Links 2/14/2014: SAP serious about opening HANA startup cafes

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Putting on PennApps: 2 days and $200,000 (Daily Pennsylvanian)

SAP founder outlines start-up strategy as small firms call on the "tank" to be agile
German enterprise software giant opening new start-up spaces to foster collaboration
(Techworld)

Hedge Fund Takes Stake in Malone’s Liberty Interactive (New York Times: DealBook)
Liberty Interactive is QVC's parent company. It is expected to spin out QVC as a tracking stock some time this year.

Tech vendors and cable companies push for more Wi-Fi spectrum (Ars Technica)


TAKING THE PULSE OF MEDICAL APPS AT MOBILE MONDAY MID-ATLANTIC (Mobile Week)

4 questions raised by Castlight Health IPO filing (Med City News)


MicroStrategy Launches In-Memory Analysis Engine (Information Week)

Links 8/23/2013: Ballmer leaving as Microsoft CEO in a year

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Technology company expands in Chester County (Philadelphia Business Journal)

For Ballmer, Resistance Was Futile (All Things D)

Ballmer Exit Leaves Microsoft Searching for Hero in Slump
(Bloomberg)

Microsoft's Ballmer on his biggest regret, the next CEO and more (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

SAP licensing – more clarity or clear as mud? (Dennis Howlett/Diginomica)

Wawa Turns to SAP to Power Entry Into New Markets (Convenience Store News)

SAP Channel Exec Explains ByDesign Issues and Future (Accounting Today)


QVC Launches Second Linear Channel
QVC Plus Counts DirecTV, Bright House as Affiliates (Multichannel News)

Newgistics adds e-commerce to its fulfillment services (Internet Retailer)
Positioning itself as full-service competitor to eBay Enterprise (formerly GSI Commerce).

Penn Brings Two Coding Contests Together with HACKFest (Penn News)

Philadelphia's QLIDA Diagnostics developing next-generation biomarker diagnostics (Keystone Edge)

PennApps followup: students are putting together a Finishathon! on Saturday, mentors needed

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For those who participated in the hugely successful PennApps event the weekend before last and crafted a working prototype, but still have some polishing up to do, PennApps is organizing a Finishathon! this coming Saturday, February 2, at McClelland Hall, Ware College House. Hacking starts at 12pm, and demos will begin at 7:30pm.

PennApps is also asking that people who have already helped mentor at PennApps or other experienced developers to help out by coming on Saturday. Mentors are welcome to show up around 3pm and can leave when the demos start if they wish.



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Daily Links 1/22/2013: Microsoft may invest in Dell buyout

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Microsoft May Invest $1-$3 Billion in Dell Buyout (CNBC)

SAP cloudwashes its image (Vinnie Mirchandani/Enterprise Irregulars)

Questions SAP should answer during its Q4 earnings call
SAP's HANA, the cloud, changing sales culture and product mix will all be up for discussion (Computerworld)

Verizon Earnings Fall as Discounts Yield Customer Record (Bloomberg)

Sandy, Pension Charges Bite Into Verizon Q4 Results
Telco Adds 134K TV and 144K FiOS Internet Subs, Drops 117K DSL Lines (Multichannel News)

Verizon Strips Sports Out of FiOS TV 'Select HD' Package (Multichannel News)

Intel-Comcast TV Everywhere Deal Tops CES Show, GroupM's Michael Bologna (Beet.TV)

Service Electric buys Shen-Heights TV (Pottsville Republican Herald)
Interesting story covering the origins of the Cable TV business.

The world’s largest student-run hackathon isn’t at Stanford or MIT — it’s at Penn (PandoDaily)

Social to Play Second String on Game Day Marketers debate value of Twitter, Facebook in Super Bowl mix (Ad Week)
Philly's Red Tettemer + Partners producing Century 21 spot again this year.



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Daily Links 9/19/2012: Campbell Soup Co. Boosts Digital Efforts

Site Lets You Simulate a Facebook Hack, Goes Viral at PennApps (Time.com: Techland)

Campbell Soup Co. Boosts Digital Efforts
Training Programs, New Positions and Increased Budget Part of the Plan (Ad Age)

SAP Channel Chief Kevin Gilroy: Still Delivering 25% Growth (The VAR Guy)

Salesforce.com Unifies, Extends Cloud Portfolio (Information Week)

Salesforce.com shows off upcoming Chatterbox, Identity services
Chatterbox will give companies a secure, easy way to share files, Salesforce.com says (Computerworld)

Salesforce.com's Benioff invites customers to join 'social revolution'
The flamboyant CEO spun a broad strategic vision during a keynote at the Dreamforce conference (Computerworld)

Unisys scores $504M DHS task order under Alliant contract (Washington Technology)

Unified Communications Leader Alteva Celebrates Grand Opening of First-Ever Innovation Center and New National Headquarters in Philadelphia (Marketwire)


Comcast CFO: Cable Giant Prepares for Possible 2014 Buyout of GE Stake in NBCUniversal (Hollywood Reporter)

NCC, Comcast Spotlight To Sell Ads On Synacor Web Portals (Multichannel News)

New T-Mobile CEO faces big problems, but he could shake up the mobile market (Gigaom)

Verizon Reaches Tentative Union Pact With 43,000 Workers (Bloomberg)



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Daily Links 1/18/2012: Comcast clarifies its spectrum position

Fundamental Oracle Flaw Revealed (PC World)

Amazon launches home-grown NoSQL database (Gigaom)

Apple Said to Plan More Educational Content to Bolster IPad Use in Schools (Bloomberg)

Regarding the Scope of Apple’s Education Initiative
(John Gruber/Daily Fireball)

Clarifying Comcast's Spectrum Position (Comcast Voices|Official Comcast Blog)
Comcast EVP David Cohen tries to walk back Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis' comment at a Citi conference early this month that "[w]e never really intended to build that spectrum".

SOPA fighters vs Comcast (Joe DiStefano/Philly.com: PhillyDeals)

World IPv6 switch-over event scheduled for June 6 (Gigaom)

Pa. Federal Judge Tosses Antitrust Suit Over 3G Standards (American Lawyer via Law.com)
Judge rejects TruePosition's claim of conspiracy by competitors in setting standards; TruePosition plans to refile.

PennApps hackathon grand prize went to 'ScratchTable'
Programmers designed apps around the theme of simplicity this year (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Quantum Leap Innovations® Launches First-Ever Pattern Based Analytics (Business Wire)
Quantum Leap is based in Newark, DE.

Paragon Technology Group Acquired by LLR Partners (PR Newswire)

A Beginner’s Guide to SAPanese (ASUG News)

PANL: Goldman Encouraged by Panasonic, Lumiotec Deals (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
On Ewing, NJ-based Universal Display.



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