Links 7/3/2014: Salesforce announces strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom in Germany; Zayo Group files for IPO
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Fiber network company Zayo Group files for IPO (Reuters)
Zayo Group Acquires AtlantaNAP Data Center (Light Reading)
Salesforce.com Announces Strategic Partnership with Deutsche Telekom and Invests for Growth in Germany (PR Newswire)
VMware Adds New Jersey Data Center to Support Cloud Services (Data Center Knowledge)
SAP HANA gets some Spark from Databricks (Diginomica)
Can Amazon Be Beaten? (SiliconBeat)
New details on Comcast's tower 2 (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
DailyCandy Founder Blasts Comcast: They Destroyed My Brand (Video) (The Wrap)
Echo Therapeutics management shake-up follows proxy fight (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Links 7/2/2014: Oracle's $10 billion debt raise leaves some leftover after Micos purchase; PA after Uber & Lyft
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Oracle selling $10 billion in bonds, giving hint to buying spree (PC World)
We were 4 years ahead of SAP, Oracle: Workday CEO (CNBC Video)
A barroom conversation about SAP and the Cloud – but without the noise and the drinks
(SAP Community Network)
More ERP Options, More Difficult Decisions (ASUG News)
Epicor Faces a Challenging Future (Smart Data Collective)
Reed Tech Strengthens Line of LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions by Acquiring PatentCore, an Innovator in Patent Data Analytics (Business Wire)
Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products (TechCrunch)
Pennsylvania is the latest state to go after Uber and Lyft (Engadget)
NextGen Healthcare and Mirth Launch Enterprise Interoperability Platform (Business Wire)
QTS Acquires New Jersey Data Center from McGraw Hill Financial and forms Strategic Partnership with Atos (PR Newswire)
Links 7/1/2014: Aereo asks users to fight back against Supreme Court ruling; Longview Solutions acquired by Marlin Equity
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Aereo asks users to fight back against Supreme Court ruling (Engadget)
DirecTV Was In Talks With Competitor Prior to AT&T Deal (Multichannel News)
Longview Solutions Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners
(MarketWatch)
Longview Solutions, a provider of corporate performance management ("CPM") and tax provisioning software, has its US headquarters in Radnor.
Future-Proofing The Smart Home: Staples Thinks It Has The Answer (ReadWrite)
eBay Confirms Shutdown of Small-Business E-Commerce Software Products (Re/code)
Twitter Said to Agree to Buy TapCommerce for $100 Million (Bloomberg)
Twitter buys 29-yr-old Philly guy's mobile ad firm for $100M (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
MapR raises $110M to fuel its enterprise Hadoop push (Gigaom)
Amazon Launches Its Most Affordable EC2 Instances Yet, But There’s A Caveat) (TechCrunch)
Links 6/30/2014: Comcast raises your electric bill by turning router into a public hotspot, Speedify CEO says; Comcast asks for retest
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Comcast raises your electric bill by turning router into a public hotspot (Ars Technica)
Alex Gizis, CEO of Philly-based Connectify (of which Speedify is a crowd-funded service), who conducted the testing, says Comcast has requested they conduct another test using the equipment most like what is actually in subscribers homes now.
Connectify commercializes Speedify channel bonding service (FierceWireless)
Staples takes its connected home business nationwide (Gigaom)
Could be boost for Malvern's Zonoff.
OpenStack pioneer Rackspace is in the hot seat (Gigaom)
Oracle’s Higher Ed Franchise Ripe for Workday Gains, Says Oppenheimer (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
SAP’s long road to Run Simple on the BI front (SAP Watch)
Digital Health Investments in the First Half Surpass All of 2013
(Re/code)
Staunch opponent of reform tapped to head US Patent Office
(Ars Technica)
J&J patent exec (coincidentally named Johnson).
Comcast timeline: Rise of a giant (LA Times)
Philly Tech People News 6/29/2014: New eBay Enterprise chief; ValueVision CEO Stewart replaced
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eBay Inc. Names Craig Hayman as Head of eBay Enterprise (Business Wire)
ValueVision shakeup complete, CEO Stewart resigns (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)
Symphony Health Solutions Appoints Robert Gabruk as Senior Vice President, Customer Success & Insights (Globe Newswire)
Emerald Advisers Names Volpe Deputy C.I.O. (Business Wire)
Echo's interim-CEO loses board seat after proxy battle (Philadelphia Business Journal)
NextGen Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Elected HIMSS EHR Association Vice Chair (Business Wire)
CEO Brian Roberts bulks up Comcast for the future (LA Times)
Google, Microsoft clouds now cover MongoDB (PC World)
Aereo suspended service yesterday at 11:30am
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This morning, in a blog post on its website, Aereo announced it was shutting down "temporarily."
"As a result of that [Supreme Court] decision, our case has been returned to the lower Court. We have decided to pause our operations temporarily as we consult with the court and map out our next steps. You will be able to access your cloud-based antenna and DVR only until 11:30 a.m. ET today. All of our users will be refunded their last paid month. If you have questions about your account, please email support@aereo.com or tweet us @AereoSupport".
Links 6/27/2014: Morgan Lewis represented MICROS in Oracle deal; Comcast tests self-install kits for X1
Oracle's IP lawsuit foe: We'll fight SAP tooth and nail in Europe (The Register)
Driven by multi-cloud, the public IaaS cloud market begins to equalize (David Linthicum/Gigaom)
Inside the In-Memory Database Wars (The VAR Guy)
HP To Settle Shareholder Claims on Autonomy Deal (Re/code)
Oracle To Acquire Morgan Lewis Client MICROS Systems (Morgan Lewis)
AT&T blasts TruePosition's 911 testing as 'ill-considered' and 'half-baked' (FierceWireless)
Comcast Tests Self-Install Kit For X1 (Multichannel News)
Are Aereo's assets worth more than the sum of its whole? (Fortune)
Deacom Announces Both National and Local Expansion (Marketwatch)
Links 6/26/2014: First Round Capital closes $175mm First Round V
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First Round Capital Gathers $175M for Fifth Fund (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
A good bit larger than its prior funds.
First Round V (Redeye VC)
Salesforce and Philips partner in ambitious health data venture (VentureBeat)
Salesforce.com, Philips join forces for health care IT
(PC World)
IMS Health paying $523M for 2 Cegedim businesses (AP via Business Week)
Aereo Defeat Sets Up Bigger, Broader Fight for TV (Ad Age)
The Limits of the Supreme Court’s Technological Analogies (Slate)
The Tech-Savvy Supreme Court (New York Times: Bits)
Big Ten Network, Comcast agree (ESPN)
Revisiting Comcast’s Xfinity public hotspot strategy
(Network World)
SAP Labs rejects former MD's claims (Economic Times of India)
High-tech company says goodbye suburbs, moves to new workspace in University City (Philadelphia Business Journal)
40 Years on, the Barcode Has Turned Everything Into Information (Wired)
Invented at Drexel in the late 1940s, it took a while to actually get the barcode into
supermarkets.
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