CardioNet Provides Update on Communications with Highmark Medicare Services Regarding Mobile Cardiovascular Technology Reimbursement (Business Wire)
CardioNet slides as Medicare rate cut is confirmed (Associated Press via Forbes)

Versus network goes dark on DirecTV in rate dispute (LA Times)

Comcast, Verizon duke it out
Ad blitz gets personal as firms spar for cable customers (Boston Globe)

GSI Commerce Acquires Pepperjam
Acquisition Marks GSI’s Entry into Affiliate Network Business and Expands Presence in Affiliate Program Management and Search (Business Wire)

DivX Acquires AnySource Media, Creator of On-Demand Internet Television Platform
(PR Newswire)

BioClinica™ Acquires CardioNow from Agfa Healthcare
-Adds Proven Solution for Secure, Regulatory Compliant Electronic Transmission and Analysis of Medical Images for Clinical Trials- (Business Wire)

HostMySite and Hosting.Com Merge Under Hosting.Com Name
Hosting.com Becomes Official Name for HostMySite|Hosting.com. Brand Consolidation Begins and Includes Opening of a New Corporate Headquarters and Data Center in Denver, CO. (PR Newswire)

With new buyer, Transcend sheds Denny Hecker stake (Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal)


John Wookey about SAP's On Demand Offerings for Large Enterprises (SAP TV)


30,000 Job Openings For SAP Consultants, SAP Official Says (Information Week Blogs)













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Philly Tech Events Calendar

Daily Links 8/31/09: ClickEquations Funding, Newspaper Revenues Crash By 29%

Phila. firms fund ClickEquations
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

ClickEquations - Complex Paid Search Campaign Management, Simplified (Web Analytics World Blog)

Henkel Awards Unisys Five-Year Global Outsourcing Contract (Business Wire)

Fairfax County, Virginia, Selects SAP(R) Software to Facilitate Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency
(PR Newswire)

Urban Strongholds Resist Magazine Slump (Forbes)
Interview with Larry Platt.

FREEFALL: Newspaper Revenues Crash By 29%
(Mashable )

The survivor in business and in life (Poder 360)
Interview with Cristóbal Conde of SunGard.

Sungard Builds Grid From DR Workstations (Data Center Knowledge)

Information Today, Inc. Acquires the Search Engine Meeting (Business Wire)

e-Dialog Supports Strong Growth with New and Expanded Global Corporate Headquarters (Business Wire)

Online Document Viewing Available in the Cloud or in Your IT Infrastructure (Vuzit Blog)

The Comcast Video Wall Reloaded (Zatz Not Funny!)




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People News 8/30/09

The Neat(R) Company Names Jim Foster as Chief Executive Officer (eMedia World)


Dataram Announces a Worldwide Vice President of Sales
(Business Wire)

QlikTech Confident of Growing Asia Pacific Business
Leading Business Intelligence Vendor Opens Office in Singapore and Commits Resources in Asia Pacific (Microwire)

Clearwire’s Richardson Exits; Two New Execs Tapped To Chart 4G Path (mocoNews.net)

ERT Appoints New Associate Director of Business Development - Japan
(PR Newswire)

SAP EXECUTIVE PAT HUME AMONG THE TOP 100 WOMEN IN THE CHANNEL (SAP Newsbyte)

Former Delaware State CIO and Cabinet Secretary Joins LexisNexis Special Services Inc. (Business Wire)





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In May, shareholders protested Comcast pay (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Tierney Tries Twitter, Facebook, PR Campaign to Keep Philadelphia Papers (Poynter Online)

Bad Software Design Inhibits Use of Enterprise Apps (Computerworld)
On Electronic Ink founder Harold Hambros and his new book.



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Auction for Philly newspapers slated amid Ch. 11 (Associated Press via Google News)

Man Accused of Stealing Stores’ Data Pleads Guilty (Reuters via New York Times)

ClickEquations Raises $3 Million For Paid Search Platform (paidContent)
ClickEquations is based in Conshohocken.

SDI will get new building for its HQ (Philadelphia Business Journal)

TeamSupport.com Scales Beanstalk
TeamSupport.com today announced a compelling integration with Beanstalk! (PR Log)

Devon IT to Feature New Thin Clients, Software at VMworld 2009 (Business Wire)

Safeguard Scientifics enacts reverse stock split (Associated Press via Philly.com)




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Appeals Court Overturns FCC Cable Ownership Cap

Court throws out FCC cable ownership limit (Reuters)
This is a very big deal for Comcast. It will be interesting to see if the Supreme Court will hear an appeal, if there is one.

Updated: Court Throws Out FCC's 30% Cable Subscriber Cap
The U.S. Court Of Appeals Agrees With Comcast Calling Sub Limit 'Arbitrary And Capricious'> (Multichannel News)

Cable Ruling Won’t Trigger M&A Wave, Bernstein Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)




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SAP Told by Jury to Pay $139 Million to Versata Over Patents (Bloomberg)
Those Texas juries.

Oracle Demands Information From Rimini Street (PC World)


Safeguard Scientifics 1:6 Reverse Stock Split Takes Effect Today
Transaction Intended to Broaden Appeal to Institutional Investors (Business Wire)
Safeguard Scientifics Announces Sale of Approximately One-Third of Its Clarient Shares for Approximately $53 Million in Proceeds, Net of Underwriter Commissions (Business Wire)


Verizon Tags TNT, TBS For FiOS 'TV Everywhere'
Telco Inks Online Video Deal With Time Warner Inc. (Multichannel News)

Who's afraid of Comcast's plans?
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)

JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's Bing (Ad Age)
Sound like the old "lawsuit as a cheap form of PR" ploy.

FCC Investigates Wireless Competition
Agency votes to begin wide-ranging probe of U.S. wireless industry. (Forbes)

WiMAX Gear Market to Be Worth $4.9B by 2013: Report (GigaOM)




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Philly Tech Events Calendar

Reval Acquires FXpress Corporation
Combines Best SaaS for Corporate End-Users of Derivatives
Raises $16 Million in New Round of Funding to Accelerate Growth (Business Wire)
FXpress is based in Bala Cynwyd.

myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World (TechCrunch)

The Convergence Of Health Care & Information Technology (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Enter Strategic Partnership with ActiveStrategy, Inc. (PR Web)

Pa. lags N.J., Del. in Internet speed (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Who Is Philadelphia’s New Anonymous Newspaper Investor? (WHYY: Its Our City)

Cable Shrs More Alluring Than Telecom, J.P. Morgan Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast DVR Web Scheduling Nears Launch? (Zatz Not Funny!)

TiVo Files Complaints for Patent Infringement Against AT&T and Verizon Communications in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas; Seeking Damages and Injunction (PR Newswire)



IBM, Wipro, Tata, Infosys win BP IT outsourcing deal (ZDNet
Blogs)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)

ShowClix Secures Series A Funding From Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PR Web)
To what extent do these guys compete with Philly's TicketLeap?





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