QlikTech Announces Pricing of its Initial Public Offering (Business Wire)
$10 a share, a little above the previously indicated range of $8.50 to $9.50.

Daily Links 7/15/2010: Outlook on Qlik Technologies' planned IPO

BI Vendor QlikTech's IPO Could Be Red-Hot (CIO.com)

Can Sprint afford a WiMAX flop?
Company may take hit if WiMAX fails to catch, but other strategies are out there (Network World)

Clearwire Gets a New Backhaul Buddy (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast unleashes 100 Mbps tier for businesses (CED Magazine)

Manufacturing in Philadelphia Fed Area Cooled in July (Bloomberg Business Week)
Philly Fed July 2010 Business Outlook Survey

Ben Franklin Technology Partners approves investments of $1.8M (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Blog Networks Try One More Time to Turn Local Journalism Into Cash (GigaOM)
Yardley's Journal Register is one experimenter.


SAP & CA Tag Team for GRC (ZDNet Blogs)

Curt Schilling’s online game firm 38 Studios considers $75M loan incentive from Rhode Island (VentureBeat)

Comcast SportsNet unveiling Baltimore website (Baltimore Business Journal)

Elsevier's Procedures Consult Mobile Brings Procedural Videos and Illustrations to Smartphones (Medgadget)

Athenaeum library in Philadelphia: Old-world and cutting-edge
(Philadelphia Inquirer)




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Daily Links 7/14/2010: Liberty's Malone Discusses Possible QVC-HSN Merger

Copps Not Persuaded By Comcast/NBCU Pledges
Access to video content online is key, say panelists at FCC's Chicago forum (Broadcasting & Cable)
Comcast-NBC merger sheds light on future of online video (Washington Post: Post Tech)


Comcast Unleashes Wireless Beast Out East (Light Reading Cable)

Liberty's Malone Discusses Possible QVC-HSN Merger: Video (Bloomberg via Washington Post)

Verizon Launches Health Information Exchange (Light Reading)

What final 'meaningful use' rules on EMRs mean for doctors, hospitals (Computerworld)

LLR Partners Invests in IOD Incorporated (Business Wire)

Kulicke & Soffa Shrs Slide; Says Some Orders Pushed Out (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Some Thoughts On The Seed Fund Phenomenon (A VC)




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Daily Links 7/13/2010: "Meaningful Use" regulations for EHRs finalized

Airclic and AirVersent Merge (PR Newswire)
Airclic had just raised about $18 million in a private equity offering related to the merger, according to an SEC filing.

Tyco Electronics buys ADC for $1.25 billion (Bloomberg via NJ.com)
Tyco Snaps Up ADC for $1.25B
(Light Reading Cable)
Tyco Electronics' operational headquarters is in Berwyn.

Comcast Empowers Customer-Care Crews
Listening to Front-Line Employees Leads to Bottom-Line Satisfaction Gains (Multichannel News)
Comcast Says They're Doing Better At Support
Do you agree with them? (Broadband Reports)

Comcast launches 100-meg internet service in N.J. (Newark Star-Ledger)

Sprint Considering LTE, Merger with T-Mobile (eWeek)

Meaningful Use’ Regs for Electronic Medical Records Finally Drop!
(Wall Street Journal: Health Blog)
Health and Human Services finalizes meaningful use for electronic health records (O'Reilly Radar)

Microsoft Dynamics Aims to Steal a Little Salesforce Thunder (Ecommerce Times)

How to Make Money in the Cloud: Microsoft, SAP, the Partner Dilemma and The Tools Solution (Enterprise Matters)




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First Round Capital invests in another local internet advertising startup

Having just seen portfolio company Invite Media sold to Google for a reported $81 million, First Round Capital has helped back another Philly/New York based internet advertising startup named AdCopy, along with angel investors. AdCopy says it "leverages existing, pre-approved creative assets, like logos, icons, slogans and short brand messages to engage the consumer before they access the desired content". Specifically, the company is planning to build an advertising platform around "Captchas", those screens that make people type in a few characters to verify they are not bots.
The Philadelphia office is on South Broad and they are advertising for a senior account exec for the Philly/New York area. AdCopy's co-founders include Doubleclick (Google) alum Stu Libby and VoiceStar (Marchex) co-founder Ari Jacoby, who also had previous experience with Google.




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Qlik Technologies (QLIK) Chief Executive Officer to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell (Globe
Newswire via MarketWatch)

TV Everywhere Is All Hype: Comcast Raising Rates To Pay For "Free" Service (Silicon Alley Insider)

Showdown in Chicago over the Comcast-NBCU deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

First Journalism Online Meter Starts Ticking: LancasterOnline Obits (paidContent)

Pittsburgh gives birth to tech firms, but can't keep them (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

WPC: Microsoft announces 'Windows Azure in a box' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Microsoft Blog)

Where’s the innovation around SAP maintenance and support?
(SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Philly Tech Tidbits 7/12/2010

Our state-controlled liquor monopoly is more innovative than you might think. Oracle has recognized the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board as one of its 2010 Retail Excellence Awards honorees. The company says the PLCB uses Oracle Retail solutions "to help to improve inventory turns, increase multi-channel revenues, improve product availability and reduce costs associated with retail operations". Meanwhile, the Liquor Control Board has started testing self-serve wine kiosks in two central Pennsylvania grocery stores, using equipment from Conshohocken-based Simple Brands.

Internet Capital Group said it had purchased an additional 5% of King of Prussia-based ICG Commerce for $14.4 million, bringing its total ownership stake to 81%, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported. ICG indicated in May when it last increased its stake in the company to 76% that it would seek to purchase the remaining 5% not owned either by itself or employees, and this apparently accomplishes that. Both this and the previous deal value ICG Commerce at just under $300 million. There has been some speculation that ICG Commerce could be considering an IPO.

Huntingdon Valley-based email marketing firm AWeber released results of a survey it conducted of 2500 small businesses regarding email marketing and social media marketing efforts that highlights the increasing relationship between the two tools. According to the study, "almost 70 percent of small business marketers are employing some sort of social media tactics and a majority (77 percent) indicate that integrating email marketing and social media is either 'very important' or 'moderately important' ".

Wharton's Supernova Conference will be held in Philadelphia for the first time this year (in the past its been in San Franciso). Described as being focused on "the transformation of computing, communications, business, and society in the Network Age", Supernova appears to be half unconference and half a more tradtional conference structure. Speakers include Comcast's David Cohen, First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman, and Philly CIO Allen Frank, though it is much more than a local conference. It takes place on
July 29-30 at Wharton's Jon M. Huntsman Hall.

A recent Bloomberg Business Week piece on "virtual world" website Second Life discusses the experiences of Tim Allen, IT Director of Web Technologies for Wharton Research Data Services at Penn, who created a eBay type store for virtual items on Second Life before selling it to focus on his day job.

Richard Kahn, CEO of Middletown, Delaware-based interactive agency eZanga.com was named one of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurs of the Year in the Philadelphia area last month. eZanga was ranked among the fastest growing companies in the Philly Metro area last year by Inc. Magazine.

Mason Wendell, Co-Owner and Principal Designer & Developer of Canary Promotion + Design since 2001, has joined Drupal/Alfresco shop Zivtech as Creative Director of a newly created design department. Megan Wendell will remain at the helm of what will now be called Canary Promotion.

GSI Commerce's interactive agency TrueAction apparently let eight employees go, according to the Times Leader of Wilkes Barre, although it is not clear where they were located.




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Philly Tech People News 7/11/2010

Motorola Taps Holobinko To Head Access Networks Strategy (Multichannel News)

Jeff Fisher Named Vice President of Business Development at RES Software (Business Wire)

Domus adds Dhawal Sehgal and adds new digital capabilities (Philly Ad Club News)

Dr. Rainer Feinen to Fill New Post
InterComponentWare Appoints Chief Medical Officer (PR Newswire)

Governor Christie Taps Colleen Woods as Statewide Health Information Technology Coordinator (Politicker NJ)

Precyse Solutions Manager Elected President of SePHIMA (PR Newswire)

Comcast Shoots for 'DVR2Go' Trademark
(Light Reading Cable)

Tech community hoping to stem tide of state cuts (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Independence Blue Cross Launches Online Health Records (Insurance & Technology)

Radnor's Qlik Technologies is scheduled to launch its IPO some time next week, CNBC reports. Qlik Technologies is proposing to sell 11.2 million shares priced at $8.50 to $9.50, according to company filings. The stock would trade under the symbol "QLIK".


NetSuite pushes up market with SRP (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP: We will push all useful data to mobile devices (Network World)

EMC-Greenplum Deal Could Precede More Consolidation (PC World)

INetU Managed Hosting Commissions its Sixth and Largest Data Center (PR Newswire)

Comcast-NBCU merger in Chicago for hearings (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast promises $20 million for venture capital fund for minority entrepreneurs (LA Times: Company Town)

My tech support nightmare shows why Comcast has the worst tech support ever (Computerworld Blogs)

Telecom Experts Question FCC's Broadband Regulation Plan
(IDG via New York Times)

Claim your $16! Comcast P2P settlement now final (Ars Technica)

Wake up call for mobile health reimbursement (Mobile Health News)

EMC to take on Oracle's Exadata with Greenplum acquisition (SearchStorage.com)

ABi Opens New Sales and Marketing Office in Suburban Philadelphia (Marketwire)

Daily Links 7/7/2010: More bad news for CardioNet

CardioNet Provides Update on Commercial Payor (Business Wire)

The problem with CardioNet (ZDNet Blogs)

Vishay Precision Group Begins Trading on the NYSE (Business Wire)

Bentley Systems buys into Blueridge Analytics (Charlotte Business Journal)

Media executives see small deals as key to future (Reuters)

Comcast/NBCU Back On the Clock: Source (Multichannel News)

Comcast Moving On Move Networks Alternative (Light Reading Cable)

Microsoft, Sun, And SAP Surprising Winners In Greenplum Sale
(Forbes Blogs: Velocity)

Apple's iPad Wins Corporate Converts at Wells Fargo, SAP (Bloomberg Business Week)

LLR Partners Invests in Lightspeed Financial, Provides Capital for Acquisition of Terra Nova Financial (Business Wire)

QVC sees the web getting a bigger share of its sales
QVC expects continued domestic and global growth to push online sales to 50% of revenue (Internet Retailer)

AT&T capping data uploads on the iPhone 4? (CNET News)




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