Israeli JVP Fund Sells Qlik Holding to Public for $112 Million (Bloomberg)
Returns almost 40x its original investment.

Philly Tech People News 12/5/2010

Social Strategy1 Appoints Steve Ennen as President and Chief Intelligence Officer (Business Wire)

Innovative Microsoft Leader, Anurag Mathur, appointed RDC’s Chief Product Officer
Microsoft, SAP, and Sanchez Computer Associates Veteran to spearhead next wave of RDC Innovation (Business Wire)

MedQuist Names Anthony D. James as Chief Financial Officer
(PR Newswire)

IndependenceIT Prepares for Strong Growth in 2011 With New Sales Hires (Business Wire)

PA-MAPPS Elects New Officers, Creates Committees (Press Release)

SBA Announces Appointment of A. John Shoraka as Administrator for Region III (Business Wire)

Health Benefits Direct Announces Name Change to InsPro Technologies Corporation (OTCBB: ITCC) (Business Wire)

What the Barry Diller-John Malone Split Means (Hollywood Reporter)

GSA picks Google Apps: What it means (ZDNet Blogs)
In deal with Unisys.

IT Beyond the Campus
Drexel University positions itself as an outsourced IT department for smaller colleges. (Campus Technology)
Didn't know Drexel was in the Cloud business.

Wharton Professor’s Winning Streak (Forbes: Scaling Up)
On Wharton professor Len Lodish's recent angel investing successes.

eBay Buys Into College Entrepreneur's Shopping Concept (Portfolio.com)
Wharton "student on leave" sells to eBay for $75 million.

Level 3 Says Comcast's Web-Traffic Fee Is Designed to Protect TV Business (Bloomberg)
Comcast's brief response.

Comcast/NBCU Extend Joint-Venture Agreement For 90 Days
Parties Held Options To Nix Deal, Unless Both Agreed To Longer Span For Government Approvals
(Multichannel News)

Tyco to change name to TE Connectivity (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Platinum Equity Acquires Ulticom (Marketwire)

Search Engine DuckDuckGo Partners With Web of Trust to Help Users Avoid Scam Websites (ReadWriteWeb)

Create Your Own Archive.org with Reed Tech Web Archiving (ReadWriteWeb)
Reed Technology and Information Services is based in Horsham.

Daily Links 12/2/2010: GSA choses Google, Unisys for hosted email

First Hands-On Impressions of Verizon 4G: It’s Fast! (Gigaom)

Clearwire Plans to Sell at Least $1.1 Billion of Debt (Bloomberg)

Motorola Buys Connected Home And Energy Management Software Developer 4Home (TechCrunch)

Motorola eyes home streaming to mobile (Reuters)

Liberty Exits IAC For Evite, Gifts.com And $220M In Cash – Diller Steps Down As CEO (TechCrunch)

US agency chooses Google for hosted e-mail (Computerworld)
The actual contract was awarded to Unisys, which is partnering with Google and others. Although not that large, it is considered an important strategic win for Google.

SAP's HANA goes into ramp up, Accenture partners on Business ByDesign (ZDNet Blogs)

FCC's New Net Neutrality Plan: Has Anything Changed? (PC Magazine)

Cable's $5B Biz Services Bonanza (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast eliminates cable HQ in Montco (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Time Warner digital guru says Netflix will have to raise its prices (VentureBeat)

Wharton MBA conference theme: mobile revolution (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

For Newspapers, the Future Is Now: Digital Must Be First (Gigaom)
On CEO John Paton of the Journal Register group.

Calling All Wall Streeters: NYC’s Got A New FinTech Incubator (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Might be of interest to some of the many Philly-area FinTech people.




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Daily Links 12/1/2010: Verizon LTE available in Philly on December 5

Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)
AppNexus is a First Round Capital portfolio company. Google, of course, acquired another demand-side platform (DSP) for display advertising, Invite Media, which was also backed by First Round.

A Reflection On Boomi (Just Getting Started)
Amish Jani of VC firm FirstMark Capital reflects on its successful investment in Berwyn's Boomi, recently acquired by Dell. One thing Jani reveals is that FirstMark apparently made a second investment in Boomi after its initial $4 million investment in 2008, although no specifics about how much and when.

Why Does Everyone Hate Comcast?
(Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

The Real Story Behind the Comcast-Level 3 Battle (Gigaom)

F.C.C. Chairman Outlines Broadband Framework (New York Times)

The Perfect, the Good, and the FCC (Werblog)
By Wharton prof Kevin Werbach.

FCC chief backs some rationing of Internet traffic (Reuters)

FCC chair's net neutrality push faces uphill battle (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Verizon to launch 4G wireless network December 5 (CNET News)
Philadelphia will be one of those areas covered as of December 5, according to Verizon's press release.

SAP Launches HANA for In-memory Analytics (PC World)

Motorola to break into 2 on Jan. 4 (AP via Google News)

U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book: Philadelphia District (Bloomberg)




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Daily Links 11/30/2010: Level 3/Comcast debate continues

Level 3: Comcast Erected Web Video 'Toll Booth' (Light Reading Cable)

What The Comcast/Level 3 Fracas Is Really About: Money (TechCrunch)

Level 3: Comcast Doesn't Have Right To Set Pricing For Network Access
Backbone Internet Provider Asserts the Dispute Is Not Over Peering Terms (Multichannel News)

A Play by Play on the Comcast and Level 3 Spat (Gigaom)

Did Level 3 Know What It Was Getting Into? (Light Reading Cable)

Zoom Complaint Targets Comcast Modem Cert Process
Vendor Asserts MSO's Process Discourages Retail Sales of Modems (Multichannel News)

MyYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat (TechCrunch)

Job losses as Motorola Home EMEA restructures (Broadband TV News)
Don't know yet whether this is also going to happen at Motorola Home in Horsham.

MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present and Future of Location Tech [INTERVIEW] (Mashable)
Interesting interview with Barry Glick, who started MapQuest as a cartograhpic service of RR Donnelley in Lancaster.


SAP's Hana Speeds the Database Race
The German company's new software takes aim at the emerging market for pre-integrated hardware-software "appliances" (Bloomberg Business Week)

SAP Delivers on Road Map to Build On-Demand Ecosystem, Signs on First Solution Resellers for SAP Business ByDesign (PR Newswire)

With Oracle-SAP trial over, third-party maintenance questions remain (SearchSAP.com)

Level 3 blasts new Comcast traffic charges

Level 3 Denounces Comcast 'Toll' On Internet Traffic (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
This is an interesting story, though I think more info is needed to understand what its really all about. The Level 3 press release is very vague. I'm guessing it might have something to do with Netflix-type streaming traffic (Level 3 recently signed a distribution deal with Netflix).

Comcast Puts Tollbooth on Net Video, Says Backbone Provider
(Wired Blogs: Epicenter)
Level 3 may be using the "net neutrality" card in what might just be a normal fee dispute between
Internet traffic carriers.

Comcast responds.

Daily Links 11/29/2010: Comcast outage hits Boston, Baltimore, Washington

Comcast Outage Hits Boston, East-coast Cities (PC World)


Meet the Un-Mogul Reinventing TV
Steve Burke Will Decide What You See and How You'll See It -- and Change the Ad Model in the Process (Ad Age)

Web companies close ranks to oppose merger of NBC Universal, Comcast (The Hill: Hillicon Valley)

Microsoft eyes leap back into TV: sources (Reuters)

E-commerce gets a boost as online deals spread (Reuters)

Wolters Kluwer Health Reaches Agreement to Acquire Pharmacy OneSource (PR Newswire)

Thomson Reuters Acquires GeneGo (PR Newswire)

SAP co-CEO on how the company is taking inspiration from the gaming world
Jim Hagemann Snabe on SAP's hybrid approach and the search for "visible joy" (Silicon.com)

The tiny firm Oracle hates (Fortune)

PointRoll finds new home (Philadelphia Business Journal:
Real Estate Blog)

Happy Cog Studios Named Design Agency of the Year (PR Newswire)

CloudBees collects $4 million from Matrix Partners (Boston Globe)
One of the investors in CloudBees is Philly-area entrepreneur/angel Bob Bickel, who blogs about it here.




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SAS: It's a family affair (Computer Business Review)

SAP Hopes to Cut $1.3 Billion Oracle Fine, Euro am Sonntag Says
(Bloomberg)

Black Friday Sales Figures Soar for Online Retailers (Mashable)

Siemens Healthcare Receives 2011/2012 ONC-ATCB Certification for Complete EHRs and EHR Modules (PR Newswire)

SAP at a crossroads after losing $1.3B verdict
(AP via Google News)

Oracle ruling slams SAP's reputation (Reuters)

SAP moving forward with Business ByDesign (V3.co.uk)

Montage and Yottalook Combine Forces to Transform the Future of Radiology Search and Analytics
Montage signs letter of intent to purchase radiology's most popular Internet search engine.
(PR Newswire)

Moggle, Inc. Raises $2 Million in Equity Financing (Business Wire)

Res Software undergoes rebranding and new distribution agreement (IT Business Canada)

For $55, What Kind of LTE Experience Does MetroPCS Deliver? (Gigaom)