Links 1/3/2014: Phillies sign huge extension with Comcast SportsNet

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Phillies agree to new 25-year television deal (MLB.com)
Renews with Comcast SportsNet.

Phillies' 25-Year TV Rights Deal Worth An Average $100M Annually (Sports Business Daily)
Report says deal increases Phillies' equity stake in regional net to 25%.

Owners propose auction of Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com (Newsworks)


Appature parent IMS Health files for $100 million IPO (GeekWire)
IMS Health, headquartered in Connecticut, has much of its US operations based in Collegeville and Plymouth Meeting. It was taken private by TPG and others in 2010 for $5.2 billion. Its Appature acquisition, made in 2013, was intended to help IMS better compete against companies like Veeva Systems on the technology front.

Marketo Pegged as Target in Cloud-Software Deal Spree: Real M&A (Bloomberg)

What is SAP HANA? A Look Through The History Of The Automobile (John Appleby/SAP HANA Blog)




DNAnexus builds online hub for scientists to store and share genetic data (VentureBeat)
First Round Capital participated again in DNAnexus' latest $15 million round, although this venture seems somewhat outside of FRC's usual domain expertise.

Odds dim for Fisker production in Delaware (AP via Miami Herald)

Vanguard's growing dominance: Morningstar (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Links 11/7/2013: Ewing's Universal Dislpay posts strong gains, raises guidance

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Twitter Flies On Its First Day As A Public Company: Shares Pop 74% On First Trades, Debuts At $45.10 And $31.8B Valuation (TechCrunch)

IBM or Amazon Web Services? Place your bets, engines are running (Diginomica)

Should you build on Force.com? (VentureBeat)

Is A Tsunami Of SAP Attacks Coming? (Dark Reading)



The Philadelphia Inquirer is melting down (Eric Wemple/Washington Post)

Jeff Bewkes: HBO’s Streaming Deal With Comcast Won’t Promote Cord Cutting (Deadline)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Profitable as revenue than doubles on strong materials sales; raises guidance.

Cloudnexa Announces Strategic Business Investments (PR Newswire)
Raises $2.3 million; Locates at Philadelphia Navy Yard.


Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results (Business Wire)
Shares down 22% today on reduced guidance.

Links 10/17/2013: Verizon/Cable product joint venture has been dead for awhile

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Veeva stock skyrockets, Emergence and Salesforce bask in the glow (San Francisco Business Times)

Veeva a better VC deal than Twitter? (Fortune Term Sheet)


Philadelphia 100 Announces 2013 Winners; Celebrates 25th Anniversary (PR Web)
See the full Philadelphia 100.

Verizon posts $2.23B profit, adds 1.1M wireless connections (CNET News)

Verizon gains 135K FiOS TV and 173K FiOS Internet subs in Q3 2013 (FierceCable)



Comcast and Verizon Decide They Don’t Need to Compete With Apple, Google and Everyone Else, After All
(All Things D)

Failure of Verizon’s cable partnership kills secretive Nuon content-sharing project (Gigaom)


SAP Appoints Björn Goerke Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Cloud Delivery (SAP Newsbyte)



Security firm releases tool to audit SAP's HANA (PC World)

Salesforce, Google, Amazon Cloud Winners, Says Piper; Microsoft Straddles the Line (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

eBay Inc. Reports Strong Third Quarter 2013 Results (Business Wire)
KoP-based EBay Enterprise reports 5% revenue growth.


Inquirer owners to Guild: Expect a long battle (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Daily Links 9/23/2010: QlikTech says its launching aggressive Global Recruitment Initiative

QlikTech Launches Aggressive Global Recruitment Initiative (Business Wire via MarketWatch)

Hey Cable Guys! Cord Cutting is Real, and It’s a Problem, Says Verizon CEO (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)

Comcast Tees Up TV Everywhere Relaunch (Light Reading)

Zucker: Comcast Integration Top Priority
Says NBC Turnaround Has Begun (Multichannel News)

Perelman Bids $85 Million for Philadelphia Inquirer and Sister Newspaper (Bloomberg)
Lenders again win auction of Philadelphia newpapers (Reuters)

Ellison jabs at Salesforce, recaps Exalogic before finally previewing Fusion in closing keynote (ZDNet Blogs)

Hara: 40 Customers, New Software and Growing Fast
The city of Philadelphia is the company’s latest customer. (Greentech Media)