Philly Tech People News 4/18/2010
The Franklin Institute Honors The 'Best of the Best'
THE 2010 FRANKLIN INSTITUTE AWARDS
Bill Gates in Philadelphia to receive Franklin Award, Charles Osgood to host sold-out ceremony (PR Newswire)
Aria Systems Appoints Mike Morini Chief Executive Officer
(Business Wire)
GSI Commerce Selects Chris Saridakis as Chief Executive Officer of Marketing Services Segment
Marketing services visionary to lead in newly formed chief executive role; Positions GSI to capture key growth opportunity (Business Wire)
GSI Commerce Appoints Jim MacIntyre to Lead Global E-commerce Technology Business (Business Wire)
Léo Apotheker Joins GT Nexus Board of Directors (Marketwire)
CRM manager Hires Senior VP of Sales and Senior VP of Client Services (PR Newswire)
Klaus Besier Named CEO of RES Software (Business Wire)
Sujit Banerjee Joins Element Partners (PE Hub)
Canoe Hires Analytics Guru
Gerard Broussard Appointed VP, Research and Analytics (Multichannel News)
Canoe Appoints Advisory Board
Industry Consultant Garrity Named Chairman Of Cable Ad Firm's Advisory Group (Multichannel News)
Kaplan EduNeering Announces the Appointment of Two Key Senior Management Positions (Business Wire)
Janney Continues to Deepen Equity Research, Adding Veteran Semiconductor Analyst Nicholas Aberle (Business Wire)
Rutgers School of Business–Camden names new dean (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Director of Information Technology Appointed to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Press Release)
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.
Labels: atebits, Loren Brichter, Tweetie, Twitter
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)
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