids May Reach $9 Billion (Bloomberg)
Google And Invite Media: One Year Later, DSP Looks To Global Expansion (paidContent)
Online advertising a boon for Philadelphia firms (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
appMobi Acquires Hosting Platform; Launches Tech To Speed Up HTML5 In Mobile Gaming (TechCrunch)
ARAMARK Sells Stake In Online Food Ordering Service SeamlessWeb For $50M (TechCrunch)
Sprint Pares Clearwire Voting Interest to Less Than 50% (Bloomberg)
Dell Plans New VAR Cloud Certification By Year-end (CRN)
Twitter post leads to LVEDC firing
Tweet about summer hours policy contributes to employee's termination (Allentown Morning Call)
U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Text) (Bloomberg)
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Daily Links 5/16/2011: SunGard CEO Cristobal Conde steps down
SunGard Announces Chief Executive Officer Transition (Business Wire)
SunGard emphasizes that this is a long-planned transition for Cristobal Conde which has nothing to do with the company's sluggish performance in recent years. Some speculate, though, that it might be a step towards preparing for an exit (IPO or split-up?) for the PE firms involved.
City of Philadelphia Selects eClinicalWorks for Electronic Health Records (Business Wire)
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Greater Philadelphia finalists announced (Business Wire)
WSJ: data caps keep Netflix from "swamping the network" (Ars Technica)
Dish Network CEO Resigns (Light Reading Cable)
Charlie Ergen will remain as Chairman.
Greenblatt: NBC Will Add New Brian Williams Show to Schedule as 'Soon as It's Ready' (Hollywood Reporter)
The Uncertain Future of '30 Rock' (The Atlantic Wire)
Report: Comcast Wants Ron Meyer to Stay at Universal -- For Now (The Wrap)
Comcast Aims Metro Ethernet At Midsize Business
Services Portfolio Provides Capacity Up to 10 Gbps (Multichannel News)
RCR Wireless News global tour set for Philadelphia (RCR Wireless News)
One Small Start-Up’s Plan To Get Customers To Notice: An IPO
(Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Israel-based WhiteSmoke, maker of English grammar software with US headquarters in Wilmington, plans IPO on the NASDAQ.
India owner sells Blue Bell software firm to Cerberus for $137M (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Temple Opens Vault on Hybrid System (HPCwire)
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