Daily Links 4/3/2012: Sungard wants to sell you Hadoop as a service

New owners discuss details of the sale (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Sungard wants to sell you Hadoop as a service (Gigaom)

Quepasa And MyYearbook Rebrand As MeetMe (TechCrunch)

Introducing our New Head of Talent at First Round Capital, Jack Leidlein (Redeye VC)

Dell acquires Clerity as shopping spree continues (ZDNet Blogs)
Sounds like it might be a pretty good fit with what Boomi does.

SAP Jumps On Predictive Analytics Bandwagon
SAP supports R statistical programming language, following in the footsteps of rivals. So what's new about this predictive software? (Information Week)

Netflix: Rising Competition a Big Concern, Barclays Says (Wall Street Journal: MarketBeat)

The End of the World[Gate] ( Jeff Baumgartner/Light Reading Cable)

From Google to Comcast, Tech Giants Are Shaping Your Home's Smart Future (ReadWriteWeb)

FirstBest Growth Financing Round Reflects Insurer Interest in Front-Office Solutions (Insurance & Technology)
NewSpring Capital (also investor in iPipeline) among leaders in $10 million round for Massachusetts startup.

Daily Links 4/2/2012: Philadelphia Media Network sold; Dell Acquires Wyse

Local group to buy Phila. Media Network for $55 million (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Dell Buys Cloud Client Computing Company Wyse To Expand Desktop Virtualization Products (TechCrunch)
Wonder what this means for King of Prussia-based Devon IT, a key Dell supplier in this market.

Dell To Acquire Virtual Desktop Player Wyse Technology (All Things D)
One analyst pegs price at between $350 and $400 million on estimated revenue of $375 million.

Dell plans to acquire Wyse. (It's about time!) (BrianMadden.com)

Apple Jumps to #2 Position in New IDC Health Insights Life Sciences Survey; a 220% Increase Since 2009
Dell leads hardware category while Oracle maintains position as #1 software vendor of choice (Business Wire)

SAP Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation (PR Newswire)



SAP structures specialized unit for national security clients (Washington Technology)

WorldGate files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy (phillyBurbs.com)
The end of the line for WorldGate; an interesting piece of Philly Tech history.

ICG Acquires MSDSonline, a Cloud-Based Environmental, Health and Safety Compliance Solution (Globe Newswire)
Pays $48 million for 96%.

Will telcos and MSOs lose SMEs to upstart hosted service providers? (FierceEnterpriseCommunications)

Rue La La bulks up on warehouse space (Internet Retailer)
Buys 400,000 square foot Louisville warehouse from GSI Commerce. Michael Rubin reacquires one of his old properties.



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Daily Links 3/15/2011: Ex-FCC chief Powell to head top cable trade group

Will HP buy or merge? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP: the road to redemption (ZDNet Blogs)

Ex-FCC chief Powell to head top cable trade group (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Netflix's Brick Wall (The Wrap)

Liberty Media CEO Discusses Earthquake's Effect on QVC Japan (Hollywood Reporter)

Time Warner Brings Live Cable TV to iPad (Zatz Not Funny!)

Blackstone Offers to Sell Florida Theme Park (including ‘Revenge of The Mummy’ Ride) to NBC (PE Hub)

PhillyInc: Video-phone firm WorldGate facing big cash crunch (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cuts workforce by 65%.

Lockheed's GPS III Team completes Key Flight Software Milestone (Inside GNSS)

Downtown-based Compliance Assurance secures $1.25M in financing (Pittsburgh Business Times)
Philly-area firms among investors.

GSI Commerce Closes Acquisition of Fanatics, Inc. (Business Wire)
Also closes on new credit line, sets share repurchase plan.


Gift from Peter Detkin to Launch Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic at Penn Law (Penn Almanac)

Campbell Soup exec wins Temple business school IT award (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 3/14/2011: Franken: "The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely"

HP’s New CEO Has a Big Day Planned, and a Bigger Job Ahead (All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)

Leo Apotheker lays out his strategy for first time as HP CEO (VentureBeat)

Executive hopes to stop losses.
Putting focus on Comcast customers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

AT&T to introduce data caps on DSL (CNET News)

AT&T’s New Bandwidth Cap Is Bad News for Netflix (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’ (Politico)
Franken: "The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely".


Green LEEDs to platinum: SAP America earns distinction for utilizing environmental sources for newest building (Delco Times)

Infor's Offer for Lawson Could Spark Bidding War (PC World)

WorldGate denied loan, running out of cash (phillyBurbs.com)
Is WorldGate on the last of its nine lives? Just not sure where its product stands in today's world of smartphones and tablets. But it is a company with a fascinating history.

USA Technologies To Raise $10.7 Million In Common Stock Private Placement (Business Wire)

Report: Proposed bill to deregulate telephone service would raise prices, hurt consumers (NJ.com)

Q&A: Rob Walters, SunGard Availability Services (Web Hosting Industry News)



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Daily Links 9/13/2010: Post-Saridakis, pointed questions about PointRoll

Post-Saridakis, pointed questions about PointRoll (Gannett Blog)
PointRoll, based in Conshohocken, is owned by Gannett.

Drivers vote down latest contract offer from Philadelphia newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Paetec buying rival telecom Cavalier for $460M (AP via Google News)
Both Paetec and Cavalier have operations in the Philadelphia area.

Cable’s Fall Agenda in D.C.
Industry Thrust Into ‘Vortex’ of Broadband Policy Issues (Multichannel News)

Will Oracle Buy Informatica Next? (IDG via New York Times)

SAP New-Product Blitz Tomorrow (Information Week: Global CIO Blog)

Ojo Video Phone Lives! Er, Again! (Zatz Not Funny!)

Chattanooga, TN beats Google to 1Gbps—for $350 a month (Ars Technica)

Cable-TV slowly steps into stereo 3-D (EE Times)

Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Launches Health IT Firm
Picture of Health is recruiting staff for a firm that aims to "leverage technology in pursuit of better health." (Information Week)

Daily Links 5/11/2010: Heartland Payment Systems Plans to Hire 1,198 Sales Professionals

The Genius of QVC
How the shopping network became one of the most effective retailing machines ever invented
(The Atlantic)

FCC's 'Third Way' Criticized for Over-Regulation (PC Magazine)
FCC's Clyburn criticizes corporations for misinformation on broadband reclassification (Washington Post: Post Tech)


Heartland breach expenses pegged at $140M -- so far (Computerworld)
Heartland Payment Systems® Plans to Hire 1,198 Sales Professionals in the Next 18 Months (Business Wire)
Why 1,198? Why not 1,195 or 1,199?

WorldGate Introduces ‘Ojo Vision’ Video Phone (Business Wire)

Oracle Unveils Oracle's Primavera Inspire for SAP 7.0 (Marketwire)

SAP's Vertical Future (Forbes)

Bridgeline Digital Acquires TMX Interactive (Globe Newswire via MarketWatch)

Better government through code
Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka wants to empower developers to become civic coders
(O'Reilly Radar)
Philadelphia one of 5 initial cities chosen to participate.

First SaaS CRM Application Network for Life Sciences Industry Launched By Veeva Systems at Customer Summit (Business Wire)

Citizens Bank of Pa. parent hiring 180, spending $500M on technology (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Universal Display Team Awarded $4 Million Contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to Support Establishment of an OLED Lighting Pilot Manufacturing Facility in the U.S. (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 3/24/2010: Senate panel sets Phila. hearing on Web surveillance

Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year (Wired: Threat Level)
Albert Gonzalez, also Heartland Payment Systems hacker, expected to be sentenced this week.

Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because (CrunchGear)

Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity
Experts say IPv6 is attracting more users and content, but it's still a fraction of Internet traffic (Network World)

Big Cable Joins the Broadband Stimulus Fray (Light Reading Cable)

Senate panel sets Phila. hearing on Web surveillance (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Introducing LoKast! (A Portfolio of One)

$15M injection
Growth spurt for Hanover Township firm (Wilkes-Barre Times Leader)
BabyAge.com.

Startup Rolls out Phalanx of SAP Mobile Apps (PC World)

WorldGate Announces New Corporate Headquarters Location
Company Growth and Continuous Innovation Drive Move to New Building (Business Wire)

Boenning says it cut workers to narrow focus (Philadelphia
Business Journal: Law & Finance Blog)




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