Philly Tech People News 7/15/2012: SAP appoints new HR chief & Executive Board Member

SAP AG announced on Wednesday that the SAP Supervisory Board has appointed Luisa Deplazes Delgado as a member of the SAP Executive Board in charge of global Human Resources (HR) and labor relations director. Deplazes Delgado will begin in September 2012, and will be based in Walldorf, Germany. She currently is CEO and general manager of P&G Nordic, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to five year with P&G Nordic, Deplazes Delgado served for seven years as P&G's head and vice president of HR for Western Europe.

SAP had been without an HR chief since Angelika Dammann's short tenure ended a year ago. Deplazes Delgado will also become the highest ranking woman in SAP's executive ranks.

Deplazes Delgado is Swiss born, studied law at the Universite de Geneve, and holds a master's degree in law from the University of London's King's College and London School of Economics. She is fluent in seven languages, and is a native Reto-Romansh speaker.

SAP brings back Tim Noble to stabilise UK management role (Computerworld UK)

Heartland Payment Systems(R) Adds Payments Industry Veteran Ian M. Drysdale as President - Network Solutions (Marketwire)

CRF Health Appoints Mark Maietta, MBA as Senior Vice President of Global Business Development (Business Wire)

Airclic Continues Momentum: Expands Executive Team
Appoints Carl Smith, CPA, as Chief Financial Officer (PR Web)

Todd Heckman Joins Smart Devine as Managing Director in Their Business Advisory Practice (PR Web)

D4 Creative Group adds 5 new hires (Philly Ad Club News)

Princeton Financial Systems Hires DVS Product Director (Business Wire)

Plugging Center City's brain drain (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Futura Mobility Announces New Director of Field Services (Futura Mobility Press Release (pdf))





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Boston Globe Gushes Over FiOS
Forgets Most of Country (And Boston) Can't Get it (DSL Reports)

A New Look for Safeguard.com (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)

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phillytechnews: SAP Chiefs Say Current Spending Levels Could Affect Bonuses - Bloomberg http://t.co/U1bPFoIE Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:20 AM PDT phillytechnews: SAP Chiefs Say Current Spending Levels Could Affect Bonuses - Bloomberg http://t.co/U1bPFoIE

phillytechnews: Daily Links 7/12/2012: Poptent raises another $5.5 million http://t.co/jgCbpWuf Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:43 PM PDT phillytechnews: Daily Links 7/12/2012: Poptent raises another $5.5 million http://t.co/jgCbpWuf

phillytechnews: Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Leads Series B Funding for Voxware - MarketWatch http://t.co/NrWF5KpX Posted: 12 Jul 2012 12:17 PM PDT phillytechnews: Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Leads Series B Funding for Voxware - MarketWatch http://t.co/NrWF5KpX

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Daily Links 7/13/2012: Report: DOJ holds up Verizon-cable deal

DOJ holds up Verizon-cable deal on competition concerns (Washington Post: Post Tech)

SAP Chiefs Say Current Spending Levels Could Affect Bonuses (Bloomberg)

SAP pre-announces best Q2 ever (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Rebounds from Q1 in Q2: All Is Well That Ends Well? (ASUG News)

Exploring the DOJ Review of Ariba and SAP -- Check Back Next Week for Our Complete Analysis (Spend Matters)

DocuSign Raises $47.5 Million, Adds Meeker To Board (Bloomberg)
SAP Ventures, Comcast Ventures and Salesforce.com participate in round.

Where IT's not at City Hal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

DataSource sells to Philadelphia private equity firm (Kansas City Business Journal)



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Daily Links 7/12/2012: Poptent raises another $5.5 million

SAP Preliminary Second-Quarter Software License Sales Beat Analyst Estimates (Bloomberg)

SAP trousers €1bn quarter in software sales, fumbles profit
Prelims are best ever but net income can't keep up (The Register)
I love the way some Register journalists can bring humor to something as dry as an earnings release, while making sense of it at the same time.

SAP Appoints P&G Nordic CEO Deplazes Delgado As Personnel Chief (Bloomberg)
Becomes SAP's top female exec; also named to SAP's executive board.

Poptent Raises $5.5 Million to Support Continued Growth, Surpasses 50,000 Members and $5 Million in Creator Cash Payments (Business Wire)

With 50,000 Videographers, PopTent Raises $5.5 Million From MK Capital To CrowdSource Ads (TechCrunch)

Dell Offers Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance
While not a complete business intelligence system, Dell's Quickstart 1000 appliance bundles Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database and Dell Boomi data-integration software. (Information Week)

Comcast’s TiVo isn’t the ultimate, but it’s close (Boston Globe)

Cable Ops Rooting For Aereo In Clash With Broadcasters
MSOs See Possibility That Startup's Legal Battle Could End Retrans Regime (Multichannel News)

Cook’s (TV) tour
Apple big huddles with media bosses (NY Post)


DuPont Kevlar advances telecommunication cables (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc.)
DuPont partners with Hatfield-based Fiber-Line.

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Leads Series B Funding for Voxware (Business Wire)

SCVNGR's LevelUp Tries Dropping the Transaction Fee for Mobile Payment (New York Times: Bits)
Will try to make money from deals cut.

MicroStrategy goes visual with BI platform updates (Computer Business Review)
May enhance its ability to compete with QlikTech and Tableau. Also, CEO Michael Saylor apparently doesn't think too much of Microsoft Surface (or, more accurately, the product launch itself).

Former Birds employees launch fantasy front office football (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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phillytechnews: Uber to Experiment With Ice Cream on Demand in 7 Cities - http://t.co/uADGdm8e (not Philly) http://t.co/nqy42jOq Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:31 PM PDT phillytechnews: Uber to Experiment With Ice Cream on Demand in 7 Cities - http://t.co/uADGdm8e (not Philly) http://t.co/nqy42jOq

phillytechnews: TimesCast Tech: The End of Minitel - http://t.co/uADGdm8e (France's precursor to the Internet) http://t.co/Bo5zH1Tj Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:10 PM PDT phillytechnews: TimesCast Tech: The End of Minitel - http://t.co/uADGdm8e (France's precursor to the Internet) http://t.co/Bo5zH1Tj

phillytechnews: My friends at FOSSCON 2012 – pleia2's blog http://t.co/SjRrzUCP Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:03 PM PDT phillytechnews: My friends at FOSSCON 2012 – pleia2's blog http://t.co/SjRrzUCP

phillytechnews: Starting Today: Try RJMetrics for Free without a Credit Card (RJMetrics Blog) http://t.co/3bqaGih3 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:02 PM PDT phillytechnews: Starting Today: Try RJMetrics for Free without a Credit Card (RJMetrics Blog) http://t.co/3bqaGih3

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First Round Capital Portfolio job board: Interesting Reading

Tom Paine

First Round Capital's job board, covering all of its 130+ portfolio companies, makes for interesting reading, and not only for job hunters. It currently shows about 1,000 open positions. It can tell you a great deal about the developments taking place within some of the most interesting web/mobile startups, and the directions they may be going in.

For example, San Francisco-based social recommendation and sharing engine StumbleUpon, which historically has been a fairly small operation, shows 32 open positions, most of them in San Francisco. First Round Capital was an early investor in StumbleUpon, which started life in Alberta. It was acquired by eBay in 2007, an experience that didn't work out too well, and it was reacquired by an investor group that included the founders and FRC in 2009. Recently StumbleUpon has experienced accelerating growth and increasing monetization.

Conshohocken-based ecommerce software vendor Monetate has 12 open positions listed, 11 of them in Conshohocken.

Other FRC portfolio companies with Philly area openings listed include Curalate (one in Philadelphia), Solve Media (one in Philadelphia), PackLate (one in Conshohocken), Relay Network (two in Radnor), Lifeshield Security (one in Yardley), OpenX, which has a King of Prussia presence through its acquisition of LiftDNA early this year (two), and one position with New York-based Warby Parker in Philadelphia. Warby Parker is looking for 19 people in total, according to the job board.

A startup named PerformLine, which has its headquarters in Morristown, NJ and provides online advertising compliance services, has two openings. New York-based Fab.com, which apparently has warehouse & fulfillment operations in Edison, NJ, lists several openings there.



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Daily Links 7/11/2012: Fiberlink to add as many as 140 in new Philly office

Uber thinks it can woo Philadelphians with luxury car service (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Uber bringing on-demand ice cream trucks to select cities on Friday only (The Verge)
Had to double check this article to make sure it wasn't a joke. Not available in Philly right away, though. I imagine the consolidated ice cream truck drivers guild will be outraged by this.


Google Maps adds floor plans and walking directions for 20 US museums (Engadget)
Including Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Fiberlink to add 140 at new Philly office (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Marc Benioff, Lars Dalgaard, and David Sacks Are About To Do Battle, Says VC Who Backed Them All (SAI: Enterprise)


Starting Today: Try RJMetrics for Free without a Credit Card (RJMetrics Blog)

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phillytechnews: Chipper gets seeing eye single. My night is made Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:03 PM PDT phillytechnews: Chipper gets seeing eye single. My night is made

phillytechnews: @BrianMFloyd @neiltyson Well, they tried changing name to California Angels, also Anaheim Angels Posted: 10 Jul 2012 06:42 PM PDT phillytechnews: @BrianMFloyd @neiltyson Well, they tried changing name to California Angels, also Anaheim Angels

phillytechnews: Matt Harrison, yet another piece of the absurd Braves giveaway trade to rent Mark Teixera, makes first All-Star game

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Highlights: Last week on Philly Tech News (7/2/2012 to 7/8/2012)

Slow week with the 4th in the middle of it.

SAP and Ariba received a second request for information from the Department of Justice relating to SAP's bid to acquire Ariba. Not particularly unusual at this point.

After a period of being the unnamed but widely known bidder for Quest Software against Quest's existing PE backer Insight Venture Partners, Dell finally reached a deal to acquire Quest for $2.4 billion. The acquisition could have some synergistic effects for Dell Boomi in terms of products and channels.

First Round Capital was among the investors in Newark Mayor Cory Booker's personalized news startup for teens, #waywire.

The Inquirer reported on how Old City-based WebLinc survived the tech bust and came back to become a very successful ecommerce software firm.

Verizon Wireless claimed its proposed deal with a group of cable operators would not have an anticompetitive impact upon the wireless backhaul industry, which is becoming a big business for Comcast.

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Congratulations to NJTechWeekly.com (PTN partner) on one year anniversary

Tom Paine

NJTechWeekly.com, a website Philly Tech News has been proud to partner with in providing shared coverage of area tech news, yesterday announced its one year anniversary.

As one who strongly believes in taking a broader regional approach to covering the area's tech scene, I value NJTechWeekly.com and Editor & Publisher Esther Surden's contribution in providing unique coverage of New Jersey. I believe that tech happenings in Princeton, New Brunswick, Camden County and Trenton are often closely related to developments in Philadelphia. I would encourage New Jersey and Pennsylvania readers of Philly Tech News to take a close look at NJTechWeekly.com if you haven't already done so.



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