Comcast Plans to Take FCC To Court Over 30% Ownership Cap (Broadcasting & Cable)


Comcast defends Internet practices (Associated Press via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)


Foolish Forecast: Comcast's Boost Won't Last (Motley Fool)


Technologicology Special Report: Like A Pussy Boyfriend, Earthlink Finally Breaks It Off With Wireless Philadelphia (Philebrity)

Will Home Shopping Solve The IAC/Liberty Fight? (Silicon Alley Insider)

Yahoo! Starts Sweetened-Bid Bonanza (TheStreet.com)
Comments by Kevin Kemmerer, senior vice president at Safeguard Scientifics.

Bill Gates demos Xobni (Redeye VC)
Xobni is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Company announces soaring revenue
PROFITS FOR USA TECHNOLOGIES RISE 267 PERCENT IN 2ND QUARTER (Daily Local News)

NEAT Receipts Announces Increased Capabilities to Simplify Tax Time Preparation (Marketwire)

Franklin Electronic profits grow 89% (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Optellios Adopts U.S. Military Security Information Exchange Standard (BusinessWire)

SIVOO Announces Technology Services Agreement with JumpTV (PRNewswire)

Comcast doubles top speed of its Internet service in Bay Area (San Jose Mercury-News Blogs)

HealthiNation and Comcast Spotlight Launch on Demand Health Portal for Digital Cable Customers (BusinessWire)

Comcast Bulks Up (Multichannel News via Broadcast Newsroom)

Firms Expect to Profit from AT&T’s Latest Move
The telecom giant promises to broaden the market for IPTV (NJBIZ.com)

Should SAP make a play for Salesforce.com? (SAPWatch: SearchSAP.com)

USA Technologies Announces Second Successive Record Quarter for Fiscal Year 2008 (BusinessWire)

FCC approves $2.4B SunCom acquisition (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The rebirth of the Phila. Stock Exchange (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Credit Card Datapoint of the Day (Portfolio.com)

SEM Firm Applies Century-Old Linguistics Law (ClickZ)
On Commerce360.

AMETEK Acquires Materials Hardness Testing Technology and Products (BusinessWire)

ExpenseWatch.com Completes Best Year Ever (PRNewswire)

InterComponentWare Inc. Aligns with the Center for Health Transformation (PRNewswire)

FutureScripts Promotes Paul Urick to Senior Vice President to Lead the Pharmacy Benefit Management Operation (PRNewswire)

First Round Closes “Second” Fund (peHUB)

When Facebook Ads Go Wrong (ReadWriteWeb)
More on First Round's Josh Kopelman.

Comcast Spotlight Steers Vehix Acquisition (Multichannel News)


Cable Stocks: UBS Sees Trouble Ahead; Starts TWX, CVC, CMCSA, DISH With Neutral; Buy On DirecTV (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)
Comcast's earnings are due on Valentine's Day.

EarthLink's citywide Wi-Fi biz for sale (CNET News Blog)

Nokia turns people into traffic sensors (CNET News Blog)

Trouble in FiOS-land (Computerworld Blogs)

BusinessWeek Names Judith M. von Seldeneck One of World’s Most Influential Headhunters (BusinessWire)
Here is the Business Week Profile

Breaking: Yahoo to reject Microsoft Bid.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo will reject Microsoft's bid, saying that the $31 per share offer "massively undervalues" Yahoo.
Of course, no one expected Yahoo to roll over at that price, though it remains to be seen how much more they can get.

Comcast's New Terms of Service Disclose Traffic Management (Slashdot)


Recommendation Rescinded: Comcast’s TiVo interface (CrunchGear)

Kenexa Falls on Sales Outlook (Associated Press via Houston Chronicle)


HR Software Online Rising (Investor's Business Daily)


Time Warner Plans to Split Off AOL’s Dial-Up Service (New York Times)


Verizon Wireless Unveils New Store Concept in Mt. Laurel, N.J. (PRNewswire via CNNMoney)

Aegis Opens New Headquarters (Printed Circuit Design & Fab)

Ascend Acquisition Corp. and e.PAK Resources (S) Pte. Ltd. to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference (PRNewswire)

Journal Register on negative watch on newspaper sector concerns - S&P (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

Motorola Proves Power and Flexibility of Switched Digital Video Platform in a Multi-vendor Environment (PRNewswire)

Vertical Search Engine Launches for the Pharmaceutical Industry (PharmaLive)

Gateway to Unveil Newly Redesigned Ticketing Software for the Transportation Industry (BusinessWire)

Kenexa 4Q profit jumps 15 percent (Associated Press via MSN Money)


An Industry Imperiled by Falling Profits and Shrinking Ads (New York Times)
Heavily quotes Brian Tierney.

Navteq earnings soar on strong PND sales (Medill Reports Chicago)

NAVTEQ invests in location-based ad company Acuity Mobile (GPS Business News)
Strong tie-ins to Traffic.com.

NAVTEQ Announces NAVTEQ Traffic in Europe (PRNewswire via CNNMoney)

Narrowing Loss, EarthLink Seeks A New Strategy (Information Week)
Still trying to sell Muni Wi-Fi business, but no takers so far.

Comcast Cites Martin’s ‘War On Cable’ To Appeals Court (Multichannel News)

Pa. drops case against Internet retailer (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Recruiters flock to social networking sites (Philadelphia Business Journal)

WorldGate Winding Down (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
More on the likely demise of WorldGate.

Another ERP vendor buys into middleware (ZDNet Blogs)
Mentions possible implications for Boomi.

Google News gets local (but not that local) (ZDNet Blogs)


Vertex Experiences Record Breaking 2007 (BusinessWire)

Lilly's $1 Billion E-Mailstrom (Portfolio.com)
Pepper Hamilton screws up a little.

VeriSign Deploys Ulticom's Signalware Platform for Its Upgrade of Worldwide Real-Time Roaming Services (PRNewswire via CNNMoney)


Improve Business Performance: ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 Conference to Offer Prominent Customer Sessions as IDS Scheer Previews New Version of ARIS Platform (BusinessWire)

Clickability Clicks On All Cylinders (Information Week)
Describes recent deployment at Philly.com.

Seven splitting $2M from Ben Franklin Technology Partners (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Tax cut slowdown infuriates businesses (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)


QlikTech Announces 2007 Revenues of $80.0M (PRNewswire)


India among top 10 revenue generators: SAP (Business Standard India)

Tyco Electronics Profit Rises; Annual Forecast Lifted (Bloomberg)

Safeguard, New Venture fund Alverix (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Quality Systems 3Q Tops Consensus (Associated Press via CNNMoney)
Quality Systems' NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham posted record results.


NextDocs Corporation Announces Immediate Availability of its Quality Management Solution (BusinessWire)

Phoenix Data Systems Introduces Flexible Randomization and Clinical Supply Management (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

Newspaper publisher Calkins Media restructures management (Associated Press via Press of Atlantic City)
Levittown-based Calkins publishes several area papers and operates phillyBurbs.com. They do a good job, in my judgement, for a suburban paper.

Service providers to challenge new E911 guidelines (RCR Wireless News)
Important to TruePosition.

Paladyne and SunGard Announce Strategic Partnership (HedgeCo.Net)

Digital Media Panel Notes (peHUB)
"* Howard Morgan of First Round Capital noted that his firm had been in talks with both Microsoft and Yahoo about possible portfolio company sales, but that the talks had “frozen” due to the takeover attempt."

Liberty Media shares fall (Associated Press via Business Week)
Concerns about QVC.

Column: Unisys execs do their part (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Also, WorldGate apparently shutting down.

thePlatform (Rightfully) Brags about its Partners (NewTeeVee)
thePlatform is owned by Comcast.

Comcast expands video-on-demand slate (Hollywood Reporter via Reuters)

$19 million in New Contracts Awarded to WPCS (PRNewswire via CNNMoney)

Vishay 4Q Profit Falls on 1-Time Costs (Associated Press via CNNMoney)


Liberty, IAC court battle could get ugly (USA Today via Wilmington News Journal)

Era of big acquisitions largely over, Forrester says (PC World via Washington Post)
This article was written before Microsoft/Yahoo, but that is not really a software deal in the purest sense. SAP(by IBM), SunGard and Primavera mentioned as possible
takeover targets.

Environmental Tectonics hires auditor (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Bentley Acquires promis•e Product Line (Cadalyst)

Philadelphia-based magazine Sold (6abc.com)
Philadelphia Style sold to New York company.

Heartland Wins Big on Sunday (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

Open Letter To Comcast (Philebrity)

Verizon Aims For 6-7 Million FiOS Users By 2010
Network passes 9.3 million homes and businesses (BroadBand Reports.com)

BioWizard Offers Conference Abstracts with the Launch of myBW (PRNewswire)


LinuxForce Introduces New Services and Software for Host, Service, and Network Monitoring (BusinessWire)

Akrion's Single-Wafer System Sales Continue (PRNewswire)


Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Ownership Interest in Logical Images (BusinessWire)

Peterson’s Launches StudentEdge to Help Students Prepare for College (PRWeb)

TargetX Schedules First Users Conference to Help Clients Cope with Changes in Student Recruiting (PRWeb)

Yahoo May Seek Pact With Google to Fend Off Microsoft (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Another article suggesting Comcast may be involved in a bid for Yahoo, which I sincerely doubt. I don't think Yahoo is worth more to anybody else than Microsoft.

Who Would Want AOL Now? (DealBook via New York Times)
This one suggests Comcast as a possible bidder for AOL(or what's left of it).

Comcast Increases Credit Facility to $7B (Associated Press via Forbes)
I doubt there is any particular significance to this.

MSFT-YHOO: Special Newspaper Consortium Edition (paidcontent.org)
Philadelphia Media Holdings is a major player in the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium.

Oracle finds 'different' SAP infringement scheme (MarketWatch)

Asia Favours SAP with Record Growth in 2007 (SDA Asia)

Software company Aklero gets venture funding (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Sounds like a very timely concept.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners supporting Mid-Atlantic Angel Group
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

JupiterResearch Finds Pharma Marketing Opportunity Exists As Significant Online Physician Population Engages in Social Media (BusinessWire via PharmaLive)


Roska Healthcare Launches New Web Site To ‘Engage’ Visitors Through Flexibility, Insightful Content (BusinessWire)

Yes, a Giant Can Sprint (New York Times)
About Siemens, whose Medical Solutions USA Group is based in Malvern.

N.J. firm moves to Bucks (phillyBurbs.com)

Legg Mason on the prowl (Pensions & Investments)

UBS Analyst Hits Credit Cards (TheStreet.com)
Beware, Delaware.

Microsoft's Brian McAndrews On The Eve Of The Yahoo Offer (MediaPost)
Addresses issues related to Microsoft's Avenue A| Razorfish, which has a major Philadelphia office.

A Boost to Big Advertisers, Maybe Not to Smaller Ones (Washington Post)
More on the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger.

NPR on Philadelphia's Wi-Fi Situation (Wi-Fi Net News)


As scanners shrink, their tax uses grow (Boston Globe)
Mostly on Neat Receipts.

Hot Chicks Talk Stocks. Sound Familiar? (Silicon Alley Insider)

Calculated Influences
County employs complex model to analyze conditions, their effects on future growth (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
Model being developed by Moody's Economy.com. of West Chester.

GETTING SET FOR THE DIGITAL TRANSITION (South Jersey Life)

Verizon brings FiOS TV to county (South Jersey Life)

Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo (New York Times)

Q&A With Microsoft On Proposed Yahoo Purchase: 2+2 = #1 (search engine land)

Motorola Considers Separating Handsets, But At What Price? (Investor's Business Daily via CNNMoney)

Journal Register 4th-Quarter Loss Widens (Associated Press via Forbes)


L-3 4Q profit rises with unit sales (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

SAP Says Slow Economy Plays Into Its Strengths (Investor's Business Daily via CNNMoney)
Interview with Bill McDermott, CEO and president of SAP for the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Among ruin, there is a rock (Philadelphia Inquirer)
On SEI Investments

New job for BofA card chief
Hammonds to lead mortgage unit after Countrywide deal (Wilmington News Journal)

Wilmington Trust expanding
Delaware bank to buy Arizona trust specializing in retirement services (Wilmington News Journal)

Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell Announces Extension of Data Powerhouse Contract, Saving Taxpayers $240 Million (PRNewswire)
A BS press release, in my opinion. Saving $240 million compared to what? The timing seems more of an effort to help keep Unisys propped up than anything else.

The Philadelphia Tribune Publishes its First 'e-Edition' (PRNewswire)

DeVry offers conference draw women into science related careers (Montgomery Life)