Daily Links 6/18/09: Comcast assumes full ownership of NECN

June 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philadelphia Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
A little less gloomy.

Another Hot Market For SaaS: Business Intelligence (Information Week Blogs)

QlikTech Unveils India Strategy (CXOtoday)

Comcast assumes full ownership of NECN (Boston Globe)

Canoe Scraps Initial Zone-Ad Plans
CEO Verklin: Technical, Business Limitations Made CAM 1.0 Too Inflexible (Multichannel News)

Comcast open for IPv6 business (Network World)

Comcast Corporation Announces Cash Tender Offer for Certain Outstanding Debt Securities (Business Wire)

Errant Shots? No, Marines Look for Errant Golfers (New York Times)
On Camden's myLEADERBOARD.

SAP Wants to Help Microcredit Groups Manage Loans (PC World)

Photos from the Atlanta Clearwire Launch (Media Experiences 2 Go)

Clearwire Media Exec Leaves; Is The WiMax Company Changing Its Content Strategy? (mocoNews.net)

Demdex Comes Out Of Stealth, Offers Advertisers Their Own Behavioral Data Bank (TechCrunch)
Another First Round Capital portfolio company.

Gov’t still looking to tighten rules on venture capital (VentureBeat)
Ridiculous.

RadiSys and LCR Electronics Collaborate to Deliver Ruggedized ATCA Solutions (Business Wire)

AnySource Media to Drive Viewership for The Associated Press (PR Newswire)



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U Penn Named 4th Best Place to Work In IT (Computerworld)

Computerworld recently released its 100 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN IT 2009, and Penn, as usual, ranked right near the top at #4. Other area companies and organizations in the top 100 were Lehigh Valley Health Network of Allentown (43), The Vanguard Group (67), and Temple University (90).
Some others that have a significant presence in the region are Verizon Wireless (7), Exelon Corp, parent of PECO Energy (23), The Chubb Group (36) , Penn National Insurance in Harrisburg (62), Aetna (70), and some of the large consulting firms.
Does this ring true at all?

Infragistics On The Move To Bigger Things

Infragistics, the prominent developer of user interface development tools for the Microsoft platform, is moving from East Windsor, NJ (near Princeton) up the road north a few miles to a much larger new headquarters in South Brunswick, MyCentralJersey.com reports.
The move, which is expected to occur late this year or at the beginning of next year, will increase the company's space to 72,00 square feet, up from 24,000 currently. About 150 employees will move to the new location, and Infragistice says it plans to double its workforce, and is currently hiring technical document writers, software release engineers and software developers.

Daily Links 6/17/09: SAP chief sees signs of improvement in sector

SAP CTO on Innovation And Cloud Computing (Computerworld)

SAP chief sees signs of improvement in sector (Reuters)

SAP relying more on partners to deliver SAP mobile infrastructure (SearchSAP.com)

Comcast's new debt given investment grade rating (Associated Press via MSN Money)

Collection Marketing Center Raises Series B (PE Hub)

Start Spreading The News: First Growth Wants To Nurture NYC VC (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
First Round Capital to participate.

Urban Outfitters features Top Reviewers in email campaign (Bazaarblog)
Bazaarvoice is backed by First Round Capital.

Salesforce.com Shopping For E-Mail Marketing Company? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Email Marketing is very hot right now.

Synygy On-Demand Sales Performance Management Software Selected by Advanced Sterilization Products, a Johnson & Johnson Company (Business Wire)

Oracle Buys Intellectual Property Assets of Conformia (PR Newswire)
Another step by Oracle into the Life Sciences vertical. Ironically, SAP Ventures had been an investor.

Heartland Payment Systems Selects Voltage Security to Provide Software for End-to-End Encryption (Business Wire)
Heartland Gets Religion on Security (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Construction Group Seeks to Build Support for RFID
(RFID Journal)

DirecTV to Serve Up Targeted Ads (BrandWeek)
Will partner with Princeton-based Invidi.

WHYY ending nightly Delaware newscast
(Wilmington News Journal)



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Daily Links 6/16/09: QlikTech Targets Larger Deployments

As Big BI Gets Hip, QlikTech Targets Larger Deployments (Intelligent Enterprise)
Given that the IPO market is loosening up a bit, I wonder if QlikTech is giving any thought again to getting in. They may need stock as a currency to acquire other pieces to broaden their BI portfolio.

MySpace to Cut 30% of Staff as Facebook Gains Ground (GigaOM)

Tru2way Enters 'Open' Era (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast Preps for IPv6 (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

New Company PHIDS, Inc. Makes Offer to Buy SendTec Assets (Business Wire)
Internet Capital Group and Cross Atlantic Capital Partners to provide funding.

Philadelphia Newspapers Granted Extension to File Bankruptcy Re-org Plan (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

Yahoo Newspaper Consortium Adds Five Members (paidContent)
Philadelphia Newspaper Holdings is a member of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, though last time I looked they were still
using Monster rather than HotJobs for employment advertising.

Atlanta WiMax launch keeps Clearwire on track for nationwide rollout (Computerworld)

PhillyDeals: The downturn finally touches Vanguard (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Liberty Media Corporation Announces Extension of QVC Bank Credit Facilities (PR Newswire)

Deal Radar 2009: GlobalSubmit ( Sramana Mitra)

House fire started by cable worker
(Pottstown Mercury)
Comcast strikes again.

Comcast plans upgrade for area customers (Times of Trenton)

Verizon Cooking Up Slightly Faster FiOS Speeds?
Existing users may see a slight advertised bump this weekend... (Broadband Reports)

Health IT meaningful use framework proposed (Federal Computer Week)

So What Is SAP's Enterprise Software as a Service Strategy, Anyway? (IT Business Edge)

Infor to Buy SoftBrands (Managing Automation)

PointRoll and Adobe Host Inaugural Rich Media Symposium in New York (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 6/15/09: Lincoln Financial Accepts TARP Funds

Comcast to sell $1.5 bln debt in 2 parts - IFR (Reuters)

Lincoln Accepts U.S. Rescue Funds, Plans Share Sale (Bloomberg)

Philly Newspapers' Parent Company Follows It Into Bankruptcy Court (Editor & Publisher)
About That Philadelphia Media Holdings Bankruptcy… (Editor & PUblisher: Fitz & Jen)

Does SAP's Performance Fall Short?
A survey of SAP users, sponsored by a transaction performance provider, notes concern about certain performance issues
(Internetnews.com)

G.E. Offers Loans for E-Health Record Purchases (New York Times: Bits)

Tyco Electronics raises third-quarter outlook (MarketWatch)

HostMySite and Hosting.com Merge Clouds (Web Host Industry Review)


MRK Hostwindow Announces Name Change to Independence IT
New Name Reflects the Company's Expanding Role as the Virtual IT Department for Small and Mid-sized Business (PR Newswire)

Goodybye, Gyro. Hello, Quaker City Mercantile (Philadelphia Business Journal)

MapQuest Launches iPhone App (Read
Write Web)
Mapquest is co-headquartered in Lancaster.


Tata Consultancy Services Launches New Business Intelligence Solution for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (IT News Online)

Some viewers lose 6ABC, WHYY in DTV switch (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Pennsylvania Lottery sales will end early for computer upgrades (Easton Express-Times)

The Newspaper Crisis discussed at Princeton event (NewJerseyNewsroom.com)



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Philly Tech Events

US declares victory as DTV transition goes rather smoothly (ars technica)

Can Cable Still Cash In on DTV? (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

Priming the VOD Pipe
Cable eyes technical tweaks to on-demand service (Broadcasting & Cable)

Online advertiser erupting
Middletown-based eZanga thrives as economy sputters (Wilmington News Journal)

People News 6/14/09

SAP AG NAMES OLIVER BUSSMANN AS NEW CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (SAP Press Release)

IDS Scheer Appoints Debashish Chatterjee to Senior Vice President of Business Development (Business Wire)

Liao Named CableLabs CEO
Former Panasonic Exec to Replace Green (Multichannel News)

New Jersey Technology Council Names Cross Atlantic's Donald Caldwell Financier of the Year (Business Wire)

Commitment to Healthy, High-Performing Culture and Next Stage of Health Care Reform Paves Way for Four New Executives at MEDecision (Business Wire)

Philly Clear Channel Stations Snare New President/Market Manager (Media Buyer Planner)

Lighting Science Group Announces Changes in Senior Management (PR Newswire)

Ohana Companies Names Veteran Product Strategist Prasanth Menon as Director of Product Management (PR Web)

International Battery names Ake Almgren CEO (Easton Express-Times)

Information Security Veteran Joins Evolve IP (Business Wire)

NEWSPRING CAPITAL PORTFOLIO COMPANY CEOs AND PARTNER RECOGNIZED AS E&Y ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD REGIONAL FINALISTS (Press Release Point)

Portico Systems CEO Ned Moore Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 Award Finalist in Greater Philadelphia (Business Wire)

InfoLogix CEO David Gulian Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 Award Finalist in Greater Philadelphia (PR Newswire)

Wilmington Trust Names President in Retirement Services Business
Charles Russella to head unit in Corporate Client Services (Business Wire)

SCTE Adds Directors-At-Large
(Mediacaster)

Regulatory DataCorp Expands Executive Team (Business Wire)

Industry Recognized and Trusted Leader, Bruce Matter, Joins Healthcare IT Company, Peminic, Inc. as Company Growth in the Areas of Patient Safety, Risk Management, and Patient Satisfaction Accelerates (PR Newswire)

tierney announces new branding, new hire and promotions (Central Penn Business Journal)

TRM Announces Entry Into Student Loan Processing Business (PR Newswire)



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Samantha Ettus interviews entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Josh Kopelman (Obsessed TV)

Daily Links 6/12/09: Ben Franklin Technology Partners Threatened With 60% Budget Cut

SuccessFactors' CEO On SAP's SaaS Strategy (information Week Blogs)

What does SAP’s new SaaS strategy spell for the NetSuites of the world? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant (ZDNet Blogs)

Zipcar Seeks IPO as Once ‘Wacky’ Car-Sharing Gains (Bloomberg)

Cutting Ben Franklin Technology Partners funding would hurt job creation, retention in Pennsylvania (OpEd: Allentown Morning Call)

Surprise Early Stage East guest (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Stations Turn Off Analog Signals as Digital TV Deadline Arrives (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Comcast extends digital transition service program (Boston Globe)

Comcast: Verizon Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It (Broadband Report)

Lockheed Martin to work on ‘Space Fence’ (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Vishay Highlights Components for Alternative Energy Applications With New Virtual Trade Show on Company Web Site (Marketwire)

BI Market Grows 22% In Tough Economy (Intelligent Enterprise)

1st Meaningful Use Definition Due June 16 (Health Data Management)

New Jersey Bill Would Outlaw Health IT Not Certified by CCHIT (iHealthBeat)

TelVue Corp. gets $500K line of credit from Lenfest (Philadelphia Inquirer)



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