Daily Links 9/14/09: Intuit To Acquire Mint

Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million
(TechCrunch)
First Round Capital portfolio company.
A deal that was "mint to be..." (Redeye VC)

Deutsche Telekom acquires SAP European hosting services (V3.co.uk)

Comcast Should Buy Sprint (GigaOM)
Must have heard this 50 times, and still don"t understand why its a good idea.

Heir to Haas fortune a potential investor in Phila. Newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Brand New Video – Touch Screen Kiosks at Wizard World Chicago (TicketLeap Blog)

Maxwell Systems Releases Estimating Touch Screen Monitor (PR Newswire)

QlikTech Expands Commitment in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (PR Web)

International Battery Awarded $2.1 Million in Federal Funding to Develop Advanced Batteries for U.S. Army (Business Wire)

Comcast: It’s time to act on digital-service upgrade (Delco Times)

Oracle to unveil Sun-based Exadata database machine (ZDNet Blogs)

Heartland CEO: Credit Card Encryption Needed (CIO.com)

WPCS Reports FY2010 First Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)



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Conshohocken's Viridity Energy, Targeting Smart Grid Solutions, Applies For Stimulus Funds

A Conshohocken startup, Viridity Energy, is seeking to help the US implement "Smart Grid" technology solutions. The one year old company, which has been working on tests with Drexel, PECO, and New York's Con Edison, among others, last week joined with several other companies partnering with Con Ed in applying for $46 million under the Federal Stimulus plan to fund a smart grid demonstration project. In Pennsylvania, Viridity also applied for a grant with Drexel , Penn State, the University of Pennsylvania and PECO. Other grant applications involving Viridity were filed in California and New Mexico.

Viridity uses a power management system developed by the energy unit of Siemens AG, complemented by its own technology, to implement what it calls "Virtual Power Plants". These enable an organization to manage its collective physical plant's energy use on a near real-time basis, buying to meet peak energy needs and selling excess production back onto the grid. Founded by utility veterans including former execs of Valley Forge grid management giant PJM , Virdity employs 11 people and is primarily funded by AltEnergy,LLC. President & CEO Audrey Zibelman was formerly EVP & COO of PJM.




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Comcast to Take TiVo National by Year End? (Zatz Not Funny!)
Update: Comcast now says timeline described in tweet was incorrect.

Siemens cans SAP support (ZDNet Blogs)

Deutsche Telekom Mulls Sprint Bid, Telegraph Reports (Bloomberg)



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People News 9/13/09

Drug Information Association (DIA) Names New Worldwide Executive Director (Business Wire)

TargetRx Expands Management Team to Support Continued Growth
Industry Leaders from IMS & Verispan Join TargetRx to Field Increasing Demand for Pharma & Biotech Sales & Marketing Solutions (Business Wire)


TelVue Corporation Promotes Daniell Krawczyk to National Sales Director, Community Broadcasting (GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)

NCTA appoints Rick Chessen to regulatory policy post (Fierce Telecom)

Nancy Brennan Joins MedRisk as Vice President Customer Service (Business Wire)


Toni Hess Joins Rosetta as Partner in Creative and Customer Experience Group
(PR Newswire)

Mike Renda to succeed Pat Mullen atop WFLD, WPWR (Chicago Tribune)



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TV Mega-mergers? Bad for Subscribers, Good for the Web (GigaOM)

Video: Introduction to ERP complexity (ZDNet Blogs)

Smartphones drive business for software writers
Companies find mobile apps provide a potential gold mine (NJBIZ.com)



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Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel (Business Week)

SAP and SME's: an update (ZDNet Blogs)

Hacker Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to 20 Charges (IDG via New York Times)

Brightcove, thePlatform Announce New Partners (Contentinople)

Verizon CFO: More Job Cuts Coming
16,000 job cuts was only just the beginning (Broadband Reports)

MetroPCS Talking To Bankers, But Not Leap (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Technology Professionals connect in King of Prussia (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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Is Comcast Trolling For Content?
Burke Says Cable Giant Would Look at Complementary Content Acquisitions
(Multichannel News)

Will Comcast Buy Time Warner Cable? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

VOD Startup Verivue Pulls In $20 Million Round
Investors Include Comcast, Arris, Sigma Partners and Other VC Firms (Multichannel News)

Troubled Times Test SAP's Strategy (CIO Today)

SAP Wants More Software Guinea Pigs (Business Week)

Motorola’s First Android Phone Takes Aim at Social Networks (Wired: Gadget Lab)

Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records (New York Times)

Oracle Deal Holding Up Sales Of New Sun Servers - Avnet (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

HP Sued For Server Failure
Shipping and logistics vendor BDP International lost business due to system meltdown, suit contends. (Information
Week)

CardioNet Announces Enhanced MCOT System (Business Wire)


Awesome Philly Internship Opportunity! (Editor on the Verge)




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Daily Links 9/09/09: Steve Jobs' Return Appearance

Apple Live; Steve Jobs Hosts; Genius For App Store; Ringtones in iTunes; iTunes 9 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Mobile gets down to business (Fortune)

Comcast's Burke: TV Everywhere trials going national in 30 to 60 days
(ZDNET Blogs)

Comcast Will Look at Cable Purchases at ‘Good Price’ (Bloomberg)

Fall TV's Biggest Hit: HULU (CNBC)

Comcast Fires Up 100-Mbps Business Tier
Operator Launches 100/15 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 Service in Twin Cities (Multichannel News)

Federal Reserve Board: Beige Book-Philadelphia, September 2009 (Federal Reserve Board)

MRO Corp. Acquires Release-of-Information Services Vendor, Record Enterprises Inc. (REI) (Business Wire)

Kalido Bows Application-Ready Data Warehouse Appliance
(Intelligent Enterprise)

SAP Exec: Business ByDesign Will Be Smash Success (PC World)
I'm tempted to say LOL to that, unless they are completely starting over from scratch.


NetWeaver PI 7.1 easier to implement than earlier versions, SAP says (SearchSAP.com)

Pa. city blankets streets with security cameras
(Associated Press via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

inTEST Corporation to Transfer to The Nasdaq Capital Markets
(PR Newswire)



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No more MAC address: Comcast streamlines DNS helper opt-out (ars technica)

Court Rejects 30% Cap
Analysts Shrug, But Political Win Significant (Multichannel News)

Comcast launches speedy Internet offering (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Comcast Launches 100 Mbps High-Speed Internet Service for Businesses in the Twin Cities (Business Wire)


C64 emulator approved for iPhone (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Updated


SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES Satellite Division Re-Brands as SES WORLD SKIES
(Business Wire)

C&D Technologies Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

Y-Carbon Receives Funding from NSF and DoD to Develop High Energy Supercapacitors (PR Web)

BioLeap Wins GlaxoSmithKline Contract to Design Novel Lead Compounds for Previously Intractable Targets for Important Unmet Medical Needs.
(Business Wire)





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Philly Tech Events Calendar

One can't miss event in Philly this week is the Congress of the International Headache Society on September 10-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Plenty of fun people and an endless supply of Tylenol is available.