Daily Links 10/27/09: GSI Commerce to Acquire Retail Convergence

Comcast says some stimulus bidders may be ineligible (Bloomberg via Chicago Daily Herald)

Comcast: FCC Action Unlawful, Should Be Reversed
(PC Magazine)

Comcast Thinks Big With ITV (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

GSI Commerce to Acquire Retail Convergence and Enter Private Sale Space with Addition of Rue La La (Business Wire)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)


Ametek Q3 results beat Street, shares up
(Reuters)

Vishay Announces Intention to Spin Off Measurements and Foil Resistor Businesses to Stockholders (Business Wire)

Vishay Reports Results for Third Quarter 2009 (Business Wire)

ING to sell Delaware-based bank in 2013 (Wilmington News Journal)

Fisker to make plug-in hybrids at former GM plant in Delaware (USA Today)

RYAN DAVIS NAMED PRESIDENT OF PHILLY.COM
(Press Release)

Nokia, SAP form anti-piracy services firm (Reuters)

SAP regaining its mojo? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP: Days of the database are numbered
(ZDNet UK)

3-D Tool Rises to the Next Level (Engineering News Record)

CityRyde Launches Revolutionary Spark Bike Share Software, and It's Only the Beginning... (PR Newswire)

Viddler Analytics – Video statistics made easy. (The
Viddler Blog)



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Daily Links 10/26/09: NY Times Decides Comcast shouldn't buy NBC (After all, the Times has managed its business so well)

Verizon Profit Exceeds Estimates on Wireless Gains (Bloomberg)
Verizon Wireless, FiOS Growth Slows, But Quarter Fine (Silicon Alley Insider)

Verizon Launches BlackBerry Storm 2 This Week; OS 5.0 for Storm Today (jkOnTheRun)

A Big Deal, but Not a Good One (New York Times: The Media Equation)
On Comcast and NBC-U.

Comcast COO: Nat'l Platform Key to Interactive Ads (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast Zeros In On Spammers
Operator Deploys Cloudmark's Spammer-Monitoring System (Multichannel News)

Cohen: Comcast's Plant tru2way-Capable By End of Year
Allows operators to deliver interactive TV content, pplications to compatible devices including TVs and set-tops
(Broadcasting & Cable)

Motorola Introduces New Products Expanding Fiber Deep and CablePON Portfolios for Cable Operators (PR Newswire)

Fisker to Manufacture Plug-in Hybrids at Former GM Delaware Plant (Automobile Magazine)


Obama plans big smart grid announcement (Reuters)

ING to Split in Two Amid $11.3 Billion Rights Issue (New York Times: Deal Book)
Wilmington's ING Direct USA to be broken off by 2013.

Virtua Selects NextGen® EHR to Support Quality Initiatives
Multi-Hospital Health Care System to Implement Award-Winning Product across Its Virtua Medical Group Network
(Business Wire)

Why Your Next IT Job Will Be In Healthcare (Information Week)


Unisys Closes 1-for-10 Reverse Split (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)



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Philly Tech Events Calendar

Lender Capmark Financial Group Files for Bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
Formerly GMAC Commercial Holding Corp., based in Horsham.

Digitas Health Social Media POV

Digitas Health Social Media POV

View more documents from Sarah Larcker.

People News 10/25/09

Boomi Hires Key Sales Executive to Advance its Leadership in Cloud Integration
Scott Crawford, formerly of IBM and Ascential Software, to Lead Company's Global Sales Efforts (PR Web)

SAP APPOINTS NEW HEAD OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES (SAP Press Release)

Americas’ SAP Users’ Group’s Interim CEO Accepts Permanent Post
Bridgette Chambers, Former Chief Executive Officer of Voile Enterprises, Named as Permanent CEO (Business Wire)

Second Drexel professor elected as IEEE president (The Triangle)

Kenexa Strengthens RPO Expertise With the Appointment of International RPO Development Director (Marketwire)

Mikros Systems Corporation Names Paul G. Casner, Jr. Chairman of Board (PR Newswire via Reuters)

Wolters Kluwer Health Bolsters CME Organization, Appoints Dr. Karen Overstreet as Executive Director of its Lippincott CME Institute (PR Newswire)

SevOne Names William J. Conners Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development (Marketwire)

New Hire Supports CRM manager's Commitment to Cloud Computing
CTO with Expertise to Lead force.com Development and Integration Practice (PR Newswire)

USA Technologies Appoints Steven D. Barnhart and Jack E. Price to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)



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Net neutrality faces political, legal hurdles (CNN via CNET)

Q&A: FCC’s Baker Sounds Alarm Over 'Anecdote’-Based Regulations (Multichannel News)

Digitas and Razorfish Take First Steps Toward Combining Health Practices

Razorfish Execs Leave for Microsoft After Publicis Deal
(Advertising Age)
The most significant implication of this story locally is a possible first step towards the integration of Digitas Health and Razorfish's (now both part of Publicis) health practice. Katy Thorbahn, former GM of Razorfish Philadelphia, will now head up Razorfish health, reporting to Digitas Health CEO David Kramer, though both will retain their own brands for now at least.
See my story from March on Razorfish Phildelphia and Katy Thorbahn.




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Deloitte Philly Fast 50

The Deloitte Philly Fast 50 is out, representing Deloitte's take on the 50 fastest growing companies in the area.
Unlike the Philadelphia 100, the Deloitte list does include publicly traded companies. Unlike the Inc. 5000 , revenue is not shown for Deloitte companies unless they are also on Deloitte Fast 500 nationwide rankings.
As I reported earlier, The Neat Company was the top area company on the "Fast 500" and is also tops on the Philly Fast 50. However, another company that did not appear on Fast 500, eZanga, an internet advertising firm in Middletown DE, is ranked #2 on the Philly Fast 50.




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Brian Tierney's time, money, luck slipping away from his Philly news empire (Daily Finance)

Governor Rendell Says $22 Million Investment Will Create 375 Jobs Statewide, Stimulate Pennsylvania's Technology Sector (PR Newswire)
It looks like the amount of funds Ben Franklin Technology Partners will distribute to its four regional BFTPs this year will be $16
million($4 million each), down from $27.6 million for each of the past several years. This is a decline of about 42%.

Big difference in Dow, PricewaterhouseCoopers venture reports (Philadelphia Business Journal:
Technology Blog)

Microsoft Reports Pre-Windows 7 Declines For Revenues And Profits. No More Excuses. (TechCrunch)

Verizon, Comcast Still Fighting Over Silly VOD 'Channel' Counts (Broadband Reports)

FCC Begins Examination of Potential Internet Regulation (Comcast Voices)

Four things SAP must consider before a Teradata acquisition (SearchSAP.com)




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Daily Links 10/22/09: FCC Votes to Move Forward on Net Neutrality

Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint to Launch 4G in Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle (Business Wire)


Competing With Hulu a Bad Move for Comcast (Read Write Web)

FCC moves forward on net neutrality rule-making in unanimous vote (Washington Post: Post Tech)
FCC Agrees to Set Rules on Net Neutrality (GigaOM)
FCC proposes network neutrality rules (and big exemptions) (ars technica)


Watch Comcast CEO Brian Roberts at the Web 2.0 Summit 09 (Comcast Voices: Video)

Early Tremors: Is It Time for Another Social Network Shakeout? (Knowledge@Wharton)

Dow Chemical Says Sales Volume Slides 9%, Recovery ‘Slow’ (Bloomberg)

IMS Health takes 3Q loss on restructuring charges (Associated Press via Forbes)


SAP India MD: Ranjan Das, the man who loved Mumbai (Economic Times of India)

SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up? (ZDNet Blogs)

Unisys protests TSA’s $493M award to CSC (Washington Business Journal)

Lockheed Martin Moorestown unit gets $1B missile defense contract (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Alteva and SimpleSignal Form IP Peering Alliance
Leading Service Providers Collaborate to Create Cross-Platform, HD-to-HD IP Calling (Marketwire)

Milestone: Motorola Ships One Millionth Fiber-to-the-Home Optical Network Terminal (PR Newswire)

Allentown firm's Socialtivity gives marketers social media liquidity (Keystone Edge)

Announcing the Dream Widget Challenge (The Boomi Blog)



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