Links: Chris Cera talks regional entrepreneurship, TL Ventures fighting and More

DEFINITE READS

• Innovation Philadelphia interviews developer, entrepreneur, Philly Startup Leaders hound and Kingsessing Park-basketball hustler Chris Cera. He talks about the region and its startup scene. Our only beef? West Philly certainly isn’t a single neighborhood. Ask folks living in University City, Haddington, Clark Park, Overbrook, Mantua, Walnut Hill and the rest.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

• The Inquirer’s Joe DiStefano reports that TL Ventures, the region’s largest VC fund during the dot-com era, is now focused squarely on in-fighting.
• Enterprise Matters on a ‘new’ SAP, the software behemoth.

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Links: Philly Startup Leaders get blanket praise, Pittsburgh G-20 roundup and More

n which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.

DEFINITE READS

• Philadelphia Business Journal Editor Bernie Dagenais gives much love to the Philly Startup Leaders, even if he does so by trumpeting a Virginia group of a different incarnation.
• Interesting coverage of the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh by the Inquirer’s Mike Armstrong here, here, here, here and here. The Inqy runs a wire L.A. Times story with an Andy Warhol lede. The Philadelphia Business Journal’s Jeff Blumenthal reports that law firms closed up shop, among others, to avoid security. The CityPaper was on the ground there too, though I’m not yet sure why. The real news out of the summit was that there wasn’t much news, and Pittsburgh seemed emptied and stark because of hyper security.

After the jump, an online face of Comcast gets married and three other picks, including our most trafficked story of the week.

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Comcast Roundup: How Verizon is losing, Scott McNulty interviews the Wiggles and More

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup.

Yahoo Finance reports on the attention paid to an increasingly apparent strategy of monetization from Comcast’s Interactive Media arm. There are circles who peg the company’s Web growth on that young crew.

Inquirer business columnist Joe DiStefano shares a report on just how Comcast is beating Verizon: their primary business, silly bear. The wireless industry is hotly contested, driving prices down, while cable remains monopoly based, keeping prices high and leaving companies like Comcast and TimeWarner Cable smiling.

After the jump check a low Internet speed ranking, FCC warning shots and an interview with the Wiggles, for real.

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Comcast Roundup: In bed with Time Warner, Comcast Idol and More

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup.

In Comcast news big enough to get Philebrity’s Joey Sweeney to bite, Comcast has reached a partnership with Time Warner to put content from their Turner Broadcasting online, where Comcast-subscribers can watch, as the Business Journal reported yesterday.

The agreement also included a set of principles for future online distribution of TV shows on a platform they call TV Everywhere, which require viewer authentication. Read those guiding principles here.

In the announcement, Comcast said it will begin testing next month this On Demand Online with 5,000 subscribers. The initial Turner programmaing will include content from TBS and TNT. No word on if you’ll be able to get those old reruns of Walker Texas Ranger.

This model is seen as a direct threat to advertising-supported Web TV streaming sites like Hulu, as Wired reported. Paid Content reports that Comcast got a taste for that model from ESPN360 in its partnership with Disney.

The Inquirer’s Joe Distefano, who offered the news a brief, recently reported on timid speculation about a Comcast merger with Time Warner.

After the jump, someone else has an interview with Brian Roberts, Verizon gets faster, video of Comcast Idol participants, and four other Comcast stories for the faithful.

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Comcast Roundup: “Worst Company in America,” Hulu threatens and More

Comcast’s place as this year’s “Worst Company in America” is being voted on today in the final round of the annual event held by Consumerist, the Consumer’s Union-owned nonprofit Web site. It is vying for lowlight with AIG — called the battle of the monopoly and the bailout.

It keeps growing and all your complaining ain’t stopping it.

This continued bruising of a telecommunications giant that has seen plenty of it comes on the heels of a five-and-a-half percent first quarter jump in profits for Comcast. The only rising cost for the profitable cable company is programming.

See other top Comcast headlines, including why Hulu should be scary, what happened to Joost and a $1 billion plan I don’t fully understand, after the jump.

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Comcast Roundup: Comcast Center tallest U.S. LEED building and squabbles with Verizon

One particular company in our region garners more news coverage than any other by far: Comcast, of course.

It isn’t the region’s largest employer, nor is it even the biggest or most profitable. It just makes a lot more noise. While we cover some of it and hope to do more, a lot of that noise isn’t worth much more than a sentence or two. But much of it is worth following, and we bet many of you readers would like to, so we’re going to sort everything you need to know.

This is the Comcast Roundup, what may or may not become a regular department of ours (we don’t make promises we can’t keep, except to our illegitimate children).

• The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the Comcast Center, the tallest building in Center City, has garnered another distinction — the tallest LEED-certified building in the country.

Read more on the company’s continued battles with Verizon, NFL Network, how Comcast might be defending your right to not pay more for heavy Internet use and more.

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