8/3: Entercom invests in podcast network Dgital Media; Universal Display Rising: Q2 Crushes Consensus




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More money for podcasting: Radio network Entercom invests in podcast network Dgital Media (Recode)

Dell Shuffles Thin-Client Exec Deck As IGEL Comes On Strong (CRN)

How Boston has transformed itself into a powerful digital health ecosystem (Med City News)

Universal Display Rising: Q2 Crushes Consensus, Raises Year Revenue View (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)

Charter has moved millions of customers to new—and often higher—pricing (Ars Technica)

She's back! Jessica Rosenworcel returns to FCC as America's net neutrality row heats up (The Register)

Uber’s Stock Price Plunged After CEO Travis Kalanick Resigned (Fortune)



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8/3: Amazon's massive jobs fair in Mercer County; EvolveIP buys its way into Europe; says sales will top $100M



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Philly cloud provider buys its way into Europe; sales top $100M (Philly.com)

Alibaba moves to take on crowded US cloud market (CIODive)


Comcast has ‘global opportunity’ with home automation wholesale, Xfinity Home chief Herscovici says (FierceCable)

We visited Amazon's massive jobs fair at a warehouse in New Jersey, where people lined up around the block hoping to score a job (Business Insider)
Robbinsville, Mercer County.

Tableau’s loss shrinks as subscription sales grow (Seattle Times)
Cites improvements at Qlik and Microsoft.



"Vanguard, whose $7.5 billion U.S. Growth Fund owns shares in Uber, cut the value of its position by 15% in June" ( Fortune Term Sheet)




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8/1: Unisys Combines Services, Enterprise Teams In Response To Revenue Drop; Seed funding wilting?



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Lawsuits likely if Pa. expands online sales taxation (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Unisys Combines Services, Enterprise Teams In Response To Revenue Drop (CRN)

Seed funding wilts as Silicon Valley investors fret about valuations and IPO market
(VentureBeat)

Villanova announces Master's of Accounting with Data Analytics program (Accounting Today)

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup (Bloomberg Business Week)





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7/31: CDI taken private; Comcast eyes launch of Streaming Service by Year-End



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AE Industrial takes engineering design service provider CDI private (The Middle Market)

Leadership training provider ExecOnline raises new round of funding (New York Business Journal)
New York firm backed by NewSpring.

TOLL LAUNCHES VR DESIGN TOOL
(Builder Online)

Chester County entrepreneurs get inside look at launching tech with Magento exec (Daily Local News)

Netflix is carrying $20 billion in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success? (LA Times)

Comcast Eyes Launch of "Instant TV" Streaming Service by Year-End (Hollywood Reporter)

SoftBank Is Said to Have $65 Billion in Charter Offer Financing (Bloomberg)




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Hagan-led group buys back Langhorne-based LifeShield after DirecTV, AT&T periods of rule

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Michael Hagen, former CEO and investor in Langhorne-based LifeShield, as well as past CEO of Nutrisystem and internet pioneer Verticalnet, is returning as part of an ownership group that is buying the DIY home security business from AT&T-owned DirecTV, it was announced Thursday. Terms were not disclosed.

LifeShield Was Bought by DirecTV in 2013. DirecTV merged with AT&T in 2015, and AT&T decided LifeShield overlapped with its
own product line and decided to sell it.

The acquiring ownership group, Hawk Capital Partners, is led by managing partner Hagan and partner Jim Mirage, who among other things worked with Hagan at Verticalnet and on the Nutrisystem buyout. No other investments are listed on Bala Cynwyd-based Hawk Capital Partners' website.

LifeShield's press release announcing the deal seemed to emphasize the progress made under DirecTV's period of ownership, rather than the later years under AT&T. Hawk Capital Partners has appointed David Tanzer as the CEO of LifeShield, "where he will be responsible for reestablishing the company's leadership position in DIY wireless home security for the direct-to-consumer market", LifeShield said in its release.

Life Shield is one of several Philly-area companies competing in the emerging smart home market. Others include Comcast, Ring (which inherited most of Zonoff's workforce), and StratIS).


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Weekend Highlights: Uber’s Search for New C.E.O. Hampered by Deep Split on Board; Discovery to Buy Scripps, Owner of Food Network, in $11.9 Billion Deal



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Uber’s Search for New C.E.O. Hampered by Deep Split on Board (NY Times)

SoftBank's Son Is Said to Plan Direct Offer for Charter (Bloomberg )

Discovery to Buy Scripps, Owner of Food Network, in $11.9 Billion Deal (NY Times)


DirecTV Sells Off LifeShield (Multichannel News)
Michael Hagan part of new ownership group.


Foxconn's $10B Wisconsin plant just the start of its U.S. investment, company says (Morning Call)

So who exactly was to blame for Marketo losing its dotcom? (The Register)


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Charter & Sprint: Something up or nothing at all?



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One by One, Verizon M&A Rumors Aren't Working Out (Bloomberg)

Report: Sprint, Charter & Comcast Still In Wireless Talks (Android Headlines)

Report: Sprint Proposes Charter Tie Up (Multichannel News)

BUT: Already dead in the water?

Charter Rebuffs Sprint's Merger Proposal (Bloomberg)


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Bill Ackman Builds a Stake in Automatic Data Processing (Bloomberg)

Comcast results top estimates on film, theme parks growth (Reuters)

Comcast Likes Xfinity Mobile’s Early Returns. (Multichannel News)



AWS revenue grows 42% to $4.10 billion
(CNBC)


New accounting rules change subscriptions (Denis Pombriant / Enterprise Irregulars)

How the Uber board breaks down on Meg Whitman . (Axios)

Amazon’s 1492 lab is reportedly exploring EHRs and telemedicine (Updated) (Med City News)

Verizon in talks to buy WideOpenWest's Chicago network: sources . (Reuters)


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When Marketo went offline, self-described ‘geek’ rescued domain after their own failure to renew (Martech Today)

Foxconn to announce new U.S. manufacturing plant: source (Reuters)
Far from PA.

Campbell Soup Company rolls out its recipe for an e-commerce future
(Diginomica)

People sent $8 billion through Venmo last quarter, double the amount from last year (Recode)

The maker of popular smart lock just got another $25 million from Comcast, Qualcomm, and others to keep growing . (Business Insider)


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Vista Outduels Corporate Bidders for Long-Bet Growth Targets (Bloomberg)

Germany's Software AG starts probe into South Africa kickback reports (Reuters)

Sage Group buys Intacct accounting software for $850M (TechCrunch)

Comcast earnings: The media company could be a bright spot in a terrible quarter (Marketwatch)



For one night only: Net neutrality punch-up between Big Cable, Big Web this September (The Register)

AT&T Loses 199,000 Video Subs in Q2 (Multichannel News)


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7/24: Foxconn Reportedly Nearing Decision to Invest in Display Factory in Wisconsin; KKR buying WebMD for $2.8 billio



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CloudMine builds role as a strategic player as healthcare organizations’ data needs deepen (Med City News)
Steven Wray joins as CEO; McCorkle now president and chief innovation officer.

Foxconn Reportedly Nearing Decision to Invest in Display Factory in Wisconsin (MacRumors)
Does not sound too hopeful for PA.

New Arris Boxes Bring OTT to Tier 2 Market (Light Reading)


KKR buying WebMD for $2.8 billion (Axios)

Amazon is building the next multibillion dollar platform and it is all business (TechSpot)

CenturyLink, Frontier, Windstream suffer worst 3 quarters in history (FierceTelecom)


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