Philly Tech People News 11/15/2010

From Swedish Startup to Software Success Story: QlikTech Lars Björk Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Winner in the Technology Category (PR Newswire)

Halfpenny Technologies Appoints Chief Medical Information Officer (Business Wire)

Apollo Health Street Welcomes Sales Veteran as New Vice President (Business Wire)

LLR Partners Adds Industry Veterans Frank Filipps and William Jacobs to Financial Services Advisory Board (Business Wire)

Consumer 10.0: NBCU takeover only one of Comcast's fights
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

More Value Await ValueVision in Comcast's Hands (Seeking Alpha)

DIY 'Hackers' Tinker Everyday Things Into Treasure (NPR)
Highlights Philly's Hive 76.

SAP expects its co-CEO to testify (Reuters)

Tensions Rise Over Damages at Oracle-SAP Trial (PC World)

Why Did Urban Outfitters Redesign Its Website? (Styleite)

Daily Links 11/12/2010: Oracle May Not Show Apotheker Testimony, Lawyer Says

InterDigital Sees Q4 Revs Above Ests; Notes Loss Of Customer (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

PIC, Greenlink Merge, Boon To Local TV Advertisers (MediaPost: Media Daily News)
GreenLink Networks, based in Wayne, raised $3.5 million last year from Guggenheim Venture Partners and others.

Comcast prepared to give Ted Harbert big NBC job (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast’s Tunerfish social TV app gets a new face (VentureBeat)

Comcast: Google TV Isn't Compatible With Our 'TV Everywhere' Service
Separately, Hulu Video on MSO's Fancast Site Being Blocked for Business Reasons (Multichannel News)

MedQuist Reports Third Quarter 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

Skyfiber Completes Successful Philadelphia Port Biometric Trial With ePortation (PR Web)

Welcome To The Wild West Of Venture Capital (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Comments largely echoed by Fred Wilson in his A VC post today.

Oracle May Not Show Apotheker Testimony, Lawyer Says (Bloomberg)

BlogWell 2010: SAP’s Social Media Strategy (SAP Web 2.0)

First Round’s Charlie O’Donnell on What’s Right/Wrong with NY Tech Scene (PE Hub)




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Another Area Cloud Startup: Freedom OSS

While one Philly-area cloud computing vendor was just acquired by a major corporation (Boomi by Dell), another interesting cloud startup may be emerging. Newtown-based Freedom OSS provides Integrated Cloud Service Management to companies with an emphasis on maintaing security and compliance. They are doing some interesting things; they are a partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and will be presenting with AWS CTO Werner Vogels in Chicago on November 16. One of the subjects covered there will be on how Lionsgate Entertainment migrated its SAP applications to a cloud enviornment using Freedom OSS' services.

Daily Links 11/11/2010: Is Hulu The OPEC Of Online Video?

Report: NBC’s Jeff Gaspin Out In The Comcast Reshuffling (Forbes: Moneywood)

Internet TV battles come to head at FCC (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Why Hulu Is The OPEC Of Online Video
(TechCrunch)

Verizon FiOS Launches Free Flex View Service (PC Magazine)

H-P’s new CEO spotted by employees
But he is staying far, far away from Silicon Valley (MarketWatch)

SAP hopes to make users’ work easier with better UI designs (SearchSAP.com)

Quintiq Expands in North America, Opens 2nd U.S. Office in San Francisco (PR Newswire)
Quintiq's North American headquarters are in Wayne.

Rembrandt IP sues Seagate, Western Digital (AP via Business Week)
Rembrandt IP, of Bala Cynwyd, is considered by some to be a "patent troll".

Cisco's Cable Sales Get Hammered
Set-Top Sales in North America Drop 40% Year-Over-Year (Multichannel News)
Interesting that Cisco's cable business is getting hammered even as Motorola's comparable business seems to be recovering somewhat.
Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett's view.


A Conversation with QlikView Architect Håkan Wolgé (The QlikView Blog)

The Busiest Woman in Philly: Roz Duffy Puts Innovation on Two Stages in November (Keystone Edge)

UniTek Global Services Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Its Common Stock and Commencement of Trading on the NASDAQ Global Market (Marketwire)




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Daily Links 11/10/2010: Court knocks $500 million off potential damages in SAP/Oracle trial

SAP: Court lops $500M off Oracle's potential damages (Computerworld)

New COMCAST-NBCU Organization Nov. 15 (Deadline Hollywood)

Comcast Faces Government Questions on Online Video in NBC Universal Deal (Bloomberg)

Hulu CEO: We’ll make $240M in 2010 (VentureBeat)

Uwchlan supervisors oppose road closure (Daily Local News)
Bentley Systems wants it closed for its headquarters expansion.

Apple Writer John Gruber: That White iPhone I Tweeted About Was A Toy (Silicon Alley Insider)

Ask.com to Return to Old Service (New York Times)
Shutting down its Edison, NJ office.

USA Technologies, Inc. Reports Results for Fiscal 2011 First Quarter
Company on Track to Achieve over 100,000 Connections by December 31, 2010 and Anticipates being EBITDA Positive for quarter ending December 31, 2010 (Business Wire)

Oracle and ATG Redux (Enterprise Irregulars)

TelcoTV 2010: Future of TV Is Tablets, Moto Says (Light Reading)




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SAP Attorney: Board Knew TomorrowNow Was Infringing at Time of Acquisition (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)

SAP grills Oracle as Apotheker absent from trial (Reuters)

Where the rubber hits the road for Sales 2.0 (Computerworld Blogs)

City Hall: Costs triple, implementation delayed, features missing for Portland's $47.4 million software system (The Oregonian)
Another troubled muni SAP implementation, though no one seems to be pointing fingers at SAP.

Google and VivaKi Extend Partnership (New York Times: Media Decoder)
Building new ad-buying platform based on Invite Media's technology.

The Franklin Institute Announces the 2011 Franklin Institute Laureates (PR Newswire)

CardioNet, Inc. and MedApps, Inc. Partner to Expand Wireless Medicine
(Business Wire)

Archer Group opens Phila. office (Philadelphia Business Journal)

DailyCandy Wants To Make ‘Deals’ With Local Marketers (paidContent)

Comcast Debuts VOD Search
Feature Arrives in Motorola Footprint; Tru2way Guide for Cisco Markets Set for First Half of 2011 (Multichannel News)

U.S. web sales outpace total sales for QVC in Q3
Domestic web sales grew 18.2% and accounted for 30.9% of sales in the latest quarter. (Internet Retailer)

Daily Links 11/8/2010: Ellison testifies in SAP/Oracle trial

Larry Ellison says SAP's actions cost Oracle as much as $4 billion (San Jose Mercury News)

Comcast 'RNG' Set-Tops Have IPTV Potential (Light Reading Cable)

Go back to the future
When the Astros and Rockets launch their channel, it likely will remind viewers of HSE
(Houston Chronicle)

Senator cites Olbermann suspension in opposition to NBCU-Comcast deal (Politico: On Media)

NetSuite's big target: Microsoft Dynamics and its 'fake cloud' (ZDNet Blogs)

Confirmed: Amazon Spends $545 Million On Diapers.com Parent Quidsi (TechCrunch)

MDA Lending Solutions Part of TPG Capital Acquisition of MDA Property Information Businesses (Business Wire)

CardioNet, Inc. Announces Definitive Merger Agreement with Biotel, Inc. (Business Wire)
CardioNet, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Safeguard Scientifics Partner Company Avid Radiopharmaceuticals to Be Acquired by Eli Lilly
Sale of Molecular Imaging Agents Developer Expected to Generate Minimum 3x Cash-on-Cash Return for Safeguard (Business Wire)

Technitrol Announces Name Change to Pulse Electronics Corporation
Company to Change Ticker Symbol to “PULS” as of November 15, 2010
Company Poised to Advance its Position as Pure-Play Electronic Components Business (Business Wire)
Pulse Electronics Corporation Reports Strong Third Quarter Results (Business Wire)

PhillyInc: Checkpoint checks in to Philadelphia (Philly.com)

WEP Early Success Story: Nat Turner of Invite Media (Video: Wharton Entrpreneurial Programs)





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Compounding a Conflict of Interest (New York Times)

ESPN Suits Up for NHL Rights Brawl (MediaWeek)

Philly Tech People News 11/8/2010

GSI Commerce Elects David Rosenblatt to its Board of Directors
(Business Wire)

FTC names Princeton computer security expert as first chief technologist (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Code for America taps two with Phila. ties (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)


Anexinet Hires Joe Romello as Vice President of Delivery (Business Wire)

RES Software Appoints Chris Hammans as Director of Business Development, Strategic Alliances, EMEA (Business Wire)