Daily Links 4/29/2010: InterDigital revenues up 65%, Motorola's Home segment down 18%

Thinking Screen Pulls in $2 Million, Looks to Apple iPad (Xconomy Boston)
Scala of Exton invests in Thinking Screen and acquires part of company.

InterDigital Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Revenue up 65%.

Motorola posts profit, smartphone sales rise (Reuters via Washington Post)
Motorola's Home Sales Drop 18% In Q1
Division's Shipments Of Set-Top, Digital Entertainment Devices Decline 28% In Period (Multichannel News)

New owners know money, but how about media? (Philadelphia Daily News)

Bill Gates to answer Philly students’ questions (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Partners Further Enrich SME On-Demand Solution SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM) With Next Round of Complementary Solutions (PR Newswire)

Ex-SAP CEO talks about 'the next big thing' in IT (IDG via Bloomberg Business Week)

Groupon Competitor LivingSocial Has Now Raised $44 Million This Year (Mashable)
Expands into Philadelphia and three other markets.

Comcast: net neutrality should be less filling, taste great (Ars Technica)

Delaware business: Wilmington's creative collective
Entrepeneurs build an office space for like-minded folks (Wilmington News Journal)

ERT Agrees to Acquire the Research Services Division of CareFusion (PR Newswire)
$81 million cash deal.
ERT Reports First Quarter 2010 Results (PR Newswire via MarketWatch)

CDI Corp. Reports First Quarter 2010 Results and Announces Dividend (PR Newswire)

Bring Pharma Into Social Media Mix (MediaPost Blogs)
Written by Katy Thorbahn, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Philly-based Razorfish Health.




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Lenders win Philly newspaper auction

Phila. Newspapers sold to lenders (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philadelphia Inquirer Lenders Group Wins Auction (Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle)

Daily Links 4/28/2010: Comcast, SAP results up

Comcast First-Quarter Profit Beats Analyst Estimates (Bloomberg Business Week)

Comcast’s Roberts: Q1 ‘Real Turnaround’ In Advertising; Hopeful’ About NBCU (paidContent)

Comcast IDs Next WiMax Markets
(Light Reading Cable)


SAP posts double-digit Q1 growth, keeps outlook (Reuters)

SAP on the bounce? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Tips Hand on Cloud Plans as Profits Soar
(Information Week)

Bidding begins in Philadelphia newspaper auction (Associated Press via Boston Herald)
Lenfest offers $10M as bidding war for papers heats up (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Investment From Gimv to Propel RES Software’s Global Expansion and Deepen its Presence in Key Markets (Business Wire)

Razorfish Health Purges Creative Department (MediaBistro: AgencySpy)
Razorfish Health is based in Philadelphia.

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)

Tech firm closes its doors; 125 jobs lost (London Free Press)
Canada-based Comcast unit TVWorks lets 125 employees go; ships work to Philadelphia and California.

Verizon Feels They're 8-10 Years Ahead Of Cable
Which might be true, as long as you ignore half of their network... (Broadband Reports)


SEI Reports First-Quarter 2010 Financial Results (PR Newswire)

Tyco Electronics posts 2Q profit as revenue rises (Associated Press via Bloomberg Business Week)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2010 Second Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 4/27/2010: Philly newspapers auction set to get underway

Unisys Announces First-Quarter 2010 Financial Results (PR Newswire)
Unisys stock down 14% so far today.
Unisys Shares Swoon As Q1 Revenue Falls Short Of Street Ests (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Salesforce And VMware Partner To Launch Enterprise Java Cloud Platform VMforce (TechCrunchIT)

Newspaper auction set to get underway in New York (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Unions threaten strike amid Philly papers auction (Reuters)

Comcast-NBC Probe Lets FCC Seek Concessions for Web TV Startups (Bloomberg Business Week)

Laissez-faire Republican is battling the Comcast-NBC deal (LA Times)
I would hardly call Kevin Martin "laissez-faire" based on his performance at the FCC.

Verizon adds more Net content to Fios (CNET News)

Satellite Guys Start Building Their Own Canoe (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast To Launch Tunerfish At TechCrunch Disrupt (TechCrunch)

Ametek Q1 results top Wall Street view (Reuters)

QlikTech takes the plunge and files for IPO (Ovum)

Penn State Introduces Online Software Engineering Master’s Degree (PR Web)

Kal and Lucille Rudman Foundation donate $1.2M for Temple TV production center (Philadelphia
Business Journal)




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Daily Links 4/26/2010: Alberto Culver cites SAP problems in earnings report

CableLabs Next-Gen Broadband Project Envisions Multigigabit Speeds
Data-Over-Coax Technology Would Eliminate 6-MHz Channel Divisions (Multichannel News)

Perelman Joins Toll in Fight to Buy Inquirer Owner (Bloomberg Business Week)

10 Tech Acquisitions That Would Rock The Industry (Information Week: Global CIO)

Enterprise Software: Awaiting An Outbreak Of Merger Mania (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Alberto Culver profit rises less than expected (Reuters)
Company cites continuing problems with SAP system.

Microsoft Announces Business Platform Integration, Updates (eWeek)

DreamIt Ventures Startl-ed by its largest program yet (Philadelphia Business Journal)

FAA Controllers in Philadelphia Transition to Next Generation Air Transportation System Technology (FAA via ATC News)

SES WORLD SKIES’ SES-1 Satellite Successfully Launched on Board ILS Proton (Business Wire)

NBC Universal Plans Benchmark Three-Part Offering (Bloomberg via
San Franciso Chronicle)

Ben Franklin (Northeastern PA) to Invest $393,146 In Regional Economic Development (PR Log)

Got a gripe? Do something about it with SeeClickFix (Lansdale Reporter)
Journal Register partners with website.

PA's tax amnesty program plagued by weak IT and phone support (ZDNet Blogs)




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Will Comcast's time on the Hill pay off? (Reuters)

Billionaire Burkle Joins Local Group as Three Bidders Emerge for Philly Newspapers (Editor & Publisher)

Detroit's salvation may come from a new kind of Big 3 (Detroit Free
Press)

Project aims to ID city's problem solvers (Arizona Daily Star)

Philly Tech People News 4/26/2010

ProfitPoint Hires Former Citi Prepaid Executive to Oversee Finance & Operations (Globe Newswire via MarketWatch)

GSI Commerce Appoints Online Ad Veteran Stephen Denton as President of GSI Media, Inc (Business Wire)
Pepperjam founder departs.

Unisys Names Ron Frankenfield as President of Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services Business (PR Newswire)

LLR Partners Welcomes Jack Gavin as Operating Partner
Industry veteran to bolster LLR’s focus on business services investments (Business Wire)

Quality Systems, Inc. Promotes Several Executives, Further Strengthening Scope of Its Management Team (Business Wire)
Quality Systems' principal business unit, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, is based in Horsham.

Innovation Philadelphia president Lee resigns, Bendis returns for transition (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Greg Pelton Joins ProtonMedia’s Executive Advisory Board (Business Wire)

Vishay Intertechnology Appoints Frank D. Maier to Board of Directors (Business Wire)

Ben Franklin Announces Innovation Award Winners (Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania)

Graham Nicholls Joins Almac as Director of Biostatistics (Marketwire)

L. Merion school official to turn over computer (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Investor joins bid to buy newspapers (Philadelpha Inquirer)

The Envelope, Please: From Eight Great Innovative Tools, Which Ones Are the Winners? (India Knowledge@Wharton)

Cox Adds Weight to Comcast's Big Box Project (Light Reading Cable)

A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Companies (New York
Times)
"What would cause three cutthroat rivals, who compete for the same customers in the same states, to band together and cooperate like this?"
No, they really don't compete with each other very much.

Verizon Gives FiOS Widgets a Facelift (Telecompetitor)

SAP continues its sustainability drive (Ovum)

Will SAP Become More Acquisitive? New Strategy for Procurement and the Supply Chain (Part 5) (Spend Matters)

XOS Digital Completes Equity Offering
Glenn Rieger, Christopher Noe and Christopher McCleary Join Board (Press Release/pdf)
Round led by NewSpring Ventures, and joined by Dublin Capital Partners, a Lenfest Enterprise fund.

E-SoftSys zeroes in on self-storage
(Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Daily Links 4/22/2010: FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling

Verizon Reports Continued Growth in Cash Flow in 1Q; Solid FiOS, Wireless Growth in Customers and Revenues (PR Newswire)

FiOS TV Tops 3 Million, As Its Growth Slows
Verizon Serves as Many Video Subs as Cablevision (Multichannel News)

Verizon FiOS: get ready for a public hearing, Baltimore-style (Baltimore Sun: BalTech)

CenturyTel to Buy Qwest in Stock Swap to Add Services (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Google Invites AT&T, Comcast, Verizon To Fiber Party
Whenever they actually get a network built... (Broadband Reports)

FCC moves to open television set-top box for Internet, competition (Washington Post: Post Tech)

FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling (GigaOM)

Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service
(LA Times: Company Town)

IPv6 gear almost ready for Comcast trials (CED Magazine)

Philly Papers to revise bid for Inquirer publisher
* Toll-led group to enter new bid by Friday deadline (Reuters)

Microsoft to Direct Small Businesses Seeking Unified Communications Solutions With VoIP Integration to Alteva
New Offering Integrates Voice With Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server
(Marketwire)


Quintiq Lands Contract with US FAA Worth up to $17.6 Million (Business Wire)

Software misuse develops as theme at Perzel hearing (Philadelphia
Inquirer)




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Daily Links 4/21/2010: USOC, Comcast drop plan for Olympic Channel

e-Dialog Secures Foothold in Mobile Marketing Through Acquisition of M3 Mobile
Company that Set the Standard for Relevant E-mail Marketing to Help Clients Deliver Targeted Mobile Campaigns (Business Wire)
M3 Mobile is based in Norristown

SAP Plans to Acquire Compliance Software Vendor TechniData
(PC World)

Lockheed Net Beats Estimate; Health Costs Cut Outlook (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Lockheed Martin layoffs hit 130 in Moorestown (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Fantasy teams draw real online bets
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Salesforce Buys Business Directory Jigsaw For $142 Million In Cash Plus Earn-Out (TechCrunch)

Ametek sees Q1 profit above Street; ups FY EPS outlook (Reuters)

Princeton University analyzes iPad Wi-Fi bug, offers workaround
(O'Grady's PowerPage)

Will SAP Become More Acquisitive? New Strategy for Procurement and the Supply Chain (Part 3) (Spend Matters)
Suggests Malvern's BravoSolution and Princeton's Zycus as potential candidates.

USOC, Comcast no longer training for an Olympics Channel (LA Times: Company Town)

Venture Investment In New York, New England Rebounding Faster Than Silicon Valley (Forbes Blogs: Velocity)

Ulticom Announces Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (Business Wire)

Gartner names ProtonMedia “Cool Vendor in the High-Performance Workplace”
(ProtonMedia Blog)




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