Today in Philly Tech History 4/20/1971: Safeguard Scientifics begins trading on NYSE

On April 20, 1971 (42 years ago), Wayne-based Safeguard Scientifics (SFE) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Safeguard has been in fairly unique company most of that time as a publicly listed VC firm.

Two years ago, on the 40th anniversary of its initial trading launch, Safeguard published a special website highlighting 40 facts about its company history.

Safeguard was founded in 1953.




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Daily Links 4/19/2013: SAP misses sales estimates, primarily on Asia

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SAP Software Sales Miss Estimates on Lower Demand in Asia
(Bloomberg)

SAP Co-CEO Upbeat Despite Lower Q1 Results (NASDAQ.com)

SAP co-CEO: Cloud computing business profitable (AP via Miami Herald)

Blackstone bails on Dell (Fortune)

IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash (Ars Technica)

IBM Down 8% on Q1 Miss: Business ‘Resilient,’ Bulls Insist (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Google Fiber Is World-Changing! Or Maybe Not. Or Both! (All Things D)

Shuttered Ad Tech Startup Team Lands at Intel’s Web TV Project (All Things D)

What are Comcast, Samsung and Time Warner Cable cooking up for The Cable Show? (FierceCable)


PHD Virtual Announces 40 Percent Year-Over-Year Growth With 12th Consecutive Record Quarter (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 4/18/2013: Zonoff raises $3.8 million; Mashery looks like good exit for First Round, others

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[Malvern-based]Zonoff gets $3.8M to connect the smart home with super software (Gigaom)

Mashery Sale Looks Promising for First Round, Formative, OpenView, Others (PE Hub)

Arris Unveils New Leadership Team
Former Head of Motorola Home Marwan Fawaz to Exit; Robinson and McClelland Tapped to Lead New Home Devices and Network & Cloud Units (Multichannel News)

Verizon posts gains on mobile, Fios growth (PC World)

Verizon Continues to Build FiOS TV, Internet Subs in Q1
Telco Adds 169,000 Video, 188,000 Broadband Customers in Period (Multichannel News)

Citing security concerns, Dish claims it's a better buyer for Sprint than Japanese carrier Softbank (The Verge)

SAP's first quarter: The key questions (PC World)

Philly Fed Disappoints as Indicators Point to Economic Rut (Reuters via CNBC)

Visit Philly Lets Locals Create Content (ClickZ)




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Daily Links 4/18/2013: Arris closes Motorola Home acquisition; Google Fiber coming to Provo

Arris Seals Up $2.35B Motorola Home Deal
Arris CEO Says Leadership Team of the Newly Combined Company will be Revealed Thursday
(Multichannel News)

Google Fiber coming to Provo's 'Silicon Slopes' (CNET News)
Provo already has fiber backbone, but Google will enhance it.

Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV (Bloomberg)

Montco fires private investment-pickers (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

SAP users win bigger say in software development (ZDNet)

Intel Acquires API Manager Mashery (All Things D)
Investors included OpenView Venture Partners and First Round Capital; Comcast an important
customer.

Daily Links 4/16/2013: Broadcasters ask for new hearing on Aereo; Microsoft takes aim at Amazon Web Services

Public's views to be sought on Philly's Comcast cable pact (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast says the free ride is over for basic cable — encryption is coming (VentureBeat)

Why Aereo Is/Isn’t a Big Deal (Zatz Not Funny!)

Broadcasters Ask for New Hearing in Aereo (Variety)

Microsoft Takes Aim at Amazon With a New Cloud Service
(New York Times: Bits)

Lots of new functionality/little elapsed time: Workday and Adaptive Planning updates (Brian Sommer/ZDNet)

Internet Ad Revenues Again Hit Record-Breaking Double-Digit Annual Growth, Reaching Nearly $37 Billion, a 15% Increase over 2011’s Landmark Numbers (PYMNTS.com)

How Wireless Carriers Monetize Your Movements (Mashable)

University City Science Center Accepting Nominations for Inaugural Innovators Walk of Fame (Business Wire)

Hackathon sponsors make rules developer friendly (Philadelphia Business Journal)

AGI Awarded IEEE Philadelphia Section Corporate Technology Innovation Award
The Company's Software Analyzes the Effects of Wind Farms on Radar Systems (Marketwire)


Efficient IP, SAS (Paris) announces Efficient IP, Americas
Efficient IP, Inc. (EIP Americas) will focus on sales and services throughout the Americas. (PR Newswire)

Daily Links 4/15/2013: Dish offers $25.5 billion for Sprint

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Dish offers $25.5B for Sprint, outbidding Softbank by $5B to become a wireless player (VentureBeat)

Verizon offers Clearwire $1.5 billion for spectrum leases, says WSJ (The Verge)

More Cracks Undermine the Citadel of TV Profits (New York Times)

How a Simple Press Release Reveals AT&T’s Anti-Competition Hypocrisy (Wired)


Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri (All Things D)

Best Practices for SAP HANA Data Loads (John Appleby/SAP Community Network)
Probably more detail than most readers need, but I thought the description of the approach, process, and results was very interesting.

Why the cloud is threatened by unprofitability (USA Today)
Not sure if author truly understands cloud economics, accounting issues, long-term recurring revenue streams.

News organizations protest exclusion from Philadelphia bond meeting (Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Asked what might be said that would be inappropriate for the public to hear, Dubow declined to speculate, saying there wasn't enough space for reporters anyway."
Specious logic. They certainly could have reserved room for a small pool of reporters if
they had chosen to.

Blue Bell company fires CFO due to investigation
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

Government Shouldn’t Be In The Accelerator Business (FeldThoughts)

PANL[Ewing, NJ-based Universal Display]: Low TV Set Opportunity Offsets Mobile, Says Canaccord (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)



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Enterprise 2.0: The science of inside sales (Gigaom)

Mobile CRM Apps To Grow 500% By 2014 As Market Turns With Decline In PC Shipments (TechCrunch)

The eBay Class Of 2000-2005: Where They Are Now And Why We Should Care (TechCrunch)

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Meet Linda Yaccarino -- the Woman Who Has TV's Toughest Sales Job (Ad Age)

UBS Hires SAP’s Oliver Bussmann as Chief Information Officer (Bloomberg)

Former Wired Editor Thomas Goetz Takes EIR Role At Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (TechCrunch)

David Brussin Joins Nomi Board of Directors
Monetate's Founder Joins Nomi's Board to Help Retailers Embrace Omni-channel World
(Marketwire)

PeopleLinx Grows Its Executive Team -- Names Keith Fitzgerald as Chief Technology Officer (PR Newswire)

Poptent’s Parkhill, Razorfish’s Lanctot receive ad:tech SF Industry Achievement Award (Allvoices)


Quintiq launches oil, gas and petrochemical business unit (Quintiq Website)

Former Microsoft Leader Joins Hanu Software (Business Wire)

Swensen Protege to Run Penn’s Endowment as Yale Network Grows (Bloomberg)

Janney Names Andrew Maddaloni Director of Equity Research (Business Wire)



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DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg on CNBC (Video)

Daily Links 4/12/2013: DOJ Clears Arris/Motorola Home deal

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Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service
Trial expected to start in May in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco areas (Network World)

DoJ Clears Arris/Motorola Home Deal
Arris Expects to Close Proposed $2.35 Billion Transaction on or about April 17 (Multichannel News)
Comcast will own a small stake of Arris, along with Google.

Broadcasters counter Aereo with aerial dongles (CED Magazine)

Dish Said to Have Approached Deutsche Telekom About T-Mobile Bid (Bloomberg)

One year later, SAP hasn't blown it with SuccessFactors (Fortune Tech)

UBS Hires SAP’s Oliver Bussmann as Chief Information Officer (Bloomberg)

Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA (PC World)

eBay Hires A VP Of Data To Focus On Personalization Across The Marketplace And Other Properties (TechCrunch)

Intel releases Web-based app programming kit (CNET News)
Based on app development platform it acquired from Lancaster-based appMobi in February.

Rockmelt says goodbye to its social web browser, says hello to Rockmelt for Web (Engadget)
RockMelt is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Lockheed Martin completes design review in GPS III program (phillyBurbs.com)

Back home in PA, at least for now, FastFig enjoys exponential growth (Keystone Edge)




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Daily Links 4/11/2013: Allentown area chip maker CyOptics acquired for $400 million

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Assureweb rebranded iPipeline after acquisition
Rebrand is part of US firm iPipeline’s plan to establish a greater presence in the UK and Europe. (FT Advisor)

Avago Technologies to Acquire CyOptics, a Leading Optical Chip and Component Supplier to the Datacom and Telecom Markets (Globe Newswire)
CyOptics is based in Breinigsville, PA, near Allenown. Avago said it would pay $400 million for CyOptics, and said CyOptics' revenue has more than tripled over the past three years. CyOptics had filed to raise up to $100 million in an IPO but withdrew that a year ago.

Teva is looking for a few good entrepreneurs for a global drug launch platform (Med City News)

Software company wants Philly to be hip to the Jive (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Monetate's Segment Discovery Tool will be Generally Available in Summer 2013 - Live from the Monetate #AgilitySummit (PR Newswire)

Can QlikTech beat SAP, IBM, Oracle? (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
My sense is that Qlik's closest competitors are more often Tableau, Tibco's Spotfire & open source competitors including Pentaho and Jaspersoft, more than what IBM, SAP, Oracle or MSFT offer today. SAP is doing some interesting things in that area around HANA, but not sure if that's produced anything competitive with Qlik yet.

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MSFT Off 5%: Terrible PC Numbers Prompt Thoughts of Breakup, Privatization (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

ORCL, SAP, MSFT, IBM: Nomura Updates ‘In-Memory’ Database Battle (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down big data Appliance (Infoworld)

Ingram Micro to Push SAP Mobility Solutions to SMB Channel Partners (The VAR Guy)

IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data (Gigaom)

Comcast Begins to Connect to Boxee's Cloud DVR (Multichannel News)