SAP Acquires Coghead’s Technology As It Looks Towards The Cloud (TechCrunch)
SAP snags Coghead (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast: Canoe to Stay Afloat in '09 (AD Week)

The Cable Companies' Evil Plan To Take Down Hulu (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)

Pennsylvania PERS Gets Denominated
(PE Hub)

GiftCards.com Announces Acquisition of Swapagift.com
(PR Newswire)
Swapagift.com is based in Langhorne.

Waiting on a health IT czar (ZDNet Healthcare)

Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Will Implement Technology Designed to Improve Patient Care
Inpatient and Outpatient Facilities Will Use the Cerner Millennium Healthcare Computing Platform (Globe Newswire)

The Scott Partnership introduces ERT Inc.
The Philadelphia-based company unveils its dynamic new identity and commits to 'Getting It Done, Right'. (PharmaLive)
eResearchTechnology gets a new name.

David and Gooliath: How a Philly Startup took on Google and lived to tell about it. (Phillypreneurs)

Click Equations Paid Search Platform (Podcast: Webmaster Radio.fm)

ISGN ADDS ENHANCEMENTS TO LENSTAR DEFAULT NETWORK (Mortgage Orb)
ISGN is based in Bensalem.

Jason Roberts LLC Now Certified in Run SAP® Methodology (PR Web)



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SunGard 2008 Earnings Release

SunGard Announces 2008 Results (Business Wire)
Not bad at all, considering the fourth quarter meltdown of financial services companies and markets.

Listen to SunGard Conference Call.



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February 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philadelphia Federal Reserve)

SAP denies shelving Business By Design software (Reuters)

SAP BI roadmap one year later: How's Business Objects working out for SAP BI customers? (SearchSAP.com)

Could the recession be good for enterprise software? (IDG via New York Times)

Will health IT be Obama version of the Iraq War (ZDNet Healthcare)
HITECH Act & EMR Sales (Chilmark Research)


Comcast Puts the Pedal to the Metal: Announces New 65% Benchmark to Roll Out Wideband High-Speed Internet Se (Business Wire)

NFL Escalates Comcast Fight With Beefed-Up Washington Lobbying (Bloomberg)

What's Behind the Drive for Clean Tech?
(Knowledge@Wharton)

Elsevier Posts Strong 2008 Results, But Pharma Segment a Drag (Health Content Advisors)
Elsevier Health is based in Philadelphia.

Submetering Leader E-Mon, LLC Moves to Larger Location (Business Wire)

Portico Systems Reports Another Year of Growth
Integrated Provider Management Solutions Enable Health Plan to Increase Efficiency and Lower Costs (Business Wire)

1&1 Internet Inc. Surpasses Yahoo (PR Web)

Vuzit Launches Web Service APIs
(Vuzit Blog)



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Comcast’s Profit Exceeds Estimates; Dividend Raised (Bloomberg)
Earnings Call: Comcast Will Invest In Digital During 2009; Area of Growth (paidContent)
Comcast: No Guidance, No Buyback (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Verizon Wireless picks vendors for new network (Associated Press via Google News)
Verizon to roll out LTE in two U.S. cities this year (Computerworld)
Clearwire Gets Snippy Over Verizon’s LTE Announcement (xchange Magazine)

Lawsuit Says Google Was Unfair to Rival Site (New York Times)

Princeton computer scientists guide Internet transparency project (News at Princeton)

SunGard opens third Center City data center (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

SEI Investments lays off employees, cuts expenses (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP Says Infor's Customers and Partners Are Migrating to SAP (IT Jungle)

Bearing Point files for Ch.11 protection (ZDNet Blogs)

Satellite Crash: Who's to Blame? (Space.com)

Humanistic Robotics chooses Bucks (Bucks County Courier Times)

Voxware Reports Second Quarter Results for Fiscal 2009 (Business Wire)



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Oracle's Acquisition Strategy

The Wall Street Journal today ran an interesting piece on Oracle's acquisition strategy, and how it continues to acquire in the midst of the current economic downturn. Oracle's stock has held up well and that gives them an excellent currency to use in what is a buyer's market. Oracle's efforts are described as being targeted primarily toward strengthening its competitive position versus SAP in the enterprise application market.
Of local note, the article gives an acquisition price for Chester-based AdminServer: $100 million plus incentives. The insurance software company was estimated to be generating about $40 million in annual revenues. No price is available yet on the Primavera Systems acquisition.
A direct link to the article won't do much good unless you are a paid WSJ subscriber, but you should be able to find it by going to Google News and searching on Oracle.



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Surging Growth of QlikTech Defies Recession; Outpaces Business Intelligence Incumbents Oracle (Hyperion), IBM (Cognos), SAP (Business Objects) and Microsoft
QlikTech Drives 50% Revenue Growth to $120 Million; Marks New Era in BI with Rapid Time to Value (PR Web)

Comcast Investors Clamor for More Cash After Dividend (Bloomberg)
Earnings Preview: Comcast faces challenging 4Q (Associated Press via Google News)

Liberty Throws Sirius a $530 Million Lifeline
A last-minute deal with Liberty Media saves the floundering satellite radio company Sirius XM from bankruptcy or acquisition (Business Week)

PhillyDeals: Stimulus has billions for health technology (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
HITECH Act: Medicaid Reimbursement Plan (Chilmark Research)
Consensus From Contradiction: A Clear Case for Reform Plus Health IT (iHealthBeat)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Alcatel, Ericsson seen as Verizon upgrade vendors (Reuters)
Motorola a question mark.

Technology companies try to strike gold
Firms hope to find big idea (Centre Daily Times)
On the startup scene in Happy Valley.

Feminizing the field of computer science (Daily Pennsylvanian)

SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a Time (New York Times: Bits)

InterDigital Showcases Integrated SlimChip HSPA Modem on the Texas Instruments Advanced OMAP 3 Development Platform
Device Running Android on a Live 3G Network at Mobile World Congress (Business Wire)

Dynasil Announces First Quarter 2009 Results (Business Wire)



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HITECH Act: Reimbursement Schedule a Challenge (Chilmark Research)

Stimulus 1st step in Obama's broadband goals: aide (Reuters)

ING offered public money to expand (Wilmington News Journal)

Business ByDesign's role at Sapphire unclear (IT World)

SAP: Asian Business Faring Better Than Other Regions
(CIO India)

WiMax and LTE Supporters Prepare for Battle (PC World)

Motorola Brings LTE to Life on the Streets of Barcelona (PR Newswire)

Flash 10 coming to a non-Apple smartphone near you in 2010 (ars technica)

Study: Pharma Wants In on Doctors-Only Networks (NJBIZ.com)

‘Viral Nature’ of Drug Marketing
Pharmaceutical companies testing the waters of social networking (NJBIZ.com)

SunGard Announces Formation of Global Trading Business (Bobsguide)

The Berkeley Public Library and RFID-nomics (Berkeley Daily Planert)

Scala Software Powers FASTSIGNS® New Digital Signage Solution (PR Web)

Digital video co Scopus posts profit on eve of takeover (Globes.com)
Scopus has its headquarters for the Americas in Princeton.




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Comcast’s Hot Wheels
The Nation’s First Wideband Customers Are Thrilled (Mostly). Can DOCSIS 3.0 Really Neutralize the Telco Threat? (Multichannel News)


The Story is Where It's @: Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference 2009 (The Green Skeptic)

MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That's Gone Wrong (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)



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People News

Edison Venture Promotes Chris Sugden (PE Hub)

Local man awarded prestigious fellowship (The Phoenix)

Artificial Intelligence Expert Joins
ColdLight (ColdLight Press Release)

MEDecision Names Richard M. Haviland Senior Vice President of Human Resources (Business Wire)


Cadient Group Continues Growth Trend with Key New Hires (PR Newswire)

Canoe Hires Eason As Chief Data Officer
Cable's Advanced-Ad Initiative Taps Capital One Executive To Run Database (Multichannel News)

Comcast Entertainment Group Ups Dolcemaschio to COO (TV Week)

Killian to succeed Toben as Verizon CFO (Reuters)

Resource Planning Expert, Neil Safer, Joins the Jewell & Associates Team (PR Web)



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Privacy Trumps Profit in $19 Billion Health Stimulus (Bloomberg)

Richardson not alone with CDR problems (Santa Fe New Mexican)

SECRECY & FAVORITISM?
A draft report by the Auditor General slams the Rendell administration 's handling of nearly $600 million in tech contracts.
(Harrisburg Patriot-News)



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