Snipi, Inc. Launches New System for Social Shopping
Unique Platform Offers Simple Way to Organize, Discover and Share the Internet (Marketwire)

Thanks Red Tettemer, for the Stomach Ache (Media Bistro: AgencySpy)

NFL closing in on deal with Comcast (Sports Illustrated)

MASN-Comcast Program-Carriage Complaint Hearing Set For May 18
FCC Administrative Law Judge Sippel Will Preside Over Third Of Three Cases (Multichannel News)

People News 5/17/09

Peter J. Quadagno Announces His Departure from Maverick Network Solutions to Rejoin Quadagno & Associates and Work on New Prepaid Debit Program Initiatives (Business Wire)

Domus Adds Won Dong as Account Director (Philly
Ad Club News)

Rohm & Haas plans widespread layoffs (Philadelphia Inquirer)

'Excel on steroids' (phillyBurbs.com)
On PARIS Technologies of Buckingham.




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SAPPHIRE 2009 Wrap

SAP's new world order
As the software giant's CEO goes solo, he faces troubling times. (Fortune)

SAP Signals BPM Intentions (eWeek)

Sapphire 09: From Sapphire to green - the event highlights (MyCustomer.com)

SAP cautiously ponders social networking (Internetnews.com)


ASUG's plans for 2009 include finding new CEO, more software influence (SearchSAP.com)




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Verizon, Frontier in $8.6B deal for wirelines (Associated Press via Google News)
Comcast Should Benefit From Verizon-Frontier Deal: Analyst
Operator Has Launched DOCSIS 3.0 In Indiana, Oregon, Washington (Multichannel News)

What the Eclipsys story tells us (ZDNet Healthcare)

GMAC Bank, it's time for a new name (The Deal.com: Dealscape)

CardioNet Announces Launch of Clinical Indicator for Sleep Disorders (Business Wire)

Viddler bumps up features including widgets (gadgetell)


AllenPort Brings New Twist to SaaS (Channel Web)

Motorola and Clearwire (Media Experiences 2 Go)


What’s Up With HSN? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)






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Comcast Unleashes 'Shaq 'n Stein'
Unlikely pair star in push that touts both quality and value (Adweek)

SAPPHIRE 2009: Thursday 5/14/09

SAP Campaign 'Clarifies' Its Vision (MediaPost: News: Marketing Daily)

SAP co-founder: Hardware will change the way SAP develops software (SearchSAP.com)

One-on-One with SAP "Demo Boy" Ian Kimbell
Meet the man who can make SAP product demonstrations humorous. Yes, we said humorous. (CIO.com)


SAP Solution Manager will play major role in SAP Enterprise Support KPIs (SearchSAP.com)


New SAP CRM ordering system helps Coke roll out new dispenser (SearchCRM.com)

SAP still trying to bring cloud computing down to earth (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

SAP maps out its sustainability strategy at Sapphire (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)



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Daily Links 5/14/09: IMS: Drug Cos Should Re-Allocate $15 Billion In Promotional Spending

Back online after Google's little outage this morning.


IMS: Drug Cos Should Re-Allocate $15 Billion In Promotional Spending (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribed (ZDNet
Healthcare)

Teen entrepreneur Catherine Cook says myYearbook’s Lunch Money adds up (VentureBeat)

Comcast won't sell stake in Sixers, Flyers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Heartland Breach Blamed for Failed Membership Renewals (Washington Post: Security Fix Blog)

Sunoco Signs $34 Million IT Services Contract Extension with Infocrossing, a Wipro Company (Business Wire)
An article in today's Wall Street Journal quotes Sunoco CIO Peter Whatnell as saying that the company is finished with cuts to its $90 million IT budget.

Vishay founder Zandman taking $60M to amend contract (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Urban Outfitters Profit Declines as Consumers Pare Spending (Bloomberg)

Journal Register Looks to Void Union Contracts (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

Extended Q&A with Eric Mayberry (City Paper)

geographIT Awarded Philadelphia SWEEP Contract (Press Release via Directions Magazine)

Avencia R&D: sourcemap.org (Avencia Labs)



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AlwaysON Honors Three Area Tech Companies

AlwaysON, a technology blog network, recently named its AlwaysON East 100 Top Private Companies for 2009. Three area companies were named to the list: Boomi, the Berwyn-based SaaS application integrator that also recently won a CODiE Award, myYearbook, the New Hope-based social network primarily aimed at teens, and AirClic of Trevose, which supplies mobile business process solutions.
The AlwaysOn East 100 will be honored at Venture Summit East May 20-22, 2009 at the Mandarin Oriental in Boston, MA

Daily Links 5/13/09

PhillyDeals: Software sales show trading going strong (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

SunGard unveils Web-based CRM tool (Finextra)

Comcast Investigates VoIP Outage
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

RJMetrics Aims to be Web Startup's Ace in the Hole (Read Write Web)
See my earlier post on RJMetrics.

Konnect.me Launches its First Site, Green.Konnect.me, to Serve the Green Building Industry
(PR Newswire)

WordPress bloggers to convene on Baltimore for conference (Baltimore Sun)


Mid-Atlantic Job Board Announces Twitter-Based Recruiting Tool
JobCircle.com helps companies use Twitter to recruit workers. (PR Newswire)

Entrepreneurs Bootcamp Begins May 18 (Business
Wire)


Cisco, Clearwire announce WiMax partnership (ZDNet Blogs)
Clearwire reshuffles execs, posts $260 million Q1 loss (TechFlash)

SAPPHIRE 2009

SAP, Oracle ask for lawsuit delay to June 2010 (Reuters)

Midsize Companies Gain Business Insight With SAP® Business ByDesign™ (PR Newswire)
TIMELINE: SAP's steps to bring cloud software to market (Reuters)
Inside SAP's Idled Business ByDesign Suite (Information Week)
I think you could buy a 747 for the amount of money SAP has spent on each Business ByDesign customer to this point.

SAP and RIM Announce Availability of Integrated SAP(R) CRM and BlackBerry Solution (PR Newswire)

Virtual Iron Software sold to Oracle (Mass High Tech)