Daily Links 7/23/2012: Penn State marketing machine crippled

NCAA's Penn State Punishment Likely to Further Cripple School's Marketability (Ad Age)


Comcast will flood the Olympics zone (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Affils Make Case to Commerce for Retaining Retrans
NBC, CBS affiliates send letters in advance of July 24 hearing in 1992 Cable Act (Broadcasting & Cable)
Senate Commerce hearings tomorrow.

Twitter as media: Its ambitions grow with NBC Olympic deal (Gigaom)

Fundraising Drags on First-Half Venture Investment (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

PANL: Cowen Dismisses Threats to OLED Spread; Apple Not an issue (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

VMware Profit Falls; Company To Buy Nicira for $1.26 Billion
(Fox Business)


CodeSquare Partners With Conestoga Bank to Engage Philadelphia's Digital Demographic (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 12/16/2011: Salesforce makes HCM acquisition; will rename SuccessForce

Salesforce Makes A Rypple With New Acquisition (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Salesforce snubs SAP with Rypple flip (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Sees No Further Big Cloud Buys After SuccessFactors - Report (Dow Jones via NASDAQ.com)

Dell Resurrects Venture Capital Arm (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
Something to keep an eye on, given Boomi's central role in Dell's emerging Cloud strategy.

Revenue Cycle Management: Healthcare's Next Frontier?
NextGen parent QSI acquires small claims processor ViaTrack to bolster position in burgeoning RCM market. (Information Week)
NextGen Healthcare is based in Horsham.

Xfinity rebranding raises doubts among experts (Philadelphia Inquirer)

FTC hits Comcast CEO Brian Roberts with $500,000 fine (LA Times: Company Town)
Apparently just a technical oversight, and anyway, what's $500,000 when you rule the world?

Cablevision Stock Hits 52-Week Low After COO Resignation (Hollywood Reporter)

What's Next for Cablevision? (Light Reading Cable)
Some suggest Comcast could be interested in Jersey, Connecticut pieces of Cablevision if it were to be put up for sale, but most doubt that will happen any time soon.

Cox To Sell Wireless Licenses To Verizon Wireless For $315 Million
MSO and Wireless Carrier Will Resell Each Other's Residential and Commercial Products (Multichannel News)

Penn State receives $10 million commitment to engineering research (Penn State Live)
Some good news on another difficult day for the University.



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Daily Links 4/27/2010: Philly newspapers auction set to get underway

Unisys Announces First-Quarter 2010 Financial Results (PR Newswire)
Unisys stock down 14% so far today.
Unisys Shares Swoon As Q1 Revenue Falls Short Of Street Ests (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Salesforce And VMware Partner To Launch Enterprise Java Cloud Platform VMforce (TechCrunchIT)

Newspaper auction set to get underway in New York (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Unions threaten strike amid Philly papers auction (Reuters)

Comcast-NBC Probe Lets FCC Seek Concessions for Web TV Startups (Bloomberg Business Week)

Laissez-faire Republican is battling the Comcast-NBC deal (LA Times)
I would hardly call Kevin Martin "laissez-faire" based on his performance at the FCC.

Verizon adds more Net content to Fios (CNET News)

Satellite Guys Start Building Their Own Canoe (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast To Launch Tunerfish At TechCrunch Disrupt (TechCrunch)

Ametek Q1 results top Wall Street view (Reuters)

QlikTech takes the plunge and files for IPO (Ovum)

Penn State Introduces Online Software Engineering Master’s Degree (PR Web)

Kal and Lucille Rudman Foundation donate $1.2M for Temple TV production center (Philadelphia
Business Journal)




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