Links 1/9/2014

IBM to invest $1 billion to create new business unit for Watson (Reuters)

All change at SAP/Ariba: does it matter? (Diginomica)

Disney-Fox Bid to End Web TV Threat (Aereo) Nears Court Action (Bloomberg)

Verizon: Broadband Key To Owning Home Market (Investor's Business Daily)

Seattle is not alone: Gigabit's $2M deal with Illinois also in trouble (TechFlash)

Sidecar raises another $1M from Philly eCommerce gang (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


Salesforce.com rolling out big CRM upgrade following Salesforce1 launch (PC World)

Eileen Martinson of Sparta Systems on Clarity of Leadership (New York Times)
Sparta Systems is based in Hamilton, NJ.

Links 1/8/2014: Aereo raises $34 million

Comcast CEO: Universal will compete aggressively with Disney (Orlando Sentinel)

Aereo Raises $34 Million, Prepares to Expand to New Cities (Mashable)


MeetMe Expects Fourth Quarter 2013 Revenue of Approximately $13 Million
Success of Mobile Strategy Drives Return to Year-Over-Year Growth for the Quarter (Business Wire)

NeatCloud Boosts User Productivity with Expanded Document Classification and Parsing Capabilities (PR Newswire)

DuckDuckGo reveals it saw over 1 billion searches in 2013
(The Next Web)



Edison Ventures Announces Investment in Compliance Science, Inc.
(PR Web)



HIT Application Solutions Announces New Headquarters (Business Wire)

Management Shake-Up Rattles SAP’s Cloud Business (Re/code)


Benioff: We’re still an Oracle shop, but not just an Oracle shop
(Gigaom)



Gigabit project in Seattle reportedly dead, leaves trail of unpaid bills (Ars Technica)

Poptent moves to Center City from Conshy (Updated)

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Pioneering video advertising crowdsourcing and production firm Poptent, which has locations in the Philly and L.A. areas, has moved its Philadelphia office from Conshohocken to Center City, a company spokesperson confirmed to Philly Tech News. Word of the move became somewhat obvious from some tweets on Poptent's twitter account.

Our new Downtown Philadelphia HQ. Looking good. pic.twitter.com/hAlMHNkUDd

— poptent (@poptent) January 7, 2014

The new office is at 24th and Walnut, and will house approximately 30 people. Poptent expects to have a blog post out soon with more about the move on its website.

@CCHeimVoiceOver we're ready! pic.twitter.com/69wphxNjOT

— poptent (@poptent) January 7, 2014

Here is Poptent's announcement of its new Philly office on its blog.

Links 1/7/2014: Comcast adds video subs as others ramp up OTT plans

Oracle to buy Corente to bolster SDN (Gigaom)
Corente is based in Bernardsville, NJ.

Oracle buys Corente for software-defined networking
(PC World)


Comcast Added Cable TV Customers in Q4, Its First Gain Since 2007 (Variety)

Liberty Media CEO Sees Potential in Cable ‘Consolidation and Confederation’ (Variety)



Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year (Gigaom)

CEO: Verizon Testing OTT Video in 2014 (Home Media Magazine)


Netflix Growth Could Slow with Tougher U.S. Streaming Competition in 2014, Analysts Say (Variety)

Internet TV Startup Aereo Raises $34 Million (Re/code)



Exclusive: Five Below nearly doubles its Philly HQ
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

Staples and Zonoff to Aggressively Expand Staples Connect in 2014; Integration of Major New Partners and Launch of Manhattan In-Store Display (Marketwire)


Safeguard Scientifics Partner Company Alverix Acquired by BD (Business Wire)

SAP execs predict more innovation as economic outlook improves in 2014 (Computer Weekly)

DREXEL OPENS NEW APP DEVELOPMENT LAB WITH GIFT FROM BENTLEY SYSTEMS (DrexelNow)

Links 1/6/2014: Comcast 'X2' rollout underway; Two top execs from Ariba deal depart SAP

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Comcast ‘X2’ Rollout Is Underway (Multichannel News)

John Malone’s Next Chess Move to Take Control of Time Warner Cable (Wall Street Journal: MoneyBeat)

Samsung Lines Up Content Deals with Amazon, Comcast for 4K TV (Mashable)



Why HP May Buy a Cloud Software Company in 2014 (Re/code)

Bob Calderoni and Kevin Costello to Leave SAP – A New Chapter for Ariba Inside SAP (Spend Matters)

SAP Combines Cloud and Line of Business Apps, Calderoni Departs
(ASUG News)


Do we have any other bids for Responsys? (Diginomica)

Gartner: Global IT spending will grow slightly in 2014
(PC World)

Digital Health Startups Charm VCs (Information Week)


Pinterest Acquires Image Recognition Startup VisualGraph (Mashable)
These guys are small, but wonder how their offerings compare to those of Curalate.

T-Mobile buys prime spectrum from Verizon to boost “Un-carrier” coverage (Ars Technica)
Spectrum purchased by T-Mobile, which came from Verizon deal with cable companies, should
boost its 4G coverage in Philly and other markets.

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Smit Takes Reins As NCTA Chair (Multichannel News)

Lehigh President Alice Gast to Step Down in July 2014; Will Become President of Imperial College London (Lehigh University News)


Cool Springs owner plans ambitious revival
(TribeLIVE)
Brian Shanahan is CEO of King of Prussia-based CardConnect, a payment processing company.

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LoanLogics Increases Size of Compliance Unit (National Mortgage Pofessional)


Workday appoints Ashley Goldsmith as chief HR officer (HR Magazine)

Foxconn set to scout Pa. sites for $30 million plant
(NewsWorks)

Rivals threaten another sale of Philly newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Imagine a smartphone medical lab (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg on Re/code, NBC Investment and Keeping the Chairs (Exclusive) (The Wrap)

Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg introduce Re/code.net (CNBC video)

Links 1/3/2014: Phillies sign huge extension with Comcast SportsNet

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Phillies agree to new 25-year television deal (MLB.com)
Renews with Comcast SportsNet.

Phillies' 25-Year TV Rights Deal Worth An Average $100M Annually (Sports Business Daily)
Report says deal increases Phillies' equity stake in regional net to 25%.

Owners propose auction of Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com (Newsworks)


Appature parent IMS Health files for $100 million IPO (GeekWire)
IMS Health, headquartered in Connecticut, has much of its US operations based in Collegeville and Plymouth Meeting. It was taken private by TPG and others in 2010 for $5.2 billion. Its Appature acquisition, made in 2013, was intended to help IMS better compete against companies like Veeva Systems on the technology front.

Marketo Pegged as Target in Cloud-Software Deal Spree: Real M&A (Bloomberg)

What is SAP HANA? A Look Through The History Of The Automobile (John Appleby/SAP HANA Blog)




DNAnexus builds online hub for scientists to store and share genetic data (VentureBeat)
First Round Capital participated again in DNAnexus' latest $15 million round, although this venture seems somewhat outside of FRC's usual domain expertise.

Odds dim for Fisker production in Delaware (AP via Miami Herald)

Vanguard's growing dominance: Morningstar (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Links 1/2/2014: IMS Health files for IPO

6 Cloud Upstarts To Watch (Information Week)

Brian Krzanich on Why He Pulled the Plug on Intel’s TV Dreams (Re/code)

Nest Raising Huge New Round From DST, Valuing Smart Home Startup at Upward of $2 Billion (Re/code)

ThingWorx and PTC: It's All About The Software (M2MEvolution)



Tech lawyer leaves big firm to start solo practice (Philadelphia Business Journal)

IMS Health Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering (Business Wire)

TPG-backed IMS Health files for IPO of up to $100 mln (Reuters)



Pa. issues warning over Medicaid file problems (AP via ABC27)

New Mossberg/Swisher site Re/code, with backing from Comcast's NBCU and Windsor Media, launches

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Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher's new site (their relationship with The Wall Street Journal
terminated at year's end, thus ending the old AllThingsD) is now live at Re/code.

The Mossberg/Swisher holding company, Revere Digital LLC, is launching the new site with
minority investments from Comcast's NBC Universal News Group and Windsor Media, an investment firm run by Terry Semel, former chief of Yahoo and Warner Brothers, it was formally announced yesterday.

See more on the background behind the deal from Fortune's Dan Primack.


Revere Digital LLC is also signing a separate content partnership with NBCUniversal News Group to partner on tech coverage, beginning today. The two companies will maintain editorial independence, the announcement says, though each will have access to the other's content.

Revere's major annual conference will be the 'Code' conference and will be held in late
May at the same California location that the annual AllThingsD conference was held.

The Journal's new site is called WSJD and the AllThingsD URL redirects to its home page. Headed by Global Technology Editor Jonathan Krim, its difficult so far to get a reading on what WSJD will look like beyond some of the blog content that the Journal has long produced, such as 'Digits'.

One of my biggest hopes for the new Mossberg/Swisher site was that it would eliminate
the usual page load lag of several seconds that existed on AllThingsD. So far, so good.