Links 4/10/2014: Comcast touts 1 million hotspot nodes; Charter still weighing TWC options

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Comcast’s hotspot network grows to 1M nodes, driven by crowdsourced Wi-Fi (Gigaom)
Interesting map showing how dense coverage is in the Philly area. Of course, many of the hotspots are in subcribers' homes.

Cablevision names Kristin Dolan COO (Multichannel News)

Charter Weighs Consequences of Time Warner Cable Bidding War (Bloomberg)


Aereo Plans To Launch Chromecast Support On May 29th (TechCrunch)


Newtown Square Company Submits Proposal To Post Digital, 3-D Ads In Center City (CBS Philly)


Building the Future of Marketing: Monetate Launches New Platform; Democratizes Digital Marketing (PR Newswire)

IBM acquires Silverpop to boost its online marketing personalization products (PC World)

ADP Dealer Services to spin-off and go public (Automotive News)

Greenphire, ERT Tie Patient Reporting and Compensation (Applied Clinical Trials)


Heartland Payment Systems Acquires MCS Software, Signaling Ongoing Growth of Heartland School Solutions Division
(Business Wire)

EPAM EVP Karl Robb to Retire in Early 2015 -- Expected to Remain on Board; Comments on First Quarter 2014 Results (Thomson Reuters ONE)

Links 2/6/2014: Comcast customer surprised home router also public hotspot; NullCrew FTS evidently hacks Comcast servers

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Comcast customer surprised to learn new router is also public hotspot (Ars Technica)

NullCrew FTS hacks Comcast servers, post exploit and passwords
(ZDNet)


Tableau knocks one out the park (Diginomica)
Gaining ground on QlikTech.

Tableau for Mac is coming … finally (GeekWire)

Can SAP Master Cloud & On-Premises? (Information Week)

MemSQL Heats Up In-Memory Competition (Information Week)
Positioned vs. SAP HANA; Comcast a customer, First Round Capital an investor.

Should SAP Fiori be Freeori? (John Appleby/Diginomica)


With Help From Ex-Oracle Salespeople, Marc Benioff Is About To Close A Huge $80 Million Deal, Analyst Says (Business Insider)

Oracle throws down the HCM software gauntlet at HCM World (SearchFinancialApplications)



Oracle Puts Its Employees' Personal Social Media Accounts to Work (Ad Age)

Fed’s Plosser: QE Should End Before Unemployment Rate Hits 6.5% (Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics)

USA Technologies Announces Second Quarter, Fiscal 2014 Results (Business Wire)