Links: hunting for DreamIT class, Sunoco looking to outsource Center City IT and More

DEFINITE READS

• As we tweeted, our reporter Sean Blanda is en route to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. Drop us a line in the comments or otherwise to let us know you’re there or if you know someone else from the community is.
• Center Networks reports on the hunt for a new recruiting class at DreamIT in University City. H/T Philly Tech News
• The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Sunoco has hired a consulting firm to explore the possibility of outsourcing positions from several departments, including IT and mostly from its Center City headquarters. Will Bunch of the Daily News and his legions of commenters have something to say about this too.

MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

• The Drexel Triangle reports on the redesign of university-sponsored Web food publication Table Matters.

GIVE A GLANCE

• The Philadelphia Business Journal’s John George primes for last night’s Pennsylvania Bio’s annual dinner and award celebration.

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Links: Cultivating IT professionals from poor neighborhoods, Drexel gamers and Sency

CIO has a story on the development of IT professionals from impoverished neighborhoods.

Geekadelphia reports on a survey that put Drexel’s video game developing program as the third best in the country.

The Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano has a followup with real time Twitter search engine master Evan Britton and his Sency.

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Links: Pharma’s middle class, IndyHall gaming and more

DEFINITE READS

• Mike Armstrong of the Inquirer writes about the region’s pharmaceutical ‘middle class,’ with between $1 billion and $10 billion in annual sales.

MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

• Keystone Edge has a Q&A with Drew Becher, the new chief of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, discussing his interest in sustainability and technology in the nonprofit’s mission.

Below, a middle-class pharma company gets a little bigger, a 30 Under 30 nod for an e-mail marketer and more.

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Links: MC Hammer at Wharton, chatting Jimmy Wales and More

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• Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports that that city will put a bid in for Google’s announced ultra-fast Internet product.
• Keystone Edge has a Q&A with University of the Arts professor and tech-art entrepreneur Slavko Milekic.
• The Inquirer reports that MC Hammer will be appearing at a Wharton event, and, yes, TP will try to crash the party.

Below, Gabe Weinberg talks with Jimmy Wales, comic book classes and more.

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Links: What stories do we share online, SAP CEO not asked back and More

DEFINITE READS

• Cyberjournalist reports that University of Pennsylvania researchers found readers are more likely to share three types of stories online.
• PEHub is looking for votes on where it should host its next meetup, and Philadelphia is a choice. Vote here.

Below, zombies and geeks, SAP CEO leaves in a tornado of speculation and more.

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Links: Malcolm Gladwell review, redditt interview and More

DEFINITE READS

Our friend at Stubborn Dreams shares a fine roundup of Malcolm Gladwell’s lecture at Penn, which we tweeted out.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

The Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano profiles ListenLogic, a Fort Washington firm that helps companies track what people are saying about them online.

Below, big cuts at a pharma giant and Gabe Weinberg interviewing a social news agggregator.

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Links: Mobile tech developer Demo Night, Logan gets new IT center and More

DEFINITE READS

• Innovation Philadelphia had help to beat the drum — as we did too — to get Philadelphia profiled by Fast Company magazine in a five-part series on great cities for startups.
• The Inquirer’s Mike Armstrong reports on ten local mobile tech developers who presented at Mobile Monday’s Demo Night.

Below, car show tech highlights, our best story of the week and more.

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Links: Don’t attract outside tech firms, a college iPhone course and More

DEFINITE READS

• The Inquirer’s Mike Armstrong reports on a study that finds little benefit in tax-based incentives used to attract high-tech companies, instead recommending encouraging existing companies to grow.
• A Wired magazine blog profiles Philly 8-bit scenester RJ “RJD2″ Krohn.

After the jump, a Sixers forward with an IT problem, a college iPhone course and more.

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Links: Skip tax breaks for high-tech companies, Princeton laser research and More

DEFINITE READS

• The AP reports on a study that suggests Pennsylvania should skip tax breaks for high-tech companies.
• The Silicon Alley Insider has an essay on the Boston tech  startup scene.

After the jump, the region’s 30-year-old computer society hosts Far McKon, Prince lasers and local Tablet news.

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Links: 1,200 jobs to be cut by Lockheed Martin, parking kiosks falter and More

• The Inquirer reports on Cooper Hospital beginning to use a new type of heated hospital gown that has more benefits that warming tushies.
• The Inquirer reports that those parking kiosks in Center City have been malfunctioning all over the place.
• Knowledge@Wharton talks to alumnus and AdMob founder Omar Hamoui about mobile advertising.
• The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Lockheed Martin will cut as many as 1,200 jobs in the region.

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