Element Partners closes on 2nd clean-tech fund (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Slight error in article: It says that Element now has $800 billion under management; I think the actual amount should be $800 million.

Anthony Gold Joins the Open Solutions Alliance Fulltime (eBIZQ)
Departs Unisys after 24 years.

SAP "not pulling the plug" on Business ByDesign
Rumoured death of on-demand ERP tech: Greatly exaggerated (Silicon.com)

Satyam gets approval to sell 51 pct stake (Reuters)

March 5th, 2009: ADDY CELEBRATION 2009: AND THE ADDY WINNERS ARE. . . (Philly Ad Club)

Baltimore, a mini Silicon Valley?
(Maryland Daily Record)

Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Wolters Kluwer Health Report Mixed Results
Thomson Puts PDR on the Block (Health Content Advisors)

Ex-Tyco workers ponder what's next (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

dezineforce Completes Second-Round Funding (CAD CAM News)

Organizers of the AIIM Expo + Conference Are Planning a Strong Business Event for Philadelphia (Marketwire)



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Clearwire: Philadelphia to get WiMax This Year

Clearwire Still Planning Massive 4G Expansion (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)

On the Clearwire Earnings Announcement (Media Experiences 2 Go)

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)

Comcast Sends In the All-Digital 'Cavalry' (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Coming to Philly.

Urban Outfitters profit drops 24% in fourth quarter (Associated Press via Forbes)

Global CIO: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Declared War -- Are You Enlisting? (CIO.com)

Tensions Flare in Philadelphia Newspapers Bankruptcy (New York Times: Deal Book)

Clearwire Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results (Business Wire)
Clearwire To Spend At Least $1.5B In Cash in 2009 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Nokia affirms LTE commitment, dismisses WiMAX (Fierce Wireless)

Dow Chemical, Rohm in "long-shot" settlement talks-CNBC (Reuters)

What's in store for SAP BusinessObjects CPM software?: Podcast with Sanjay Poonen, vice president and GM at SAP BusinessObjects in charge of the CPM and GRC lines (SearchSAP.com)

Finisar Corporation Announces Third Quarter Financial Results (Marketwire)
Finisar merged with Optium Corp. of Horsham last year.

HP updates thin client software support (VNUnet)

Google Health opens pandora box of PHR sharing (ZDNet Healthcare)

Astea International Accelerates Growth in Asia with a New Subsidiary in Japan (PR Newswire)

Herley Awarded an $8.2 Million Contract for a U.S. Electronic Attack Aircraft (PR Newswire)



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Comcast Expects to Grow Revenue, Operating And Free Cash Flow In 2009 (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

CEBIT-IDS Scheer mulls acquisitions in crisis -CEO (Reuters)

SAP to Plug BI Into Business All-In-One (PC World)

Tyco Electronics announces 20,000 layoffs (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Safeguard Scientifics postpones earnings release (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Dow, Rohm and Haas CEOs possible witnesses at trial (Reuters)

ZillionTV Launches; Can It Avoid Boxee’s Problems? (paidContent)

Cable Companies Target Commercials to Audience (New York Times)

Comcast Does DOCSIS 3.0 In Delaware
Offers 50-Mbps Service In New Castle System (Multichannel News)

Social publishing company Acquia gets into hosting business (Venture Beat)
Drupal in the clouds.

Beige Book: Third District-Philadelphia, March 4, 2009 (Federal Reserve Board)

Motorola fired CFO Liska for cause (Computerworld)

Akcelerant Announces the Purchase of The Guthrie Phillips Group (Inside ARM)

Court Square Group Acquires Validation Business Unit from QA Edge (Business Wire)

SAS Does SAAS (ClinPage)

Want A Better Valuation? Decrease Your Assumptions. (BarshBits)



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InterDigital Shrs Pressured As Q4 Profits Disappoint (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

IBM and SAP preview live motion between clouds
(CNET News)

CEBIT-SAP to keep investing in R&D despite crisis (Reuters)

Coming to a Mall Near You: The SAP Retail Store? (CIO.com)
Not really.

ICT Group rejects offer from Aegis
(Reuters)

SunGard Acquires Performance Pathways Inc. (Business Wire)

Bentley Systems hopes U.S. will carry through on infrastructure spending (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

myYearbook.com Selects Rackable Systems to Leverage Day One Advantage and Power Efficiency Benefits (Business Wire)

Investors gain bigger stake in troubled Clearwire
(Market Watch)

In newspapers' Ch. 11 case, hint of a secret recording (Philadelphia Daily News)

Rodale Cuts 20 Amid Management Restructuring (Folio)

Obama (Finally) Nominates Genachowski To Head FCC (paidContent)

NYC Seed Nurtures Homegrown Start-Ups (New York Times: Bits)
Startups Take on Product Placement Dealmaking
Small companies are trying different approaches to playing matchmaker between brand and content, or advertiser and entertainment (GigaOM via Business Week)
Discusses PlaceVine, a NYC startup founded out of Wharton, and also XLNTads of Wynnewood.

InfoLogix Forms SAP(R) Global Supply Chain Execution Services and Mobility Solutions Group (PR Newswire)


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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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Philly Tech Events

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>

Comcast, Cablevision turn to WiFi to retain customers (Newark Star-Ledger)

Interactive TV Begins To Bloom
Cable (Finally) To Start Delivering ITV To Millions; Thank EBIF, Not OCAP (Multicahnnel News)

Commerce360 Changes Name to ClickEquations; Announces General Availability of Paid Search Management Software (PR Web)

Dress Barn, Inc. Selects GSI Commerce as E-Commerce Partner
(PR Newswire)

How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality (New York Times: Unboxed)

How Does a Doc Really Use An Electronic Medical Record? (Wall Street Journal: Health Blog)



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