Big Ten Network has big plans for Rutgers (Newark Star-Ledger)

Tennis Channel to sell subscription package directly to consumers (LA Times)

Why SocialRadar Hosted a Launch Party in Philadelphia This Week (InTheCapitol)

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ThingWorx Expands Leadership Team to Address Increased Global Demand for Internet of Things Platform (Business Wire)


InterDigital Introduces New Vice President of Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs (Globe Newswire)

Symphony Health Solutions Appoints Neal Bibeau Chief Executive Officer (Globe Newswire)


Former Samsung & Sprint Exec Joins Cablevision (Multichannel News)

Roska rebrands to PulseCX (Medical Marketing and Media)


John M. Miller Joins Momentum Dynamics as Technical Advisor (Business Wire)

Anaplan challenges Oracle, SAP, IBM in cloud data storage
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Manhattan Associates Taps The Omni-Channel Revolution (Investor's Business Daily)

Cell phones, computers more and more part of Lancaster County Amish's real world (Lancaster Online)

Links 5/23/2014; Fab's decline; What to expect in McDermott's first 100 days

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How A Gay Social Network Turned Itself Into A Billion Dollar E-Commerce Site, Then Fell Apart (Business Insider)

Alibaba Plans Online Market Geared to Americans (New York Times)


China's JD.com IPO raises $1.78 billion, augurs well for Alibaba (Reuters)

Bill McDermott’s First 100 Days: One CEO, One SAP (Enterprise Applications
Consulting)



Workday Growth Expected To Remain In High Gear In Q1 (Investor's Business Daily)

SAP's Mobile Platform 3.0 generally available (ZDNet)

New Jersey pension system investigates pay-to-play allegations (Fortune Term Sheet)

Independence Blue Cross and Relay Take a Radical Approach to Mobile and See Results (Marketwire)

Former Philly exec Zibelman has big role in New York's review of Comcast/Time Warner Cable deal

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Audrey Zibelman, an attorney by training, served as founder, CEO and President of Philadelphia-based virtual power grid pioneer Viridity Energy until last year. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of PJM, the regional power transmission organization based in Valley Forge.

Now she is chair of the New York State Public Service Commission. In that role, she will oversee the state's review of the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger.

New York's review of the merger is important because while the state has only 23,000
Comcast subscribers, it has about 2.6 million Time Warner Cable subscribers. Under a change in state regulatory law last month, Comcast will have the burden of proving to the state that the purchase is in the public's interest. Governor Cuomo promises the commission (pdf) will conduct a "thorough and detailed investigation." New York expects to complete its review within four months.

Links 5/22/2014: The Hill reports on Comcast lobbying efforts; Bentley Systems releases 2013 annual report

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Comcast goes for shock and awe (The Hill)

Comcast: AT&T for DTV Could Prompt Bid for T-Mobile, Says UBS (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
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Baker oversaw firm where NJ pension funds were invested (Boston Globe)

Bentley Systems Releases 2013 Annual Report Online (Business Wire)
8% revenue growth to $593 million; 63% of revenue from outside of US.

VCs eye big cloud software returns despite dwindling valuations (Reuters)

H-P cutting additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs; results accidentally posted on site: live blog (MarketWatch)


But then who would buy Epicor? (ERP Graveyard)


Exclusive: Element nears deal to buy PHH's leasing unit for $1.35 billion (Reuters)

RightCare Named Winner of 2014 TiE50 Award (Business Wire)

Links 5/21/2014: McDermott now SAP's sole CEO; Comcast Shareholder Meeting draws flack inside and outside Kimmel

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SAP’s McDermott Counts On Faster Decision-Making as Sole CEO (Bloomberg)

SAP says no plan to return to having two CEOs (Reuters)


Cisco CEO: 'Brutal' Times Are Coming For The Tech Industry (Business Insider)

Salesforce Forecast Tops Analyst Predictions on Cloud Sales (Bloomberg)


Flurry of acquisitions redraws Salesforce.com partner landscape (ZDNet)

Perficient Acquires IBM Smarter Commerce Division of Trifecta Technologies (Business Wire)
Trifecta, based in Allentown, is selling its IBM-related Business for $13.7 million to
focus on its Salesforce business.



Netflix Enters Germany, France in Biggest Move Since 2011 (Bloomberg)

Verizon Eyeing Cloud-Based Video Jukebox (Home Media Magazine)


Comcast CEO Grilled Over Company Politics, Employee Wages at Shareholders Meeting
(Hollywood Reporter)

Merger Protests Greet Comcast Corp. Annual Meeting at Kimmel Center (CBS Philly)


Comcast Completes Jersey Shore Upgrades
(Multichannel News)

AT&T-DirecTV deal may smooth path for Comcast-Time Warner approval
(AP via San Jose Mercury News)


Amazon will have 10,000 robots in its warehouses by year’s end, Bezos says (Geekwire)

Google reportedly plans to target businesses with Wi-Fi (Gigaom)

Clutch Unveils ClutchConnect™ Partnership Program (Business Wire)

Veeva Systems, at Philadelphia Summit, launches new offerings

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Cloud life sciences vendor Veeva Systems is holding its annual Commercial Summit in Philadelphia this week (May 20-21), as it usually does. Although it is based in Pleasanton, CA, Veeva has its US marketing and customer functions in Radnor, and of course many of its large Pharma clients are located in the area. The Summit, held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, has about 850 attendees this year, according to Veeva.


Veeva had one of the most successful of recent IPOs last October, ending its first day of trading with a share price of $37.16 and a market capitalization of $4.5 billion. Its shares have leveled off from that frothy start to $19.66 (and a $2.5 billion market cap), probably more due to the pounding the SaaS/Cloud sector has taken than any significant changes in its fundementals.

At its summit today, Veeva announced the Veeva Commercial Cloud for life sciences. Commercial Cloud appears to build upon Veeva's principle product platforms, Veeva CRM, Veeva Network, and Veeva Vault, integrating software, interactions, data and content.

Commercial Cloud also adds several new features, including Veeva Align (resource allocation and alignment across customers and territories), Veeva CRM Meetings (for meeting planning and coordination), Veeva CRM Engage (a social communications tool), and Veeva CRM Co-broswe (a screen sharing app).

Also today, Veeva and Horsham-based Symphony Health Solutions announced plans to integrate their data sources on life sciences vendors' customers. Veeva Systems and Symphony Health Solutions are pre-aligning Veeva Network’s customer master and Symphony Health Solutions’ prescriber datasets. Unique identifiers from each company will be embedded in both datasets to provide a seamless, efficient, and accurate match, the companies said in a release.

In building out its "industry cloud", Veeva has partnered with several other healthcare IT firms and data suppliers, including a few from the Philadelphia area.

In Veeva's most recent quarter ended in January, revenue was $62.8 million and net income
was $6.25 million, up from revenue of $39.8 million and net income of $5.7 million a year
ago.

Links 5/20/2014: SAP to acquire SeeWhy; NBC wins prime-time for first time in decade

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4 years on, OpenStack still can't get in the door (Infoworld)

SAP to Acquire SeeWhy, the Real-Time Behavioral Marketing Company (SeeWhy Blog)

SAP To Acquire SeeWhy For Marketing Push
(Information Week)

SAP and Microsoft: The Frenemies’ Next Partnership is in the Cloud (ASUG News)



Jibe Secures $20 Million to Transform Hiring Market (Business Wire)
Round led by SAP Ventures; this is Jibe, not Jive, which SAP Ventures is also an investor in. (Correction: SAP Ventures was not an investor in Jive.)

Salesforce Rises On Earnings Beat, Improved Outlook (Re/code)


Verizon Absolutely Does Not Want to Buy Dish Network (The Wire)

Apple reportedly will pay ISPs for direct network connections (Ars Technica)

Protest Planned for Comcast Shareholder Meeting (Multichannel News)

NBC Wins Prime-Time TV Ratings for First Time in a Decade (Bloomberg)


Democrats grill FCC chairman on Internet fast lanes and ISP mergers (Ars Technica)

Urban Outfitter shares take a spill (AP via Business Week)
Sales at Urban Outfitter-branded stores dive.

DuckDuckGo Relaunches & Starts To Look Like A Real Search Engine
(Search Engine Land)

Links 5/19/2014: SAP, Microsoft strengthen product ties; Monetate competitor Optimizely raises $57 million

Microsoft, SAP Strengthen Ties With Mobile, Data, Cloud Partnership (TechCrunch)

Connecting Microsoft’s mobile and cloud solutions to the universe of data in SAP software (Official Marketing Blog)

SAP Quietly Closes Its Billion Dollar Acquisition of Fieldglass (Spend Matters)


Rackspace On The Block? (Information Week)

Proposed Time Warner-Comcast merger decision process begins [in New York
State] (New York Post)

In Wi-Fi, Comcast sees an opportunity to kneecap wireless providers (Washington Post)

It’s not a “fast lane” but Comcast built a CDN to charge for video delivery (Ars Technica)

Optimizely raises $57 million for website testing platform (San Francisco Business Times)
Monetate competitor.

AstraZeneca Rejects ‘Final’ Offer by Pfizer (New York Times: DealBook)

AT&T to acquire DirecTV (Coverage Highlights)

AT&T to Acquire DIRECTV (AT&T Press Release)

AT&T to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion as cellular growth eases
(Reuters)

AT&T to buy DIRECTV (SNL)

AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion in Move to Expand Clout (New York Times: DealBook)

Consumers and experts weigh in on AT&T-DirecTV deal (LA Times)

DirecTV deal with AT&T includes NFL Sunday Ticket exit clause (LA Times)

AT&T Says It Wants to Sell Web TV, Too (Re/code)

AT&T Pushed by Comcast to Move on DirecTV After Year of Talk (Bloomberg)