Citigroup to buy Wachovia banking assets (CNN Money)

Vishay Commences Tender Offer for International Rectifier Corporation (BusinessWire)

NeatReceipts Relaunches as The NeatTM Company, Debuts All-New Scanning and Software Solutions (Marketwire)

Xohm WiMAX Launches: Limited Service, No Bandwidth Caps (GigaOM)


Comcast, Sprint: Oppenheimer Cuts Ratings; Sees Cyclical Slowdown In Consumer Communications (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Feds And Internet Service Providers Don't Mix (Forbes)

Bio-Imaging Technologies Appoints Peter S. Benton President of Its Phoenix Data Systems Division (BusinessWire)

Sherrerd funds new building at intersection of engineering and social science (News at Primceton)

Tyco Electronics shares could rise-Barron's (Reuters)

Tyco Electronics completes sale of two businesses (Associated Press via CNN Money)

SAP takes centre stage with HCL, Infosys' bid for Axon (Business Standard of India)

HealthVault Surges, Google Flounders (Chilmark Research)

Voxware Reports Record Revenue and Profit for Fiscal 2008 (BusinessWire)

Former Denver Newspaper Agency Exec Starts New Company (Editor & Publisher)




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Q&A with Greg Case, LLR Partners (Private Equity Hub)

Cable Ready For Banking Shifts
Wall Street Turmoil Shouldn't Alter Business As Usual For The Sectot (Multichannel News)

Media company deal chances few: Liberty's Malone (Reuters)

America's Top Wired Colleges, 2008 Edition
(PC Magazine)
Villanova and Penn both ranked in top 20.

A closer look at Comcast
What happens when you call customer service? (York Daily Record)




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People News




CableLabs CEO to Retire in December 2009 (xchange)

Chris Connor Joins Phoenix Data Systems as Director of Product Development (BusinessWire)

HTH Worldwide Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer (PRNewswire via Philly.com)

Avenue A | Razorfish Promotes John Avondolio to VP, Client Services, Brian Krick to VP of Search, Ron Wessels to CD (Philly Ad Club News)

Tier One Partners Adds PR Industry Veteran to Management Team; Expands Presence in Mid-Atlantic Region (Marketwire via MarketWatch)



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Is Ringside Networks totally, completely dead? On Wednesday, I posted CEO Bob Bickel's announcement from his blog (Thoughts from the Ringside) describing Ringside's demise. A link to Bickel's post was also on Ringside's corporate website on Wednesday. Now, that link is no longer on the Ringside site as far as I can tell and there is nothing else there that gives any indication of a shutdown.
Update: Bickel reconfirms Ringside's shutdown here.

Former TurnTide sales exec and angel investor Kendall Schoenrock is back in Philly with a new startup. Larger Than Life prints (LTLprints.com) allows users to create customized, oversized wall graphics of images uploaded to its website. Prices run from roughly $100 to $150 per print depending on size (up to 7.5 feet by 4.5 feet). They are also building a user interface that will allow people to create their own cutouts and designs, and also to sell those designs in LTLprints' online catalog or, eventually, from their own blogs or websites.

I am amazed at how so many social web or news sharing sites do such a poor job of testing the user-friendliness of their sites. I look at several new sites each week, and if I check one out and can't figure out in twenty minutes or so what I'm supposed to be doing, I'm out of there. I'm not talking about shoestring startups, but companies launched on budgets of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. My suggestion to startups is to be sure to budget enough for usability studies; even if you are very small there are still ways to do fairly rigourous testing.




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Facebook Traffic Up 50% Over Last Year; myYearbook on the Rise (Search Engine Watch)

QVC Exports More Of Itself To Italy (Multichannel News)

Student Recruitment Management Available on Salesforce.com (TMCnet)
TargetX is based in Bristol.

SAP's Business Objects Gains Share From Oracle, IBM, CEO Says (Bloomberg)

HCL counters Infosys' bid for Axon at 650 pence/share (Economic Times of India)

Questions Emerge On HP-Oracle Device (Intelligent Enterprise)


Camiant joins Comcast traffic shaping team (Telephony Online)

Penn Biophysicists Create New Model for Protein-Cholesterol Interactions in Brain and Muscle Tissue (UPenn)

Bayside Capital Acquires Akrion (PRNewswire)

CTDI Acquires Phoenix Wireless (BusinessWire)

Can These Startups Beat Paypal?
(GigaOM)

T-Mobile's data cap reversal hints of uncertainty with 3G networks (Computerworld Blogs)

Comcast Provides Highly Anticipated Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates On Demand (BusinessWire)




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Oracle, With HP, Debuts Database Server, Storage Hardware Systems
(Channel Web)
This is particularly interesting given recent rumors that SAP may consider acquiring Teradata.

Oracle says will catch up with SAP (Reuters)

Great Times @ Ignite Philly (Robert
Sandie)
Videos.
Ignite Philly II (O'Reilly Radar)

NeatReceipts for Mac: Advance Release 1.1 (NeatReceipts Blog)

Anthillz Relaunches to Focus on Trusted Business Relationships (CenterNetworks)

Philadelphia, have you met Tapinko? (Phillypreneurs)

Primavera(R) ProSight(R) Improves Selection of Strategic Investments (PRNewswire)

GSI Commerce and Aeropostale Extend E-Commerce Partnership through 2018
(PRNewswire)

Miles Technologies buys Clifton building to expand (NorthJersey.com)

Gore Joins Ethernet Alliance (BusinessWire)

Center City Film & Video Wins Emmy for Bono Tribute Featuring George Clooney (PRNewswire via Audio Video Producer)

Astea Announces $3 Million Capital Investment (PRNewswire via
Philly.com)



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Hot Dogs Force Evacuation At Citizens Bank Park (CBS3)
Apparently, it was the Phanatic's fault.




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Ringside Winding Down (Thoughts
from the Ringside)
That was fast!
I imagine some funding would have been there in the end if they were gaining enough traction in the marketplace.



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Interview: Canoe Ventures’ Verklin: Google TV Ads Is A Potential Partner (paidContent)

Two Ways to Get Comcast to Increase the Data Cap (GigaOM)

SAP's Chief Financial Officer Confirms Its Full-Year Outlook (Bloomberg)

Electronic Ink Announces London Office Expansion
(PRNewswire via MarketWatch)

Entertainment industry vet has vision of Web games site (Philadelphia Business Journal)

USA Technologies Fiscal 2008 Revenue Exceeds $16.1 Million (BusinessWire)

Smart Card Alliance Contactless Payments Council Expands to Include Mobile Payments (Bank Systems & Technology)

Under Fire, Unisys CEO McGrath Agrees To Step Down (Information Week)

Ignite Philly (2) - Evolution of Entrepreneurship (Stubborn Dreams Blog)

PCTi's DBx(TM) Parallel Database Solution is Selected in Microsoft's HPC Rollout
(PRNewswire)

Cadient Group's GEL Interactive Technologies Launches OneVoice: KOL Platform
(PRNewswire)

AppNexus Secures $8 Million in Series B Funding
(BusinessWire)

inTEST (INTT) Approves Restructuring Plan for Manipulator/Docking Hardware and Tester Interface Segments (StreetInsider.com)
inTest is based in Cherry Hill.

Unzipped: Celebrating InLiquid
(uwishunu)




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NeatReceipts 4.0 (NeatReceipts
Blog)




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Unisys to drop CEO McGrath (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

T-Mobile debuts as first Google Android phone (Network World)
T-Mobile 3G launches in the Philly area next month.

AP Chooses New Video Platform (Editor & Publisher)
Will use Comcast's thePlatform.

TIBCO Spotfire and INTEGROMICS Announce Genomics Data Analysis Solution to Radically Speed Drug Research and Development (PRNewswire)

Oracle Launches Insurance Vertical Industry Division (Insurance & Technology)

Oracle’s Beehive: integrated large scale, secure collaboration
(ZDNet Blogs)

What's Hot? SAP Skills And Pay (Information Week)

SAP asks for help with enterprise Web 2.0, other development challenges (SearchSAP.com Podcast)

DC Needs a Fred. Any Takers? (Venture Files)

Board resignations precede a series of changes at Encorium Group (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

As T-Mobile Unveils G1 Phone, Marketing Experts Urge Companies to Ready Their Web Sites for Mobile Access (BusinessWire)

Allied Pixel Builds Web Video Player for TelVue Corp.
(Philly Ad Club News)

GSI Commerce (JobVent.com)




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