People News 11/15/09
MEDecision Appoints Scott A. Storrer CEO (Business
Wire)
Comcast Names Steven A. White West Division President (PR Newswire)
Kenexa Appoints Eric Lochner as Chief Marketing Officer
Former EMEA Director to Head Global Marketing Initiatives (Marketwire)
TimeSight Systems(TM) Appoints Mike Gluck as Vice President of Sales (PR Newswire)
Lance Richard Named Entercom VP/Digital Sales (Radio Online)
Austin Paris, Former Equifax and Dun & Bradstreet Sales Executive, Joins RDC as Senior Vice President, Sales (Business Wire)
Emtec, Inc. Expands Executive Management Team with Appointment of Sunil Misra to Chief Strategy & Delivery Officer (Business Wire)
Tech Awards Circle Winners Represent Best of Tech 2009 (PR Newswire)
Chief Technologists of SevOne of Newark (DE) and Dataram of Princeton both honored.
DMW Worldwide brings on Daniela Gelety as senior AE (Philly Ad Club News)
Vijay Prasad Named to PMI Board of Directors
PMI Volunteer is First from India to Serve Worldwide Membership (Business Wire)
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Vivendi May Decide to Sell NBC Stake as Sale Window Opens Today (Bloomberg)
Comcast aspires to be a major global communications player (LA Times: Company Town)
From Books to Business: Student Entrepreneurs (ABC News)
Why must software be so hard on the user? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Review of Electronic Ink CEO Harold Hambrose's new book, Wrench in the System.
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Comcast’s Amy Banse Explains TV Everywhere (eHomeUpgrade)
Another Web Video Face-Off: Roku vs. Boxee (New York Times: Bits)
SAP plans to raise licensing fees - report (Reuters)
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Daily Links 11/13/09: Comcast & GE agree on Board structure
For Comcast Chief, Content Led the Way (New York Times: DealBook)
GE, Comcast agree on NBC Universal JV board: source (Reuters)
Vivendi Gains Control of GVT With Purchase of 58% (Bloomberg)
This would probably indicate that Vivendi is ready to sell its NBC-U stake.
ANALYSIS: Comcast/NBCU May Create More M&A Activity
Wall Street eyes new conglom as potential buyer and seller (Broadcasting & Cable)
3 Reasons TV’s About to Get a Facelift (VentureBeat via New York Times)
@comcastcares Dishes on His Top Twitter Apps (GigaOM)
Zayo Bandwidth Expands Fiber-to-Tower Service Offerings in Philadelphia
Services Will Support Increasing Bandwidth Requirements of 3g and 4g Technologies (PR Newswire)
Zayo Expands Fiber to the Tower Effort (Telecom Ramblings)
Judge delays auction for Philly newspapers 1 week (Associated Press via Google News)
McClatchy, Philly Newspapers Battle Over Workers Comp Claims (Wall Street Journal: Bankruptcy Beat)
Global CIO: SAP's Spread Out Payment Plan Is Good But Not Enough
The ERP business has become a buyers' market and is likely to stay this way. SAP could be on the verge of capitalizing on that. (Information Week: Global CIO)
NetSuite, InsideView Pull Social-Networking Data into Enterprise (eWeek)
Google pays $30M for Gizmo5; Did the search giant just blow up the phone biz? (Daily Finance)
Aria Systems Customers Drive White-hot Subscription Revenue Growth During Economic Downturn (Business Wire)
Environmental Tectonics Corporation, Rep. Patrick Murphy Announce $40 Million Contract to Create Hundreds of Pennsylvania Jobs (PR Newswire)
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MobileMD Raises $4.75 million
PE Hub reports that MobileMD of Warminster has raised $4.75 million in a VC funding round led by Health Enterprise Partners of New York.
MobileMD provides Health Information Exchange solutions for medical organizations such as South Jersey Healthcare and Main Line Health.
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Daily Links 11/12/09: iPipeline raises another $15 million
Comcast testing WiMAX femtocells (FierceWireless)
FCC conditions on Comcast-NBC could hurt synergy (Reuters)
Comcast to Bring TV Everywhere in December (Media Experiences 2 Go: Motorola Blog)
Vivendi: No comment on NBC Universal stake (MarketWatch)
The Philadelphia Inquirer writes that Exton's iPipeline will announce tommorrow that it has raised $15 million from NewSpring Capital and Fidelity Ventures, primarily to fund further acquisitions. iPipeline is also hiring, Joe Distefano reports.
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The Insanely Rich Young Mobile Ad Broker You've Never Heard Of (Gawker)
Omar Hamoui founded Google acquisition AdMob while at Wharton.
Urban Outfitters Reports Record Earnings in Q3 (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)
Same store sales up 2%.
SAP Tells Oracle To Free Java But Keeps Own Software Closed (Information Week: Global CIO)
SAP shows off enterprise ‘augmented reality’ (IT Pro)
QVC expects 50 percent of sales coming from online by 2014 (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Synygy Announces Positive Q3 Results with Profit Increasing 54 Percent over Prior Year (Business Wire)
EMS Formation Boosts Capacity and Performance of ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk to Meet Growing Mass Storage Demands (Business Wire)
Unilever Awards Unisys an Outsourcing Contract to Provide End-User Services to a Multi-Regional Workforce (Business Wire)
SunGard Prospects To Try Apps on Dell Gear in New Test Center (Campus Technology)
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WSJ: Motorola seeking buyer for Horsham set-top box business
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola is seriously seeking buyers for its set-top box business, based in Horsham. This
is not a surprise, since such a move was generally thought to be part of Motorola's strategic plan; it just indicates that they
may be getting close to evaluating actual bids. Private Equity buyers including TPG, which last week announced an agreement
to purchase IMS Health, and equipment manufacturers such as Samsung are considered possible acquirers. The business has
an estimated value of $4.5 billion. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc are advising Motorola.
Goodbye Moto? (Multichannel News)
Motorola: Here’s an Idea: Let’s Sell Off Our Most Profitable Division (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)
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Daily Links 11/11/09: SAP fires back at WSJ, Oracle
Zucker to head new NBCU-Comcast venture -- sources (Reuters)
Jeff Zucker Inexplicably To Lead Comcast/NBC Venture (Silicon Alley Insider)
SAP Statement on The Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece About Oracle-Sun Deal (PR
Newswire)
Spotlight turns to SAP in Oracle, Sun debacle
German software maker 'disappointed' letter to Oracle CEO leaked to press (Marketwatch
Ma Bell's wake-up call: Deals among Net calling firms may sap big telcos' revenue (Daily Finance)
Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents (ars technica)
InfoLogix Announces Receipt of NASDAQ Waiver for Stockholder Approval of Restructuring and Extension to Stockholder's Equity Requirement (PR Newswire)
Judge denies Heartland restraining order request (Associated Press via Google News)
Dearth of dollars adds to challenges for technology startup companies (Technology Times)
Reed Elsevier’s Surprise CEO Departure (Wall Strret Journal: MarketBeat)
Astea Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results (PR Newswire)
C64 emulator back on the App Store (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
What is BarCamp Philly? (Philly2Philly.com)
Tech Collaborative plans to award $1.5M in commercialization funding (Pittsburgh Business Times)
Fighting the five-finger discount
No time to wade through security-camera footage? Help is at hand. (Fortune Small Business)
On Agilence of Camden.
TimeSight Systems(TM) Receives $1M in New Jersey Economic Development Funding to Continue Innovation in Security and Surveillance
(PR Newswire)
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Daily Links 11/10/09: Tailwind Capital Invests in SDI Health LLC
Tailwind Capital Invests in SDI Health LLC (Business Wire)
KPMG survey finds optimism in Philadelphia's venture community (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
Clearwire to Raise Over $1.5 Billion to Continue National Expansion of 4G Mobile Internet Services (Business Wire)
Comcast to kick in another $200 million in equity.
Clearwire Sees ‘09 Net Cash Spend At $1.9 Billion (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Vivendi in No Rush to Sell NBC Stake, May Bargain Hard on Price (Bloomberg)
Inquirer Owner Wins Appeal, Blocks Creditors From Bid (Bloomberg)
Heartland forced to update Q3 results as data breach costs rack up (Finextra)
Oracle Will Plead Sun Case to EC Nov. 25 in Brussels (eWeek)
SAP wants an open Java process (pot, meet kettle)
(CNET News)
Infor Attacks SAP and Oracle in 'Down With Big ERP' Campaign (IT Jungle)
Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists (CBS News Blogs)
Penn: First US University to Deploy DNS Security Throughout the Institution (Penn Almanac)
WebLinc launches the new Thomas Scientific B2B eCommerce site (WebLinc Blog)
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