Daily Links 5/9/2011: Comcast Scraps TiVo Set-Top Deal, But Will Open VOD Tap

GSI Commerce Announces End of “Go-Shop” Period, Early Termination of Antitrust Waiting Period and Record Date and Meeting Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders (Business Wire)

eBay Gets Closer To Closing $2.4 Billion GSI Commerce Acquisition (TechCrunch)

Dan Gross: Spielberg's in town for fundraiser (Philadelphia Daily News)

Comcast Xfinity On Demand Coming To TiVo Premiere DVRs (CrunchGear)

Comcast Scraps TiVo Set-Top Deal, But Will Open VOD Tap
Cable Operator Will Help Promote TiVo Premiere DVR Solution With Retail, Marketing Support (Multichannel News)

Dish Network to launch wireline broadband soon (Denver Business Journal)

SAP has some explaining to do at Sapphire (Computerworld)

Why SaaS should not frighten megavendors (ZDNet Blogs)

Bentley Systems expands Dublin operation
110 new jobs in shared services, sales and marketing (TechCentral.ie)

QlikTech Expands with new European Centre
New Hub Focuses On Growing Small & Medium Sized Customers. (QlikTech Press Release)

Manage The Mayhem Of Mobile BI (Information Week)

Deloitte Buys Oco for BI, Analytics (PC World)

Event Report: Dell’s Annual Analyst Conference Highlights Enterprise Software Future (Forbes Blogs)

AMETEK ACQUIRES COINING HOLDING COMPANY (PR Newswire)
For $148 million.

Careerminds grabs capital and a chairman (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc)



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Philly Tech People News 5/8/2011

ERT Announces Appointment of New President and CEO (PR Newswire)

MEDecision Announces Executive Promotion
Carole Hodsdon Named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (Marketwire)

Jim Walker Named Technology CEO of the Year
Award presented during the PACT 18th Annual Enterprise Awards Banquet (Globe Newswire)

Analytics unit of Wolters Kluwer to get new CEO (Medical Marketing & Media)

Universal production shake-up: Debbie Liebling out; Peter Cramer, Jeffrey Kirschenbaum promoted (LA Times: Company Town)

Maiden Media Group Welcomes Four New Hires (PR Newswire)

Activant Solutions Promotes Getty to Vice President, Product Development (PRLog)

BioLeap Names Keith Mackay as Vice President for Sales in Next Step to Further Commercialize Novel Molecular Design (Business Wire)

The Cline Group Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of David Andrew Goldman as Vice President of Global Communications and Practice Leader for Technology and Cleantech (Business Wire)

MTI Names Allison Tittle Director, Strategic Service (Business Wire)

SAP Takes Tepid Step On Collaboration (Information Week)

8 questions for NetSuite (ZDNet Blogs)

Enterprise Software Spending Grew 8.5% In 2010 (Information Week)

Comcast's new mobile 3G/4G hotspot: cheaper, but capped (Ars Technica)

Liberty Media Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results (Business Wire)
QVC revenue up 4%.

Liberty's Malone stunned by cable biz changes
Topper surprised by Comcast's penetration rates (Variety)

Dish Makes Its Adaptive Streaming Move (Light Reading Cable)

Frontier CEO confirms: We want out of cable TV (The Oregonian)
They seem to have enough trouble keeping DSL up and running (in my experience).

Med Tech startup Echo Therapeutics moves headquarters from Massachusetts to Center City (Mass High Tech)

Citi analyst upgrades CardioNet (AP via Business Week)

SAP Says Amazon Crash Hampers Its Late Push Into the Cloud (Bloomberg)

Forrester: SAP service provider market changing fast (SearchSAP.com)

ICG Commerce named tech company of year (Philadelphia Business Journal)

ICG Announces First Quarter Financial Results
Core Consolidated Revenue Increases 28% (Globe Newswire)

FCC chief to Congress: Leave Net neutrality alone (CNET News)

Meet DOCSIS, Part 1: the unsung hero of high-speed cable Internet access (Ars Technica)

DirecTV Rolls Along
US, Latin America Shine in Q1 (Multichannel News)

Rovi Buys Cable Engineering Firm DigiForge: Sources
Guide Vendor Said to Be Angling to Improve Relations With Cable Customers (Multichannel News)

Sum of Many Parts (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

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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