Philly Tech People News 1/16/2011

Bentley Names Gus Bergsma as Vice President of New Sales Organization Serving Small and Medium Enterprises Worldwide (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Beyond.com, Inc. Expands Technology Team and Names James Bright as Enterprise Architect (Business Wire)

Knut T. Fenner Joins Datacolor® As Vice President, Imaging Color Solutions (Business Wire)

RES Software Appoints Bill Corrigan as Chief Marketing Officer (Business Wire)

Edison Ventures Announces Three Promotions Following Strong 2010 (pdf) (Press Release)
Two Elevated to Partner and One to Principal

Daily Links 1/14/2011: IMS Health in agreement to acquire SDI, days after Supreme Court agrees to take data privacy case

Digging For Data: IMS Health Buys Rival SDI (Report) (Pharmalot)
Big deal for Pharma market research and Philly area; some job cuts would be expected.
Update: IMS Health issues a statement confirming agreement. Link (pdf)

Supreme Court Health Data Case Could Sway Online Privacy Debate (paidContent)
I'm sure its not a coincidence that the IMS Health-SDI merger was announced just days after the Court agreed to hear the case.

Pending Comcast Deal Muzzles NBC With Reporters (AP via NPR)

News Corp. worries some proposed FCC conditions on Comcast-NBC Universal go too far (LA Times: Company Town)

Level 3 May Test FCC 'Open Internet' Rules In Comcast Fight
Internet Provider Still Balking at Cable Operator's Connection Fees (Multichannel News)

Is An Apps Shakeup Ahead At Microsoft?
To compete in the enterprise with the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com, Microsoft has to take a more direct approach. (Information Week)

Fitch Affirms SunGard Data Systems' IDR at 'B'; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)

Edison Ventures Sells Presidium To Blackboard (PE Hub)

QVC Shoppers Say “No More Facebooking and Tweeting During On-Air Presentations” (CenterNetworks)

Daily Links 1/13/2011: SAP Q4 revenue well ahead of estimates

ERP Investments to Slow in 2011 (PC World)

SAP Announces Record Fourth Quarter 2010 Software Revenue (PR Newswire)
SAP Jumps: Sees Q4 Revenue Ahead Of Estimates (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

(Ex SAP Exec) Doug Merritt tips up as Baynote CEO. What's next? (ZDNet Blogs)

Bank tech spending to hit $132B in 2015, analysts say
Mobile banking technology spending leads industry boom; North American spending expected to reach $50 billion (Computerworld)

Walt Disney Co. has concerns with proposed conditions on Comcast - NBC Universal deal (LA Times: Company Town)

Monetate Targeting eCommerce With Marketing Tech That Does Not Require I.T. Says CEO Brussin (AdExchanger.com)

Portico Systems Strengthens Its Financial Position (Business Wire)

MPC to Open Technology and Electronics Recycling and Processing Facility in Philadelphia (Business Wire)

Charter Media deploys TelVue servers in L.A. (CED Magazine)
TelVue is based in Mt. Laurel. Interesting to see a cable company using its technology in this way.




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Daily Links 1/12/2011: SAP To Focus More On Channel Sales Following Reorganization

Comcast’s Gilford Jumps To ABC As SVP, Digital Media (paidContent)

Comcast Merger Conditions Involve Basic Neutrality Protections
And a requirement that all caps be created equal... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast-NBC merger expected to have net neutrality conditions (Washington Post: Post Tech)

The Buzz from CES 2011 - Trends to Watch (Comcast Voices |Comcast Corporate Blog)

SAP to Acquire Software Security Products and Assets From SECUDE (PR Newswire)

SAP To Focus More On Channel Sales Following Reorganization
(CRN)

HP Wins $30 Million Texas Medicaid Contract
(Information Week)
Solution to be powered by InterComponentWare's eHealth Framework. InterComponentWare's US headquarters are in Wayne.

Ex-Philadelphia mag editor named Philly Daily News editor (Poynter)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Bloomberg)

Daily Links 1/11/2011: Verizon iPhone finally introduced

Verizon iPhone Is Real, Is 3G and Is a Hotspot. (Gigaom)

The Verizon iPhone: What the Web Is Saying (Gigaom)

IPipeline Acquires CRM Provider GaleForce Solutions (Insurance & Technology)

Veeva Systems Launches First Integrated Pharma CRM and CLM Solution Designed for the Apple iPad (PR Newswire)
Announced at Philadelphia press conference this morning.

How to build a tech startup outside of Silicon Valley (VentureBeat)
By Monetate founder David Brussin.

Customer Analytics Initiative Launches at The Wharton School
(PR Newswire)

Calling All Fintech Entrepreneurs (A VC)

Enabled, empowered and inspired – advocating for QlikView (Donald Farmer)

Allurent, not quite dead yet, sells to Jenzabar (Mass High Tech)
Cambridge ecommerce company was funded by GSI Commerce, among others.

HardMetrics Establishes New Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia Suburbs
Continued growth and expansion for operational analytics and business intelligence solutions company fuels establishment of new corporate roots (Business Wire)
Hadn't heard much about these guys in quite a while; wasn't sure what they were up to.

Dupont SAP systems crucial to £3.7bn Danisco acquisition (Computerworld UK)

Eberhart tapped as CDI Corp. chief (Philly.com: Philly Inc)




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Daily Links 1/10/2011: Comcast cuts price of entry-level package 25% in Philly area, but no ESPN

GSI Commerce’s Global Marketing Services Division Acquires ClearSaleing to Expand Offerings in Advertising Analytics and Attribution (Business Wire)

Viridity Energy Raises Series B Financing to Support the Deployment of its Next-Generation Dynamic Demand Management Technology
Braemar Energy Ventures and Intel Capital Join as Investors (Business Wire)

Comcast, Networks Spar Over iPad App (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast cuts cost of entry-level cable package 25 percent (Philadelphia Inquirer)

FCC Has Yet To Vote On Comcast/NBCU
Critics Keep Pushing For Deal Conditions That Commission Has Proposed Okaying (Multichannel News)

Analysts predict SAP trends for 2011 (SearchSAP.com)


Oracle Aims New BI App at SAP Customers (PC World)

Self-service BI, SaaS, real-time analytics will dominate 2011 agenda (Computerworld)

Is Business ByDesign finally turning the corner? (SAP Watch)

CES: Show Rewind
(Multichannel News)

Apps Irk Cable Nets (Mediaweek)

Léo Makes It Official: SAP’s Bill Wohl Joins Hewlett-Packard
(All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)
Bill Wohl, who will be relocating to California, graduated from the University of Delaware and was a member of the West Grove, PA, volunteer fire department for 25 years.

Daily Links 1/7/2011: Samsung to let its gadget users access Time Warner and Comcast programming

Meetings Multiply As FCC Vets Comcast/NBCU Draft
Comcast/NBCU, ACA, Dish, DirecTV, Bloomberg Officials Get Agency Facetime (Multichannel News)

Comcast, NBC round up Hill support (Politico)

Samsung to let its gadget users access Time Warner and Comcast programming (VentureBeat)

What If Verizon FiOS TV Was an App? (Zatz Not Funny!)

Hume Steps Down From SAP Channel Chief Post (CRN)

SAP's Plan to Make Money by Cutting Carbon
Becoming a model of energy efficiency is part of a wider corporate strategy. (MIT Technology Review)

HRM #EnSW Vendor Consolidation Fairy Tales (Enterprise Irregulars)

PepsiCo Snafu Illustrates Dangers of Crowd Sourcing (Mashable)
Philly agency's ad for Pepsi offends some Catholics.

Sprint, Clearwire Try To Calm Nervous Investors
Nothing to see here, please move along! (Broadband Reports)

Carrier AboveNet Extends Network to Philadelphia Technology Park (Web Host Industry Review)

InTest ready to complete corporate move (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SuiteLinq™ Expands With New Offices on East and West Coasts (PR Newswire)




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Philly-based Stream TV gets head start with its eLocity Android 3.0 tablets

Philadelphia-based Stream TV Networks, Inc. generated a lot of buzz by getting out in front of the of the pack in announcing its new 10-inch eLocity Android 3.0 tablets in advance of CES. I tried to find out a little more about the company and who is behind it.

Stream TV is headquartered on Chestnut Street in Philly, and its founders are Mat and Raja Rajan, who have been behind Bensalem-based Zero Water, which produces household water filtration systems. Though I am not sure how this background translates into manufacturing computer devices, the key asset the founders may possess is channel experience. From their Zero Water background, they know how to get product into mass retailers such as Wal-Mart, and they appear to be taking a similar path with the eLocity. There may be a niche there for a somewhat lower-cost Android tablet in what will be a brutally competitive market.

I've got no information on funding right now, but Zero Technologies (the company behind Zero Water) raised $30 million and had connections to some prominent investors.

Stream TV has other interests as well; At CES it launched a line of 3d without glasses devices.

HP Hires Wohl to Handle PR as Marketing Chief Leaves (Bloomberg)
Previously at SAP.

SAP inks patent licensing deal with Intellectual Ventures (TechFlash Seattle)

Judge Sets Aside US$139M Verdict in SAP-Versata Patent Suit (PC World)

CES 2011: Moto's 4G Gadgets Blur Lines (Light Reading Mobile)

Comcast CEO Says He Took His Family on a Universal Theme Parks Trip Over the Holidays (Hollywood Reporter)

Philly Open Angel Forum is now accepting applications (Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)