Links 10/10/2014: BizEquity raises $5.1 million; SAP boss says business has never been stronger

BizEquity Raises $5.1 Million Series A Capital Investment From Frost Brooks (Business Wire)


SAP chief says business never been stronger (Reuters via Yahooo News)

Time Warner Cable Trades Reflect Concern in Comcast Deal (Bloomberg)


Comcast to appeal judge's ruling in CSNH case (Houston Chronicle)

Nielsen Says It Screwed Up – But Its Fix Won’t Help TV’s Real Ratings Problems (Re/code)


Philly takes a lesson from Boston (Boston Globe)


G.E. Opens Its Big Data Platform (New York Times: Bits)

NetSuite unveils cloud-based payroll service (Cloud Pro)

Electronic-Record Gap Allowed Ebola Patient to Leave Hospital
(Bloomberg)

Liberty Interactive spinning out QVC as tracking stock; Now trading as QVC Group (QVCA & B)

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Liberty Interactive Corp announced last week the go-ahead plans for its previously announced (last October) intent to split into two tracking stocks, one for its group of digital commerce businesses to be named Liberty Ventures Group, and the other for West Chester-based QVC, which will be named QVC Group.

The move is intended to increase strategic focus on QVC and enable it to make moves to increase market share and growth. One often discussed possibility would be the acquisition by QVC Group of the 62% of HSN Inc. (originally Home Shopping Network) it does not already own. QVC has been growing slowly lately, but is in a position to consolidate share in the TV-based home shopping business. QVC has also been growing its web-based business, particularly via mobile.

Liberty Interactive, which is already trading under the QVCA and QVCB symbols (NASDAQ), is worth a lot of money. Its current market value is $16.5 billion.

The Liberty Ventures business is valued at $1.5 billion, in addition to $1 billion in cash.

QVC reported 2.3% growth in the US during the first half of this year to $2.66 billion. Worldwide, revenue was up 1.5% to $4 billion. QVC says 40% of its US business is ecommerce-based, with mobile accounting for 43% of that.

Links 10/9/2014: SAP, Birst partner on Business Intelligence

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Birst, SAP Join Forces as Big Firms Move Into Business Intelligence (Wall Street Journal: Venture
Capital Dispatch)

SAP and Birst steal Salesforce.com’s cloud analytics thunder on Dreamforce eve (Diginomica)

Slack exposes companies’ team names to outsiders, but it’s a feature, not a bug (The Next Web)

HubSpot IPO Raises $125M; Big Investor Demand, Big Symbolism for Boston Tech (Bostinno)


Cadient acquired by tech co. Cognizant (Medical Marketing & Media)

Powerlytics Receives Strategic Investment from CME Group (Business Wire)

IBM (Kenexa) using analytics software to solve HR problems (Washington Post)


Salesforce Introduces Interactive Mobile Customer Service And Gives Core CRM A Makeover (TechCrunch)

For Uber, Lyft, Pa. permits unlikely this year (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Links 10/8/2014: Did Comcast get PwC employee canned?; SAP plunges on reports of weak pipeline

Comcast got me fired after billing dispute, says California man [Updated] (Ars Technica)

A PUBLIC APOLOGY TO CONAL O'ROURKE
(Comcast Voices/Corporate Blog)
Comcast's new Customer Relations czar apologizes.

Judge scrutinizes worth of Comcast's assets in CSNH case (Houston Chronicle)

FCC Seeks Carriage Contracts in Comcast-TWC, AT&T-DirecTV Merger Reviews (Variety)

Comcast shareholders will likely approve TWC merger (VentureBeat)


SAP Plunges Most Since 2011 After Report on Pipeline (Bloomberg)

Special Report: How a German tech giant [SAP] trims its U.S. tax bill (Reuters)


EMC: Elliott Pushes for VMware Spin-Off, Convinced Lots Acquirer Interest (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Cornerstone OnDemand nabs machine-learning big data platform Evolv (ZDNet)


OpenView Venture Partners raises $250 million fund (Reuters)
Major investor in Monetate, NextDocs and Xtium.

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Expansion Plans For Hot Tech Site Product Hunt (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Interview with ThingWorx at M2M Innovation World Congress 2014 (M2M World News)

Big data’s move to the cloud (O'Reilly's Radar)

Links 10/7/2014: Cognizant acquires Cadient; SAP, Versata finally reach settlement

Cognizant acquires digital marketing firm Cadient Group
(ZDNet)


SAP, Versata settle $391 million patent litigation (PC World)

Unisys stock tumbles after ouster of CEO Edward Coleman (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Dark fiber, small cells represent the next stage of the wireless backhaul land grab (FierceTelecom)

Links 10/6/2014: HP to split in two; Unisys CEO ousted

HP will split itself in two, separating PCs and printers from enterprise business
(PCWorld)

Update: CEO ousted, Unisys shares slip (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Alibaba’s Next Move: Grow Abroad, or Go Deeper into China? (Knowldege@Wharton)

AribaPay Looks to Simplify, Improve B2B ePayments (Payables Place)

Alteryx Lands $60M To Boost Data Analytics App-Building Platform
(TechCrunch)
SAP an investor.

Zucker has no Comcast regrets (NY Post)

Xtium Forms IT Partnership with SHI (PR Web)

Philly Tech People News 10/5/2014

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.Comcast Names Herrin SVP Customer Experience (Multichannel News)

Grace Under Pressure (Philadelphia Inquirer)
On ex-Comcast security chief, new acting Secret Service head Joseph Clancy.

Walmart's Gómez Joins Comcast/NBCU in D.C. (Multichannel News)

Duane Morris Philadelphia Office Adds Corporate Partner Timothy J. Levy (Press Release)

Industry Veterans Join InsPro Technologies in Strategic Management Expansion (Business Wire)

Former SAP EVP Michael Reh joins Vishal Sikka at Infosys (Economic Times of India)

Saturday Highlights: Liberty Interactive moves forward with QVC spin; Bentley acquires Site Options Analyzer

Redbox Instant is shutting down October 7 (Gigaom)

Liberty Interactive Moves Forward With QVC Spin (Multichannel News)

Oracle’s attack on SAP’s Cloud and what it tells about SAP’s Cloud strategy (Dick Hirsch/Diginomica)

Long Courtship Ends as Bentley Buys Site Options Analyzer (Engineering News-Record)

Links 10/3/2014: SAP only bidder for Concur; The Economist on Comcast-TWC merger

Tying up the cable business (The Economist)

Price tag for troubled SAP project will skyrocket to nearly $1 billion, audit says (PC World)

No Bidding War for Concur as SAP Made the Only Acquisition Offer
(Skift)

DoD May Invite Cloud Vendors Into Govt. Data Centers (Information Week)

In-Memory DBMS vs In-Memory Marketing (Donald Feinberg/Gartner Blogs)

Powell: Resist Covering Net with 'Dirty Quilt' of Title II (Multichannel News)

Comcast to Follow 1 Million Who’ve Fled Bankrupt Detroit (Bloomberg)

Comcast could reprogram Phillies plan ((Philadelphia Inquirer)


Syapse Expands Customer Solutions Team and Opens East Coast Office in Philadelphia (Syapse Blog)


Salesforce launches a program to target startups (VentureBeat)

Comcast's Secret Service better than White House's?

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Comcast's Secret Service is evidently better than that of the White House's.

In lieu of the resignation of former USSS head Julia Pierson, President Obama named former
White House special agent in charge Joseph Clancy to replace her on an acting basis. Clancy had been Director of Security for Comcast for the past three years.

Here's his Linkedin profile showing his position at Comcast, which doesn't add much detail.

More on Clancy from Villanova, which he attended.