Links 9/10/2013: NextDocs receives $13.5 million in funding; Shake-up at NBCUniversal

Shake-up at NBCUniversal reflects foreign focus
NBCUniversal names Jeff Shell its top film exec as Meyer moves to an advisory role..
(LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast V.C. Arm Joins Benu Networks’ $26.6 Million ‘B’ Round (Multichannel News)

NextDocs Receives $13.5 Million in Funding to Fuel Expansion (PR Newswire)


SAP Extends the Power of Predictive Analytics to Unlock Big Data With Acquisition of KXEN (PR Newswire)

SAP Buying KXEN For Predictive Analytics Tools (Information Week)



SAP pumps $40m into Virtustream to boost cloud delivery (ZDNet)

Workday aims anew at Oracle with planned software for higher ed (PC World)

Cisco enters data storage market with purchase of Whippany, NJ-based Whiptail (Reuters)
Pays steep price/revenue ratio to enter flash storage market.

PTC Expands Technology Deployment Options with Acquisition of Hosting Provider NetIDEAS
Deal Strengthens Long-Time, Successful Relationship Delivering Hosted PLM Software to Customers Worldwide (Business Wire)
NetIDEAS is based in Marlton.

Penn Medicine Streamlines Data Sharing With Startups (Information Week)

Active Data Exchange Acquires WebEvent Solution From Asure Software (Business Wire)

Artisan Launches Industry-First Partner Program for Mobile App Conversion Rate Optimization (Business Wire)

Links 9/9/2013: Drexel forming new College of Computing and Informatics

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DREXEL ANNOUNCES NEW COLLEGE OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS (Drexel Now)

Deloitte gobbles enterprise software specialists
(ZDNet)

SAP focuses on stability, data source support with Business Objects update (PC World)


Why SunGard AS Chose CloudStack (Data Center Knowledge)

Unisys takes on the big names in x86 servers with mainframe technologies (IT World)

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires Mirth Corporation (Business Wire)
Quality says acquisition will "accelerate {Healthcare Transformation Strategies of QSI’s [Horsham-based]NextGen Healthcare Subsidiary and Mirth".

Aramark files plans to go public again (AP via Boston Globe)

OLED CEO Lists Blue Material, Lighting, Thin-Films, Vapor Printing Among Goals (Barron's: Tech Trader
Daily)

NBC spreads its wings on Sixth Avenue (New York Post)
Should pretty much rebut ridiculous rumors about Comcast relocating NBC stuff to Philly.



Comcast Begins EA Games Pilot (Light Reading)

NBCU Switch-Up: Esquire Network to Take Over Style, Not G4 (Exclusive) (Hollywood Reporter)

Live From Tokyo? NBC Faces a Time Shift for the 2020 Olympics (Business Week)



PACT Announces IMPACT 2013 Venture Summit Full Conference Lineup (Business Wire)

How Infor CEO Charles Phillips Is Quietly Becoming The 'Steve Jobs' Of Business Software
(Business Insider)

Verizon’s bid to kill network neutrality law goes to court Monday (Ars Technica)

Philly Tech News TidBits 9/8/2013: Novotorium, Recovery Networks, Async Interview

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Novotorium, the Langhorne-based business incubator, will hold a program featuring classes and individual guidance for health, wellness and nutrition startups on Monday, September 16, through Friday, September 20. The program will be followed by a business plan competition on Monday, September 23 with a prize of $2,500 in cash and $3,000 in services to the top business in the competition. Companies may apply to participate in the program at the Novotorium website; there is no cost to participate.

Recovery Networks, the cloud backup and recovery solutions provider based in the Philadelphia Naval Yard industrial park, was recently named to the 2013 CRN Next-Gen 250, which CRN says "identifies solution providers that are on the cutting edge of technology and business model shifts". Recovery Networks' primary data center is located within the Philadelphia Technology Park. It provides backup and recovery solutions for both hybrid and private clouds.

Philadelphia-based Async Interview,an online video interviewing platform provider, announced last week the integration of its product with iCIMS, a New Jersey-based leader in SaaS talent management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Philly Tech People News 9/8/2013

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Gretchen Roede Starts Broadpath Strategic Communications
Full Service Public Relations Firm Addresses the Particular Demands of Technology Companies (Business Wire)

Constellation Names Bridgette Chambers as New CEO – Founder Ray Wang Will Continue to Drive Market-Leading Research Strategy as Chairman and Lead Analyst (Business Wire)

Dennis M. Wint, Esteemed Franklin Institute President and CEO, to Conclude His Nearly 20-Year Tenure (PR Newswire)

SAP Names Ross Wainwright Global Head of Financial Services Industries (PR Newswire)

Cisco recruits former Motorola exec Cozzolino in reorganization of cable division (Fierce Cable)

HealthCore Hires Leading Industry Consultant to Head Big Data, Real-World Evidence, Payor and Provider Solutions (Business Wire)

Vizant Technologies Expands Global Sales Operations with New UK Office
Jasmine Raja will lead Vizant’s new office to expand service to European market (Business Wire)

Pet360 EVP & CMO Named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013 Women in the Pet Industry Awards (Marketwire)

LevLane adds Courtney Mullen as digital media supervisor (Philly Ad Club News)

Saturday Highlights 9/7/2013: Wilmington ranks #12 on Kauffman Foundation list of top startup hubs; Philly didn't make it

The 'Perfect Storm' For Fiberlink Partner Program (CRN)
Some interesting bits of information on Blue Bell-based Fiberlink.

How Bill Gates and Google are linked via O3B’s satellite broadband deal with Kymeta (GeekWire)
Bala Cynwd-based Osage University Partners recently joined with Gates and others in a $50 million round in Kymeta.

The 20 Hottest Startup Hubs In America (Business Insider)
Wilmington ranks #12, but Philadelphia is not on it. But I've never had much confidence in
the data sources The Kauffman Foundation uses to compile these ranking.

Hamilton technology company changes the way college and professional sports are broadcast (Times of Trenton)

Philadelphia-based insurance SaaS vendor Unirisx raises $11.5 million

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Philadelphia-based property & casualty insurance SaaS provider Unirisx has raised $11.5 million in equity, according to an SEC Form D filed in late August and reported by FormDs.com.

Unirisx raised $7.5 million in equity in 2009. It had also apparently raised about $3 to $4 million in debt, according to other Form D filings.

I haven't heard too much news out of Unirisx recently, though there is this press release from earlier this year announcing a new hosting capability in Tokyo. It also has a significant presence in the UK, where its roots are.

Unirisx began its existence in 2004 as a spinout from Unisys. Its CEO is former Harleysville Group CIO Akhil Tripath.

Links 9/6/2013: NFL kickoff game big ratings win for NBC; Comcast real estate rumors?

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Will DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Go Pay-As-You Go? (Multichannel News)

Here’s what Jeff Bezos has to say about Amazon’s pursuit of CIA contracts (Washington Post)

How Workday does cloud (Diginomica)

TV ratings: Broncos-Ravens NFL game wins Thursday night for NBC (LA Times: Company Town)

Why all the rumors about Comcast, NBC and its real estate? (Philadelphia Business Journal)

His company is trying to change health care one family at a time (Philadelphia Daily News)
On Plymouth Meeting-based Accolade.

Nutter welcomes Brand.com to new HQ in Center City Philadelphia (NewsWorks)

Alteva Announces Sale of the Assets of USA Datanet
(Marketwire)

iMomentous Puts Employee Recruitment at Your Fingertips (Hatboro-Horsham Patch)

Booker will give away ownership stake in Waywire, start-up company criticized by opponents (NorthJersey.com)

Malvern-based clinical trial SaaS (& services) firm Y Prime gets $5 million investment

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Florida-based Ballast Point Ventures announced last week a $5 million investment in Malvern-based Y Prime, a provider of software products and professional services aimed at optimizing the management and performance of global clinical trials. Y Prime was founded in 2006 by Shawn Blackburn and Jaime Cook, who had prior experience at both Cephalon and Perceptive Informatics.

One aspect of Y Prime's technology platform is that it is designed to help customers conduct “adaptive trials,” a method of running clinical trials that allows for immediate changes to be made during a trial. This technology provides customers with a means of quickly reacting to potential changes in a study without incurring costly delays and change orders, Ballast Point said in its release.

Y Prime's software products include Interactive Response Technology (IRT), eMonitoring Visit Report (eMVR), Patient Reported Outcome (ePro), Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS), and Clinical Supply Forecasting and Logistics (eCSF). Y Prime refers to its cloud-based offerings as being a "Software With a Service" platform, emphasizing the service component it brings to the party. The company appears to have about 30 employees, according to a photo layout on its website (although its LinkedIn Page shows 39). A note on the Chester County Economic Development Council's website indicates that Y Prime had 2012 revenue of $5.5 million.

Links 9/5/2013: Court declines to review Comcast/Tennis Channel ruling

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Comcast: Court Declines To Review Tennis Channel Call (Multichannel News)

Zuora Lands $50 Million Series E on Back of “Subscription Economy” (All Things D)
Zuora competes with Aria Systems, which has its R&D center in Broomall.

First Round’s Student-Run Dorm Room Fund Has Backed 20 Startups; Adds Entrepreneur ‘RAs’ As Advisors (TechCrunch)

Sorry, Jeff Bezos, the news bundle isn’t coming back (Timothy B. Lee/Washington Post)

New SAP-Accenture partnership will give customers one throat to choke (PC World)

Salesforce.com, Workday Keep Cloud Momentum Rolling (Information Week)

Salesforce invents a telephone book for corporate data (The Register)


Philadelphia CIOs Reveal Fourth-Quarter Hiring Plans
(PR Newswire)

Valuations: How much is Verizon's landline business worth?

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The value the market places on Verizon's ( (NYSE: VZ) non-wireless business (essentially, what is considered the landline business) has been difficult to determine. But perhaps its recent agreement to buy out Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless provides some clues. Then again, perhaps not.

The Vodafone deal values Verizon Wireless at about $290 billion. By that measure, Verizon's 55% stake would then presumably be valued at $159.5 billion.

The market cap for Verizon (which includes its Verizon Wireless stake) is about $134 billion. Acording to Capital IQ, Verizon's enterprise value, a measure that typically equates to market cap plus debt, minority interest and preferred shares, minus total cash and cash equivalents, is $184.1 billion.

Verizon's non-wireless assets include its advanced fiber FiOS footprint, its legacy copper telephone footprint, and a strong enterprise business, which includes its Terramark enterprise cloud business acquired in 2011.

At times, there has been speculation that the landline business could be spun off. Another, perhaps more likely, alternative would be an increased use of the wireless network to supplement, and in some cases replace the copper network using 4G LTE. The single ownership of the two businesses should make a more integrated approach to managing them possible. Broadband Reports' Karl Bode does suggest that Verizon may consider selling (or dumping) some non-core area, copper-based networks, as it did previously to Frontier and Fairpoint.

There has been considerable debate as to whether Verizon's FiOS investment, which has been somewhere in the $20 billion range, has paid off.