Health care, e-commerce driving economy as Lehigh Valley grows jobs, officials say (Lehigh Vally Live)
Actually, The Weather Company isn't ditching Amazon for IBM (Business Insider)
TWC Boss: ‘Accuweather Can Not Serve Viewers During Severe Weather Like We Can’ (TVNewser)
Salesforce buys mobile authentication startup Toopher (VentureBeat)
Links 3/31: Charter to buy Bright House; Angelakis to head new Comcast venture unit
Charter To Buy Bright House For $10.4B
(Multichannel News)
Comcast to form investment company with CFO at helm (Reuters)
COMCAST
CORPORATION AND MICHAEL J. ANGELAKIS TO CREATE A NEW, STRATEGIC COMPANY (Comcast Voices/ Comcast Corporate Blog)
Exclusive: Cablevision to make $1 offer for New York Daily News (Reuters)
Is Yuengling now bigger than Samuel Adams? (Fortune)
Etsy IPO Price Expected At Between $14-$16 A Share, Starting Roadshow Tomorrow (TechCrunh)
Cuomo Budget Said to Include $100 Million Venture Capital Fund (Bloomberg)
How IBM and The Weather Channel's new deal can save you money (Fortune)
Links 3/30: IBM acquires Blekko for Watson; CardioNet pays $6.4 million to settle billing probe
In Comcast Suit, You May Already Be A Winner
(The Post of Sanatoga PA and The Pottsgroves)
Sling TV Subject To Content Restrictions (Multichannel News)
IBM acquires technology from curated search engine Blekko to bolster Watson (Silicon Angle)
MSG Sale Of Sports Business Possible But Not Certain (Investor's Business Daily)
Penn faculty startup raises $100K from Startup PHL angel fund (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Medical device firm CardioNet pays $6.4M to settle billing probe (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Q&A: Amazon VP Peter Faricy explains the company’s move into home improvement (GeeKWire)
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Rovi Taps SAP Exec For Board Seat
(Multichannel News)
Google taps Morgan Stanley exec for CFO post
(CNET)
Ruth Porat received an MBA from Wharton.
ARRIS Appoints Patrick Macken as Senior Vice President and General Counsel (Arris Press Release)
Ecrypt Appoints Former SAP and Microsoft Engineer as Vice President of Product Development (Marketwire)
New publisher to oversee two South Jersey newspapers (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Checkpoint Systems' CFO resigns; acting replacement chosen (NJBIZ)
Links 3/27: Oracle Increases Runtime Database License Fees for SAP Customers, Comcast Says It’s Not Talking to Apple About Apple TV, Because Apple Hasn’t Asked
Unit4 retires legacy brands in ‘people platform’ launch (Diginomica)
Oracle Increases Runtime Database License Fees for SAP Customers (ASUG News)
Comcast Says It’s Not Talking to Apple About Apple TV, Because Apple Hasn’t Asked (Re/code)
Bucks County Commissioners Join Bucks County IDA to Announce $2 Million Financing for Keystone NAP (Keystone NAP)
Google teams with Johnson & Johnson for robotic-assisted surgery (Engadget)
Ultimate Software, NetSuite link HCM and ERP clouds (Business Cloud News)
Atlantic.Net Expands Data Center Footprint In U.S., Europe and Asia (CRN)
FinancialForce raises $110 million as it goes for growth (Diginomica)
Slack’s Valuation More Than Doubles to $2.8 Billion in Five Months (Wall Street Journal: Digits)
Gartner Again Positions Dell Boomi as a “Leader” in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide
(Business Wire)
Blue Bell tech company to hire more than 40 by end of year (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Links 3/25: Comcast says $45B Time Warner Cable deal to take longer; Nucci on 2nd big bet
NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Targets MSNBC as Priorities Emerge (Hollywood Reporter)
Comcast says $45B Time Warner Cable deal to take longer (AP via Phiily.com)
Michael Wolff on Liberty's John Malone: What Is He Actually Hunting? (Hollywood Reporter)
Tennessee sues FCC to stop expansion of municipal broadband (The Verge)
Apple snaps up FoundationDB for behind-the-scenes help (CNET News)
Our 2nd Big Bet (Rick Nucci/GetGuru)
How SnapLogic’s cloud integration bet paid off – with CEO Gaurav Dhillon (Jon Reed/Diginomica)
Mobile Marketing Startup Localytics Raises $35M More (TechCrunch)
Round led by Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures).
Links 3/25: Time Warner Cable expected to take $1B loss for bad Dodger deal; Qlik Could See Increased Competition With Tableau
California Public Utilities Commission delays vote on Comcast-TWC deal (LA Times)
Icontrol Deals Up New Home Automation Platform (Multichannel News)
Here are the first lawsuits to challenge the FCC’s net neutrality rules (Washington Post)
Time Warner Cable expected to take $1B loss for bad Dodger deal (New York Post)
PlayStation Vue Review: A Real Rival to Cable TV…For a Price (Wall Street Journal: Tech)
Google Fiber expands gigabit service again, plans move to Salt Lake City (Ars Technica)
Qlik Could See Increased Competition With Tableau (Investor's Business Daily)
Veeva Systems Introduces Veeva OpenKey (Marketwire)
LiquidHub Joins Veeva OpenKey Partner Program (Business Wire)
Haydle Q&A Software Powers the Engaged Enterprise (Business Wire)
eMoney Advisor Completes New emX Select Integration (Business Wire)
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