Daily Links 5/29/2013: Comcast prepares for massive U. S. Open coverage at Merion

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Comcast teeing up U.S. Open coverage (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Brings Voice Control to X1 Remote (Multichannel News)

Apple Set-Tops Are Groundwork for ‘Grand Vision’ in TV, CEO Says (Variety)

Roku Raises a $60 Million Round, Led by Fidelity, to Fight for the Living Room (All Things D)

Videology Raises $60 Million, Prepares For Overseas Expansion And Convergence (Ad Exchanger)

'After Earth' takes Will Smith back near his Philadelphia hometown (LA
Times: Company Town)

Consulting firm [Electronic Ink] uses behavioral scientists to help companies (Philadelphia Daily News)

Pa awards $8.9M contract to connect its 11 health information exchanges (Med City News)


Salesforce.com to reveal 'Company Communities'
Pipe your intranet onto a BYOD smartphone, you know it makes sense (The Register)

EnterpriseDB's Tom Kincaid - why did SalesForce.com hire PostgreSQL expert? (ZDNet)

$156 billion reasons why Lars and SAP were never meant to be
(Phil Fersht/Enterprise Irregulars)

Amazon’s Web Services Threatens Almost All IT, Says Morgan Stanley (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Dow Jones turns to tech for future face-off with Bloomberg (paidContent)
Both Dow Jones and Bloomberg have significant development operations in the Princeton
area.




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Daily Links 7/26/2012: ICG takes majority position in Channel Intelligence; Google puts toe in Cable biz?

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Partner Companies Continue to Build Momentum; 2012 Revenue Guidance Increased (Business Wire)

ICG Announces Consolidation of Channel Intelligence
Achieves Significant Strategic Milestone by Adding Channel Intelligence as Fourth Platform (Globe Newswire)

ICG Announces Second Quarter Financial Results
Company Reports Record Revenue and Raises Guidance for 2012 (Globe Newswire)

QlikTech Announces Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Total revenue of $85.8 million increases 16% year-over-year and 24% on a constant currency basis (Business Wire)

Google Gets Into the Cable TV Business, for Real (All Things D)

Verizon is Willfully Driving DSL Users Into the Arms of Cable
Verizon's Plan: Kill DSL, Kill Unionized Labor, Raise Prices (Broadband Reports)

Roku Raises $45 Million From News Corp., BSkyB, Others
Over-the-Top Set-Top Maker Says New Relationships Include Business Agreements (Multichannel News)

ThingWorx Powers First Cloud-Based Smart Agriculture Solution (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 1/4/2012: CloudMine, ElectNext and SnipSnap are chosen for Project Liberty incubator

Why Enterprise Software Will Never Be the Same (PC World)

Ben Franklin Announces Project Liberty Digital Incubator Inaugural Class (Ben
Franklin Technology Partners Press Release)
CloudMine, ElectNext and SnipSnap are chosen.

Disney and Comcast Link Up for Another 10 Years (All Things Digital)

Comcast, Disney Reach Major Carriage Deal
UPDATED: ESPN available online to Xfinity subscribers (Broadcasting & Cable)


Amazon staffs up for new digital media service effort (Gigaom)

MetroPCS Launching Live Mobile TV Service Later This Year (TechCrunch)

TiVo shares soar after AT&T settlement (AP via CBS News)

Roku Streaming Stick delivers TV apps in a flash drive package (VentureBeat)

Solve Media Now Works With 3,000 Publishers And It's Closing In On A ~ $6 Million Series B Round (Silicon Alley Insider)
Solve Media was started in Philadelphia and backed by First Round Capital; moved to New York but still has office in Philly.

Echo Therapeutics Announces $3.6 Million Warrant Exercises (PR Newswire)

Independence Blue Cross gears up to launch mobile apps (Mobile Health News)

Shell completes transition of SAP-based HR application services to Accenture
(Computerworld UK)

Infor shows strong growth (ZDNet Blogs)



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Daily Links 6/24/2010: iPhone 4 Seekers Swamp Local Malls

iPhone 4 Seekers Swamp Local Malls (Fox29)

Oracle Profit Jumps 25% to Beat Street Estimates (Daily Finance)
Oracle Q4 turns in strong revenue and earnings (ZDNet Blogs)


EU Seeks Outside Opinions on SAP-Sybase Deal (PC World)

Unisys plans for St. Louis facility, add 300 jobs (Associated Press via Bloomberg Business Week)

Clearleap, Roku Shop Web Video Combo to Cable (Light Reading Cable)

FCC stops time clock on NBCU-Comcast review (The Hill)

NBC Universal Decides Not To Sell ShopNBC Stake On Weak Stock (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Exciting FanGamb Changes, Moving to Europe
(Robert Shedd)
Former DreamIt Ventures startup.

Health IT Boot Camp To Accelerate Professional Certification
The five-day crash course in health IT and e-medical records can lead to professional certification for IT pros and clinicians. (Information Week)
To be conducted by Trevose-based Training Camp.

FreedomPay surpasses 1,000 client milestone since launching its FreeWay™ Transaction Gateway in 2009
(Business Wire)

SAS buys maker of police software (Raleigh News & Observer)
Claims Philadelphia police, Delaware and Pennsylvania state police as customers.




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