Liberty Media Reports Second Quarter Financial Results (PRNewswire via MSN Money)
QVC revenue up 4%.

MobileAware Raises New Round (Private
Equity Hub)
MobileAware's US headquarters are in Cranbury, NJ.


Computerworld Honors: Software that saves lives (Computerworld)
QlikTech.

Verizon disses cable-centric video tech, asks FCC to act (ars technica)

Tough Times Ahead for U.S. Phone Companies? (GigaOM)

JDA Software scoops up i2 for $346 million (ZDNet Blogs)

FolioDynamix buys SunGard Advisory Technologies (Finextra)

Semiconductor IP Players: InterDitigal and Tessera (Seeking Alpha)

New Jersey girl behind myYearbook.com is a millionaire at 18
(New York Daily News)

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences Deploy Instem’s Hosted Provantis Solution (BusinessWire)

Viddler Powers New Media Expo and Launches Fully Customizable Player (CenterNetworks)

Genoa, Italy, Selects Bentley Systems To Facilitate Sustainable Development Plan (PublicWorks.com)

Autodesk Geospatial Acquires 3D Geo GmbH (Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)
Sounds like a move by Autodesk to increase its presence in a segment that Bentley is very strong in.

Build Delaware into bigger economy (Delaware Online)

MedQuist Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

Emtec Federal Receives $17 Million U.S. Air Force Award (BusinessWire)
Emtec is based in Marlton.






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The question of which jobs Blues would cut in a merger (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Close to 500 IT jobs could be eliminated.

Christopher Maguire Prioritizes IT at Philadelphia Insurance Cos. (Insurance & Technology)

Figuring Out News Roles: Philadelphia as Crucible
(Poynteronline)

The Cable-Telecom Wars (Fox Business)

Verizon, union reach tentative labor contract (Reuters)


The 'Low' Down On Local Social Networking Site Orbius (The Bulletin)

NitroSecurity Buys RippleTech (dark reading)
I Knew this deal was in the works, but I guess I missed the announcement last month. Rippletech, based in Conshohocken, apparently had some very good data security technology, but not enough to support a stand-alone business going forward.

Ragan A. Henry, pioneering media mogul and lawyer, dies at 74 (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Turning the Electronic Eye on Google (eWEEK)

Showing off its speed, NFLShop.com sets record with Brett Favre jersey (Internet Retailer)




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People Moves



TruePosition Appoints Alan Larrabee as Vice President of Research and Development (BusinessWire)

Lightwave Logic Hires New CEO (PRNewswire)

Cadient Group Appoints Todd Greene to Strategic Engagement Director (PRNewswire)

Kane Partners Announces Tom Rinaldi as Managing Director for Philadelphia (MMD Newswire.com)

Avenue A | Razorfish Promotes Boyle, Gorden and Steigerwalt (Philly Ad Club)

Goldblatt Named Executive Director of Marketing and E-marketing at Univ. of Sciences (Philly Ad Club)

Harry Rein Resigns as Director of CardioNet (Business Wire)

MedQuist Announces Changes to Board of Directors (PRNewswire)




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The PricewaterhouseCoopers/MoneyTree Q2 Venture Capital report for Philadelphia Metro is now online (free registration). There is always a link to it in the right sidebar.
Most of these deals have been covered here previously but a few have not been:

-SillSurvey, online reference checking, Berwyn; $7 million, Lambda Funds
and another undisclosed firm.

-Elanti Systems, network traffic management, Princeton; $1.4 million, Innovation Capital Associates and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

-Circadiant Systems, optical component testing, Allentown; $525,000, EnerTech Capital and TL Ventures.

-GlobalPrint Systems(DBA: PrintPOD), kiosks for mobile printing, Marlton; $200,000, New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

-Monetate, targeting for ecommerce, Conshohocken; $600,000, Ben Franklin Technology Partners Southeastern PA, First Round Capital.




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IDS Scheer Profit Declines on Lower License Revenue (Bloomberg)
IDS Scheer's North American headquarters are in Berwyn.

Quality Systems Reports First Quarter Results and Increases Dividend (BusinessWire)
Quality Systems rallies on 2Q results (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Quality Systems' NextGen Healthcare Information Systems unit is based in Horsham.

KKR to Underwrite Portion of SunGard Data's $1 Billion Debt (Bloomberg)

Behind the Maps – Flying the UltraCam (Mark Brown's Virtual Earth Blog)
Video about Philadelphia company that does aerial mapping for Microsoft's Virtual Earth.

E-Commerce: Fertile Ground for Venture Investors (E-Commerce Times)
Written by Kevin Kemmerer, senior vice president and managing director of the technology group at Safeguard Scientifics.

Verizon unions set Sunday deadline for labor talks (Reuters)

Inquiring minds will just have to wait (Good Morning Silicon Valley)
New policy at the Inky.

Versus Gets Jacked
Sports Net Will Integrate SportTop Ap Into Versus.com Web Site (Multichannel News)
Comcast's Versus is based in Philadelphia.

QVC Rolls Out ‘Uncommercial’ Ad Campaign
New Spots Feature Spontaneous Outtakes From Traditional Shoots (Multichannel News)

Metrocorp Launches New Websites for Boston Magazine and Philadelphia Magazine Created by Format-Studio (PRNewswire via Yahoo Finance)

2008 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Nominations Announced
(Philly AD News)

Your PPM Boxes Have Arrived. Now What? (Radio World Online)

Catholic Health East Selects Mediture's EHR Software for PACE Programs (Marketwire)




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Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Room for Comcast to grow
(Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Lawsuit Seen After FCC's Comcast Ruling
Just how much did the FCC's landmark ruling advance the Net neutrality debate? (InternetNews.com)

Verizon, District Reach Deal on FiOS (Washington Post)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

SAP’s Bill McDermott offers growth clues (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Nasdaq Shares Rise Most in Three Years on Profit Gain ((Bloomberg)
Eliminates 100 positions at Philadelphia exchange.

InterDigital's Stolen Spotlight (Motley Fool)

SunGard warns of trouble in H2 (Finextra)

NAVTEQ, go2 Bring Traffic Information to Mobile Users (TMCnet: Gadgets)

LLR Partners Provides Capital for Surveillance Data Acquisition of Verispan (BusinessWire)

Synygy Continues Growth Streak in Second Quarter (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

FCC asks appeals court to dump E-911 rules (RCR Wireless News)
Could benefit TruePosition.

Build Your Own tru2way App!
(Media Experiences 2 Go/Motorola Blog)

Tribune Co.’s ShopLocal Merges Into PointRoll, Cuts Workers (MidWestBusiness.com)
PointRoll is based in Conshocken.

DISH, DirecTV mum on merger report (Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin)

RCM Technologies, Inc. Reports 2008 Second Quarter and Year - to - Date Results (BusinessWire)



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InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Comcast-DailyCandy: Interview: Sam Schwartz, EVP, CIM; Pete Sheinbaum, CEO, DC (paidContent)

Checkpoint's Profit Woes (Forbes)

SunGard Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)

Kulicke & Soffa Reports Results for Its Third Quarter 2008 (BusinessWire)
Kulicke & Soffa 4Q outlook short of estimates (Associated Press via Forbes)

Ben Franklin organization announces new investments (Phialdephia Business Journal)

QlikTech/QlikView update (DBMS2)

Financial Worries Deepen at Philadelphia Media Holdings (Philadelphia Magazine: The Daily Examiner)

MedQuist Announces Completion of Transaction (PRNewswire)

Verizon: Labor Strike Won't Affect FiOS (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Verizon: No Way on tru2way (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

SAP Looks Strong (Seeking Alpha)

BioNanomatrix Awarded New NIH Grant for Development of Nanoscale Platform for Single-Molecule DNA Mapping and Haplotype Applications (PRNewswire)

AlcaLu looking for a peerless leader (FierceTelecom)
Comcast's Burke under consideration.

Comcast's private history (Philly.com:Philly Deals)

Catching Comcast (Salon.com: Machinist)

O-I Glass Business Selects Lead Time Technology for Supply Chain Process Improvement
(PRNewswire)

Revolution Health Seeks Life Preserver (Chilmark Research)

Synchronoss earnings decline sharply (Associated Press via NJ.com)
Before the launch of the 3G, Synchronoss handled most customer activations for the iPhone. Based in Bridgewater, NJ, Synchronoss has much of its operations based in the Lehigh Valley.

Rodale Reports 2008 Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)





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ChannelWeb has issued its 2008 CRN Fast Growth 100. ChannelWeb focuses on VARs, resellers, IT consultants and system integrators. Three area based companies made the list: EPAM Systems of Lawrenceville, which does a lot of outsourcing work in Eastern Europe, reported 2007 revenues of $114 million, up from about $40 million in 2005. The other two are Lattice Inc. of Pennsauken's consulting division ($13.9 million in 2007, up from $3 million in 2005), and e-brilliance of Conshohocken ($5.6 million in 2007, up from $3 million in 2005).
Several others on the list do significant business in the area.





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Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)
Checkpoint earnings down, guidance restated (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Heartland Payment Systems Reports Record Second Quarter Earnings Per Share of $0.30 (BusinessWire)
Heartland Payment Systems' shares rise on earnings report (Associated Press via Forbes)

Kenexa Q2 results beat analysts' view (Reuters)


TruePosition Wins Permanent Injunction Against Andrew Corporation
U.S. District Court in Delaware Also Grants Enhanced Damages (BusinessWire)

Comcast Buys DailyCandy For $125 Million; Beats Out Viacom For Newsletter Business (Silicon
Alley Insider)


Verizon workers stay on job as union negotiates (Newsday)


Wharton SBDC expanding assistance
The center’s resource staff plans projects involving more than just startups (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Businesses Can Now Connect, Protect and Perfect Their Communications with New Qwest Mobility Products (BusinessWire)

SAP's Business Objects Q2 growth rate probably best in five yrs - Schwarz (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

SAP-related scandal in Burnaby (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Shunra Software Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program (BusinessWire)

SunGard Availability Services Introduces Virtual Server Replication Services (PRNewswire)

A place where businesses can hatch
New facility offers affordable rent, support to startups (Wilmington News Journal)

Help Knowledge@Wharton and Nightly Business Report Select the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years (Technology at Wharton)

Q&A: Comcast’s Susan Gonzales (Multichannel News)

RELM to Spin-Off First Access Partners to Form New IT Company (PRNewswire)



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Pepperjam and M3 Mobile Join Forces to Integrate Internet and Mobile Marketing (PRNewswire)
Pepperjam is located in Wilkes-Barre, M3 Mobile in Norristown.

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter 2008 (BusinessWire)

eResearchTechnology Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire
via Philly.com)

Entercom Communications Corp. Reports Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)

Primavera(R) and Vesta Partners, LLC Announce Strategic Alliance
(PRNewswire via MarketWatch)
This alliance is primarily focused on improving SAP-Primavera integration, which is interesting because Primavera has sometimes been mentioned as a SAP acquisition target.


Is Google your next data center?
Cloud computing is changing the way we think of the IT department. (Computerworld)
Gives Boomi some ink.

Dissenting FCC Commissioners Rip Comcast Decision (ChannelWeb)

CheckPoint HR Secures Funding From Edison Venture Fund (BusinessWire)
All we need is another Checkpoint to keep track of. There is already considerable confusion among many in distinguishing between Checkpoint Systems of Thorofare and Check Point Software Technologies, the Israeli software security firm.

Unisys Upgrades Service Parts Planning and Optimization Capabilities (Supply & Demand Chain Executive)

CBaySystems says U.S. court denies request to block MedQuist buy from Philips (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

Kulicke & Soffa seals two deals
(phillyBurbs.com)

Optibase and Scopus Video Networks Sign a Non-Binding Term Sheet for the Sale of Optibase's Digital Video and Streaming Business (BusinessWire)
Scopus's headquarters for the Americas are in Princeton.

CSSI's SOCRATES-GEO Adds 100th Satellite (PRNewswire via MarketWatch)

Shyamalan has eyes on filming in Chester studio, even though it's not built yet (Philadelphia Daily News)

A Personal History of Systems and Computers: Part 1 (Dr. Dobb's Portal)

Two Weeks Left to Enter the 2008 E-Fusion Award Competition (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)




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