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5/1: Is the FCC boss being a jerk?; GlaxoSmithKline will spend $245 million on drug R&D hub in Upper Providence

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It's a question worth asking: Why is the FCC boss being such a jerk? (The Register)

Fox, Blackstone Are in Talks to Make Competing Tribune Bid (Bloomberg)
Comcast would also be able to buy more stations, under revised FCC interpretation of regs.

Twitter signs deal with Bloomberg on rolling video news (BBC)

Verizon prepares competitive response to Altice’s FTTH plans (FierceCable)

Ergen: Dish Doesn’t Need a Partner to Build Wireless Network (Multichannel News)

GlaxoSmithKline will spend $245 million on drug R&D hub in Upper Providence (Philly.com)

Philadelphia’s life science warriors (Med City News)

Collaboration software company Jive to be acquired by Aurea for $462 million (TechCrunch)

How Uber lost its way in the Steel City (Politico)

Philly Tech News Notable Tweets: 4/24 - 4/30

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Relative share performance : Verizon v Comcast, 1 yr https://t.co/A0qKw6No6O
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 30, 2017

Clayton Christensen sticks to his guns on higher ed disruption: https://t.co/lhUigWu3rU #digitallearning
— Doug Lederman (@dougledIHE) April 28, 2017

Capital One Leases 330,000 SF in Wilmington Consolidation https://t.co/NiGYZ5X3cA
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 28, 2017

Former PJM, Viridity exec Zibelman off to run Australia's power grid, after heading NY PSC https://t.co/S0VVeMksUH via @greentechmedia
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 28, 2017

The Public: ESPN, what we want is more sports news and less people yelling at each other on TV.

ESPN: OK, we're firing the news people.
— Kyle Feldscher (@Kyle_Feldscher) April 26, 2017

Roberts: "Its an exhilirating time to be in business"
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 27, 2017

To those suggesting that ESPN's layoffs today were all because of politics or not "sticking to sports," I'm sorry, that's just silly. (1/8)
— ESPN Public Editor (@ESPNPublicEd) April 26, 2017

I'll always be proud to be a cable guy says Steve Burke as he's inducted into Cable Hall of Fame pic.twitter.com/qzEdpyuWQE
— Sena Fitzmaurice (@SenaFitz) April 27, 2017

That kind of surprised me - No doubt @NetSuite is multi-tenant. https://t.co/IVVr5TQMpz
— Brian Sommer (@BrianSSommer) April 26, 2017

CRM is the #1 enterprise market in 2016 @ 14% growth! Larger than database, EVP, or OS (which is declining by 13%). pic.twitter.com/I6uT3hXTrb
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) April 26, 2017

This is a heart-tearing day. For ESPN not to understand that no one eclipses Jayson Stark in creativity, integrity, joy of the game. And
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) April 26, 2017

Universal announces Shyamalan's inevitable "Split"/"Unbreakable" follow up, titled "Glass," will be released Jan. 18, 2019
— Ben Fritz (@benfritz) April 26, 2017

In $GE results, mich handwaving about growth in digital revenue, but no transparency. How much is Predix platform vs legacy vs acquisitions?
— Rick💬 (@RickBullotta) April 26, 2017

HealthVerity completes Series B Financing of $10 Millionhttps://t.co/PfjT0lwmXu
— HealthVerity (@healthverity) April 25, 2017

Nice to have Berkshire, Warren B, and Ted Weschler step up their $LSXMA investment. Thanks. $SIRI. #hearmysiri.
— gregmaffei (@gregmaffei) April 25, 2017

Part of my lunch conversation was about the Internet of Cows & cow-based mesh networking. Kind of fascinating actually, if unexpected. #IoT
— Jason Livingood (@jlivingood) April 25, 2017

Adding only 400 SAP S/4 customers in Q1 appears to be a miss. @RobertEnslin emphasizes the "big picture" of 5,800 total customers. #S/4HANA
— Paul Hamerman (@paulhamerman) April 25, 2017

Moffett: Verizon Fails Deal Sobriety Test | Multichannel: https://t.co/GU8nGO21W5
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 24, 2017

This is awesome. Congrats Bob Moore! A big win for Philly. https://t.co/pri8OduRIJ
— Bob Moul (@bobmoul) April 24, 2017

Weekend highlights: Yik Yak shuts down; John Gruber and pals shut down Vesper

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Yik Yak, once valued at $400 million, shuts down and sells off engineers for $1 million (The Verge)

John Gruber and pals shut down Vesper, their syncing notes app for iOS (TechCrunch)

NBCUniversal Is Building Its Own Children’s Channel (NY Times)
Sprout, which NBCU gained full control of in 2013, will be rebranded as Universal Kids. DreamWorks Animation Television programming will be added. Sprout has offices in New York and Fort Washington.

Was there bribery involving Pennsylvania's pension system? SERS wants to know (Philly.com)

Amazon’s cloud gain could be Google’s cloud loss (Recode)

Amazon's moves beyond retail get Wall Street thumbs up, for now (Reuters)

Exclusive: Google Snags Former Salesforce Cloud Exec
(Fortune)

Siemens, SAP sign cooperation deals with Saudi Arabia: officials (Reuters)

This is the time to bet on enterprise tech
(VentureBeat)

4/28: CardioNet (BioTelemetry) $2.5M Settlement Is Wireless Health Privacy First; Comcast's CNBC faces a big threat from Fox Business Network

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Amazon: As Good As It Gets? Pac Crest Cuts to Hold on MSFT, WMT Competition (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Parsing the IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein deal (James Governor / Enterprise Irregulars)

Comcast's CNBC faces a big threat from Fox Business Network (Philly.com)

Comcast, the Wallflower (Multichannel News)
Analyst makes case for cable giant sitting out merger dance

Sena Fitzmaurice Promoted at Comcast (Multichannel News)

Aggregate @hulu losses are public thanks to their parent companies’ disclosure – exceeded $500 mm in 2016 cc: @fortunemagazine @mlevram pic.twitter.com/yONEsHoy77
— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) April 25, 2017

Relative share performance of Comcast (CMCSA) v Verizon (VZ) - past 12 months (Chart)

CardioNet $2.5M Settlement Is Wireless Health Privacy First
(Bloomberg BNA)
CardioNet was the predecessor of Malvern-based BioTelemetry.
BioTelemetry (NASDAQ: BEAT), which was barely above water for a time a few years ago, now has a market capitalization of $924 million.

Google Fiber building in Louisville despite lawsuit from AT&T and Charter (Ars Technica)

All’s fair in love, war and ERP -- FinancialForce goes for NetSuite’s jugular (Computerworld)

SAP and Google Cloud: They actually need each other ( Tony Baer / ZDNet)

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Comcast earnings blow past estimates, driven by film business success (CNBC)
Roberts: "Its an exhilarating time to be in business"

Comcast's $CMCSA market cap up to $192 billion this morning
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 27, 2017

Verizon's (VZ) is $195 billion
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 27, 2017

Comcast Nears Launch of ‘xFi’ Home WiFi Platform (Multichannel News)
MSO now has nearly 1 million Xfinity Home subscribers.

Comcast, the largest broadband company in the U.S., is getting even bigger (Recode)

Why Comcast Already Sounds So Bored With Wireless (Fortune)

Comcast’s Watson: Too early to consider 5G a threat to fixed wireline broadband (FierceCable)

What Comcast bought and sold in the FCC auction (Philly.com)

Big telecom deals to watch (Axios)

Amazon surges on big earnings and sales beat (CNBC)
AWS sales increased 42 percent to $3.66 billion.

For the first time, Amazon reported quarterly revenues for logistics. Last time it broke out a new category was AWS. https://t.co/YgjSWs5A0q
— Leslie Hook (@lesliehook) April 27, 2017

Purdue acquires for-profit Kaplan University (Washington Post)
Can they play football?

PayPal partnerships pay off, and Venmo could take off next (Marketwatch)

Apple is in talks to launch its own Venmo (Recode)
Venmo, if you don't know, originated in Philly.

Escalated Cord-Cutting, Rights Fees Among Reasons Cited For ESPN's Massive Layoffs (SportsBusinessDaily)

Who is winning the connected TV war?

The answer may surprise you via @comscore @RokuPlayer @amazonfiretv @Chromecast #AppleTV pic.twitter.com/5LLidP8XaH
— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) April 27, 2017