2/10: Report: Foxconn, Sharp pick Pennsylvania as likely LCD plant site; Wawa to offer mobile ordering




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Foxconn, Sharp pick Pennsylvania as likely LCD plant site (Nikkei Asian Review)

Wawa Becomes Latest C-store Chain to Offer Mobile Ordering (Convenience Store News)

DuPont seeks pesticide buyer to 'create strong competitor' (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Subaru Could Be Soon Testing Self-Driving Cars in California (Fortune)


Main Line couple give millions to MIT for autism research (Philly.com)
Hock Tan is CEO of chip maker giant Broadcom Ltd. in Southern California.

Ford bets $1B on startup founded by Waymo, Uber vets (AP)
Pittsburgh autonomous car startup; how can you be a 'vet' of Waymo?


Centiq to in-memory SAP HANA users: Psst. Meet us in the public cloud (The Register)







The Death Of The Commercial Database: Oracle's Dilemma (Samadhi Partners, SeekingAlpha)

Engineering Software Finally Starts Moving to the Cloud (Bloomberg)



FCC’s TV-for-Mobile Spectrum Auction Ends With $19.6 Billion Bid (Reuters via Fortune)






SAP #CapitalMarketsDay



MOD Pizza an SAP Client; SAP S/4HANA Cloud & SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suit

MOD pizza is being featured in today's SAP #CapitalMarketsDay.

From SAP November Press Release:

MOD Pizza, a United States-based fast-casual restaurant company, purchased SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite. The company is taking the restaurant industry by storm with its innovative "made-on-demand" superfast pizza chains. Named by Technomic as the fastest-growing restaurant chain in the United States in 2015, MOD has over 160 stores throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, and expects to double in size in 2016. SAP provides this innovative, successful growth company with a comprehensive public cloud platform that will support MOD's core financials, inventory, project management, recruiting and employee data processes.





2/9: Zenefits lays off half: Twitter shows not much growth




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Troubled startup Zenefits just laid off almost half its staff — here's the full email sent to employees (Business Insider)


Twitter shares tank as revenue growth stalls
(Reuters via NY Post)

Publicis Groupe's Q4 Revenue Fell 2.5% Due to Poor U.S. Performance (Ad Age)
Serious issues at digital agency Razorfish.

Acxiom Poached Three Merkle Execs to Grow Global Data Team (Ad Age)

Comcast CEO buys sky-high condo units in company's new Philly tech tower (Philly.com)

Mike Tirico Replacing Bob Costas as NBC's Olympics Primetime Host (Hollywood Reporter)

CenturyLink Targets Q2 for OTT TV Launch (Multichannel News)


Is Verizon Planning a Megadeal? (Bloomberg Podcast)



Foxconn's Sharp may break ground on $7 billion U.S. plant in first half: source; Hulu focused on avoiding DirecTV Now-like bugs, Fox's Murdoch says




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Japan's Sharp may break ground on $7 billion U.S. plant in first half: source (Reuters)
Says nothing about where it might be located. Previous reports had suggested a preference for Pennsylvania.

Foxconn: OLED iPhones A Growth Engine; Citi Upgrades (Barron's Asia)

New CableLabs Optical Tech Promises Big Bandwidth Boost (Light Reading)


Hulu ‘very, very focused’ on avoiding DirecTV Now-like bugs, Fox's Murdoch says (FierceCable)

Apple Hires Amazon’s Fire TV Head to Run Apple TV Business (Bloomberg)

Pittsburgh has finally realized it’s in a toxic relationship with Uber (Quartz)


Hal Rosenbluth's new health-care venture (Philly.com)


Spotify and AccuWeather team to match music, mood and monsoons (TechCrunch)

Connected home revenue in the US grew 57-percent in 2016, according to NPD (TechCrunch)

Vanguard Net Fund Inflow Dwarfed Its Peers' In 2016 (IBD)

Blockchain: 'A novel solution to the problem of trust' beyond Bitcoin (Philly.com: Philly Deals)







Cloudamize Positioned for Significant Growth After Strongest Year in Company’s History (Press Release)


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Cloudamize Positioned for Significant Growth After Strongest Year in Company’s History



Cloudamize expanded its cloud computing analytics platform, achieved significant revenue growth, and tripled its number of partners and direct customers.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 07, 2017

Cloudamize, a leader in cloud computing analytics, today announced that 2016 was the most successful year in the company’s history, and it begins 2017 strong as the demand for cloud computing analytics and migration automation only continues to accelerate. Cloudamize experienced 350% revenue growth between FY2015 and FY2016, added two new modules to its platform, made critical enhancements to support large enterprise migrations, and nearly tripled its customer base.

“For the past few years, we’ve invested heavily in our people, our platform and our partner program and those investment have paid off well with a very successful 2016,” said Bob Moul, CEO, Cloudamize. “Over the past year, we expanded our platform such that we now have the industry’s most comprehensive analytics and automation solution – supporting all phases of the cloud journey and for all three major pubic clouds. The comprehensiveness and accuracy of our data analysis is unmatched, so our customers and partners can make decisions with total confidence, maximize their ROI, and realize the full potential of the cloud. With cloud adoption now undeniably passing the tipping point and our compelling value proposition, we’re confident that we’ll see even stronger results in 2017.”

Key 2016 highlights include:
-Hired veteran technology CEO Bob Moul and doubled the size of the Cloudamize team to meet growing market demand.
-Completed over 500 assessments and helped clients realize in excess of $75 million in savings.
-Nearly tripled customer and partner ecosystem to achieve 350% revenue growth.
-Added the Migrate module to the Cloudamize platform, which enables customers to import the migration plan built in Cloudamize into existing migration tools, so they can move their workloads with speed and accuracy to AWS, Azure, and/or the Google Cloud Platform.
-Added the Validate module, which ensures that migrated application connections are operating in the cloud as they should be and recommends how to address any issues that arise.
-Released automated multi-tier dependency mapping, intelligent move groups, application classification, and project management capabilities to significantly speed and simplify large-scale enterprise migrations to the cloud.
-Reached Advanced Partner status in the AWS Partner Network (APN), achieved Migration Competency status from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and was named a Preferred Vendor for the Google Cloud Platform.

In addition to these achievements, Cloudamize was recently named a Top 10 Cloud Management Solutions Provider by Cloud Tech Insights magazine and a Top 10 Startup to Watch in 2017 by Philadelphia Magazine.

About Cloudamize
Cloudamize is a cloud computing analytics platform that provides data analysis and recommendations to speed and simplify cloud migration and cost management. Our platform helps you choose your best-fit cloud vendor; automates application discovery and dependency mapping to design a precise migration plan; analyzes your performance metrics and usage patterns on an ongoing basis to ensure your cloud is always right-sized; and provides clear visibility into cloud costs for better control. Armed with these insights, you can more quickly make accurate cloud decisions, achieve your optimal cloud environment, and maximize the value of your cloud investments. Cloudamize is proudly located in Philadelphia. For more information, please visit https://www.cloudamize.com/ and follow us @cloudamize.
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2/7: Siemens, Bentley Systems plan utility design solutions; Workday scores Amazon as Its latest big name customer




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Siemens, Bentley Systems plan utility design solutions (Construction News)

BUZZFEED VS. TRUMP (The Verge)

A Deeper Dive into Comcast's OTT-as-a-Service (BTR)

Moody’s: Telecom M&A to Continue (Multichannel News)
Sees Verizon's MVNO agreements with cable possibly evolving toward 5G LTE.










Unisys Corp. announces 178 layoffs (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Consolidating more activities in Augusta. Is there an end game with Unisys?

Workday Scores Amazon as Its Latest Big Name Customer (Fortune)

AWS cloud cash share: Bigger than Microsoft, IBM, Google COMBINED (The Register)

Oracle in the cloud: The analyst conversation
(ZDNet)

Teva, CEO part ways (Philadelphia Business Journal)

PPG, Universal Display increasing production capacity at Ohio plant (Pittsburgh Business Times)

Morgan Stanley partners with tech firms to boost wealth business (Reuters)

New Jersey launches Open Data Initiative, appoints chief data officer (StateScoop)




Hulu losses mount as its new OTT offering prepares to launch; Comcast's position

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Comcast is still hands off Hulu until next year per NBCU acquisition consent decree, though it owns 1/3. Not even sure they have any budget say so. Meanwhile, Hulu rushing to get full OTT offering out the door, though its not known whether Comcast approves.

Hulu and NBCU have yet to reach an agreement on making NBCU content available on the new OTT offering (expected to launch in Q1), though "active discussions" have been ongoing for an eternity.

But the losses aren't really material to Comcast at this stage. The strategy may be.


Scott O'Neil: CEO for the NJ Devils, Philadelphia 76ers and Prudential Center (Podcast: Fortune Unfiltered)

Scott O'Neil CEO for the NJ Devils, Philadelphia 76ers and Prudential Center (Podcast: Fortune Unfiltered)




2/6: Marketo CEO on plans to take on big Marketing Clouds: Zenefits' big new partners are fellow portfolio companies




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Zenefits scores Lyft, Box as partners despite terrible 2016 (San Francisco Business Times)
Though should be pointed out that Zenefits, Lyft, and Box have a big common investor - Andreessen Horowitz.






Marketo CEO On The Company’s Plans To Take On Big Marketing Clouds (AdExchanger)
Marketo's CEO is ex-SAP exec Steve Lucas.

Why Amazon Alexa Will Take Over Your Phone and Your Office Next
(Fortune)

ΙΒΜ’s Turnaround Still Uncertain, Says Bernstein (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

SAP CEO to immigrants: 'You are where you belong... Stay strong... Stay active' (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

84 Lumber website crashes after commercial about immigration (USA Today)

ComScore Stock Plunges
(Multichannel News)


USV invests in a public company, Tucows, for the first time (VentureBeat)
Tucows was the company that bought most of the remnants of Infonautics.

Y Combinator alumnus raises $15M for clinical data tech (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
Former EggZack (Bethlehem) CTO raises $15mm for clinical trial software startup.

Unisys Corp. announces 178 layoffs (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)



Greater Philly region shows highest megawarehouse growth since 2010, report finds (Philly.com)