Poptent moves to Center City from Conshy (Updated)

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Pioneering video advertising crowdsourcing and production firm Poptent, which has locations in the Philly and L.A. areas, has moved its Philadelphia office from Conshohocken to Center City, a company spokesperson confirmed to Philly Tech News. Word of the move became somewhat obvious from some tweets on Poptent's twitter account.

Our new Downtown Philadelphia HQ. Looking good. pic.twitter.com/hAlMHNkUDd

— poptent (@poptent) January 7, 2014

The new office is at 24th and Walnut, and will house approximately 30 people. Poptent expects to have a blog post out soon with more about the move on its website.

@CCHeimVoiceOver we're ready! pic.twitter.com/69wphxNjOT

— poptent (@poptent) January 7, 2014

Here is Poptent's announcement of its new Philly office on its blog.

Daily Links 7/12/2012: Poptent raises another $5.5 million

SAP Preliminary Second-Quarter Software License Sales Beat Analyst Estimates (Bloomberg)

SAP trousers €1bn quarter in software sales, fumbles profit
Prelims are best ever but net income can't keep up (The Register)
I love the way some Register journalists can bring humor to something as dry as an earnings release, while making sense of it at the same time.

SAP Appoints P&G Nordic CEO Deplazes Delgado As Personnel Chief (Bloomberg)
Becomes SAP's top female exec; also named to SAP's executive board.

Poptent Raises $5.5 Million to Support Continued Growth, Surpasses 50,000 Members and $5 Million in Creator Cash Payments (Business Wire)

With 50,000 Videographers, PopTent Raises $5.5 Million From MK Capital To CrowdSource Ads (TechCrunch)

Dell Offers Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance
While not a complete business intelligence system, Dell's Quickstart 1000 appliance bundles Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database and Dell Boomi data-integration software. (Information Week)

Comcast’s TiVo isn’t the ultimate, but it’s close (Boston Globe)

Cable Ops Rooting For Aereo In Clash With Broadcasters
MSOs See Possibility That Startup's Legal Battle Could End Retrans Regime (Multichannel News)

Cook’s (TV) tour
Apple big huddles with media bosses (NY Post)


DuPont Kevlar advances telecommunication cables (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc.)
DuPont partners with Hatfield-based Fiber-Line.

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Leads Series B Funding for Voxware (Business Wire)

SCVNGR's LevelUp Tries Dropping the Transaction Fee for Mobile Payment (New York Times: Bits)
Will try to make money from deals cut.

MicroStrategy goes visual with BI platform updates (Computer Business Review)
May enhance its ability to compete with QlikTech and Tableau. Also, CEO Michael Saylor apparently doesn't think too much of Microsoft Surface (or, more accurately, the product launch itself).

Former Birds employees launch fantasy front office football (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 4/12/2012: Two local PE firms team up to buy Minnesota Ed Tech firm

Poptent Launches World’s Largest Video Production House for Major Brands and Agencies (Business Wire)
A company spokesperson tells me by email that Poptent Productions will be primarily run out of Poptent's San Clemente, CA office (where David Mann and Jon Seidman are based), with support from a number of employees in the Philly-area office as well.

Open Table's rival to launch here (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Wilmington News Journal cans newly hired reporter after he posts self-written press release on blog sites (JimRomenesko.com)

Microsoft Inks Its Biggest Cloud Deal Yet: 7.5M Students And Teachers In India (TechCrunch)

Amazon Job Descriptions Hint at More Perks Coming to Prime (All Things D)
Comments by Mike Golden, president of Conshohocken-based ShopRunner.

Will Service Providers Steal ADT's Customers? (Light Reading Cable)
Comcast wants to be a big player.


Alarm Capital Alliance Partners with Norwest Venture Partners
Alarm Capital Alliance Eyes Major Growth Opportunities in the $43 Billion Security Alarm Industry (PR Newswire)
Alarm Capital Alliance is based in Media. The amount invested by Norwest Venture Partners, or the exact nature of its partnership with ACA, were not disclosed.

Boathouse, Renovus Capital Strike Secondary Deal for Atomic Learning (PE Hub)
Boathouse Capital and Renovus Capital Partners are both located outside of Philadelphia. Atomic Learning, based in Minnesota, provides tech tools and training to teachers. Boathouse and Renovus invested $19.0 million of subordinated debt and equity alongside Atomic Learning’s management.

SAP Says Hana Tests Well On Performance, Scalability (Josh Greenbaum/Information Week)

Making Sense of "Multi-tenancy" Claims (Brian Sommer/ZDNet Blogs)

EMC unveils preconfigured private cloud for partners (Computerworld)

RES Software Signs $3.5 Million Deal with Fortune 20 Company (Business Wire)
RES Software is based in Plymouth Meeting.

Leslie Moonves on Why Broadcast Trumps Cable, What He Said to Steve Burke (Q&A) (Hollywood Reporter)

Philadelphia Councilman Thinks Verizon May Be Foot-Dragging On FiOS Construction (CBS Philly)

TWC Bundles Up With Verizon Wireless In Five Markets
Regulators Have Yet to Approve MSOs' Spectrum and Co-Marketing Deals With Wireless Operator (Multichannel News)

InterDigital and LiveCast Successfully Integrate Video Optimization into Broadcast-Focused LTE Live Video Solution (Business Wire)



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Highlights: Last week on Philly Tech News (1/30/2012 to 2/5/2012)

Reports that surfaced in the New York Post a week ago that Philadelphia Media Network, owner of the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com, was for sale again turned out to be true, with a group led by Ed Rendell and Ed Snider and another led by members of the Perelman family mentioned to be among the candidates to acquire it.

Exton-based SaaS insurance provider iPipeline"s latest funding round, announced in January, turned to be for $71.4 million, according to its SEC filing.

Scrutiny of the proposed spectrum sale and reseller agreement between Verizon Wireless and Comcast and other cable companies intensified, with a Senate committee planning hearings for later this month. Meanwhile, the joint marketing arrangement continued to roll out, expanding into the Bay area.

The closing of SAP AG's $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors could be delayed for weeks, possibly even months, as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) investigates it, for some reason.

Philly-based ad agency Red Tettemer & Partners (Century 21) and local crowdsourcing site Poptent (Dannon) both had ads they produced run during the Super Bowl, which ad people say is two more than Philly's ever had before. And Nielsen said NBC's 2012 Super Bowl broadcast was the most watched program in TV history.

And Comcast may invest, through its partial ownership of the SNY cable network, $40 million to help bail out the New York Mets. Traitors.



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Poptent's Super Bowl ad for Dannon's OIKOS Greek Yogurt

Poptent, the Philadelphia-born agency that crowdsources video advertising production, has had its Super Bowl ad for Dannon's OIKOS Greek Yogurt prereleased prior to the game. Poptent received 34 fully-produced entries from its top producers, and a spot titled "The Tease", directed by Lewis & Clark College student Remy Neymarc, 21, was selected. The final spot was then shot at Poptent Productions, a division of Poptent.

Poptent's website also shows some outtakes and behind the scenes activity from the shoot. Poptent was founded in 2007 and received $6.8 million led by MK Capital in late 2010. Although it has a considerable presence in Conshohocken, its headquarters is now in San Clemente, CA according to its website.

Poptent joins Red Tettemer & Partners, with its ad for Century 21, as Philadelphia agencies producing ads for the 2012 Super Bowl.






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Daily Links 1/24/2012: EPAM Systems commences IPO

EPAM Systems, Inc. (Newtown) Commences Initial Public Offering of Common Stock (Business Wire)

Verizon Posts Loss on Pension Costs as IPhone Boosts Expenses (Bloomberg)

Verizon Adds More FiOS TV Subscribers in Fourth Quarter (Hollywood Reporter)

Verizon's FiOS TV Passes Charter In Q4
Telco Adds 194,000 Net Video Subs, 201,000 FiOS Internet Despite DSL, Landline Losses (Multichannel News)


TAGSYS Ramps up Its Go-to-Market Strategy for the Americas
New executive leadership will spearhead expansion of TAGSYS' footprint in North and South America (Business Wire)
Tagsys' headquarters for the Americas is in King of Prussia.

Fledgling tech firm seeks NYC space (Crain's New York Business)
KEMP Technologies recently raised $7.5 million led by Edison Ventures. (Correction: It was actually $16 million, led by $7.5 million from Edison Ventures.)

Software AG plots Valley invasion by Terracotta army (The Register)

SAP Reaches Target for ByDesign Software, Euro am Sonntag Says (Bloomberg)
I've never considered that target to be that meaningful by itself, without some reference to the number of seats involved.

Philly's Red Tettemer, PopTent nail Super Bowl ads (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Fisker having trouble delivering its hybrid cars (USA Today)



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Daily Links 6/21/2011: Comcast says it will cut waits for cable service

Is the NJ Data Center Market Facing Oversupply? (Data Center Knowledge)

SAP's HANA in-memory analytics engine now available (Computerworld)

HANA is here...innit? (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast Will Slash Wait Times for Cable Repair After ‘Worst’ Designation (Bloomberg)

Comcast CEO: “Jury is Out” on Netflix’s Impact (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Speaks Out on Bloomberg FCC Complaint, NBC News (MediaBistro: TVNewswer)

(Report):Hulu Considering Selling Itself After Receiving An Offer (Silicon Alley Insider)

Hulu weighs sale options after approach: source (Reuters)
LA Times headline says Yahoo is the bidder, though article isn't so clear on that.


NextDocs Announces Creation of Life Sciences Scalability Lab
New lab to allow Microsoft clients and partners to test scalability and reliability requirements of solutions prior to deployment (Business Wire)

Poptent Opens Brazil Office, Surpasses $2 Million in Creator Cash Payments during Dell Video Advertising Campaign (Business Wire)

Bulletin: Gannett announces 700 newspaper layoffs (Gannett Blog)

IBM's Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance (Computerworld)

University of Pennsylvania/MAGPI to Provide Advanced Networking, Applications, Demonstrations at ISTE 2011 Conference (Penn News)

Daily Links 12/20/2010: FCC expected to approve net neutrality regs

Poptent Hits $1 Million in Video Ad Payouts (MediaPost News)

Qualcomm Shutters FLO TV, Sells AT&T The Spectrum for $1.9 Billion (Gigaom)

Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews (New York Times)

FCC expected to pass net neutrality rule (Washington Post: Post Tech)

The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom (Wall Street Journal)
Opinion piece by Robert M. McDowell, Republican commissioner of the FCC.

Level 3 Escalates Dispute With Comcast, Tries To Block NBCU Merger (paidContent)

DirecTV Enlists SMG To Sell Addressable Ads For 10 Million Subs
Agency Has Committed to Spend Up to $20 Million on Service in 2011 (Multichannel News)

Web Startup AboutOne.com Announces Public Beta Release and Program to Support On-Ramping Mothers (PR Newswire)
Not the same thing as About.Me, which AOL just acquired today.

Vantage Communications Acquires Hosted VoIP Provider Digital Ingenuity (PR Web)

Big Pharma's small voice
Out of fear of federal regulation, drug companies shun social media (Wilmington News Journal)

Why I Started Alphabuyer (Alphabuyer Blog)
Alphhabuyer is a group buying website based in Paoli that just launched.

MK Capital Invests $3 million in Crowdsourced Video Leader Poptent

MK Capital Invests in Crowdsourced Video Leader Poptent
Digital Media Executive Andy Jedynak Joins Company as CEO (Business Wire)
Poptent raises $3M for new social network for crowdsourced video
(VentureBeat)
Although Wynnewood is given as Poptent's HQ on its website, it seems from what I'm reading that its headquarters may be moving to the LA area, although there is no official confirmation of that at this time.
Update: Mark Schoneveld of Poptent writes in to say: "Actually - we'll be staying here in Wynnewood. Our West Coast office is definitely expanding, but we're growing here, too".




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Daily Links 7/28/2010: Another Lower Merion student files lawsuit

2nd Lower Merion student sues over 'spycam' (Philadelphia Daily News)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2010 Second Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)
GSI Commerce Shrs Off; Q2 Loss Wider Than Anticipated (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Expansion of Customer Relationships Drives Strong Revenue Growth and Profitability (Business Wire)

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott gives his mid-year review (SearchSAP.com)

Augment Reality for the Enterprise - SAP Employee Unveils Prototype
(ReadWrite Enterprise)

ING DIRECT USA LAUNCHES ENHANCED MOBILE APPLICATION (PR Newswire)
Using Philly's Poptent to help promote it.

Federal Reserve Board Beige Book: Third District-Philadelphia, July 28, 2010 (Federal Reserve Board)

FIELD: RADIO GROWTH WILL PICK UP (Radio Ink)
On Entercom's earnings report.