Daily Links 12/14/2012: Buffett interested in Allentown paper; Redbox launches event ticketing from Philly-area kiosks

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Is Warren Buffett eyeing the Allentown Morning Call?
Ownership of Lehigh Valley newspaper in question, and one of the world's richest men has something to say about it. (Allentown Morning Call)

Phila. is launch site as Redbox sells event tickets at kiosks (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast app to let viewers store, replay movies (AP via SeattlePI.com)


Student Engineers: Apply to work at 170+ startups with one Common Application (Redeye VC)

Year in Review: SAP’s Cloud Strategy in 2012 (ASUG News)

4 smokin' hot startups: The next tech boom
Social networks are dead, and smart VC money is pouring into enterprise startups like Shoutlet, Asana, Narrative Science, and Delphix (Infoworld)

Daily Links 11/30/2012: More on HP's Autonomy debacle

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Insight: How a desperate HP suspended disbelief for Autonomy deal (Reuters UK)

M&A The HP Way – Why the Autonomy deal was doomed, and what can’t be done to save HP (Josh Greenbaum/Enterprise Irregulars)

SaaS now replacing legacy apps as well as extending them, Gartner says (Computerworld UK)

One-Third Of SAP's Sales Are Now Through The Channel (CRN)

Unisys unveils new cloud application migration service (CloudPro)

NBCU gets some love from Wall Street: Retrans and network turnaround shift sentiment (Variety)


Scoop: Key pricing and launch details of Redbox Instant revealed (Gigaom)

Network Giants Argue In Appeals Court: Aereo Should Be Treated Like A Cable Company (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital was a seed investor in Aereo.

GE Plans Silicon Valley Venture Stakes Along With Hiring (Bloomberg)

MetroPCS Climbs After Analyst Says Sprint May Counterbid (Bloomberg)

Google Acquires Shopping Locker Service BufferBox (All Things D)
Small potatoes, but interesting as a clue to Google's e-commerce ambitions. Competes with Amazon, Conshohocken-based ShopRunner.




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Daily Links 10/3/2012: Redbox to begin ticket sales in Philly, partnering with Comcast-Spectacor's New Era Tickets

Redbox to expand into event ticket sales at kiosks (Chicago Tribune)
Starting in Philadelphia this month; partnering with Comcast-Spectacor's New Era Tickets.

Civic engagement startup ElectNext helps you decide on the issues (VentureBeat)

T-Mobile, Metro PCS announce merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Can you say MetroPCS iPhone? T-Mobile sure can (Gigaom)

Ellison hawks Oracle's cloud stack, calls out Salesforce.com
Oracle offers customers an integrated, more modern architecture than the competition, Ellison says (Computerworld)

Meet Comcast's IP-Only Set-Top (Light Reading Cable)


BizEquity Announces New Independence Platform
First and leading cloud-based business valuation service announces new version of its patent-pending Valuation as a Service product (Business Wire)

Fall 2012 Hack Days (Monetate Engineering Blog)




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Daily Links 7/24/2012: Comcast intros 305 Meg broadband, doubles speeds for two tiers

SAP Backs Full-Year Forecast After Profit Rises (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)

SAP Overtakes Siemens as Germany’s Most Valuable Company (Bloomberg)

SAP defying gravity. Who'da thought that? (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast Debuts 305-Meg Internet, Doubles Speeds For Two Broadband Tiers
MSO Launches 'Xfinity Platinum' to Take Fastest-Internet Claim From Verizon FiOS (Multichannel News)
Available to subscribers in Philadelphia region. Also doubling the speeds for current customers of its 25 and 50 Megabit per second services for no additional cost.

How Big Cable killed the open set-top box—and what to do about it
Researcher argues the FCC's set-top box strategy is doomed to failure. (Ars Technica)


Verizon and Redbox Start Testing Their New Web Video Service: Here’s What to Expect (Peter Kafka/All Things)

Netflix Hits Its Q2 Numbers, A Little Light on Subscribers (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Group M Next Taps Pinterest Analytics Company Curalate (Ad Age)

Project Liberty incubator names three new tenants (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Universal Display Purchases Fujifilm’s Worldwide OLED Patent Portfolio for $105 Million (Business Wire)

Unisys Announces Second-Quarter 2012 Financial Results (PR Newswire)
Turns a decent profit.


Ametek raises FY profit forecast, sees more acquisitions (Reuters)

Lockheed raises 2012 guidance as second quarter net tops view (Reuters)



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Daily Links 2/7/2012: ShopRunner buys Shopsanity

ShopRunner Buys Shopsanity to Help Retailers Take on Amazon (PandoDaily)

Oracle demands retrial in SAP slurp spat
Snubs paltry $272m payout, wants full $1.3bn in damages (The Register)

Bill and Jim’s Bright Shiny Penny: Understanding SAP’s Success and the Challenges It Brings (Joshua Greenbaum/Enterprise Applications Consulting)

SAP to Offer Hana Analytic Software to Smaller Companies in 2012 (Bloomberg)

With federal loans blocked, Fisker halts work on Project Nina, lays off 66 workers (Engadget)

Meet Spongecell, a Profitable Ad Tech Company With $10 Million in New Funding from Safeguard Scientifics (All Things Digital)

EPAM downsizes IPO, prices below range-underwriter (Reuters)

InterDigital anticipates Q1 revenue shortfall (Forbes)

Vishay Q4 Revs, Profits Miss Estimates; Shares Stumble (Forbes)

Coinstar Soars on Profit, Buyout of NCR Unit (Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle)

Redbox and Verizon Face Key Decisions for DVD-and-Streaming Service (Ad Age)

Customers rate Comcast in first of 4 meetings (Savannah Morning News)

Fed may decide on Cap1-ING merger Wednesday (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc.)

DreamIt Ventures seeks five Israeli start-ups (Globes)


SaaS Changes to Higher Ed ERP Market (Delta Initiative Blog)



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Daily Links 2/6/2012: NBC's Super Bowl most watched TV program ever

Kenexa Agrees To Acquire OutStart, a Leading Provider of Next Generation e-Learning Solutions (Business Wire)

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 (Business Wire)
Company says it paid $38.9 million for OutStart, from which it expects $13.5 million in GAAP revenue for 2012.

Local company's acquisition puts it on the global map (Wilmington News Journal)

NBC's Super Bowl XLVI most-watched show in TV history (USA Today)
What kind of bounce will NBC get?

Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox (AP via LA Times)

Verizon teams up with Redbox to cash in on video (Gigaom)

Hands on with AnyPlay: Live Comcast video on your iPad (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Is Workday Silicon Valley's Next Big IPO? (Daily Beast)
Workday certainly deserves some hype, although this article perhaps provides too much of it.

Be everywhere: Google’s real social strategy (ZDNet Blogs)
By Will Reynolds of Philly's SEER Interactive.

Newgrounds Undergoing Redesign (GameKudos.com)
Newgrounds is based in Montgomery County.

Fisker lays off workers in Delaware, California (Wilmington News Journal)

SAP community portal launch date unclear due to bugs (Infoworld)

Greenphire trying for larger place clinical-trial information business (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Someone’s Trying to Frankenstein a Sports Blog Monster That Will Crush Philly.Com (Philly Mag: The Philly Post)

Q&A: Russ Fadel, CEO, ThingWorx – “Hooked on Entrepreneurship” (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)