Daily Links 10/14/09: Vivendi Has No Comment On NBC Discussions

Newspapers appeal ruling on credit-bidding (Philadelphia Inquirer)

French media company Vivendi mum on possible NBC Universal sale (LA Times: Company Town)

codeMantra’s collectionPoint to Utilize MarkLogic Server in New SaaS Offering for Publishers (Business Wire)

Bentley acquires Santa Rosa software firm gINT (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

Bentley and Pointools Sign Continuous Technology Transfer Agreement to Incorporate Vortex Engine in Bentley Platform (PR Newswire)

Top 7 Tech Disasters of the Decade
Sidekick Data Loss Is Latest Technology Debacle (ABC News)
Heartland Payment Systems breach also included.

U.S. Stocks Primed for Takeovers, Goldman Sachs Says (Bloomberg)
Heartland Payment among those mentioned.

Hands On: WiMAX in Philadelphia (Media Experiences 2 Go)

Comcast: Programmers Control 'TV Everywhere' Ad Model
Exec Cites Uncertainty Over Consumer Tolerance For Ad Load Online (Multichannel News)

As DirecTV feud drags on, could Bettman's VS gamble pay off? (Yahoo Sports)

Pfizer gets final clearances for Wyeth acquisition (MarketWatch)


Publicis Closes Razorfish Acquisition; Microsoft Gets 3.3 Percent Stake In Ad Holding Company (paidContent)

Benioff At Oracle Open World: This Could Be A Trend (Enterprise Matters)


Internet Capital Group setting stage for up to $150M in stock sales (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Second Quarter and Year To Date Fiscal 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

MedQuist Announces Reseller Agreement With Clario (PR Newswire)



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Business Week Recognizes Young Philly Entrepreneurs

Plenty of ink (or pixels) for companies with Philadelphia roots in Business Week's 25 2009 Finalists for America's Best Young Entrepreneurs (under the age of 25). Three are currently Philly-based:


Nat Turner, his partners Zach Weinburg, Scott Becker, and Michael Provenzano, and their Philly-based Internet advertising firm Invite Media.

Brian Ruby and his Malvern company Carbon Nanoprobes, which makes molecular imaging equipment for imaging microscopic objects.

Sister and brother Catherine Cook and David Cook and their teen-oriented social networking site myYearbook.com of New Hope.

Two others named grew out of Philly's Dreamit Ventures incubator: SCVNGR, now out of Boston, and NoteHall, which is
apparently based in Tuscon.



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Daily Links 10/13/09: Comcast, GE Getting Closer? Decision Time For Vivendi

Comcast & NBC-U: 'They've All Agreed to Agree' (The Wrap)

Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL. (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

QlikTech Appoints New President of the Americas
Tim Wassman Adds Industry Expertise to Fuel Continued Growth in the Region (PR Web)

Bentley Celebrates 25th Anniversary (TenLinks.com)

Bentley Adds Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Capabilities Through Acquisition of gINT Software (Bentley News Release)


Bentley Acquires South Korea's 9SQ, Maker of PlantWAVE (TenLinks.com)


Bentley to Acquire KSJ Beijing, Maker of BridgeMaster (TenLinks.com)

Comcast Gets Dynamic With VoD Ads (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Clear Align, not DSG, is fastest-growing firm in Philadelphia area (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Instem Continues Global Growth Adding 12 New Clients, More Resources and More Offices (Business Wire)

The Buzz at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (Computerworld)

Ellison Frenemy Benioff Takes The Stage At Oracle OpenWorld (TechCrunch)

Novell, SAP bring together security, compliance wares
Integration deal certifies software running together (Network World)



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Daily Links 10/12/09: Level 3 Expands Ops in Philadelphia

Vivendi's plans may determine whether NBC Universal ends up in Comcast's hands (LA Times)

News Corp, Liberty Media interested in NBC - report (Reuters)

Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6 Billion In Third Quarter. Most Of That Went To Vinod Khosla. (TechCrunch)

T-Mobile Sidekick U.S. Users Face Personal Data Loss (Reuters via Wired Epicenter)

Level 3 Expands Operations in Philadelphia (Business Wire)
Level 3 Takes Local Road to Philadelphia (Telecom Ramblings)

Comcast to Put Botnet Cops on the Security Beat (GigaOM)

SAP and Oracle going head to head (ZDNet Blogs)

Capgemini and Microsoft combine forces for global ERP initiative (Inside SAP)

InfoLogix considering private placement (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Financial Software Systems buys Spot Systems (Finextra)
Financial Software Systems is based in Horsham.

Philadelphia PD Meets Mission Demands With GIS (PR Newswire)

Philly native uses Twitter to feed his Google-killer site (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Philadelphia Launches Web Site to Focus on Regional Social Innovations and Social Entrepreneurs (PR Newswire)

Boston’s Startup Scene is Starting To Be Seen (PE Hub)




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Philly Tech Events Calendar

People News 10/11/09

McCreesh Global Head of Operations Digitas Health
(PharmaLive)

SAP Names Chuck Christopherson to Lead Public Administration Unit (PR Newswire)

DMW Worldwide taps Rich Grosskettler as Director of Interactive Services (Philly Ad Club News)

Philadelphia Agency Launches New “Digital Video” Division (Company Press Release)

imc2 adds Michael Davis as CCO and Dr Urvashi Pitre as senior vp Relationship Analytics (Philly Ad Club News)

Tech Industry Braces for More Antitrust Scrutiny (Associated
Press via New York Times)

Could Del. lose its corporate role? (Wilmington News Journal)

InfoLogix Announces News Related to its Recent Corporate Development Initiatives
Retains SSG Capital Advisors as Investment Banker (PR Newswire)

Philadelphia 100 Gathers At Penn (The Bulletin)

Comcast Said to Favor Keeping NBC’s Zucker, Management Team (Bloomberg)

A Touchdown for Comcast?
Wall Street may not like the cable giant's bid for NBC Universal, but it could make sense (Business Week)

FCC To Probe Google Voice
Some Rural Calls Are Being Blocked (Washington Post)

Daily Links 10/9/09: NBC Employees Worry About Comcast Health Plan

Does Comcast See The Writing on Cable's Slippery Wall? (Business Week)

NBC Employees Fret About Potential Buyer Comcast's Health Plan (Silicon Alley Insider)

Hey Comcast (& ISPs), No One Needs Your Convergence Devices (GigaOM)

How To Build A $170 Million Company From Scratch (Silicon Alley Insider)

Wireless options heating up in Phila. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Clearwire Married to WiMAX for 2 More Years (GigaOM)

Philly Newspapers' Creditors Can Use Debt They're Owed to Bid for Company, Judge Rules (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

Penn prof Kearns addresses a need (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Does SAP have to give away CRM? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

SAP, HP to Deepen Ties Around BI (PC World)




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Daily Links 10/8/09: Mistras IPO Priced Below Target

Comcast's Rivals For NBC (Forbes)

SAP 2.0 Promises Business Value Over Products: Can It Deliver? (Information Week: Global CIO)

SAP Is Testing Flat-Rate Pricing For Large Enterprises (Information Week: Global CIO)

Mistras prices below range, Omeros at bottom in IPOs (Reuters)
Mistras is based in Princeton Junction.

Feds Investigating IBM Over Mainframe Monopoly (Silicon Alley Insider)
Thought I had accidentally come across a headline from 40 years ago.

Alphion Corporation Announces Selection by BSNL as GPON Technology Provider
GPON network equipment to support deployment of multiple play services in the India Telecoms Network (Business
Wire)

Comcast Snares a CLEC (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast alerts customers to infected PCs
(CNET News)

My Interview With FCC Chairman: No Retreat On Net Neutrality (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Essent, Backed by Goldman Sachs, Buys Triad Assets (Bloomberg)

PivotLink and Boomi Expand SaaS Business Analytics to Over 70 Enterprise Applications (Marketwire)

Revisiting Entrepreneurs Who Ride the Economic Waves (New York Times)

Verisk Analytics of Jersey City raises $1.9B in stock offering (Newark Star-Ledger)

Interead Picks QVC To Launch Its “Cool-er” e-Reader In U.S. (paidContent)

D&E, Windstream merger will cut 290 jobs in Pa. (Central Penn Business Journal)



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Google Remembers Invention of Barcode (Drexel Connection)

Google has a barcode-looking thing on its home page this morning. Not sure why. (Update: Explained here). Any discussion of the history of the bar code must include reference to its Philly (specifically Drexel) roots.
See Drexel Press Release.



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