Daily Links 6/25/2012: Comcast gets Supreme Court hearing on class action antitrust suit

Comcast Gets U.S. High Court Hearing On Consumer Lawsuit (Bloomberg)

Verizon, T-Mobile swap spectrum for mutual LTE growth
The Big Four's largest and smallest carriers strike a deal for AWS spectrum (CNET News)
Gives T-Mobile more AWS spectrum in Philly area. See my previous article on T-Mobile's spectrum holdings in the Philly region.

It’s Official: Microsoft Confirms It Has Acquired Yammer For $1.2 Billion In Cash (TechCrunch)

Quest Gets $27.50-A-Share Bid, Topping Insight’s Offer (Bloomberg)
Dell presumed to be bidder.

TicketLeap relaunches with deeper social integration, better mobile apps, & more (VentureBeat)

Help wanted at SAP: Mobile, cloud, big-data practitioners (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Cisco, Citrix link arms for VDI partner push
Virty desktops are like ERP in the 1990s (The Register: The Channel)



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Daily Links 6/20/2012: Verizon Wireless says its expanding 4G LTE network in Philadelphia Area tomorrow

Philly UNCUBED Talent Fair tomorrow (Philly UNCUBED)

NBC Sports: Comcast Sharpens Network Branding Ahead of London Olympics (BrandChannel)

On Demand Summit: Strauss Says 'Personalization' Is Key at Comcast
On-Demand World Is Here, Exec Says. Now It Needs To Be Tailored To Everyone (Multichannel News)

Comcast crushes porn owner’s “shakedown” of subscribers (paidContent)

Counting to 100 the Ellison way as Oracle Cloud takes on Workday and Salesforce.com (BusinessCloud9)

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Daily Links 6/15/2012: Microsoft reportedly in $1 billion deal for Yammer

Microsoft reportedly in $1 billion deal for Yammer (CNET News)

Take That Larry Ellison! Workday Is Expected To File For Its IPO This Month (SAI: Enterprise)

QlikTech Buys Expressor To Nix Scripting
Deal gives QlikView business intelligence software a graphical user interface to ease and speed data loading. (Cindi Howson/InformationWeek)

Exit Interview: Nitin Bhatia On Sharepoint, Yammer, Leaving Microsoft And Joining NextDocs (TechCrunch)
Obviously, they wanted to talk with Bhatia mostly about Yammer; NextDocs is hardly mentioned.


Hey, Comcast, the Rich Aren't That Different (Bloomberg Business Week)
Comcast's problem with Chappaquiddick.

ShopRunner picks up the pace
The shipping program offers members a way to make purchases in two clicks. (Internet Retailer)

Uber Wants To Drive You To The Philly Mini Meet-Up (TechCrunch)
What good is a 20% discount if their variable pricing just hikes up the price at the time?



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Daily Links 6/14/2012: Microsoft said to be in talks to buy Yammer

HP and SAP: What we need is a MASHED UP cloud
'We've moved away from doing it cheaper' (Thank god) (The Register)

Microsoft Said To Be In Talks To Acquire Yammer Social Network (Bloomberg)
Raises question again as to whether SAP will make a major move.

Yammer Acquisition Rumors Push Jive Shares Up (All Things D)
As I was saying....

Comcast Bids For .Xfinity, While Dish Wants .Direct And .DTV Web Names (Multichannel News)

U.S. is probing how pay-TV industry affects online competitors (LA Times)

Eagles, Rovio announce an Angry Birds deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Daily Links 4/24/2012: Unisys sees revenue growth, profit

Comcast’s biography, now available to employees (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast to FCC: Bloomberg Claim of Channel Relocations Is Wrong (Broadcasting & Cable)

EchoStar Backs Out of Cable Set-top Biz (Light Reading Cable)

Unisys Corp. swings to a profit (MarketWatch)
Revenue actually increased, which has been rare for Unisys in recent years.
Unisys Press Release.

Fairfax County suspends work on last leg of $43 million computer overhaul (Washington Post)
County blames SAP for project problems.

Infor next steps, an unsurprising IPO (Dennis Howlett/ZDNet Blogs)

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Roadmap: Unveiled and Inspected (ASUG News)

Yammer to upgrade mobile apps, groups and search for enterprise social software (Computerworld)

USAT: More drama at card-portal maker (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

IMS Health Buys DecisionView For Programs to Speed Clinical Trials (Xconomy)

Thomson Reuters Launches New Mobile Oncology Decision Support Solution for R&D Pharmaceutical Leaders (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 2/29/2012: Enterprise collaboration network Yammer raises $85 million

PANL (Universal Display) Slips: Q4 Beats, Year Revenue View Weak (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast to offer smart thermostat service via EcoFactor (Gigaom)

Senate Hearing on Verizon Purchase of Cable Spectrum Set
Antitrust Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on March 21 (Multichannel News)

Q&A: Comcast's Cathy Avgiris (Light Reading Cable)

Netflix CEO to Comcast: Quit the poor-mouthing (CNET News)

SAP Sees Mobile Products Boosting Sales (Bloomberg)

Yammer Connects With $85 Million Funding Round (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Ellison's Oracle cloud lives as hype winds down (The Register)

Brett Berson - Turning a Portfolio into a Community... (Redeye VC)

There are two ways to increase ROI (Nat Turner's Blog)

New Scala Software Helps Organizations Create Bold Digital Signage That Commands Attention (PR Web)
Scala is based in Exton.

Quantum Leap Innovations Offers Free Subscription to Twitter Analysis Tool “Quantum Leap Buzz”
Free Consumer Edition Provides Never Before Available Twitterverse Analytics; Business Edition Available for Purchase in April (Business Wire)

Del. card firms get closer to offering “mobile wallets” (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc.)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Bloomberg)



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Daily Links 2/23/2012: Salesforce results top estimates

Comcast’s Netflix Killer Isn’t One Yet. But It Could Be. (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Verizon Wireless Takes Down Comcast Plug (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Mets Asked To Use SNY As Collateral For Comcast And Time Warner Cable Investment
(Forbes)

Salesforce Tops Estimates After New Features (Bloomberg)

Liberty Interactive Plans to Split Into Two Tracking Stocks (Bloomberg)
Liberty Interactive owns QVC.

Liberty Interactive Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)
QVC revenue up 5% in Q4.

QVC Acquires Personalized E-Commerce Site For Fashion Accessories, Send The Trend (TechCrunch)

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Interdigital Q4 Tops Street; Seeks To Sell Some Patents (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Motorola (Mobility) prepares to hail new Google overlords (Gigaom)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results (Business Wire)

Checkpoint Systems posts 4Q loss on restructuring (AP via CBS News)

ICG Group’s revenue guidance misses, stock price lower (Philadelphia Business Journal)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Yammer Integrates Into SAP Software (New York Times: Bits)

Integromics Intends to Reign Beyond Spain
New CEO Michael McManus candidly discusses software market priorities and challenges. (Bio-IT World)
Integromics' US headquarters are in Philadelphia.

ThingWorx Joins Carnegie Mellon, IBM in Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (Business Wire)



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