NEWS ALERT: Rockefeller Pans Comcast-NBCU Deal (National Journal: Tech Daily Dose)

Ad Tech Companies Band Together to Form New Coalition (Ad Age)

Philly Tech People News 12/12/2010

John Reed Joins ProtonMedia as VP of Sales (Business Wire)

Moggle, Inc. Appoints Catherine Williams as Vice President of Sales & Marketing (Business Wire)

The Society for Information Management (SIM) Presents Subaru of America CIO With 2010 SIM Leadership Award (PR Newswire)

News Journal gets new advertising chief
Phila. newspaper veteran Mayberry joins media group's management team (Wilmington News Journal)

ERT Facilitates Global Growth with Appointment of Klaus Besier to Board of Directors (PR Newswire)

DeVry University Appoints Adena Johnston as Metro President of Philadelphia (Business Wire)

Oracle seeks $211 million more from SAP (Reuters)

Universal in talks to sell Focus Features to Gores brothers (LA Times: Company Town)
The Hollywood Reporter says that no deal is likely, at least until after the Comcast/NBCU deal closes.

Capital Available
(Safeguard Scientifics Blog)

Daily Links 12/10/2010: Unisys introduces hosted 'Private Cloud'

Two Wharton Pals Take Same Road To Riches (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Nate Turner (Invite Media) and Jack Abraham (Milo Inc.)

End near? Comcast, NBC meet with FCC, Justice on proposed Internet video conditions (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Internet issues bog down Comcast-NBC merger (LA Times)

Verizon, DirecTV Testing LTE-Based Home Broadband
As our leaked photos from September suggested... (Broadband Reports)

Netflix Unworried About Broadband Caps
Though maybe they should be... (Broadband Reports)

Net Neutrality and the Academics Who Love It (The Atlantic)

Salesforce and SAP: an obvious comparison (ZDNet Blogs)

Did Salesforce Just Announce Support for Client/Server Computing? (Software As A Service)

Unisys Offers 'hosted Private Cloud' (PC World)

How do you select an energy provider for your datacenter? (ZDNet Blogs)
With a Pennsylvania perspective.

Daily Links 12/9/2010: Edison Ventures increasing New England presence

SERS to cut private funds, buy stocks and bonds (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Could have an impact upon some area PE and VC firms.

Edison Ventures growing Boston investment deals (Mass High Tech)

The Real Mobile News from the SAP Influencer Summit (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Cloud Platform, App Store Set For 2011
(Information Week)

What’s Next for NBC’s Jeff Zucker? Maybe Private Equity (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

Kerry Asks Copps, Clyburn To Back Net Neutrality Compromise
The chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee says item may not be perfect but is good enough (Multichannel News)

InterComponentWare Enterprise Master Patient Index Achieves First Milestone at New York State HIE (PR Newswire)

Air Products Makes Best and Final Offer for Airgas; Increases All-Cash Offer to $70 Per Share (PR Newswire)

Tyco Electronics Completes Acquisition of ADC (PR Newswire)

Larry Ellison Vows To 'Go After' HP; Is Alliance Dead? (Information Week: Global CIO)

Wolters Kluwer Health Announces the Acquisition of iCare Educational Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Software (PR Newswire)

AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Is Already Working On A Secret New Project (Silicon Alley Insider)
Hamoui founded AdMob while at Wharton.




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Cable Industry Grooms Its Netflix Killer: Vutopia (paidContent)

Smit: Comcast Won't Impose Usage Charges
Says Caps Will Be Enough (Multichannel News)

Level 3: Comcast Charging For Local Access, Not Peering
Internet Provider Claims It Has Invested $14 Million to Support Netflix CDN Deal (Multichannel News)

Google's Android creator shows off Motorola 3D-enabled tablet (FierceMobileIT)

ABB Acquires Power Specialist Software Company (SustainableBusiness.com)
Acquires Insert Key Solutions (IKS) of Chadds Ford.

Xipwire: The lone U.S. company standing with Wikileaks? (Baltimore Sun: BaltTech)

What's Next And What's Missing From SAP (Information Week)

Cloud will render BI stack irrelevant: SAP (Network World)

Salesforce picks up Ruby on Rails web-app provider Heroku for $212M (VentureBeat)

Sprint CEO Says WiMAX Bet Paid Less Than Hoped (PC World)

Daily Links 12/7/2010: Salesforce introduces Database.com, Chatter.com

Voxware Completes Transition to Private Company
Privatization Enables Investment for Growth and Reduces Cost (Business Wire)

II-VI acquires another optics firm (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Acquires Philadelphia-based Max Levy Autograph Inc.

Flextronics, Siemens Lead 'Big Shift' to Cloud Computing
After years of experimenting with the cloud, companies are turning over ever larger tasks to outside providers that deliver software and computing over the Internet (Bloomberg Business Week)

Salesforce.com unveils Database.com (Computerworld)

Salesforce launching Chatter.com, an enterprise-style Facebook, early next year (VentureBeat)

Aria Systems Announces Enhanced Integration With Salesforce CRM for Cloud Billing (Marketwire)

Comcast merger helps consumers (Politico)
Opinion piece by Ed Rendell.

Verizon eyes more flexible FiOS data options (Reuters)

Verizon Exec: LTE Possible Cable Replacement (Wireless Week)

Comcast Xfinity App Launches for Android, Control Your DVR Remotely and More (Phandroid)

AT&T Acquires Xanboo, Developer of Home Automation Platform (CE Pro)
Follows on heels of last week's Motorola acquisition, recent Verizon and Comcast activity.





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Daily Links 12/6/2010: Monetate raises $5.1 million

Monetate raises $5.1M to help advertisers figure out what works (VentureBeat)
Led by previous seed investor First Round Capital and Floodgate Fund. Conshohocken-based Monetate has been talking about how many people they are trying to hire (20); I guess this is one reason they are able to do that.
Monetate press release

Technology Firm Anexinet Announces Acquisition of Extolutions (Business Wire)

SAP joins the Google Apps Marketplace with a collaborative decision-making app (The Official Google Blog)

Comcast customers hit by another major outage (CNET News)

As Comcast-NBC try to tie up merger, news editorials differ on consequences (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Mark Lazarus Joins Comcast Corporation (Business Wire)
As previous reports had suggested, except that the sports broadcasting exec will not, at least immediately, move into an operating management role over Comcast's existing sports properties.

Amazon to Launch Rival to Netflix (Hollywood Reporter)

Clearwire 'Rounding Second Base' on Spectrum Sale (Wireless Week)

Veeva CRM Selected by Lilly for Global Deployments (Business Wire)
Though based in California, Veeva has significant operation based in the Philadelphia area.

After push to join recycling incentive program, some Gloucester County towns taking hard look at costs (Gloucester County Times)

Azavea Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Phase IIB Grant for HunchLab™ to Support Geographic Forecasting of Crime Events (PR Newswire)

Israeli JVP Fund Sells Qlik Holding to Public for $112 Million (Bloomberg)
Returns almost 40x its original investment.

Philly Tech People News 12/5/2010

Social Strategy1 Appoints Steve Ennen as President and Chief Intelligence Officer (Business Wire)

Innovative Microsoft Leader, Anurag Mathur, appointed RDC’s Chief Product Officer
Microsoft, SAP, and Sanchez Computer Associates Veteran to spearhead next wave of RDC Innovation (Business Wire)

MedQuist Names Anthony D. James as Chief Financial Officer
(PR Newswire)

IndependenceIT Prepares for Strong Growth in 2011 With New Sales Hires (Business Wire)

PA-MAPPS Elects New Officers, Creates Committees (Press Release)

SBA Announces Appointment of A. John Shoraka as Administrator for Region III (Business Wire)

Health Benefits Direct Announces Name Change to InsPro Technologies Corporation (OTCBB: ITCC) (Business Wire)