OwnerSense
One of the best ways to spot new, early stage startups is when they begin to search for their first outside hires and post advertisements on job boards. A company called OwnerSense, based in Devon, is advertising for a developer who can do, well, just about everything. OwnerSense describes itself as a "web service that helps families make better household purchasing decisions, by saving them time, money and inconvenience". They say they closed a seed round in January and are actively building their team. The site appears to allow people to sign up to participate in a private beta.
Former St Joes Prof runs leading baseball stats site
Interesting interview in the NY Daily News with Philadelphian and former St Josephs math professor Sean Foreman, who left teaching a few years ago to focus full time on his website Baseball-reference.com. Its a cool website which I use all the time. Just glancing at it, I'm not sure how much monetizing they've been able to do so far, but eventually it will probably end up being bought out by ESPN or Stats Inc like almost everything else in the sports info business.
People News 3/8/09
Monihan The Man At Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
Ad Sales Executive Succeeds Smith As RSN's General Manager (Multichannel News)
Comcast Interactive Media Appoints IAB Co-Founder and Media Veteran Scott Schiller as SVP of Advertising Sales for Fandango, Fancast, Movies.com and Plaxo (PR Newswire)
Unisys Names Suresh Mathews Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (Business Wire)
Razorfish Names William Flaiz General Manager of Global Solutions Group (Philly AD Club News)
NJTC Names J&J's LaVerne Council '2009 CIO of the Year' (PR Newswire)
Progressive Business Publications Proudly Announces Its New Chief Operating Officer, Tom Schubert of West Chester, PA (Business Wire)
Morning Call Editor Ardith Hilliard stepping down (Allentown Morning Call)
Acuity Systems Names Glenn Waehner President and CEO (PR Newswire)
Universal Capital Management Names President/ Chief Operating Officer (PR Newswire)
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Philadelphia Inquirer to launch publishing site for Saint Joseph's
(The Hawk)
Rohm & Haas a prized asset among chemical makers (Associated Press via Google News)
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Element Partners closes on 2nd clean-tech fund (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Slight error in article: It says that Element now has $800 billion under management; I think the actual amount should be $800 million.
Anthony Gold Joins the Open Solutions Alliance Fulltime (eBIZQ)
Departs Unisys after 24 years.
SAP "not pulling the plug" on Business ByDesign
Rumoured death of on-demand ERP tech: Greatly exaggerated (Silicon.com)
Satyam gets approval to sell 51 pct stake (Reuters)
March 5th, 2009: ADDY CELEBRATION 2009: AND THE ADDY WINNERS ARE. . . (Philly Ad Club)
Baltimore, a mini Silicon Valley?
(Maryland Daily Record)
Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Wolters Kluwer Health Report Mixed Results
Thomson Puts PDR on the Block (Health Content Advisors)
Ex-Tyco workers ponder what's next (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
dezineforce Completes Second-Round Funding (CAD CAM News)
Organizers of the AIIM Expo + Conference Are Planning a Strong Business Event for Philadelphia (Marketwire)
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Clearwire: Philadelphia to get WiMax This Year
Clearwire Still Planning Massive 4G Expansion (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)
On the Clearwire Earnings Announcement (Media Experiences 2 Go)
Chubb IT Employees Split $216 Million Jackpot
Lucky for them: The way things are looking in the Insurance biz right now they were probably ticketed to lose their jobs pretty
soon.
Group of Chubb Employees Hit Mega Millions Jackpot (WPIX)
Comcast Sends In the All-Digital 'Cavalry' (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Coming to Philly.
Urban Outfitters profit drops 24% in fourth quarter (Associated Press via Forbes)
Global CIO: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Declared War -- Are You Enlisting? (CIO.com)
Tensions Flare in Philadelphia Newspapers Bankruptcy (New York Times: Deal Book)
Clearwire Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results (Business Wire)
Clearwire To Spend At Least $1.5B In Cash in 2009 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Nokia affirms LTE commitment, dismisses WiMAX (Fierce Wireless)
Dow Chemical, Rohm in "long-shot" settlement talks-CNBC (Reuters)
What's in store for SAP BusinessObjects CPM software?: Podcast with Sanjay Poonen, vice president and GM at SAP BusinessObjects in charge of the CPM and GRC lines (SearchSAP.com)
Finisar Corporation Announces Third Quarter Financial Results (Marketwire)
Finisar merged with Optium Corp. of Horsham last year.
HP updates thin client software support (VNUnet)
Google Health opens pandora box of PHR sharing (ZDNet Healthcare)
Astea International Accelerates Growth in Asia with a New Subsidiary in Japan (PR Newswire)
Herley Awarded an $8.2 Million Contract for a U.S. Electronic Attack Aircraft (PR Newswire)
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Comcast Expects to Grow Revenue, Operating And Free Cash Flow In 2009 (Dow Jones via CNN Money)
CEBIT-IDS Scheer mulls acquisitions in crisis -CEO (Reuters)
SAP to Plug BI Into Business All-In-One (PC World)
Tyco Electronics announces 20,000 layoffs (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
Safeguard Scientifics postpones earnings release (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Dow, Rohm and Haas CEOs possible witnesses at trial (Reuters)
ZillionTV Launches; Can It Avoid Boxee’s Problems? (paidContent)
Cable Companies Target Commercials to Audience (New York Times)
Comcast Does DOCSIS 3.0 In Delaware
Offers 50-Mbps Service In New Castle System (Multichannel News)
Social publishing company Acquia gets into hosting business (Venture Beat)
Drupal in the clouds.
Beige Book: Third District-Philadelphia, March 4, 2009 (Federal Reserve Board)
Motorola fired CFO Liska for cause (Computerworld)
Akcelerant Announces the Purchase of The Guthrie Phillips Group (Inside ARM)
Court Square Group Acquires Validation Business Unit from QA Edge (Business Wire)
SAS Does SAAS (ClinPage)
Want A Better Valuation? Decrease Your Assumptions. (BarshBits)
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