Daily Links 11/6/2012: Cable industry trying to go Silicon Valley

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Cable industry seeks out Silicon Valley pizzazz (Reuters)

Liberty Interactive Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results (Business Wire)
QVC revenue increases 2%, and operating income grows 11%. QVC.com now accounts for 39% of US revenue.

Yep, There Have Been Problems With Email Voting in New Jersey (All Things D)

A Historical Odyssey: What Is QlikView? (Henric Cronström/QlikCommunity)

Workday unveils 'worst-kept secret': a recruiting platform
(ZDNet)

Here's Why 16 Fisker Karmas Burned During Hurricane Sandy (Business Insider)

Cablevision Reports Surprise Loss After Paying Down Debt (Bloomberg)

Ergen: DirecTV Merger Could Work
But Dish Chairman Says There Are No Ongoing Talks (Multichannel News)

DirecTV’s Subscriber Gains Slow; Dish Posts Loss on Legal Costs (Bloomberg)

Amazon Matches Netflix Price With Monthly Subscription Offer (Wall Street Journal: Digits)




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IMPACT Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 2012 this week (Nov 7th & 8th)

Tom Paine

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Philly PACT's IMPACT Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 2012 is set to take place on this Wednesday and Thursday (the 7th & 8th), mostly at the Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia. Since I wrote about it in September, the full agenda and roster of presenters has been fleshed out. The featured presenting companies, 46 by my rough count in Healthcare, Technology, Clean Tech and Early Stage are listed here. Keynoter Steve Case, Ed Rendell, QlikTech CEO Lars Bjork, Heartland Payments Chairman & CEO Robert Carr, iPipeline CEO Tim Wallace, Genacast Ventures Managing Partner Gil Beyda, and Philly Startup Leaders President and appRenaissance CEO Bob Moul are among those who will appear.

A key objective for this year was to make it less of an intramural event among Philly investors and attract more out of town VCs. It is an important event for showing off the Philly startup scene to other parts of the country.


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Daily Links 11/5/2012: Supreme Court hears Comcast appeal of suit's class action status today

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Supreme Court may raise hurdles to class actions again (Fortune)
Hears Comcast appeal in Philly suit today.

Class Action Cases Divide U.S. Supreme Court (Bloomberg)

As Netflix Pops Its Poison Pill, Wall Street Struggles to Find Icahn a Buyer (Peter Kafka/All Things D)

Time Warner Cable misses on falling video demand (Reuters)

CableLabs Lands Device-Security Deals With NetworkFX Unit (Multichannel News)

Cablevision and NBCUniversal sign distribution deal (LA Times: Company Town)

Workday targets SAP, Oracle with enterprise apps (Computerworld)

Trimble's Provisioning of the Connected Work Site and Bentley's Provisioning of Virtual Positioning Leverages 3D Precision for Construction and Operations
Quality, Efficiency, and Safety (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Social Media Marketing Firm HubSpot Adds $35 Million in Funding (Kara Swisher/All Things D)

Jive Acquires Innovative Companies Meetings.io and Producteev (Globe Newswire)

ICG Announces Third Quarter Financial Results
Company Reports Record Revenue and the Achievement of Important Strategic Milestones (Globe Newswire)

Alteva parent WVT Communications Group Commences Corporate Restructuring (Marketwire)



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Philly Tech People News 11/4/2012

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John Chen

SAP Loses Sybase’s Chen After Gaining Blueprint for Deals (Bloomberg)

RES Software Names Technology Leader Greg Butterfield as Independent Chairman (Business Wire)

InterDigital Announces Key Appointments to Management Team (Business Wire)

Entercom Announces General Counsel and Executive Vice President Jack Donlevie Will Retire in 2015
Entercom Promotes Andrew Sutor to Senior Vice President and General Counsel (Business Wire)

MRO Corp.’s CTO David Borden Appointed to the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority (Business Wire)

ShopNBC promotes its e-commerce director to chief operating officer
Carol Steinberg’s previous title was executive vice president of e-commerce, marketing and human resources. (Internet Retailer)
QVC veteran.





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New Jersey will let citizens displaced by Hurricane Sandy vote by email or fax (The Verge)

In Sandy’s Aftermath, Epic Challenges for Data Centers (Data Center Knowledge)

This Exec Has An Outrageous Plan To Make SAP Bigger In Mobile Than Apple (SAI:Enterprise)

SAP Business ByDesign Hits Milestone in Market Momentum (Lars Dalgaard/SAP Community Network)
Not too specific on ByDesign progress.

Twitter kills my RSS twitter feed

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As part of its ceaseless war against RSS, Twitter has apparently killed off the format
I was using to deliver an RSS feed of my twitter stream. For those of you who were subscribers, I am looking for a way to replace it. Any suggestions, let me know.

Saturday Highlights 11/3/2012: SAP's plans for Ariba, Social

SAP’s Marketplace Dream (New York Times: Bits)

SAP Goes Social (Michael Fauscette/Enterprise Irregulars)

SAP Restarts Its Usability Efforts With Start-Up Spirit (ASUG News)

Telling the First Round Capital story... (Redeye VC)

Ben Franklin Tech Partners hosts 54-hour event (Lehigh Valley Business)

Daily Links 11/2/2012: Modest crowds for iPad mini release in Philly

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Modest crowds greet iPad mini's release (Macworld)

Sandy exposes gaps in wireless system during emergency
(Washington Post: Post Tech)


Verizon, Cablevision Race to Repair Networks as Outages Linger (Bloomberg)

Comcast Joins Cablevision in Offering Credits After Sandy (Bloomberg)

With 600 Clients, Curalate Launches Pinterest Contest and Promotions Tool (BetaKit)

TIBCO Software and Siemens Healthcare Expand Strategic Alliance (Marketwire)

Readying for 'The Facebook of the Enterprise' (Insider Learning Network)

Salesforce.com Competitor SugarCRM May Shoot for IPO in 2013 (Bloomberg)

CableLabs Sets Its Sights on Silicon Valley (Light Reading Cable)

Trail Blazers to stream Comcast games (Portland Business Journal)

Of Philadelphia talent venturing to New York (Peter Key/Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 11/1/2012: First Round Capital adds partner, capital; more enterprise, hardware?

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First Round Capital Adds Former LiveOps CEO Bill Trenchard As Partner; Raises Over $20M More (TechCrunch)

First Round gets a new partner, jumps into enterprise and hardware (PandoDaily)

Welcoming Bill Trenchard (Redeye VC)

Newly-Minted Billionaire Is Spinning eBay Scraps Into Gold (Forbes)
On Kynetics LLC's Michael Rubin.

FCC: Cable Outages Drop to 12%-14%
Commission Says Getting Fuel to Generators is Priority (Multichannel News)

SAP goes after Salesforce.com with new social software products, strategy
SAP Jam links software acquired with SuccessFactors to SAP's StreamWork (Computerworld UK)

JDA Software to go private in $1.9 billion deal (Reuters)

SunGard: A Day In the Cloud Documentary (Video/ChannelPartner
Online.com)
PR-ish, but worth a look. Inside view of SunGard Availability's Spring Garden Street
operations center, and explanation of its Cloud strategy.

SunGard Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results (Business Wire)
Shrink management expert experiences continued shrinkage.

Heartland Payments rises on 3Q, stronger guidance (AP via NBCNews)

Monetate Growth Continues to Surge Driven by Online Marketers' Demand for Real-Time Personalization (Marketwire)

Netflix: Thanks For the Advice, Carl (Peter Kafka/All Things D)



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PhillyForce/Philly SaaS Meetup on November 5 features IDC's Michael Fauscette

Tom Paine

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PhillyForce, the Philadelphia area user group for the Salesforce.com, Force.com, and Database.com community organized by Ami Assayag @amiassayag and Matthew Botos @BotosCloud, in combination with Philly SaaS (organized by Chris Allan @chrisallan), have a real headliner for their Monday, November 5 meetup (6 pm at LiquidHub in Wayne). The presenter will be industry analyst Michael Fauscette, Group Vice President, Software Business Solutions at IDC. His subject will be "Moving from CRM to Customer Experience; How social, mobile, cloud and big data are changing the way companies interact and engage customers".

Michael Fauscette

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Fauscette held senior consulting and services roles with seven software vendors including Autodesk, Inc., PeopleSoft, Inc. and MRO, Inc. You can follow his blog here, or follow him on Twitter @mfauscette. Although he has a broad background in enterprise software, his emphasis lately has been on social applications in the enterprise cloud environment.

Food and drink is being sponsored by the hosts at LiquidHub, and there will be time for informal networking before and after the talk.

Another big event for Salesforce.com fans to put on their calendar is Cloudforce Essentials Philadelphia 2013, to be held on January 15, 2013 at the The Hyatt at The Bellevue.

Update: Here is the first part of a video from Michael Fauscette's presentation at the PhillyForce/Philly SaaS meetup on November 5. Also the slide deck from the
presentation is available here (pdf).


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Daily Links 10/31/2012: Storm aftermath on data centers, telecom, Fisker

Generators Keep NJ Data Centers Humming (Data Center Knowledge)

Sandy downed 25 percent of cell masts, says FCC (ZDNet)

Comcast offers free Wi-Fi service to all in Sandy's path (CNET News)


Here’s what the Internet looked like on the East Coast during Sandy (Gigaom)

At Least 16 Fisker Karmas Drown, Catch Fire at New Jersey Port (Wired)

Here's SAP's Latest Challenge To Marc Benioff (SAI: Enterprise)

CMO Close-Up with Jonathan Becher, CMO at SAP (BtoB Magazine)

Netflix shares surge as Icahn takes 10% stake (CNNMoney)

Walmart to Sell Boxee’s Internet DVR (Multichannel News)

CSG touts deployments with Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable (FierceCable)



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