NBCUni, Comcast Heads Call 'The Voice' the 'Most Exciting Event' Since Deal (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast to decide on Orlando park next month (Reuters)

When Will Comcast's Move Up-Market Pay Off? (Light Reading Cable)

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: We Won't Compete With Cable TV
Despite Rapid Growth, Exec Sees Challenges From Hulu Plus, Other Competing Services (Advertising Age)

ERP implementations: Some growth ahead, shifting to subscriptions (ZDNet Blogs)

Business Intelligence: Salesforce.com’s Next Big Acquisition (Forbes: CIO Central)
Could Salesforce try to acquire QlikTech?

Clearwire Sees Revenue Rise, but Posts Big Q1 Loss on Charges
(All Things Digital)

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2011 (Business Wire)

CardioNet posts smaller-than-expected Q1 loss (Reuters)

Heartland Payment Systems ups outlook on strong 1Q (AP via Forbes)

The Host With the Most: University as Application Service Provider (Campus Technology)
How Drexel provides ASP services for other higher ed institutions.

Comcast profit up on Internet, NBCU ad sales (Reuters)

NBC Universal Proves Its Worth In First Quarter With Comcast (paidContent)

Pac-12 finalizes media deal with Fox, ESPN (San Jose Mercury News)
Comcast said to be losing bidder.

Checkpoint Systems posts surprise Q1 loss (Reuters)
Checkpoint Press Release

Pulse Electronics Corporation Reports First Quarter Results (Business Wire)

StarCite Launches Nexus – a Groundbreaking Platform to Usher in a New Era of Meetings Management Success (Business Wire)

Insight Communications first-round bids due by mid-May: sources (Reuters)

SAP's culture of innovation (Fortune: Big Tech)

A first look at RJMetrics (BUILDING THE MARKETING OPTIMIZATION ECOSYSTEM)

TiVo, EchoStar, DISH Network Make Nice Nice (To The Tune Of $500 Million) (Zatz Not Funny!)

Liberty Media Nears Tracker Spins
Programmer Clears Hurdle with Court Ruling (Multichannel News)

NBC launching local news channels in 3 states; watchdog criticizes efforts so far (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast to report 1Q earnings (AP via CNBC)


Valuevision Media: A Small Cap Media Pick (Seeking Alpha)
What is Comcast's long term interest in Valuevision (ShopNBC)?

SAP Hopes Software Test-drives Lead to ERP Success (PC World)

On eve of his departing, Comcast's Brodsky looks back at the many wins (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Flash in the Pan (TechCrunch)

Order Is Great. It’s Bureaucracy That’s Stifling (New York Times)
Interview with QlikTech CEO Lars Bjork.

Offshoring stole many U.S. programming jobs (Philadelphia Inquirer)
I would question the accuracy and meaningfulness of this piece by Bartlett and Steele. The term "computer programmer", as defined by the Department of Labor, is narrow and almost obsolete. There are so many other job titles and skill sets requiring extensive computer technology knowledge that are not included in their simplistic analysis. Furthermore, advanced software technologies have made it less necessary for many to have advanced programming skills to perform
computing tasks.

Philly Tech People News 5/1/2011

Delaware Chief Judge Chandler Retires (New York Times: DealBook)

Comcast Announces Changes to State Government Affairs Team (National Journal: Tech Daily Dose)

JB Perrette, Key NBCU Digital Exec, Exits (The Wrap)

Traver Bursts Back on the TV Scene (Light Reading Cable)

Philadelphia Media Network Announces New Chief Revenue Officer (Editor & Publisher)

LLR Hires David Siegel
Establishes Washington, D.C. presence (Business Wire)

Michael DiMartile joins NewSpring Capital as Director of Investor Relations (PressReleasePoint)

Beyond.com Names Brad Miller Vice President of Marketing and Communications (Business Wire)

Jon Gorchow to lead Lenfest Broadcasting (Philly Ad Club News)

Comcast Ready to Kick Apps With 'CodeBig' (Light Reading Cable)

NBC-Comcast Merger Signals End of Versus.com (NESN)
Versus.com nows redirects to NBC Sports website.

Daily Links 4/29/2011: SAP Ordered to Post $1.3 Billion Bond in Oracle Case

SAP Ordered to Post $1.3 Billion Bond in Oracle Case (Bloomberg)


Social Media Has Little Impact on Online Retail Purchases [STUDY] (Mashable)
So says Forrester/GSI Commerce study.

GSI 1Q loss deepens before acquisition by EBay (AP via Business Week)

Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region (Amazon Web Services)

DirecTV Execs Talk Premium VOD, Streaming Video (Hollywood Reporter)

Should DirecTV Buy Dish? (Forbes: The Tech Trade)

Charter Said to Hire Citi, Goldman to Sell California Systems (Bloomberg)

Delaware Court of Chancery Rules in Favor of Liberty Media Corporation (Business Wire)

Motorola Mobility narrows loss as phone sales rise (AP via Business Week)


Motorola Mobility's Set-Top Shipments Jump 24% In Q1
Home Segment Revenue Up 8% to $904 Million (Multichannel News)


Verizon Devising Uber Strategy for Home Services (Light Reading)

ING Direct Lets Customers Pay Friends By Bumping iPhones (Mashable)


Telcos Still Muscling Into the Cloud (ReadWriteCloud)

SAP Project Woes Impact Ingram Micro's Profits (PC World)

NetSuite Jumps 15% on Earnings (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)



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QlikTech Announces First Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Revenue growth of 44%; increased revenue guidance for year.

SunGard Announces First Quarter 2011 Results (Business Wire)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2011 First Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)

Ametek sees FY11 EPS mostly above Street view (Reuters)

Supreme Court Seems to Side With Pharma in Big Advertising Case
Limits of data mining, commercial free speech at issue (Ad Week)

Annodyne celebrates a decade (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Rutgers team proposes Net alternative (EE Times)

Costly Pa. radio system for law enforcement agencies isn't working as planned (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

SAP First-Quarter Profit Misses Estimates on Sybase Costs (Bloomberg)

SAP Q1 revenue up, but profit growth slow (Computerworld)

SAP's Snabe Interview (Bloomberg)

SAP's McDermott: 'HANA pipeline 10 million euro a week' (ZDNet Blogs)

Daily Links 4/27/2011: Supreme Court hears arguments in IMS Health case over Vermont law

Comcast to offer TV programs from all major networks on its VOD service (LA Times: Company Town)

U.S. top court questions state drug data limits (Reuters)
Case involves Philly-area companies IMS Health, Verispan, and Wolters Kluwer Health. Justices appeared skeptical of Vermont law; ruling expected by end of June.

Wolters Kluwer to Buy Lexi-Comp (Health Data Management)

J&J Agrees to Buy Synthes for $21.3 Billion in Cash, Stock (Bloomberg)
Synthes has its headquarters in West Chester.

CenturyLink Agrees to Purchase Savvis for $2.5 Billion in Cash, Stock Deal (Bloomberg)

CenturyLink-Savvis: Is the rush to Cloud 1+1=more than 2 for enterprise I&O? (ZDNet Blogs)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces First Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Anticipates Platform Expansion with Acquisition of an Equity Interest in a Mezzanine Lending Company; Deployed $5M and $25M, respectively, in New Partner Companies ThingWorx and PixelOptics (Business Wire)

InterDigital Announces First Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Software AG Profit Rises 43% on IDS Scheer, Beating Estimates (Bloomberg)

DirecTV Real Interested In Netflix, Contemplates Launching A Competitor (Zatz Not Funny!)

Comcast planning to hire 300 for Miramar call center (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

ProtonMedia Doubles in Size—Literally (Business Wire)

Pharma poised to up online ad spend: eMarketer (Medical Marketing & Media)



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Daily Links 4/26/2011: Dell Boomi launches Spring update

Lawson Agrees to Be Acquired by Golden Gate Capital, Infor for $2 Billion (Bloomberg)

New details on Infor's Lawson acquisition (Enterprise System Spectator)

Dell Boomi launches Spring update, certification program (ZDNet Blogs)

Unisys shares slip after company reports 1Q loss (AP via Forbes)

Oracle Goes After Workday, SuccessFactors With Fusion HCM (PC World)

Oracle CFO Epstein Out; Replaced By Safra Catz (Forbes: The Tech Trade)


Investors buy majority stake in online game maker Bigpoint for $350M (VentureBeat)
Comcast Interactive Capital sold its stake, which was originally acquired by NBC's venture arm.

Netflix: We’re a Friend, Not an Enemy, to Cable Networks (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Comcast in Talks to Offer On-Demand Movies 6 to 8 Weeks After Theaters (Bloomberg)

The Disappearing Set-Top (Light Reading Cable)

TimeSight Systems Announces Additional Growth Capital Injection to Extend Market Reach of Breakthrough Video Surveillance Systems (Marketwire)

Verizon Wireless and USA Technologies Partner to Deliver Industry-Leading Cashless Payment Services, M2M Solutions for Vending and Automated Retail Industries (Business Wire)



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