Chubb IT Employees Split $216 Million Jackpot

Lucky for them: The way things are looking in the Insurance biz right now they were probably ticketed to lose their jobs pretty
soon.

Group of Chubb Employees Hit Mega Millions Jackpot (WPIX)


Philadelphia Daily News to be edition of Inquirer

Philadelphia Daily News to be edition of Inquirer (Associated Press via Philly.com)

I don't think this means the Daily News is out of the woods, since Tierney said " The Inquirer, either way, will survive. The question is will The Daily News survive." last week at Penn, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.


Heartland Payment CEO forced to sell stock
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Margin call, gentlemen.

To plan big meetings, firms turn to software to cut costs (Boston Globe)
On Philadelphia's StarCite.

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results
Company Projects First Quarter 2009 Recurring Revenue of $69 million to $71 million
(Business Wire)

SAP seeks interim financing, no share issue-paper (Reuters)

Firm pledges to cut its greenhouse gases (San Francisco Chronicle)
SAP appoints first chief sustainability officer. introduces new product to help companies meet "green" objectives.

SAP, CRM 2.0: The Culture Shift Begins (ZDNet Blogs)

Verivue Surfaces With Comcast Backing
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

TiVo Loses 611,000 Subs Over Last Year
DVR Proponent Touts Progress on Comcast Partnership
(Multichannel News)

Aegis to acquire ICT group for about $128 mln (Reuters)

He is counting on PhindMe phinding your business
Text-marketing might be the next wave
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

Tierney talks Philadelphia newspapers (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Software System’s Fans Gather to Talk Code (New York Times)

Professor Scheer on Adapting to the Economy (Aris Bog)

Vanguard resists layoffs, adjusts comp (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Dataram Hit by the Economic Downturn, But Ready to Do Biz (IT Jungle)
Dataram is based in Princeton.


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Microsoft: “2019”

Microsoft's futuristic video titled “2019”, unveiled Friday at the Wharton Business Technology Forum by division President Stephen Elop.



<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>


So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know (ZDNet Blogs)
Panel discussion from Wharton Business Technology Conference yesterday.

Salesforce.com sees Microsoft Azure as validating SaaS (Network World)



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