Daily Links 7/15/2010: Outlook on Qlik Technologies' planned IPO

BI Vendor QlikTech's IPO Could Be Red-Hot (CIO.com)

Can Sprint afford a WiMAX flop?
Company may take hit if WiMAX fails to catch, but other strategies are out there (Network World)

Clearwire Gets a New Backhaul Buddy (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast unleashes 100 Mbps tier for businesses (CED Magazine)

Manufacturing in Philadelphia Fed Area Cooled in July (Bloomberg Business Week)
Philly Fed July 2010 Business Outlook Survey

Ben Franklin Technology Partners approves investments of $1.8M (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Blog Networks Try One More Time to Turn Local Journalism Into Cash (GigaOM)
Yardley's Journal Register is one experimenter.


SAP & CA Tag Team for GRC (ZDNet Blogs)

Curt Schilling’s online game firm 38 Studios considers $75M loan incentive from Rhode Island (VentureBeat)

Comcast SportsNet unveiling Baltimore website (Baltimore Business Journal)

Elsevier's Procedures Consult Mobile Brings Procedural Videos and Illustrations to Smartphones (Medgadget)

Athenaeum library in Philadelphia: Old-world and cutting-edge
(Philadelphia Inquirer)




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Daily Links 5/3/2010: FCC Chairman Genachowski leaning towards leaving broadband services deregulated

Philadelphia competes for tech expertise (WHYY)

FCC Chairman Genachowski expected to leave broadband services deregulated (Washington Post)

e-Dialog Acquires Database Marketing Solutions Provider MBS (Business Wire)
e-Dialog is a division of GSI Commerce.

IBM Advances Cloud Initiatives With Acquisition of Cast Iron Systems (PR Newswire)
One of Cast Iron's major competitors is Boomi of Berwyn, which I imagine has a few suitors of its own.
IBM to build out hub for cloud of clouds with Cast Iron acquisition (ZDNet Blogs)
With a few words from Boomi.


SAP, Waste Management Settle Lawsuit (PC World)


Verizon Mum On How They Determine A City's Worthy Of FiOS
Baltimore holds hearing to (unsuccessfully) find out why they were overlooked (Broadband Reports)

SPRINT, CLEAR SERVICE NOW AVAILABLE IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA (Going WiMax)

USA Technologies, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Apriva Challenges USA Technologies in Cashless-Vending Market (Digital Transactions)

Germany's Software AG says 1Q net profit up 9 pct (Associated Press via MSnbc)

Technitrol Reports Q110 Results; Dividend Declared (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 3/12/2010: Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Revenge of the Cable Guys (Business Week)

Jack Welch on ‘30 Rock’ (Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy)

Comcast-NBCU merger: how the regulators will decide (Ars Technica)

The Fourth Congressional Hearing on NBC Universal (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

D.C. Circuit Court Denies Cablevision/Comcast Program-Access Challenge
Court Rules FCC Reasonable To Conclude Rules Are Still Necessary (Multichannel News)

FCC Launches Broadband Test Site for Consumers (IDG via New York Times)

Raising Capital From Angel Investors (Philadelphia Bulletin: The Entrepreneur)

Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk
Terminated for disclosing security incident at Department of Transportation, source says
(Computerworld)

Yolton returning home to headline SAP event (Philadelphia
Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Grady Hospital Improves Surgical Dept. Efficiency
A real-time location system combining CenTrak hardware and PeriOptimum software has raised the utilization rate of the facility's 16 operating rooms by 23 percent. (RFID Journal)
CenTrak is based in Newtown, Bucks County.

MedQuist posts 4Q profit, up from loss in 4Q 2008 (Associated Press via Forbes)

A Rough Week — and Likely Future — for WiMax (PE Hub)




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