Showing posts with label UniTek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UniTek. Show all posts
Daily Links 4/15/2013: Dish offers $25.5 billion for Sprint
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Dish offers $25.5B for Sprint, outbidding Softbank by $5B to become a wireless player (VentureBeat)
Verizon offers Clearwire $1.5 billion for spectrum leases, says WSJ (The Verge)
More Cracks Undermine the Citadel of TV Profits (New York Times)
How a Simple Press Release Reveals AT&T’s Anti-Competition Hypocrisy (Wired)
Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri (All Things D)
Best Practices for SAP HANA Data Loads (John Appleby/SAP Community Network)
Probably more detail than most readers need, but I thought the description of the approach, process, and results was very interesting.
Why the cloud is threatened by unprofitability (USA Today)
Not sure if author truly understands cloud economics, accounting issues, long-term recurring revenue streams.
News organizations protest exclusion from Philadelphia bond meeting (Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Asked what might be said that would be inappropriate for the public to hear, Dubow declined to speculate, saying there wasn't enough space for reporters anyway."
Specious logic. They certainly could have reserved room for a small pool of reporters if
they had chosen to.
Blue Bell company fires CFO due to investigation
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
Government Shouldn’t Be In The Accelerator Business (FeldThoughts)
PANL[Ewing, NJ-based Universal Display]: Low TV Set Opportunity Offsets Mobile, Says Canaccord (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
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Daily Links 1/11/2012: Susquehanna Growth Equity invests $35 million in NJ SaaS HCM provider iCIMS
iCIMS, Leading SaaS Provider, Secures $35 Million Minority Investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (PR Web)
iCIMS is based in Hazlet, NJ.
Comcast Completes DNSSEC Deployment (Comcast Voices|Official Comcast Blog)
Comcast’s new set-top streams live TV to DLNA devices (Gigaom)
Universal Sports Transitions From Multicast Distribution, Inking Deals with Six Providers (Multichannel News)
Comcast's NBC Sports Group owns a minority stake in Universal Sports.
Comcast coughs up refunds, revelations of service fee
(WTOP)
Motorola Home Gateway puts your entire home in the cloud, almost (CNET Blogs)
Exclusive: Microsoft Web TV subscription plan on hold (Reuters)
Dell’s Acquisition Strategy: Right On Target? (The VAR Guy)
Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera (Information Week)
UniTek Global Services, Inc. Announces Changes to Senior Management and Board of Directors (Globe Newswire)
UniTek Global Services CEO and chairman resign; shares plunge; former CEO staying on the board (AP via Columbus, Indiana Republic)
Changes seem somewhat sudden; wonder what's going on there? Company wasn't doing too badly, it seems.UniTek is based in Blue Bell.
Coursekit Taps The Hate With #EraseBlackBoard Campaign (BetaBeat)
Smart Grid Monitoring Gets Smarter with Sensei Solutions and ThingWorx Partnership (Business Wire)
Rajant Corporation Enhances Advanced Diagnostic, Monitoring and Administrative Capabilities for Kinetic Mesh Networks (Business Wire)
Integromics announces the release of SeqSolve 2.1 (Press Release via PharmaLive)
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Daily Links 12/19/2011: AT&T drops T-Mobile bid
AT&T Pulls $39 Billion T-Mobile Bid After Regulator Opposition (Bloomberg)
Deal means more SAP cloud changes (Computerworld)
Oracle's 2Q to provide snapshot of tech spending (AP via Business Week)
Tech Startup AboutOne Announces Additional Participation in Oversubscribed Series A Funding (PR Newswire)
myYearbook Launches iPad App (Business Wire)
The Franklin Institute Announces the 2012 Franklin Institute Laureates (PR Newswire)
More Low-Key Than His Predecessor, NBC Sports Chief Still Aims High (New York Times)
Charter Communications Names Thomas M. Rutledge as President and CEO (PR Newswire)
AppMobi Solves HTML5 Audio Problems, Accelerates Animation with directCanvas (ReadWriteWeb)
UniTek Global Services Awarded 3-Year Contract With Leading Wireless Carrier (Globe Newswire)
Sprint Sues Time Warner, Comcast Over Digital Phone Technology (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: Falcone's wireless company running out of cash (Reuters)
Don’t cut that fiber just yet (CED Magazine)
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Daily Links 11/17/2010: Ben Franklin Technology Partners funds nine companies for $2.3 million
Comcast Teams With Sporting News On Regional Digital Publications
First RSN-Backed Edition Launched In Philadelphia (Multichannel News)
Comcast talks with regulators on NBC deal heat up (Reuters)
Comcast's clumsy Hollywood kickoff
Its NBC Universal efforts make it look clueless (Variety)
Comcast Reshuffles NBC’s Deck: Who’s Up, Down And Out
(Forbes: Moneywood)
War over? Comcast says "Consensus at hand on net neutrality" (Ars Technica)
Hulu Plus launches, cuts price -- look out Comcast and Netflix? (Seattle Times)
Nine firms get a total of $2.3M from Ben Franklin program (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Verizon Offers Free Security Credentials To Healthcare Professionals (Information Week)
'GIS Day' to Showcase Cutting-Edge Technologies and Jobs (PR Newswire)
PolicyMap Introduces Four New Decision-Making Tools
Additional Web 2.0 Functionality Helps People Understand, Use, and Share Good Data (PR
Newswire)
UniTek Global Services, Inc. Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Third Quarter 2010 (Globe Newswire via
MarketWatch)
Xyntek's Biometric Solutions for Staff User Authentication & Patient Identification (Marketwire)
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Daily Links 11/11/2010: Is Hulu The OPEC Of Online Video?
Report: NBC’s Jeff Gaspin Out In The Comcast Reshuffling (Forbes: Moneywood)
Internet TV battles come to head at FCC (Washington Post: Post Tech)
Why Hulu Is The OPEC Of Online Video
(TechCrunch)
Verizon FiOS Launches Free Flex View Service (PC Magazine)
H-P’s new CEO spotted by employees
But he is staying far, far away from Silicon Valley (MarketWatch)
SAP hopes to make users’ work easier with better UI designs (SearchSAP.com)
Quintiq Expands in North America, Opens 2nd U.S. Office in San Francisco (PR Newswire)
Quintiq's North American headquarters are in Wayne.
Rembrandt IP sues Seagate, Western Digital (AP via Business Week)
Rembrandt IP, of Bala Cynwyd, is considered by some to be a "patent troll".
Cisco's Cable Sales Get Hammered
Set-Top Sales in North America Drop 40% Year-Over-Year (Multichannel News)
Interesting that Cisco's cable business is getting hammered even as Motorola's comparable business seems to be recovering somewhat.
Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett's view.
A Conversation with QlikView Architect Håkan Wolgé (The QlikView Blog)
The Busiest Woman in Philly: Roz Duffy Puts Innovation on Two Stages in November (Keystone Edge)
UniTek Global Services Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Its Common Stock and Commencement of Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market (Marketwire)
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Daily Links 8/18/2010: Judge narrows scope of damages in SAP-Oracle suit
Will Google TV Get the Broadcaster Help It Needs to Succeed? (NewTeeVee)
Verizon Shows Off Its Upcoming Entry in TV-on-iPad Race (Wall Sreet Journal: Digits)
AppLabs Acquires ValueMinds, an award-winning Developer of Automated Testing Tools (Business Wire India)
Free Pitches?
For years, many investors charged start-ups to make their case. That's starting to change.
(Wall Street Journal)
Mentions DreamIt Ventures Demo Day as one example.
Future Stars: DreamIt Ventures Demo Day (The Bulletin)
Judge's Order Narrows Damages in Oracle-SAP Suit (PC World)
Bentley Adds Three Product Firsts to OpenPlant, Redefining ‘Comprehensiveness’ in Plant Creation (Business Wire)
UniTek Global Services Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Second Quarter 2010 (PR Newswire)
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Blue Bell's UniTek to combine with Berliner Communications
Blue Bell telecommunications services company UniTek USA will combine with Berliner Communications to become UniTek Global Services, Inc. The unified company projects annual revenue of about $360 million. While UniTek is not now publicly traded, Berliner is currently listed on the OTC market (OTC: BERL ) and the new company will assume that listing under the UniTek name.
UniTek private equity backer HM Capital Partners will control approximately 80% of the combined entity. C. Scott Hisey, Founder and CEO of UniTek USA, will become CEO of the Company. Peter Giacalone, President of UniTek USA, has been appointed Chairman of the Company.
Press Release.
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