Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $19 Billion (New York Times-free subscription)

Verizon CEO Wants To Spur Innovation With Open Model (Dow Jones via CNNMoney)

Motorola Announces Worldwide Distribution Agreement with Swisscom
(PRNewswire)

Nokia Declines to Make Remedies in EU's Navteq Review (Bloomberg)
Navteq owns Traffic.com.

New tech bank for S. Phila's Quattrone (PhillyDeals: Philly.com)

Quality-of-care data available online (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Companies receive Ben Franklin loans (The Express-Times)
One is an RFID startup.

'Mobile security' is not an oxymoron
* Fiberlink Communications announces enhancements to its Extend360 Mobile Platform (Network World)

Panorama Debuts Beta Initiative In
Analytics and Reporting Solutions for Google Applications (BusinessWire)
Relationship with Boomi.

PointRoll to DoubleClick: 'While Submitting Your Resume to Google, CC Us!'
(PRNewswire)

Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developer and Solutions Conference 2008 (Small & Mighty)
In Atlantic City on April 22.

SAS buys natural language processing vendor Teragram (InfoWorld)

SunGard Targets Alternative Investment Firms (FinanceTech)

Pennsylvania's Corporate Taxes Uniquely High (The
Bulletin)

2 charged with hacking into company's Web site (phillyBurbs.com)

Penn professor who helped computerize NYSE dies at 85 (Associated Press via phillyBurbs.com)

Two more investments for First Round Capital. PlayCafe, a Los Angeles startup producing interactive online game shows, received seed funding, New Tee Vee reports. (Watch out, the darn site froze my computer.)
Also, the Indian media is reporting that First Round has invested in an Indian photographic services site called ZoomIn, though I haven't found any confirmation of that or reporting from the States.

Visa Raises $17.9 Billion in Record-Setting U.S. IPO (Bloomberg)
A lot of cash will be flowing into Delaware.

Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You? (NewTeeVee)

RFID hack could crack open 2 billion smart cards (Computerworld)

Outsourcing helps Valley business
Computer Aid of South Whitehall Twp. does software engineering (Allentown Morning Call)


SAP: Bernstein Upgrades After Stock’s Recent Slid (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Siemens Chief Loses Investor Trust With Earnings Cut (Bloomberg)


Science Center’s Integromics Receives 2007 Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award (BusinessWire)

Accenture to expand lifesciences R&D unit (Economic Times of India)

New ExpenseWatch.com Release Features Substantial Credit Card Management and Controls (Accounting Software 411)

FreedomPay(R) Announces the Patriot Card(TM), A Virtual Payment Card Leveraging the Benefits of ACH and Check Conversion Networks (PRNewswire)

ICG Commerce Drives Strong Growth in 2007 (Marketwire via CNNMoney)

SAS Opens Up SAS OnDemand for Academics (Campus Technology)

Summit showcases broadband’s fiscal benefit to New Jersey (Princeton Business Journal)

NJTC Members Take 'Techie' Message to Washington DC (PRNewswire)

High-tech scavenger hunt is a business plan hit at Princeton Univ. (Princeton Business Journal)

IDS Scheer Announces Expansion of Partnership with Supply-Chain Council at Supply-Chain World Conference (BusinessWire)

TEMIS Named to KMWorld Magazine's Top 100 List of Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management (PRNewswire)

Innovation Philadelphia Hosts 'Opportunities Abound' Networking Event (PRNewswire)

RecycleBank gets $30M from Kleiner Perkins, to provide rewards to recyclers (The Industry Standard)

Recyclebank

Construction orchestration
Software gives an edge in a tighter market. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
On Bentley, Primavera, and Maxwell.

Dish Network Suffers Failed Satellite Launch
Blown Launch of AMC-14 Satellite Could Delay HD Expansion (Broadcasting & Cable)
Satellite owned by SES Americom of Princeton, built by Lockheed Martin of Newtown.

New business models for citywide Wi-Fi
(CNet News Blog)
Minneapolis may have a successful model.


Medidata Solutions Expands Clinical Trial Technology Offering with Acquisition of Fast Track Systems (BusinessWire)

Federal Reserve Districts
Third District--Philadelphia (Federal Reserve Board)
Beige Book report for February. Not too encouraging.


SAP exec talks partners, platforms and the SAP economy (SearchSAP.com)

Navigating a host of SAP hosts (SearchSAP.com)

Benioff takes stock of software shifts (ZDNet)

Safend Automates Product Interoperability & Quality Assurance Testing Process (BusinessWire)

Peco to start a customer price-information service (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Safeguard Scientifics to File Form 12b-25 to Extend Filing Due Date of Its 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K (BusinessWire)

Siemens issues profit warning (Associated Press via MSN Money)


WPCS Reports 37% Increase in Revenue for the 3rd Quarter (PRNewswire)

InterDigital: Risky Play with Huge Potential Upside (Seeking Alpha)

Financial Firm Susquehanna Int'l Deploys GigaSpaces (Gridtoday)

Kulicke & Soffa Introduces Next-Generation Wire Bonders at SEMICON China (BusinessWire)

College in cyberspace (phillyBurbs.com)

CEO cleans up Siemens' tainted image (Knowledge@Wharton via DelawareOnline)
CEO also discusses Siemens Healthcare IT strategy in speech at Wharton.

Judge Asks for Briefs in Struggle Over IAC (Associated Press via New York Times)

Drive to unionize Comcast
IBEW begins statewide campaign (Boston Herald)

Trials & Defibrillations: Interactive TV in the U.S. (TVBoard: MediaPost)

Gannett Buys Rest of PointRoll From Former CEO For $4.6 million (paidContent.org)
PointRoll is based in Conshohocken.

New Ways To Manage Health Data
Giants Join the Push To Put Records Online (Washington Post-Free Subscription)

MedQuist Announces Entry Into Settlement Term Sheet Resolving South Broward Litigation
(PRNewswire)

Building Sales Momentum In A Recession (The Bulletin)

Blue Hens 'trade' blue chips
For UD's fledgling investment club, the Exelon Trading Center is all about futures (Wilmington News Journal)

Philadelphia's First Round Capital has been busy, as usual. Three companies originally seeded by First Round completed significant follow-on rounds. Mint, a well-publicized Silicon Valley personal online financial management firm, received $12.1 million in a third round. Pikum, a UK based online game developer, raised about $5 million(its too late for me to mess with the pound sign) from Virgin USA. Gigya, a Palo Alto-based Widget platform, raised $9.5 Million. First Round particapated in all three current rounds.
33Across, a New York “stealth-mode company developing revolutionary technology to identify influential online users”, closed a seed funding round led by First Round.

Deal or No Deal
Comcast's Brian Roberts is a tough negotiator but hasn't made a big acquisition in years. Is he trigger-shy? (Business Week)

FCC Boss Being Investigated
Enemies and critics begin to take aim... (BroadbandReports.com)

Verizon fixes P2P problem - on its network at least (ZDNet)

Small technology takes the big screen (Newark Star-Ledger)
On Universal Display

SAP to have again two CEOs, Apotheker to be named co-CEO in April - report (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

Philadelphia M&A flat in 4q07 (PhillyDeals: Philly.com)

Governor Rendell Announces $9.8 Million for Targeted Nanotechnology Projects Statewide
(PRNewswire)
Seems like Governor Rendell is giving away millions of dollars almost every day.

Who First Called It 'Talent Management'? (Human Resource Executive Online)
On Kenexa competitor.

Zuora Raises $6.5M, Joins SaaS Billing Bonanza (GigaOM)
Another competitor in Aria Systems' space.


Lenfest extends $10M debt agreement with ETC (Philadelphia Inquirer)

IETF Examines Future of the Internet by Going IPv6 Native (BusinessWire)

Devon IT, CentriServ Launch Pennsylvania’s First IBM BladeCenter and Storage Solution Center (BSSC) Facility (BusinessWire)

Ojo video phone service returns
(phillyBurbs.com)

Given Enough Eyeballs - Art Meets Open Source in Philly (O'Reilly Radar)
Don't quite know what this means, but it sounds interesting.


'Akill' charged with University of Pennsylvania attack
Charges against alleged bot-herder detailed in court documents (Computerworld New Zealand)

Comcast to beef up network with new 100Gbps optics (ars technica)

Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam (New York Times-Free subscription)

Comcast Sues FCC Over 30% Cap
(Broadcasting & Cable)
I discussed the likelihood of this happening yesterday.

Microsoft targets SAP (SAP Watch: SearchSAP.com)

Billionaire Rivals Spoke Often of Deals, Trial Is Told (New York Times-Free subscription)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Tyco Electronics to seek unit sale
(Reuters)

Investor spotlight: NewSpring Capital keeping its eyes on the Southeast (TechJournal South)

Controlling interest in Horsham firm sold for $17.2M (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Orbit/FR

Kenexa Opens State-of-the-Art Campus in India (PRNewswire via CNNMoney)


Payformance Completes Sale of Corporate Payments Division(PRNewswire)
Sold to Sungard.


IPv6 faces trial by fire tonight
Internet standards body chief explains why he's turning off IPv4 (Network World)


Red Hat buys Virginia software company (Raleigh News & Observer)


Herley Reports Second Quarter Results (PRNewswire)


Keep them out of the Philadelphia online marketing scene (Dinkum Interactive: Philadelphia SEO Internet Marketing)

SAP Makes Aggressive HR Moves to Move the Market Needle (eWEEK.com)

MedQuist customers deal with nationwide system failure (Healthcare IT News)

Motorola Invests In Targeted-Ad Company
Takes Stake In Invidi Technologies, Developer Of Addressable Systems (Multichannel News)

Charter Communications' Allen gets deal inquiries (Reuters)
Comcast can't buy it right now (except for maybe a small piece) because they face an ownership cap imposed by the FCC. But
they are trying to challenge it in court.

InfoLogix Announces Record Revenue of $78.8 Million for the 2007 Fiscal Year (PRNewswire)
Still losing money, and its market value suggests investors don't buy its story too much. But they do have some intriguing
technology.

Bentley Appoints Edward Mueller As Chief Marketing Officer (Water Online)

Fiberlink’s SaaS Delivery Model Provides Recurring Revenues for Channel Partners on Simple, Secure Mobility Solutions (Company Press Release)

RCN selling data service in Center City (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Council Learns How Wi-Fi Consultant Received Lucrative Deal (KWY Newsradio)

PhindMe(R) Makes Its Debut With a Cost-Effective Mobile-Marketing Solution for Local Businesses (PRNewswire)

Mobile routing protocol advances (Government Computer News)

Lockheed Martin-built AMC-14 Satellite Ready for Launch From Baikonur Cosmodrome
(PRNewswire)
Hopefully, they won't have to blow this one up in space.

FlatWorld interfaces with the future (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Social entrepreneur student wins $10,000 for best small business idea in national ideablob.com* contest
Penn State student Aaron Fleishman wins for Mashavu, a student project providing networked health solutions for children in third world countries. (BusinessWire)

Aria Systems Adds Billing Industry Muscle to Exec Team
Two new hires strengthen SaaS startup's experience in large-scale deployments (PRNewswire)

Primavera(R) Grows at Record Pace in 2007 (PRNewswire)
Revenue grows 43% to $176 million.

A Light Bulb Went Off: Print the Lights (New York Times)
GE develops a radically cheaper way to produce O.LE.D.S. How will this impact Universal Display of Ewing?

OLED display market will jump to $4.5bn (Electronics Weekly)

Comcast, Big Ten Network close to deal
Network would be on extended basic (Chicago Tribune)

SAP reveals its business intelligence product roadmap (SearchSAP.com)

NFL Films lays off 21
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

Google closes DoubleClick merger after EU approval (Reuters)

Liberty Media Board OKs $1B Buyback (Associated Press via Forbes)

Journalism in the Hands of the Neighborhood (New York Times)

SunGard's decision to expand in Birmingham matches the area's white-collar job emphasis (Birmingham News)

APS Provider Opens North American Headquarters (Material Handling Management)

Quintiq Retains Attention
for Public Relations (BusinessWire)

IETF Highlights Future Numbering System for the Internet – Demonstration of the IPv6-only Network (BusinessWire)

Solving SaaS Integration for ISV's (Boomi On Demand Blog)

STRATECON BRINGS ADDED SECURITY AND PROFIT TO CUSTOM INTEGRATION & SPECIALTY RETAIL
Industry Marketer Signs Agreement with Emerging Security Provider to Introduce Line of Digital Protection Products to Specialty Channels (Home Toys)
On InGrid Home Security.

D&E Communications Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2007 Results (Marketwire via CNNMoney)