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phillytechnews: RT @xpangler: Google Adds ESPN And Disney Nets To Fiber TV Diet http://t.co/ufg0XZkv Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:19 AM PDT phillytechnews: RT @xpangler: Google Adds ESPN And Disney Nets To Fiber TV Diet http://t.co/ufg0XZkv

phillytechnews: Notre Dame will leave Big East to join the ACC – http://t.co/krVuhK0C http://t.co/0R8XatsM Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:47 AM PDT phillytechnews: Notre Dame will leave Big East to join the ACC – http://t.co/krVuhK0C http://t.co/0R8XatsM

phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/11/2012: Janney's Wible considers Comcast long-term buy http://t.co/jL2UfWoB Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:18 AM PDT phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/11/2012: Janney's Wible considers Comcast long-term buy http://t.co/jL2UfWoB

phillytechnews: RT @TechCrunch: Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sach... http://t.co/CZ ... Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT phillytechnews: RT @TechCrunch: Preparing For An IPO, Online Customer Service Platform Zendesk Raises $60M From Redpoint, Goldman Sach... http://t.co/CZ ...

phillytechnews: @scarylawyer Too many teams in front of them, time running out Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:55 AM PDT phillytechnews: @scarylawyer Too many teams in front of them, time running out

phillytechnews: expect to pay even more for gas Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:18 AM PDT phillytechnews: expect to pay even more for gas

phillytechnews: Libyan situation giant f/u Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:17 AM PDT phillytechnews: Libyan situation giant f/u

phillytechnews: RT @WSJ: U.S. missions stormed in Libya, Egypt as demonstrators protest a film by a U.S. producer deemed insulting to Islam. http://t.co ... Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:27 PM PDT phillytechnews: RT @WSJ: U.S. missions stormed in Libya, Egypt as demonstrators protest a film by a U.S. producer deemed insulting to Islam. http://t.co ...

phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/11/2012: Janney's Wible considers Comcast long-term buy http://t.co/ghK7MfYM Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:47 PM PDT phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/11/2012: Janney's Wible considers Comcast long-term buy http://t.co/ghK7MfYM

phillytechnews: Says bet too much on HTML5; now focused on native. Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:19 PM PDT phillytechnews: Says bet too much on HTML5; now focused on native.

phillytechnews: Zuckerberg talks a mile a minute - is he always so hyper? Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:18 PM PDT phillytechnews: Zuckerberg talks a mile a minute - is he always so hyper?

phillytechnews: Highlights last week on Philly Tech News (9/3/2012 to 9/9/2012) http://t.co/g6TGcGuY Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT phillytechnews: Highlights last week on Philly Tech News (9/3/2012 to 9/9/2012) http://t.co/g6TGcGuY

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IMPACT 2012, to be held in early November, intends to attract more out of town investors; Friday deadline to apply to present

Tom Paine





PACT, the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (formerly the MAC Alliance) is holding its annual IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic on November 7 & 8 at the Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia and the Crystal Tea Room. The conference is hosted by Ernst & Young.

The deadline to apply to present and be a "featured company" at IMPACT 2012 is this Friday, September 14. (Update: the deadline has been extended to Friday, September 21.) Featured companies will be broken out into four tracks: Technology, Healthcare, Clean Technology, and a separate category focused on emerging growth companies. IMPACT is looking for 15 to 18 companies in the Technology and Healthcare tracks, and 6 to 10 in the other two. There is no charge to those selected to present as featured companies. You can apply here.


This year, IMPACT is broadening its scope and appeal by working actively to attract more VC firms from up & down the east coast between Boston and DC, as well as some from the west coast, Ernst & Young LLP Partner, East Central Strategic Growth Markets Leader and Chairman, IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic Andrew (AJ) Jordan told me in a phone interview. He is seeking to draw ten to twelve out of town firms that haven't attended in the past. Traditionally, local VC firms have been the main participants. The goal, Jordan says, is to expose more outside investors to the Philly startup and emerging company scene, encourage more partnering on investments between local and out of town firms, and hopefully demonstrate a technology and healthcare ecosystem that will bring these firms back to the area in the future, as well as giving participating presenters more options for finding investors.

Steve Case

The keynote speaker will be AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case, who currently is Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, which includes Revolution Ventures, an east coast-focused VC firm. In 2011, Case was selected by President Obama to serve as Chairman of the Startup America Partnership, a group that supports young entrepreneurial startup companies. Coincidentally, Case and President Obama briefly attended the same school in Hawaii at the same time. Fox sportscaster Joe Buck will also keynote at lunch on Wednesday, coming right off the World Series.

Another change this year is the primary venue. IMPACT 2012 will held at the Ritz-Carlton, instead of the Pennsylvania Convention Center where it has been held frequently in recent years. Jordan hopes the Ritz-Carlton will give the event a more intimate and compact atmosphere. The closing reception will be held at the Crystal Tea Room in the Wanamaker Building on Wednesday evening.

IMPACT 2012 is expanding its reduced rate program for qualified entrepreneurs this year. The first 200 who qualify can attend the entire conference for $200 (This does not include a presenting spot, which must be applied for separately.)

As it did last year, PACT is co-presenting IMPACT 2012 with AlwaysOn, the Silicon Valley-based firm that analyzes the tech industry and helps organize conferences. AlwaysOn is expected to release its AlwaysOn Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 Top Companies by early October. The nomination process appears to still be open on the AlwayOn website.


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Daily Links 9/12/2012: Area newspapers under the gun

Open letter to John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media - In the wake of the Journal Register's second Chapter 11 filing, Bill Grueskin writes a "Dear John" letter about its failed digital strategy (Columbia Journalism Review)

Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC; Combines Four Community News Groups for Growth, Best Practices (Business Wire)

Guild: Philly paper owners want concessions (AP via Sacramento Bee)

SAP Plans Mobile Expansion to Capitalize on Phones, Tablets (Bloomberg)

Amazon Web Services launches marketplace for reselling cloud capacity (ZDNet)

Geek of the Week: Chris Stanchak, Founder & CEO of TicketLeap (Geekadelphia)



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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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