Tribal DDB's Executive Creative Director Joins GSI Interactive (ClickZ)

Best Buy to sell iPhone (Associated Press via Google News)

QVC® to Implement Quintiq’s Multi-Resource Scheduling Solution (BusinessWire)

AT&T & Verizon to Carry QVC HD (TVPedictions.com)

Verizon Ads Bash Cable Rivals in Northern Jersey
Telco Talks Up Its FiOS Service In Latest Campaign (Multichannel News)

SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do (ZDNet)


Business Objects Summit Q&A (Intelligent Enterprise)


SAP, Oracle Holding Out on Ubuntu? (InternetNews.com)

Unisys skyscraper sign gets public hearing tomorrow (Philadelphia Inquirer)

iNetU Opens Fifth Data Center (Web Host Industry News)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports First Quarter Results (PRNewswire)

Dynasil Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)

Philadelphia's Premiere UnConference Returns for a Second Year
PodCamp Philly Is Dedicated to Providing an Intense Event With Discussions, Demos and Interaction From All Participants
(Marketwire)

Digital Signage Expo East: Bright lights, new city
(Digital Signage Today)

Welcome to New Jersey, Media Wasteland (New York Observer)




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I had been trying to get an idea of how big PointRoll, the Conshohocken-based web advertising firm, is and how fast it is growing. Gannett owns PointRoll, and its 10-Q doesn't give much of a clue. Its financial results are buried in a category called "other" along with commercial printing services.
But a recent piece in Knowledge@Wharton on the online advertising market, which discusses PointRoll in some depth, says it now has 260 employees, up from 50 three years ago. (I would assume they are generating well over $100,000 per employee). The article describes PointRoll as a leader in delivering "rich media" banner ads, the market for which is expected to be $5.9 billion this year and as much as $8 billion by 2011.
Separately, PointRoll today announced a partnership with in-stream video ad network ScanScout.

Note: If you access the article in Knowledge@Wharton after August 23, free registration may be required.



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SAP: Financials Are Rosy, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Ecosystem (CIO.com)

SAP links corporate performance management to supply chain (SearchSAP.com)

SAP Business Objects Takes Next Steps on Performance Management, BI (Intelligent Enterprise)


The End of Best-of-Breed (Wall
Street Journal: Business Technology Blog)

Malone eyes Time Warner stake swap for AOL dial-up (Financial Times)
Liberty Entertainment Group Q2 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking Alpha)
Malone is always entertaining.

Go Ringside for Social Activities
(Thoughts from the Ringside)

EchoStar Inks Tru2way Accord (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast to launch action movie VOD channel with MGM (Associated Press via Google News)

Quality Systems names Steven Plochocki CEO (Associated Press via CNN Money)
Quality Systems' major business unit is NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.

Lockheed Martin Develops Early Warning for Maritime Security (PRNewswire)

Bentley’s Forthcoming MicroStation Release to Incorporate Luxology’s Photorealistic Rendering Engine (BusinessWire)

Journal Register Company Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (Marketwire)
Not very good.

Shunra Software Releases Powerful Testing Package Reducing Root Cause Discovery Time from Weeks to Hours (BusinessWire)

Extreme Commuter: Traveling three states for love (am New York)

Internet giant gets free help from high schoolers (Crain's New York Business)
" The students said they didn’t mind working without a paycheck because they received valuable work experience at a major conglomerate in exchange." (They've got something to learn.)



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Liberty Media Reports Second Quarter Financial Results (PRNewswire via MSN Money)
QVC revenue up 4%.

MobileAware Raises New Round (Private
Equity Hub)
MobileAware's US headquarters are in Cranbury, NJ.


Computerworld Honors: Software that saves lives (Computerworld)
QlikTech.

Verizon disses cable-centric video tech, asks FCC to act (ars technica)

Tough Times Ahead for U.S. Phone Companies? (GigaOM)

JDA Software scoops up i2 for $346 million (ZDNet Blogs)

FolioDynamix buys SunGard Advisory Technologies (Finextra)

Semiconductor IP Players: InterDitigal and Tessera (Seeking Alpha)

New Jersey girl behind myYearbook.com is a millionaire at 18
(New York Daily News)

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences Deploy Instem’s Hosted Provantis Solution (BusinessWire)

Viddler Powers New Media Expo and Launches Fully Customizable Player (CenterNetworks)

Genoa, Italy, Selects Bentley Systems To Facilitate Sustainable Development Plan (PublicWorks.com)

Autodesk Geospatial Acquires 3D Geo GmbH (Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)
Sounds like a move by Autodesk to increase its presence in a segment that Bentley is very strong in.

Build Delaware into bigger economy (Delaware Online)

MedQuist Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

Emtec Federal Receives $17 Million U.S. Air Force Award (BusinessWire)
Emtec is based in Marlton.






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The question of which jobs Blues would cut in a merger (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Close to 500 IT jobs could be eliminated.

Christopher Maguire Prioritizes IT at Philadelphia Insurance Cos. (Insurance & Technology)

Figuring Out News Roles: Philadelphia as Crucible
(Poynteronline)

The Cable-Telecom Wars (Fox Business)

Verizon, union reach tentative labor contract (Reuters)


The 'Low' Down On Local Social Networking Site Orbius (The Bulletin)

NitroSecurity Buys RippleTech (dark reading)
I Knew this deal was in the works, but I guess I missed the announcement last month. Rippletech, based in Conshohocken, apparently had some very good data security technology, but not enough to support a stand-alone business going forward.

Ragan A. Henry, pioneering media mogul and lawyer, dies at 74 (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Turning the Electronic Eye on Google (eWEEK)

Showing off its speed, NFLShop.com sets record with Brett Favre jersey (Internet Retailer)




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People Moves



TruePosition Appoints Alan Larrabee as Vice President of Research and Development (BusinessWire)

Lightwave Logic Hires New CEO (PRNewswire)

Cadient Group Appoints Todd Greene to Strategic Engagement Director (PRNewswire)

Kane Partners Announces Tom Rinaldi as Managing Director for Philadelphia (MMD Newswire.com)

Avenue A | Razorfish Promotes Boyle, Gorden and Steigerwalt (Philly Ad Club)

Goldblatt Named Executive Director of Marketing and E-marketing at Univ. of Sciences (Philly Ad Club)

Harry Rein Resigns as Director of CardioNet (Business Wire)

MedQuist Announces Changes to Board of Directors (PRNewswire)




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The PricewaterhouseCoopers/MoneyTree Q2 Venture Capital report for Philadelphia Metro is now online (free registration). There is always a link to it in the right sidebar.
Most of these deals have been covered here previously but a few have not been:

-SillSurvey, online reference checking, Berwyn; $7 million, Lambda Funds
and another undisclosed firm.

-Elanti Systems, network traffic management, Princeton; $1.4 million, Innovation Capital Associates and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

-Circadiant Systems, optical component testing, Allentown; $525,000, EnerTech Capital and TL Ventures.

-GlobalPrint Systems(DBA: PrintPOD), kiosks for mobile printing, Marlton; $200,000, New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

-Monetate, targeting for ecommerce, Conshohocken; $600,000, Ben Franklin Technology Partners Southeastern PA, First Round Capital.




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IDS Scheer Profit Declines on Lower License Revenue (Bloomberg)
IDS Scheer's North American headquarters are in Berwyn.

Quality Systems Reports First Quarter Results and Increases Dividend (BusinessWire)
Quality Systems rallies on 2Q results (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Quality Systems' NextGen Healthcare Information Systems unit is based in Horsham.

KKR to Underwrite Portion of SunGard Data's $1 Billion Debt (Bloomberg)

Behind the Maps – Flying the UltraCam (Mark Brown's Virtual Earth Blog)
Video about Philadelphia company that does aerial mapping for Microsoft's Virtual Earth.

E-Commerce: Fertile Ground for Venture Investors (E-Commerce Times)
Written by Kevin Kemmerer, senior vice president and managing director of the technology group at Safeguard Scientifics.

Verizon unions set Sunday deadline for labor talks (Reuters)

Inquiring minds will just have to wait (Good Morning Silicon Valley)
New policy at the Inky.

Versus Gets Jacked
Sports Net Will Integrate SportTop Ap Into Versus.com Web Site (Multichannel News)
Comcast's Versus is based in Philadelphia.

QVC Rolls Out ‘Uncommercial’ Ad Campaign
New Spots Feature Spontaneous Outtakes From Traditional Shoots (Multichannel News)

Metrocorp Launches New Websites for Boston Magazine and Philadelphia Magazine Created by Format-Studio (PRNewswire via Yahoo Finance)

2008 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Nominations Announced
(Philly AD News)

Your PPM Boxes Have Arrived. Now What? (Radio World Online)

Catholic Health East Selects Mediture's EHR Software for PACE Programs (Marketwire)




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Safeguard Scientifics Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Room for Comcast to grow
(Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Lawsuit Seen After FCC's Comcast Ruling
Just how much did the FCC's landmark ruling advance the Net neutrality debate? (InternetNews.com)

Verizon, District Reach Deal on FiOS (Washington Post)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

SAP’s Bill McDermott offers growth clues (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Nasdaq Shares Rise Most in Three Years on Profit Gain ((Bloomberg)
Eliminates 100 positions at Philadelphia exchange.

InterDigital's Stolen Spotlight (Motley Fool)

SunGard warns of trouble in H2 (Finextra)

NAVTEQ, go2 Bring Traffic Information to Mobile Users (TMCnet: Gadgets)

LLR Partners Provides Capital for Surveillance Data Acquisition of Verispan (BusinessWire)

Synygy Continues Growth Streak in Second Quarter (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

FCC asks appeals court to dump E-911 rules (RCR Wireless News)
Could benefit TruePosition.

Build Your Own tru2way App!
(Media Experiences 2 Go/Motorola Blog)

Tribune Co.’s ShopLocal Merges Into PointRoll, Cuts Workers (MidWestBusiness.com)
PointRoll is based in Conshocken.

DISH, DirecTV mum on merger report (Capital Times, Madison Wisconsin)

RCM Technologies, Inc. Reports 2008 Second Quarter and Year - to - Date Results (BusinessWire)



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InterDigital Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Comcast-DailyCandy: Interview: Sam Schwartz, EVP, CIM; Pete Sheinbaum, CEO, DC (paidContent)

Checkpoint's Profit Woes (Forbes)

SunGard Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)

Kulicke & Soffa Reports Results for Its Third Quarter 2008 (BusinessWire)
Kulicke & Soffa 4Q outlook short of estimates (Associated Press via Forbes)

Ben Franklin organization announces new investments (Phialdephia Business Journal)

QlikTech/QlikView update (DBMS2)

Financial Worries Deepen at Philadelphia Media Holdings (Philadelphia Magazine: The Daily Examiner)

MedQuist Announces Completion of Transaction (PRNewswire)

Verizon: Labor Strike Won't Affect FiOS (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Verizon: No Way on tru2way (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

SAP Looks Strong (Seeking Alpha)

BioNanomatrix Awarded New NIH Grant for Development of Nanoscale Platform for Single-Molecule DNA Mapping and Haplotype Applications (PRNewswire)

AlcaLu looking for a peerless leader (FierceTelecom)
Comcast's Burke under consideration.

Comcast's private history (Philly.com:Philly Deals)

Catching Comcast (Salon.com: Machinist)

O-I Glass Business Selects Lead Time Technology for Supply Chain Process Improvement
(PRNewswire)

Revolution Health Seeks Life Preserver (Chilmark Research)

Synchronoss earnings decline sharply (Associated Press via NJ.com)
Before the launch of the 3G, Synchronoss handled most customer activations for the iPhone. Based in Bridgewater, NJ, Synchronoss has much of its operations based in the Lehigh Valley.

Rodale Reports 2008 Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)





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