Daily Links 1/27/2011: Comcast holds merger kickoff meetings in LA, NY and Philly

Comcast-NBC U execs tout synergy, muscle
Burke, Roberts rally newly merged troops (Variety)

A Little Less Drama at NBC (New York Times)
On Comcast exec Stephen Burke taking over.

What are Comcast's plans for NBC News operations? (USA Today)

NBC vets Ebersol and Michaels can give Comcast a history lesson (LA Times: Company Town)

Hulu May Sell Broadcast Television Bundles (PC World)

Cable companies best at streaming Netflix video (CNET News)
Comcast ranked #2, according to Netflix.

New York's quest to become 'the digital city' (CNET News)

On Deck, Which Helps Small Businesses Get Capital, Lands Some Of Its Own (All Things Digital: New Enterprise)
$15 million C-round led by SAP Ventures, with early investor First Round Capital also participating again.


Portico Systems Reports Strong Revenue Growth and Promotes Job Creation in the State of Pennsylvania (Business Wire)

AMETEK Announces Record Results (PR Newswire)

Netsuite goes Native with Subscription and Billing (Diversity Limited Blog)
Although Media's Aria Systems is a Netsuite preferred provider.

Guerrilla Tactics for SAP’s OnDemand 'Go to Market' Strategy (SAP Community Network Blogs)

SAP Plans to Offer Flexibility Through Partnerships, Co-CEO McDermott Says (Bloomberg)

Software AG Surges as Profit Rises, CEO Says Company Aiming for DAX Index (Bloomberg)
Software AG has a significant presence in Berwyn as a result of its acquisition of IDS Scheer.

Inside Lockheed Martin's out-of-this-world virtual-reality lab (Denver Business Journal)

Lockheed Profit Dips on Lower Margins in Combat Jets (Bloomberg)

Motorola Mobility's Home Segment Q4 Sales Inch Up 1%
Cable Unit Revenue Down 7% for Full-Year 2010 (Multichannel News)




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Daily Links 1/26/2011: Lancaster's appMobi raises $6 million

SAP raises dividend 20 percent, upbeat on 2011 (Reuters)

Germany's SAP sees Q4 earnings fall 36 per cent after charge for Oracle battle (The Canadian Press)

A Chat With SAP’s Bill McDermott (Forbes: Upside Potential)

General Electric Buys Stake in NBC Universal From Vivendi for $3.8 Billion (Bloomberg)
Clears way for completing Comcast/NBCU transaction.

JVP Leads $50 Million Secondary and Primary Transaction in Photonic Integrated Circuit Company CyOptics, Inc. (PR Newswire)
CyOptics is based in the Lehigh Valley near Allentown.

appMobi Closes $6 Million Series B Financing (Business Wire)
Lancaster-based Mobile Apps platform company says funding came entirely from Angels. appMobi grew out of another Lancaster startup, streaming music service FlyCast.
TechCrunch article.

Startup Accelerator DreamIt Ventures Takes Manhattan (TechCrunch)

RES Software Caps 2010 with Record Bookings of $12.9 million in Q4 (Business Wire)

Charter Passes Over the Cable-Tech Duopoly
(Multichannel News)

Netflix: Here's What We Think About ISPs And Net Neutrality (Silicon Alley Insider)

Netflix Passes 20 Million Subscribers But Doesn't Give Full-Year Guidance (Silicon Alley Insider)




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Daily Links 1/25/2011: Comcast to hold kickoff "Town Hall Meeting" on Thursday

Comcast: Take the bus, park the golf carts at the office (LA Times: Company Town)

Verizon Profit Misses Estimates as Customers Pay Less for Voice (Bloomberg)

Verizon backs off $30 unlimited data plan for iPhone (CNN Money)

Verizon Tacks On 182,000 FiOS TV Subs In Q4
Wireless Shines While Wireline Declines in Fourth Quarter of 2010 (Multichannel News)

Verizon Wireless to Pay ‘Fair Dividend’ to Vodafone (Bloomberg)

Comcast SportsNet buys 2 blogs (Washington Business Journal)

Comcast's Program-Guide Chief Exiting (Light Reading Cable)

Business is growing for Phila. energy suppliers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Epocrates, Mobile App Developer Since Palm Days, Preps for IPO—And for Push Into Electronic Medical Records
(Xconomy San Francisco)

Will SAP’s Stock Pop Again? (Forbes)

MicroStrategy Ramps up Its BI Strategy for IPad, IPhone (PC World)

LMC Software Solutions and Alliance Global Services Form Strategic Partnership (PR Newswire)




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Parse.ly Closes $800K Financing Round (PR Web)
DreamIt Ventures graduate now based in New York. Invite Media co-founder Scott Becker among investors.

General Assembly Aims to Gather New York Techies (New York Times: Bits)

An Ad Agency for NBC Sports (New York Times: Media Decoder)
An indication of Comcast/NBCU's ambitions for sports programming?


After Olbermann, Is Comcast Set to Overhaul MSNBC? Don't Bet on It (Daily Finance)


What next for net neutrality? Lawsuits galore (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Charter Tags TiVo For DVRs, Next-Gen TV
MSO Plans to Offer TiVo Premiere Set-Tops in 2011, Followed by New Devices and Services
(Multichannel News)

Happy with new home (Burlington County Times)
Mount Laurel's InTest Systems.

HP to phase out Neoview data warehousing product: sources (Reuters)

Gartner Magic Quadrant reveals SAP master data management soft spots (SearchDataManagement.com)

Health Market Science and Alanda Enhance Aggregate Spend Solution, CompleteSpend
Version 3.0 to add executive dashboards, ad hoc reporting capabilities, and a new viewpoint technology (Business Wire)

How Comcast sealed the NBCU deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Olbermann Fill-In: Host Worried His 'Wings Would Be Clipped' Under New Management (The Wrap)

Gang of Smart Mini-Copters Learns How to Build Stuff (at Penn's GRASP Lab) (Mashable)

Philly Tech People News 1/23/2011

QVC, Inc. Appoints Claire Watts CEO, U.S. (PR Newswire)

Kenexa Expands Leadership Team (Marketwire)

Former Silver Lake Managing Director Joins Milestone Partners (Press Release)


GSI Health Appoints Lori Evans Bernstein as President (Business Wire)

HardMetrics Expands Management Team to Accelerate Growth Opportunities with Hiring of Brian Turley as President
Software industry veteran brings experience from SunGard and Strohl Systems (Business Wire)

Brownstein Group Welcomes Dan Shepelavy As New Executive CD; Three Others Join The Agency (Philly Ad Club News)

4R Systems Appoints Kevin Stadler as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing (Business Wire)

Rajant Appoints Scott Shirer to Oversee Customer Support Team (Business Wire)

Olbermann out at MSNBC; Comcast: We had nothing to do with it

Keith Olbermann signs off from MSNBC (CNN)

Comcast Response to Questions about MSNBC and Keith Olbermann (Comcast Voices |Comcast Corporate Blog)

Olbermann’s MSNBC Exit Was Weeks in the Making (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Deals up, venture investment flat in Philadelphia (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

An NBC Departure Before Comcast Takeover (New York Times: Media Decoder)

Earnings: NBC Ends Its Relationship With GE On A Positive Note (paidContent)

How Comcast Silenced One Objection to NBCU Deal
Albritton dropped opposition after reaching carriage agreement (Adweek)

Here’s What’s Hiding Behind Verizon’s Net Neutrality Suit (Gigaom)

Checkpoint Systems Launches EPC Numbering Service (RFID Journal)

USA Technologies, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal 2011 Second Quarter
Achieves Strategic Objectives with 109,000 Network Connections and $456,000 of Quarterly EBITDA
License and Transaction Fee Revenue Up 81%, Total Revenue Up 60% (Business Wire)

In-memory computing
In-memory computing is making its way out of R&D labs and into the enterprise, enabling real-time processing and intelligence (CIO.com)

Daily Links 1/20/2011: Verizon challenges FCC rules on net neutrality

HIStalk Interviews Todd Fisher, CEO, MobileMD (HIStalk)
Warminster Healthcare IT startup definitely worth watching.

An update from the Chairman (Official Google Blog)
Eric Schmidt steps aside as CEO while remaining Chairman; Larry Page to be CEO.

Verizon challenges FCC rules on net neutrality (Washington Post: Post Tech)
Verizon is doing something I believe Comcast will no longer be able to do per FCC conditions on the NBCU merger.

Aria Systems Triples Bookings in Fourth Quarter (Business Wire)
Aria is based in San Mateo and Media, Pa.

Tyco Electronics profit tops forecasts (Reuters)

Analysts: Comcast-NBC Universal Conditions Won't Promote Cord Cutting (Hollywood Reporter)
FCC Order on Comcast/NBCU (pdf)

Old Interface Learns New Tricks in Mobile Payments (American Banker)
On Philly startup Xipwire.

SAP AG ESTABLISHES $350 MILLION SAP VENTURES FUND I, L.P. (SAP Press Release)

HP Ads Meg Whitman, Four Others To Board (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Philadelphia Fed Factory Index Decreased to 19.3 in January (Bloomberg)
January 2011 Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey

Clearwire spectrum auction interest dwindles: sources (Reuters)


Citizens Bank Park, Home of the Phillies, Goes HD! (Phillies.com)
Something to look forward to on long winter days.



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DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard) (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Daily Links 1/19/2011: Franken can't let Comcast/NBCU deal go

Comcast’s Biggest Regulatory Win? What The FCC And DOJ Didn’t Do (paidContent)

Comcast-NBC Deal: What’s Next? (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to whack Netflix (Ars Technica)


SAP sets ambitious goals, faces restructuring: report (Reuters)

ASUG to Launch Online Magazine (Business Wire)

SAP Community Podcast: Talking SAP On-Demand with SAP's John Wookey (SAP Community Networks Blog)

Microsoft Steps Up Competition With Dynamics CRM 2011 (Information Week)

Thoughts on Paul Greenberg's CRM 2011 Watchlist (Read Write Enterprise)

Verizon To Continue Rapid Cloud Ramp (Information Week)

What happens when the CD factory closes? (CNET News)
On the closing of Sony's Pitman, NJ CD plant.



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