Comcast/NBCU approval expected tomorrow (Washington Post)

Comcast-NBC merger approval expected Tuesday (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Daily Links 1/17/2011: SAP makes global field organization realignment official

Comcast/NBCU Expected To Gain Approval This Week
(Multichannel News)

SnagFilms Raises $10 Million From Comcast, NEA; Will Expand Beyond Docs
(paidcontent)

Verizon: Level 3's Net-Neutrality Charge Against Comcast Is Specious
Telco Says FCC Intervention Would 'Upset' a Well-Functioning Marketplace (Multichannel News)

SAP Realigns Global Field Organization (PR Newswire)
A confirmation of what was already out there.

Robert Courteau Named President of SAP North America
Assumes Role as Former President Robert Enslin Appointed to Lead Business Software Company's Global Sales (PR Newswire)

Intergraph settles $200M suit with Bentley Systems (Huntsville Times)

5 Big Themes in BI for 2011 (Information
Week)

2010 Achievements and 2011 Outlook: Safeguard Scientifics, Capital Markets, Regulatory Compliance and more (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)

Student Developers Prefer Android at University of Pennsylvania Hackathon [Infographic] (Read Write Web)

Philly Tech People News 1/16/2011

Bentley Names Gus Bergsma as Vice President of New Sales Organization Serving Small and Medium Enterprises Worldwide (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Beyond.com, Inc. Expands Technology Team and Names James Bright as Enterprise Architect (Business Wire)

Knut T. Fenner Joins Datacolor® As Vice President, Imaging Color Solutions (Business Wire)

RES Software Appoints Bill Corrigan as Chief Marketing Officer (Business Wire)

Edison Ventures Announces Three Promotions Following Strong 2010 (pdf) (Press Release)
Two Elevated to Partner and One to Principal

Daily Links 1/14/2011: IMS Health in agreement to acquire SDI, days after Supreme Court agrees to take data privacy case

Digging For Data: IMS Health Buys Rival SDI (Report) (Pharmalot)
Big deal for Pharma market research and Philly area; some job cuts would be expected.
Update: IMS Health issues a statement confirming agreement. Link (pdf)

Supreme Court Health Data Case Could Sway Online Privacy Debate (paidContent)
I'm sure its not a coincidence that the IMS Health-SDI merger was announced just days after the Court agreed to hear the case.

Pending Comcast Deal Muzzles NBC With Reporters (AP via NPR)

News Corp. worries some proposed FCC conditions on Comcast-NBC Universal go too far (LA Times: Company Town)

Level 3 May Test FCC 'Open Internet' Rules In Comcast Fight
Internet Provider Still Balking at Cable Operator's Connection Fees (Multichannel News)

Is An Apps Shakeup Ahead At Microsoft?
To compete in the enterprise with the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com, Microsoft has to take a more direct approach. (Information Week)

Fitch Affirms SunGard Data Systems' IDR at 'B'; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)

Edison Ventures Sells Presidium To Blackboard (PE Hub)

QVC Shoppers Say “No More Facebooking and Tweeting During On-Air Presentations” (CenterNetworks)

Daily Links 1/13/2011: SAP Q4 revenue well ahead of estimates

ERP Investments to Slow in 2011 (PC World)

SAP Announces Record Fourth Quarter 2010 Software Revenue (PR Newswire)
SAP Jumps: Sees Q4 Revenue Ahead Of Estimates (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

(Ex SAP Exec) Doug Merritt tips up as Baynote CEO. What's next? (ZDNet Blogs)

Bank tech spending to hit $132B in 2015, analysts say
Mobile banking technology spending leads industry boom; North American spending expected to reach $50 billion (Computerworld)

Walt Disney Co. has concerns with proposed conditions on Comcast - NBC Universal deal (LA Times: Company Town)

Monetate Targeting eCommerce With Marketing Tech That Does Not Require I.T. Says CEO Brussin (AdExchanger.com)

Portico Systems Strengthens Its Financial Position (Business Wire)

MPC to Open Technology and Electronics Recycling and Processing Facility in Philadelphia (Business Wire)

Charter Media deploys TelVue servers in L.A. (CED Magazine)
TelVue is based in Mt. Laurel. Interesting to see a cable company using its technology in this way.




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Daily Links 1/12/2011: SAP To Focus More On Channel Sales Following Reorganization

Comcast’s Gilford Jumps To ABC As SVP, Digital Media (paidContent)

Comcast Merger Conditions Involve Basic Neutrality Protections
And a requirement that all caps be created equal... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast-NBC merger expected to have net neutrality conditions (Washington Post: Post Tech)

The Buzz from CES 2011 - Trends to Watch (Comcast Voices |Comcast Corporate Blog)

SAP to Acquire Software Security Products and Assets From SECUDE (PR Newswire)

SAP To Focus More On Channel Sales Following Reorganization
(CRN)

HP Wins $30 Million Texas Medicaid Contract
(Information Week)
Solution to be powered by InterComponentWare's eHealth Framework. InterComponentWare's US headquarters are in Wayne.

Ex-Philadelphia mag editor named Philly Daily News editor (Poynter)

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

Daily Links 1/11/2011: Verizon iPhone finally introduced

Verizon iPhone Is Real, Is 3G and Is a Hotspot. (Gigaom)

The Verizon iPhone: What the Web Is Saying (Gigaom)

IPipeline Acquires CRM Provider GaleForce Solutions (Insurance & Technology)

Veeva Systems Launches First Integrated Pharma CRM and CLM Solution Designed for the Apple iPad (PR Newswire)
Announced at Philadelphia press conference this morning.

How to build a tech startup outside of Silicon Valley (VentureBeat)
By Monetate founder David Brussin.

Customer Analytics Initiative Launches at The Wharton School
(PR Newswire)

Calling All Fintech Entrepreneurs (A VC)

Enabled, empowered and inspired – advocating for QlikView (Donald Farmer)

Allurent, not quite dead yet, sells to Jenzabar (Mass High Tech)
Cambridge ecommerce company was funded by GSI Commerce, among others.

HardMetrics Establishes New Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia Suburbs
Continued growth and expansion for operational analytics and business intelligence solutions company fuels establishment of new corporate roots (Business Wire)
Hadn't heard much about these guys in quite a while; wasn't sure what they were up to.

Dupont SAP systems crucial to £3.7bn Danisco acquisition (Computerworld UK)

Eberhart tapped as CDI Corp. chief (Philly.com: Philly Inc)




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Daily Links 1/10/2011: Comcast cuts price of entry-level package 25% in Philly area, but no ESPN

GSI Commerce’s Global Marketing Services Division Acquires ClearSaleing to Expand Offerings in Advertising Analytics and Attribution (Business Wire)

Viridity Energy Raises Series B Financing to Support the Deployment of its Next-Generation Dynamic Demand Management Technology
Braemar Energy Ventures and Intel Capital Join as Investors (Business Wire)

Comcast, Networks Spar Over iPad App (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast cuts cost of entry-level cable package 25 percent (Philadelphia Inquirer)

FCC Has Yet To Vote On Comcast/NBCU
Critics Keep Pushing For Deal Conditions That Commission Has Proposed Okaying (Multichannel News)

Analysts predict SAP trends for 2011 (SearchSAP.com)


Oracle Aims New BI App at SAP Customers (PC World)

Self-service BI, SaaS, real-time analytics will dominate 2011 agenda (Computerworld)

Is Business ByDesign finally turning the corner? (SAP Watch)

CES: Show Rewind
(Multichannel News)

Apps Irk Cable Nets (Mediaweek)

Léo Makes It Official: SAP’s Bill Wohl Joins Hewlett-Packard
(All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)
Bill Wohl, who will be relocating to California, graduated from the University of Delaware and was a member of the West Grove, PA, volunteer fire department for 25 years.