Daily Links 5/25/2010: StarCite teams up with iMeet

IBM makes first acquisition play in five-year plan
Commentary: $20 billion burning a hole in its pocket (MarketWatch)

Sybase CEO Chen Held Out for SAP Offer He ‘Couldn’t Turn Down’ (Bloomberg Business Week)


Icahn Discloses Stake in Lawson Software (DailyFinance)


QlikTech Launches QlikView Labs
Creativity Center Helps Transform Innovative Ideas into Solutions (PR Newswire)

StarCite Announces Online Community Powered by i-Meet (Business Wire)

Farewell to prime time (The Deal)

TiVo Starts Thinking Outside the Box (Light Reading Cable)

Three Give Comcast/NBCU Gubernatorial Thumbs Up
Schwarzenegger, Rendel, Paterson Offer Homestate Support For Union (Multichannel News)

Bloomberg Announces Funding, Calls For Startups in NYC (Read Write Web)

Wi-Fi may be Coming to Phila. Government Operations (KYW Newsradio)

Spyware Installed on Student Laptops Has More Security Problems (Wired: Threat Level)




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Daily Links 5/24/2010: Comcast's Plaxo introduces Tunerfish (sort of)

FCC Seeks More Information From Comcast Over NBCU Union
Commission Wants Data On Internet Video, TV Everywhere, In Demand, FanCast Xfinity (Multichannel News)

Comcast’s Tunerfish Jumps Out Of The Water At #TCDisrupt (TechCrunch)
Comcast Unveils ‘Tunerfish’ Social TV App (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

U.S. Congress to Consider Updating Communications Law
(Bloomberg Business Week)

Razorfish: Local, In-Game, Digital Out-of-Home To Gain In 2010 (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

SAP quiet on its plans for Sybase (Computerworld)

Can SAP Deliver IT Simplicity?
Apps vendor talks real-time; customers hear "removing IT infrastructure." (Information
Week)

Seven Life Sciences Start-ups Receive More than $700,000 in KIZ Tax Credits (Business Wire)

Pace Was World's Top Set-Top Supplier In 2009: Report
Vendor Displaces Motorola, Technicolor, According to IMS Research (Multichannel News)




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Philly Tech Tidbits

Novell, the company best known as a pioneer in local area networks that is now taking bids for a buyout or acquisition, was originally backed by Wayne's Safeguard Scientifics, though reportedly they almost shut the company down when it wasn't doing well back in the early '80s.
O' Reilly's RailsConf 2010 (for the Ruby on Rails community) will be held June 7-10 down the road at the Baltimore Convention Center.
SAP plans to have 12,000 of its 14,000 engineers using agile development methods by the end of the year, according to an article by Bloomberg Business Week.
Ryzing, a yet to launch Philly-based "social gaming" startup, has funding from Conshohocken's SeventySix Capital (formerly ETF Ventures).
Philadelphia's MentorTech Ventures led a $1.1 million Series A funding round for SeniorHomes.com, a Seattle-based online directory and resource for finding senior care or senior housing.
An inaugural Philadelphia meetup for Alfresco, an open source Content Management System (CMS), will be held June 3 at 6:30 at the offices of Zivtech in Philadelphia.

Google/Invite Media rumors heat up again

Peter Kafka of All Things Digital (Wall Street Journal) reports that Google may be close to a deal for Philly/New York-based demand side advertising platform (DSP) Invite Media, which is backed by First Round Capital and Comcast Interactive Capital among others. There had been rumors about this a few months back. Invite Media CEO Nat Turner,who cofounded the company while an undergraduate at Penn, told Kafka by email that "we have not entered into any agreement with any company" which may seem a little short of a complete denial that something might be happening.
Turner tweeted on Friday, "Haven't gotten anything done today, just been playing Pakman on Google's homepage", which was presumably meant as a tongue in cheek response to speculation.

Customers' revenge: Cable providers to play nice (Associated Press
via Google News)

Portfolio Night matches ad execs with the talented (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philly Tech People News 5/23/2010

Lockheed Martin Realigns Commercial Space Systems Structure (PR Newswire)
Joseph M. Rickers named president for Newtown-based Commercial Space Systems.

Scott J. Sprague to Head Integrated Global Sales Force of SES WORLD SKIES (Business Wire)

SaaS CRM expert Ami Assayag Joins SeventySix Capital as Entrepreneur in Residence (Press Release)

Wolters Kluwer Health Announces the Appointment of Susan Driscoll as President & CEO of its Professional & Education Business Unit (PR Newswire)

Razorfish Health adds Alfred O'Neil and Rob Ulliman to executive team (Philly Ad Club News)

Google: FTC clears AdMob deal

Google announced today that the FTC has cleared its $750 million acquistion of AdMob, the mobile advertising network. As previously reported here, AdMob was founded by Omar Hamoui when he was a first year MBA student at the Wharton School, though it is now based in California.
(See Business Week's recent profile of Hamoui.)

Daily Links 5/21/2010: PA AG Corbett drops Twitter subpoena

Corbett assailed over Twitter subpoena (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Update: Pennsylvania AG Dropping Twitter Subpoena (Wired Blogs)

Guide to Google TV’s Ecosystem [Video] (TechCrunch)

FCC Seeks Lots More Data From NBCU
Agency Issues 'Information and Discovery' Request (Multichannel News)


Salesforce.com net slips, even as sales rise 24%
Company's shares tumble more than 7% in late trading (MarketWatch)

Salesforce.com's Benioff likens Microsoft to patent 'alley thug' (ZDNet
Blogs)

SAP Co-CEOs Chart a Bold New Course (Bloomberg Business Week)

QlikView Capitalizes on Mobility and Flaunts Mobile Access to SAP (Ventana Research)

A Second (and Third) Helping of Success (Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs)

Q&A: Mary Pat Donnellon, Mission Research (Keystone Edge)

InterDigital sees 2Q revenue above analyst views (Associated Press via Bloomberg Business Week)

Voxware Reports Third Quarter Results for Fiscal 2010
Revenue Stable, Cost Control Plan Continues to Have Effect (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 5/20/2010: Inquirer to try 3D publishing

Lawmakers rebuff calls to delay Comcast-NBC merger timeline (The Hill)

Comcast To Bring i-Guide To Cisco Boxes
Operator to Extend the IPG to Cisco Markets Starting In June (Multichannel News)


Google’s “smart TV” Platform to Debut Tomorrow
(VentureBeat via New York Times)

Google TV turns on at I/O (Engadget)

Google Moves to TVs With Help From Intel and Sony (New York Times)

PHD Virtual Technologies Announces Citrix Investment
PHD Virtual Announces Joint Investment by Citrix and Insight Venture Partners (PR Web)

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

Philly Inky to do 3-D (Reuters Blogs: MediaFile)
I guess this was Brian Tierney's secret plan to save the company.

QVC Expands Mobile-Commerce Portfolio
Multimedia Retailer to Launch Apps for Android and BlackBerry, Enhanced QVC iPhone App
(PR Newswire)

NBC To Sell Stake In ShopNBC
Shopping Chanel To Drop NBC Name (Multichannel News)

Nuclear energy leader Westinghouse selects GenSight for Project Portfolio Management (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 5/19/2010: FCC brings in satellite exec to lead Comcast review

Attorney General Tom Corbett Subpoenaes Twitter To Identify Anonymous Critics (TechCrunch)
Corbett won the GOP gubernatorial primary yesterday.

US FCC taps satellite exec to manage Comcast review (Reuters)

CSC again wins $500M TSA infrastructure contract (Washington Technology)
Contract award was reevaluated after protest by previous holder Unisys.


Marketing and Mobile Technology – Event Recap (Mobile Mid-Atlantic)

Microsoft files rare patent lawsuit against Salesforce.com (Ars Technica)

Dow Electronic Materials Strengthens Presence in Korea (Business Wire)

Economics of WiFi-based Metropolitan Internet Service Providers
MuniWireless)

Viddler Business profile: Gamervision (The Viddler Blog)

Cloud Computing Entrepreneurs (ScribeMedia.org)

InterDigital and Capital Semiconductor Enter into 3G Technology Transfer Agreement (Business Wire)

Heartland Payment Systems® and MasterCard Agree to $41.4 Million Intrusion Settlement
Company has now reached breach-related settlements with three major card brands (Business Wire)

Digital Signage support the center’s role as an incubator (Digital
Signage Expert)




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Wrapping up: SAPPHIRE 2010

SAP Adds Virtualization To Its Cloud Agenda
Application vendor partners with Cisco, EMC and VMware; plans more services-based apps and a July reintroduction of Business ByDesign. (Information Week)

SAP plots in-memory database pilots, analytics appliance with HP (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Announces In-Memory Analysis Technology
Business Analytic Engine promises business-user-accessible analysis of real-time information. (Information Week)

SAPPHIRE 2010: the wrap (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Sapphire 2010: Observations, News and Tweets (Network World)

Sybase Announces Sybase Mobility Platform (eWeek)




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