Friday Highlights:, UEI, Comcast Sign Warrants Agreement ; Google explains why its self-driving car crashed into that bus




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New early-stage venture fund forming with eye on Pittsburgh startups (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
But in a typical putdown to Pittsburgh's self-esteem, will be based out of Philadelphia.

UEI, Comcast Sign Warrants Agreement
MSO Can Acquire Up to 725K Shares of Vendor’s Capital Stock
(Multichannel News)

Comcast unmoved by Yankees channel ad blitz, says Yes Network needs to get 'realistic' (FierceCsble)

Boston station blasts Comcast, NECN in lawsuit over NBC affiliation

Packet Media Group and BSM form new company (Broad Street Media)

Google explains why its self-driving car crashed into that bus (PCWorld)


Links 3/10: Comcast sued by Boston NBC Affiliate over being dropped by media giant; WebLinc acquires Orderbo to boost order processing tech






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Microsoft Aims for Oracle Database Workloads with Aggressive SQL Server Migration Offer (Constellation Research)

Salesforce-Microsoft love grows with SalesforceIQ-Outlook integration (TechCrunch)

Comcast Sued By Boston NBC Affiliate Over Being Dropped By Media Giant (Desdline)
Do I have this straight? NBCU is going to build its locsl affiiate on its cable cbannel?


Whistle Sports scores $20 mln Series C from NBC Sports, Tegna, others (PE Hub)
SeventySix Capital is also an existing investor.

WebLinc Announces Acquisition of Orderbot (WebLinc)

Digital Health Startup Oncora Medical Raises $1.2M for Radiation Oncology Platform (HIT Consultant)

FIS seeks sale of SunGard's public sector and education unit: sources (Reuters)
Could fetch $1 billion? Really?

Tableau scores advanced database tech with acquisition of German startup HyPer (TechCrunch)


Cloudamize partners with Google to provide free cloud migration planning services


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Cloudamize, the center city cloud analytics startup which Bob Moul joined as CEO earlier this year, announced today that it has partnered with Google to provide a free migration planning solution for the Google Cloud Platform. With this announcement, Cloudamize now provides cloud migration planning and cost optimization services for the three leading public clouds: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Although Google is a good bit behind the other two, it obviously has enormous resources and is pushing all the buttons to play catch up. For example, it recently lured Spotify from AWS.  And that's why partnerships like the one with Cloudamize are important to it. Google and Cloudamize are inviting companies with a migration requirement of 10 or more servers on any infrastructure – physical, virtual, cloud, or hybrid – to plan their migration to the Google Cloud Platform for free.

Moul said in an interview with Philly Tech News before leaving for a conference with Google out  west that with coverage of the three major public clouds, Cloudamize will be able to analyze and optimize clients' configuration needs comprehensively across all three. Moul also stressed that relationships with major system integrators were beginning to bear fruit, and named a number of blue chip clients.  And he felt the prestige of the partnership with Google would be a huge boost for Cloudamize.


Moul was CEO of Boomi through its sale to Dell. More recently, he headed Philly Startup Leaders and was CEO of mobile app startup Artisan Mobile.

Cloudamize has been backed by DreamIt Ventures, Gabriel Investments and MissionOG. Most  recently, last year it received an investment of undisclosed amount from Astia Angels.








Wednesday Highlights: Urban Outfitters – death of the retail store greatly exaggerated; PeopleLinx Product Update



Urban Outfitters – death of the retail store greatly exaggerated (Diginomica)

PeopleLinx Product Update: Xing, Customized Courses, and More (PeopleLinx)


Verizon Go90 Off To ‘Slow Start,’ Says UBS, Based On Apple Store
(Investor's Business Daily)





Links 3/8: Amazon launching live QVC-Type Show; Salesforce launches new Financial Services Cloud - LiquidHub has new app fot it





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Modular Data Center Startup Keystone NAP Raises $15M (Dsts Center Knowledge)

Amazon Is Launching a Live QVC-Type Show as Part of Push Into Fashion (Re/code)

Amid Impasse, YES Tells Comcast Customers to Switch Providers (New York Times)

SCTE says its headquarters has cut $18K off its electrical bill, wants to set industry example (FierceCsble)


Another day, another cloud (Denis Pombriant/Enterprise Irregulars)
Salesforce's new Financial Services Cloud launched with key partners, including an app from Wayne's LiquidHub.



Report: Philly-based PCI Pharma Services exploring sale:



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PCI Pharma Services is exploring s $1 billion sale according to sources, Reuters reports.

PCI Pharma Services, which is bssed in Northeast Philly, wss formed through the acquisition of Catalent Pharma Solutions Inc by PE firm Frazier Healthcare Partners in 2012, and the acquisition of the contract packaging business of AmerisourceBergen Corp a yaer later. The business is expected to fetch a $1 billion valuation, including its debt.

Reuters also reports other activity in the Pharma outsourcing patch. Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC, InVentiv Health Inc and Philsdelphia's eResearch Technology Inc have all explored either sales or initial public offerings, according to Reuters.



Links 3/7: Comcast buys OneTwoSee; CardConnect acquired by blank check company, will trade pubicly







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Comcast buys sports data specialist OneTwoSee (Telecompaper)

Comcast Buys X1 Sports App Partner (Multichannel News)

CardConnect® and FinTech Acquisition Corp. Announce Merger Agreement Combining Businesses (Business Wire)
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ComScore Shares Plunge After Co. Delays Filing Annual Report (Vsriety)

Wells Fargo sued by SEC in connection with ex-Phillies star's startup failure (Philadelphia Business Journal)

How mature is Salesforce Wave as a business? How far has Wave analytics come? (CBR Online)

Get ready for BI/Analytics vendor landscape reshuffle (Forrester Blog)
And doesn't even mention Singer's move on Qlik.


Philly Tech People News 3/6/2016: Judge Group, West, Swift Capital




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Charter clips Comcast's Klippel for advanced advertising post (FierceCable)

Comcast Names Wilson-Scott SVP Community Investment (Multichannel News)

Jefferson, IBC reveal collaboration's first entrepreneurs-in-residence (Philadelphia Business Journal)

The Judge Group Promotes Mick Angelichio to President of Judge Healthcare

Swift Capital Expands Executive Team to Support Exceptional Growth (PR Web)

West Appoints Eric Resnick to Chief Technology Officer (PR Newswire)

David M. Erdman named Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Morning Call (Morning Call)


Saturday Highlights: Workday's prospects in financials: AWS Marketplace reported major seller of CRM







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Salesforce is facing competition from an unexpected place: Amazon (Business Insider)

Workday's prospects in financials: Parabolic or trouble ahead? (ZDNet)


Industrial IoT still needs humans -- and user interfaces (PCWorld)

There's a serious brain drain going at VMware that no one's talking about (Business Insider)


Friday Highlights: DOCSIS 3.1 vs FTTH; Phenom People raises more VC





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Jet.com paid $90 million for Omaha-based Hayneedle (Omaha.com)

Sports Authority, falling behind in stores and e-commerce, files for bankruptcy (LA Times via Seattle Times)
Are they happy with (still-named) EBay Enterprise?
EBay Enterprise is being combined with Georgia-based Innotrac, and a rebranding was due after the Christmas rush, the Inquirer reported in December.


DOCSIS 3.1 vs FTTH (CableFax)
This is an extremely interesting question (seriously) which I've wondered about alot. Will the old cable plant even be necessary for long?

Sigma Prime backs Phenom People, leads additional $2.7M Series A round (Business Wire)

Want to compete with Salesforce? Buy Marketo (TechCrunch)




Investor Singer takes position, looks for changes at Radnor's Qlik


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Elliott Associates, led by Paul Singer, and its affiliates have acquired a combined
8.9% position in Radnor-based business intelligence software vendor Qlik Technologies, it said in a filing.

Elliott Associates said in the filing that it believed the company's shares are "significantly undervalued." It also said it has initiated talks with Qlik's management and board about strategic and operational opportunities.

Singer can take relatively passive positions (Elliott took a small position in Comcast last year), but in other cases can be very aggressive in forcing changes in enterprise structure or ownership. Recent examples include Tibco Software and PetSmart.

A Barron's columnist panned Qlik's financial performance in January . Though still
growing, Qlik has been hurt by competition (Tableau, probably Microsoft) and lately the stronger dollar, since considerable revenue comes from overseas. It has excellent technology and some analysts have sensed signs of a turnaround, but that hasn't shown up much in financial results yet.

Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is up about 9% on the day. It has a market value of $2.5 billion.

Update: No comment I've seen from Qlik so fsr as of late Thursdsy.