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Links 11/22: New Jersey Governor ends tax grab across the river; Urban Outfitters shares tank after company misses expectations



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Sunoco Logistics to merge with parent company (Philly.com)

New Jersey Governor ends tax grab across the river; will keep reciprocity agreement in place with Pennsylvania (Bucks Local News)

Urban Outfitters shares tank after company misses EPS, sales expectations (Marketwatch)


Veeva Systems Q3 Earnings, Q4 Guidance Beat; Stock Up After Hours
(Investor's Business Daily)


Once enemies, Huawei and InterDigital are now allies brought together by patents (IAM)

AT&T, Comcast, Verizon Eye Next FCC Chair, Eisenach Front-Runner? (Investor's Business Daily)

Analyst: OTT Helps Boost TV Viewership (Multichannel News)

Sling TV to Stream to Comcast’s X1 Platform (Multichannel News)



UK & Ireland SAP User Group – 48% of members have no current S/4 HANA plans (Diginomica)

Using software to track contamination (Food Engineering)




Monday Highlights 10/25: Will mobile net strategy built on Comcast Wifi hotspots work?; Ellison takes on everyone at Oracle Open World








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Comcast's Weapon to Take on Wireless Giants: Wi-Fi Hotspots (Bloomberg)

Comcast Board OKs Plan to Streamline Stock Structure (Variety)


Oracle Open World 2015 – Larry Ellison’s first keynote, a mass of unintended contradiction (Diginomica)

Oracle's Ellison Says Cloud Industry Still in Early Days (Bloomberg)

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd's OpenWorld Keynote: Highlights and Analysis (Constellation Research)

Salesforce — not a VC firm — is now the top investor in one of the hottest tech industries (Business Insider)


IBM Announces Six New Watson Ecosystem Partners Building Cognitive Applications (IBM)

IBM: Modernize your business or risk being Uber-ized (Fortune)
Urban Outfitters app one of those featured.


Hoopla launches digital signage solution for employee engagement (Digital Signage Today)





Links 5/20/2014: SAP to acquire SeeWhy; NBC wins prime-time for first time in decade





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4 years on, OpenStack still can't get in the door (Infoworld)

SAP to Acquire SeeWhy, the Real-Time Behavioral Marketing Company (SeeWhy Blog)

SAP To Acquire SeeWhy For Marketing Push
(Information Week)

SAP and Microsoft: The Frenemies’ Next Partnership is in the Cloud (ASUG News)



Jibe Secures $20 Million to Transform Hiring Market (Business Wire)
Round led by SAP Ventures; this is Jibe, not Jive, which SAP Ventures is also an investor in. (Correction: SAP Ventures was not an investor in Jive.)

Salesforce Rises On Earnings Beat, Improved Outlook (Re/code)


Verizon Absolutely Does Not Want to Buy Dish Network (The Wire)

Apple reportedly will pay ISPs for direct network connections (Ars Technica)

Protest Planned for Comcast Shareholder Meeting (Multichannel News)

NBC Wins Prime-Time TV Ratings for First Time in a Decade (Bloomberg)


Democrats grill FCC chairman on Internet fast lanes and ISP mergers (Ars Technica)

Urban Outfitter shares take a spill (AP via Business Week)
Sales at Urban Outfitter-branded stores dive.

DuckDuckGo Relaunches & Starts To Look Like A Real Search Engine
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Links 11/4/2013: Pennsylvania booming with ecommerce warehouse building








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SAP opens up on cloud overhaul (iTNews)

SAS, SAP Partner to Boost Big Data Analytics (CMS Wire)


Urban Outfitters, others plunge aggressively into online sales (Philadelphia Inquirer)

BlackBerry Scraps Bid to Find Buyer, Replaces CEO Thorsten Heins, Gets $1 Billion Investment (All Things D)
Former (SAP) Sybase CEO John Chen now running BlackBerry.

Twitter to close IPO books early on strong demand -sources (Reuters)

Gross Loses World’s Largest Mutual Fund Title to Vanguard
(Bloomberg)

Breaking News Takes a New Approach to the Personalized News Feed — A News Feed That’s Only Partly Personalized (All Things D)

Hedge Funds Plan Proxy Battle for ValueVision Media (New York Times: DealBook)
Comcast owns 14.4% of ValueVision through NBC Universal. ValueVision formerly operated under the ShopNBC brand name under license from NBC until this year, when it dropped the license arrangement and changed the channel's name to ShopHQ.

New FCC chief Tom Wheeler taps media watchdog Gigi Sohn for role (LA Times: Company Town)

Startup valuations soar to highest levels in 10 years (report)
(VentureBeat)














Links 10/9/2013: Comcast, Twitter connect with new "See It" button






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Dell Boomi AtomSphere and Atom Technology Awarded U.S. Patent (Business Wire)

Through Twitter Partnership, Comcast Hopes to Encourage TV Viewing (New York Times)
Comcast Press Release



QlikTech Aims To Disrupt BI, Again (Information Week)


GE teams up with AT&T and Intel to conquer the industrial internet. Here’s its plan. (Gigaom)

Urban Outfitters Preps for Holidays With Mobile Investments (Ad Age)

IAB Study: Online Ad Revenue Continues Double-Digit Growth
Report shows explosive mobile growth
(Ad Week)

Ogilvy & Mather N.Y. Wins Comcast Business account (Ad Week)

Comcast-Backed Cell Tower Firm Lands Financing, Buys Five Towers (Multichannel News)

In a room with no cell service, Verizon works on the future of mobile (PC World)


SAP's cloud and big data race against time (ZDNet)

IBM adds social 'learning' component to cloud portfolio (ZDNet)
Additions include Kenexa offering.

Got Issues? Talk to Watson (Human Resource Executive)







Links 10/7/2013: Urban Outfitters plans 2500 more PA jobs






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Autobytel Acquires Advanced Mobile to Provide Leading Mobile Capabilities to Automotive Manufacturers and Dealerships (Business Wire)
Advanced Mobile is based in King of Prussia.

Urban Outfitters expansion means 2,500 jobs in PA (Philadelphia Business Journal)


eBay Enterprise Launches Alliance Network to Drive Commerce (EBay Enterprise)

Verizon Picks AMD’s SeaMicro Servers to Create New Cloud (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Judge rules for Amazon Web Services over IBM in CIA cloud case (Federal Computer Week)


Time Warner Cable Agrees to Acquire DukeNet for $600 Million (Bloomberg)

Comcast Recovers From Brief ‘X1’ Outage (Multichannel News)

Amazon recruits variety of apps for set-top box, report says
(CNET News)

Big Data, Faster Clinical Trials (Information Week)
Merck teams up with Israeli company.

Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website (Reuters)


Wall Street skittish on growing threat to IBM's SaaS, cloud (ZDNet)









Links 9/24/2013: Staples teams with Zonoff for connected home; URBN's new app strategy







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SAP HANA isn't 'even comparable' to Oracle's in-memory technology, Hurd says (Computerworld)

Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services (PC World)


Engine Yard loads Oracle tech into cloud platform (The Register)

Can Salesforce and Workday’s hook-up genuinely hurt the SAP and Oracle empire? (Enterprise Irregulars)


Bill Gates On Returning To Be Microsoft CEO: 'No ... I Won't Be Full-Time Doing That' (Business Insider)

Violin Memory, RingCentral Lead IPOs On Tap This Week (Investor's Business Daily)


Urban Outfitters' New App Strategy: Be Cool (Bloomberg)
Curalate helping to implement Urban Outfitters' new social media program.

Move over Best Buy: Staples wants to be your shop for the connected home (Gigaom)
Teams with Malvern's Zonoff.



The Deal That Could Dim Netflix’s Emmy Afterglow (Variety)
21st Century Fox and Comcast are said to be close to deal.

Comcast CFO Talks NBCUniversal's 'Monetization Gap,' Universal's Changes (Hollywood Reporter)


Time Warner Cable Is Willing to Take on More Debt for Right Deal (Bloomberg)


AT&T will build an LTE-Broadcast network tailor-made for video (Gigaom)

McAdam: FiOS Media Server will 'eliminate the need for coax' and speed installs (FierceCable)


Sarnoff Collection to debut at TCNJ next month
(Times of Trenton via Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Yuengling ice cream back after 30 years (Republic Herald.com)




Links 8/20/2013: Urban Outfitters increasingly sees itself as ecommerce company








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Birst Raises $38M Led By Sequoia To Expand Its Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Solutions (TechCrunch)
QlikTech competitor.

Violle, LLC and NewSpring Capital Complete Acquisition of Majority Interest in Utilipath, LLC (PR Newswire)

Urban Outfitters Chases Bohemian Shoppers Online (Business Week)
“We really started to think about ourselves as a pure play e-commerce company that happened to have really great, productive, differentiated stores in 500 locations around the world that’s relevant for our consumer,” - Matthew Kaness, chief strategy officer for Urban Outfitters, at a June conference.


Dell PartnerDirect Nears Software Integration (Channelnomics)

Rackspace adds dedicated VMware vCenter to hybrid cloud lineup
(ZDNet)

SAP takes fight to Salesforce.com, Oracle with social intelligence app (PC World)


InsPro Technologies Positioned in the “Challengers” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for North American Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems (Business Wire)

UnitedHealthcare's New Online Service Lets Consumers Pay Their Medical Bills Online and Better Manage Health Care Expenses
Enables consumers to pay their medical bills with their credit card, debit card, health savings account, or bank account via the InstaMed payments network
(Business Wire)

Synnex, Comcast Join Forces For Telco Services Push
(CRN)

Hersha hotels add Comcast fiber (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

U.S. cable and telecom companies add 295,000 new subscribers in Q2
(Gigaom)






Daily Links 1/10/2013: SAP unveils Business Suite ERP to HANA in-memory database




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SAP Challenges Oracle With Speed Increase to Mainstay Software (Bloomberg)

SAP Ports its Business Suite Software to the HANA In-memory Database
The capability will become generally available later this year
(CIO.com)

SAP co-founder responds to 'drugs' gibe from Oracle's Larry Ellison (LA Times)

Billtrust Announces Merger With Best Practice Systems
Combination of Two eBilling Market Leaders To Shape Future Market Direction
(PR Newswire)
Billtrust is based in Hamilton, NJ.

Can Meg Whitman Reverse Hewlett-Packard's Free Fall? (Business Week)

NetSuite Acquires Point-of-Sale Company Retail Anywhere (All Things D)

Cognizant beefs up in Europe via C1 Group acquisitions (ZDNet)

Urban Outfitters Posts Record Holiday Sales (Fox Business)
Direct to consumer (essentially ecommerce) increases 38%.



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Daily Links 8/14/2012: Verizon Wireless spectrum deal near regulatory approval (WSJ)


Verizon Wireless spectrum deal near regulatory approval - WSJ (Reuters)

Talks Falter Between Stacey Snider, Comcast (Hollywood Reporter)

New York Surpasses Boston as Tech Hub says First Round Capital’s Howard Morgan (Startup Grind)

Conshohocken-based New Horizons Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by an Investor Group Led by Camden Partners (Business Wire)

Salesforce’s Answer To Facebook? Communities: A Private Social Network For You And Your Customers (TechCrunch)

Considering mobile POS? How URBN (Urban Outfitters) leverages apps for a streamlined in-store checkout (National Retail Federation Blog)

Drexel law professor creates a virtual venue for getting real-world experience (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Uber Hit With Cease And Desist In Boston, Promises To Continue “Full Speed Ahead” (TechCrunch)

RevitasNOW™ Brings the Power of Enterprise Revenue Dynamics to the Cloud
Revitas introduces a powerful cloud solution for optimizing and managing complex contracts, pricing, and compliance scenarios
(Business Wire)

S4 Worldwide Receives Investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners (Business Wire)





Daily Links 3/13/2012: Intel wants to get into Cable biz?



Intel Seeking Media Rights to Start Online Pay-TV System (Bloomberg)
Join the party.

Intel's Plan To Become A Cable Company Is One Of The Dumbest Ideas Ever (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)


Did NBC miss the boat on 'Downton Abbey'? (Philadelphia Inquirer)

S&T, icueTV Demo Political-Donation ITV App
Vendors Demo "Click to Text" EBIF Application at CableLabs Winter Conference
(Multichannel News)
icueTV is based in Cherry Hill. CableLabs' Winter Conference is being held in Philadelphia.

SAP: Bernstein Ups to Buy on ‘Hana’ Prospects (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

SAP ports HANA database to financial planning app
Latest move by SAP to seed HANA throughout its product portfolio.
(Computerworld)

Sameer Patel joins SAP and why it matters (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

Dell Steels Software Biz With SonicWall (Wired Enterprise)
$1.2 billion deal, WSJ reports.

Apple to spend $11bn on Samsung parts in 2012 claims exec (SlashGear)
OLED might be in the plans, which if true could be good news for Universal Display.


SalesCrunch makes $1 bid for Cisco's WebEx (Reuters)
SalesCrunch is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Turntable.FM Signs Licensing Deals With All Four Major Labels (Hollywood Reporter)
Another FRC portfolio company.

Urban Outfitters’ Margins Sink, 4Q EPS Misses Mark (Barron's Blogs)

Fisker electric Karma was pushed to market before it was ready (Gigaom)
According to one former employee, anyway.



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Daily Links 2/9/2012: Oracle in $1.9 billion deal with Taleo, more on Philadelphia Media Network controversey



Oracle Buys Taleo (Marketwire)
Predicted by many, $1.9 billion deal a countermove to SAP's SuccessFactors acquisition.

Oracle Buying Taleo for $1.9 Billion in Direct Hit at SAP (PC World)

News Analysis: The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo (Ray Wang/A Software Insider's Point of View)

Wharton Opens New West Coast Campus in Search of Startup Appeal (Bloomberg)

Inquirer & Daily News owners embarrass themselves, and us (Dave Davies/NewsWorks)

PMN defends pulling blog post (Philly.com)
But reporter David Gambacorta obviously disagrees.

2 Solyndras For The Price Of 1? A123 Hurt By Fisker's Woes (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Google reportedly working on wireless home entertainment system to be sold under its own brand (Engadget)

DOJ Set To Approve Google's Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility: Report
Agency Also Set to OK Consortium's Purchase of Nortel Patents, According to WSJ
(Multichannel News)

SunGard Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Results (Business Wire)

Publicis Reports 2011 Revenue Grew 7.3% to $7.7 Billion (Ad Age)
Publicis has a significant Philly area presence.

Urban Outfitters cleans up inventories, shares rise (Reuters)
Urban Outfitters' ecommerce segment is now a $500 million per year business.


Heartland Payment Systems Q4 profit tops estimates (Reuters)

BioClinica Reports Record Service Revenue for the Fourth Quarter and Year End 2011 (Business Wire)

Microsoft's plan to bring its ERP users slowly but surely to the cloud ( Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet Blogs)

Cox and CTDI Hold Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting For New Facility in Chesapeake, VA, on Feb. 8 (PR Newswire)
CTDI is headquartered in West Chester.

Integromics Partners With FPGMX To Develop Low-Cost Methods For Clinical Genomics (Integromics Press Release)
Integromics' US operations are based in Philadelphia.



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Daily Links 8/17/2011: DuckDuckGo named one of Time Magazine's Top Websites of 2011

Turn Off Verizon's FiOS, ActiveVideo Says After Winning Suit (PC Magazine)

Cable execs wary as Google acquires Motorola boxes (Reuters)

After Googorola, Cisco Could Get Some Set-Top Mojo Back (Multichannel News)

Apple, Qualcomm, others eye InterDigital: sources
Auction said to be postponed until after Labor Day.

DuckDuckGo Honored As One TIME’s Top Websites Of 2011; Google+ & Quora, Too (Search Engine Land)
Gabe Weinberg explains in his blog how DuckDuckGo made it in.

Monetate CEO Brussin On Monetate’s Expansion Beyond eCommerce And Strategy Ahead (AdExchanger.com)


Sniffing Out Possible Buyers for MarketAxess (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)
SunGard cited as one potential bidder.

NBC 10 Philadelphia To Deliver Local News via Foursquare (Mashable)

More drug companies close Facebook pages as Walls open (Washington Post)

Anthropologie telling the story of Urban Outfitters Inc. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Maryland to hold first "Entrepreneur Expo" in November (Baltimore Sun: BaltTech)



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Daily Links 8/15/2011: Breinigsville, PA-based Cyoptics files for $100 million IPO

CyOptics files papers for $100 million IPO (MarketWatch)
CyOptics, which makes optical components for broadband applications, is based in Breinigsville, PA; Radnor's TL Ventures holds a 5% stake. Obviously, the rocky market conditions may impact timing.

The inside story of DreamIt Ventures’ first New York City accelerator (The Next Web)


New Jersey looks to nurture tech startups (NorthJersey.com)
Looks to DreamIt Ventures as a model.

DDC Secures Seed Funding from Robin Hood Ventures (PR Web)

TicketLeap Launches World's First Socially Integrated Mobile Ticketing Platform (PR Web)

Time Warner Cable To Purchase Insight For $3 Billion In Cash
No. 2 MSO Bolsters Mideastern Presence
(Multichannel News)

How Comcast SportsNet Plays The Social Media Game (Information Week)

Urban Outfitters Jumps After Earnings Beat (Barron's Blogs)

Roku grabs $8M, weeks after releasing Roku 2 (VentureBeat)



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Daily Links 3/8/2011: Deutsche Telekom, Sprint said to be discussing T-Mobile USA Deal

Deutsche Telekom, Sprint Said to Discuss T-Mobile USA Deal
(Bloomberg)

YouTube, Netflix, Hulu: Meet Facebook (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)

Facebook Could ‘Become a Credible Threat to Netflix,’ Says Goldman Sachs (Hollywood Reporter)

Netflix spooks Hollywood more than ever (CNET News)

Britt: Video Losses Unacceptable
TWC chairman says MSO looking at video subscribers with "renewed intensity"
(Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast Courts the Cloud (Light Reading Cable)

Republicans pan FCC reasons for net neutrality rules (Washington Post: Post Tech)


Smarter Agent acquires Toor.me (Smarter Agent Blog)
Camden-based mobile real estate network acquires Seattle company that uses QR codes on properties.

Urban Outfitters’ Weak Quarter: A Hiccup or A “Yikes” (Barron's Blogs)
First disappointing news from Urban Outfitters in a long time. But the fashion business is like that.

Anexinet Named to Inaugural CRN Tech Elite 250 (Business Wire)

SAS Pushes BI to Apple's IPad, IPhones (PC World)

To BI or Not to BI – That is The Question for SAS (Information Management)

Seven Questions About CRM Software with Microsoft’s Mike Ehrenberg (All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)

The cable-TV installation will be easy. Want to buy some property under the Brooklyn Bridge? (Washington Post)
One writer's experience with Comcast.



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Daily Links 10/19/2010: Urban Outfitters' social marketing strategy

SAP's In-memory Analytics Boxes Set for November Release (PC World)

SAP Brings Customers More Choices to Benefit From Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructures (PR Newswire)

Why An SAP Press Conference Actually Held My Attention (Read Write Cloud)

Unisys lights up Xeon-based mainframes (Channel Register)

Bentley Systems #BeInspired 2010 Event Opens with Congratulations to “Resilient” Users of Infrastructure Solutions (Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)


Comcast Has Answers for FCC
Responses concerned with distribution agreements, rates, proprietary info
(Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast Campaign Giving Jumps by Half as U.S. Weighs NBC Deal
(Bloomberg)

Lockheed sees contract cuts, delays hurting 2011 (Reuters)

ESPN.com Launches New Shop Experience (GSI Commerce Press Release)
In collaboration with GSI Commerce.



Four Ways to Build Customers Into Your Brand (ClickZ)
Monetate board member Sam Decker on Urban Outfitters' social marketing strategy.

Unvarnished Has More Money and a New Name: Honestly (Gigaom)
First Round Capital's latest investment, San Francisco-based Honestly, has some doubters.


10 things: Handicapping Gartner's top technologies for 2011 (ZDNet Blogs)

Cadient Group Launches REVEALSM at 4th Annual Digital Pharma East on October 18-21, 2010 in Philadelphia (Business Wire)

Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG Selects Veeva CRM for Global Deployments (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 8/17/2010: Lower Merion School District won't face Federal charges in webcam case

Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting (AP via Google News)

Wall Street lukewarm to Hulu IPO plans
Raising capital could make website more competitive
(The Hollywood Reporter)

Global CIO: IBM & Oracle Expose Hewlett-Packard's Achilles' Heel (Information Week)

SAP Americas Headquarters Achieves Certification as Pennsylvania's Largest 'LEED Platinum' Building
(PR Newswire)

First Round Capital joins the TaskRabbit Team! (TaskRabbit Blog)
First Round Capital's latest investment, TaskRabbit, is currently operating in Boston and San Francisco.

Stream TV Prepares to Introduce Groundbreaking 7-Inch Mobile Tablet With Android OS (PR Newswire)
Not quite sure who or what is behind this yet, but it is apparently based in the Philly area.


Data worth more in health mergers than software (ZDNet Blogs)

Ingenix Continues Buying Spree (Health Data Management)

Spying school district won’t face charges (FT.com: Tech Blog)

Urban Outfitters 2Q net income climbs 46 percent (AP via Business Week)

Traver Out as Comcast Media Center Chief
(Light Reading Cable)




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