Gain Capital Holdings, with local VC backing, floats IPO

Bedminister, NJ based Gain Capital Holdings, which provides a foreign exchange trading platform, went public earlier this week at $9 per share, well below the $13 to $15 per share range initially anticipated. Two area VC firms had invested in Gain; Edison Ventures of Lawrenceville, NJ, which reports an 18x return on its shares sold in the offering (pdf), and Cross Atlantic Capital Partners of Radnor.

Gain Capital shares closed yesterday at $8.65.

Daily Links 12/17/2010: Comcast/Level 3 dispute continues

Cephalon CEO, Founder Frank Baldino Dies on Medical Leave, Drugmaker Says (Bloomberg)

Larry to HP and IBM: We’re Coming for Your Server Customers (All Things Digital)

Oracle tops Street views as sales rise 47%
Software giant sees sharp gain in new license sales, shares up 4% (MarketWatch)

SAP Shares Up On Possible Qatar Move And Strong Oracle Earnings (Dow Jones via NASDAQ.com)

FCC may move on Comcast-NBC review (Politico)

TV's future: FCC decisions on Internet access, Comcast-NBC merger approaching (Washington Post)

Comcast-NBC deal gets backing of NAACP and other civil rights groups (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast: Level 3 Balks at Trial Offer
(Light Reading Cable)

Stanley Black & Decker To Buy InfoLogix (Information Week)

Daily Links 12/16/2010: SAP buys German maker of XBRL tools

InfoLogix to Be Acquired by Stanley Black & Decker for $61.2 Million (Business Wire)
Price more than double InfoLogix' Wednesday closing price.
InfoLogix to be sold to Stanley, Horsham office and jobs will remain (Philadelphia Business Journal)


SAP buys German maker of XBRL tools (Computerworld)

Philadelphia Manufacturing Expands by Most Since 2005 (Bloomberg)
Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey

First Round Capital's Amazing Holiday Video (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast/NBCU: No Basis For Online Conditions
Online Access Conditions Still Expected In FCC Decision On Deal (Multichannel News)

Writers on E! and other Comcast cable networks vote for guild representation (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast completes Phila. cable upgrade (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Tune Your TV from Your Computer with XfinityTV
(Comcast Voices /Comcast Corporate Blog)

Oracle FYQ2 Beats; Rev $8.6B, EPS $.51 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Oracle Cloud Office Takes Aim At Microsoft, Google
(Information Week)

NextGen Healthcare Secures Agreement with Renowned Ophthalmology Institution (Business Wire)

Alteva's Local Anywhere: A new twist on hosted VoIP. (VoIPPlanet)

Personal Computer Alternative, Telikin Unveiled at CES (Business Wire)




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Uwchlan to abandon portion of Township Line Road (Daily Local News)
For Bentley Systems headquarters expansion.

The Realignment of the Enterprise Software Market: Oracle vs. Everyone, Microsoft in Ascendance, and Watch out for Infor (Enterprise Matters)

Oracle Secures Number One Spot in IDC Health Insights Top 10 Life Science Software Vendor List for Second Year in a Row (Business Wire)

What's Inside Comcast's Parker Box? (Light Reading Cable)

Net neutrality expected to pass, investment analyst says (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast: Restructuring likely will not result in any lost jobs (The Times Herald)

Siemens to Sell I.T. Unit to Atos for $1.1 Billion (New York Times: DealBook)

Secondaries are primary for recent IPOs (Inorganic Growth)

Former Executives of the Keane Organization Launch New Retirement Plan & Risk Management Venture (Business Wire)

Daily Links 12/14/2010: Comcast testing new way to navigate TV shows

Comcast tests new way to navigate TV shows (LA Times: Company Town)

Moffett Upgrades Comcast On Expectation of NBCU Meld
Bernstein Research analyst expects deal to close in early 2011 (Broadcasting & Cable)

Upton urges FCC to finish Comcast-NBC merger review (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Genachowski: Dec. 21 Net Neutrality Vote "Essential"
Discusses "seizing the opportunities" of broadband at Generation Mobile forum (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast rolls out interactive ads for its customers (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Jeremy Bloom-led startup raises venture capital (Fortune: The Term Sheet)
Bloom, who was briefly an Eagle, credits class he took at Wharton.

SAP's Not-So-Secret Weapon: Its Own CIO (CIO.com)

Lavante raises $8M in 3rd round (San Jose Business Journal)
Round led by SAP Ventures.

NetSuite: The quiet momentum (Enterprise Irregulars)

QlikView’s Free Personal Edition Up to 10,900 New Users in One Month (Business Wire)

Brightpoint pays Grahams $80M for Touchstone of Hatfield (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Airgas Judge: See You Next Year (New York Times: DealBook)

C&D’s restructuring plan stalls (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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ESPN Buys PVI Intellectual Property From Cablevision
Acquisition Will Add to Sports Programmer's Virtual Technology Development (Multichannel
News)
Based in Lawrenceville and previously known as Princeton Video Image, PVI was a pioneer in developing virtual first-down markers and other similar video applications.

Comcast Tests Pricing For 105-Mbps Tier
Extreme 105 Available in Xfinity Markets at $105 Per Month for One Year (Multichannel News)

Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star (New York Times)

5 Reasons HP Should Acquire SAP (CRN.com)

SAP Goes On-demand
(Enterprise Irregulars)

BizTech@Wharton Conference Highlights Mobile Technology Industry Developments (Wharton Journal)

eLocity A7 tablet finally shipping, $399 still buys you Froyo and Tegra 2 (Engadget)
Android tablet from Philadelphia-based company finally shippping.

Philadelphia Magazine acquires
food & drink blog Foobooz.com (Foobooz.com)

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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