Daily Links 5/1/09: SAP opens "green" building in Newtown Square

New Building at SAP North America's Philadelphia-Area Campus Features Energy-Efficient, Sustainable Design (PR Newswire)

Oracle to expand Web-based software offerings: source (Reuters)


Comcast's $1B Bandwidth Plan
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

The Problem With Cable Is Television (New York Times: Bits)

InterDigital Announces Changes to Its Board of Directors to Re-Establish NASDAQ Compliance (Business Wire)

Prophetic Victory: NIR Diagnostics Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition Michelson Grand Prize with Device That Can Predict Wound Treatment Complications (Business Wire)

SES Reports Strong First Quarter (Satellite Today)

Intelligroup® Reports Q1 2009 Revenue of $30.9 Million, Operating Income of $1.8 Million and EPS of $0.02 (Business Wire)

Second time’s a charm for I-many? (Inorganic Growth)

Eastern Pa. newspaper cuts 52 jobs (Lancaster Online)
The Reading Eagle.

'Morning Call' of Allentown, Pa., Cuts 70 Jobs (Editor & Publisher))



permalink

Daily Links 4/30/09: Comcast almost doubles Free Cash Flow

Comcast shares rise after solid results (Marketwatch)
Comcast Reports Strong Q1 Cash Flow
Measure Up 95% To $1.4 Billion; Basic-Subscriber Losses Not As High As Projected (Multichannel News)

Comcast viewers could lose NFL Network tonight
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Update: The Inquirer now reports that Comcast will not pull the plug tonight as negotiations with the NFL continue.

Disney to Acquire 30% Hulu Stake, Full ABC Shows on the Way: Report (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Motorola’s Loss Widens as Sales Fall Short on Handset Slump (Bloomberg)
Motorola Cable And Video Group Sales Fall 12% (Multichannel News)

Advanta Reports First Quarter 2009 Results (Business Wire)


Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine (Read Write Web)
Duck DucK Go was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and is located in Valley Forge.

University City Science Center Reaches Out to Entrepreneurs (Business Wire)

Duffield Takes On Oracle, SAP
The PeopleSoft founder's software startup raises $75 million. (Forbes)

A Cloudy Summit for SAP CEO Léo Apotheker (Business Week)

What does SAP have to say about the Oracle-Sun deal? (SAP Watch)

Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results
Revenues Up 53% from Year Ago Quarter, Operating Margin of 13.0% and Earnings Per Share of $0.08 in Second Quarter
(Business Wire)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results (Business Wire)

ERT Reports First Quarter 2009 Results (PR Newswire)

CDI Corp posts quarterly loss, sees lower Q2 sales (Reuters)

'Pink slip' party is a sign of the economic times (Montgomery News)

Paragon Technologies Voluntarily Delists and Deregisters Stock (PR Newswire)





permalink

Daily Links 4/29/09: SAP License Revs off 33%

SAP’s First-Quarter License Revenue Misses Estimates (Bloomberg)
SAP Hacks At Costs (Forbes)

SAP Agrees to Delay Full Enterprise Support Price Rise (PC World)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Operating Results (PR Newswire via MSN Money)
Digital River, GSI Commerce Q1 Beats; Outlooks Weak (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Tyco Electronics results beat expectations (Reuters)

Revenue and Profits Plunge at Sun Microsystems (New York Times)

IDS Scheer AG: IDS Scheer doubles EBITA to EUR 8.2 million and earnings margin to 9.1% (Ad Hoc News)
IDS Scheer's North American headquarters are in Berwyn.

Web.com Buys Solid Cactus (PE Hub)

LLR Partners to Acquire I-many (Marketwire)

Time Warner Makes It Official: AOL Spinoff Is Coming (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

Comcast Earnings Preview: I Fear Estimates Will Take Another Leg Down (Seeking Alpha)

Workday lands $75 million in venture funding (ZDNet Blogs)
That's a lot of venture money.

Siemens tops forecasts, cuts outlook
Energy, healthcare divisions help drive growth; more cost reductions planned (Marketwatch)

Wolters Kluwer Health Delivers On-Demand Market Data to the Pharmaceutical Industry, Powered by QlikView
Combination of QlikView and Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance Provides Easy Access to Key Sales Analytics (Business
Wire)

Insatiable APP-etite
Applications for the iPhone seem nearly infinite. Some are invaluable and some - inane. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

AllenPort(R) Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft to Include Microsoft Office Applications as Part of the Virtual File Cabinet (PR Newswire)

Integration Featured at SaaS Slam 2009 in Boston (The Boomi Blog)



permalink

Daily Links 4/28/09: Specter Changes Parties

Specter To Switch Parties (New York Times: The Caucus)

Comcast Has Fundraising Plans (TheStreet.com)

Comcast turns down Joost, company still shopping itself (Fierce Online Video)

Vishay Reports Results for First Quarter 2009 (Business Wire)
Revenue falls 39%.

Unisys Announces First-Quarter 2009 Financial Results
Company Makes Progress in Turnaround Program, Reporting Lower Operating Expenses and Improved Cash Flow (Business Wire)
Unisys Q1 Results Light; Expects Debt Restructure Soon (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Kulicke & Soffa Reports Results for Its Second Fiscal Quarter 2009 (Business Wire)

Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record (New York Times: Bits)

Report: Verizon, Microsoft working on 'Pink' phone (CNET News)

CardioNet Addresses Analyst Report on Reimbursement Speculation (Business Wire)

Phila. cell phone bill now law, could jeapordize state funding (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP-Teradata Alliance Goes Beyond the Database (Intelligent Enterprise)

Bio-Imaging Technologies and Phoenix Data Systems Unify Service Offerings as BioClinica™ (Business Wire)

Quality, Value, Convenience…And Profitability In Nine Months (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital
Dispatch)
The power of QVC.

News Innovation Viewed from Twitter (Poynter
Online)

Electronic Medical Records: Challenges to the President’s Plan to Digitize Healthcare (HealthNewsDigest.com)
Commentary by Dr. James Pierce, chair of the Bioinformatics and Computer Science Department at University of the Sciences.

DCS and NextDocs Partner to Deliver Compliance Without Complexity (Business Wire)



permalink

Belated Wrap: Entrepreneur Expo

I spent the morning and early afternoon of April 2 in the cavernous halls of the Pennsylvania Convention Center attending the AIIM Expo trade show. It is an enormous and rather depersonalizing space; I think they could have played a football game just within the Hewlett-Packard exhibit area. So in the evening I headed over to the Philly Startup Leaders Entrepreneur Expo at the Science Center to find a lot of people packed into a small space, with each of the 50+ exhibitors having a table perhaps four feet long.
My definite preference was for the latter. There was an air of genuine enthusiasm and excitement, both on part of the attendees and the exhibitors. I was probably familiar with about half of the companies that where there, but came across some very promising relative newcomers. One that was particularly interesting to me was RJMetrics, a provider of business intelligence tools for web-oriented businesses .
The two young partners, Jake Stein (a Penn Grad) and Robert J. Moore (Princeton), were working at a major VC firm and began developing the concept for their product after realizing the firm needed a better tool to monitor key performance metrics from their many web-based portfolio companies. After going out on their own, Stein and Moore developed a dashboard display system (see demo) that collects and analyzes data from the database behind a website, and displays it on a series of charts and graphs that customers can dynamically manipulate and edit. Perhaps most significantly, the company also says its "software combs through thousands of analytical dimensions and extracts the key performance indicators that will drive growth in your business". How they do that I'm not quite sure, but I guess that's their secret. RJMetrics, based in Collingswood, NJ, started up last year, obtained its first few customers early this year. and has gotten this far on about $15,000 so far.

Daily Links 4/27/09: SAP/Teradata Alliance for Data Warehousing

SAP NetWeaver(R) Business Warehouse to Run on Teradata, Integrating Technologies to Lower Cost of Ownership (PR Newswire)
Teradata, SAP Forge Enemy-of-an-Enemy Alliance (Intelligent Enterprise)

The Biggest Loser in Oracle-Sun Deal: SAP (IT World)

SAP: Broadpoint Says Q1 License Revs Could Be Weak (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Verizon 1st-qtr profit, revenue beat expectations (Associated Press via Google News)
Verizon’s FiOS Bet is Paying Off (GigaOM)

Apple and Verizon in talks about CDMA iPhone (ZDNet Blogs)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Secures Commitment for Up To $12.5 Million in Additional Financing
Approves Voluntary Delisting From NYSE AMEX LLC (PR Newswire)

The Neat Company Launches NeatDesk For Mac
High Speed ADF Scanner With NeatWorks Software Version 2.1 Offers Mac Users Greater Speed for Heavier Scanning Needs
(Marketwire)

Avatars, attorneys in new world of virtual law (San Francisco Chronicle)

Papers, Please: Get Ready to Prove You Paid for That Video (NewTeeVee)

CODY Systems Posts Record 2008; Achieves Major Milestone With 400th Customer Win (Business Wire)

PNC's Del. unit reports sharp revenue decline (Wilmington News Journal)

InvestorForce Announces Partnership with CAMRADATA, Expands into Europe (Business Wire)

SunGard upgrades risk solutions for financial services (Network World)


GSI Commerce Expands North American Operations into Canada (PR Newswire)

Second Life for Government Stuff (WHYY: It's Our City)



permalink

Philly Tech Events

Breaking Free
The Long, Slow Liberation Of The Cable Set-Top Box (Multichannel News)

IS COMCAST RIGHT TO CHARGE MORE FOR NFL GAMES? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

People News 4/26/09

Greg Bentley Named In Chester County Hall of Fame (TenLinks.com)

Halfpenny Technologies, Inc. Names Jerry Baker Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)

Neil Desmond Named Vice President and General Manager Instrumentation & Specialty Controls Division (Business Wire)

MTI Focused on Delivering Extended Strategic Value to Key Clients
Ciro Maria Hired as Executive Director, Client Services (Marketwire)

Innovation Philadelphia hires Nelly Arnold as Manager
(Philly Ad Club News)

Budget would cut funding to New Jersey’s incubators $630,000 drop expected to reduce staff levels, training programs (NJBIZ.com)

Cable: DPI is good for us; Congressman: it's frightening (ars technica)

Daily Links 4/24/09: More on Tierney's Salary and Other Perks

Comcast v. FCC Expected to Draw Crowd at D.C. Circuit (The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times)
Comcast and FCC Spar At D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
Judges raise key questions about 30% cap on cable companies' subscribers (Broadcasting & Cable)

Moody's upgrades Comcast, sees improving metrics (Reuters)

Monetizing Video Online (Social Media Today)
On last night's PhIMA event.

Lockheed leaders in Phila. (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Apple cuts 1,600 retail jobs (ZDNet Blogs)

Philly Newspapers boss Tierney made $1.175M in '08 (Associated Press via Miami Herald)

Obama Pressures Credit Card Issuers on Rates (New York Times)
It was reported that the Vice President did not attend the meeting. Not clear whether he was not invilted or if he just had more
pressing matters to attend to.

IMS Health slides following analyst downgrade (Associated Press via MSN Money)

Bill could cost city $90M over its ban on drivers' using phones (Philadelphia Daily News)

SAP opens its Co-Innovation Lab in Bangalore (SiliconIndia)



permalink