Daily Links 8/25/2011: Comcast employees top donors to Obama campaign funds

Another Comcast tower in Center City? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Hulu seen drawing bids from Yahoo, others: sources (Reuters)

Comcast Employees Top Donors to Obama Campaign Accounts (ABC News
Blogs: Political Punch)

Time Warner Cable’s Sling rebate: Broadband push or broadcast dig? (Gigaom)

The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read (Ars Technica)

Brightcove files for IPO, though chips are down (Boston Globe)
Brightcove competes against Comcast-owned thePlatform.

Verizon buys CloudSwitch to give itself a software play (Gigaom)

Salesforce Boosts Profits With Aggressive Accounting, Bernstein Says
(Forbes)

Despite Boom, Data Center Landlords See Lease-Up Challenges
Internet Giants Building Their Own Enterprise Facilities As Supply Swing Brings Better Balance with Demand (CoStar Group)

How We Got to Monetate 11: Incremental improvements really do add up (Monetate Blog)

Forrester Predicts Daily Deals Will Die (ClickZ)



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Daily Links 8/24/2011: Time Warner Cable to subsidize Slingboxes for subscribers

Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake (Computerworld)

Comcast's Roberts hosts President Obama on Martha's Vineyard (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Moffett Rethinks TV Sector
Top Analyst Modifies Cable, Satellite Targets (Multichannel News)

Time Warner to Subsidize Subscribers’ TV Device (New York Times)

PowerBoost: A Comcast Innovation for High-Speed Internet Users (Comcast Voices /Official Comcast Blog)

COMCAST ROLLS OUT METRO E, ADDS REGIONAL PARTNERS (Channel Partners)

Drexel U scrapping plans for 2nd campus in Calif. (AP via San Jose Mercury News)

HP: Where is it going? (Dennis Howlett/Irregular Enterprise)


AT&T’s Hyperlocal Sites Show Off Network Upgrades (TechCrunch)
One of the sites is for Philadelphia.

Fallout? Pharma & The Facebook Wall (Pixels & Pills)

The Next Tech Patent Powerhouses (Forbes)
Could Ewing, NJ-based Universal Display be the next InterDigital (or more?)

Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s TV-box business worries WPP’s Sorrell
(FT Tech Hub)

Epicor Announces Cloud Computing Solution for Distributors (Marketwire)
Complementary to Epicor's Prophet 21 product line, which is based out of Yardley, PA.



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