Daily Links 9/16/2011: Pennsylvania joins DOJ suite against AT&T/T-Mobile merger

About 20% Of U.S. Consumers Prone To Dropping Pay-TV: Analysts
High Cost Of Services Most-Cited Reason for Not Subscribing, Credit Suisse Survey Finds (Multichannel News)

Time Warner Cable's Stern: We Have to Move Away from Monolithic TV Packages (Multichannel News)

Microsoft Sees Xmas Debut for Xbox TV (Light Reading Cable)

GOP lawmakers scrutinize LightSquared (Washington Post)

AT&T, T-Mobile merger faces new obstacle as seven states join DOJ lawsuit (Washington Post: Post Tech)
Pennsylvania is one of them.

New York Startup Warby Parker Raising A Big Round At ~ $100 Million Valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)
The New York-based online eyeglass vendor was co-founded by four Wharton students; First Round Capital has been one of its investors.


The Hottest Trends in HR Technology (Human Resources Executive Online)

SAP TechEd: SAP BW to Run on HANA Database by November (ASUG News)

4.0 Releases of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management Solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio Now Generally Available (PR Newswire)
A long awaited release.

Infosys May Buy Thomson Reuters’ Health-Care Unit, Business Standard Says (Bloomberg)



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Daily Links 7/22/2011: Reports (doubted by some) that Apple might bid on Hulu

Apple Said to Consider Making Bid for Hulu (Bloomberg)

Don’t Hold Your Breath on That Apple Hulu Deal (All Things Digital)

Analyst: Comcast Stock Price Values NBCUniversal at 'Close to Zero' (Hollywood Reporter)

Big Cable Braces For A Lousy Quarter (All Things Digital)
Comcast reports earnings on August 3.

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Steps Down, COO Lowell McAdam Steps Up (TechCrunch)
I admire Seidenberg greatly for challenging the Telco culture and investing in FiOS; whether that will ultimately be judged to have been a good investment remains to be determined.

IPhone Bolsters Verizon Results (New York Times)

FiOS Sizzles In Verizon's Q2, Topping $2 Billion
Fiber-Optic Network Services Now Represent 57% Of Telco's Consumer Wireline Business (Multichannel News)

Congress, FCC hit brakes on T-Mobile, AT&T merger (The Hill)

Show Us the Money: Five PA Venture Capitalists to Watch (Keystone Edge)

Digital Media-Buying Platform MediaMath Nets $20 Million
Startup to Expand Into Video, Social and Mobile Ad Buying (Ad Adge)
Previous investor Safeguard Scientifics leads Series B round.

SAP BusinessObjects Customers Await New Platform (Information Week)


Anexinet rebounds, seeks software pros (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Publicis Revenue Increases on Latin America, Digital Media (Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle)

Lovell Minnick To Exit ALPS After 6 Six Years (PE Hub)

Ben Franklin TechVentures Named to Inc. Website’s Top-10 List (Press Release)
DreamIt Ventures also made the Inc. list (which I am not going to link to because their slide show keeps crashing my computer).



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Daily Links 2/25/2011: Drexel to get five times the bandwith

Comcast Preps a Docsis 3.0 Boost (Light Reading Cable)
For upload speeds.

Peers or not? Comcast and Level 3 slug it out at FCC's doorstep (Ars Technica)

NBCU Local Strategy: Balancing Individualism And Uniform Qualities (paidContent)

Is Verizon's FiOS Deployment Freeze Thawing?
Verizon Tells Wilmington, Delaware New Deployments Loom (Broadband Reports)
Update: One more reason why blogs are no substitute for newspapers (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc.)
While the Broadband Reports article above is wrong (sometimes old articles pop up in search engines or RSS Feeds), there is still a certain irony in going back and reading what the Verizon
exec said two years ago and what hasn't happened since then.

Salesforce wins bet on the cloud, doubles down on social (Fortune)

SAP Announces Blockbuster BusinessObjects Upgrade (Information Week)

Alcatel Lucent to help bring metering technology to Pennsylvania (PennEnergy)

Philadelphia Business Journal’s Social Media Stars announced (Philadelphia Business Journal)

ICG Announces 2010 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results
Core Consolidated Revenue Increases 27% in 2010
Metastorm Sale Completed (Globe Newswire)

Demand for Accelerated Cost Savings Fuels Continued Growth for ICG Commerce
Comprehensive Procurement Solution Provider Sees 20 Percent-Plus Revenue Growth for Sixth Consecutive Year (Globe Newswire)

Network to be upgraded
Five times more bandwidth for campus (The Triangle)



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