Using Twitter for Breaking News


Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital used Twitter yesterday to break some news: that del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter had joined Google. del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site, was a former portfolio company of First Round before its acquisition by Yahoo. Schachter left Yahoo last June.

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Obama Picks Julius Genachowski to Head FCC (Washington Post)
Obama's FCC choice praised, seen easily confirmed (Reuters)

ExpertPlan Adds On (PE Hub)

CES '09: Flycast's Cd-Quality Radio for Mobile (Tom's Hardware)
FlyCast is based in Lancaster.

Vuzit Gets Funding (DreamIt Ventures Blog)

Motorola Wins eMTA Share At Comcast: Analyst
Wall Street Firm Says MSO Orders Between 50,000 and 100,000 Units (Multichannel News)
Update: Comcast Denies Analyst Report About eMTA Contract
Wall Street Analyst Firm Collins Stewart Claimed MSO Ordered Motorola Modems (Multichannel News)

Comcast apologizes for dropping game ball (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Elma Electronic Acquires ACT/Technico (PR Newswire)

Marchex Named in Complaint to FTC (Domain Name Wire)
Marchex's Philadelphia-based VoiceStar unit is at the genesis of the complaint.

Investors PIPE away low-priced small-cap stocks (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


AppLabs partners with Grid Tools, Test Data Management Co (The Hindu)

The Wavecam(TM) Never Blinks (PR Newswire)

What should a modern library be? (P'unk Avenue Window)

Jubilant and BioLeap Announce New Partnership in Drug Discovery (PR Newswire)

DSG Wins SCDM’s Data Driven Innovation Award for Clinical Data Quality Control Implementation at Human Genome Sciences
(Business Wire)




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What's Going to Happen With Business Objects in 2009? (Feeding the SAP Ecosystem)

SAP's CEO and SaaS: Is Denial Working? (Seeking Alpha)

Study: Half of Developers Plan to Work on SaaS in '09 (PC World)

Oracle Layoffs: Hundreds, Not Thousands (All Things Digital)

USA Technologies lays off 22 to meet cash requirement (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Vanguard grew while other funds dropped (Phlly.com: Philly Deals)

TriZetto, Sanovia Join Forces to Offer First Integrated Platform That Helps Payers Control Pharmacy Costs (PR Newswire)

Cable's 'Dream Set-Top' (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

BREAKING: Major Shake-up At Sling Media: Krikorian Brothers, Hirschhorn, White, Wilkes Leaving (paidContent)

Cisco To Take DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Over 300 Mbps
Vendor To Use Broadcom Chip For Eight-Downstream Channel Unit (Multichannel News)

Budget ax falls on disaster recovery (IDG via New York Times)
Not good for SunGard.

Snackfeed: A Newsfeed For The Web’s Hottest Video Clips (TechCrunch)

Two Lehigh Valley tech companies share $300,000 in investment capital (Allentown Morning Call)

NextPhase Wireless Opens New Tier 1 Data Center in Philadelphia (TMCnet)




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What FCC's Martin Is Sorry For (PC Magazine)

CES 2009: Comcast, TWC To Flip Tru2way Switch By July 1
Two Biggest MSOs Say They're Ready to Enable Interactive TV Technology Across Their Footprints (Multichannel News)

Comcast ‘TV Warehouse’ To Collect STB Clicks (Multichannel News)

SEPTA, meet Google. Don’t be like D.C. (WHYY: It's Our City)

U.S. Army recruiting at the mall with videogames (Reuters)

Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power (New York Times)




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People News



Ron Lang Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SunGard Higher Education (Business Wire)

BioNanomatrix Appoints Michael Kochersperger as Vice President of Engineering (PR Newswire)

Razorfish Promotes Matt Dufner and Erica DiPilato as Account Directors (Philly Ad Club News)

Miller Joins Siemens IT Solutions and Services as V.P. of Healthcare Industry Group
(PR Newswire)




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Door to Door: The New Direct Marketing?

Its been years since I remember people coming around selling things door to door, other than religious groups selling eternal salvation and the occasional community or youth group. Then it happened twice in two days, and I am wondering whether this is the beginning of a new trend.
One of the guys was a representative from Edward Jones, which as it turns out uses door to door all the time as one of its basic prospecting methods, according to this Wall Street Journal article. The other was offering rug and carpet cleaning services.
I actually have more respect for legitimate people who go door to door than I do for telemarketers. It takes a lot of courage and commitment to do that. Although this is a safe and friendly neighborhood, I do, however, have concerns about opening my door to just any stranger who shows up.




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Vuzit, the Philadelphia online document viewer startup (have they dropped the Hovitate company name completely?), filed a Regdex form with the SEC in late December, which usually indicates a new round of funding has occurred. Unfortunately, the details are not shown online-you have to ask the SEC to send it to you and pay something to get it (Perhaps Vuzit should market its product to the SEC). Vuzit had previously received $100,000 from Ben Franklin Technology Partners back in August.




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Dell Acquires Allin Microsoft Services Expertise (Business Wire)

Philly self-publisher Xlibris sold to Author Solutions (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Author Solutions Acquires Self Publisher Xlibris (PR Newswire)

SAP 'Fully Integrates' Business Objects (Intelligent Enterprise)

Comcast, Panny Polishing Portable DVR
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Govt dissolves Satyam board; Raju surrenders (livemint.com)

Merkin Resigns as GMAC’s Chairman (New York Times)

Verizon Wireless Completes $28.1 Billion Alltel Buy (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

What do Boomi and salesforce.com have in common? (Boomi Blog)

New National eHealth Collaborative Preps For Meeting With Obama Team (Channel Web)

Oberthur Technologies to Transfer Card Manufacturing to Expanded Exton, Pa Facility; Will Increase Personalization Capabilities in Los Angeles (Business Wire)

BabyCenter.com shuts down e-commerce store
(Internet Retailer)
GSI Commerce provided services to J&J website.

After strong holiday sales, eBillme plans permanent shopping portals (Internet Retailer)
eBillme is based in Wilmington.

QlikTech Delivers Fast Impact with Free QlikView Download and Eliminates Risk with 30-Day Money Back Guarantee (PR Web)

Ideablob.com Kicks Off Nationwide Bloblive Tour
(Business Wire)

ProVista Technologies Revamps Services and Website (Hosting Discussion)




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Financial Scandal at Outsourcing Company Rattles a Developing Country (New York Times)

Radio Streaming App FlyCast Adds Android Support (Mashable)
FlyCast is based in Lancaster.

SAP CEO: SaaS Won't Work As A Core Platform
But Bill McDermott admits his company is forging ahead with Business ByDesign and expects to update customers at the Sapphire Conference in May. (Information Week)

As SAP Business Objects pushes SaaS BI, will more customers bite? (SearchSAP.com)

Obama Team Asks Congress to Postpone Digital TV Switch (Washington Post)

DirecTV in dispute with Comcast over sports cost (Reuters)

Cable Cos' Dispute With Programmers On Hold Until Next Administration (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

SCTE Names Dzuban CEO
Cedar Point Executive Will Take Helm At Cable Professional Association on Feb. 2 (Multichannel News)

Obama Does Announce "BPM for Everyone" (BPM in Action)

IDS Scheer Offers Integrated Repository for Comprehensive BPM and CMS (Business Wire)

Dow-Rohm & Haas deal receives European approval (Reuters)

Urban Outfitters holiday same-store sales slip (Associated Press via MSN Money)
But its stock finished up 10% today.

Kulicke & Soffa cutting executive, employee salaries (Philadelphia Business Journal)

TheInfoPro Raises $7.25 Million (PE Hub)
Funded by Edison Venture Fund.

InterDigital Signs iWOW to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement (InterDigital)

Almac Clinical Technologies Expands Yardley, PA Headquarters (PharmaLive)

The Growing Appetite for Virtualization (Baseline)
Profiles virtualization project at Tasty Baking.

New Motorola Remote Control!
(Media Experiences 2 Go)




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Live blogging CES opening keynote: Steve Ballmer admits, “I am a PC and proud of it!” (Venture Beat)
Windows 7 beta released.




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