Links 3/14: Lutron booming at age 55; Modular Data Center Firm IO Raises $505M




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Oracle Earnings Ahead: Can Rising Cloud Make Up For Legacy Fall? (Investor's Business Daily)

Cadent Technology Targets Addressable Linear TV
Ad-Tech Company Touts Progress From BlackArrow Merger (Multichannel News)




Lutron, which is based in Coopersburg up Rte 309 from Quakertown, is becoming a key player in the consumer IoT market. 

Can Philadelphia transform itself into a national center for Health IT innovation? (Government Health IT)




One IO data center is in a former New York Times printing plant in Edison, New Jersey. 



Redbox and Coinstar parent Outerwall to ‘explore strategic and financial alternatives,’ hinting at possible sale (GeekWire)








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Sunday Highlights: Dreamit CEO - Accelerators are filling startup capital gap; First Round Review and the vindication of long-form content




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Dreamit CEO: Accelerators are filling startup capital gap (Austin Business Journal)

Top Start-Up Investors Are Betting on Growth, Not Waiting for It (NY Times)

The app inventor’s guide to unlocking investment funds (Howard Morgan / First Round Cspitsl/VentureBeat)

First Round Review and the vindication of long-form content (Diginomica)


HP Enterprise hope to woo developers with new cloud service (Marketwatch)

Anchorage hires former IBM executive as SAP project manager (Alaska Dispatch News)


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Philly Tech Peoplenews 3/12/2016: Comcast hires privacy chief; Dorm Room Fund's Platform Team




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Noopur Davis Joins Comcast Cable as Senior Vice President, Product Security and Privacy for the Technology and Product Team (Business Wire)

Introducing the Dorm Room Fund Platform Team (Rei Wang / Medium)


Montgomery McCracken picks transactional lawyer as new chairman (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Greenphire Appoints Wayne Baker as Chief Commercial Officer (Greenphire)

Clinical Ink Appoints Stephen Boccardo as Chief Commerical Officer (Marketwire)

NECN cuts business editor amid changes at Comcast-owned station (Boston Business Journal)

Chief Operations Officer To Leave PJM (PRNewswire)



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QVC in the news: Comcast lives; the real Trump connection


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The Inquirer ran an excellent article by Suzette Parmley on QVC Friday, but notice the words on the sign at the very bottom of the photo (you may have to click on photo to enlarge to see the bottom) :






Comcast exited from its ownership position in QVC in 2003. Nothing wrong with using an old file photo (credited to Bloomberg), but in this day and age it may be hard to justify a stringer, if the reporter can't make the trek to West Chester and shoot the photo. On the other hand, I think its inclusion may have been purposeful. There's s slide show with some other photos attached to the article as well.

And then there's Bloomberg's very funny spot portraying Donald Trump (from an actual post-primary appearance last week) as a QVC host, of which for some reason the embed code won't work, but you can link to it here.


But the real Trump /QVC connection came from his current wife Melania, who had jewelry and cosmetic lines on QVC, though that relationship has apparently ended, as the Daily Beast recounts.






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Pennsylvania school pension system lost money in 2015 (Philadelphia
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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)


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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)


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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.








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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)





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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.



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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.



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