Links 3/25: Comcast says $45B Time Warner Cable deal to take longer; Nucci on 2nd big bet

NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Targets MSNBC as Priorities Emerge (Hollywood Reporter)

Comcast says $45B Time Warner Cable deal to take longer (AP via Phiily.com)


Michael Wolff on Liberty's John Malone: What Is He Actually Hunting? (Hollywood Reporter)

Tennessee sues FCC to stop expansion of municipal broadband (The Verge)

Apple snaps up FoundationDB for behind-the-scenes help (CNET News)

Our 2nd Big Bet (Rick Nucci/GetGuru)

How SnapLogic’s cloud integration bet paid off – with CEO Gaurav Dhillon (Jon Reed/Diginomica)



Mobile Marketing Startup Localytics Raises $35M More (TechCrunch)
Round led by Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures).

Links 3/25: Time Warner Cable expected to take $1B loss for bad Dodger deal; Qlik Could See Increased Competition With Tableau

California Public Utilities Commission delays vote on Comcast-TWC deal (LA Times)

Icontrol Deals Up New Home Automation Platform (Multichannel News)

Here are the first lawsuits to challenge the FCC’s net neutrality rules (Washington Post)

Time Warner Cable expected to take $1B loss for bad Dodger deal (New York Post)

PlayStation Vue Review: A Real Rival to Cable TV…For a Price (Wall Street Journal: Tech)


Google Fiber expands gigabit service again, plans move to Salt Lake City (Ars Technica)


Qlik Could See Increased Competition With Tableau (Investor's Business Daily)

Veeva Systems Introduces Veeva OpenKey (Marketwire)

LiquidHub Joins Veeva OpenKey Partner Program (Business Wire)


Haydle Q&A Software Powers the Engaged Enterprise (Business Wire)

eMoney Advisor Completes New emX Select Integration (Business Wire)

Links 3/23/2015: Comcast to triple social media team

Comcast To Boost Social Media Team (Multichannel News)

New Streaming TV Services Could Weirdly Help Comcast (Re/code)


MLB fans will finally have access to stream home games (New York Post)

Marketers Taking a Detour on CRM (Clutch.com)

Loss for QVC on Internet Crawling Case (Legal Intelligencer)

Informatica: Nomura Cuts to Hold, Though Buyout Upside to $50 (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Penn State Building $60M University Data Center (Data Center Knowledge)

Trifecta Technologies Announces ‘Trifecta Commerce: Orders’ on Salesforce AppExchange, the World's Leading Enterprise Apps Marketplace (PR Web)

Voxware Introduces Cloud-Based Predictive Modeling Analytics Platform (Business Wire)

An afternoon at SAP’s latest Silicon Valley venture: A coffee shop (Ars Technica)
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Philly Tech People News 3/22/2015; David Freschman's passing; Mateo named Veeva's Executive Vice President of Global Sales

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David Freschman, Investor Who Advised ‘Shark Tank,’ Dies at 52 (Bloomberg)
Locally, he guided Innovation Ventures,  the Delaware Innovation Fund, and Early Stage East.



Software Industry Veteran Alan Mateo Joins Veeva Systems as Executive Vice President of Global Sales (Business Wire)

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hybris Appoints Rob Rosenthal as Senior Vice President of Sales, Americas (Business Wire)

TCS, IBM veteran Natarajan Srinivasan to head Wipro's SAP unit (Times of India)

Uber’s Chief Financial Officer to Leave Company (NY Times)


Former United Way leader joins Independence Blue Cross (Philadelphia Business Journal)



TierPoint has named Tim Cody as Sr. Sales Executive for the Philadelphia market. In his new role, Cody is responsible for new business development. Cody brings with him over 30 years of varied sales experience, including working in sales for Philadelphia Technology Park, a colocation and data center services provider that was acquired by TierPoint in June 2014.

TierPoint is a leading national provider of cloud, colocation and managed services designed to help organizations improve business performance and manage risk. With corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., TierPoint operates 13 highly-redundant, Tier III plus data centers in the states of Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.


PrimePay Adds Director of Product Management Ryan A. Cieslak to Maximize Market Focus (PR Web)

Quattro Names Vice President of Business Development, Promotes Two (PR Web)

Comcast Faces Open Season on the Cable Bundle (Holman Jenkins / Wall Street Journal)

Meerkat Raises $12M From Greylock At A $40M Valuation (TechCrunch)

SAP CEO Bill McDermott's keynote at CeBIT (video)

Links 3/20: Apple TV revamp coming in June; Untold story of Christie's tax breaks for Camden

NYC official wants Comcast to offer $10, 10Mbps Internet after merger (Ars Technica)

Comcast Said to Plan Web Video Service, Merger Opponent Says (Bloomberg)

Apple TV revamp coming in June with Siri and App Store (Engadget)

Canada Going A La Carte (Multichannel News)

The untold story of Christie's tax breaks for Camden (AP via NJ.com)

SAP Predicts Euro Slide Will Boost Software Revenue, Profit (Bloomberg)

Links 3/19: Two First Round Capital-backed adtech companies team up; SAP raises dividend payout

Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages
(TechCrunch)

Rebecca Rimel’s Millions in Compensation at Pew Charitable Trusts and Elsewhere (Nonprofit Quarterly)

AppNexus Buys Yieldex for $100 Million
(Wall Street Journal: MoneyBeat)
First Round Capital is an investor in both New York-based AppNexus and Colorado-based Yieldex, which are adtech companies. AppNexus had a valuation of $1.2 billion as of its last round.

Enterprise Software Values Drop on Public Markets, But Not in VC (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)


Oracle salesmen get SEVENFOLD salary boost for flogging its cloudy aaS produce (The Register)

Suddenly, more tech workers want to get poached by Oracle (Business Insider)
Comcast, SAP not in top 40, but don't know how broad a sample is represented.


Dell Boomi Launches API Management Cloud Service (eWeek)

SAP Announces $1.4 Billion Dividend as It Boosts Payout Ratio (Bloomberg)

Plex – the modern face of manufacturing software (Diginomica)

Demo Pit Finalists Announced for Phorum 2015 (Business Wire)


Philly Fed business index slips to new low (CNBC)

Links 3/18: Sony's VUE launches in Philly & 2 other cities; eMoney looks for many more people post-acquistion

Apple Is Out to Blow Up the Cable TV Model (Bloomberg)

Comcast Puts DOCSIS 3.1 Live in the Field (Light Reading)

SONY’S VUE STREAMING SERVICE SURE IS SLICK—AND PRICEY (Wired)
Philly is one of three cities it launched in today.


Moonves Said to Have Mulled Time Warner Deal as CBS Plots Future (Bloomberg)

Clinical Ink, CentrosHealth merge to bolster mobile clinical trial tools (Mobile Health News)
Clinical Ink is based in Winston-Salem and Philadelphia. CentrosHealth is based in Boston. The merger also involves an additional investment in the company.



InsideSales raises $60M in round led by Salesforce Ventures (VentureBeat)

Salesforce and Microsoft Invest in InsideSales.com at $1.5B Valuation (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Detente is over as Oracle lays into Salesforce and Workday (Diginomica)

SAP sees procurement services as the cloud's silver lining (Reuters)


Dell Boomi API Management Makes It Easier and More Cost Effective to Create, Publish and Manage APIs (Business Wire)


Software firm for 'One Percent' seeks 60 Philly engineers (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Charlotte firm expects 400% client growth with new big-time financial backing (Charlotte Business Journal)
New backer is LLR Partners of Philly.

Tech startups market to PCB spring breakers Panama City News Herald)
Wharton-founded startup hits the beach during spring break to evangelize its communications app.

Comcast partnership with Braves on new stadium includes establishing major Atlanta R&D center

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Comcast today announced a partnership with the Atlanta Braves, in which it will provide all its technology goodies for the Braves' new stadium in suburban Cobb County, SunTrust Park, and the office and entertainment complex surrounding it. Comcast will also be an anchor tenant for an office tower in the complex. The stadium is scheduled to open in 2017.

What surprised me was that its plans for the office space are not only for it to house local employees serving the Atlanta market, where it is the major cable system incumbent. It also will have an Innovation Lab that will serve as a primary technology development hub for Comcast, along with the company's other major R&D centers in Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, and Denver.

Comcast plans to base about 1,000 employees at the new office, but its not known how many will be in the R&D workforce. (A Comcast spokesperson said they didn't have any numbers on that yet.)

A little back story: The Braves are currently owned by John Malone's Liberty Media. Cable pioneer Malone has been through the years both a frequent business partner and sometime nemesis to Comcast. He is currently involved in the pending Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter deal, through which Charter, in which Liberty Media owns a large stake, will acquire some of the subs Comcast plans to shed and enter into a joint venture with Comcast that will acquire other Comcast and TWC subs.

Comcast could also be interested in a cable rights deal with the Braves similar to the one it has with the Phillies. But last year Liberty Media renegotiated its previously subpar local cable package with Fox channels Fox Sports South and SportSouth. Its a long-term contract but of unknown length, and I don't know if it has any opt-out clauses that would allow the Braves to seek another deal. But the very fact that Liberty Media and Comcast are working together on the Braves makes me think other arrangements could be possible in the future.

See also Wall Street Journal blog article, Braves Hit Home Run With Comcast Deal.