Daily Links 4/8/2010: GoodCompany Ventures accepting applications

Mistras Achieves Strong Revenue Growth and Increased Profitability in Third Quarter of Fiscal 2010
(Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Wounds of layoff remain fresh for Bentley Systems' CEO (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Is QlikTech a Billion-Dollar Baby? (Seeking Alpha)

AMETEK Acquires Imago Scientific Instruments
Acquisition Adds to AMETEK's High-End Elemental Analysis Capabilities (PR Newswire)

Verizon CEO: Studies be damned, US is tops in broadband (Ars Technica)

GoodCompany Ventures: Call for Applications
GoodCompany Ventures is now accepting applications for the Summer 2010 program (CSRwire.com)

Podcast session with Boomi (ebizQ: Cloud Computing Insights)

NetSuite rolling out 'codeless' customization tool
The vendor is making a run at SAP's Business ByDesign with a new business-process tweaking kit (Network World)

Oracle: Janney Launches Coverage With Buy Rating, $32 Target
(Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Appeals Court: Let the Auction of Philly Newspapers Begin
(Editor & Publisher)

Insider Tells Us Comcast Will Shake Up Speed Tiers This Year
Xfinity rebranding means a market gets 12/2, 20/4, 50/10, 100/25 Mbps tiers (Broadband Reports)

FiOS TV Adds Comcast Network In Philly, N.J. Regions
Network Presents Selects Phillies, Flyers, Sixers Contests (Multichannel News)

Drexel University Advanced Energy Leadership Conference Spotlights Future of Smart Grid, Energy Management and Sustainability in Mid-Atlantic Region (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 4/7/2010: Comcast 3D goes live

See us now, get the app soon (Philadelphia Daily News)

Comcast: We'll Continue To Play Nice In Lieu of Court Ruling
Carrier insists more open, transparent practices won't change... (Broadband Reports)

Copps: Time To End 'Ancillary Authority Dance'
McDowell, Baker praise court decision, warn against reclassification (Multichannel News)

Comcast 1, FCC 0: what to look for in the inevitable rematch
(Ars Technica)

FCC extends comment period for net neutrality after court decision (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast's 3D channel goes live, just in time for the Masters
(Engadget)


Brook Lenfest's Internet "powerhouse" (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
NetCarrier press release.

SunGard Creates 4,500 Person-Strong Global Services Organization (PR Web)

Internet Capital Group: Dotcom Boom Redux? (Seeking Alpha)

Oracle releases Primavera Portfolio Management 8 (V3.co.uk)

SAP vulnerability could expose systems to hacking
* Could leave companies open to sabotage, espionage, fraud (Reuters)


Startup helps office towers find big energy savings (Reuters)
Mentions Philly's RealWinWin.


Gannett Chief Digital Officer Saridakis Quits (paidContent)
Former CEO of Conshohocken"s PointRoll.

RCD Technology Develops High-Performance RFID Cargo Tag to Capture Industrial Opportunities (Business Wire)

Main Line Health Awards Managed Services Contract to SunGard Availability Services (PR Newswire)




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DC Appeals Court overturns FCC on Comcast broadband regulations

Appeals court vacates FCC ruling on Comcast Web traffic (Reuters)

Court: FCC had no right to sanction Comcast for P2P blocking (Ars Technica)

FCC: Court Decision 'Invalidates' Prior Approach to Preserving Open Internet
Commission responds after court strikes down previous order in BitTorrent case (Broadcasting & Cable)

Winners and Losers in the Net-Neutrality Ruling (Wall Street Journal: Digits)



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Daily Links 4/6/2010: CTDI continues to grow through acquisitions

Moto Shuffles Ahead of Split (Light Reading Cable)

CTDI Acquires More Access Assets (Light Reading Cable)
West Chester-based company continues to grow.

FanDuel partners with Philly.com to let US newspaper readers bet online legally (TechCrunch Europe)

SunGard Higher Education Launches Industry’s First ERP Community Source Initiative
Initiative is Designed to Harness Power and Expertise of Customer Base and Make Valuable Functionality Available to Entire User Community (Business Wire)

Ingres and Contemporary Software Concepts of New Jersey Ink Strategic Partnership – Eye Manufacturing and Public Sector
Upcoming Webcast Focuses on How Companies are Surviving in a “Post Economic Recovery” World
(Business Wire)

Cardionet rises as analyst upgrades shares (Associated Press via
Forbes)

Mercy Health System Expands Its Use of NextGen Technology to Enhance Care Coordination (Business Wire)

Guest post: Microsoft should buy medical-records company
Microsoft EMR: It's Not Just a Matter of When, It's a Matter of Who (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
First recommendation: Horsham's NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.


As FDA debates social media rules, pharma isn’t waiting (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Pa. school official ordered deposed in webcam case (Associated
Press via Philadelphia Inquirer)

NetReach Web Development Technology Helps Parkway Council Foundation Promote Philadelphia’s Parkway District as a Destination
(Business Wire)






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Daily Links 4/5/2010: FCC forms strategy to defend broadband powers

SAP Signals Changes At Insider Event – Vaguely (Merv's Market Strategies for IT Suppliers)

Oracle Adds Pharmaceutical Focus to CRM on Demand (PC World)

Proscape Announces iShowPlayer App for iPad (Marketwire)

FCC forms strategy to defend broadband powers (Reuters)

NetCompetition: FCC Contemplating 'Overreaching Regulatory Hubris."
Says proposed regulations would be bad for goals of national broadband plan (Broadcasting & Cable)

Change Up At NBC Sports Digital; Miller Shifts To Universal Sports, Keeps Olympics (paidContent)

SaaS best-of-breed vs. SaaS suites: Who's likely to win? (ZDNet Blogs)

City to embrace iPhone, develop 311 app (Philly.com)
If Philadelphia still doesn't have the underlying software systems it needs to run the 311 service effectively, I'm not sure how much good it will do to build iPhone apps to run on top of it.
Pew Study: Philadelphia's 311 system shows progress after one year (Plan Philly)

Software developers steering creative energy toward burgeoning app market (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

SunGard Launches Middle-Office Outsourcing Service for Energy and Commodities Trading
SunGard Launches Middle-Office Outsourcing Service for Energy and Commodities Trading
(PR Web)



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Philly Tech People News 4/4/2010

Jeffrey Belk Joins InterDigital Board as Independent Director (Business Wire)

Nuance Appoints Janet Dillione, Former CEO of Siemens Health Services, to Lead Nuance’s Healthcare Business (Business Wire)
Dillione announced her resignation from Siemens in early March.

Morning Call' Publisher Kennedy Out as 'Baltimore Sun' CEO Adds Title (Editor & Publisher)

MISTRAS Group, Inc. to Report Third Quarter Results on April 8, 2010 and Announces Retirement of CFO and Automatic Extension of Lock-Up (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Precyse Solutions Appoints ICD-10 Program Management Director (PR Newswire)

Red Tettemer brings on fresh talent and adds more muscle to its interactive department (Philly Ad Club News)
Also establishes "ongoing consultancy partnership" with Alex Hillman.

Backe Digital adds Richard Essaf as Interactive Designer (Philly Ad Club News)

Krista Coonelly-Becker joins MayoSeitz Media as Interactive Media Strategist, Buyer (Philly Ad Club News)




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Comcast’s Queen of Convergence Speaks (GigaOM)

Early adopters pounce on iPad at mall (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Buyers queue up for their iPads (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Delaware business: Disconnect between FiOS, Wilmington likely to linger
With Verizon's rollout nearly complete, city left out (Wilmington News Journal)

Qlik
Technologies Inc. Form S-1 (Securities and Exchange Commission)




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Comcast Usage Meter Keeps Expanding
So what happens if you cross the 250 GB limit? (Broadband Reports)

NBC Reevaluating Streaming TV Episodes to IPad (PC World)

Apple iPad launch draws morning lines after months of hype (NJ.com)

Gallery: iPad launch in Atlantic City (ZDNet Blogs: The Apple
Core)

Daily Links 4/2/2010: Comcast-NBCU deal under scrutiny by Florida, other states

Eastern Tech-MAC merging (Philadelphia Business Journal)
MAC Alliance and The Eastern Technology Council Announce Agreement to Merge (Press Release)

BI Software Provider QlikTech Files for $100M IPO (Managing Automation)
2009 revenue of $157.4 million.

Comcast-NBC Universal Deal Probed by Florida Amid U.S. Review
(Bloomberg via Business Week)

Verizon Derides Cable 3DTV Efforts
(Light Reading Cable)

Comcast Owes One-Fifth of Its Value to VoIP (Seeking Alpha)

Delaware iPad lines form at 6, maybe earlier (Wilmington News Journal)




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QlikTech files for IPO

In a long anticipated move, in-memory business intelligence provider QlikTech of Radnor announced today it had filed a registration statement on Form S-1 for a proposed initial public offering of common stock. No info at this time concerning number of shares or pricing. Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets, and J.P. Morgan are acting as joint book-runners, and Jefferies & Company and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC will be co-managers.

QlikTech has grown rapidly and achieved revenue of $120 million in 2008; I have yet to see 2009 figures. This should be the biggest tech IPO in the Philly area in some time. I don't have enough information to makes guesses as to how much the company is worth except that it should be in the hundreds of million dollars. An IPO not only would help some people to "cash out" or get some liquidity for their interest in QlikTech, but it would also give the company a currency to make acquisitions to broaden its product portfolio.

See press release here.




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Daily Links 4/1/2010: LoKast Creator Secures $1 Million In Venture Funding

LoKast Creator Secures $1 Million In Venture Funding (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

Comcast demos live 3D TV
(CNET News)

Successes (and Some Growing Pains) at Hulu (New York Times: DealBook)

Haggar Clothing Co. Launches E-Commerce Business with GSI Commerce as Its Strategic Multiyear E-Commerce Partner
(Business Wire)

Verizon, IBM launch private cloud backup service (Computerworld)

Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud (IDG via Business Week)

Forrester Critiques SAP's Data Management Tools (IT Business Edge)

Moxy Vote looking forward to this year’s proxy season (Philadelphia Business Journal: Law & Finance Blog)

CPSI Announces the Acquisition of Devon Consulting (PR Newswire)

Berliner Communications Announces Financial Results for Six Months Ended December 31, 2009 (PR Newswire)

Clear Align of Eagleville uses brainpower to make gains in optics work (Keystone Edge)

WebLinc launches DeepDiscount.com (WebLinc Blog)

VERIZON FIOS TV LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE TV WIDGET FOR BASEBALL FANS (InteractiveTV Today)

Pennsylvania Invites World to Explore Its Civil War Trails on Google Earth (PR Newswire)




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