Three Philly Area Companies Receive Smart Grid Grants
Three Philly-area utility companies received grants under the "Smart Grid" program unveiled by President Obama today:
- PECO, Philadelphia:
- PPL, Allentown:
technologies to monitor and control the grid in real-time ($19,054,516)
- PJM Interconnection, LLC, Valley Forge
digital monitoring and analysis technologies across 10 states that will provide real-time data on the operating conditions of the transmission system, improving reliability and reducing congestion. ($13,698,091)
Atlantic City Electric Company also received a grant for $18,700,000 to improve grid efficiency.
See Grants by State
Obama Promotes ‘Smart-Grid’ Projects (New York Times:The Caucus)
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Daily Links 10/27/09: GSI Commerce to Acquire Retail Convergence
Comcast says some stimulus bidders may be ineligible (Bloomberg via Chicago Daily Herald)
Comcast: FCC Action Unlawful, Should Be Reversed
(PC Magazine)
Comcast Thinks Big With ITV (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
GSI Commerce to Acquire Retail Convergence and Enter Private Sale Space with Addition of Rue La La (Business Wire)
GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Operating Results (Business Wire)
Ametek Q3 results beat Street, shares up
(Reuters)
Vishay Announces Intention to Spin Off Measurements and Foil Resistor Businesses to Stockholders (Business Wire)
Vishay Reports Results for Third Quarter 2009 (Business Wire)
ING to sell Delaware-based bank in 2013 (Wilmington News Journal)
Fisker to make plug-in hybrids at former GM plant in Delaware (USA Today)
RYAN DAVIS NAMED PRESIDENT OF PHILLY.COM
(Press Release)
Nokia, SAP form anti-piracy services firm (Reuters)
SAP regaining its mojo? (ZDNet Blogs)
SAP: Days of the database are numbered
(ZDNet UK)
3-D Tool Rises to the Next Level (Engineering News Record)
CityRyde Launches Revolutionary Spark Bike Share Software, and It's Only the Beginning... (PR Newswire)
Viddler Analytics – Video statistics made easy. (The
Viddler Blog)
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Daily Links 10/26/09: NY Times Decides Comcast shouldn't buy NBC (After all, the Times has managed its business so well)
Verizon Profit Exceeds Estimates on Wireless Gains (Bloomberg)
Verizon Wireless, FiOS Growth Slows, But Quarter Fine (Silicon Alley Insider)
Verizon Launches BlackBerry Storm 2 This Week; OS 5.0 for Storm Today (jkOnTheRun)
A Big Deal, but Not a Good One (New York Times: The Media Equation)
On Comcast and NBC-U.
Comcast COO: Nat'l Platform Key to Interactive Ads (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Comcast Zeros In On Spammers
Operator Deploys Cloudmark's Spammer-Monitoring System (Multichannel News)
Cohen: Comcast's Plant tru2way-Capable By End of Year
Allows operators to deliver interactive TV content, pplications to compatible devices including TVs and set-tops
(Broadcasting & Cable)
Motorola Introduces New Products Expanding Fiber Deep and CablePON Portfolios for Cable Operators (PR Newswire)
Fisker to Manufacture Plug-in Hybrids at Former GM Delaware Plant (Automobile Magazine)
Obama plans big smart grid announcement (Reuters)
ING to Split in Two Amid $11.3 Billion Rights Issue (New York Times: Deal Book)
Wilmington's ING Direct USA to be broken off by 2013.
Virtua Selects NextGen® EHR to Support Quality Initiatives
Multi-Hospital Health Care System to Implement Award-Winning Product across Its Virtua Medical Group Network
(Business Wire)
Why Your Next IT Job Will Be In Healthcare (Information Week)
Unisys Closes 1-for-10 Reverse Split (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
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Lender Capmark Financial Group Files for Bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
Formerly GMAC Commercial Holding Corp., based in Horsham.
People News 10/25/09
Boomi Hires Key Sales Executive to Advance its Leadership in Cloud Integration
Scott Crawford, formerly of IBM and Ascential Software, to Lead Company's Global Sales Efforts (PR Web)
SAP APPOINTS NEW HEAD OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES (SAP Press Release)
Americas’ SAP Users’ Group’s Interim CEO Accepts Permanent Post
Bridgette Chambers, Former Chief Executive Officer of Voile Enterprises, Named as Permanent CEO (Business Wire)
Second Drexel professor elected as IEEE president (The Triangle)
Kenexa Strengthens RPO Expertise With the Appointment of International RPO Development Director (Marketwire)
Mikros Systems Corporation Names Paul G. Casner, Jr. Chairman of Board (PR Newswire via Reuters)
Wolters Kluwer Health Bolsters CME Organization, Appoints Dr. Karen Overstreet as Executive Director of its Lippincott CME Institute (PR Newswire)
SevOne Names William J. Conners Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development (Marketwire)
New Hire Supports CRM manager's Commitment to Cloud Computing
CTO with Expertise to Lead force.com Development and Integration Practice (PR Newswire)
USA Technologies Appoints Steven D. Barnhart and Jack E. Price to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)
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Net neutrality faces political, legal hurdles (CNN via CNET)
Q&A: FCC’s Baker Sounds Alarm Over 'Anecdote’-Based Regulations (Multichannel News)
Digitas and Razorfish Take First Steps Toward Combining Health Practices
Razorfish Execs Leave for Microsoft After Publicis Deal
(Advertising Age)
The most significant implication of this story locally is a possible first step towards the integration of Digitas Health and Razorfish's (now both part of Publicis) health practice. Katy Thorbahn, former GM of Razorfish Philadelphia, will now head up Razorfish health, reporting to Digitas Health CEO David Kramer, though both will retain their own brands for now at least.
See my story from March on Razorfish Phildelphia and Katy Thorbahn.
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Deloitte Philly Fast 50
The Deloitte Philly Fast 50 is out, representing Deloitte's take on the 50 fastest growing companies in the area.
Unlike the Philadelphia 100, the Deloitte list does include publicly traded companies. Unlike the Inc. 5000 , revenue is not shown for Deloitte companies unless they are also on Deloitte Fast 500 nationwide rankings.
As I reported earlier, The Neat Company was the top area company on the "Fast 500" and is also tops on the Philly Fast 50. However, another company that did not appear on Fast 500, eZanga, an internet advertising firm in Middletown DE, is ranked #2 on the Philly Fast 50.
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