Links 11/6/2013: Passport Health; with King of Prussia unit Healthworks, acquired for $850 million

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Experian Acquires Passport Health Communications for $850 Million (HISTalk)
Passport's Healthworks unit is based in King of Prussia.

Is Philly's top health insurer cancelling small-business policies? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Official who oversaw botched Healthcare.gov launch resigns (The Verge)

Square Exploring 2014 IPO With Banks (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Jack Dorsey's other venture.



MeetMe Reports Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Workday readies OpenStack cloud (ZDNet)

Thumbing nose at Oracle, Rimini Street to file for IPO (PC World)

Veeva Systems' CEO On Why Pharma Needs His Cloud Software (Forbes)

Henkel signs seven-year ITSM and security deal with Unisys (Computerworld UK)

McGraw-Hill joins edtech accelerator trend, possibly disrupting itself (PandoDaily)
In partnership with Penn.



U.K. tech company to open U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Daily Links 3/22/2012: Verizon Wireless/Cable deal gets blowback at Senate hearing

Comcast, Verizon face critics at Senate hearing (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lawmakers fear Verizon Wireless deal with cable firms will limit consumers’ choices (Washington Post)

VZ for VOD? Don’t Bet on It, Says Bernstein (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Tech Talk Episode One: The Cloud(Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

AT&T, Comcast, Other ISPs Urged by U.S. to Step Up Cybersecurity on Home PCs (Bloomberg)

Company dumps SAP support for Rimini Street, funds projects with savings (SearchSAP)


Oracle, SAP getting rattled by the ‘Cloud’
Web-based software attracting bigger corporate customers (Marketwatch)

Discount retailer Five Below eyes IPO -sources (Reuters)
Philly-based company backed in part by LLR Partners, co-founded by Encore Books founder and former Zany Brainy CEO; article speculates that market value could exceed $1 billion.

Kembrel's Killer Business Model: A Pop-Up with Weekly Flash Sales (215 Magazine)

EHR cost debate heats up (Government Health IT)

AWS partners with open-source private cloud provider Eucalyptus (Computerworld)

A video aerial view of Apple's NC data center (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Yummly raises $6M to build its digital kitchen (Gigaom)
First Round Capital was a seed funder of Yummly; its founder, Dave Feller, goes back aways with Josh Kopelman to Half.com.

Dog Vacay Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding Lead by First Round Capital to Fuel Nationwide Expansion (PR Web)



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Daily Links 4/6/2011: ShopRunner Wants to Give Amazon’s Free Shipping Program a Run for Its Money

ShopRunner Wants to Give Amazon’s Free Shipping Program a Run for Its Money (All Things Digital: eMoney)

ShopRunner Launches Enhanced Marketplace Where Millions of Products Are Eligible for Free, Two-Day Shipping (Business Wire)

Dish Network Wins Auction for Blockbuster With $320 Million Bid (Hollywood Reporter)

Dish's Latest Buy Is a Blockbuster (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast to FCC: Keep Hulu info secret (Politico)

Cisco: De-Emphasis, Not Divestiture, Of Consumer, Says Barclays (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Competes with Motorola Mobility in providing technology to the Cable industry.


Analyst: Motorola Xoom and Atrix are duds (VentureBeat)

Dell Boomi Exec Says Architects, SIs Exploring New Cloud Integration Options (Integration Developer News)

Do SAP customers really need in-memory Strategic Workforce Planning? (SearchSAP.com)

Others Drawn Into Oracle, Rimini Street Legal Fray (PC World)

Alteva Receives Unified Communications® Magazine's 2010 Product of the Year Award (Marketwire)

Commodore Announces New Commodore64, VIC Computers (PC Magazine)
A rebirth of sorts for Commodore, the PC pioneer that was based in West Chester, although the current entity has no relationship to the old one or local connection.

Pennridge district readying government-education channel for Comcast (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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Daily Links 7/19/2010: Verizon preparing for LTE rollout

As Niche Gets Crowded, Studio Watches Its Back (New York Times)
Comcast rumored as possible suitor for DreamWorks.

Verizon's LTE rollout is imminent, computers updated for 4G SIM cards (Engadget)

NSN to Buy Moto's Wireless Biz for $1.2B (Light Reading Mobile)

Worst VC investment year since ’96 (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Google's growth in city puts Pittsburgh in top tier of regional sites (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Founders of Venmo (Inc.: 30 Under 30)

Swift to acquire SunGard's Ambit Messaging Hub (Finextra)

SAP Walks Tightrope Selling Business ByDesign (CIO.com)

SAP extends offer period for Sybase buy to July 26 (Reuters)

Down To Business: Oracle Suit Casts Shadow On Rimini Gains
Alternative provider of software support services gaining enterprise customers, despite Oracle suit's chilling effect. (Information Week)

Epocrates plans $75 million IPO, again (Mobile Health News)




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Daily Links 3/29/2010: Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP

ICG Commerce's 2009 Results Suggest Procurement BPO Growth
(Spend Matters)

Acorn Energy Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Financial Results (PR Newswire)

Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP (Information
Week: Global CIO)

Rimini Street sues Oracle (ZDNet Blogs)

Synygy Announces Full Integration with Oracle® CRM On Demand (Business Wire)

Technology Shines at 2010 NJTC Venture Conference (PR Newswire)

Specter wants to extend U.S. privacy curbs to Web-cam use (Philadelphia Inquirer)

ShopNBC parent makes headway on road to profit (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Imported execs from QVC.



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