Daily Links 4/17/2012: SAP insider gripes about intense sales pressure, SAI reports

E-retailer Fanatics acquires a competing merchant of sports apparel and gear (Internet Retailer)
Insight Venture Partners contributing equity to deal. Article says Fanatics revenue grew by 188% in 2011 over 2010.

Path Packs on $30M More (Reuters via PE Hub)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Path.

Insider: SAP Booted Its North American President For Missing One Quarterly Target (SAI: Enterprise)

SAP 'Skins Knee' With First Quarter 2012 Financial Results (Information Week)

Recap: SAP Database and Mobility Event, April 2012 (Derek Loranca/SAP Community Network)

Oracle considered buying RIM or Palm to get into the smartphone game (The Verge)

NBC-Owned Stations, Comcast Sports Group Strike Ad Sales Partnership
Station Group to Sell National Advertising for Comcast RSNs in Philly, DC, New England, Northwest (Multichannel News)

Netflix CEO’s Comcast Complaints Draw in FCC (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Hulu to Boost Spending on Content This Year by 67% (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Facebook Users To Program Philadelphia-Area TV Show (AllFacebook)

The Startup Incubator For Robot Overlords: GRASP (Fast Company)

Philly's "Next American City" Wants To Bring Longform Journalism Straight To Your Inbox (Fast Company)

WordPress Plugin Adds Zuppler Online Ordering to Restaurant Websites (PR Newswire)

WFT Cloud, accredited by SAP Insider for helping SAP customers migrate to Cloud Infrastructure around the Globe (PR Web)

Futura Mobility Announces Strategic Partnership with The Judge Group (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 4/13/2012: SAP stumbles on North American execution issues; Comcast to face antitrust trial

SAP Profit Rises on Sales of Mobile Applications, Analytics (Bloomberg)
But somewhat below analyst's estimates. See SAP Press Release.

SAP sees Q1 stumble on North America execution issues (ZDNet Blogs)
Connection between "North America execution issues" and last week's departure of SAP North America President Robert Courteau? Good guess.

Judge orders Comcast trial in antitrust complaint (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Comcast Is First U.S. ISP to Offer IPv6 to Home Gateway Users (Network World)

Bentley Systems Releases 2011 Annual Report Online
Record Revenues, Key Milestones, and Strategic Initiatives Are Highlighted in Bentley’s Annual Reporting to Its User Organizations (Business Wire)

Video Innovation Continues as Motorola Mobility Offers New Higher Density and Flexible Transcoder IRD Products (PR Newswire)

City is too app-happy (Philadelphia Daily News)



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Daily Links 4/5/2012: Comcast battles little Boxee; Trib, DirecTV reach deal

SAP North America Chief Robert Courteau Resigns After 15 Months (Bloomberg)
A little more detail on Courteau here.

Oracle's Mark Hurd Spells out Analytics Vision (PC World)

SAP's VC unit scours Silicon Valley for startups (Bloomberg & the San Francisco Chronicle)


Norcross' new role as newspaper owner has some worried (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Why digital-native media will (almost) always win (Gigaom)

Big Media Tussles With Tiny Boxee Over the Future of TV (Bloomberg)

Tribune, DirecTV Hammer Out A Deal
23 Stations in 19 Markets Go Live in Time For MLB's Opening Day (Multichannel News)
WPHL should be back on DirecTV.

Comcast, TWC Still Bullish On Interactive TV
Two Biggest Operators See New Opportunities for EBIF Platform (Multichannel News)

Mistras Group, Inc. Strong 3rd Quarter Results Demonstrate Continued Growth in Revenues and Profits
Revenue Increases 31%, Adjusted EBITDA* Increases 28% (Globe Newswire)
Mistras Group is based in Princeton Junction.

Dataram Leverages Intellectual Property Through Sale of Patent Assets (Business Wire)

AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions Acquires COMPUDATA
AHS expands its comprehensive medical billing services to clients in Ohio and Pennsylvania (Business Wire)
AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions is a Safeguard Scientifics portfolio company.

Longview Positioned in 'Visionaries' Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites by Leading Analyst Firm (Marketwire)
Longview's US headquarters are in Radnor.

TelVue Announces the Launch of TelVue CloudCast (Marketwire)
TelVue is based in Mt Laurel.

Pennsylvania University (LaSalle) Rolls Out Remote IT Support Platform (Campus Technology)

Announcing the world's first Healthcare Startup Weekend, to take place in Philadelphia on June 1 (Flying Kite Media)

New Belgium plans $175 million brewery in N.C. (Denver Post)
Philadelphia was the other east coast location said to have been in the running.



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Daily Links 5/13/2011: SAP Told to Pay $345 Million for Infringing Versata Patent

SAP’s Plattner Courts Coca-Cola With Data-Analysis Software (Bloomberg)

SAP North American President Bob Courteau on Teamwork and Technology (ASUG News)

SAP Told to Pay $345 Million for Infringing Versata Patent (Bloomberg)

NetSuite under the microscope (ZDNet Blogs)

Aria Systems Announces Connector SuiteApp For NetSuite's SuiteCloud Computing Platform
Greater Configurability and Billing Sophistication Now Available for NetSuite Customers (Business Wire)

FCC’s Meredith Baker goes on the defensive (Washington Post: Post Tech)
Responds to criticisms over move to Comcast.

Netflix: ISPs Kill Web Freedom, Suck All Profits (Gigaom)

Verizon chief sees 3 big wireless firms in future (Tampa Tribune)
Lengthy, informative interview with incoming CEO Lowell McAdam.

Motorola Mobility Buys SunUp Digital Systems
Fourth Acquisition Since December 2010 (Multichannel News)

Tough Questions To Ask Cloud Service Providers (Information Week)



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Daily Links 1/17/2011: SAP makes global field organization realignment official

Comcast/NBCU Expected To Gain Approval This Week
(Multichannel News)

SnagFilms Raises $10 Million From Comcast, NEA; Will Expand Beyond Docs
(paidcontent)

Verizon: Level 3's Net-Neutrality Charge Against Comcast Is Specious
Telco Says FCC Intervention Would 'Upset' a Well-Functioning Marketplace (Multichannel News)

SAP Realigns Global Field Organization (PR Newswire)
A confirmation of what was already out there.

Robert Courteau Named President of SAP North America
Assumes Role as Former President Robert Enslin Appointed to Lead Business Software Company's Global Sales (PR Newswire)

Intergraph settles $200M suit with Bentley Systems (Huntsville Times)

5 Big Themes in BI for 2011 (Information
Week)

2010 Achievements and 2011 Outlook: Safeguard Scientifics, Capital Markets, Regulatory Compliance and more (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)