Links 1/22/2014: Leonsis eyes eventual split from Comcast SportsNet?; Comcast may test selling energy in PA
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How OnCue helps Verizon modernize FiOS TV (nScreenMedia)
Big Cable Merger Jousting Enters Public Sniping Phase (Business Week)
Hyperlocal website EveryBlock to be resurrected by Comcast (Chicago Tribune)
EveryBlock will be under Comcast's supervision this time, as opposed to NBC's as it was in its previous life.
Ted Leonsis on eventually circumventing Comcast SportsNet (Washington Post)
Comcast May Soon Test Selling Electricity in Pennsylvania (GreenTech Media)
Toning down somewhat overblown headline from article.
Netflix posts Q4 profit of $48.4M, with 44M subscribers (CNET News)
EBay Says Icahn Proposes PayPal Spinoff, Board Nominees (Bloomberg)
VMware to buy mobile security firm AirWatch in $1.54 billion deal (Reuters)
AirWatch is in a similar market space - mobile security - that Blue Bell-based Fiberlink (acquired by IBM) is, but most analysts believe Fiberlink only received a fraction of the
price that AirLink got.
MemSQL Raises $35M Series B Led By Accel Partners (TechCrunch)
Previous investor First Round Capital participated again.
IBM Plans Layoffs, New Investments (Information Week)
Lessons learned from raising a first-time VC fund (Charlie O'Donnell/Term Sheet)
Charlie O"Donnell did a stint with First Round Capital before setting out on his own to start a Brooklyn-based seed fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, which just closed on Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Fund I, with $8.3 million in capital.
Zenefits raises $15 million: 'The hottest deal in Silicon Valley' (Fortune Term Sheet)
Andreessen Horowitz's (and SuccessFactors founder) Lars Dalgaard explains why.
NJ Software-Defined Network Startup Corente to be Snapped Up by Oracle
Esther Surden
Publisher & Editor, NJTechWeekly.com
Corente, a privately held company based in Bernardsville that provides software-defined networking technology (SDN) for Wide Area Networks (WANs), is expected to be acquired by Oracle for an undisclosed amount. Corente was founded in 2007.
The proposed transaction, revealed Jan. 7, 2014, is subject to regulatory approval and other conditions, the company said. The transaction is expected to close in early 2014, and until that time the companies will operate independently. The company was not available for comment as to whether it will stay in New Jersey.
In a letter to its customers and partners, Corente said its software-defined WAN virtualization platform accelerates the deployment of distributed and cloud-based applications and services by allowing customers to “provision and manage global private networks connecting to any site over any IP network in a secure” manner.
Together, the letter said, Oracle and Corente are expected to deliver software-defined networking offerings that create “cost-effective, secure networks, spanning global deployments” and offer a complete technology portfolio for SDN cloud deployments that “virtualize both the enterprise data center LAN [Local Area Network] and the WAN.”
The goal of the combination is for Oracle to retain Corente’s domain expertise, some observers say, but there is some disagreement about how the company’s products will proceed once it is acquired.
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Jim Zucco, chairman and CEO of Corente. | Via LinkedIn |
Writing on TechTarget, Shamus McGillicuddy says that Oracle is not trying to “compete in the burgeoning SDN market. Instead, the company is improving the networking components of its own technology stack for cloud application delivery.”
He quotes Brad Casemore, IDC research director, as saying, "The SDN stuff that went out in the press releases, in my mind, is an intentional distraction … It's clear this is not a competitor to data center overlays, like VMware NSX. It's an adjunct technology. Oracle is not going to compete with Cisco. This is about their cloud services strategy. It will support other areas of their business."
In other words, don't expect Oracle to start selling Corente's technology as a standalone Oracle SDN product, the TechTarget article said. Oracle will support existing Corente customers, but Oracle's true intent is to incorporate Corente into Oracle's cloud applications stack, according to the McGillicuddy post.
Corente’s management team and employees are expected to join Oracle after the transaction closes and continue to focus on facilitating virtualization and capabilities in the area of software-defined networking technology, the company stated.
In discussing how the acquisition will affect customers and partners, the company said on its website, “Oracle is currently reviewing the existing Corente product roadmap and will be providing guidance to customers in accordance with Oracle's standard product communication policies.”
“Any resulting features and timing of release of such features as determined by Oracle's review of Corente’s product roadmap are at the sole discretion of Oracle. All product roadmap information, whether communicated by Corente or by Oracle, does not represent a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract.”
Esther Surden is Publisher and Editor of NJTechWeekly, and a contributor to Philly Tech News. This article originally appeared in NJTechWeekly, and is republished here with her permission.
Chis Kuenne resigns from Rosetta to focus on new PE Firm
Tom Paine
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| Chris Kuenne (Rosemark Capital website) |
Chris Kuenne has formally resigned from the Hamilton, New Jersey-based digital marketing agency he founded and sold to Publicis for $575 million, Rosetta. The move was anticipated, as he had been serving Rosetta in an advisory, transitional role. He will now focus on his new private equity firm, Rosemark Capital Group, in addition to charitable activities and serving as an instructor at Princeton.
Kuenne founded Rosetta in 1998 and sold it to Publicis in 2011.
Philly Tech News reported in early December on the formation of Rosemark Capital, also referring to an excellent in-depth article on Kuenne by the Princeton-based publication US 1.
Links 1/21/2014: Verizon to buy Intel Media assets; SAP delays profit goals for Cloud push
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Comcast adds Barclays as adviser on Time Warner Cable deal: sources (Reuters)
Verizon to Purchase Intel Media Assets (Intel Newsroom)
Verizon Paying About $200 Mil for Intel’s Internet TV Group: Sources (Variety)
Why Verizon is buying Intel Media: it’s all about taking on Comcast (Gigaom)
Amazon Exploring Over-the-Top TV Service (Variety)
Verizon posts Q4 profit of $7.9B, adds 1.7M connections
(CNET News)
SAP Delays Profitability Target Amid Cloud Push (Bloomberg)
SAP to sacrifice margin for growth (Denn Howlett/Diginomica)
SAP going after Salesforce, Workday “with everything we have” says CEO McDermott (Computing.co.uk)
SAP Rejected by Supreme Court Over $391 Million Loss (Bloomberg)
SAP Customers Preparing for Critical “ERP on HANA” Upgrade
(ASUG News)
IMS Health: Pharma Companies Should Engage On Social Media (Information Week)
Links 1/20/2014: Workday appoints former SAP exec to lead in Europe; Monetate teams with SAP's hybris on new offering
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TWC’s Marcus Stands Firm Amid Bids, Jabs (Multichannel News)
Workday appoints former SAP exec to lead European expansion (Computerworld UK)
Monetate Partners with SAP's hybris to Address Global Ecommerce and Multichannel Marketing Demands (PR Newswire)
Accenture’s ClientHouse buy shows there’s more room for cloud software in Europe (VentureBeat)
In addition to Salesforce products, ClientHouse sells and integrates Veeva CRM and QlikTech offerings.
Ellucian Acquires CampusIT to Accelerate Delivery of New Solutions (Ellucian Press Release)
Ellucian was formed through the merger of SunGard Higher Education with Datatel in 2012. It is now based in Fairfax, VA, though it still has at least a couple of hundred employees in the Philadelphia area according to its LinkedIn page.
202 tech startups reap Pennsylvania tax credits (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review)
You can see a complete list of tax credit awardees here (pdf)
Tax Break as a Not-So-Secret Weapon (New
York Times)
Phila.-area firms got $420M in venture funding in 2013 (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Vocera acquires mobile-enabled, medical alarms company mVisum for $3.5 million (Mobile Health News)
Glaser reflects on decade of health IT (Healthcare IT News)
John Glaser, a pioneer in health IT and electronic health records, is currently CEO of the Malvern-based Health Services Business Unit of Siemens Healthcare.
Dell in talks with IBM to buy Big Blue’s x86 server business
(Ars Technica)
Philly Tech People News 1/19/2014: Saridakis resigns as head of eBay Enterprise; SAP exec elected to NRF board, Monetate names Lehman as NA sales chief
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As previously reported on Philly Tech News, Chris Saridakis resigned as head of King of Prussia-based eBay Enterprise "for personal reasons"
SAP’s Lori Mitchell-Keller Elected to NRF Board of Directors (SAP Newsbyte)
ASUG Names Geoff Scott as Its New Chief Executive Officer (ASUG News)
Monetate Appoints Chris Lehman as Head of North American Sales (PR Newswire)
BlackBerry Hires Another SAP Exec, Eric Johnson, to Lead Global Sales (BlackBerry Review)
Bill Frezza, a long time Boston-based partner for Pittsburgh-based Adams Capital Management ($815 million under management), is transitioning out of the VC world to become a radio host, Fortune Term Sheet's Dan Primack reports.
Frezza has agreed to host a new radio program produced by RealClearPolitics and libertarian-leaning think-tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, which will provide “NPR-style content presented from a free-market perspective.”
He plans to remain a partner with Adams until his firm exits his remaining portfolio companies, which include BioLeap and Optellios in the Philadelphia area.
I look forward to hearing his future contributions.
Charter recruits Cox, AT&T, Sprint veteran Schultz to run sales and retention (FierceCable)
Comcast-Spectacor continues to reshape management team (Philadelphia Business Journal)
SCTE promotes Schankel to VP (CED Magazine)
PayChoice Names Former JPMorgan Chase Executive, Jonathan Wilk, as President (Marketwire)
The Judge Group Promotes John Battaglia to Chief Technology Officer (GlobeNewswire)
The Tipping Point (E-Commerce Version) (Jeff Jordan/Adreesson/Horowitz)
NBC Entertainment chief talks Leno, NFL and Peter Pan (LA Times: Company Town)
Chet Kanojia and Aereo Seek to Shake Up Television Industry (New York Times)
Exclusive: Fox, CBS, ESPN bid for Thursday night NFL games (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)
NBC thought to have submitted bid last night.
5 Big Business Intelligence Trends For 2014 (Cindi Howson/Information Week)
Links 1/17/2014: Roberts seen as kingmaker in Time Warner Cable battle
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Comcast’s Roberts Seen as ‘Kingmaker’ in Time Warner Cable Chase (Bloomberg)
Comcast considers a deal for Time Warner Cable (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Comcast Dropping ‘AnyPlay’
MSO To Discontinue In-Home Streaming Device On March 31 as Other Video Options Rise Up (Multichannel News)
IBM Commits $1.2 Billion To Cloud, Adding 15 Global Data Centers (Data Center Knowledge)
Health IT moving to critical step (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Dropbox Closes Roughly $250M Round At $10B Valuation, WSJ Says (TechCrunch)
Filing: IGM should be sold in Pa. (AP via Philly.com)
eMoney and Firefly Give Financial Advisors Remote Meeting Capabilities (PR Newswire)
Oracle builds a bridge to Salesforce.com with new adapter (PC World)
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