Top Philly companies on 2013 Inc. 5000
Here are Inc. Magazine's top companies in the Philly Metro area (based on revenue growth) on the 2013 Inc. 5000. Interesting numbers on some companies that I haven't seen before.
Here are Inc. Magazine's top companies in the Philly Metro area (based on revenue growth) on the 2013 Inc. 5000. Interesting numbers on some companies that I haven't seen before.
Links 8/21/2013: Comcast, NFL Films face legal issues
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Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal? (All Things D)
Ex-players suing NFL Films (AP)
Comcast threatens to sue news site for posting public court document (Ars Technica)
Comcast Looks to Block Sports Fans Suing Over High Cable TV Costs (Hollywood Reporter)
Goldman Sachs ponies up $40M to fund SugarCRM (Gigaom)
Amid Executive Changes, HP Posts Declining Q3 Revenue Of $27.2B As Its PC Division Weakens (TechCrunch)
PhillyDeals: SunGard leaders fighting to catch up (Philly.com)
Update: Clarification to earlier story.
Acumatica and the cloud ERP Game of Thrones (Diginomica)
Voxware Surges through FY 2013 with New Products, Users, and Customer Upgrades
Company realizes 5th consecutive quarter of growth (Business Wire)
Links 8/20/2013: Urban Outfitters increasingly sees itself as ecommerce company
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Birst Raises $38M Led By Sequoia To Expand Its Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Solutions (TechCrunch)
QlikTech competitor.
Violle, LLC and NewSpring Capital Complete Acquisition of Majority Interest in Utilipath, LLC (PR Newswire)
Urban Outfitters Chases Bohemian Shoppers Online (Business Week)
“We really started to think about ourselves as a pure play e-commerce company that happened to have really great, productive, differentiated stores in 500 locations around the world that’s relevant for our consumer,” - Matthew Kaness, chief strategy officer for Urban Outfitters, at a June conference.
Dell PartnerDirect Nears Software Integration (Channelnomics)
Rackspace adds dedicated VMware vCenter to hybrid cloud lineup
(ZDNet)
SAP takes fight to Salesforce.com, Oracle with social intelligence app (PC World)
InsPro Technologies Positioned in the “Challengers” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for North American Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems (Business Wire)
UnitedHealthcare's New Online Service Lets Consumers Pay Their Medical Bills Online and Better Manage Health Care Expenses
Enables consumers to pay their medical bills with their credit card, debit card, health savings account, or bank account via the InstaMed payments network (Business Wire)
Synnex, Comcast Join Forces For Telco Services Push
(CRN)
Hersha hotels add Comcast fiber (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
U.S. cable and telecom companies add 295,000 new subscribers in Q2
(Gigaom)
Links 8/19/2013: NewSpring leads $11 mm round in Open Road; TaskRabbit formally launches in Philly
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Open Road Secures $11 Million (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
Led by Radnor-based NewSpring Capital.
The battle for the marketing cloud (PandoDaily)
Mentions Monetate as a player.
Monetate seeking to employ 200 by year end
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
For what its worth, 200 by year end might be a bit less than what Monetate suggested to me in April.
TaskRabbit hops into 5 new markets, warren of taskrabbits now 15K strong (VentureBeat)
Philadelphia is one of them.
How hybrid cloud is transforming IT: An interview with Mike Maples, Jr. (VentureBeat)
Everyone is talking hybrid cloud now.
Late To The Game, Is VMware Turning Against OpenStack Or Embracing It? (TechCrunch)
Smartphones and tablets still secured using simple PINs, Fiberlink analysis finds (Techworld)
TWC’s Zelesko: J.V. With Comcast to Pave Way To Converged, All-Services Gateways (Multichannel News)
Google Fiber, Comcast Prep for Battle (Light Reading)
Patch Layoffs Hit New Jersey (NJ News Commons)
Video game company gambles on internet betting (Newark Star-Ledger)
Philly Tech People News 8/18/2013
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Fiberlink Adds New Vice President of Sales to Drive Growth in the Fortune 1000
Sales veteran Eric Cunningham brings success from Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Oracle
(PR Newswire)
Fiberlink Strengthens Channel Team to Drive Significant Expansion (PR Newswire)
TMG Health Appoints Charles Wayland Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (PR Newswire)
David S. Herron Joins BioClinica To Lead Imaging Core Lab Division (PR Newswire)
Theorem Clinical Research Adds Two Top-Level Executives to a Growing Team (Business Wire)
ESPN snags another Inquirer sports writer to cover Eagles
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
DreamIt co-founder sells his startup (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Berkeley Research Group Opens Philadelphia Office
(Marketwire)
Philadelphia Business Journal Selects Vladimir Bien-Aime as Recipient of its Minority Business Leader Awards (Press Release via Mortgage Daily)
Saturday Highlights 8/17/2013: Fox Sports 1 launches: NY Times on Penn astrobiology grad's wireless electricity startup
An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
(New York Times)
Fox Sports 1's Launch Week: Lebron James, Mike Tyson and Plenty of Regis Philbin (Hollywood Reporter)
SAP creates LAVA 'design language' to heat up analytics (PC World)
Fosscon 2013 – all done til 2014 (Ubuntu Pennsylvania Local Community Team)
Reports: Alibaba making large investment in Kynetic LLC's ShopRunner
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Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is reportedly set to make a major investment in ShopRunner, said to be in the $70 to $75 million range, for a minority stake in the two-day shipping service, according to both the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. There has been no confirmation from either company.
ShopRunner is a part of Michael Rubin's Conshohocken-based Kynetic LLC, and was spun off along with Fanatics Inc. and Rue La La from GSI Commerce when eBay acquired that company in 2011, although eBay maintained a stake in ShopRunner and Rue La La. ShopRunner is an alternative to Amazon Prime for other retailers. Although some of its client roster is shown here, little information has been released on its financial performance or number of subscribers.
Alibaba also recently invested in another Kynetic company, Fanatics Inc., in a round which valued the sports apparel retailer at $3.1 billion.
Ironically, the deal would reconnect ShopRunner CEO Scott Thompson indirectly to Yahoo, since that company owns about 25% of Alibaba. Thompson was forced out as Yahoo CEO due to a resume discrepancy in 2012. Alibaba is in the process of preparing for an IPO.
ShopRunner in the past called Conshohocken its headquarters, but its website now says it has a "seasoned team based in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York," and the Wall Street Journal says it is based in San Mateo. A look at ShopRunner's LinkedIn page suggests that a majority of its employees are based in the Philadelphia area, although most of the senior management team is in the Bay area.
A little more background on the deal from All Things D.
Links 8/16/2013: More questions about IBM cloud numbers; SAP billboard near Oracle HQ touts HANA
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Comcast, TWC Shoot for Video Unity (Multichannel News)
Judge Approves Verizon Deal Averting Monopoly (Courthouse News Service)
What is Verizon Wireless cooking up with its cable partners?
(FierceWireless)
Verizon Wireless exec suggested first product offering from JV might hit market in Q4.
Charter, Comcast SportsNet Northwest reach agreement to broadcast Trail Blazers games (Oregon Live)
NBCU's Steve Burke Gets Pay Raise in New Deal (Hollywood Reporter)
Sony Said to Win Rights to Viacom for TV Streaming Service (Bloomberg)
IBM's Cloud Business: Ex-Employee Divulges Shortfalls (Information Week)
Database Billboards: Times and Cars and Oracle Competitors Gone By (Dennis Moore/Enterprise Irregulars)
SAP’s UI makeover: Taking a measured approach to 300,000 screens
(Brian Sommer/ZDNet)
Peco to fast-track installing 'smart' meters (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Professors Jeffrey Popyack and William Mongan Receive IBM Award for Big Data and Analytics Project (Drexel University Computer Science)
Philly Newsrooms Innovating with Project Liberty Digital Incubators (MediaBistro)
Links 8/15/2013: Comcast, Time Warner Cable form joint venture for RDK project
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Comcast, TWC to Co-Manage Set-Top-Focused RDK Project
MSOs Form RDK Management LLC Joint Venture (Multichannel News)
Chambers: Cisco must 'fix set-top box business and migrate it to the cloud' (FierceCable)
Google reveals Fiber plans coming to Provo this year, including free 5 Mbps Internet after $30 construction fee (The Next Web)
Meanwhile, Broadband Reports cites a Comcast internal memo as indicating that Comcast will introduce new pricing in Provo prior to the launch of Google Fiber there.
Philly Fed Manufacturing Index Shows Sharply Slower Expansion (Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics)
Bipin's investors cash out of JetPay (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
VMware takes another whack at the cloud (Infoworld)
Bowing to the inevitable, Rackspace embraces hybrid cloud tech
(VentureBeat)
Lawmakers, SAP pointing fingers over failed payroll project (PC World)
Dell’s Profit Falls on Slowing PC Sales
(New York Times: Bits)
Apollo’s Harris and Blackstone’s Blitzer Strike Deal for Devils
(New York Times: DealBook)
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