How QlikTech built its QlikMarket using Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Jive & Magento

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) published a case study about how Radnor-based QlikTech used
AWS (in conjunction with Salesforce, Jive, and Magento) to build its QlikMarket marketplace application.

QlikTech used Model Metrics, a Salesforce company, to manage the project.

QlikMarket, which features applications from QlikTech partners leveraging the QlikView data discovery platform, launched in September 2012.

Links 12/5/2013: Fort Washington-based mortgage software firm LoanLogics raises VC funding of $11.2 million

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Prime time is increasingly becoming on-demand (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast's digital movie sales effort off to solid start (LA Times: Company Town)


Comcast Plots National SIP Trunking in 2014 (Light Reading)

TV's Next Big Thing Turns Up Growth For Arris Group (Investor's Business Daily)


LoanLogics, offering technology for the mortgage industry, wins $11.2 million in venture capital (Keystone Edge)

Philadelphia Technology Park Announces Expansion of State of the Art Data Center in Philadelphia Navy Yard
(Business Wire)

M&A, IPOs, in-memory tech, and end of a feud mark top software stories (PC World)

Owners of Star-Ledger, NJ.com and sister newspapers studying possible consolidations (Newark Star-Ledger)

Specops Software Receives Business Entrepreneurial Award from Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce-Philadelphia (Newswire Today)

Aereo probably won't make it to Philly this year (Update: Baltimore to launch December 16)

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It now appears likely that TV service Aereo will fall quite short of its original goal for 2013 of entering 22 markets (in addition to New York) by the end of 2013, including Philadelphia.

Aereo, backed primarily by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp (First Round Capital was an early investor), has launched so far in nine cities, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Aereo is planning its next launch in Wisconsin in early 2014.

Aereo uses tiny antennas to pick up over-the air signals and submit them over broadband
to individual residences, where the programming can be streamed over or stored on different devices.

Aereo has faced numerous legal challenges, particularly from broadcasters including Comcast's NBC, in cases which might ultimately end up in the Supreme Court. The total investment in Aereo to this point has been $63 million, according to CrunchBase.

In October, a Wall Street Journal Reporter estimated that Aereo could have about 100,000
subscribers in the New York area, by counting the number of lit-up boxes in the company's Brooklyn facilities. Aereo may have benefitted in New York from the long struggle between CBS and Time Warner Cable over retrans fees.

Update: Aereo did announce today (December 5) it will launch in the Baltimore area on December 16. Aereo says it will announce additional launch dates for its expansion cities throughout the remainder of the year.

Links 12/4/2013: Monetate raises another $8 million; BioTelemetry falls on Medicare cuts

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Accel Leads $4.5M Series A In Trufa, An SAP HANA Startup Using Predictive Analytics For Opex Efficiency (TechCrunch)

Veeva Systems Seen Growing Vs. Rival Oracle (Investor's Business Daily)
Earnings due out tomorrow.

IBM’s Big Plans for Cloud Computing (New York Times: Bits)

Monetate takes an extra $8M to power holiday shopping online
(VentureBeat)



BioTelemetry, Inc. Announces Reduction to Medicare Reimbursement for Remote Cardiac Monitoring Services (Globe Newswire)
BioTelemetry (BEAT) down 22% for the day so far.

Tennis Appeals Comcast Decision to Supremes (Multichannel News)



Harris gears for over-the-top expansion with deal to acquire Imagine Communications (FierceCable)

Cyber Monday 2013 mobile shopping: PayPal sees 93.6% increase, eBay Enterprise sees orders rise 88% (The Next Web)

Philadelphia not prepared for IT disruption, says Butkovitz (Philadelphia Business Journal)



Beige Book - December 4, 2013: Third District - Philadelphia (Federal Reserve Board)

QlikTech Announces Winners of its “Take Action Open Data Challenge” (Business Wire)

Links 12/3/2013: Reddit co-founder Ohanian in Philly; Evolve IP makes acquisition

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Amazon Delivers Some Pie in the Sky (New York Times)

Charter CEO: Don't need to buy Time Warner Cable (CNBC)

Full day in Philly for Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (Newsworks)

Evolve IP Acquires Midwest-Based Cloud Computing Company Paragrid (PR Newswire)

EvolveIP adds cloud-computing centers (Philly.com)


Google Cuts Cloud Prices, Rackspace Sinks, Amazon Slips; Battle Heating Up, Says Baird (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Google Compute Cloud Challenges Amazon (Information Week)


Does Salesforce.com Have An Analytics Gap? (Information Week)

SAP user group: Innovation agenda clear but for long haul
(Computer Weekly)

Amazon's Cloud Economics Are Now Disrupting The SaaS Disruptors (ReadWrite)

Cornerstone, Marketo Among FBR M&A Targets in Cloud ‘Frenzy’ (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)


Sports Teams Wire Up the Stadium to Pull Potatoes Off the Couch (Bloomberg)

Links 12/2/2013: Comcast testing new ad tech; Luukko resigns from Comcast-Spectacor

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Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet (Ars Technica)

Comcast tests new ad tech to help networks capture binge viewers (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)

Luukko out as president of Comcast-Spectacor (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Luukko resigns from Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor (CSN Philly)


QVC chief bullish about Cyber Monday (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Digital wallets: Paypal, Amazon, and credit cards are top contenders (not Apple, Google) (VentureBeat)

QlikView.Next rollout is around the corner (Ovum)
New release critical to Radnor company's future.

Bentley Systems embraces the cloud (AEC Magazine)


Cognizant to Hire 10,000 U.S. Workers (Bloomberg)

Fund Helps Student Start-Up Test 'Blue Books' of the Future (Chronicle of Higher Education)
A First Round Capital Dorm Room Fund venture at Penn.

E La Carte Scores Deal With Applebee’s, Bringing 100,000 Tableside Tablets To All U.S. Locations By Year-End 2014 (TechCrunch)




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US 1 reports on Rosetta founder Chris Kuenne's new PE firm, Rosemark Capital Group

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Chris Kuenne (Rosemark Capital website)

US 1, a relatively small newspaper and website covering the Princeton area, produces some very good business coverage. One article from October by Barbara Figge Fox is on Rosetta founder Chris Kuenne and the new private equity firm he founded located on Nassau Street in Princeton, Rosemark Capital Group. Kuenne built Rosetta, an interactive marketing and strategy firm, into the largest independent agency in the US before selling it to Publicis for $575 million in 2011.

Among other things, the article gives a lot more detail than I've seen before about Kuenne's business and personal history, and the story behind building Rosetta. Kuenne, who is still supporting the management transition at Rosetta and teaching high tech entrepreneurship at Princeton (his alma mater, where his father also taught), Fox reports, started Rosemark with general partners Paul Gilbert (CEO of MedAvante) and Seamus McMahon. Kenneth Traub, co-founder of Hamilton-based Voxware and former CEO of American Bank Note Holographics, is also on board. Kuenne will cover sales and marketing, Gilbert healthcare, Traub verticals, technology and business services, and McMahon financial services.

Rosemark will focus on investing in companies with intellectual property (IP) that is enabled by technology, and hands-on support and expertise is very much part of the package. Rosemark had nine people on board as of October and expects to be adding more. It will target companies worth $10 million to $30 million, with the potential to grow by 15 to 20 percent or more per year. It is not clear whether Rosemark is raising a specific fund yet or not, but it appears to have some deep-pocketed potential partners from previous business relationships.

One of Rosemark's clients is Kuenne's childhood friend James Burke, son of the late J&J CEO James E. Burke and a cousin of NBCU CEO Steve Burke. He founded Disruptive LA to change the way indie films are marketed.

For more on this, see Fox' excellent, in-depth reporting on Rosemark's launch.

Rogers deal for NHL Canada rights; NBCU wants Astros lawsuit moved to federal court; NBC Sports bidding for more soccer rights

Source: NBC Sports to bid on UEFA Champions League rights (Philly.com)

Luukko chimes in on staggering Rogers TV deal (Comcast SportsNet
Philadelphia)


Comcast, NBC Universal wish to take Crane lawsuit to federal court (Houston Chronicle)
You bet they do. Though the federal district courts aren't much better down there in terms of runaway juries.

Saturday Highlights 11/30/2013: John Appleby on "the death of the database"; Mad rush to get Healthcare.gov ready for tomorrow

Le roi est mort: the death of the database (John Appleby/SAP HANA Blog)

37,000 accounts set up for NJ Internet gambling (AP via Business Week)
More than Healthcare.gov?

Health Care Site Rushing to Make Fixes by Sunday (New York Times)


Thanksgiving online sales top $1 billion for first time (USA Today)
Monetate says revenue for leading online retailers rose nearly 40% from last year.

eBay Debuts Shoppable Touchscreens And Digital Storefronts For Sony, Toms And Rebecca Minkoff In San Francisco (TechCrunch)

This Thanksgiving, Read SAP Customer Stories Aplenty (ASUG
News)
Includes stories on Day & Zimmerman, PSE&G, and AmerisourceBergen.

PR finger pointing: IBM and Bridgestone wrangle over failed ERP (ZDNet)

Pay-TV Prices Are at the Breaking Point — And They’re Only Going to Get Worse (Variety)

Deutsche Telekom CEO Says It’s Time for Europe Phone Mergers
(Bloomberg)

Online Startup Makes Website Editing Simple (Entrepreneur)
On Carbondale PA-startup Plain (Barley), of which Colin Devroe is a co-founder.

Healthcare Informatics on Virtua Health's HIE

Here is an interesting article from Healthcare Informatics on South Jersey's Virtua Health and how it is hosting its own health information exchange (HIE) and how it interacts with other systems (including software from locally-based vendors) and other healthcare institutions in the Philadelphia area.

Definitely worth the read if you are interested in the subject.