Highlights last week on Philly Tech News (9/3/2012 to 9/9/2012)

I look at what had happened to the companies on Philly Tech News' "Young Companies To Watch" from one year ago: ten of the thirty have since been acquired.

Once is not enough: Yardley-based newspaper chain Journal Register filed for bankruptcy for a second time. This time it is to be sold; I wonder if there are any potential local buyers for its Philly-area papers?

A reasonably credible source (The 451 Group) said that Blue Bell-based Fiberlink, whose software helps provide security for mobile devices accessing corporate networks, is looking for a buyer. This would not be surprising, as the company has been looking towards an exit for some time, and an IPO may be too high a hill for it to climb right now.

Apple's talks with media companies (including Comcast) aimed at gaining content for iTV are reported to have bogged down over inevitable conflicts related to the differences in their business models. Speaking of Apple, Business Week did a story on some high-profile Apple bloggers focusing on Philly's John Gruber.

Oracle appealed in federal court to have the $1.3 billion verdict against SAP in the TomorrowNow case, which was sharply reduced by the trial judge, reinstated.

And Neat Company, which in July announced the introduction of its NeatCloud and NeatMobile for iOS products, followed up last week by releasing NeatMobile for Android.


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Daily Links 9/11/2012: Janney's Wible considers Comcast long-term buy

How Google Fiber is not like Verizon FiOS (The Technology Liberation Front)

Is Comcast really a tech stock? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Janney Capital starts Comcast at 'Buy' (AP via Business Week)

Time Warner Cable Inks 'TV Everywhere' Deal With Viacom (Multichannel News)

Salesforce To Compete Against Box With New, Cloud-Based File Sharing Product (TechCrunch)

iCIMS Acquires Jobmagic, Provider of Innovative Social Recruiting Solutions (PR Newswire)
Based in Matawan, NJ, iCIMS received a $35 million minority investment from Bala Cynwyd-based Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) early this year.

Interview with Dr. David Blumenthal, Former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Medgadget)

Elsevier Acquires ExitCare, Provider of Patient Education Solutions (PR Newswire)

Dominion Announces Acquisition of Eigen X (PR Newswire)
Eigen X is based in Wayne.



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Daily Links 9/10/2012: Warby Parker raises $37 mm; LLR Partners raising new fund

Warby Parker raises $37 million (Fortune: Term Sheet)
Founded by former UPenn students; First Round Capital an early backer.

LLR Partners Is Officially Fundraising For Its Latest Pool (PE Hub)

Meet Dreamit Ventures Philly’s New Class of Startups (PandoDaily)

Penn Researchers Make First All-optical Nanowire Switch (Penn News)

Infosys acquires Swiss SAP consultant Lodestone (CIO.com)

Epicor Goes Upmarket With Cloud ERP, Targets SAP, NetSuite (PC World)

Dell, Ramco join hands to leverage ERP-as-a-service on the cloud (Times of India)

SAP, Adaptive Planning, Good Data Step Up Cloud Competition (Information Week)

Oracle sues ex-partner on similar grounds as SAP, TomorrowNow, Rimini Street (PC World)

Google Fiber is coming to 90% of eligible Kansas City neighborhoods (Gigaom)

Subscriber data from Internet service providers (AP via Business Week)

Futura Mobility, LLC Launches mHealth and Telemedicine Solutions (Business Wire)

QVC cues ties with CAA
Shopping channel is looking for more media opportunities (Variety)

Philly Tech People News 9/9/2012

Software Industry Veteran Tim Buckley Joins Xtium as CEO (PR Web)

Philly Ad Club names Paul Blake president (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Akshaya Mehta Joins VINtek as Executive Vice President of Technology and Strategic Planning (Business Wire)


GS1 US and GS1 Germany Complete Joint Venture, Uniting 1SYNC and SA2 Worldsync Subsidiaries Into 1WorldSync (Business Wire)

Electronic Ink Welcomes Raegan Hoeft, Ph.D., as Senior Researcher (Electronic Ink News)

Meehan named Bentley Systems Incorporated Chair of Civil Engineering (University of Delaware UDaily)




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Feministization Diversification Rantification (Jackie Lea Shelley)
Points out lack of diversity among First Round Capital partners. While true at this time, I think you've also got to look at the diversity that does exist within its portfolio companies' senior management ranks.

Neat Company releases NeatMobile for Android

Tom Paine

In July, I wrote about Philadelphia-based Neat Company, the pioneer in providing technology for scanning and digitizing information from paper sources such as receipts and business card, launching its first mobile app, NeatMobile for iOS, and its cloud-based offering, NeatCloud. On Wednesday, Neat released NeatMobile for Android into general availability.

NeatMobile for Android includes the same features as the iOS app:

Acquire - Users can quickly capture important information by using the camera on their smartphone.

Sync - NeatMobile for Android automatically synchronizes with all other versions of Neat's Digital Filing System including Neat's desktop software, NeatCloud, and other mobile devices - ensuring that all content is accessible from anywhere.

Access - Android users can now use their mobile devices to quickly view all the information in a Neat Digital Filing System while on the go.

Search - NeatMobile for Android leverages OCR and parsing to transform information in the Neat Digital Filing System into searchable data. In addition to OCR and parsing, NeatMobile users can also signup for NeatVerify, a monthly subscription service that ensures that data taken from images is 99% accurate.





NeatMobile for Android is free for subscribers to the top two tiers of NeatCloud service ($15 to $25 per month). It is available for download from the Google Play store.

The company had told me it had sold about 1 million total units of its NeatReciepts handheld scanner and NeatDesk desktop scanner combined prior to releasing NeatMobile and NeatCloud in July.



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Daily Links 9/7/2012: Business Week on John Gruber

Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger (Business Week)
On John Gruber.

Verizon CEO: Samsung could be 'dark horse' with own mobile OS (CNET News)

SAP HANA: Demystified, Discussed and Dissected (ASUG News)

10 questions you need to ask your SAP HANA hardware vendor (John Appleby/Bluefin Solutions)

Verizon may expand DVR capacity with network storage (FierceCable)

With 2 days left, Google Fiber has signed up 21,000 (Gigaom)

Delaware HIE wants to be 'another pillar' of health information (Government Health IT)

Sparta Systems Named 2012 Software Company of the Year by New Jersey Technology Council (Marketwire)
Sparta Systems CEO Eileen Martinson is married to John Martinson, the founder of Edison Ventures.



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phillytechnews: RT @njtechwkly: Flemington-based Greenlight Technologies Wins Best Big Data Solution Award at SAP Start-Up Forum!

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Daily Links 9/6/2012: Apple talks with broadcasters, cable ops said to be stuck

Apple TV No IPhone As Talks Bog Down With Media Companies (Bloomberg)

The Powers That Be: Brian Roberts and Steve Burke (2) (Vanity Fair)

NBC Broke Even on London Olympic Games, Head of Sports Says (Bloomberg)

FIOS TV exec: Cord cutting is growing, and changing the TV biz (Gigaom)


Newspaper Publisher Journal Register Files for Bankruptcy and Plans for a Sale (NY Times: Media Deocoder)

AT&T 4G LTE Coming To Philadelphia In 2012 (PR Newswire)

AT&T in Spectrum Spree to Catch Verizon (Bloomberg)

SAP executive: HANA customer count nearing 600, pricing tweaks on tap (PC World)

Greenlight Technologies Wins Best Big Data Solution Award at SAP Start-Up Forum
Greenlight Enterprise Business Controls Monitoring Technology Compliments SAP HANA In-Memory Data Analysis for High Volume Transaction Risk Analysis (Marketwire)

Move Over, Marc Benioff: Aneel Bhusri Is King Of The Cloud (SAI: Enterprise)

USA Technologies Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012 (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 9/5/2012: Journal Register files for bankruptcy, up for sale; Fiberlink M&A target?

Renewed rumors in MDM M&A, spotlight on Fiberlink (451 Group: Inorganic Growth)
Fiberlink is based in Blue Bell, although it recently opened an office in Philadelphia.

10 Questions for Fiberlink CFO Mark Partin (PC World)

Another Tough Step (John Paton/Digital First)
Yardley-based Journal Register files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, will be sold, parent company CEO announces.

Journal Register Company files for bankruptcy (Poynter)


Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds (TechCrunch)

SAP Is Morgan Stanley's New Best Idea; Bullish On HANA (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Oracle Wins Partial Victory in School's Software Project Lawsuit (PC World)

Qlik Shares Rally As Morgan Stanley Turns Bullish (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Astea International Launches ServiceVision(TM): Cloud-Based Solution that Will Transform the Way Small and Midsize Businesses Deliver Service (PR Newswire)
Astea is based in Horsham.

Kenexa Releases the Industry’s First Social LMS, an Integral Part of Its Learning Suite (Business Wire)
Perhaps adds more substance to the emphasis IBM place on "social business" when it announced the acquisition last week.

Cable Industry Courts Network DVR (Zatz Not Funny!)

Good news for Del.: Fisker says Atlantic is a priority (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc)
What is the probability of a single Fisker automobile ever coming out of that Delaware plant?