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NBC Dumps $25 Million Jimmy Fallon NYC 'Tonight Show' Studio (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast Shelving Set Top Skype Offering
Existing Customers Will Be Supported (Broadband Reports)

Roku CEO Wood: Virtual cable MSOs 'inevitable (FierceCable)

Liberty Interactive Operating Profit Flat (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
QVC's US business grew revenue 4.6% to $1.3 billion.

Web sales increase 13% for QVC in the first quarter
Mobile commerce sales account for 27% of online orders. (Internet Retailer)

Maffei: Charter Investment Could Lead to Further Consolidation (Multichannel News)

CRACKING THE CODE ON THE WEB'S MOST SHAREABLE IMAGES (Fast Company)
Curalate attempts to move from identifying images on the Web to predicting how they'll
do before they are posted.


SAP Eyes $10 Billion Sales Boost From Banking Software
(Bloomberg)

Teradata boosts DRAM on appliances for in-memory queries
You don't need no stinkin' HANA or Exalytics (The Register)

Discover Strikes Deal With SAP Unit for Business Payments
(Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)


NetSuite buys OrderMotion to handle orders better and faster (VentureBeat)


PLEASE DON’T GO, PROFESSOR (Wharton Magazine)
Len Lodish retiring from Wharton as professor.

City, police mapping team snags international GIS award
(Philly.com)


Penn GSE business plan contest winners announced (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 5/16/2012: FCC asks pointed questions of Verizon on spectrum deal; Comcast launching Skype on Xfinity

Comcast fires back over Xfinity TV on Xbox 360, says no way, no how it's violating net neutrality (Engadget)

FCC to Verizon: what's wrong with that spectrum you never built out? (Ars Technica)

DirecTV accuses Verizon of 'abandoning initiatives that would compete with cable' (FierceCable)

Comcast's Skype on Xfinity adds video calling to HDTVs for $9.95 a month (The Verge)

Mulesoft's Cure To SaaS Integration Headaches (Information Week)
A Dell Boomi competitor.

How to build a vibrant cloud community (ZDNet Blogs)
Guest post by Dell Boomi's Rick Nucci.

TicketLeap partners with ABC reality star Daymond John (TicketNews)

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires the Poseidon Group, Inc.
Acquisition extends NextGen Healthcare's Inpatient Solutions to Hospital Emergency Departments (Business Wire)
NextGen Healthcare is based in Horsham.

Dow Electronic Materials Expands its LED Technologies’ Portfolio to Include Specialty Phosphor Technology (Business Wire)


PA Securities Commission Warns of Potential Dangers of Crowdfunding Investments Promoted Online (PR Newswire)

Einhorn Says Amazon’s Future a ‘Riddle’ After Profit Lags Sales (Bloomberg)



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News from The Cable Show: 6/14/2011

Comcast to Offer Customers Skype Video Calls on Their TVs (NY Times)

COMCAST TEAMS WITH SKYPE TO OFFER VIDEO CALLS ON TV (InteractiveTV Today)
Interview with Comcast's Neil Smit and demo.

Comcast Taps Facebook for Enhanced TV Experience (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast Confirms Xcalibur Partners (Light Reading Cable)

CableLabs Melds Comcast's CMAP And TWC's CESAR
R&D Consortium Releases Technical Report Defining 'Converged Cable Access Platform' (Multichannel News)

Arris' cable technology teases us with 4.5Gbps download speeds (Engadget)

Motorola Mobility and Time Warner Cable Collaborate To Deliver an Advanced Video Gateway Platform
DCX3600M provides entertainment hub for the evolution of TV and video content sharing in the home (Motorola Press Release)

Comcast Spotlight Licenses Ensequence iTV Manager® Platform for Local Interactive Advertising (Marketwire)


Cable Show 2011: Cutthroat Chicago A Cable Kind Of Town (Multichannel News)

Media chiefs confront challenges facing cable TV industry (LA Times: Company Town)


@ Cable Show: Britt: ‘No Such Thing As A TV Anymore’ (paidContent)



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