Daily Links 3/19/2013: PeopleLinx raises $3.2 million Series A; First Round to manage Startup PHL Seed Fund

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Malone Looms As Cable Consolidator With Comcast Busy (Investor's Business Daily)

Malone’s Minority Report (New York Times: DealBook)

Jay Leno Calls NBC Execs 'Snakes' in 'Tonight Show' Monologue (Video) (Hollywood Reporter)

Kopelman's First Round to run Startup PHL Seed Fund for free (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Six months in Philly (Redeye VC)

Osage, Greycroft, MissionOG: $3M for PeopleLinx (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
PeopleLinx will participate in the Demo Pit at Phorum Philly 2013 at World Cafe Live on Thursday.

The Story Behind Our $3.2M Series A Funding (PeopleLinx Blog)


Alteva Reports Fourth Quarter 2012 Financial Results and Significant Corporate Developments
(Marketwire)

Why were they drinking Champagne and eating strawberries at SAP? (Peter Key/Philadelphia Business Journal)

Philadelphia Startup SnipSnap Finally Brings Its Mobile Coupon Clipping App To Android (TechCrunch)



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Daily Links 12/13/2012: Roberts on what Comcast has learned from Apple

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Comcast CEO: What we learned from Apple (Fortune)

ShopRunner’s CIO: The Cloud Won’t Run Itself (BizTech Magazine)

HP Former CEO Says Board Shares Blame for Autonomy Deal (Bloomberg)

Michael Dell: Our Transformation Is Complete (InformationWeek)

Sprint Offers to Buy Rest of Clearwire
(Bloomberg)

Comcast’s rollout of Streampix nearly complete (CED Magazine)

The Xfinity App Lets You Download Shows Now (Gizmodo)

Oracle Acquires DataRaker to Expand in Smart Meters, Sensors (Bloomberg)

Manufacturing solutions (phillyBurbs.com)
EFE Laboratories still growing after more than 50 years.

Connectify Dispatch Combines Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and 4G to Turbocharge Internet Speed
(PR Newswire)

Philadelphia Startup SnipSnap Gets More Social With Its Updated Coupon Clipping iOS App (TechCrunch)



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Daily Links 5/30/2012: Salesforce reported ready to buy Buddy Media for over $800 million

Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million (All Things D)

For a pair of big local companies, shareholders gather (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

SnipSnap: How a Newspaper Vet Aims to Remake Paper Coupons For the Mobile Era (ReadWriteWeb)

Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars
Oracle's platform as a service strategy may take center stage at an event with CEO Larry Ellison next week (Computerworld)

SAP-Ariba Deal Goes Beyond the Cloud (Jeffrey M. Kaplan/Sandhill)

People, Process and Technology – is IT the new HR? (John Appleby/People Process & Technology)

Top that, cable! Verizon offers 300 Mbps home broadband (Gigaom)

Where Will Comcast's X1 Land Next? (Light Reading Cable)
Philly region slated for late 2012 or early 2013, article says.

Who Knew What When at Universal Display? (CNBC)

AT&T: Telecom consolidation 'logical,' inevitable (ZDNet Blogs)

Systech Acquires Apostrophe Systems: Strengthens Position in Cloud Services Market (PR Newswire)
Apostrophe Systems is based in Philadelphia, and Systech is based in Cranbury, N.J.

iBoard Unveils Family iBoard, First Private Social Network for Families – Securely Connecting Families For All Generations (Business Wire)
Sounds a bit in concept like Joanne Lang's AboutOne.

CenTrak, Provider of Healthcare's Most Accurate Real-Time Location System (RTLS), Accelerates Market Adoption by Offering Gen2IR™ Over Wi-Fi (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 4/26/2012: QlikTech reports revenue of $79.2 million, up 26% compared to Q1 2011

Qlik Slips: Q1 Beats, Q2 View Light; Year View Tops Estimates (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
QlikTech earnings press release.

Safeguard Scientifics Announces First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Steady Partner Company Growth Validates Safeguard's Strategic Focus (Business Wire)

InterDigital Announces First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Company Signs Five New or Expanded License Agreements Year-to-Date, all Covering LTE Technologies (Business Wire)

SAP's cloud business won't profit in 2012: report (MarketWatch)

AMETEK to Acquire Dunkermotoren (PR Newswire)

AMETEK Announces Record Results (PR Newswire)
Increases earnings guidance for year.

TE Connectivity profit tops Wall Street forecast (Reuters)

Could DuckDuckGo Be The Biggest Long-Term Threat To Google? (Search Engine Land)

SnipSnap Wins Tech Trifecta (Philadelphia Daily
News)

Providence Said Selling Hulu Stake at $2 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
Comcast, an existing (though hands-off) investor, reported to be acquiring part of stake.

Comcast opens state's first Xfinity retail store in Middletown (phillyBurbs.com)

SpectrumCo to FCC: T-Mobile Can't Have It Both Ways
MSOs Ask Agency to Dismiss T-Mobile's Opposition to Proposed Sale of Spectrum to Verizon (Multichannel News)

Time Warner Cable Profit Climbs 18% As Broadband Grows (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)


New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (and It's for Brands) (Ad Age)
SAP is first advertiser to use it.

NetSuite Q1 Edges Estimates; But Shares Sag In Late Trading (Forbes)




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Daily Links 1/4/2012: CloudMine, ElectNext and SnipSnap are chosen for Project Liberty incubator

Why Enterprise Software Will Never Be the Same (PC World)

Ben Franklin Announces Project Liberty Digital Incubator Inaugural Class (Ben
Franklin Technology Partners Press Release)
CloudMine, ElectNext and SnipSnap are chosen.

Disney and Comcast Link Up for Another 10 Years (All Things Digital)

Comcast, Disney Reach Major Carriage Deal
UPDATED: ESPN available online to Xfinity subscribers (Broadcasting & Cable)


Amazon staffs up for new digital media service effort (Gigaom)

MetroPCS Launching Live Mobile TV Service Later This Year (TechCrunch)

TiVo shares soar after AT&T settlement (AP via CBS News)

Roku Streaming Stick delivers TV apps in a flash drive package (VentureBeat)

Solve Media Now Works With 3,000 Publishers And It's Closing In On A ~ $6 Million Series B Round (Silicon Alley Insider)
Solve Media was started in Philadelphia and backed by First Round Capital; moved to New York but still has office in Philly.

Echo Therapeutics Announces $3.6 Million Warrant Exercises (PR Newswire)

Independence Blue Cross gears up to launch mobile apps (Mobile Health News)

Shell completes transition of SAP-based HR application services to Accenture
(Computerworld UK)

Infor shows strong growth (ZDNet Blogs)



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