Links 12/2/2013: Comcast testing new ad tech; Luukko resigns from Comcast-Spectacor

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Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet (Ars Technica)

Comcast tests new ad tech to help networks capture binge viewers (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)

Luukko out as president of Comcast-Spectacor (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Luukko resigns from Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor (CSN Philly)


QVC chief bullish about Cyber Monday (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Digital wallets: Paypal, Amazon, and credit cards are top contenders (not Apple, Google) (VentureBeat)

QlikView.Next rollout is around the corner (Ovum)
New release critical to Radnor company's future.

Bentley Systems embraces the cloud (AEC Magazine)


Cognizant to Hire 10,000 U.S. Workers (Bloomberg)

Fund Helps Student Start-Up Test 'Blue Books' of the Future (Chronicle of Higher Education)
A First Round Capital Dorm Room Fund venture at Penn.

E La Carte Scores Deal With Applebee’s, Bringing 100,000 Tableside Tablets To All U.S. Locations By Year-End 2014 (TechCrunch)




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US 1 reports on Rosetta founder Chris Kuenne's new PE firm, Rosemark Capital Group

Tom Paine

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Chris Kuenne (Rosemark Capital website)

US 1, a relatively small newspaper and website covering the Princeton area, produces some very good business coverage. One article from October by Barbara Figge Fox is on Rosetta founder Chris Kuenne and the new private equity firm he founded located on Nassau Street in Princeton, Rosemark Capital Group. Kuenne built Rosetta, an interactive marketing and strategy firm, into the largest independent agency in the US before selling it to Publicis for $575 million in 2011.

Among other things, the article gives a lot more detail than I've seen before about Kuenne's business and personal history, and the story behind building Rosetta. Kuenne, who is still supporting the management transition at Rosetta and teaching high tech entrepreneurship at Princeton (his alma mater, where his father also taught), Fox reports, started Rosemark with general partners Paul Gilbert (CEO of MedAvante) and Seamus McMahon. Kenneth Traub, co-founder of Hamilton-based Voxware and former CEO of American Bank Note Holographics, is also on board. Kuenne will cover sales and marketing, Gilbert healthcare, Traub verticals, technology and business services, and McMahon financial services.

Rosemark will focus on investing in companies with intellectual property (IP) that is enabled by technology, and hands-on support and expertise is very much part of the package. Rosemark had nine people on board as of October and expects to be adding more. It will target companies worth $10 million to $30 million, with the potential to grow by 15 to 20 percent or more per year. It is not clear whether Rosemark is raising a specific fund yet or not, but it appears to have some deep-pocketed potential partners from previous business relationships.

One of Rosemark's clients is Kuenne's childhood friend James Burke, son of the late J&J CEO James E. Burke and a cousin of NBCU CEO Steve Burke. He founded Disruptive LA to change the way indie films are marketed.

For more on this, see Fox' excellent, in-depth reporting on Rosemark's launch.

Rogers deal for NHL Canada rights; NBCU wants Astros lawsuit moved to federal court; NBC Sports bidding for more soccer rights

Source: NBC Sports to bid on UEFA Champions League rights (Philly.com)

Luukko chimes in on staggering Rogers TV deal (Comcast SportsNet
Philadelphia)


Comcast, NBC Universal wish to take Crane lawsuit to federal court (Houston Chronicle)
You bet they do. Though the federal district courts aren't much better down there in terms of runaway juries.

Saturday Highlights 11/30/2013: John Appleby on "the death of the database"; Mad rush to get Healthcare.gov ready for tomorrow

Le roi est mort: the death of the database (John Appleby/SAP HANA Blog)

37,000 accounts set up for NJ Internet gambling (AP via Business Week)
More than Healthcare.gov?

Health Care Site Rushing to Make Fixes by Sunday (New York Times)


Thanksgiving online sales top $1 billion for first time (USA Today)
Monetate says revenue for leading online retailers rose nearly 40% from last year.

eBay Debuts Shoppable Touchscreens And Digital Storefronts For Sony, Toms And Rebecca Minkoff In San Francisco (TechCrunch)

This Thanksgiving, Read SAP Customer Stories Aplenty (ASUG
News)
Includes stories on Day & Zimmerman, PSE&G, and AmerisourceBergen.

PR finger pointing: IBM and Bridgestone wrangle over failed ERP (ZDNet)

Pay-TV Prices Are at the Breaking Point — And They’re Only Going to Get Worse (Variety)

Deutsche Telekom CEO Says It’s Time for Europe Phone Mergers
(Bloomberg)

Online Startup Makes Website Editing Simple (Entrepreneur)
On Carbondale PA-startup Plain (Barley), of which Colin Devroe is a co-founder.

Healthcare Informatics on Virtua Health's HIE

Here is an interesting article from Healthcare Informatics on South Jersey's Virtua Health and how it is hosting its own health information exchange (HIE) and how it interacts with other systems (including software from locally-based vendors) and other healthcare institutions in the Philadelphia area.

Definitely worth the read if you are interested in the subject.

How Michael Rubin Went From Bankrupt to Billionaire (Entrepreneur via Reuters)

Healthcare.gov will soon be hosted by HP rather than Verizon (The Verge)

Former Susquehanna exec Noll surprises many by leaving Nasdaq

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Eric Noll, a long-time executive with Bala Cynwyd-based Susquehanna International and former official with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (now owned by Nasdaq), surprised many in the exchange industry by announcing on Monday he was departing Nasdaq, where he was considered next in line for the CEO job by many, to become chief executive officer of ConvergEx Group LLC. Noll's title at Nasdaq was executive vice president of U.S. and U.K. transaction services.

Although Noll remains highly respected in the industry, he caught some of the flack for Nasdaq's mishandling of Facebook's IPO last year, as well as a major technical glitch that caused a three hour trading delay three months ago. At the time of the Facebook offering, one (possibly irrelevant) criticism was that he was in Philadelphia at the time it launched.

ConvergEX provides trading services to institutional investors. Noll joined Nasdaq from Susquehanna in 2009.

Links 11/27/2013: SAP rejects suggestions for European Airbus-like IT consortium

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SAP rejects calls for a pan-European IT champion (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)

Burberry points to SAP as driver of ‘operational excellence’ (Computerworld UK)

UK & Ireland User Group to put pressure on SAP to help with new tech adoption (Computerworld UK)


SaaS is cloud computing's quiet killer app (David Linthicum/InfoWorld)

INE Ventures Launches Fund to Invest in Israeli Technology Startups (Business Wire)
Focus on transplanting Israeli startups to Philadelphia, New York.

Comcast Xfinity Broadband is now one the largest IPv6 network (Gigaom)

Comcast hiring engineers for Excalibur Back Office project (FierceCable)

Charter seeks to raise $25 billion to fund Time Warner Cable bid: report (Reuters)

Obamacare's Small Business Site Won't Work for Another Year
(Business Week)

Steve Duin: Ducking for cover in the Cover Oregon debacle (The Oregonian)
Is it Oracle's fault?

Fisker sale may be approved Jan. 3, bankruptcy judge says (Bloomberg via Automotive News)

How and Why to Launch LinkedIn Showcase Pages (PeopleLinx Blog)

Links 11/26/2013: Cox also reported interested in Time Warner Cable; Workday beats expectations

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Workday posts record revs, ups forecast and appoints Jerry Yang to board (Diginomica)

Workday Surges 13%: Bulls Charmed by Growth, Financials Progress (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)


SAP to announce simplification drive in January, says Hagemann Snabe (ComputerWeekly.com)
Don't they say that every year?

Comparing SAP HANA and Sybase IQ - real world performance tests (John Appleby/SAP Community Network)



Dell Boomi’s AtomSphere Right Prescription for Novartis Cloud, On-Premise Integration (Integration Developer News)

Pivitec Wins Ben Franklin Venture Idol (BFTP
NEP)

Druckenmiller Shorting IBM in Bet Cloud Computing to Win (Bloomberg)

Ray Wang on Big Blue’s Battle with AWS | #IBMIoD (Silicon Angle)

Privately held Cox looking at bid for Time Warner Cable: WSJ
(Reuters)


Intel Said to Be Asking $500 Million for Pay-TV Unit
(Bloomberg)

WYSIWYG Web Editor Barley now lets WordPress users edit their sites on the fly (The Next Web)
Barley is the product of Viddler alum Colin Devroe's startup Plain.

Evolve IP Positioned in "Visionaries" Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) (PR Newswire)

Universal Display and Philips Technologie GmbH Announce Collaboration and Evaluation Agreement for OLED Lighting (Business Wire)

PPG Expands OLED Production to Support Demand for Universal Display Products (Business Wire via Optics.com)

On Philly Tech News last week: Philly at Dreamforce, Comcast eyes big acquisition? & more

Wrapup: Philly at Dreamforce 13 (with more company news)

Deloitte releases Fast 500: MeetMe #3?; Here are Philly area representatives


Aria Systems, with R&D in Delaware County, raises another $40 million

Pennsauken-based RCM Technologies in Heated Board of Directors Proxy Fight

Report: Comcast considering Time Warner Cable bid? Update: Could be joint bid with Charter

Philly Tech People News 11/24/2013: New SevOne CFO took Carbonite public; Pet360 brings new tech & product talent to area