Daily Links 3/2/2010: Venmo gets funded

Rovi Pulls Out Of GuideWorks Venture With Comcast
Vendor Also Expands Deal With MSO for Metadata and Patents Across Mobile, Online (Multichannel News)

SAP co-CEOs hope for love on promises of continuity
* Co-CEOs reiterate targets, strategy (Reuters)

SAP, Sybase Release Joint Mobile Apps
Sales and workflow apps developed on the Sybase mobile platform extend SAP CRM and Business Suite to iPhone and Windows devices. (Information Week)

Venmo Wants You To Pay Your Pal, Over the Phone. What Will the Carriers Think? (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

E-mail Marketer ExactTarget Buys Twitter Enterprise Client CoTweet (paidContent)
CoTweet originally started out of Central Pennsylvania and was backed by First Round Capital, among others.
CoTweet, Internet start-up from central Pennsylvania, bought by ExactTarget (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Ben Franklin group to invest in 5 Phila.-area companies (Philadelphia Business Journal)

USDA International Technology Services Awards Emtec Federal a Contract with Ceiling Value of $82.5 Million (Business Wire)

Registration Now Open for 'Be Together: The Be Communities LIVE Conference,' Being Held May 17-20, 2010, in Philadelphia (PR Newswire)

HIMSS: Meaningful Use Goes Over The Top (Information
Week: Heathcare Blogs)

Siemens' Dillione is HIMSS' smartest executive
(ZDNet Healthcare)

Pew Study: Philadelphia’s 311 System Shows Progress; Philly311 Made Contacting City Hall Easier but Challenges Remain in Handling Service Requests (PR Web)

Sungard earnings weeks behind past schedule (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
SunGard has since announced its earnings will
be released on March 15.





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Daily Links 3/1/2010: SAP lands deal with 3M

SAP Lands Major Deal With 3M at Oracle's Expense (PC World)

GE, Universal Orlando could cut ties once sale to Comcast closes (Orlando Sentinel via Miami Herald)

Accused hacker poised to plead in Comcast attack (SeattlePI.com)

Comcast Adds Remote DVR Programming To iPhone App
Feature Available to 3.1 Million Subscribers in Markets in Nine States (Multichannel News)

Facebook-Like News Feed Headlines First Round Capital's Redesigned Homepage (Read Write Start)

First Round Capital’s Fralic Says Team and Market Size Are More Important Than Product (AdExchanger.com)

ETF Venture Funds Rebranded as SeventySix Capital
Venture Capital Investor Builds off Past Successes to Open Door to Future (Business Wire)



Razorfish Launches Independent Dedicated Health Brand
Razorfish Health Specializes in Pharma, Health and Wellness. (PR Web)
Publicis launches Razorfish Health as standalone (Medical Marketing & Media)

Amtrak Offers Free Wi-Fi In Northeast
On DC and Boston line, and at six major stations... (Broadband Reports)

Sprint CEO Highlights Wireless in Healthcare (Wireless Week)

Pa. broadband net slated as health data conduit (Government Health IT)




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Philly Tech People News 2/28/2010

Comcast Promotes William E. Dordelman to Senior Vice President and Treasurer (Business Wire)

DailyCandy Gets a New Editor: New York Magazine’s Janet Ozzard
(All Things Digital: MediaMemo)


InterDigital Forms Technical Advisory Council
Naresh Soni, InterDigital’s Chief Technology Officer, Appointed as Council Chair (Business Wire)

Singularity Hires Brian Crooks as Executive Creative Director (Philly Ad Club News)

Justin Premick, director of education marketing at Huntingdon Valley-based AWeber Communications, was ranked among the top ten in DM News' "30 direct marketers under 30 ".

Codima Inc. (CDMA) Appoints Chief Financial Officer and New Board Member (Business Wire)

Four Local Lockheed Martin Employees Named Modern Day Technology Leaders
Philadelphia Area Employees Recognized for Engineering Leadership (PR Newswire)

ShopNBC CFO Resigns to Pursue Business Opportunity
(Marketwire)

WPCS Faces Activist Hedge Fund Pressure (Sumfolio)
WPCS Addresses Activist Shareholder (PR Newswire)

Update: Kevin Martin, former FCC Chair, to fight against Comcast-NBCU (Washington Post: Post Tech)

SAP Changes Continue – 10 Predictions for 2010 (The Forrester Blog for Vendor Strategy Professionals)

Laptops Galore Await Show Attendees in Hanover (PCWorld)
New SAP co-CEO McDermott to give keynote speech at CeBIT next week.

SAP ecosystem: going direct for SMBs (ZDNet Blogs)

myYearbook Revenue at $20 Million Annually and Growing (Mashable)


Franklin Electronic Publishers goes private (Philadelphia
Business Journal: Technology Blog)

IMS Health Announces Completion of Acquisition by Affiliates of TPG and the CPP Investment Board (Business Wire)

Comcast Proposes Its God Box (Light Reading Cable)


Top Issues at Comcast-NBCU Hearing Pt. II: Jobs, Independent Programming, and Diversity (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

Clearwire: 2 Million Subs By End Of 2010
Tallies 46,000 Wholesale Customers From Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Sprint (Multichannel News)




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Philly area companies Boomi, Kenexa, Fiberlink Communications named CODiE award finalists

Philly area companies Boomi of Berwyn, Kenexa of Wayne, and Fiberlink Communications of Blue Bell have been nominated as finalists for the Software & Information Industry Association's(SIIA) CODiE awards in the categories relating to software products and services.
Boomi's AtomSphere was chosen in two categories: Best Application Integration Solution, and Best Cloud Infrastructure Software. Kenexa's Recruiter BrassRing ‐ Release 12 was chosen in the Best Human Capital Management Solution category, and Fiberlink's MaaS360 Mobile Serivce was selected in the Best Mobile Enterprise Solution category.
Winners will be announced at the CODiE Awards Lunch on May 11 in San Francisco. A complete list of finalists can be viewed here.




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Daily Links 2/25/2010: GSI Commerce extends NFL relationship

Internet Capital Group Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results (Business Wire)

Liberty Media Reports Results for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2009 (PR Newswire)
QVC revenue up 14% in 4th Quarter.

GSI Commerce and the NFL Extend E-Commerce Partnership with New Multiyear Agreement
Record-Breaking Successes and Winning Multichannel Strategy Mark the Long-Term Partnership
(Business Wire)

Salesforce.com outlook misses Street view
* Sees full-yr profit 58-60 cts/shr vs Street view 82 cts (Reuters)

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results
Full Year Net Income Quadruple Prior Year After Adjustments (Business Wire)

Philly searchmasters greet post-Google 'Splinternet' (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Unions Lay Into Comcast-NBC Universal
Communications Workers of America, IFTA, others weigh in (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast-NBC Deal Will Benefit Consumers, Roberts Tells Congress (Bloomberg via Business Week)

SCTE Seeks CTO
Professional Organization Wants To Reinforce ‘Core Engineering Focus' (Multichannel News)

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

ERT Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (PR Newswire)

Mzinga OmniSocial Named Technology Product of the Year by TechQuest Pennsylvania (Business Wire)



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Report: Radnor's QlikTech preparing for IPO

The 451 Group blog "Inorganic Growth" says that Radnor's QlikTech, the in-memory Business Intelligence provider, is taking steps in preparation for an initial public offering. QlikTech has reportedly chosen bankers (Morgan Stanley, CitiGroup and JPMorgan) and is preparing its IPO paperwork. Revenue was $120 million in 2008, up from $80 million in 2007, and certainly appears to have grown in 2009. The company was hinting at an IPO two years ago before the market meltdown.


QlikTech looks likely to click on the market (The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth)




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Daily Links 2/24/2010: Clearwire boosts subscribers, but may need more capital

Clearwire posts loss but revenue beats Street (Reuters)
Clearwire net additions soar to 87K in Q4 (FierceWireless)
Clearwire: Will It Need More Capital? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Salesforce earnings: Strong fourth quarter, outlook (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast Plans Bond Sale to Help Pay for NBC Stake (Bloomberg via
Business Week)

Man pleads to hacking Comcast site (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Baltimore Wants To Know Why They Aren't Worthy Of FiOS
Verizon denies redlining, says their focus is simply elsewhere... (Broadband Reports)

Pa. educator says she didn't watch student webcams (Associated Press via Washington Post)

FIELD: ENTERCOM SEEING 'SIGNIFICANT MARKET STRENGTHENING' (Radio Ink)

SAP Rolls out SaaS BI for 'casual Users' (PC World)

Archonix Systems, LLC Purchases Public Safety Assets of Cross Current Corporation (PR Newswire)

InfoLogix, Hercules restructure loan agreement (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Testing the electric vehicle-to-grid connection (Ars Technica)
University of Delaware works with PJM of Norristown.

A new response to emergency workers’ needs
Lowell wireless company looks to be a market-changer (Boston Globe)




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Will Motorola Move to California? (Business Week: The Tech Beat)
This Business Week article suggests the new Moto might move Horsham's set-top box unit as well
the handset business; other articles haven't been quite so clear on that point. In any event, if that did happen it could be a big loss for the Philly tech ecosystem.


Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (Business Wire)

CDI Corp posts surprise fourth-quarter loss (Reuters)

Entercom Communications Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and 2009 Annual Results (Business Wire)

Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream (Computerworld)

Safend Announces 35 Percent Revenue Growth for 2009 and Significantly Increases Customer Base (Marketwire)

Comcast launches first public U.S. trial of advanced DNS security (Network World)


Comcast Asks FCC to Deny, Dismiss Tennis Channel Complaint
Cable net wants carriage on basic tier instead of premium sports tier (Broadcasting &
Cable)

Wal-Mart Buys Vudu To Deliver Movies Via Broadband
Deal Reportedly Worth Slightly More Than $100 Million (Multichannel News)


Cable Execs Defend Advanced Ad Efforts (Light Reading Cable)

Support Decision Looms for SAP Users (IDG via New York Times)

QVC(R) Selects Manhattan Associates to Optimize Multichannel Supply Chain Network (Globe Newswire via
CNN Money)




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Daily Links 2/22/2010: Moto set-top exec heads to Technitrol

Motorola set-top box exec departs (Fierce Wireless)
Heads from Horsham to Philadelphia, becomes CEO of Technitrol.
Technitrol Press Release

Laptop camera snapped away in one classroom (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NBCU Deal Looks Good to FCC, DOJ
Report to Congress Sees Comcast Gaining Control, Outlines Concerns (Multichannel News)


TidalTV Targets Ads for Set-Tops, TV Everywhere (Light Reading Cable)

Auditude Announces Online Video Advertising Partnership with Comcast Interactive Media
Auditude to Provide Online Video Advertising Services for Comcast Interactive Media Sites
(Business Wire)

Comcast Exploring 250 Mbps Service
Though 50 Mbps to 100% and 100 Mbps to 20% is the 2011 target... (Broadband Reports)

Vishay Slides; Weisel Downgrades, Sees Few Positive Catalysts (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

One expensive year later, and papers remain bankrupt (Philadelphia
Daily News)


IMS Health Announces Anticipated Closing Date of Merger with Affiliates of TPG and CPP Investment Board (Business Wire)

SunGard Launches Protegent Surveillance for Energy and Commodities
Protegent helps firms that trade in energy to detect trading behaviors that increase the risk of regulatory action. (PR Web)

Double-Take, Amazon form disaster recovery cloud with Double-Take Cloud (SearchDisasterRecovery.com)

Health technology includes more than digital records (Central Penn Business Journal)



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