Links 3/18: Sony's VUE launches in Philly & 2 other cities; eMoney looks for many more people post-acquistion

Apple Is Out to Blow Up the Cable TV Model (Bloomberg)

Comcast Puts DOCSIS 3.1 Live in the Field (Light Reading)

SONY’S VUE STREAMING SERVICE SURE IS SLICK—AND PRICEY (Wired)
Philly is one of three cities it launched in today.


Moonves Said to Have Mulled Time Warner Deal as CBS Plots Future (Bloomberg)

Clinical Ink, CentrosHealth merge to bolster mobile clinical trial tools (Mobile Health News)
Clinical Ink is based in Winston-Salem and Philadelphia. CentrosHealth is based in Boston. The merger also involves an additional investment in the company.



InsideSales raises $60M in round led by Salesforce Ventures (VentureBeat)

Salesforce and Microsoft Invest in InsideSales.com at $1.5B Valuation (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Detente is over as Oracle lays into Salesforce and Workday (Diginomica)

SAP sees procurement services as the cloud's silver lining (Reuters)


Dell Boomi API Management Makes It Easier and More Cost Effective to Create, Publish and Manage APIs (Business Wire)


Software firm for 'One Percent' seeks 60 Philly engineers (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Charlotte firm expects 400% client growth with new big-time financial backing (Charlotte Business Journal)
New backer is LLR Partners of Philly.

Tech startups market to PCB spring breakers Panama City News Herald)
Wharton-founded startup hits the beach during spring break to evangelize its communications app.

Comcast partnership with Braves on new stadium includes establishing major Atlanta R&D center

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Comcast today announced a partnership with the Atlanta Braves, in which it will provide all its technology goodies for the Braves' new stadium in suburban Cobb County, SunTrust Park, and the office and entertainment complex surrounding it. Comcast will also be an anchor tenant for an office tower in the complex. The stadium is scheduled to open in 2017.

What surprised me was that its plans for the office space are not only for it to house local employees serving the Atlanta market, where it is the major cable system incumbent. It also will have an Innovation Lab that will serve as a primary technology development hub for Comcast, along with the company's other major R&D centers in Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, and Denver.

Comcast plans to base about 1,000 employees at the new office, but its not known how many will be in the R&D workforce. (A Comcast spokesperson said they didn't have any numbers on that yet.)

A little back story: The Braves are currently owned by John Malone's Liberty Media. Cable pioneer Malone has been through the years both a frequent business partner and sometime nemesis to Comcast. He is currently involved in the pending Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter deal, through which Charter, in which Liberty Media owns a large stake, will acquire some of the subs Comcast plans to shed and enter into a joint venture with Comcast that will acquire other Comcast and TWC subs.

Comcast could also be interested in a cable rights deal with the Braves similar to the one it has with the Phillies. But last year Liberty Media renegotiated its previously subpar local cable package with Fox channels Fox Sports South and SportSouth. Its a long-term contract but of unknown length, and I don't know if it has any opt-out clauses that would allow the Braves to seek another deal. But the very fact that Liberty Media and Comcast are working together on the Braves makes me think other arrangements could be possible in the future.

See also Wall Street Journal blog article, Braves Hit Home Run With Comcast Deal.

Links 3/17: Apple reported to be planning to launch streaming TV service in Fall, but without Comcast's NBC as of now

Apple said to plan September launch of subscription TV service (CNET)

Apple is feuding with Comcast, and may not include its channels in its upcoming streaming TV service (Quartz)

NBC reportedly working on Apple TV app, but you'll need cable to use it (The Verge)

SAP CEO McDermott Walks A Fine Line on NSA Allegations (Re/code)

SAP opens coffee shop for those ‘who share a passion for technology’ in Silicon Valley (GeekWire)
How about opening one in Philly?


Business intelligence upstart Birst gets $65 million venture infusion (Fortune)
Partnership with SAP; competes with Qlik.

Oracle Meets Profit Expectations In Its FQ3, Misses With Revenue Of $9.3B Due To Forex Headwinds (TechCrunch)


Dataminr Confirms $130M Raise To Take Its Social Media Data Analysis To New Verticals (TechCrunch)

GSK Selects Veeva as Global Multichannel CRM Partner (PR Newswire)

Software Industry Veteran Alan Mateo Joins Veeva Systems as Executive Vice President of Global Sales
(Business Wire)


Warby Parker has hired Goldman Sachs, bringing it one step closer to an IPO (Business Insider)

LLR Partners Invests in Agility Recovery (Business Wire)

Microsoft Cloud-First Push Shines In CRM, Lags In ERP (Information Week)

Links 3/16: SAP denies backdoors, defends its software used in government; Rovi Reacts To Investor Pressure

Little support in D.C. for Comcast-Time Warner deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast more vexed by HBO Now than other MVPDs, analyst says (FierceCable)

Rovi Reacts To Investor Pressure
(Multichannel News)
Based in California, Rovi has significant parts of its business operating out of Radnor.


​SAP denies backdoors, defends its software used in government (ZDNet)

SAP is pushing mobile apps, and that’s great news for their mobile security partner Mocana(Brian Madden.com)

Oracle Analysts Reduce Q3 Estimates Ahead Of Report (Investor's Business Daily)


AWS market share reaches five-year high despite Microsoft Cloud growth surge (Computerworld)

HR analytics “stuck in neutral”, warns Deloitte (Diginomica)

ResearchKit An “Enormous Opportunity” For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity (TechCrunch)

Inside Big Taxi's Dirty War With Uber (Bloomberg)


Microsoft reportedly declines to invest in $110M round for Android OS-maker Cyanogen (GeekWire)

Blue Pillar Secures $14M Led by EnerTech Capital for Facilities IoT (Marketwire)


Gilt Groupe’s Very Cloudy Future (Re/code)

Healthcare providers test new venture capital, innovation models (Healthcare Finance News)

Inquirer article: Search results snippet suggests possible Cerner (formerly Siemens) layoffs in Malvern, but reference removed from article

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From Google search results:

"The fallout from the Cerner Corp. of Siemens Health Services is ... at the heath care information technology company's Malvern location were ..."

Today's actual Inquirer article: Jobs picture improving, but area's laid-off professionals still need work

No mention of Cerner / Siemens.

H/T HISTalk

The Long Story Behind Gigaom’s Sudden Demise
(Peter Kafka / Re/code)

Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup (Michael Wolf / Medium)

QVC debuts TV shopping on the Apple Watch
(Internet Retailer)

Verizon's small cell moves could provide backhaul bounty for Cincinnati Bell, FairPoint and Lumos (FierceTelecom)

Philly Tech People News 3/15/2015: Comcast promotes three to EVP; New SAP CTO on development plans

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Mark Schweitzer Joins Strategic Marketing Consultants CMG Partners as Partner (CMG Partners [pdf])
Schweitzer was previously senior vice president of marketing and product at Comcast Business.

Comcast Gives EVP Nod to D’Arcy Rudnay, Arthur Block, Lawrence Salva (Variety)


New SAP CTO Quentin Clark on SAP’s Development Future, How His Work Impacts Customers (ASUG News)


Terrence Curtin Named President of TE Connectivity (PR Newswire)


Uber, Mint, and Square investor Rob Hayes shares what he looks for in community-driven startups (VentureBeat)

Alibaba adds U.S. investing partner (Fortune)

TierPoint Names Dennis Jesielowski to New COO Position (Business Wire)

Benjamin’s Desk names new CEO, has big plans for year ahead (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Universal Display Corporation Names Rosemarie B. Greco to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

Implementing Enterprise SaaS: If it’s Easy, it’s Because You’re Not Trying (Josh Greenbaum/Enterprise Applications Consulting)

Links 3/13/2015: FCC hits delay on merger shot clock again; Josh Kopelman on state of Series A funding

Comcast hits back at merger critics (The Hill)

States sink teeth into Comcast deal (Politico)

FCC delays review of Comcast-Time Warner Cable and AT&T-DirecTV mergers (LA Times)

Charter Communications in Talks to Buy Bright House Networks (Variety)
Interestingly, Bright House partners with Time Warner Cable on technology, programming and other services.

AccuWeather Launches All-Weather All-The-Time Net (Multichannel News)
State College-based AccuWeather launches weather channel that actually focuses on weather. Replaces The Weather Channel on FiOS TV.


What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A (Josh Kopelman / First Round Review)

TiVo Receives Approval To Acquire Aereo Assets (TechCrunch)
Assets sold for less than $2 million.


CloudMine: Fueling the transformation of how people consume and interact with enterprise data (David Luk / Safeguard Scientifics Blog)

Oracle Q3 Preview: How Much Will Currency Matter? (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)


CenturyLink CFO: We won't sell our assets ... yet (FierceTelecom)

Links 3/12: Charter in talks to buy Bright House Networks; Philly to be one of three initial launch cities for Sony Playstation Vue

Lyft Raises $530 Million in Fight With Uber (WSJ: Digits)

PlayStation Vue Nears Commercial Debut: WSJ (Multichannel News)
Philadelphia reported to be one of three initial launch cities.

F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules (NY Times)

Charter in Talks to Buy Newhouse’s Bright House Networks (Bloomberg)

Google’s Pay TV Push Is Slow. Google’s Broadband Push Is a Question Mark. (Re/code)

Bob Moul interviewed on Bloomberg Radio
(Bloomberg Radio/Audio)
Discusses Artisan Mobile, mobile tech, Apple, and Philly tech scene.


DOCUSIGN STRIKES RESELLER AGREEMENT WITH SAP (CBR)
Also involves Aria Systems.

Bentley Adds MANAGEservices Offering for Construction Managers through Acquisition of EADOC Cloud Services (Business Wire


IBM workforce declined 12% in 2014; losses tied to corporate divestitures (Computerworld)


Synchronoss Cloud Growth Outlook Conservative: FBR (Investor's Business Daily)

Agilence receives $4.3 Million in New Funding to Support Growth Initiative (PR Newswire)

Links 3/11: Zuora scores $115 MM round; More details emerge on Jet.com stategy

Zuora $115M Investment Round Validates Subscription Approach (TechCrunch)

Looker Raises Another $30M For Its New Approach To Business Intelligence (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital, Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) participated.


More Details Emerge on Amazon Rival Jet.com (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Aereo Just Can’t Let Go (Zatz Not Funny)


Local firm adds U.S. technology company (Winnipeg Free Press)
Buys AmerisourceBergen Technology Group, based in Illinois.

SAP brings new analytics tools to companies large and small (PCWorld)

Why NY-area patent lawyers want Philly office (Philly.com: Philly Deals)