Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care (New York Times)

Adelphia's Rigases Check In to Club Fed (Associated Press via Ecommerce Times)
Sad

Ups and Downs of Wages
Science and tech workers have lots to smile about. Other fields are mixed.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

AppLabs for acquisition in pharma space (CIOL/India)
Looking at Philadelphia area companies

IBM and SAP expand partnership
To reach midsize companies in India through successful reseller agreements
(CIOL/India)

Note to Oracle and SAP senior management (ZDNet Blogs)


Americas’ SAP Users’ Group Partners with SAP to Deliver Preeminent Business Operations Event (BusinessWire)

MedQuist reveals 'mini-tender offer' (Philadelphia Business Journal)
MedQuist is 70% owned by Phillips N.V.

Not proud, but not liable, either (phillyinc/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Astea International gets off the hook on class action suit


InterDigital Predicts 3Q Sales Decline (Associated Press via MSN Money)


Rx: Robots (Allentown Morning Call)


University of Pennsylvania Libraries Put Rare Books and Historical Documents Online With Olive Software (BusinessWire)

Vignola to Head Up Research at Comcast Entertainment (Broadcasting & Cable)

TWC Group Continues Steady Growth with New and Expanded Relationships in 2007 (BusinessWire)


Prescient Applied Intelligence Reports Expanded Profitability in Its Second Quarter 2007 Results (Businesswire)


WPCS Announces $4.6 Million in New Contracts (PR Newswire)

Marchex Adds Call-Based Advertising Services to Local Advertising Platform with VoiceStar Acquisition (BusinessWire via Yahoo Finance)

Marchex Pays $20 Million for VoiceStar (The Local Onliner)

There had been rumors about a deal for VoiceStar for a couple of months, so this is not a surprise. I did think the price would be somewhat higher, though, since it was
positioned in such a hot market (local search) with a number of potentially interested buyers. But it appears that it is going to require several million dollars of further investment to get this business to scale, so that may have been one factor keeping the price down. I'm not convinced, though, that the "pay for call" market is going to take off like some people expect, at least in the short term.


Neoware Swings to 4Q Loss As Revenue Slips, Expenses Rise (Associated Press via Yahoo Finance)


Roy Disney returns to Philly (phillyinc/Philadelphia Inquirer)
His activist investment group buys a stake in eResearch Technologies. We'll see what happens next.


Venture Capital Firms Set Their Sights on New Ideas -- Not New Technologies (Knowledge@Wharton)


Value of exploring start-up leaders’ psyches
Leadership is key to start-ups, and psychological testing of prospective CEOs could raise success, some say. It’s a tough sell. (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Ametek buys Paris firm for $112M (Philadelphia Business Journal)


SMB Market Awaits SAP's Web 2.0 Play (internetnews.com)


SL Industries, Inc. Announces Financial Results for Its Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2007 (BusinessWire)


Vyyo Gets Foot in Door at Comcast, Charter (Light Reading's Cable Digital News)


A safe way to learn life skills (phillyBurbs.com)
Bensalem company launches virtual reality software to help teach people with disabilities and special needs to navigate the world better. Interesting concept.

Acsis Achieves Solid Revenue Performance in Q2 2007
Software License Revenue and Pharmaceutical Market Opportunities Drive Growth
(Safeguard-Partner Companies Press Release)


Technology Reveals New Worlds to Map (New York Times)
About careers in GIS.

Blogodelphia
(blinq./Philadelphia Inquirer)
Tracking service ranks Philadelphia as nation's second most bloggiest city.

‘Unlearning’ Makes Headlines at Reuters (Workforce Management)
Mentions Skillsoft of Princeton and Project Management Institute of Newtown


Verizion FiOS TV Rolls out new Media Guide in Massachusetts (Tvover.net)
I guess this will compete with Comcast's new Fancast service. If its anything like my Verizon Email, however, I wouldn't expect much.


Principal Resigns at Phila.'s School of the Future (KWY Newsradio)
I guess Microsoft didn't give her enough options.


Apprise praised for moving closer to 'best and brightest' (Easton Express-Times)


Exempla Healthcare Selects ActiveStrategy Software to Automate Their Performance Management Framework (BusinessWire)


Bucks County is ready for its big-screen closeup (phillyBurbs.com)

Squash Champion Leads Digital Cable Push (Associated Press via Washington Post)
Interview with Brian Roberts (no, not the baseball player) of Comcast.


Kenexa 2Q Profit Rises; Stock Falls (Associated Press via MSN Money)


One Year In, New Owners Have Barely Scratched The Surface With Philly.com (paidContent.org)

SAP A1S: What’s in a name? (SAP Watch: SearchSAP.com)

SAP PLM job prospects: A Jon Reed guest column (SAP Watch: SearchSAP.com)

Microsoft's aQuantive Buy Gets Shareholder Nod (Information Week)
aQuantive owns Avenue A/Razorfish


Lockheed Martin-Built BSAT-3a Satellite Ready for Launch (PR Newswire)


Lockheed Martin part of contract-winning team (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Ethidium Acquires VLink Health Information Exchange (PR Newswire)


Knowing the score: Golf fans grip new technology (Tulsa World)
Camden-based myLeaderboard.com and Unisys at the golf course.

EarthLink Dedicates Wi-Fi Network In Corpus Christi (Information Week)

Israeli Companies Show Off Talent (Jewish Exponent/Philadelphia)

Two South Jersey schools share grant (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Meetup.com Spawns Philadelphia’s First Internet Professionals Social Group (PRLog)

Comcast Offers Early Look at Fancast.com (CreativeMac)

People Love Fiber Optic—Assuming They Can Get It (Wired Blogs)
About FIOS and its potential impact on Comcast


SunGard Announces Second Quarter 2007 Results (BusinessWire)

InfoLogix Announces Record Revenue of $21.4 Million for Second Quarter 2007
(PR Newswire)


Tyco Electronics reports $1.37 billion loss (Reuters)
Spun off from Tyco International, Tyco Electronics' operational headquarters is in Berwyn.

Marketing Suite Showcases New Science Center Property (DiGiTAL50.com)

Vodafone Keeps Verizon Stake
British cell phone giant opts to hold on to its 45 percent share of U.S. wireless group. (Red Herring)


Verizon Wireless Investment in Philadelphia Region Network Since 2000 Passes $1 Billion Milestone (PR Newswire)


Siemens Medical Solutions Executives Assume New Industry Leadership Roles and Key Appointments (BusinessWire)


Acsis Streamlines the Integration of ERP, ePedigree and RFID Device Management Solutions for Pharmaceutical Marketplace (Pharmalive)

New Search Engine Ranks Tables By Title, Document Content, Text Reference (Science Daily)
Developed at Penn State


WorldGate Releases Second Quarter 2007 Results (BusinessWire)
It always bothers me when a company wants to talk about anything but the numbers in an earnings release.

Paragon Technologies Reports 2007 Second Quarter and Six Months Results and a Strong Backlog of Orders (PR Newswire)

A 3-D View of the Brain
Imaging software combines data from several imaging technologies to create an interactive 3-D map of the brain.(MIT Technology Review)
Research done at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital


Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Second-Quarter 2007 (BusinessWire)


InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results (BusinessWire)


InterDigital Files Complaint Vs. Nokia (Associated Press)

Official: Phila. movie studio to 'create thousands of new jobs' (Philadelphia Business Journal)
This falls under the "we'll believe it when we see it" category.


27 local firms raise $154.3 million (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Provides complete list of area companies receiving venture funding.

Drexel Considers Campus in California (Associated Press via Houston Chronicle)
This is not just some small offshoot campus they are talking about.

How SAP Plans To Beat Oracle In PLM Software Market
SAP argues that businesses interested in product-lifecycle management software don't have the time to wait for Oracle to get its integration story together.
(Information Week)

Coca-Cola vending machines to take credit cards and MasterCard PayPass (Associated Press
via International Herald Tribune)
Big deal for Malvern's USA Technologies

WPCS finalizes Max Engineering, Major Electric deals (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Business Intelligence International SOX Tool Selected by Global Packaging Supplier (PR Newswire)
Crown Holdings selects software from Malvern company for corporate compliance

On the new direction at eResearch Technology (Clinpage)

Strohl Systems Announces Executive Promotions (PR Newswire)

Venture investment lower locally, higher nationally (Philadelphia Business Journal)


eResearchTechnology Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results (PR Newswire)


Beyond.com Expands Relationship with CMP Technology, as Exclusive Agency for Recruitment Advertising
Acquires TechCareers.com, Creating Stronger Penetration into the IT
Vertical Market and Expansion into Print Media(PR Newswire)


SAP Deepens Value to Midsize Companies by Adding 60 Offerings to Its Family of SAP(R) Best Practices (PR Newswire)


Foolish Forecast: A Steady Line for InterDigital? (Motley Fool)


Unisys ratings affirmed with negative outlook - Fitch (Thomson Financial)

Bad guys now have to worry about GPS technology(New Haven Register)
Discusses technology provided by 3SI Security Systems of Exton


Finding their place in cyberspace
MomSpace.com gives mothers an online alternative to MySpace, made just for them.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lacrosse Web site company sold (Philadelphia Business Journal)

California IPA taps New Jersey provider to support IT implementation (Healthcare IT News)
Will deploy software from NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham


NEPA: Wall Street’s future safe haven (The Times Leader/Wilkes-Barre)

Eclipsys Signs New Contract with University of Pennsylvania Health System(PR Newswire)

Arsenault Develops Invoice Data Import Software (TruckingInfo.com)


George Delallo Company Adopts SCO's Mobile Order Entry Solution to Streamline Orders to Customers (PR Newswire)

Electronic access can be spotty (phillyBurbs.com)
Story about online access to municipal information in Bucks and Montgomery Counties

Building A City Through Photographs (The Bulletin)

IBM to buy Princeton Softech (InfoWorld)
Well, I had it first on the list of "Young Companies to Watch" list I was starting(see side), and now its gone. Eaten up, like all our young.


Penn gets $20 million for nanotech center (Philadelphia Business Journal)
From nuclear waste to nanotech. Interesting transition.


SAP Consolidates Media at MindShare (AdWeek)


Product lifecycle management goes enterprise (SearchSap)

Sprint Picks Google over Cable?
Analyst says search king is behind carrier’s decision to walk away from cable spectrum deal. (Red Herring)
Implications for Comcast


Unisys announces contract, loses $250K trademark infringement decision (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Software Firms Think IPO
After a long dry spell, a string of public offerings has makers of business software chasing the dream. (Red Herring)


Robust recruitment = $4,500 (phillyinc/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Avenue A/Razorfish


Ben Franklin to Invest $518,610 in Six Companies (BusinessWire)
Viddler Inc. among those funded.

Universe Point Launches First Monitored Backup Software (PRWeb)

Checkpoint's 2Q Profit More Than Triples From Year-Ago Period Hurt by Litigation Settlement (AP via Yahoo News)

Checkpoint Raises 2007 Adjusted Guidance (AP via Yahoo News)


Internet Capital Group Announces Second Quarter Financial Results (BusinessWire)


Buyout Latest in Hot BPM Market
MetaStorm-Proforma deal underscores growing interest from VCs and private equity in market for business process management software. (Red Herring)
Internet Capital Group owns a stake in MetaStorm

Vishay Reports Results for Second Quarter 2007(BusinessWire)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2007 Results (BusinessWire)

Safeguard Scientifics invests in operator of shopping Web sites (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Interesting because Safeguard hasn't been doing much on the IT side recently

TVGuide.com operator buys stake in BuddyTV
$2.8 million to help build online groups (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Two Wharton MBAs' newest venture.


Database Mapper Gets $3.5M
Sypherlink sees opportunity in homeland security, M&A. (Red Herring)
Battelle Ventures of Princeton participated in round

Disney, Comcast, Time Warner may bid for Yankees TV network (BloggingStocks)

Comcast opens Lynnwood call center (Everett, WA Herald)


Update on Comcast's switch from Microsoft TV (seattlepi.com blogs)


Fast Cities Struggle to Go Wireless (Fast Company)

PPL Telcom completes Philadelphia gateway (Lightwave)

High tide meets high-tech at beach of the future (AP/MIT Technology Review)
Ocean City, NJ


Readily Readable
A marketing company slashes the time and effort it spends creating reports with the help of performance management software. (destinationcrm.com)
About Philadelphia-based HardMetrics' software


Apprise Software, Inc. Opens Office in Nanjing, China; Expands Operations (PR Newswire)

SAP Enhances ERP 6.0 (eWeek)

SAP says Germany head resigns for personal reasons (Reuters)

Lockheed unit in Moorestown receives rating upgrade (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lentz relents (phillyinc/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Latest goings on at Verticalnet

Orbitz, StarCite integrate online travel booking with meetings management app (BtoB Magazine)

Technology Analyst to VP of SEO: What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been (Internet Search Engine DB)
Article by William Flaiz of Avenue A/Razorfish

Avenue A/Razorfish announces SiLC search engine optimization tool (Cnet Blogs)
More with William Flaiz


Pegasystems Selected by Independence Blue Cross to Help Optimize Sales and Claims Processes (BusinessWire)


Entercom Communications Corp. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results (BusinessWire)

Comcast Cable Eastern Division Announces Appointments of Two Senior Executives (PR Newswire)


Comcast launches Pivot on Cape Ann (Boston Globe)


ISA Consulting Appoints Jay Robbins Vice President - Advisory Services
(BusinessWire)


I-many Reports Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

inTEST Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results (PR Newswire)

PhIMA to Hold Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Internet's Impact on Political Campaigns and Elections (Marketwire)

Comcast passes Vonage in digital voice subscriber rankings (ZDnet Blogs)


Earnings: Comcast’s Triple Play Pushes Profit Up 28 Percent For Q2; (paidContent.org)


C-COR And Comcast Media Center Bring VOD In a Box To Phonoscope (BusinessWire)


Comcast Launches 'Best of Philly(R)' On Demand
Partnership with Philadelphia Magazine Gives Customers Access to Region's Best with
the Touch of a Remote (PR Newswire)


SAP polishes Business One update (InfoWorld)

PayScale Receives Investment From SAP Ventures (eMediaWire)

USA Tech goes Global on NASDAQ (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Acquisition company finds company to acquire (Philadelphia Business Journal)


SunCom Wireless Announces Sharply Higher Adjusted EBITDA for the Second Quarter of 2007 (PR Newswire)

Vetting HR Software Vendors (Human Resources Executive Online)


Rivals race to map the world
DIGITAL MAPMAKERS NAVTEQ, TELE ATLAS COMPETE TO SHOW THEIR DATA IS BETTER
(Associated Press)
Navteq owns Traffic.com


TruePosition Leverages Trillium Professional Services from Continuous Computing to Support Wireless Location Needs of Global Marketplace (BusinessWire)


MEDecision Reports Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Software firm's move to bring jobs (Allentown Morning Call)

New Network Controller from MEN Micro Inc. Features Quad Fast Ethernet for Flexible Control of Multiple Configurations (PR Newswire)


Devon IT Launches Podcast Series on iTunes to Support Interest in Thin Clients and Server-Based Computing (BusinessWire)


SoundBite On-Demand Automated Voice Messaging Solution Integrated into the Akcelerant Framework (BusinessWire)

Testing waters in Europe and China (Economic Times/India)
About AppLabs' Sashi Reddi

SAP sees 30 pct operating margin mid-term - paper (Reuters UK)

SAP Grows U.S. Channel Partner Network (Business Intelligence Network)

SAP founder goes big in San Martin (Square Feet Blog/San Jose Mercury-News)


WPCS Reports Record Revenue and $0.72 EPS for FY2007 (PR Newswire)


New Bill Proposes 'Health Record Trusts' That Pay Doctors To Use E-Health Records (Information Week)


Verizon quarterly net rises but margins disappoint (Reuters)


Uninspiring Unisys (Motley Fool)

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2007 Second Quarter Operating Results; Company Signs 3 New Partners For 6 Online Stores Since April (PR Newswire)

GSI Commerce Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking Alpha)

Speak and be verified (Phillyburbs.com)
About startup VoiceVerified of New Hope)

Primavera(R) Releases Latest Version of the Industry's Most Powerful and Easy- To-Use Project and Program Management Solution (PR Newswire)