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 8/5/2011: SAP sets sights on NetSuite

DirecTV CEO downplays interest in Hulu (Gigaom)

NBCU Targets End Of August To Pick Online Content Partners
Comcast Also On Track With VOD/Online PEG Project (Multichannel News)

Comcast Touts Low-Cost Broadband In Miami, Delaware (Multichannel News)

SAP sets sights on Netsuite conquest (BusinessCloud9)

Crossing the SAP Channel: ByDesign Updated, Business One Sales Still Up (ASUG News)

SAP's cloud app Sales On Demand leaves some questions unanswered (Cloud Pro/Dennis Howlett)

SAP Will Issue Patch for NetWeaver Vulnerability (PC World)

LCB's wine kiosk experiment may be ending (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Another fiasco brought to you by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.

SkillShare Is Closing A Round Of Funding At A "Healthy" Valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)
Getting ready to launch in Philadelphia.

So what happens to Clearwire’s WiMAX network (Gigaom)

Lockheed nets $6M military wireless pact (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 8/1/2011: Versus to become the NBC Sports Network

Versus set to become the NBC Sports Network (USA Today)

Versus Will Fly NBC Sports Colors (Multichannel News)

With Universal, Comcast hopes to make a big splash in movies (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NBCUniversal starts to overhaul its TV studio (LA Times: Company Town)

Apple Announces A Full Assault On The Cable Box With The Streaming Of Purchased TV Shows (TechCrunch)

Rue La La launches local deals in Chicago, challenging Groupon (Chicago Tribune)
Rue La La, formerly part of GSI Commerce, is now majority-owned by former GSI Commerce founder Michael Rubin's holding company.

Windstream to Buy Paetec for $891 Million (New York Times: DealBook)

Skillshare Expands to San Francisco; Next Stop Philly (BetaBeat)

Appirio CEO talks Workday, SaaS momentum, IPO (ZDNet Blogs)

Amazon Start-Up Challenge goes global (Gigaom)



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