As telecom industry evolves, success of Netflix is its biggest threat (Washington Post)

Philly Tech People News 3/6/2011

Comcast Hires Lehman as NBCUniversal’s New Digital Boss (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)

iVillage Launches App Network; Adds BN.com’s Gottlieb (paidContent)

Dr. Gil Amelio Joins InterDigital’s Board of Directors (Business Wire)

RES Software Appoints Gene Bonacci VP of Channels and Strategic Alliances (Business Wire)

Mangos Deepens Its Digital Bench Strength (PR Newswire)

VIIAD Systems names Scott Hethcox as Vice President of Sales (Business Wire)

The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans (Bloomberg Business Week)

Comcast shifting some Denver-area operations to East Coast (Denver Post)

Frontier pulls out of cable TV franchises, hikes installation charges dramatically (The Oregonian)

FERC Rejects PJM Challenge, Upholds EnerNOC’s View (Gigaom)
PJM Interconnection is based in Norristown.

Video: Marc Benioff Answers His Critics, With A Little Help from Jim Cramer (All Things Digital: New Enterprise)

Is Business-centric Social Networking a Revolution -- or a Ruse? (Knowledge@Wharton)

Motorola Mobility's Moloney: Rise of the Cloud (Multichannel News)

“SeedStart Media 2011” Launches Summer Startup Program for Digital Media Entrepreneurs (PR Web)
Comcast Interactive Capital, Genacast Ventures among backers of New York incubator program.

Daily Links 3/3/2011: Comcast's Roberts aims to make the cable box cool

Cable TV In Pursuit Of Mobility (New York Times)

Comcast's Brian Roberts: The man who loves cable (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast's Roberts aims to make the cable box cool, take on Netflix (ZDNet Blogs)

Brian Roberts on "Bloomberg West"


Lauren Zalaznick: How Hulu Will Evolve to Compete With Netflix (Hollywood Reporter)

Teradata Buys Aster Data, Boosts 'big Data' Wares (PC World)
First Round Capital was an early investor in Aster Data. Teradata is paying $263 million for the 89% it does not already own.

Does Kickfire + Aster + Teradata spell trouble? (ZDNet Blogs)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)


Orbach Q&A: Strategics, VCs Drive Cloud Tech Surge (PE Hub)

Salesforce.com announces Service Cloud 3, Facebook integration (ZDNet Blogs)

DailyWorth Raises $850K To Become The Daily Candy For Personal Finance (TechCrunch)

Firm's data helps you decide on a wireless network (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Is AT&T's network better than Verizon Wireless' in the Philadelphia area? Verizon Wireless put out this press release today, probably not coincidentally.

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire Close to Resolving Pricing Dispute (DailyFinance)



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Daily Links 3/2/2011: Boston vs. Silicon Valley debate gets heated

NBCU Rock-ing mega-lease (New York Post)


ERT Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Operating Results (PR Newswire)
Also changing trading symbol from "ERES" to "ERT".

SAP Sales OnDemand: Got It, Got It, Need It? (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP CRM Sales On-demand Heads to Market (Enterprise Matters)

SAP Offers Resellers Big-Account Opportunities, Cuts Pre-Pay Requirement (CRN)

'Over the hill' Boston tech community lashes out at academic (Telegraph)

Attorney for Philadelphia entrepreneurs Goodman to be honored (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Broadband Growth Slows For Fourth Straight Year: Analyst
Top U.S. Cable Operators Added 2.3 Million Broadband Subs In 2010, Says Leichtman (Multichannel News)

Cox, Motorola Tests See 400 Mbps Upstream
Cable's Upstream Limits Soon To Be Less Of A Problem? (Broadband Reports)

NEC to Integrate Niteo Partners, a Leader in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Systems (Business Wire)
Niteo Partners is headquartered in Princeton.

ADP To Acquire AdvancedMD (Information Week)



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Daily Links 3/1/2011: SAP Readies Salesforce.com Rival

SAP Readies Salesforce.com Rival (PC World)

SAP Plays Games With The Analysts
The 'gamification' of the enterprise could make work more compelling, engaging and -- gasp -- fun. (Information Week)

QlikTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Fourth Quarter revenue up 32%; Full year revenue of $226.5 million up 44% from 2009.
Qlik Technologies misses Wall Street's fourth-quarter earnings estimates by a penny (AP via Canadian Business Online)

NetSuite and Informatica partner for global enterprise (ZDNet Blogs)

Google Ventures, Khosla Make Rain For WeatherBill (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
WeatherBill raises $42 million lead by Google Ventures and Khosla, with previous investor First Round Capital also participating.


Hulu Set for Meteoric Growth in 2011
Ad revenue haul could be as high as $500 million (Ad Week)

Comcast releases Xfinity TV remote control app for Android devices (Engadget)


Internet-on-your-TV startup Boxee raises $16.5M (VentureBeat)

Sprint Boosts CEO Hesse's Target Bonus, Drops Link to Clearwire Success (Bloomberg)

Boathouse Capital Invests $9.1M in Two Companies (PE Hub)
Boathouse Capital is a private equity firm base in Wayne. These are its first software investments.

Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs’ 2011 Business Plan Competition Chooses 26 Semi-Finalists (Penn News)



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Daily Links 2/28/2011: Bel Fuse makes $246 million bid for Philly's Pulse Electronics

Comcast, NBC deal opens door for online video (AP via USA Today)

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Calls Netflix Streaming Service a Positive (Hollywood Reporter)
Roberts: "What Used To Be Called 'Reruns' On Television Is Now Called Netflix".


Hogging Bandwidth Could Crack Netflix’s Piggy Bank (paidContent)

Boehner Says Vote To Invalidate Net Rules Could Come In March
House Speaker Says Chamber Will Act Because FCC Has Yet To 'Explain The Need For This Intrusion' (Multichannel News)

Comcast: The Next Big Capital Allocation Story, Says Goldman (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Liberty Media Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)
QVC Q4 revenue up 4%.

QVC, Starz Drive Liberty Q4 (Multichannel News)


Deborah M. Gage Named President and CEO of MEDecision
Experienced Senior Executive Brings Wide-Ranging Health IT Background to Leadership Role (Business Wire)

Bel Fuse makes $246M offer for (Philly-based) Pulse Electronics
(AP via Forbes)
A few years ago it was the other way around, but Pulse (then named Technitrol) was the larger player at that time in terms of market value.

Motorola’s Xoom Tablet Sales Have Started ‘Relatively Well’ (Bloomberg)

Larry's Long Reach (Forbes)
On Larry Ellison-backed NetSuite.

Salesforce.com Falls; WSJ Reveals “The Truth Behind…The Hype”
(Forbes: The Tech Trade)

PPUG Spring 2011 reviews wrap-up (ZDNet Blogs)



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Who's on deck for Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic Demo Night

Seven companies are scheduled to present at Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic Demo Night tomorrow night (Monday, February 28, 5:30-8:30pm at The Hub Cira Centre). Three of them are fairly well known to the Philly area tech community; NearVerse (LoKast proximity social network), which started in Philly though I believe it may actually be based in New York now, Philly-based online ticketing service TicketLeap, and Blue Bell-based Fiberlink Communications (MaaS360 software for enterprise network "endpoint" security).

The other four are relative newcomers:

Emergensee of Wayne, has a personal security app which enables you to to instantly start streaming video from your cell phone to up to three different recipients if you feel you may be in a threatening or unsafe situation.

EverComm Technologies, which offers a service for remotely monitoring your toddlers called Keep In Touch.

MobileReactor, which has an application that allows television viewers to interact with their favorite shows, though I can't find much more information on it right now (nothing beyond a homepage is live on their website when I looked at it). Founders have backgrounds with Nokia (Traffic.com), TruePosition and Comcast; given that experience I wonder whether their app may be location-based in some way.

MyChinoki of Philadelphia allows consumers to select which local businesses they would be willing to recieve occasional SMS text messages from concerning promotions and special deals.

TicketLeap will demo its new Android ticket scanning application.

There are also followup interviews with some of last year's participating companies on Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic's website.

Some seats are still available for the event at the time of this posting.


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Phiily Tech People News 2/27/2011

William Cox Has Been Named President and CEO of Encoda (PR Newswire)

Jones-Potter joins Philly VC firm (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc.)

Anand Rao Joins Lincoln Financial Group as Vice President, Digital Strategy and User Experience (PR Newswire)

Unisys Federal Systems President Ted Davies Wins Federal 100 Award (PR Newswire)

Kenneth C. Weirman Named Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Ametek (PR Newswire)

ERT Announces the Appointment of Eric Schwartz as Chief Legal Officer (PR Newswire)

Tierney names Molly Watson COO (Philly Ad Club News)

Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records (New York Times)

Motorola Sues TiVo (On Behalf Of Verizon) (Zatz Not Funny!)