Daily Links 11/10/2010: Court knocks $500 million off potential damages in SAP/Oracle trial

SAP: Court lops $500M off Oracle's potential damages (Computerworld)

New COMCAST-NBCU Organization Nov. 15 (Deadline Hollywood)

Comcast Faces Government Questions on Online Video in NBC Universal Deal (Bloomberg)

Hulu CEO: We’ll make $240M in 2010 (VentureBeat)

Uwchlan supervisors oppose road closure (Daily Local News)
Bentley Systems wants it closed for its headquarters expansion.

Apple Writer John Gruber: That White iPhone I Tweeted About Was A Toy (Silicon Alley Insider)

Ask.com to Return to Old Service (New York Times)
Shutting down its Edison, NJ office.

USA Technologies, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal 2011 First Quarter
Company on Track to Achieve over 100,000 Connections by December 31, 2010 and Anticipates being EBITDA Positive for quarter ending December 31, 2010 (Business Wire)

Oracle and ATG Redux (Enterprise Irregulars)

TelcoTV 2010: Future of TV Is Tablets, Moto Says (Light Reading)




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SAP Attorney: Board Knew TomorrowNow Was Infringing at Time of Acquisition (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)

SAP grills Oracle as Apotheker absent from trial (Reuters)

Where the rubber hits the road for Sales 2.0 (Computerworld Blogs)

City Hall: Costs triple, implementation delayed, features missing for Portland's $47.4 million software system (The Oregonian)
Another troubled muni SAP implementation, though no one seems to be pointing fingers at SAP.

Google and VivaKi Extend Partnership (New York Times: Media Decoder)
Building new ad-buying platform based on Invite Media's technology.

The Franklin Institute Announces the 2011 Franklin Institute Laureates (PR Newswire)

CardioNet, Inc. and MedApps, Inc. Partner to Expand Wireless Medicine
(Business Wire)

Archer Group opens Phila. office (Philadelphia Business Journal)

DailyCandy Wants To Make ‘Deals’ With Local Marketers (paidContent)

Comcast Debuts VOD Search
Feature Arrives in Motorola Footprint; Tru2way Guide for Cisco Markets Set for First Half of 2011 (Multichannel News)

U.S. web sales outpace total sales for QVC in Q3
Domestic web sales grew 18.2% and accounted for 30.9% of sales in the latest quarter. (Internet Retailer)

Daily Links 11/8/2010: Ellison testifies in SAP/Oracle trial

Larry Ellison says SAP's actions cost Oracle as much as $4 billion (San Jose Mercury News)

Comcast 'RNG' Set-Tops Have IPTV Potential (Light Reading Cable)

Go back to the future
When the Astros and Rockets launch their channel, it likely will remind viewers of HSE
(Houston Chronicle)

Senator cites Olbermann suspension in opposition to NBCU-Comcast deal (Politico: On Media)

NetSuite's big target: Microsoft Dynamics and its 'fake cloud' (ZDNet Blogs)

Confirmed: Amazon Spends $545 Million On Diapers.com Parent Quidsi (TechCrunch)

MDA Lending Solutions Part of TPG Capital Acquisition of MDA Property Information Businesses (Business Wire)

CardioNet, Inc. Announces Definitive Merger Agreement with Biotel, Inc. (Business Wire)
CardioNet, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Safeguard Scientifics Partner Company Avid Radiopharmaceuticals to Be Acquired by Eli Lilly
Sale of Molecular Imaging Agents Developer Expected to Generate Minimum 3x Cash-on-Cash Return for Safeguard (Business Wire)

Technitrol Announces Name Change to Pulse Electronics Corporation
Company to Change Ticker Symbol to “PULS” as of November 15, 2010
Company Poised to Advance its Position as Pure-Play Electronic Components Business (Business Wire)
Pulse Electronics Corporation Reports Strong Third Quarter Results (Business Wire)

PhillyInc: Checkpoint checks in to Philadelphia (Philly.com)

WEP Early Success Story: Nat Turner of Invite Media (Video: Wharton Entrpreneurial Programs)





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Compounding a Conflict of Interest (New York Times)

ESPN Suits Up for NHL Rights Brawl (MediaWeek)

Philly Tech People News 11/8/2010

GSI Commerce Elects David Rosenblatt to its Board of Directors
(Business Wire)

FTC names Princeton computer security expert as first chief technologist (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Code for America taps two with Phila. ties (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)


Anexinet Hires Joe Romello as Vice President of Delivery (Business Wire)

RES Software Appoints Chris Hammans as Director of Business Development, Strategic Alliances, EMEA (Business Wire)

Amazon reported to be acquiring Diapers.com

Amazon to Acquire Diapers.com for $540 Million [REPORT] (Mashable)

Several Wharton connections with Diapers.com, including early backing from Penn-related MentorTech Ventures.

Read Business Week article.

SAP to get its shot at Ellison in high-stakes trial (Reuters)

Hulu Closes Yet Another Google TV Loophole (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Daily Links 11/5/2010: Clearwire to cut 15% of Employees

Clearwire To Cut 15% Of Employees
Broadband Wireless Company Expects 4 Million Subs by Year-End (Multichannel News)

Clearwire Digs its Foxhole to Fight for its Life (Gigaom)

Comcast announcement soon
Cabler racing to put post-merger NBC U plan into place (Variety)

Comcast Calls Bloomberg TV “Naïve” in FCC Filing (MediaBistro: TVNewswer)

Google TV Users, Fancast.com Is An Open Back Door To The Hulu Estate (CrunchGear)

Starz, QVC Lift Third Quarter for Liberty Media (The Hollywood Reporter)
QVC revenue up 7%.

Dell to Acquire Boomi (The Boomi Blog)

Oracle-SAP Trial: Phillips Says SAP Owes "Billions," Oracle Can't Find Apotheker (Information Week)

ERP Woes (SAP) Blamed for Lumber Company's Bad Quarter (PC World)

SAP to add StreamWork collaboration application to Business Suite modules (SearchSAP.com)

RecycleBank CEO: We Will IPO In 2013 (TCTV) (TechCrunch)
RecycleBank started off in Philly before its HQ to New York, but still has operations here.
I remain somewhat skeptical of its long-term business model.

LMCO Ships GPS III Simulator to Aerospace Corporation, Maintains Program Schedule Lead (Inside GNSS)

How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community (PE Hub)
How the Foundry Group's Brad Feld says it happened in Boulder.

Entercom's Q3 revenues grew 3%, and the CEO is not happy about it (Radio-Info.com)




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Daily Links 11/4/2010: MetroPCS launches LTE in Philly Area

Panic buying spree hits cloud integration (ZDNet Blogs)

MetroPCS Launches First Commercial 4G LTE Services in Los Angeles and Philadelphia Metropolitan Areas (PR Newswire)

SAP and NEC collaborate on cloud services (Computerworld)

Orace v SAP: Courtroom Diary (Information Week)

Oracle’s Ellison to Testify Nov. 8 at SAP Trial (Bloomberg)

Netsuite CEO Zach Nelson on his relationships with Salesforce and Larry Ellison (CIO UK)

ICG Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Globe Newswire via MarketWatch)

Motorola: More Devices, Screens Coming To A Home Near You (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Big Cable Is Bleeding: 500K+ Subscribers Lost In Q3 (Gigaom via New York Times)

AT&T’s Bet on Health Technology (New York Times)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

ERT Reports Third Quarter 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

BioClinica Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 11/3/2010: SunGard considers spinoff of Availability Services unit

SunGard considering Availability Services spin off (Philadelphia Business Journal)

QlikTech Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Revenue up 39%.

AT&T, Verizon, Comcast May Fend Off Web Rules Under Republicans (Bloomberg)

Boomi boss: Why we sold to Dell Computer (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

2 hidden gems in Dell's acquisition of Boomi (CustomerThink)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Heartland Payment Systems Reports Third Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)

Oracle buys ATG for $1 billion (Internet Retailer)

Will The Oracle-HP Alliance Survive The Oracle-SAP Trial? (Information Week: Global CIO)

SAP agrees to pay $120 million to Oracle: sources (Reuters)

McDermott Says SAP `Very Happy' With Sybase Performance (Video: Bloomberg via Washington Post)

Middle Market Investment Banking Firm FOCUS LLC Completes Growth Financing for Tribridge from LLR Partners (Business Wire)
I first reported on this deal yesterday.

NextGen Partners with InstaMed to Offer Healthcare Providers Payment Assurance through Enhanced Patient Collections (Business Wire)

CardioNet, Inc. Announces National Reimbursement Rate for Mobile Cardiovascular Telemetry (Business Wire)
Doesn't sound like too much of an improvement.

AMETEK Announces Stock Split and Dividend Increase (PR Newswire)

Penn Museum Sweeps ici Mobile App Award Competition (PR Web)




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Dell to acquire Berwyn Cloud Integration vendor Boomi

Dell has announced today that it is acquiring Cloud-integration vendor Boomi of Berwyn. Boomi enables companies to integrate multiple cloud applications, or integrate cloud apps with on-premise apps. It is widely used in Salesforce and NetSuite environments, for example.

It is difficult to tell how large Boomi is now or what price Dell would have paid for it. Boomi's only reported VC raise was $4 million from FirstMark Capital in 2008. IBM purchased competitor Cast Iron Systems in May for a price reported to TechCrunch as $190 million by its VC backer Sequoia (though I think Cast Iron was probably a bigger company overall).




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