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Media executives question Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal (Reuters)

Comcast Deal Has 'Huge' Potential, Says Time Warner Cable CEO (Hollywood Reporter)

Son’s Challenge to Cable Won’t End T-Mobile Deal Scrutiny
(Bloomberg)

Where Comcast-TWC Would Face Broadband Competition (Wall Street Journal: Digits)



Comcast and NRG Launch Electricity Bundle in Pennsylvania
(Greentech Media)

Tennis Channel Asks FCC to Look Again at Comcast Case
(Variety)


SunGard spinoff SunGard Availability preps $1.275B in debt (Reuters)

Links 8/21/2013: Comcast, NFL Films face legal issues

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Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal? (All Things D)

Ex-players suing NFL Films (AP)

Comcast threatens to sue news site for posting public court document (Ars Technica)

Comcast Looks to Block Sports Fans Suing Over High Cable TV Costs (Hollywood Reporter)


Goldman Sachs ponies up $40M to fund SugarCRM (Gigaom)

Amid Executive Changes, HP Posts Declining Q3 Revenue Of $27.2B As Its PC Division Weakens (TechCrunch)

PhillyDeals: SunGard leaders fighting to catch up (Philly.com)
Update: Clarification to earlier story.

Acumatica and the cloud ERP Game of Thrones (Diginomica)


Voxware Surges through FY 2013 with New Products, Users, and Customer Upgrades
Company realizes 5th consecutive quarter of growth (Business Wire)

Daily Links 10/2/2012: Deutsche Telekom reported near deal with MetroPCS; Clearwire may delay LTE build

iPipeline Announces Appointment of Paul Melchiorre as New President (Business Wire)

Ex-Ariba, SAP exec takes top job at iPipeline (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

NetSuite Updates With “Two-Tier” Version for Larger Companies
(All Things D)
Marketing partners will include Dell Boomi.

Oracle sheds more light on database 12c, Exadata X3 (Computerworld)

Oracle's Ellison focused on Cloud, not deals (Reuters)

SAP Exec: Oracle CEO's Claim 'Fries My Brain' (SAI: Enterprise)


Deutsche Telekom Said to Near Deal With MetroPCS in U.S. (Bloomberg)

Clearwire May Delay Network Buildout as Comcast Converts Stake (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Meet The Ubuntu Women - They're More Involved Than You Think (ReadWriteWeb)
Features former Philadelphia resident Elizabeth Krumbach.

SunGard Partners with Regus to Power Expansion of its Workplace Availability Business to 550 Cities Worldwide
Agreement represents a 2,000% growth in available workplace recovery facilities for SunGard Availability Services’ customers (Business Wire)

Fisker CEO Still Aiming to Make Plug-in Cars in Delaware (Bloomberg)

University City District celebrates 15 year anniversary (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Internet-only grocer now making rounds in Philly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lockeed Martin win: Protest of big defense contract by SAIC denied (Philadelphia Business Journal)


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Daily Links 2/15/2012: Layoffs coming at PMN?; FCC pulls plug on LightSquared

Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News could face layoffs later today (Poynter)

Comcast Reports 4th Quarter and Year End 2011 Results (Comcast Press Release)
Beats analyst estimates, although pro forma (includes last year's NBCU results) 4th quarter revenue growth was 3%; raises dividend and announces new share buyback program.

Comcast 4Q Profit Jumps On Broadband, Business Service Gains (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Comcast's Freedom Region Launches Home-Security Suite
'Xfinity Home' Available to 2.1 Million Subscribers in Philadelphia, N.J. and Delaware (Multichannel News)

Time Warner Cable Brings Streaming Video to PCs, Macs (PC World)


FCC to pull plug on Falcone’s LightSquared (Washington Post: Post Tech)

SunGard Availability Services Announces Solution Provider Relationship with Amazon Web Services to Deliver Highly Available Cloud Computing Offerings (PR Newswire)

NextGen Healthcare Partners with Humana to Accelerate Adoption and Exchange of Electronic Health Records (Business Wire)

Aereo likely to face fight over its plans to distribute broadcast TV (LA Times: Company Town)
Aero, formerly known as Bamboom, received seed funding last year from investors including First Round Capital. It just completed a $20.5-million round of financing led by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. Much of that funding will probably go towards legal bills.

IBM acquires Green Hat (Ovum)
Green Hat has dual headquarters in London and Wilmington.

Product Review: SAP’s Recalls Plus App – The Crossover From Enterprise To Consumer Begins (Ray Wang/A Software Insider's Point of View)

Frontline Technologies Announces K-12 Teacher and Employee Evaluation System
(Business Wire)



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Daily Links 12/6/2011: SuccessFactors to acquire Jobs2web

SuccessFactors (SFSF) to Acquire Jobs2web - A Multi-Channel Interactive Recruiting Marketing SaaS Company (PR Newswire)
SuccessFactors makes acquisition on heels of being acquired by SAP, for $110 million in cash. This acquisition is really moving into Kenexa's territory.

The cloud shopping list: Assessing the next SaaS takeover targets (ZDNet Blogs)

SunGard Promises 99.9% Uptime For SAP Cloud Apps (Information Week)

ERP: Overcoming the Limitations (Quintiq News)
Quintiq's US headquarters is in Radnor.

Channels in the Cloud (Dell Boomi Blog)

Pasco Plans Overseas Acquisitions on Yen, Digital-Map Demand (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg reports that in October, Pasco acquired 70% of Philadelphia-based Keystone Aerial Surveys Inc., which provides mapping data for Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine. Keystone has its own air force of 18 planes.

Keystone Aerial Surveys Purchases SimActive Photogrammetry Software (Press Release via Directions Magazine)

New Content Sharing Network Spling Launches, Announces $400K Series A (TechCrunch)

Cable firms branch out into home-security services
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other cable companies are using the broadband in their subscribers' homes to offer home-security systems. (LA Times)

NBC-Owned TV Stations Select Four Non-Profit Content Partners (Multichannel News)
In Philly, WCAU teams up with WHYY. I wonder what WHYY purists will think of that.

With a Click of the Remote, Impulse Purchases (New York Times)
History Channel and FiOS try to sell items instantly via TV. I'm sure they can sell a lot of toy UFOs that way.

Comcast testing personalized social TV experience (Lost Remote)

Charter Communications Says Interested in Possible Verizon Wireless Pact (Bloomberg)

Raising cash at Comcast on eve of 'brutal' PA Society weekend (Philly.com: Philly Deals)



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Daily Links 11/22/2011: Is Netflix's development arrested?

Has Netflix overextended itself? (Gigaom)

Netflix’s development has been arrested
Analysis: Video rental giant faces even more reprogramming ahead (Marketwatch)

iPad, Xoom Get First Crack at Comcast's AnyPlay (Light Reading Cable)

What Will Comcast Charge to Get Live TV on Tablets? (Multichannel News)

Comcast shows off its new 'Barcelona' HD guide upgrade (Engadget)

AppMobi open sources its mobile HTML5 technology (Gigaom)
AppMobi is based in Lancaster.

Software Vendor Says Partnership With SAP Led to Stolen Trade Secrets (PC World)
Remember, IP plaintiffs: Always file in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.


UT partners with SunGard, research safe way to file-share (Daily Texan)

Keeping quiet about the public financing for the Inquirer and Daily News (NewsWorks)

FCC Says AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Diminishes Competition, Recommends Hearing
(Mashable)



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Daily Links 11/15/2011: SAP plans to double workforce in China

SAP Plans to Double China Workforce, Budgets $2 Billion Spending by 2015 (Bloomberg)

SunGard Availability Services Brings Enterprise-class Availability for SAP to the Cloud (PR Newswire)

In a full-court press, SAP looks to add developers to the HANA bandwagon (SAP Watch)

Octagon Sees Data Standards as Driver of Significant Business Growth and International Expansion
-- Company reports strong third quarter and 2011 YTD revenue growth --
-- New offices opened in UK and India -- (Business Wire)

Sony proposes over-the-top TV service (Gigaom)

Cable-Tec Expo: Cox's Esser: Cable Has To Compress Innovation Cycles
Operator Developed App for Live TV in About Nine Months (Multichannel News)

Astea Reports Profitable Third Quarter 2011 Results (PR Newswire)
Horsham-based provider of Field Service Management systems reports 32% revenue growth in break-even quarter.

Kenexa expands Frisco offices, plans to hire 80 more employees (Dallas Business Journal)

MedCity Media opens Philadelphia bureau (Crain's Cleveland Business)



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Daily Links 11/10/2011: Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis: "We have no desire to own a wireless network".

Is SAP finally getting its money's worth from Sybase? (Computer Weekly Development Network)

Cisco's Chambers: 'We Got Very Lucky That Motorola Got Purchased By Google'
CEO Reiterates Commitment to Cable Set-Top Market (Multichannel News)

Senate Declines To Vote On Net Neutrality-Blocking Maneuver (Multichannel News)

Comcast CFO: No plans to go outside footprint with video (SNL Blog)
There is no way the major cable companies would ever invade each other's footprint, at least not in the forseeable future, in my view.
CFO Michael Angelakis also said, "We have no desire to own a wireless network."

Adaptly, A 23-Year-Old's Fast Growing Startup, Hires A Googler To Take On Europe (Silicon Alley Insider)
Adaptly, now based in New York, was in DreamIt Ventures' 2010 Philadelphia class, and raised $2.7 million in VC funding led by First Round Capital. Paul Turner, former Head of EMEA for Invite Media (backed by First Round and acquired by Google), has joined Adaptly in the same role.

Quepasa and myYearbook Announce Completion of Merger (Marketwire)

WVT Communications Group Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Marketwire)
First earnings report reflecting inclusion of Alteva results for part of quarter.

SunGard Availability Services and University of Texas at Austin Partner to Create Cloud Computing Research Center (PR Newswire)

PayChoice Moves to a Private Cloud Infrastructure That Delivers Performance, Advanced Business Continuity Capabilities, and Anytime, Anywhere Accessibility (Business Wire)


Ben Franklin (Northeastern Pennsylvania) announces investments in area companies (Allentown Morning Call)

Rx For Growth: Havas Forms Strategic Alliance With China's MedMed (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Google teams up with Startup Weekend, provides trainings on Google technology (VentureBeat)
Google planning Bootcamps, but none scheduled for Philly yet.

The time for healthcare tech startups is now (Gigaom)



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Daily Links 11/9/2011: Comcast begins rollout of IPv6 network

SAP Pumps up Its In-memory, Mobile and Cloud Strategies (PC World)

Universal Display posts Q3 profit, shares rise (Reuters)

Comcast begins rollout of IPv6 production network (Network World)
Comcast Blog Post.

Comcast and the Multiscreen Play (Pipeline Magazine)

Lazarus: NBC Sports Network Changes Will Be 'Done Well, Not Fast'
NBC Sports Group Chairman Says Network Will Look To Build Trust With Viewers, Advertisers, Distributors (Multichannel News)

The children are our future, and they’re not paying for TV (Gigaom)

Senate Debates Net Neutrality Regs
Sens. Hutchison and Rockefeller square off on joint resolution to nullify rules (Broadcasting & Cable)

U.S. web sales grow 16% for QVC in Q3 (Internet Retailer)

Fan (Richmond) tech firm expands in NoVa, Philly (Richmond BizSense)

Unisys Strengthens Enterprise-Class Cloud Offerings with New Version of Secure Private Cloud Solution (PR Newswire)

SunGard Availability Services Announces Managed Recovery Program to Deliver Expert Management of Recovery Lifecycle (PR Newswire)

A more grown-up CRM for BusinessOne users (SAP Watch)

The Lawmakers Sponsoring a Very Facebook-Friendly Bill (The Atlantic Wire)
Toomey, Carper cite Wawa, W. L. Gore as possible beneficiaries.

Hey, Siri, send Jenn $5 (VentureBeat)
Venmo's app for Siri.

BioClinica Announces Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 10/5/2011: Comcast, FiOS access for subscribers through Xbox 360 announced

Benioff Enjoys the Spotlight, Even When It Is Turned Off (New York Times: Bits)

Oracle Fusion Applications Are Finally Generally Available (PC World)

HP and SAP Accelerate Cloud Deployments for Clients (Business Wire)

Microsoft expected to team up with Comcast and Verizon on pay TV via Xbox Live (VentureBeat)

Verizon And Microsoft Partner Up For Live TV On The Xbox 360 (TechCrunch)
Nothing on Comcast yet.
Update: Here is the announcement which includes Comcast.
Welcome to the Xbox 360, Comcast! (Comcast Voices|Official Comcast Blog)
Microsoft TV is About Cable Testing IP (Zatz Not Funny!)

Controller calls Philadelphia's 311 call center "a glorified answering service" (Philadelphia Inquirer)

How not to launch a custom tablet (ZDNet Blogs)
Columnist describes his experience with Philadelphia Media Network's new Android tablet.

CEO's Corner: QVC's Mike George on the Shopping Channel's Big Plans (Daily Finance)

Web Host SunGard Expands Philadelphia Data Center (Web Host Industry Review)

ConEdison Solutions and Viridity Energy Join Forces to Expand Beyond Demand Response
'Energy Optimization' Empowers End-Users to Leverage Technology to Transform Themselves Into Energy Suppliers (Marketwire)

Harleysville's IT Successes Will Benefit Nationwide - Harleysville CIO (Insurance & Technology)

Top-Level Companies Recruit Philadelphia Agency 20nine to Fuel Growth (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 8/29/2011: Google, Apple said to step up TV plans

Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say (VentureBeat)

Google TV Will Hit Europe Next Year (Silicon Alley Insider)

Google May Take Competitors to the Gridiron Next (Literally) (PE Hub)

New DirecTV TiVo Launches Next Month (Zatz Not Funny!)

Cable still beating out telcos in broadband adds (Gigaom)

VMware pushes enterprise hybrid clouds in first VMworld announcements (ZDNet Blogs)

SunGard Offers Recover2Cloud (Read Write Cloud)

Microsoft launches new CRM cloud promotion on eve of Salesforce conference (ZDNet Blogs)

PANL Slips: Display Malaise, Or Limited Upside? Bulls Defend (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

PANL Inks Lighting Deal With Panasonic Idemitsu (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

The politics of Sharpton’s new gig (Chicago Sun-Times)
Gets full time slot at MSNBC.

Motorola Is Full Of People Google "Would Never Hire," And That's Why The Merger Won't Take (Silicon Allley Insider)
I'm sure Motorola Mobility employees, who actually do some brilliant engineering, appreciate this kind of talk.


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Daily Links 2/2/2011: Marin County files RICO suit against SAP, Deloitte

Marin County alleges SAP, Deloitte engaged in racketeering (Computerworld)
RICO suite. Somewhat surprising to see SAP included, since most reports I had read had laid the blame more on Deloitte rather than SAP.

Two Hints at Stepped-Up Media Rivalry in Online Streaming (New York Times)

Comcast App Now Playing Video On iPads
Streaming Content Includes Shows and Movies from HBO, Turner, Showtime, Starz (Multichannel News)

Comcast Versus President Davis to Exit Sports Channel After NBC Merger (Bloomberg)

Mark Lazarus Named President of NBC Sports Cable Group (Press Release via Hollywood Reporter)
Ebersol names management team for newly formed NBC Sports Group.

NBC Sports Group restructures in wake of Comcast deal (LA Times: Company Town)


Time Warner Cable Buys Enterprise Hosting And Cloud Services Company NaviSite For $230M (TechCrunch)

U.S. court rejects Verizon request for same judges (Reuters)

Unisys' 4th-quarter profit falls 13 percent (Bloomberg)

SunGard Availability Services Announces General Availability of Enterprise Cloud Services (PR Newswire)

Gartner Quadrant Reports BI Split (Information
Week)
QlikTech in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for first time.

Epocrates shares rise on higher IPO pricing (AP via Forbes)

U.S. Tries Open-Source Model for Health Data Systems (New York Times: Bits)

SAP Extends Ecosystem via Google Docs Alliance (IT Business Edge)

iPads become reality in Wharton classrooms (Daily Pennsylvanian)



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