Daily Links 11/21/2012: NBC wins November Sweeps; News Corp takes 49% stake in YES Network

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NBC Wins November Sweeps for First Time in Nine Years (Bloomberg)

News Corporation Completes Deal for 49% Stake in YES Network (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Microsoft Reportedly Plans Stripped Down Xbox Set-Top Box To Compete With Apple TV, Roku (TechCrunch)

FCC chairman backs Dish Network plan to compete with wireless giants (Washington Post)
With caveats.

Salesforce CEO on SAP, Oracle: We're the 'customer company' (ZDNet)

Autonomy Founder Says HP Accounting Claim Doesn’t Add Up (Bloomberg)

In Hewlett’s Claims About Autonomy, Legal Costs Could Pile Up (New York Times: Dealbook)

SAP maintenance revenues: another turn of the screw? (Dennis Howlett/Enterprise Irregulars via ZDNet)

Mastering SAP HANA data modeling for maximum performance (SearchSAP)




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Daily Links 9/25/2012: Cable operators may challenge game consoles

SAP's Emerging Cloud Platform Strategy (Frank Scavo/Constellation Research)

Xbox Challenged as Cable Plots to Make Consoles Obsolete: (Bloomberg)

Verizon Nears Launch Of FiOS Media Server (Multichannel News)

How the U.S. is winning the race to next-gen Internet (PC World)

Cable outpaces iTunes for iVOD movies: Comcast leads rental category (Variety via Chicago Tribune)

FTTH Quietly Grows 10% in North America (Light Reading Cable)

Chattanooga, Tenn., tries to lure in tech experts (Philadelphia Inquirer)

University City innovation zone grant to aid new companies (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Fisker Karma 'plagued with flaws,' says Consumer Reports (Reuters via San Jose Mercury News)



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Daily Links 3/27/2012: More cuts loom at PMN; Comcast to offer new Cloud-based business voice service

35 more jobs in jeopardy at papers, website (Philadelphia Daily News)
Other details on possible deal.

10 years later, two members of the Rigas family that founded Adelphia maintain their innocence (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Comcast Rolls Business Voice Into the Cloud (Light Reading Cable)

Microsoft Xbox Live to add Comcast, HBO Go today (Gigaom)

Xbox Pipes In Comcast VOD, HBO Go And MLB.TV
Microsoft Claims U.S. Xbox Live Gold Members Spend Average of 84 Hours Monthly With Service (Multichannel News)


EPAM Systems Reports Earnings Results for Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011
Fourth Quarter revenues up 10.1% sequentially and 34.4% year-over-year (Business Wire via MarketWatch)
First quarterly results for Newtown-based EPAM since going public last month. Its shares are up 20% today after beating estimates, issuing guidance.

Gartner: Software as a Service Market to Grow 17.9 Percent to $14.5 Billion (PC World)

One of the Most Powerful People in Silicon Valley? He Lives in Baltimore (PE Hub)

Millennial Media IPO drawing strong buzz(MarketWatch)

Astea International Announces Profitable Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 12/5/2011: ReadWriteWeb names Lancaster-based appMobi its "most promising company for 2012"

Lancaster-based appMobi is ReadWriteWeb's Most Promising Company For 2012 (ReadWriteWeb)

Taleo, Kenexa Spike On SAP/Success Factors Deal; Who Is Next? (Forbes: Tech Musings)

SAP Overpaying For SuccessFactors, S&P Analyst Says (Forbes: Tech Musings)

SAP splashes out in cloud-computing frenzy (Reuters)

Kenexa's Growing HR Footprint (ZDNet Blogs)

IBM Rachets Up Acquisition Machine (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

PhillyInc: Venture capital still on the upswing (Philadelphia Inquirer)

CMCSA, TWC: Stifel Ups To Buy On Wireless Deal (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast to start selling Verizon mobile early 2012 (Reuters)

Comcast CFO: NBCUniversal Integration Continues to Go 'Really Well' (Hollywood Reporter)

The Future of TV Begins Now on Xbox 360 (Microsoft News Center)
FiOS later this month; Comcast Xfinity On Demand in "early 2012".

Razorfish CEO to Set New Digital Course for Publicis in Wake of Lang Departure (Ad Age)
Implications for Rosetta Marketing?

Siemens amps up its smart grid bid with eMeter startup acquisition (VentureBeat)
eMeter has also been working closely with SAP on applications.

USA Technologies replaces CEO who posed as investor (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 11/29/2011: Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Very Soon to Xbox

Live Verizon FiOS TV Coming Soon to Xbox, Complete With Kinect Voice and Gesture Controls (PR Newswire)

Analyst: T-Mobile to Comcast, instead of AT&T? (Seattle Times)
Comcast has consistently said it doesn't want to own a major wireless network, a position Vice Chairman Michael Angelakis reiterated earlier this month. I believe they mean what they say, but that doesn't mean they don't have a long term interest in wireless as LTE becomes an important alternative to fixed-wire networks for many applications.

Motorola Mobility's Sanjay Jha & Dan Moloney discuss Moto's
set-top box plans (Video: Light Reading)

NetApp Taking on EMC Puts CommVault in Takeover Sights: Real M&A (Bloomberg)
CommVault is based in Oceanport, NJ.


TE Connectivity in Exclusive Negotiations to Acquire Deutsch (PR Newswire)
TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) has its operational headquarters in Berwyn. The acquisition would be valued at about $2 billion.

Oracle, SAP, Infor: Three's a crowd (Computer Business Review)

Is SAP HANA about the “in-memory database”? (Vital BI)

Customer Sues Epicor After ERP Software Project Attempt Ends in 'big Mess' (PC World)

Mint Linux freshens up web searches
We've got our own engine. Swallow that, Google and Microsoft (The Register)
Teams up with Paoli-based DuckDuckGo.

Shop online, try it out in person: Kembrel gives hybrid retail sales the old college try (VentureBeat)
Opens small store location in Philly.

Cyber Monday? It was more like Mobile Monday, according to eBay & PayPal (VentureBeat)
And GSI Commerce.


Business incubator's future in peril as state cuts funding
Ben Franklin Technology Partners in Bethlehem trims payroll, helps fewer clients. (Allentown Morning Call)




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