2020: I See It Clearly - Through the Clouds (Sandhill.com)
Essay by Marc Benioff of salesforce.com.

Philly Tech People News 3/7/2010

myYearbook Lands Digital Media Industry Veteran to Lead Business Development
Focus on Leveraging Virtual Currency and US Distribution to Drive Value for Partners
(Business Wire)



Gary Jackson Joins Shunra Software as Chief Executive Officer (PR Newswire)

SAP Names Former HP Exec To Manage Volume Channel Business (Channel Web)

Viridity Energy Names Laurie Actman as Director of Government Relations and Business Development
Member of the City of Philadelphia Mayor’s Office will join Viridity Energy to develop strategic partnerships with business and government leaders to advance the smart grid (Business Wire)

Marin County may pull plug on computer fiasco (Marin Independent Journal)
A SAP project gone wrong.

Cisco Wants To Kill Your Cisco Set-Top Box With Another Cisco Set-Top Box (Silicon Alley Insider)

Daily Links 3/5/2010: RCN Sold For $1.2 Billion

Two tech workers sidelined in Web-cam case (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Wi-Fi iPad goes on sale April 3 in U.S. (Macworld)

RCN Sold For $1.2 Billion
No word on what, if anything will change for RCN users... (Broadband Reports)
RCN provides broadband services in parts of the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas.
Broadband Provider RCN Finally Gets Its Buyout Deal (Daily Finance)

Senate Commerce committee brings back Comcast and NBC Universal for fourth hearing (Washington Post: Post Tech)

NCC Media: New Name, Expands Audience Reach (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Charging fees for Hulu comes with its own problems (Associated Press via Yahoo! News)

Survey Says: VCs Banking On Energy Efficiency, Storage (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Logistics technology: SAP sees signs of a recovery in supply chain management software (Logistics Management)


Email Marketing Firm, Listrak, Integrates Customer and Site Data to Provide Advanced Profiling and Conversion Metrics (PR Web)

Drexel food Web site revamped (The Triangle)




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Daily Links 3/4/2010: Urban Outfitters' earnings jump 92%

Comcast's thePlatform Posts To Social Nets
Video Management System Provides Hooks into 10 Social Media Sites (Multichannel News)

Analyst talks Comcast-NBC Uni deal
Moffet: 'We don't like the deal, but we do like the stock' (Hollywood Reporter)

4A's: What's Delaying Ad Addressability?
Such platforms allow advertisers to target specific regions, zones, even individual households (Adweek)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software Development Firm Avencia Incorporated Announces New Company Name – Azavea Inc
(Business Wire)

Urban Outfitters Reports Q4 Earnings Jump 92% (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

New Customers Fuel BravoSolution Growth in Challenging Year
Spend management vendor outpaces market to reach $71 Million in 2009 revenue (Business
Wire)

Dot-Mobi Gets New Owner, New Life Still In Doubt (MediaPost: MoBlog)
Top level domain acquired by Ireland-based Afilias, which has its US headquarters in Horsham.

DreamIt Recruiting New Class of Startups (Center Networks)

SAP - The Message Back on Target
(ZDNet Blogs)

Semiannual PostgreSQL User Conference - PG East 2010 - Adds Impressive Line-up of Speakers to Conference Roster (PR Newswire)


SunGard adds EMC Data Domain deduplication to Secure2Disk cloud data backup service (SearchDataBackup.com)


Acurian Generates over 50% of Clinical Trial Patient Referrals from Proprietary Relationships with Online Health Networks & Social Media Platforms (Business Wire)

New Lehigh institute will coordinate business efforts (Allentown Morning Call)




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Daily Links 3/3/2010: TiVo debuts new box; working with Comcast

AstraZeneca overhaul leaves 550 jobless here (Wilmington News Journal)

Verizon Wireless experiencing nationwide data outage (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP co-CEOs to prioritize product development, delivery (SearchSAP.com)

Should SAP buy Sybase? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)


News Brief: Micro-Apps by SEAL Consulting Expand Business Value of SAP(R) Solutions at Archean Group (PR Newswire)

Q&A: How will e-mail, social media marketing merge? (VentureBeat)
More on the ExactTarget-CoTweet deal.

Jelli puts social networks to work picking radio tunes (USA Today)
Jelli is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Change is coming to online shopping (Redeye VC)

TiVo to Offer Boxes That Go Beyond the Recorder (New York Times)
TiVo Building tru2way Version of New Interface (Light Reading Cable)

Introducing the Video Edge Services Platform (Motorola Blog: Media Experiences 2 Go)

NextGen Health Information Exchange and Doylestown Hospital Recognized as Winners of Microsoft HUG 2010 Innovation Awards (Business Wire)

Blumenthal gets hero's welcome at HIMSS
(ZDNet Blogs)

Federal Reserve
Board: Beige Book-Philadelphia-March 2010 (Federal Reserve Board)




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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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