Cloud Computing Wins Preakness Stakes, and Techies Are Stoked
 (Fortune)

FCC won't publish evidence of alleged DDoS attack, amid net neutrality battle (ZDNet)


EMR change cited as one of the reasons IBM Watson and MD Anderson collaboration failed (iMedicalApps)

Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber’s Driverless Car Experiment. Not Anymore. (NY Times)



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Weekend Highlights; Cloud Computing Wins Preakness Stakes, Techies Stoked; Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber’s Driverless Car Experiment. Not Anymore



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Cloud Computing Wins Preakness Stakes, and Techies Are Stoked
 (Fortune)

FCC won't publish evidence of alleged DDoS attack, amid net neutrality battle (ZDNet)


EMR change cited as one of the reasons IBM Watson and MD Anderson collaboration failed (iMedicalApps)

Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber’s Driverless Car Experiment. Not Anymore. (NY Times)


Walmart’s U.S. Online Sales Rise 63% (Fortune)

Salesforce sails into record territory, and analysts see calm waters ahead (Marketwatch)

2017 Healthcare Prognosis (Venrock)
Will Epic start making acquisitions? Would people rather bet on Flatiron, Clover or Oscar?

Cloud-services company's [EvolveIP} Upper Macungie office could grow after acquisition of Arizona firm (Morning Call)


U.S. Startups Fail to Attract Crowd of Small Investors (Bloomberg)

Huntsman Is Said to Be Close to Merger With Clariant (NY Times: DealBook)


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5/19: Benioff Touts Amazon as Salesforce’s New Best Friend; Comcast launches site for Xfinity Mobile sign-ups



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Salesforce's strong results allay slowing growth concerns (Reuters)


Marc Benioff Touts Amazon as Salesforce’s New Best Friend (Fortune)

PACT honors for Richard Vague, deals of the year (Philly.com)

Jonathan Bush’s Athenahealth Has a New Activist Investor (Fortune)
Paul Singer's latest target.

Comcast launches site for Xfinity Mobile sign-ups (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Comcast shuffles its digital ad business (Recode)

Roger Ailes lived in Media when he worked on the ‘Mike Douglas Show’ in the ‘60s (Philly.com)






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5/18: Poynter on Philly papers (or website, really) ; Why Amazon’s Probably Not Going To Blow Up Wireless Next



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In Philadelphia, 3 newsrooms had to become 1. Now, they’re taking on a whole new kind of change (Poynter)

Why Amazon’s Probably Not Going To Blow Up Wireless Next
(Fortune)

Here’s Why Brookings Thinks Philly’s Innovation Scene Isn’t Competitive Enough (Philly.com)

Spark Therapeutics completes regulatory filing application for its experimental gene therapy medicine (Philly.com)

Salesforce Rising:: Trumpets Rising Profit Margins, Market Share (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)


​IBM Watson meets SAP Leonardo for cognitive procurement (ZDNet)





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Ben Franklin-funded blockchain startup AlphaPoint racking up awards. and clients (Correction: mea culpa)

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AlphaPoint, the innovative blockchain startup that began life in the Philly area but appears to have mostly migrated to New York, was  named the overall winner in the 2017 Benzinga Fintech Awards.

AlphaPoint received a $1.5 million seed investment in October 2014 from investors including Ben Franklin, Robin Hood Ventures and Invite Media cofounder Scott Becker. CEO Joe Ventura and VP of Development Jack Sallen are founders; Igor Telyatnikov (ex-LiftDNA) is President & COO. Vadim Telyatnikov, founder of King of Prussia-based LiftDNA (acquired by OpenX) is on the board.

CrunchBase shows AlphaPoint having raised a total of $2.5 million; CrunchBase also reported a March 2017 investment by SocialStart, a relatively small but interesting Seed / Series A VC , but the amount is not specified.

In addition to the Benzinga award, AlphaPoint also won Water's Technology Sell-Side Technology Award 2017 for Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side. AlphaPoint is also a finalist in PACT's 2017 Enterprise Awards' Technology Startup category, with the winners to be named tomorrow night.

The AlphaPoint Distributed Ledger Platform (ADLP), which runs on Microsoft Azure, is currently installed at over a dozen “revenue-generating customers,” Water's Technology reported AlphaPoint as saying, including CME Group; Scotiabank; BTCC, a Chinese bitcoin exchange; and Brighton Peak, a Melbourne-based bitcoin exchange. It is designed to resolve key bottlenecks faced in high-performance enterprise environments.

Asked by Philly Tech News about its Philly area presence, COO Telyatnikov responded by email, "We have been growing our PA Technology and Operations teams and are currently hiring. We are excited to be expanding our Pennsylvania team and are committed to helping the region become a hub for blockchain technology." When asked whether its headquarters was in New York, he responded, "Our New York office is our primary sales office." AlphaPoint has offices on Sugartown Road in Berwyn, though as best as I can tell from LinkedIn maybe two of its roughly twenty employees are based there. A few others are scattered elsewhere in the US.

Clarification: I missed some email responses in the thread with COO Telyatnikov:

 "We actually currently have 7 people in PA."

"Worth noting we also recently brought on a VP of Sales based in Philadelphia, the tech and ops roles are the current open roles we are hiring for (5 in total)."

"Per the number we have in PA also would not agree that we mostly have migrated to NY. We only have 7 full time in NY as well - and we previously had offices in both locations as well (we also have staff in North Carolina and San Fransisco)."

I sincerely apologize for my error. I had asked a question explicitly aimed at gathering this information,  and  failed to note the full response.

Update 5/22: AlphaPoint Unveils an Asset Issuance and Custody Solution for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)




Philadelphia-based Chaikin Analytics also was a winner in the 'Trading Recommendation' category. Wayne-based Quantaverse, which I profiled last December, was also nominated for an award. Its also a nominee for PACT's 'Technology Startup' award.





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5/17: Comcast's smart home app has a new hue; URBN looks beyond the store for growth



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Comcast's smart home app controls your Philips Hue lights (Engadget)

Comcast’s new wireless service, Xfinity Mobile, is now live (TechCrunch)


RDK Stokes Global Growth (Multichannel News)

Media firm Deltatre ready to move into U.S.
 (SportsBusinessDaily)

Cheddar ​streams $19 million in new funding (Axios)



With Stores Slipping, Urban Outfitters Looks to Wholesale, International (WWD)
And also ecommerce.

Amazon, Dish Network In Wireless Partnership Talks: Report (IBD)
Big news if it materializes.

SAP unveils blockchain service in the cloud (CNBC)



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5/16: DreamIt alum LevelUp gets $50 million; Report: Amazon eying pharmacy market



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SAP now offering multicloud option with AWS, Azure, Google (ZDNet)

SAP sends Leonardo digital innovation system into full swing (ZDNet)

LevelUp mobile app gets $50 million in latest fintech fundraising round (CNBC)
LevelUp, an early DreamIt grad now based in Boston, has had its ups and downs but appears to have found major traction; Chase relationship a key.

Why the Companies That Actually Make Your Drugs Are in a Merger Frenzy (Fortune)

WOW Sets Price Range for IPO (Multichannel News)

Comcast Places Bigger Target on Bigger Business (Multichannel News)


Amazon's streaming software powers new smart TVs (AP via Philly.com)

Amazon is hiring people to break into the multibillion-dollar pharmacy market (CNBC)

and... LevelUp mobile app gets $50 million raised $20 million from Thrive
(TechCrunch)
Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump assistant Jared, is one of Thrive's founders.
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Bullpen raises $83.6 mln for third fund (PE Hub)
Part-time Doylestown resident Paul Martino is founder and managing partner.






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5/15: Looking at Comcast on three new fronts; IBM's Watson 'a joke?'



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Comcast takes the smart home beyond its service footprint (Stacey on IoT)

Cable’s Dense Infrastructure Suited for 5G Small Cell Networks: Analyst (Multichannel News)


Comcast Is Getting Close to Offering Internet TV Service (Fortune)
Only to its own broadband customers, it says.



IBM's Watson 'is a joke,' says Social Capital CEO Palihapitiya (CNBC)


INC Research to merge with inVentiv in latest contract medical research deal (Reuters)

State of Manufacturing ERP – Part 4 – Rootstock and NetSuite (Diginomica)


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The Philadelphia 76ers and Team Dignitas reveal the parallels between esports and traditional sports
(VentureBeat)
I guess its trust the process, again.

The story of Uber's first CEO — before Travis Kalanick
(CNBC)

Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars (NY Times)


Globalstar Works With Advisers to Explore Potential Sale (Bloomberg)


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Weekend Highlights; Virtustream launches healthcare cloud platform; SAP Goes to SAPPHIRE 2017



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Virtustream launches healthcare cloud platform, lets providers pay for what they use (HealthcareItNews)



Geisinger partners with Highmark in central Pennsylvania (Morning Call)

Wave of Telecom Mergers Not Hitting As Big As Promised
(Fortune)

Apple Just Acquired This Little-Known Artificial Intelligence Startup
(Fortune)

SAP Goes to SAPPHIRE 2017, part I (Joshua Greenbaum / Enterprise Applications Consulting)






The Philadelphia 76ers and Team Dignitas reveal the parallels between esports and traditional sports
(VentureBeat)
I guess its trust the process, again.

The story of Uber's first CEO — before Travis Kalanick
(CNBC)

Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars (NY Times)


Globalstar Works With Advisers to Explore Potential Sale (Bloomberg)






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5/12: Comcast video chief still sees value in the bundle; NBCUniversal spent around $230 million to buy Craftsy



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Sprint, SoftBank Said in Informal Deal Talks With T-Mobile (Bloomberg)

Verizon backs off (Multichannel News)

This Cloud Technology Lives on But Its Promise Has Changed (Fortune)

In the age of cord cutting, Comcast video chief sees value in the bundle (Chicago Tribune)

"We don't see ourselves as a cable company," Strauss said. "We see ourselves as a technology and communication-entertainment company, much more in the consideration set of Apple and Google than more of the traditional cable and satellite providers."

NBCUniversal spent around $230 million to buy the video tutorial site Craftsy (Recode)

Can SAP afford its Newtown Square-based CEO Bill McDermott? (Philly.com)

Mkt cap: SAP-$125bn IBM-$140bn.

Microsoft Unveils New Cloud Services for AI and Industrial Sensors (Bloomberg)


GE's Immelt bets big on digital factories, shareholders are wary (Reuters)


When will pharma move from experimenting with digital health tools to adopting them? (Med City News)


SHI posts record revenue of $1.7B for Q1 (NJBiz)






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