Daily Links 11/18/2011: Clearwire shares plummet on default fears

Urban Outfitters Losing Investors With Failing Fashions (Bloomberg)


ACS Transit nets $130M SEPTA fare-system upgrade (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Salesforce Tumbles After Billings Miss Analysts’ Estimates (Bloomberg)

‘Sup with SAP? (Gigaom)
Some possible SAP acquisition targets.

Site Tracks 'love,' 'hate' of SAP, Oracle and Other Software Vendors (PC World)

Motorola Mobility shareholders vote yes on a buy-out by Google (VentureBeat)

Cable-Tec Expo: SCTE Lures More Than 10,000 To Atlanta Confab
Attendance Up 24% from Last Year's Event in New Orleans (Multichannel News)


Can cable take the lead on social TV? (Fierce Cable)

Q&A: How Comcast is adjusting to our changing TV habits (GeekWire)
Interview with Tom Blaxland, senior director of product management for Comcast Interactive Media.

Clearwire shares plunge 31 percent on default fears (Reuters)



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Daily Links 8/16/2011: More on the Google/Motorola deal

NRG Energy to Acquire Philadelphia-based Energy Plus Holdings, Adding Immediate Scale and Unique Sales Channel to Expanding Northeast Retail Business (Business Wire)

4-year-old West Philly energy marketer sold for $190 million (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Apple Covets RIM, NOK, InterDigital Assets In Patent ‘War,’ Says Jefferies (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Is Google Turning Into a Mobile Phone Company? No, It Says (New York Times: DealBook)

THE VERDICT: Google-Motorola Will Be A Colossal Disaster* (Silicon Alley Insider)

Google’s Motorola Mobility Takeover May Survive U.S. Regulatory Scrutiny (Bloomberg)

Time Warner Cable’s future is in broadband, not TV (Gigaom)

Skillshare raises $3.1M to make every person a teacher (Gigaom)

Accelerating Product Innovation: Introducing CIM Lab Week (Comcast Voices/ Official Comcast Blog)

SCTE, WICT Launch ‘Women's TechConnect' Initiative
Effort will work to encourage women engineers and technologists in cable (Multichannel News)
The SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) is based in Exton.

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires CQI Solutions, Inc. (Business Wire)
Will become part of Quality Systems' Horsham-based NextGen Healthcare.

Appearance: PPUG meets Saturday in Philadelphia (ZDNet Blogs)

Astea Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results (PR Newswire)

Workday launches Workday 14, wins Thomson Reuters deal (ZDNet Blogs)



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Daily Links 7/19/2011: InterDigital to seek acquisition offers or sale of some IP assets

LLR Partners and NewSpring Capital Invest in Quintiq, Supporting its Continued Drive for Market Leadership (PR Newswire)

Quintiq raises capital from LLR, NewSpring (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Says new investors' stake is 48%.

InterDigital Exploring Potential Strategic Alternatives (Business Wire)
InterDigital up 24% so far today on the news.

InterDigital explores ways to sell patents or company (Reuters)

Celtics-CSNNE deal includes an equity stake (Boston Globe)

Yahoo Would Buy Hulu For $2 Billion – But Only If It Came With Four Years Of Exclusive Rights (Silicon Alley Insider)

Oh no he didn’t: AT&T’s CEO calls DSL obsolete (Gigaom)

Cable Calls for Backup (Light Reading Cable)
Backup system co-developed by and tested at SCTE headquarters in Exton.

Comcast partners with ColoHouse for Fla. disaster recovery (CED
Magazine)

Battelle Places Order with Instem for Provantis Preclinical and submit-SEND Software Solutions
Instem Solutions to Automate Full Range of R&D Processes (Business Wire)

Greenlink Changing the Daily Deal Market with New Social Couponing Product (Business Wire)

Winshuttle acquires Calif. software company ShareVis (TechFlash)

How SAP Business ByDesign fits into the SaaS ERP landscape (SearchSAP.com)

SunGard Availability Services Announces Expansion into India (PR Newswire)

Texting While Walking Could Get You Fined in Philly (PC World)
Apparently, the story is not accurate; there will be no citations or fines for texting while walking, the Nutter Administration says.



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Daily Links 2/25/2010: GSI Commerce extends NFL relationship

Internet Capital Group Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results (Business Wire)

Liberty Media Reports Results for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2009 (PR Newswire)
QVC revenue up 14% in 4th Quarter.

GSI Commerce and the NFL Extend E-Commerce Partnership with New Multiyear Agreement
Record-Breaking Successes and Winning Multichannel Strategy Mark the Long-Term Partnership
(Business Wire)

Salesforce.com outlook misses Street view
* Sees full-yr profit 58-60 cts/shr vs Street view 82 cts (Reuters)

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results
Full Year Net Income Quadruple Prior Year After Adjustments (Business Wire)

Philly searchmasters greet post-Google 'Splinternet' (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Unions Lay Into Comcast-NBC Universal
Communications Workers of America, IFTA, others weigh in (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast-NBC Deal Will Benefit Consumers, Roberts Tells Congress (Bloomberg via Business Week)

SCTE Seeks CTO
Professional Organization Wants To Reinforce ‘Core Engineering Focus' (Multichannel News)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2010 Third Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)

ERT Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (PR Newswire)

Mzinga OmniSocial Named Technology Product of the Year by TechQuest Pennsylvania (Business Wire)



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