Daily Links 8/2/2011: Comcast's diversity progress questioned

Apply to Open Angel Forum Philly II (Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)

Web 1.0 Winners Aim For Lucky Strike #2 With Internet of Things Startup, ThingWorx (Read Write Web)
ThingWorx is based in Exton.

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter 2011 (Business Wire)

SevOne Continues Strong Growth and Expands Product, Partnerships and Leadership Team (Marketwire)

Earnings Preview: Comcast to report 2Q earnings tomorrow (AP via Bloomberg Business Week)

Comcast-NBCU Under Fire for Not Moving Fast Enough on Diversity
(The Wrap)

NBC's Robert Greenblatt: 'It's My Schedule for Better or Worse' (Hollywood Reporter)

Does Cable Have a Wireless Plan B? (Light Reading Cable)

FiOS dominates as FCC measures actual Internet speeds (Ars Technica)

Edison Ventures Completes 16th IPO with Tangoe (Nasdaq: TNGO)
6X Return Reinforces Edison’s SaaS Leadership (PR Web)

VectorLearning Completes $24 Million Investment from LLR Partners to Support Continued Growth & Acquisitions
Leading online education provider VectorLearning has received funding from private equity firm LLR Partners. (PR Web)

Turntable.fm closing $7.5M round led by Union Square Ventures (VentureBeat)
First Round Capital was an early backer.

Vishay Reports Results for Second Quarter 2011 (Business Wire)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2011 Results (Business Wire)

Donald Farmer’s Take on Business Discovery (The QlikView Blog)

RES Software Achieves 185 Percent Growth in Target Markets and Accelerates Expansion within Key Geographies
50 Percent Overall Year-Over-Year Growth and Record First-Half Bookings Realized, RES Poised for Aggressive Second-Half Growth (Business Wire)

Christie: Technology investments a priority in NJ
(AP via NJ.com)



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Daily Links 2/8/2011: Josh Kopelman joins GSI Commerce board

Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers' (CNN)

Ken Olsen, cofounder of Digital, dead at 84 (Boston Globe)

SAP preps 'huge' BI upgrade (Computerworld)

A Techie Explains Just What Happened With San Diego Comic Con 2011 Ticket Sales (Or Lack Of) (Bleeding Cool)
Post by Keith Fitzgerald, VP Engineering at Ticket Leap.

GSI Commerce Elects Josh Kopelman to its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

Was Eric Schmidt Wrong About the Historical Scale of the Internet? (Read Write Cloud)
RJMetrics cofounder Robert J. Moore gets to the bottom of it.

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 (Business Wire)

Vishay's 4Q profit boosted by improving sales (AP via Bloomberg)

Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble – or Not? (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)

Airgas Ruling Still to Come (New York Times: DealBook)

Entercom Communications Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and 2010 Annual Results
Announces 7% Increase in Same Station Net Revenue and 22% Increase in Free Cash Flow in Fourth Quarter (Business Wire)

Daily Links 11/2/2010: Oracle acquires eCommerce platform provider Art Technology

Oracle Buys eCommerce Company ATG For $1 Billion (Silicon Alley Insider)
Possible implications for GSI Commerce.

Oracle begins opening statement in SAP trial
* Apotheker will testify at trial-lawyer (Reuters)

SAP’s Tab in Oracle Case: $120 Million and Counting
(All Things Digital: Digital Daily)


Accenture Acquires Knowledge Rules, a Leading Provider Of Pegasystems’ Business Process Management Services (Business Wire)


Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2010 Results
(Business Wire)
Lowers guidance. Checkpoint shares down 14% so far today.

Vishay Reports Results for Third Quarter 2010 (Business Wire)

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter 2010 (Business Wire)

Philly-Based Red Tettemer Acquires Stick & Move (Ad Age)

Tribrige, a Tampa-based provider of IT services and consulting, has received backing from Philly PE firm LLR Partners, according to this Tribridge press release (pdf), though I haven't seen it anywhere on the wires yet.

Under The Oracle-SAP Radar: Can Workday Scale Into Financials? (Information Week: Global CIO)

DirecTV drops Comcast's G4 in latest tussle between media giants (LA Times: Company Town)

Here's The REAL Reason AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui Left Google (Silicon Alley Insider)




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Daily Links 8/3/2010: NetSuite slams SAP Business ByDesign

Pre-Launch Business Plans Are Always Wrong (Redeye VC via Silicon Alley Insider)

thePlatform Gives Content Owners More Control (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast Saves Y-Combinator Startup Fanvibe From Obscurity (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast-NBCU: View From the Top (Multichannel News)

FCC, Carriers Close To Largely Empty Neutrality Agreement (Broadband Reports)

A Content War on Three Fronts: Retrans, TV Everywhere and Tru2way
(Motorola Home Blog: Media Experiences 2 Go)

SAP Furthers SaaS Push With New Business ByDesign Release (Channel Web)

NetSuite slams SAP Business ByDesign (ZDNet Blogs)

Exclaim Mobility Acquires Mobicious
(Business Wire)
Exclaim Mobility, which is based in Princeton and operates mobile photo and video sharing service Pictavision, is backed with $7 million from Edison Ventures and Sycamore Ventures. The company says it is profitable.
Mobicious, which is based in Massachusetts, had raised $9 million and has 1.1 million registered users but couldn't raise more cash, Mass High Tech reports.

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter 2010 (Business Wire)
Revenue up 14%.


Vishay Q2 tops Street, sees strong Q3 revenue (Reuters)

Vishay Precision Group Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results (Business Wire)
First financial report since being spun off as an independent company from Vishay Intertechnology.

WellPoint: Mobile heart monitor is “experimental” (Mobile Health News)




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Daily Links 6/16/2010: SEI wins Wilmington Trust account from SunGard

Comcast Getting Ready to Uncork SDV (Light Reading Cable)

NCC Media Helps DirecTV Enter Spot TV Market (MediaWeek)

LifeShield Secures $11 Million in Funding
CEO Michael Hagan Joins Investors in Arming Wireless Home Security Business (Business
Wire)
Interesting to see First Round Capital participating in this deal.

Boomi AtomSphere Summer '10 Delivers Industry's First Community-Driven Suggestion Wizard for Application Integration (Marketwire)

Connectify 2.0 Improves Throughput & Range for the Apple iPad
(PR Newswire)

SEI beats SunGard to win bank deal (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Philadelphia takes GIS to the city limits
IT consolidation fuels project to bring GIS tools to a variety of services (Government
Computer News)

Vishay to distribute fractional shares in spinoff (Associated Press via Bloomberg Business Week)

CardioNet’s long-awaited new leader: Joe Capper (Mobile Health News)

GE offers e-health records as SaaS offering
Centricity Advance service will cost docs from $300 to $800 a month (Computerworld)

TruePosition® Introduces New TruePosition® LMU-Universal™ (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 5/5/2010: IBM and NetSuite connect with Cast Iron

Google Ups Its TV Bet, Invests In Invidi (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)
Invidi was headquartered in Princeton and still has significant operations there, although the official headquarters has apparently been moved to New York.
Inside Google's Invidi TV Advertising Deal (MediaPost: Around the Net in Online Media)

Five Cities Get Free Civic Apps Through Code for America (Mashable)
Philadelphia is one of the five.

IBM and NetSuite connect with Cast Iron (ZDNet Blogs)
Important read.

SAP delays local ByDesign cloud offering launch (The Australian)

Sysco Has Selected SAP to Help Transform Its Business (PR Newswire)

Vishay Reports Results for First Quarter 2010 (Business Wire)
Vishay Shares Slip As Q1 Revs Miss; Says Spin-Off On Track (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

BioClinica Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

USA Technologies, Inc. Commences $3 Million Public Offering (Business Wire)

Cable Show 2010: Motorola Touts 'Medios' Software, VOD Servers
Vendor to Showcase Media-Delivery Platform, On-Demand Servers (Multichanel News)

More 4G in More Places, Says Clearwire (GigaOM)


Comcast: Reports Confirm Benefits Of NBCU Deal
Company says merger would have lack of adverse impact on online video distribution (Broadcasting & Cable)

Cable Gets Its Wrist Slapped For Pretending To Offer Fiber
Better Business Bureau says Cox, Time Warner Cable ads mislead consumers (Broadband Reports)




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