Links 3/30: IBM acquires Blekko for Watson; CardioNet pays $6.4 million to settle billing probe

In Comcast Suit, You May Already Be A Winner
(The Post of Sanatoga PA and The Pottsgroves)

Sling TV Subject To Content Restrictions (Multichannel News)

IBM acquires technology from curated search engine Blekko to bolster Watson (Silicon Angle)

MSG Sale Of Sports Business Possible But Not Certain (Investor's Business Daily)

Penn faculty startup raises $100K from Startup PHL angel fund (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Medical device firm CardioNet pays $6.4M to settle billing probe (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Q&A: Amazon VP Peter Faricy explains the company’s move into home improvement (GeeKWire)

Philly Tech People News 3/29/2015

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Rovi Taps SAP Exec For Board Seat
(Multichannel News)

Google taps Morgan Stanley exec for CFO post
(CNET)
Ruth Porat received an MBA from Wharton.


ARRIS Appoints Patrick Macken as Senior Vice President and General Counsel (Arris Press Release)

Ecrypt Appoints Former SAP and Microsoft Engineer as Vice President of Product Development (Marketwire)


New publisher to oversee two South Jersey newspapers (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Checkpoint Systems' CFO resigns; acting replacement chosen (NJBIZ)

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IBM losing touch with values that bred success (Minneapolis
Star Tribune)

Comcast fighting fears it will become an ‘Internet gatekeeper’ (New York Post)

Salesforce aims to surpass SAP on German market: executive tells WiWo (Reuters)

Links 3/27: Oracle Increases Runtime Database License Fees for SAP Customers, Comcast Says It’s Not Talking to Apple About Apple TV, Because Apple Hasn’t Asked

Unit4 retires legacy brands in ‘people platform’ launch (Diginomica)

Oracle Increases Runtime Database License Fees for SAP Customers (ASUG News)

Comcast Says It’s Not Talking to Apple About Apple TV, Because Apple Hasn’t Asked (Re/code)



Bucks County Commissioners Join Bucks County IDA to Announce $2 Million Financing for Keystone NAP (Keystone NAP)

Google teams with Johnson & Johnson for robotic-assisted surgery (Engadget)

Ultimate Software, NetSuite link HCM and ERP clouds (Business Cloud News)

Atlantic.Net Expands Data Center Footprint In U.S., Europe and Asia (CRN)

FinancialForce raises $110 million as it goes for growth (Diginomica)

Slack’s Valuation More Than Doubles to $2.8 Billion in Five Months (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Gartner Again Positions Dell Boomi as a “Leader” in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide
(Business Wire)

Blue Bell tech company to hire more than 40 by end of year (Philadelphia Business Journal)

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)