Links 6/13/2014: FCC looking at Comcast's treatment of Netflix

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Flatiron Health's bold proposition to fight cancer with big data
(Fortune)

AT&T accuses Netflix of ‘double-talk’ when it comes to Comcast and Verizon deals (Washington Post)

The FCC is investigating Comcast's treatment of Netflix (Vox)

Univision Owners Said to Weigh a Sale (New York Times: DealBook)


SAP’s Sikka is the New CEO of Infosys, but It’s Not the Job He Wanted (Re/code)

Netsuite CEO Zach Nelson on why his cloud company is eating SAP's lunch (Silicon Valley Business Journal)


​Lock­heed Martin selling Newtown, Pa., facility for $30 million
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

Links 2/25/2014: Boomi a key to new Dell/NetSuite Alliance

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Dell and NetSuite form alliance for mid-market SaaS (Computer Dealer News)
Dell exec calls Boomi “a secret weapon” for the company.

Dell Takes NetSuite Under Its Wing (Information Week)

Fiberlink Unveils MaaS360 for On-Premises Deployments (PR Newswire)

SAP and Xamarin work to simplify enterprise mobile app development (PC World)


Workday Losses, Big Sales Growth Seen Continuing (Investor's Business Daily)

How to tell the difference between Box and Dropbox (Fortune Tech)

Comcast/Netflix: Unwinding the Latest Traffic Jam, but at What Cost? (Knowledge@Wharton)


Rovi to Buy Veveo to Bolster Television Analytics (Bloomberg)
Rovi has a significant presence in Radnor.

Customer Supplied Images Drive Social ROI at Urban Outfitters (Retail Info Systems News)

Links 10/25/2013: QlikTech falls nearly 20% on Europe & Asia weakness, guidance cut

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QlikTech says order delays to hurt quarter; shares sink (Reuters)
Shares fall 19% today.

NetSuite Reports Q3 Sales Growth, Declares Victory Over SAP (CRN)

NetSuite's Nelson mocks SAP for halting work on its, er, 'NetSuite-killer' (The Register)


SAP sees strong MDM demand to meet BYOD trend as BlackBerry use wanes (V3.co.uk)
Echoes this recent article that mentions Blue Bell-based Fiberlink moving in to replace BlackBerry (for MDM) in large Canadian auction house.

Amazon Web Services Revenue: New Details (Information Week)



Source: Oracle Paid Over $400 Million For BigMachines To Grab More Salesforce Customers (Business Insider)

Zients: HealthCare.gov's problems will be fixed in a month (USA Today)


Schiller to Leave NBCU For Twitter Post (Multichannel News)

Don't let the cheap Comcast HBO deal fool you, cord-cutters (CNET News)

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 7/26/2013: Bjork talks QLIK strategy; Britt to retire as Time Warner Cable chief

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Reactions to SAP co-CEO Snabe's departure range from cool to concerned (SearchSAP)

Glenn Britt to Retire as Time Warner Cable Chief (New York Times)

Publicis Said in Late-Stage Talks on Merger With Omnicom
(Bloomberg)

NewSpring Capital Leads Equity Investment in VidSys, Inc (Business Wire)
$15.65 million round in Virginia-based software company.

QLIK: Look Past Higher Expense to ‘.Next,’ Say Bulls (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Xtium Named to Lead411's 2013 “Hottest Companies in Pennsylvania” List (PR Web)

Hybrid Cloud Means Slower Sales Growth for Equinix (Data Center Knowledge)

What’s the Cloud’s Role in Tier-2 ERP? (ERP Cloud News)

NetSuite beats Q2 expectations as revenue climbed 35 percent
(ZDNet)


REVEALED: Hungry termites nibbling at Oracle's foundation (The Register)

After demo day, incentivizing startups to settle down and stay awhile (Med City News)

Daily Links 6/26/2013: Oracle/Salesforce deal - a virtual acquisition?

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Workday Pushes Recruitment As Taleo, SuccessFactors Fade, Says Pac Crest (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Workday: Oracle Unlikely to Unseat Them at Salesforce, Says William Blair (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Salesforce and Oracle in a Deal (Denis Pombriant / Enterprise Irregulars)

Oracle slips out long-heralded 12c cloudbase in SECRET (The Register)

Oracle and NetSuite unveil cloud-computing alliance (Reuters)


SAP HANA at 2: How Do the Numbers Add Up? (ASUG News)

Intel Has Internal Launch Date for Pay TV Service
Chipmaker Expects TV Content to Include Live Sports (Ad Age)


A Changing Telecom Landscape (Infographic) (Wall Street Journal)
An interesting look at how the US telecom industry has evolved since the breakup of the old AT&T in 1984.

PPD and ePharmaSolutions Win 2013 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award (Business Wire)
ePharmaSolutions is based in Conshohocken.

Event stresses need to keep graduates in region (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Drexel Engineering Students Create The EZPass of Parking for Major Cities – Hot Spot Parking (Drexel Engineering News)

Square’s New Online Stores Could Make Twitter Where You Shop (Wired)




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Daily Links 5/31/2013: Views on SAP's cloud progress: Kenexa incorporates IBM analytics

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Dell Begins Campaign to Support Leveraged Buyout (New York Times: Dealbook)

Workday vs NetSuite – really? (Diginomica)

NetSuite to raise cash, may go shopping (ZDNet)

Why do customers choose SAP cloud? (Jon Reed/Diginomica)

Is the Market Moving Faster to SaaS than SAP Is Prepared For? (ASUG News)

The IBM Way On Analytics (Information Week)
Using IBM analytics to leverage Kenexa offerings.

Fan TV to Blend Live TV With OTT and Cloud DVR
But Startup Admits it Will Need Pay TV Partnerships to Fulfill Its Video Vision (Multichannel News)

Comcast has a few cards to play in Hulu sale process (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast and Verizon’s Phony Free-Speech Claim (Opinion: Susan Crawford/Bloomberg)

McDowell: Filling FCC Seats Could Take a While
Points out that with current administration 'scandals,' holds are a possibility (Broadcasting & Cable)



Watch ABC app with live TV streaming comes to Kindle Fire, but not Google Play (Engadget)




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Daily Links 5/2/2013: SAS takes aim at SAP with in-memory analytics

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SunGard Announces First Quarter 2013 Results (Business Wire)

Verizon's Melone: Future rests on VoLTE, FiOS and IP backbone (FierceTelecom)

T-Mobile shares rise in NYSE debut (Reuters)

SAS takes aim at SAP with in-memory analytics (IT World Canada)

I still get on the phone for a $5k deal' - NetSuite CEO's anti-SAP mission (The Register)

Unplugged: SAP tech tools gave 49ers' scouting edge (USA Today)

Ariba, Dell Boomi to unveil collaboration enhancements for networked economy at Ariba LIVE conference (ZDNet)

Dynamic Digital Ticketing System Implemented at The Franklin Institute (Scala Digital Signage)
Scala is based in West Chester.

After BodyMedia, Comcast Ventures gives Pittsburgh longer look (Pittsburgh Business Times)




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Daily Links 3/14/2013: NetSuite CEO chides SAP, Microsoft (but not buddy Oracle)

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Redbox Instant ready to open its doors to the public (Gigaom)

NBC Execs Concerned About Matt Lauer's 'Connection' to Audience (Report) (Hollywood Reporter)

Private Equity Firms Fail in Effort to Have Antitrust Case Dismissed (New York Times: DealBook)
The 2005 LBO of Wayne-based SunGard Data Systems is one of the deals included in the suit.

NetSuite CEO Chides Rivals SAP, Microsoft
(Investor's Business Daily)

BioClinica and CoreLab Partners Are One
Combined Company Creates Clear Leader for Imaging Core Lab Services (Business Wire)

Drug firm expects to grow, but stay more hidden, after merger (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Rowan's research status aids its bid for funding (Courier-Post)

Helping big companies hire, Horsham's iMomentous grows its own workforce (Keystone Edge)

Xtium Launches Desktop as a Service
Partnership with Desktone enables customers to access virtual desktops on any device
(PR Web)

Warby Parker Co-Founder Launches Harry’s, Bringing The Startup’s Buy-One-Donate-One To Shaving (TechCrunch)

Edison Ventures Announces Investment in Arkadium - Fuels Rapid Growth of Multi-Platform Game Developer (PR Web)
Invests $5 million.




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Daily Links 2/22/2013: Enterprise Software Roundup

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SAP Speeds Up With Its Hana Database Software (Businessweek)

The Second Question (Vijay Vijayasankar/Vijay's thoughts on all things big and small)
Why run SAP BW on HANA?

Coke bottler picks SaaS over SAP (Computerworld)


Brit SAP house G3 Global slurps 2e2's SAP house
Diagonal moves from Morse to 2e2... to an SME in Weybridge (The Channel)
Diagonal is based in Berwyn, PA.

Informatica Stitches Workday and NetSuite Together (All Things D)

Infor: a grown-up stealth start-up (Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

4Q12 Performance for Trident Capital’s SaaS Portfolio; Nice Way to End the Year (Trident Capital Blog)




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Daily Links 2/14/2013: SuccessFactors’ “Cloud DNA” Slipping Away from SAP

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NetSuite CEO talks Oracle, SAP and company growth plans (ZDNet)

SuccessFactors’ “Cloud DNA” Slipping Away from SAP (ASUG News)

Amazon makes it cheaper to spread your database around (Gigaom)

Publicis Revenue Leaps 14% in 2012, a Surprise in a 'Disappointing Year' (Ad Age)

As Corbett eyes cuts, investment boss out at Pa.'s $49B teacher pension fund (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Science Center Raises $1 Million for Entrepreneurs Clubhouse (Business Wire)

Intel TV service already being tested by hundreds of users (Gigaom)

Comcast switches to Portland's Elemental Technologies to power iPhone and iPad apps (The Oregonian)

Evidentiary Hearing Commences in ITC Investigation of InterDigital Complaint against Huawei, Nokia and ZTE (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 1/10/2013: SAP unveils Business Suite ERP to HANA in-memory database

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SAP Challenges Oracle With Speed Increase to Mainstay Software (Bloomberg)

SAP Ports its Business Suite Software to the HANA In-memory Database
The capability will become generally available later this year (CIO.com)

SAP co-founder responds to 'drugs' gibe from Oracle's Larry Ellison (LA Times)

Billtrust Announces Merger With Best Practice Systems
Combination of Two eBilling Market Leaders To Shape Future Market Direction (PR Newswire)
Billtrust is based in Hamilton, NJ.

Can Meg Whitman Reverse Hewlett-Packard's Free Fall? (Business Week)

NetSuite Acquires Point-of-Sale Company Retail Anywhere (All Things D)

Cognizant beefs up in Europe via C1 Group acquisitions (ZDNet)

Urban Outfitters Posts Record Holiday Sales (Fox Business)
Direct to consumer (essentially ecommerce) increases 38%.



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Daily Links 1/9/2013: Dish bids for Clearwire; Goldman to establish small biz program in Philly

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Dish Network Makes Bid for Clearwire, Topping Sprint Offer (New York Times: DealBook)

Verizon looks to LTE completion, Gigabit FiOS (Network World)

FCC's Genachowski: Gov't will open up radio spectrum to improve Wi-Fi
Commission Chairman says move is needed to avoid "Wi-Fi traffic jam." (Ars Technica)

Goldman Sachs expected to help small businesses here
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Who Made That Universal Product Code? (New York Times)
How bar code invented at Drexel ultimately came to market.

History of MRP Software
(Derek Singleton/Software Advice)
Key element behind SAP's rise to prominence.

Q&A: NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle
NetSuite has tripled its number of developers in recent years, according to Nelson (Computerworld)


Workday's Co-CEO Looks Ahead to 2013 (Forbes)

SAP CIO: BlackBerry 10 looking good
The company plans to offer and support BlackBerry 10 devices within the first quarter of 2013 (Infoworld)

SOFTWARE AG SELLS SAP-SERVICE OPERATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA TO ITELLIGENCE (Software AG Press Release)




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Daily Links 10/25/2012: Safeguard Scientifics CFO Zarrilli to succeed Boni as CEO on November 1

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Stephen T. Zarrilli to Succeed Peter J. Boni as CEO Effective November 1, 2012 (Business Wire)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Partner Companies Continue to Achieve Major Milestones, Increasing Aggregate Revenue Guidance for 2012 (Business Wire)

QlikTech Announces Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Revenue in quarter slightly below low range of guidance; upper end of full year guidance lowered.

J.C. Flowers Decides to Keep [Dresher PA-based] Retirement Services Biz Ascensus (PE Hub)

SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility
The company is seeing large customer demand for mobile apps (Computerworld)
Of course, everyone wants to be the next Apple. Good luck!

NetSuite posts bigger loss, sales rise (MarketWatch)

Verizon/Redbox Combo Set for Q4 Breakout (Light Reading Cable)

Infragistics enters cross-platform tool market (Software Development Times)

Unisys offering Google and Microsoft options in GSA competition (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 10/15/2012: Softbank announces Sprint deal; Workday continues to rise

Softbank in $20B deal to buy almost 3/4 of Sprint (AP via CBS News)

Horsham's old Jerrold Electronics stands at the brink of change in pay TV (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Workday Goes Nuts; Is The Company Really Worth $10B?
(Forbes)

Cloud Maker: Workday CTO Stan Swete and the Cloud HR tipping point (BusinessCloud9)

SAP, NetSuite butt heads in cloud ERP war of words (CRN Australia)

CSCO: Citrix Parnership Possible Says Oppenheimer; Prelude to a Deal? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

UPenn investment boss quits (Fortune: The Term Sheet)
Performance didn't sound too bad.

Michael Chasen, founder and CEO of Blackboard, will depart company (Washington Post: Capital Business)

DuckDuckGo’s New Video Targets Google’s “Filter Bubble” Of Personalized Results (Search Engine Land)

With $4.4M in new funding, PLUM TV relaunches as an online and offline TV network for the “mass affluent” (PandoDaily)
Will have Philadelphia outlet.



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Daily Links 10/2/2012: Deutsche Telekom reported near deal with MetroPCS; Clearwire may delay LTE build

iPipeline Announces Appointment of Paul Melchiorre as New President (Business Wire)

Ex-Ariba, SAP exec takes top job at iPipeline (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

NetSuite Updates With “Two-Tier” Version for Larger Companies
(All Things D)
Marketing partners will include Dell Boomi.

Oracle sheds more light on database 12c, Exadata X3 (Computerworld)

Oracle's Ellison focused on Cloud, not deals (Reuters)

SAP Exec: Oracle CEO's Claim 'Fries My Brain' (SAI: Enterprise)


Deutsche Telekom Said to Near Deal With MetroPCS in U.S. (Bloomberg)

Clearwire May Delay Network Buildout as Comcast Converts Stake (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Meet The Ubuntu Women - They're More Involved Than You Think (ReadWriteWeb)
Features former Philadelphia resident Elizabeth Krumbach.

SunGard Partners with Regus to Power Expansion of its Workplace Availability Business to 550 Cities Worldwide
Agreement represents a 2,000% growth in available workplace recovery facilities for SunGard Availability Services’ customers (Business Wire)

Fisker CEO Still Aiming to Make Plug-in Cars in Delaware (Bloomberg)

University City District celebrates 15 year anniversary (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Internet-only grocer now making rounds in Philly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lockeed Martin win: Protest of big defense contract by SAIC denied (Philadelphia Business Journal)


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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 2/3/2012: Comcast may invest in Mets, more Thursday Night Football to NFL Network

Financial Relief for Mets May Come From TV Partners (New York Times)
Comcast may invest in Mets so they can better compete against Phillies.


NFL Network Ups Thursday Night Football Games to 13 for 2012 Season (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC Sports had been reported to have had a keen interest in adding those games for its cable network.

Verizon’s cable spectrum mashup: evil genius or simply genius? (Gigaom)

Dish Asks Regulators to Reject AT&T Call for Rapid Network Build (Bloomberg)

DirecTV Stops Selling WildBlue
May be Working With Dish/Hughes On New Option (Broadband Reports)

Take This Mitt, and Pass Me the Broadsword (New York Times)
Curt Schilling's expensive new video game close to debut.


Online retailers hoping Congress acts as PA delays enforcement of sales tax law (Delco Times)

Systems Management, Cloud Services Likely in Dell's Software Acquisition Plans (PC World)

SuccessFactors Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2011 Results (PR Newswire)

NetSuite looks to a bright 2012 (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

Newtown's EPAM Systems considered best of next week's IPO candidates (Dow Jones via NASDAQ.com)

Daily Links 2/2/2012: Are investors favoring Journal Register over Philadelphia’s Inquirer, Daily News?

Are investors choosing Journal Register over Philadelphia’s Inquirer, Daily News? (Poynter)

SAP will add 500 jobs in Newtown (Delco Times)

SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation (IT World)

SAP’s Greg Tomb: We Will Be De Facto Cloud Computing Leader (Talkin' Cloud)

Sizing the SaaS M&A market (Inorganic Growth)

NetSuite Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2011 Financial Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo Finance)

Dell Forms Software Group, Names Former CA CEO as Head (PC World)
Boomi a key component.

Franken wants probe of Verizon cable deal (The Hill)

Verizon-Comcast Alliance Seeing Pushback (Video: MarketWatch)

New Tech Partner Promises To Cut Netflix Streaming Bandwidth In Half (paidContent)

Unisys wallet emptied in rebadged server, storage cash crash
Mainframe biz profit wobbles in Q4 (The Register)

Boeing-Textron V-22 Is Said to Lose $1.75 Billion in Pentagon Budget Cut (Bloomberg)

Expanded Ben Franklin TechVentures helps Pennsylvania start-ups create jobs (Ben Franklin Technology Partners: Keynotes)

Viddler Redesign Launched!!! (The Viddler Blog)

The trials of Uber (Fortune Tech)



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Daily Links 10/19/2011: Digitas/Razorfish Health CEO David Kramer to retire by year end

Digitas/Razorfish Health CEO Kramer to Retire by Year’s End (MediaBistro: AgencySpy)

Checkpoint slashes 3Q, annual outlook; shares dive (AP via Business Week)
Philly-based company now plans 1,000 employee reduction vs. 200 in prior plan; CEO cites sudden downturn of business in Europe.

MyYearbook.com tops business growth list (PhillyBurbs.com)

NJ Transit Starts Tap-And-Pay Smartphone Option With Google (Bloomberg)

Early stage companies target health sector at Philadelphia conference (Med City News)

NetSuite Boosts Global Capabilities of Its SaaS Business Software (PC World)

Risks and Opportunities with SAP's Platform Economics (Frank Scavo/The Enterprise System Spectator)

Lingering questions about SAP’s cloud portfolio (SAP Watch)

The 2011 FinTech 100 Ranking: 4. SunGard (American Banker)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Bloomberg)



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