Appeals court rules against exclusive cable TV deals (Bloomberg via Boston Globe)

An Inconvenient Mess (Reuters)

Cable 'Canoe' Finds Slow Going
Hardware/software issues plague cable's advertising dream (Broadband Reports)
CANOE VENTURES EXPANDS ITS COLORADO-BASED ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM (Interactive TV Today)

Safeguard Scientifics to record $120 mln gain in Q2 (Reuters)

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios buys game developer Big Huge Games (VentureBeat)

Philadelphia CBS, CW stations team up with VGXPO (Gamers Daily News)

Sapphire 2009 in Review: Jon Reed Interviews Michael Krigsman of Asuret (JonERP.com)

SAP Canada executives reflect on 20th anniversary (IT World Canada)

Bentley’s ProjectWise Dynamic Plot Brings Paper Into Digital Age to Help Mitigate Project Risk (Business Wire)

Modeling User Interactions with Search Engines (The Future of Things)
Research done at Penn State.

Princeton researchers to lead major Pentagon-funded initiatives (News at Princeton)



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First Round Capital Widget; New Investments

First Round Capital now has a downloadable widget showing all the jobs (or most, anyway) available at its portfolio companies, via VentureLoop and Widgetbox.
Also, two financing rounds were announced today in which First Round participated:

OpenX Aims to Hold Off Google, Takes $10.4M Third Round (GigaOM)

Plastic Jungle Scores $4.8 million For Gift Card Marketplace (TechCrunch)

RJMetrics: Business Intelligence Rap Video

Daily Links 5/26/09: Ben Franklin Invests in 8 Area Companies

Ben Franklin Technology Partners OKs Click Equations, other investments (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Evidentiary Hearing Commences in ITC Investigation of Nokia's Infringement of InterDigital 3G Patents (Business Wire)

Halcyon Revs Up U.S. Channel Effort (IT Jungle)

QVC HD: Now 100% High-Def
Claims First Home-Shopping Channel To Offer Native HD Service (Multichannel News)

SAP Braces For Change
New sole-CEO Leo Apotheker wants the enterprise-software powerhouse to be more responsive to customers. (Information Week)

SAP Introduces Software Package to Help Public Sector Customers Optimize Economic Stimulus Funds (PR Newswire)

Tech Employment Shrinks for Fifth Straight Month (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

70% DOCSIS 3.0 Market Share & the 200MB Home (Media Experiences 2 Go)

Higher Ed Wakes Up to Twitter
(Library Journal)

Moggle, Inc. Announces Agreement With FX Labs
(Business Wire)

EBillme launches online payments option for teens (Finextra)

Synygy Announces Availability of the Mobile Edition of SYNYGY PORTAL for Use with iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile Devices (Business Wire)




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Comcast and the NFL: a case of likes repelling (Lancaster
Online)
Analysis: Comcast Pact, RedZone Channel May Trigger More NFL Network Distribution Deals (Multichannel News)

Health providers move slowly to electronic record-keeping (Newark Star-Ledger)

GSK launches 'More than Medicine' corporate blog (Medical Marketing & Media)

Locust Walk paves way for life sciences concerns (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Blog Recap—Monday May 18 at Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic (Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic)



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Philly Tech Events

People News 5/24/09

GSI expands with the hiring of two execs Internet
Retailer)

Agilence Names Ed Parks VP of Engineering (Business
Wire)

Publicis Selling Solutions Announces Recent New Hires
(Business Wire)

Universal Display Extends Sponsored Research Program with Dr. Stephen Forrest and Dr. Mark Thompson (Business Wire)

Gregory Arnold was named Vice President, Strategic Planning at RCH Cable in Moorestown. He came from Comcast, where he was
senior VP, New Jersey region, Eastern division.

Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies? (The Guardian)

Internet start-up helps point the green way (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Software tracks Web-site designs
Results show people tend to glaze over ad placements (Wilmington News Journal)

USA Technologies Files Registration Statement For Rights Offering (Business
Wire)

Three Area Companies Make Red Herring 100

The Red Herring 100 North America is out. For those of you who are a little younger, the Red Herring was sort of the bible for the VC/Tech
Startup community in the 90's, though it never recovered from the tech crash and has been through several lives since then. However, being named to the Red Herring 100 still carries some cachet, though I've always found it to be rather Silicon Valley-centric.
Three companies in the broader Philadelphia region were included: Invidi, the heavily funded Princeton developer of addressable advertising technology for cable systems, AirClic, the Trevose company that ran through a few hundred million in venture funds before finally finding a viable business model using wireless technology to optimize mobile business processes, and a company I had not heard of before-Weather Trends International
of Bethlehem-which appears to be a competitor to Planalytics of Wayne.
Other companies of local interest include Bluenog, the open source software company basesd just a ways up the road in Piscataway and backed by NewSpring Capital of Radnor, Aster Data Systems, a First
Round Capital portfolio company based in California, and Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence vendor partially backed by SAP
Ventures.
The only other Pennsylvania company I noticed was from the startup hotbed of Altoona: a company called INRange Systems which provides systems to monitor and reduce the rate of error for at-home medications.

Daily Links 5/22/09: Business Week Feature on First Round Capital

'Super Angels' Shake Up Venture Capital
As large VC firms cut back, a hungry bunch of seed-stage investors are helping entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground
(Business Week)
Features First Round Capital.

On Golf Courses, Sensors Help Save Water (New York Times-free registration)

Smarter Agent going for universality (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Update: Liberty Media Setting The Stage For HSN Bid? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Cable TV Losing 1 Million Customers A Year
Mostly thanks to poor customer service... (Broadband Reports)

Lockheed Martin GPS III Team Successfully Completes Major Design Review Phase on Schedule (PR Newswire)

Digital Ad Agency Razorfish Closes Two Offices (paidContent)

U.S. could take 17 years to exit GMAC after an IPO (Reuters)



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