Tweetie's Philadelphia roots

iPhone/Mac Twitter client app Tweetie, acquired last week by Twitter, was apparently started in Philadelphia by Loren Brichter - well, he was living here for a while anyway. A native New Yorker, Tufts graduate, and former Apple employee, Brichter wlll be joining Twitter, which probably means he'll be heading to California.
His company, atebits, was more or less a one-person shop, as I understand it. Twitter will re-release "Tweetie" as "Twitter for iPhone" and eliminate the $2.99 price. No word on how much Twitter paid to buy the app.

SAP, Other ERP Applications At Risk Of Targeted Attacks (Dark Reading)

Oracle buying Phase Forward for $17 a share (MarketWatch)
Continues to expand footprint in healthcare/life sciences IT.


MedQuist Wins Bidding for Spheris (Health Data Management)

1,000s of Web cam images, suit says
A motion in the L. Merion case also said school staff, watching, told of loving the "little . . . soap opera." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NBC Universal posts mixed Q1 (The Hollywood Reporter)

US FCC awaits economic data from Comcast, NBCU
* Extends deadline until 45 days after more data filed (Reuters)

Comcast Critic Calls For Boycott Of P2P Settlement
Oregon's Robb Topolski Urges Users to Decline $16 to 'Send a Strong Message' (Multichannel News)

AppFirst Launches First SaaS-Based Application Performance Monitoring Solution for Entire Application (Business Wire)
Funded by First Round Capital.

Khosla And RRE Lead $16.2 Million Series C In Xobni (TechCrunch)
Early backer First Round Capital participates again.


Philadelphia Newspapers, Lenders Continue To Clash In Court (Wall Street Journal: Bankruptcy Beat)



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Daily Links 4/15/2010: XIPWIRE launches mobile payment service in Philadelphia

XIPWIRE Launches Mobile Payment Service; Simple and Secure Text-to-Pay Technology is First of Its Kind in Philadelphia
- Free Until 2011, XIPWIRE Users Can Experience the Convenience of a Mobile Wallet -
(Business Wire)

April 2010 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia)

Biden sees technological 'resurrection' in Bethlehem (Allentown Morning Call)

Consumer Group Slams Frontier's New Overcharging Scheme
"Completely divorced from the underlying economics..." (Broadband Reports)

Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable Strike Wi-Fi Pact
Customers of any three can now roam all three's Wi-Fi hotspots, free (Broadband Reports)

FCC To Address Set-Top Boxes, CableCard at April 21 Meeting
Commission Seeks Rule Changes to Spur Set-Top Retail Market (Multichannel News)

GSI Commerce Enters Strategic Software Distribution Agreement and Purchases Minority Interest in German E-commerce Software Company, Intershop Communications AG (Business Wire)

SEI Selected by Wells Fargo to Provide Processing for Wealth Management and Institutional Retirement Businesses (PR Newswire)

NewSpring Capital invests in Exegy (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Pennsylvania Senate to consider tough ticket resale law that bans 'bot' software (TicketNews)




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Daily Links 4/14/2010: Kulicke & Soffa stock soars on increased revenue results

Kulicke & Soffa Sees FY Q2, Q3 Revenues Above Street Ests (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Stock price up almost 20% today.

Biden coming to Bethlehem (Allentown Morning Call)
Will announce funding to expand Ben Franklin Technology Partners incubator there.

SAP to appoint first woman to top management-report (Reuters)

Will SAP Become More Acquisitive? New Strategy for Procurement and the Supply Chain (Part 2) (Spend Matters)

Twitter, SAP, pull, polymaths and John Hagel (ZDNet Blogs)

Consumer Tech to Enterprise Tech (Enterprise Irregulars)
Presentation given at Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conferencen in Philly last
week.

Ex-Gannett Digital Exec Saridakis Named CEO Of GSI Commerce Marketing Unit
(paidContent)

IT firm targets Longbridge as its European base (Birmingham Post)
Devon IT expands in Europe.

Live: Senate Net Neutrality Hearing Starring FCC’s Genachowski (paidContent)

Justice Dept. fully investigating Comcast-NBC merger, AG Holder tells Franken (MinnPost.com)
I guess Al never got over NBC cancelling his show.

Verizon and Motorola to Trial Energy-Efficient Set-Top Box With Double the Storage Capacity for Digital Video Recordings (PR Newswire)

Federal Reserve
Board Beige Book: Third District--Philadelphia; April 14, 2010




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Daily Links 4/13/2010: Philly Daily News to launch weekend edition in October

Twitter Starts Advertising Service in Bid to Boost Revenue (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Philly Daily News to launch weekend edition in October (Poynter Online: Romenesko)

Policy Watch: Will the FCC Declare War? (Light Reading Cable)

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski delivers tough love to broadcasters (LA Times: Company Blog)

Opinion: Eshoo: FCC already has the power to regulate free, open Internet (San Jose Mercury News)

An Internet for Everybody (New York Times Op-Ed: Susan Crawford)

Lockheed Martin Completes First Live Tracking Exercise With New Multi-Mission, Open Architecture Aegis Signal Processor (PR Newswire)

SAP Shuffles Management Board Responsibilities, FTD Reports (Bloomberg)

Ex-SAP CEO Apotheker joins U.S. software firm (Reuters)

EDSA, Viridity Energy Announce Ground-Breaking Collaborative Technology Effort for UC San Diego Microgrid Effort (Business
Wire)

WorkSmart Acquires 2 Firms in 12 Months (PR Newswire)

Communications firm to set up shop in Lower Makefield (PhillyBurbs.com)

iPad in Healthcare: A Roundup (Medgadget)

Allscripts and dbMotion Selected by Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson University Physicians to Provide HIE for Advancing Patient Centered Medical Home (PR Newswire)

Neurobiology and Video Compression (Media Experiences 2 Go)




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Daily Links 4/12/2010: QlikTech intros iPad app

Defending the Papers He Fought (New York Times: Media Equation)

Newspaper gambles on online gambling (CNET News)

Will SAP Become More Acquisitive? New Strategy for Procurement and the Supply Chain (Part 1) (Spend Matters)

SAP Gives Software Developers Job Guarantee Until End-2014
(Dow Jones via Easy Bourse)

QlikView for iPad Sets New Standard for Tablet-Based, Interactive Business Intelligence Software (PR Newswire)

SAS Seeks to Improve Data Mining of Social Media (New York Times: Bits)

VMware, Salesforce.com eye partnership; Virtualization as a service? (ZDNet Blogs)

NYC is a great place for deals (Way Too Early)

Comcast Completes DOCSIS 3.0 Upgrades In California
80% of the company's footprint now sees 50 Mbps... (Broadband Reports)

Motorola Introduces Innovative 3D TV Set-Tops for Cable
Advanced processing within set-top portfolio significantly enhances the consumer's 3D experience (PR Newswire)

Emtec Acquires Software Consulting Company, SARK Infotech (Business Wire)




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Philly Tech People News 4/11/2010

AirClic Appoints Rick Pontin as CEO (PR Newswire)

Marketing Optimization Thought-Leader, Scott Samios, Joins Monetate Executive Team (PR Newswire)

CRF Health Appoints Gregg Jewett Senior Director of Strategic Alliances and Partnerships (PR Newswire)

NHPN Appoints Michael Forese President and Chief Operating Officer (Business Wire)

Datacolor® Names Tae Park as Chief Technology Officer
Former PMI/Covidien Executive to Drive Company’s Technology Vision and Ongoing Commitment to Innovative Color Management (Business Wire)

e5 Solutions Names Treasury & Financial Services Industry Veteran Blaise Scioli Manager of Software Products (PR.com)

Campus Philly leader Herrmann making career move, leaving in June (Philadelphia Business
Journal)

InfoLogix Announces Appointment of Melvin L. Keating to Board of Directors (PR Newswire)

myYearbook’s Chatter Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion Page Views A Month (TechCrunch)

DEMO tour: East Coast tech startup community is abuzz (VentureBeat)
Somehow managed to skip over Philly.

Ovation Announces Partnership With Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (PR Newswire)

Daily Links 4/9/2010: Accenture sees ERP deals up

Burke Snags $34 Million In 2009 Compensation
Comcast COO Pay Rose 50% Last Year (Multichannel News)

Raze the mystery house
America needs clearer laws to regulate internet access (The Economist)


FCC Shrugs Off Comcast Loss, Moves Forward On Broadband Plan
Luckily For FCC, Much Of The Plan Sets The Bar Low (Broadband Reports)

Accenture: ERP, systems integration deals coming back (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP users see benefits to upgrades (Computerworld)

NextDocs Announces New Clinical Collaboration Portal
Version 3.7 Product Helps Life Sciences Organizations Manage Clinical Trials, Support External Collaboration (Business Wire)

Microsoft's man in Malvern (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

BioClinica Launches WebSend and Creates Efficiencies for Clinical Trial Imaging Delivery
Transfers Clinical Trial Images and Tracks Status Via the Internet (Business Wire)

HIStalk Mobile Interviews Scott Storrer (HIStalk)
Scott Storrer is President and CEO of MEDecision of Wayne.

Software's future breaks through the “clouds”
Cloud computing will solve procurement's IT infrastructure woes, and social media will improve collaboration, bidding, training and negotiations. (Purchasing.com)

Frustrations With Cloud Computing Mount (IDG via New York
Times)




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Daily Links 4/8/2010: GoodCompany Ventures accepting applications

Mistras Achieves Strong Revenue Growth and Increased Profitability in Third Quarter of Fiscal 2010
(Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Wounds of layoff remain fresh for Bentley Systems' CEO (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Is QlikTech a Billion-Dollar Baby? (Seeking Alpha)

AMETEK Acquires Imago Scientific Instruments
Acquisition Adds to AMETEK's High-End Elemental Analysis Capabilities (PR Newswire)

Verizon CEO: Studies be damned, US is tops in broadband (Ars Technica)

GoodCompany Ventures: Call for Applications
GoodCompany Ventures is now accepting applications for the Summer 2010 program (CSRwire.com)

Podcast session with Boomi (ebizQ: Cloud Computing Insights)

NetSuite rolling out 'codeless' customization tool
The vendor is making a run at SAP's Business ByDesign with a new business-process tweaking kit (Network World)

Oracle: Janney Launches Coverage With Buy Rating, $32 Target
(Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Appeals Court: Let the Auction of Philly Newspapers Begin
(Editor & Publisher)

Insider Tells Us Comcast Will Shake Up Speed Tiers This Year
Xfinity rebranding means a market gets 12/2, 20/4, 50/10, 100/25 Mbps tiers (Broadband Reports)

FiOS TV Adds Comcast Network In Philly, N.J. Regions
Network Presents Selects Phillies, Flyers, Sixers Contests (Multichannel News)

Drexel University Advanced Energy Leadership Conference Spotlights Future of Smart Grid, Energy Management and Sustainability in Mid-Atlantic Region (Business Wire)




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