Daily Links 8/26/2013: HP to offer SAP's HANA-as-a-service; news from VMworld

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HP to offer SAP's HANA-as-a-service (The Register)
Beginning from Australia data center.

SAP adds player tool at NFL.com (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed by the Company (All Things D)


VMware Killed the Past. Can It Claim the Future? (New York Times: Bits)

Amazon and Microsoft, beware—VMware cloud is more ambitious than we thought (Ars Technica)

Amazon's weekend cloud outage highlights EBS problems (The Register)

Flash-storage pioneer Violin Memory quietly files for its IPO (Gigaom)

Nearly a Year After IPO, Workday Appears to Be Working Out (All Things D)


JetPay® Signs Agreement With Respect To $40 Million Capital Investment From Flexpoint Ford, LLC (Business Wire)

HealthTech Accelerates with DreamIt Health (Elliot Menschik MD PhD/Wharton Entrepreneurship Blog)

Wayne software company [Arcplan] hiring — slowly (Peter Key/Philadelphia Business Journal)


Brewer Yuengling talks Corbett, taxes, unions (AP via Philly.com)
Says he's not worth a billion, as Forbes suggested.

Links 8/23/2013: Ballmer leaving as Microsoft CEO in a year

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Technology company expands in Chester County (Philadelphia Business Journal)

For Ballmer, Resistance Was Futile (All Things D)

Ballmer Exit Leaves Microsoft Searching for Hero in Slump
(Bloomberg)

Microsoft's Ballmer on his biggest regret, the next CEO and more (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

SAP licensing – more clarity or clear as mud? (Dennis Howlett/Diginomica)

Wawa Turns to SAP to Power Entry Into New Markets (Convenience Store News)

SAP Channel Exec Explains ByDesign Issues and Future (Accounting Today)


QVC Launches Second Linear Channel
QVC Plus Counts DirecTV, Bright House as Affiliates (Multichannel News)

Newgistics adds e-commerce to its fulfillment services (Internet Retailer)
Positioning itself as full-service competitor to eBay Enterprise (formerly GSI Commerce).

Penn Brings Two Coding Contests Together with HACKFest (Penn News)

Philadelphia's QLIDA Diagnostics developing next-generation biomarker diagnostics (Keystone Edge)

Daily Links 3/9/2011: ING preparing to sell Wilmington-based ING Direct USA

SAP ups its in-memory computing ante (Computerworld)

Apotheker Seeks to Save HP's `Lost Soul' With Expansion in Cloud Software (Bloomberg)


ING preparing to sell Wilmington-based ING Direct USA (Reuters)
Price could be as high as $10 billion, according to some reports.

Fresh off budget, Corbett tours Microsoft Technology Center (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Along with Steve Ballmer.

IBM Names Smarter Cities Winners (Information Week)
Philadelphia one of the initial 24.


Comcast Sees Bucks In Premium Tech Support
MSO's Xfinity Signature Support Service Priced From $4.95 to $19.95 per Month (Multichannel News)

Comcast, Zoom Settle Dispute Over Modem Certification
Manufacturer Had Complained MSO's Testing Requirements Were Unreasonable (Multichannel News)

Comcast Corp. hires cable industry lobbyist to oversee D.C. efforts (LA Times: Company Town)

SAP sees BI on tablets gaining ground with mobile workers
Software maker has 3,500 iPads in the field connected to business intelligence software (Computerworld)

Sprint CEO Hesse: 4G strategy shortly, Clearwire is included (ZDNet Blogs)

Baltimore becoming a "Startup City" (Baltimore Sun: BaltTech)
Starting a DreamIt Ventures-like incubator program this summer.

Philly Pro Launches Smaller Shop To Avoid Registration (PE Hub)



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