Links 3/12/2014: SunGard spinoff SunGard Availability loads up with $1.275B in debt

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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 2/24/2014: Oracle buys Blue Kai; Pivotal spins off Cloud Foundry with SAP support

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WhatsApp Shows How Phone Carriers Lost Out on $33 Billion
(Bloomberg)

Can Google Eat All That Fiber? (Bloomberg/Business Week)

Verizon: Heavy Web users should pay more (PC World)

Why Netflix Is Actually the Big Winner in the Comcast Bandwidth Deal (Variety)



First Comcast-TW Cable Showdown with Feds Set for March 26
(Variety)



Supreme Court Declines Tennis Channel Review of Comcast Case (Variety)


Oracle buys Blue Kai, gains massive consumer data mart (PC World)

IBM Invests Another $1 Billion In its Cloud Business (Re/code)

Pivotal spins off Cloud Foundry, gains SAP and Rackspace support (Business Cloud News)


Vision - and money - for a start-up ecosystem in Philly
(Philadelphia Daily News)

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor (Fast Company)


LoudCrowd app eases classroom input (Penn Current)

Links 9/5/2013: Court declines to review Comcast/Tennis Channel ruling

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Comcast: Court Declines To Review Tennis Channel Call (Multichannel News)

Zuora Lands $50 Million Series E on Back of “Subscription Economy” (All Things D)
Zuora competes with Aria Systems, which has its R&D center in Broomall.

First Round’s Student-Run Dorm Room Fund Has Backed 20 Startups; Adds Entrepreneur ‘RAs’ As Advisors (TechCrunch)

Sorry, Jeff Bezos, the news bundle isn’t coming back (Timothy B. Lee/Washington Post)

New SAP-Accenture partnership will give customers one throat to choke (PC World)

Salesforce.com, Workday Keep Cloud Momentum Rolling (Information Week)

Salesforce invents a telephone book for corporate data (The Register)


Philadelphia CIOs Reveal Fourth-Quarter Hiring Plans
(PR Newswire)

Daily Links 6/13/2013: Tennis Channel exec compares Comcast to 'brutal captor'

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Gatekeepers of Cable TV Try to Stop Intel (New York Times)

Time Warner Cable Defends Contracts That Hamper Internet Video Rivals (Variety)

Leaked Tennis Channel email compares Comcast to 'brutal captor' (LA Times: Company Town)

Boxee Wants a Big Round or a Buyer (All Things D)

Embrace the incumbents: Zonoff wants to help large companies break into the Internet of Things (PandoDaily)
Zonoff is based in Malvern.


Digital Leaders React to the Salesforce/ExactTarget Monster Deal (ClickZ)

Vertex Announces New Logo Aligned with Company Expansion and Growth (Business Wire)

Quintiq Launches 'The Missing Piece of the Profit Economy' (PR Newswire)

Epicor Leases 43,000 SF at Horizon Corp Ctr
ERP Software Co Signs 12 Year Office Deal (CoStar Group)

NJ Transit commuters to get wireless service in trains, stations (Newark Star-Ledger)
Non-Cablevision subscribers will have to pay for usage.

Cablevision’s Roaming Partners Might Get Access to NJ Transit Wi-Fi Net
MSO Says it’s In Discussions With CableWiFi Partners (Multichannel News)

Comcast's New "Neighborhood Hotspot" Plan Isn't Quite the Open Wireless We Want (Electronic Frontier Foundation)


Violin Memory shuffles out 'half-price' PCIe flash cards to eager tech channel
Channel players hope for blooming biz under Rose (The Register)



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Daily Links 5/28/2013: Baltimore's Videology raises $60 million from investors including Comcast Ventures, NEA

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AppNexus CEO Says 'Multi-Billion Dollar Exit' Expected (Business Insider)
First Round Capital was a seed investor.

Fashion Media Company Refinery29 Acquires Fellow First Round Capital Startup, SocialBomb (Business Insider)

Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital has a small stake in Tremor (according to its website) through Tremor's acquisition of FRC portfolio company SanScout. FRC is not listed as a major shareholder on Tremor's S-1.

The Cloud Company: People or Money? (New York Times: Bits)

Court Rules Comcast Did Not Discriminate Against Tennis Channel
Finds insufficient evidence to support FCC decision (Broadcasting & Cable)

Videology Reels in $60 Million in Fresh Capital (Ad Week)
Comcast Ventures among investors in Baltimore company.




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Daily Links 2/25/2013: Christie expected to sign Internet gambling bill tomorrow; Warby Parker raises $41.5 mm

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$30 million Bethlehem project targets tech companies (Lehigh Valley Business)

First Round Capital Funds Another $500K Student-Run Venture Fund in New York (All Things D)

Warby Parker Grabs New Investment From American Express & J. Crew CEO, Closing $41.5M Round (TechCrunch)
Founded at Wharton; First Round Capital was an early investor.

Workday competitor SilkRoad selects banks for IPO -sources (Reuters)

FCC Roughed Up in D.C. Circuit
Judges have lots of issues with statute of limitations on carriage complaint and First Amendment implications of remedy (Broadcasting & Cable)
On Comcast/Tennis Channel dispute.

Awaiting the Dimming of G.E. at 30 Rock (New York Times: City Room)

Motorola Brings ITV to Older Set-Tops With ActiveVideo Software (Multichannel News)

Gov. Chris Christie expected to sign bill allowing Internet gambling on Tuesday (Press of Atlantic City)

Wharton and Cisco Show Off the Telepresence Classroom of Tomorrow (Time Tech)


SideCar Says Three Philadelphia Drivers Caught In ‘Sting’, But It Plans to Continue Operations (TechCrunch)

Xtium Expands Partnership with YASH Technologies
Partnership brings increased deployment velocity, economic benefit to managed cloud hosting market (PR Web)

MeetMe® Launches in Chinese, Russian and Japanese
(Marketwire)




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Daily Links 8/24/2012: NextGen Healthcare founder, former Quality Systems President Cline elected to Qaulity Systems board

An entrepreneurial spirit grows in Phila. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Quality Systems, Inc. Announces Results of Annual Shareholders Meeting (Business Wire)
Patrick B. Cline, co-founder of Clinitec (now NextGen Healthcare) and former President of Quality Systems, joins Quality's board as member of dissident shareholder Ahmed Hussein's slate, after last week's proxy vote. This follows the just announced departure of NextGen President Scott Decker. NextGen Healthcare, based in Horsham, is a unit of Quality Systems and a provider of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and systems.

Salesforce.com: 5 nagging questions ahead (ZDNet Blogs)

The Dreamforce party dampener (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet)

Salesforce.com Future Includes a Marketing Cloud, Deeper Workday Links and More HTML5 (PC World)



SAP Co-CEO: European Crisis, Germany & Acquisitions/Interview with Bill McDermott (Video: CNBC)


No Wi-Fi or backhaul restrictions in FCC's approval of Verizon's cable deals (FierceCable)

Comcast scores stay of FCC order in Tennis Channel fight (LA Times: Company Town)
This seemingly unending volley just keeps on going back and forth.

Penn amps up role in Coursera online-education effort (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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Daily Links 8/20/2012: FinancialForce Adds Key Partners, Manager from SAP

ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Motorola Mobility (ReadWriteWeb)

Comcast Informs Customers of Tennis Channel Move
But MSO's Bill Notice Says to Check Periodically Given Court Challenge to FCC-prompted Channel Position Upgrade (Multichannel News)

Dish says it needs wireless partner to build network (Reuters)

FinancialForce Adds Key Partners, Manager from SAP (Accounting Today)

Inside FundersClub, The Equity Crowdfunding Platform Destined To Redefine Venture Capital (TechCrunch)

Urban Outfitters profit climbs 8%, shares jump (MarketWatch)

HIT Application Solutions Contracts for Notifi® at South Jersey Healthcare
Automated Appointment Reminders and Mobile Technology Amplifies the Quality of Patient Care and Delivers Patient Satisfaction (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 8/2/2012: Comcast reportedly trying to bring Spielberg back to Universal

Comcast Explores Bringing DreamWorks' Snider and Spielberg to Universal (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast ‘accounts’ for break-even Olympics (New York Post)
More clarification on Brian Robert's breakeven comment yesterday. I think Michael Angelakis had to correct his boss; always a difficult thing to have to do. While Angelakis says Comcast will probably show a small accounting profit on the games due to the write down of rights fees, Roberts implied the games would be breakeven on a cash basis and Angelakis said that's probably not the case, as I understand him.

Comcast Sues FCC Over Tennis Channel Distribution Ruling (Bloomberg)

Time Warner Cable profit up 8 pct in 2Q (Bloomberg)
While Comcast's video subscriber losses are decreasing, Time Warner Cable's losses are increasing.

SevOne Reports 100% Growth
Q2 Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth of 100%; Q2 Year-Over-Year Bookings Increase 355% (Marketwire)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2012 Results
Provides Update on Strategic Business Review (Business Wire)

LevelUp Pulls in Another $9M to Close $21M Round (Bostinno)
Also known as SCVNGR, which started out at DreamIt Ventures in Philly.

Eloqua Notches Modest Gains After IPO (Dow Jones Newswires)

Google Licenses Rovi’s Program Guide Patents For Its New Fiber TV Service (TechCrunch)

Daily Links 7/31/2012: Twitter apologizes for NBC incident; Michael Rubin on hiring Scott Thompson

Comcast begins appeals process in FCC Tennis Channel ruling (LA Times: Company Town)

Hulu, Apple Finally Get It Together: Hulu Plus Comes to Apple TV, Lets You Subscribe With iTunes (All Things D)

Jeffries slaps buy rating on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV; predicts cable/CLEC mergers (FierceCable)

Twitter comes clean, apologizes for NBC-gate (Gigaom)


Box Inc. Receives $125 Million in New Round of Investment (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)
General Atlantic led this round. SAP Ventures and Salesforce led the previous round, and SAP Ventures participated again in this one.

Why I Just Hired Scott Thompson, The Yahoo CEO Caught Lying On His Resume (Silicon Alley Insider)
Michael Rubin didn't actually say it that way in the interview.


SunGard Announces Second Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)

Vishay Intertechnology profit misses estimates (Reuters)

Heartland Payment raises full-year guidance (AP via Businessweek)

Will Internet Companies Open Data Centers in New Jersey? (Data Center Knowledge)

Amtrak Gets on Board With E-Tickets (Mashable)



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Daily Links 7/25/2012: Tennis Channel gets fault call over Comcast from FCC

Tennis Channel triumphs over Comcast in FCC discrimination case (LA Times: Company Town)

Netflix Plunges on Guarded Outlook for New 2012 Signups (Bloomberg)

NBA taps SAP to develop 'unprecedented statistical experience' (ZDNet)

An Upstart Looks to Take on the Giants of Online Ticketing (Mashable)
Sticking to today's sports-related theme, San Francisco-based Ticketfly raises $22 million in a Round C led by SAP Ventures.


NSW Govt SAP roll-out to be cloud test case: Ovum (ZDNet)

Dell Does Software: The How To List (Josh Greenbaum/Enterprise Irregulars)

Big-Data Start-Up GoodData Lands $25 Million Series C Led by Tenaya Capital (All Things D)

Unisys swings to profit on ClearPath mainframe spike
Pays off debts ahead of schedule (The Register Channel)

For its new cloud, Google learns old tricks (Gigaom)
Radnor-based QlikTech among those joining Google Cloud Partner Program.

If You See Marc Benioff Smiling Today, Here’s Why (All Things D)

InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results (Business Wire)

TE Connectivity beats reduced profit forecast (Reuters)
TE Connectivity, which has its operational headquarters in Berwyn, had just reduced its earnings outlook last week.


WhoSay Gets $12 Million Series C Led By Comcast Ventures For Its Celebrity-Centric Social Platform (TechCrunch)



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Daily Links 7/16/2012: Comcast buys out Microsoft's MSNBC.com website stake, chides FCC for interference in programming decisions

Comcast Acquires Microsoft's Stake in MSNBC.com for $300 Million (Hollywood Reporter)
This only involves the website, as Comcast had bought out Microsoft's stake in the cable channel a few years ago.

Comcast fights Tennis Channel program access FCC ruling (FierceCable)

Comcast says government needs to stay out of programming business (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast and Scripps Networks Interactive Reach Long-Term, TV Everywhere Distribution Agreement for Xfinity TV Customers (Business Wire)


Procurian Acquires Media IQ -- Expands Marketing Practice to Media Audit, Measurement, Benchmarking (Spend Matters)
Procurian, formerly known as ICG Commerce, is based in King of Prussia.

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Daily Links 1/20/2012: Verizon, Comcast Send Marketing Deals to FCC in Spectrum Review

Verizon, Comcast Send Marketing Deals to FCC in Airwaves Review (Bloomberg)
FCC Docket: Verizon Wireless and SpectrumCo, Verizon Wireless and Cox

Comcast Challenges FCC's Program Carriage Ruling That Landed in Tennis Channel's Court (Multichannel News)


Audrey Zibelman's Energy-Saving Software
Her startup Viridity Energy makes software used by buildings and factories to manage their power use. It also lets them sell energy back to the grid (Bloomberg Business Week)

Philadelphia-based online ticketing service TicketLeap’s beginnings couldn’t have been more humble (Ben Franklin Technology Partners SEP: KEYnotes)

After Laying Off 60 People, RueLaLa Raises $22 Million (TechCrunch)
Boston-based RueLaLa is part of Michael Rubin's Kynetic LLC holding company.

Update: RueLaLa says filing is about options, not new funding (Mass High Tech)

Salesforce's happy workforce
(Fortune Tech)

SAP Acquires Datango's Software, Entering Enterprise Training Race
Now SAP faces the huge task of convincing the jaded enterprise training market to invest in training. (Information Week)

ING Direct deal should close soon, Capital One says (Wilmington News Journal: Delaware Inc.)



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Daily Links 9/9/2011: SAP reportedly pleads to criminal charges in TomorrowNow case

SAP’s Ex-TomorrowNow Accused of Crimes for Oracle Downloads (Bloomberg)

Intel Said to Weigh InterDigital Bid (Bloomberg)
But Google may be losing interest.

SAP BusinessByDesign creates tensions with ecosystem partners (computing.co.uk)

Capgemini, CSC line up for AppLabs (Business Standard of India)
Says price for Philly/Hyderabad-based software testing leader could be in excess of $200 million.

QVC Thriving In A Tough Economy (CNBC Video)
Interview with QVC CEO Michael George.

Exclusive: NBC iPad App Now Broadcasts Full Episodes (Mashable)

Comcast Volleys 'Drop' Shots at Tennis Channel
Cable op says that FiOS, Cablevision drops undercut Tennis Channel's discrimination claim (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast test marketing new online TV guide (CED Magazine)

Charter Cancels L.A. Auction
Low Bids Prompt Action (Multichannel News)

Motorola Mobility: "We are still feeling our way with Google TV" (IPTV News)

Partners Behind Intelligent Trench Join Forces with PelicanCorp to Launch Most Complete and Accurate National Record-Sharing Service for Underground Assets in the U.K. (Business Wire)
Bentley Systems is one of the partners behind Intelligent Trench.



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Daily Links 9/9/2010: SAP Rules Out Hardware Company Acquisitions

SAP Rules Out Hardware Company Acquisitions, Co-CEO McDermott Tells CNBC (Bloomberg)

SAP Looks to Benefit From the Oracle Tempest (New York Times: Bits)

City, bloggers talk taxes over drinks (Philadelphia Inquirer)

XIPWIRE Announces Mobile Bill-Pay Program for University City Residents (Business Wire)

QVC coming back to NY Fashion Week with first-ever pop-up store at Rockefeller Plaza (Home
Textiles Today)

Private Equity in 5th Set With Tennis Channel (New York Times: DealBook)

Q&A with David Grubb, CTO, Motorola Home and Networks Mobility Business (FierceCable)

Verizon Keen On Offering Home Automation Services
Endless new possibilities for strange new fees... (Broadband Reports)


President Obama plans 'robust investment' in NextGen technology (Press of Atlantic City)

Harrisburg University plans social media blackout (Washington Post: Campus Overload)




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