FCC cancels meeting for free Internet vote
(CNET News)
Action Line: Comcast complaint? E-mail the boss (San Jose Mercury News)
Testing the marketing waters (Mode of Being)
US investors seek out Israeli high-tech opportunities (Israel21c)
Safend, mentioned in the above article, apparently laid off 8 employees in late November, according to the TechCrunch Layoff Tracker citing TheMarker. The Marker appears to be written in Hebrew, which I can't read it, so I'm not sure whether the cuts were in Israel or in its US headquarters in Philly.
Locavestors (NY Times Magazine)
Ideablob Interviews from SoCap08 (Social Capital Markets 2008)
Getting technical (Delco Times)
Article dup is paper's doing, not mine.
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SunGard Higher Education cut about 200 positions last week, according to edu1world.org . I haven't heard anything specific about cuts at SunGard Financial. though I certainly would expect that some would occur if it hasn't happened already.
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People News
Kayentis Appoints New VP of Operations (Applied Clinical Trials)
Canoe Brings Three Execs On Board
Cable Ad Venture Hires Staff For Product Development, Client Relations (Multichannel News)
NASDAQ OMX Appoints William H. Morgan as Senior Vice President of Human Resources
(GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)
SpringSource In My Step ((Open
Thoughts on Software, Business, Life)
Former Ringside Networks exec Shaun Connolly joins SpringSource.
3FX Adds 3 Animators & Project Manager (3fx website)
Fiberlink CEO James Sheward Joins as Advisor to Nair & Co. Board
Multi-Award Winning Entrepreneur is CEO and Co-Founder of Fiberlink (PRWeb)
W.net Awards Heartland Payment Systems’ Chairman/CEO Bob Carr with Its Highest Honor (Business Wire)
Anne Robson Joins Kelleher Associates, LLC as Senior Partner (MMD Newswire)
Epifani appointed business manager of South Jersey Technology Park (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)
Deputy business editor to depart Philadelphia Inquirer (Cision)
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Siemens Agrees to Pay Fine to Settle Bribery Charges (Bloomberg)
Capital Still Available For New Ventures (The Bulletin)
FiOS to Raise Its Voice
Verizon Plans to Widely Roll Out Internet-Based Phone Service in Early 2009 (Multichannel News)
Fund-tracker InvestorForce wins clients as stocks, hedge funds fall (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
iPhone Delayed in Walmart Until After Christmas (Wireless Week)
Planview Offers its Market-Leading Portfolio Management Solution in SaaS Delivery Model (Business Wire)
SunGard Availability Services to provide hosting.
PJM Launches Redesigned Web Site (PR Newswire)
SAP and its customer relationships (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)
SAP: Jefferies Downgrades On Eroding IT Budgets (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Infor Cuts 5 Percent of Its Workforce (PC World)
CenTrak's InTouchCare™ Recognized As "Best Of Breed" In Journal Of Healthcare Information Management (RFID Solutions Online)
CenTrak is based in Newtown.
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Portal economy to lead the way
Philadelphia’s economic strength derives from its niche as a circulator of money, people, goods, ideas and data bytes. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
SAP: Pacific Crest Cuts Ests; Sees Layoffs Ahead (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
“another round of significant layoffs” after the fourth quarter? Did I miss something? When was the first round ?
SAP: “We made a mistake” (ZDNet Blogs)
Leading Ventures Keep Their Cool (Keystone Edge)
The world is rocky
But India’s computer-services firms are in good shape to survive the financial crisis (The Economist)
No funds for fun@workplace (Times of India)
Comcast Wraps Up '08 Wideband Rollout (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
TiVo Reveals Comcast Tab (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Bush administration urges FCC to vote against free broadband mandate (BetaNews)
Verizon Philly FiOS deal by end of year derailed (FierceTelecom)
Change of guard at BofA
MBNA pioneer Struthers replaces Hammonds as credit card chief (Wilmington News Journal)
Placer County approves Drexel campus (Sacremento Business Journal)
Digitas Restructures, Cuts Staff In U.S. (Silicon Alley Insider)
NeatReceipts for Mac is Almost Here! (Neat Company Blog)
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PTC Advances Green Product Design and Environmental Regulatory Compliance Solution with Acquisition of Synapsis Technology (Business Wire)
Synapsis is based in Spring House.
Verizon Speeds Up LTE Launch (GigaOM)
Verizon defends honor in Wilmington FiOS talks (FierceTelecom)
Checkpoint CEO van der Merwe named board chairman (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Lockheed Martin Technology Significantly Increases Situation Awareness for Small Unit Forces
(PR Newswire)
Business Objects Fleshes Out SAAS BI with More Salesforce.com Support (eWEEK)
GMAC Rescue Plan Falters, Raising Bankruptcy Concern (Bloomberg)
Project Management on Demand (eWEEK)
Interview with Clarizen CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski.
Lighting Science rises in Burlington County (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Devon IT Sees Substantial Growth in Thin Client Industry (Business Wire)
Haydenfilms Significantly Upgrades Website With Latest Technology; Opens Public Judging for 4.0 Festival Finalists (PR Newswire)
An Introduction to Aklero (Slidshare)
Aklero, based in Radnor, provides information systems for finding deficiences in mortgage documents, which would seem
like a timely solution.
Human errors caused police radio failure, report finds (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Breaking: SAP maintenance price hike: partial victory (ZDNet
Blogs)
SAP eyes big time distribution deals (itbusiness.ca)
Salesforce CEO Benioff Sinks Teeth Into Non-SaaS Rivals (Information Week)
Congress busts Kevin Martin's chops, demands change at FCC (ars technica)
A Second Look at Citywide Wi-Fi
Wireless networks across entire cities were launched with great promise. Too much, in fact. (Wall Street Journal)
NFL to Fire 150 League Employees, Freeze Salaries (Bloomberg)
Includes cuts at NFL Films in Mount Laurel.
Comcast Backs WiFi Ad Network JiWire (PE Hub)
Verizon: Report of 100mbps FiOS in 2009 Was Erroneous (xchange)
Groups Merge To Form Technology Association Of America (Information Week)
The Vast World of Network Management (TMCnet)
Profiles SevOne of Newark, DE, among others.
Ad-ventures in marketing II
(Med Ad News)
3FX of Conshohocken named one of Med Ad News' "four Pharmaceutical Marketing Ventures to Watch for 2008".
It Seems GSI Commerce Only Shines In Q4 (Seeking Alpha)
JERRY JOHNSON: FROM PRINCIPAL TO CORPORATE LEADER
(Sages of Business)
Binswanger Negotiates Long-Term Lease for AWeber Communications in Huntingdon Valley, PA (Marketwire)
Google Health to Host Webcast Next Wed (DEC 10) (Chilmark Research)
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Aria Systems Completes $10 Million in Series B Funding
Leader in SaaS Billing Looks Ahead to Launch of Its A+ Billing Platform (Marketwire)
Aria Systems raises $10M more for online billing (Venture Beat)
Comcast sees slowing effects of economy (Associated Press via Business Week)
Dow committed to closing Rohm & Haas buy (Reuters)
Tyco Electronics cuts jobs, some local (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
Tribune Files Bankruptcy One Year After Zell Bailout (Bloomberg)
Properties in eastern Pennsylvania owned by Tribune include the Allentown Morning Call and TV stations in Philadelphia (WPHL) and Harrisburg (WPMT).
CONFIRMED: Two iPhone models to sell at Walmart (this month!) (ZDNet Blogs)
Intel develops fast, cheap optical links on silicon
(CNET News)
5 Reasons To Avoid GSI Commerce (GSIC) (Investopedia)
Though I don't play stock-picker here, I generally agree with this assessment.
Successful exit for Textronics Inc (fibre2fashion)
Textronics is based in Wilmington
Fresh Thinking: Harvard Business Review Article Explores When and How Companies Must Reinvent Their Businesses (PR Newswire)
Article by Clayton Christensen and SAP co-CEO Henning Kagermann in HBR.
inTEST (INTT) Cuts 10 Employees from Tester Interface Product Segment (StreetInsider.com)
inTEST is based in Cherry Hill.
Emtec, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2008 Results (PR Newswire)
C&D Technologies turns profit
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
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