phillytechnews twitter feed 9/30 to 10/1 2012

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phillytechnews: Daily Links 10/1/2012: Workday sets IPO range; would value company at up to $3.85 billion http://t.co/Vd7pHEtN Posted: 01 Oct 2012 03:13 PM PDT

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Daily Links 10/2/2012: Deutsche Telekom reported near deal with MetroPCS; Clearwire may delay LTE build

iPipeline Announces Appointment of Paul Melchiorre as New President (Business Wire)

Ex-Ariba, SAP exec takes top job at iPipeline (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

NetSuite Updates With “Two-Tier” Version for Larger Companies
(All Things D)
Marketing partners will include Dell Boomi.

Oracle sheds more light on database 12c, Exadata X3 (Computerworld)

Oracle's Ellison focused on Cloud, not deals (Reuters)

SAP Exec: Oracle CEO's Claim 'Fries My Brain' (SAI: Enterprise)


Deutsche Telekom Said to Near Deal With MetroPCS in U.S. (Bloomberg)

Clearwire May Delay Network Buildout as Comcast Converts Stake (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Meet The Ubuntu Women - They're More Involved Than You Think (ReadWriteWeb)
Features former Philadelphia resident Elizabeth Krumbach.

SunGard Partners with Regus to Power Expansion of its Workplace Availability Business to 550 Cities Worldwide
Agreement represents a 2,000% growth in available workplace recovery facilities for SunGard Availability Services’ customers (Business Wire)

Fisker CEO Still Aiming to Make Plug-in Cars in Delaware (Bloomberg)

University City District celebrates 15 year anniversary (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Internet-only grocer now making rounds in Philly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lockeed Martin win: Protest of big defense contract by SAIC denied (Philadelphia Business Journal)


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SAP completes Ariba acquisition

SAP today announced it had closed its acquisition of Ariba, now valued at $4.51 billion.

SAP had announced late Friday that the Department of Justice had completed its review,
terminating the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period, evidently without requiring any conditions.

Dennis Howlett looks at what might happen next.



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Daily Links 10/1/2012: Workday sets IPO range; would value company at up to $3.85 billion

Workday sets IPO terms valuing company at up to $3.85 billion (Reuters via San Jose Mercury News)
Scheduled to be priced on October 11.

Oracle’s Ellison Says Server, Database to Challenge SAP (Bloomberg)

SAP to Reach 2015 Cloud Target Without More M&A, McDermott Says (Bloomberg)

SAP: Warm, Good Vibe About ‘Hana,’ Says Barclays (Barron's: Tech Trader
Daily)

Here's What Happened When We Got On The Phone With Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson (Silicon Alley Insider)

How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
Federal Circuit Appeals Court marks 30 years of spreading the "patent gospel."
(Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
Timothy B. Lee is a Philadelphia-based writer on tech policy issues.

Did Lockheed Martin Just Win Virginia for Obama? (The Atlantic Wire)
A bit of an overstatement, I'm sure. But its worth noting that Lockheed is the eighth
largest employer in the Philly area with 9200 employees, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Comcast SportsNet Houston to launch Monday (Houston Business Journal)

Comcast protests fiber firm's plan to piggyback on Ramsey County project (St. Paul Business Journal)

Value Of Early Fisker Stake Drops By Two-Thirds After New Money (Green Car Reports)

Devon IT Expands Offices In China and India Sparked by Growing Demand for Thin Clients and Virtualized Desktops in Asia Pacific Market (Business Wire)



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Philly Tech People News 9/30/2012

Quality Systems appoints COO (AP via Business Week)
Quality Systems' primary business is EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare of Horsham.

Ex-Yahoo! Chief Thompson Gets a Spot on the Board of Kabbage (Business Week)

Nutrisystem still searching (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Anexinet Hires Susan Haindl as
Vice President of Delivery (Anexinet Web Site)

Meet Arcweb (Chris Cera)

Richard Fox Joins TMMI Advisory Board (Marketwire)

TelVue Corporation Appoints Emmett Hume as Chief Financial Officer (Marketwire)




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The 'disrupters' who open up the city to possibility (Larry Platt/Philly.com)

DOJ clears SAP's $4.3 billion Ariba acquisition; to close next week

Tom Paine

SAP AG and Ariba Inc. announced yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice has terminated the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, which allows SAP's acquisition of Ariba to be completed. The companies say they plan to close the acquisition in the first week of October.

SAP annnounced an agreement to acquire California-based Ariba for $4.3 billion in May. Ariba provides a cloud-based service for B2B business commerce and procurement.

SAP and Ariba had received a second request for information from DOJ in early July.



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Saturday Highlights: Comcast preps for Supreme Court; explains the Comcast Hardware Innovation Platform

Comcast antitrust case heading to U.S. Supreme Court (Philadelphia Inquirer)

How the Comcast Hardware Innovation Platform Powers Tomorrow's Technology (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Comcast Ventures among investors in video search firm Ramp (Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine)

Salesforce.com, Enterprise Platforms, and the End of the End of Software (Josh Greenbaum/Enterprise Irregulars)

Why Amazon and Salesforce are pulling away from the cloud pack (Gigaom)




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phillytechnews twitterfeed 9/26 to 9/27

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phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/27/2012: Comcast invests in Zeebox, will incorporate its technology http://t.co/wfPZSoDD Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/27/2012: Comcast invests in Zeebox, will incorporate its technology http://t.co/wfPZSoDD

phillytechnews: SAP NetWeaver Cloud platform as a service release could be soon - Computerworld http://t.co/Fr6AItDU Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:23 PM PDT

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Wall Street Journal names 50 "Next Big Thing" startups; none local, First Round Capital well represented

Tom Paine

The Wall Street Journal this week released its list of  50 "Next Big Thing" startups. The selections are chosen from privately held, venture-backed firms with valuations of less than $1 billion, to emphasize those with considerable potential that aren't that widely known yet.

There are no companies from anywhere near Philly on it, and only a handful from the east coast. The closest is video conferencing startup Vidyo, which is based in Hackensack. There are also a few that are based in New York. Whether this reflects a west coast bias, or simply the reality of where most of the VC money goes, I don't know.

First Round Capital did well, having four of its portfolio companies make it:

• Keep Holdings -AdKeeper,  online ad saving technology (New York)
• Tremor Video - Video technology for content and advertising (New York)
• UberMedia - Bid-based marketplace for Twitter (Pasedena)
• RockMelt - social web brower  (Mountain View)

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Daily Links 9/28/2012: Oracle plans cloud push at OpenWorld; how Bussmann elevated CIO role at SAP

Oracle Plans Cloud Push to Take On Salesforce, Workday (Bloomberg)

IBM Readies “Project Sparta” Aimed at Simplifying Big Data
(All Things D)

IBM looks to build out its cloud through partners
Big Blue will offer grants for resellers to invest in IBM technology, launch marketing campaigns (Network World)

How Oliver Bussmann Elevated the Role of CIO at SAP
(Wall Street Journal: The CIO Report)

The End of the Cash Register? Urban Outfitters Will Ring You Up With iPads (The Atlantic)

UPDATE: Comcast Employees Approach Relocation Deadline (Doylestown Patch)

Clearwire Slides As Time Warner Eyes Exit; Is Comcast Next? (Forbes)

Allscripts Said to Be Exploring Possible Sale (Bloomberg)


T-Mobile Leases Its Towers for $2.4 Billion to Fund Its LTE Plans (All Things D)

MetroPCS Reportedly Holding Talks With Potential Suitors (Forbes)

Health tech is ‘falling out of favor with VCs’? Not quite (Gigaom)

Podcamp East set for media training (Wilmington News Journal)



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