Links 2/24/2014: Oracle buys Blue Kai; Pivotal spins off Cloud Foundry with SAP support

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WhatsApp Shows How Phone Carriers Lost Out on $33 Billion
(Bloomberg)

Can Google Eat All That Fiber? (Bloomberg/Business Week)

Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more (PC World)

Why Netflix Is Actually the Big Winner in the Comcast Bandwidth Deal (Variety)



First Comcast-TW Cable Showdown with Feds Set for March 26
(Variety)



Supreme Court Declines Tennis Channel Review of Comcast Case (Variety)


Oracle buys Blue Kai, gains massive consumer data mart (PC World)

IBM Invests Another $1 Billion In its Cloud Business (Re/code)

Pivotal spins off Cloud Foundry, gains SAP and Rackspace support (Business Cloud News)


Vision - and money - for a start-up ecosystem in Philly
(Philadelphia Daily News)

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor (Fast Company)


LoudCrowd app eases classroom input (Penn Current)

Daily Links 7/24/2013: Federal appeals court won't block Dish's Hopper

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IBM throws its weight behind Pivotal’s open source Cloud Foundry (VentureBeat)

Michael Dell raises bid for Dell (Fortune: Term Sheet)
Slightly. Shareholder meeting pushed back to August 2.

Unisys Announces Second-Quarter 2013 Financial Results (PR Newswire)
Revenue down 7%, earnings down more than 50%. However, results beat analyst expectations,
and the share price rose almost 6% today.

TE Connectivity net up 68% on lower expenses (MarketWatch)
TE Connectivity, formerly Tyco Electronics, has its North American headquarters in Berwyn.

Strange bedfellows: Aereo gets help from Time Warner Cable and Comcast (The Verge)

Federal Court Won't Block Dish's Hopper
Says lower court did not abuse discretion in denying preliminary injunction (Broadcasting & Cable)

CBS Interactive Boss, NBCUniversal Top Executive Talk Hulu, Netflix, Apple (Hollywood Reporter)

Nascar Shifts TV Rights to NBC Starting In 2015 (Ad Age)

Chromecast Is Google’s Miracle Device (Wired)

Exclusive: Cox digs in on first FTTH project in O.C. (CED Magazine)

IBC, Penn Medicine, and DreamIt Ventures host first 'Demo Day' for DreamIt Health entrepreneurs (Globe Newswire)

Daily Links 4/25/2013: Verizon said to be preparing bid to buyout Vodafone's Verizon Wireless stake

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Verizon eyes $100 billion bid for Vodafone's Wireless stake (Reuters)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
Capital deployments in Pneuron and Sotera Wireless bring partner company roster to 20
(Business Wire)

QlikTech Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
Total revenue of $96.5 million increases 22% compared to first quarter of 2012 (QlikTech Press Release)

InterDigital Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Globe Newswire)

Mixed Q1 For Time Warner Cable
OIBDA Growth In Line, But Video Sub Losses Rise (Multichannel News)

Arris Sees Video Gateway Market Start to Open Up (Multichannel News)

GE Puts $105M Into Pivotal, The New EMC And VMware Platform Initiative, But Here’s What It Is Missing (TechCrunch)

AWeber Announces New Headquarters in Chalfont, Pa.
Renovated 71,000-square foot building to be revealed with April 30th ribbon-cutting ceremony (PRWeb)





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Daily Links 4/24/2013: GE drops $105 mm into EMC/VMware cloud spinoff; Unisys plummets after earnings release

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Amazon: Hard luck Microsoft, AWS will always be cheaper
We're in the driving seat and the only way is down (The Register)

Pivotal’s Audacious Plan (New York Times: Bits)
GE invests $105 million (yes, thats right) in EMC/VMware cloud spinoff.

Salesforce.com seeks more advertising, marketing revenue from social (Gigaom)

Red ink flows in difficult first quarter for Unisys (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Unisys shares are down 20% on the day.

Comcast: Unlicensed Spectrum Now Top Route to Web Access
Exec to Tell Senate to Do More to Free Up Spectrum (Multichannel News)

Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box (Bloomberg Business Week)

Harry Potter coming to Universal Studios Hollywood (LA Daily News)

NBCUniversal Celebrates New Digital Efforts (Hollywood Reporter)

Publicis Groupe to Spend $4 Billion on Acquisitions Over Next Five Years
Maurice Levy Says Small and Midsize Digital Firms Are Next Targets (Ad Age)


Smart-phone app for runners wins Villanova contests (Philadelphia Business Journal)




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Daily Links 4/5/2013: Unisys' split personality; mass layoffs at Fisker

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Unisys must mend its split personality and develop a consistent global focus (Ovum)


EMC, VMware Love Child Pivotal Poses Challenge to AWS (Eweek)

SAP Grants Channel Partners Sales Exclusivity For 'General Business' Customers (CRN)

SAP's effort to get startups on HANA bandwagon chugging along (PC World)

Chernin, Comcast Investing in YouTube Tools Startup Fullscreen (All Things D)

Peter Chernin Wants Hulu, Too (All Things D)

Markell's office notified of Fisker's plans for layoffs (Wilmington News Journal)

Google Plans to Announce Something in Austin Next Week (All Things D)
Hard to believe it would be Google Fiber.

Milestone Announces Final Closing of Milestone IV and Senior Level Promotions (Milestone Website)
Radnor-based PE firm closes new fund at $300 million.



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