Daily Links 12/22/2010: Comcast: Merger approval process to go into 2011

Airgas Board Rejects Air Products Bid (New York Times: DealBook)

SAP Pays Oracle $120 Million For Legal Costs (Dow Jones via NASDAQ.com)
A small downpayment on an enormous Christmas present.

Comcast-NBCU Tell Staffs Deal Won’t Close This Year (paidContent)

Comcast Could Add TV Apps With New DVRs (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Comcast's 'Xfinity' Brand to Take Over the House (Light Readng Cable)

Confirmed: Motorola Mobility Acquires Cloud Storage Startup Zecter (TechCrunch)

The Really Big Screen
Video as an architectural element. (Slate)
On The Comcast Experience at The Comcast Center.

Update: Teradata to buy marketing vendor Aprimo for $525M (Computerworld)

Dell to Acquire Medical Archiving Company InSite One (Bloomberg)

Analysis - Software M&A hots up as firms battle budget squeeze (Reuters UK)



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FCC narrowly approves net neutrality rules (and debate from both sides rages on)

FCC passes first net neutrality rules (Washington Post: Post Tech)

FCC Votes on Rules for the Open Internet (Comcast Voices|Comcast Corporate Blog)

Free Press, Public Knowledge Hammer Net Neutrality Decision
Dish, Open Internet Coalition Respond More Favorably (Multichannel News)

FCC Pushes Through Net Neutrality—And Draws Fire From Right And Left (paidContent)

Daily Links 12/21/2010: Verizon Offers FiOS for Business

SAP in another exec reshuffle
Three vice presidents to leave as company insists changes are 'routine' (Computerworld UK)

Comcast’s On Demand Service Hit 18 Billion Total Views This Year (TechCrunch)

Hulu IPO on hold (for now) (LA Times: Company Town)
The End Of Hulu As We Know It (And Comcast Feels Fine) (paidContent)

Pace Powers Comcast's 'Xfinity Spectrum' Net-Enabled TV Trial
FCC Documents Provide Details on 'Parker' DVR Set-Top (Multichannel News)

Verizon Offers FiOS for Business (Light Reading Cable)

S.E.C. Is Investigating Hurd’s Departure as Chief of H.P (New York Times)

Acquisitions Cap Hot Year for HR Apps (Information Week)

Service Providers Hold Key to Mobile VoIP Future (TMCnet.com)




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Daily Links 12/20/2010: FCC expected to approve net neutrality regs

Poptent Hits $1 Million in Video Ad Payouts (MediaPost News)

Qualcomm Shutters FLO TV, Sells AT&T The Spectrum for $1.9 Billion (Gigaom)

Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews (New York Times)

FCC expected to pass net neutrality rule (Washington Post: Post Tech)

The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom (Wall Street Journal)
Opinion piece by Robert M. McDowell, Republican commissioner of the FCC.

Level 3 Escalates Dispute With Comcast, Tries To Block NBCU Merger (paidContent)

DirecTV Enlists SMG To Sell Addressable Ads For 10 Million Subs
Agency Has Committed to Spend Up to $20 Million on Service in 2011 (Multichannel News)

Web Startup AboutOne.com Announces Public Beta Release and Program to Support On-Ramping Mothers (PR Newswire)
Not the same thing as About.Me, which AOL just acquired today.

Vantage Communications Acquires Hosted VoIP Provider Digital Ingenuity (PR Web)

Big Pharma's small voice
Out of fear of federal regulation, drug companies shun social media (Wilmington News Journal)

Why I Started Alphabuyer (Alphabuyer Blog)
Alphhabuyer is a group buying website based in Paoli that just launched.

Princeton and iOS DHCP still not getting along (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Mourning the loss of a leader (Daily Local News)

Philly Tech People News 12/19/2010

CardioNet, Inc. Appoints Daniel Wisniewski Senior Vice President, Business Operations (Business Wire)

Comcast Taps Jenckes As SVP Video, Entertainment
Former AOL Exec Takes Over for Derek Harrar (Multichannel News)

Shooters Launches ShootersNYC
Former BOND Founder/Creative Director Jeff Beckerman Will Lead New Division As Managing Director/Executive Producer (Philly Ad Club News)

Protecting the Internet (New York Times Editorial)

Would 'Real' Network Neutrality Outlaw CDNs?
(Multichannel News)

Gain Capital Holdings, with local VC backing, floats IPO

Bedminister, NJ based Gain Capital Holdings, which provides a foreign exchange trading platform, went public earlier this week at $9 per share, well below the $13 to $15 per share range initially anticipated. Two area VC firms had invested in Gain; Edison Ventures of Lawrenceville, NJ, which reports an 18x return on its shares sold in the offering (pdf), and Cross Atlantic Capital Partners of Radnor.

Gain Capital shares closed yesterday at $8.65.

Daily Links 12/17/2010: Comcast/Level 3 dispute continues

Cephalon CEO, Founder Frank Baldino Dies on Medical Leave, Drugmaker Says (Bloomberg)

Larry to HP and IBM: We’re Coming for Your Server Customers (All Things Digital)

Oracle tops Street views as sales rise 47%
Software giant sees sharp gain in new license sales, shares up 4% (MarketWatch)

SAP Shares Up On Possible Qatar Move And Strong Oracle Earnings (Dow Jones via NASDAQ.com)

FCC may move on Comcast-NBC review (Politico)

TV's future: FCC decisions on Internet access, Comcast-NBC merger approaching (Washington Post)

Comcast-NBC deal gets backing of NAACP and other civil rights groups (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast: Level 3 Balks at Trial Offer
(Light Reading Cable)

Stanley Black & Decker To Buy InfoLogix (Information Week)

Daily Links 12/16/2010: SAP buys German maker of XBRL tools

InfoLogix to Be Acquired by Stanley Black & Decker for $61.2 Million (Business Wire)
Price more than double InfoLogix' Wednesday closing price.
InfoLogix to be sold to Stanley, Horsham office and jobs will remain (Philadelphia Business Journal)


SAP buys German maker of XBRL tools (Computerworld)

Philadelphia Manufacturing Expands by Most Since 2005 (Bloomberg)
Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey

First Round Capital's Amazing Holiday Video (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast/NBCU: No Basis For Online Conditions
Online Access Conditions Still Expected In FCC Decision On Deal (Multichannel News)

Writers on E! and other Comcast cable networks vote for guild representation (LA Times: Company Town)

Comcast completes Phila. cable upgrade (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Tune Your TV from Your Computer with XfinityTV
(Comcast Voices /Comcast Corporate Blog)

Oracle FYQ2 Beats; Rev $8.6B, EPS $.51 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Oracle Cloud Office Takes Aim At Microsoft, Google
(Information Week)

NextGen Healthcare Secures Agreement with Renowned Ophthalmology Institution (Business Wire)

Alteva's Local Anywhere: A new twist on hosted VoIP. (VoIPPlanet)

Personal Computer Alternative, Telikin Unveiled at CES (Business Wire)




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Uwchlan to abandon portion of Township Line Road (Daily Local News)
For Bentley Systems headquarters expansion.

The Realignment of the Enterprise Software Market: Oracle vs. Everyone, Microsoft in Ascendance, and Watch out for Infor (Enterprise Matters)

Oracle Secures Number One Spot in IDC Health Insights Top 10 Life Science Software Vendor List for Second Year in a Row (Business Wire)

What's Inside Comcast's Parker Box? (Light Reading Cable)

Net neutrality expected to pass, investment analyst says (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast: Restructuring likely will not result in any lost jobs (The Times Herald)

Siemens to Sell I.T. Unit to Atos for $1.1 Billion (New York Times: DealBook)

Secondaries are primary for recent IPOs (Inorganic Growth)

Former Executives of the Keane Organization Launch New Retirement Plan & Risk Management Venture (Business Wire)