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The AP is reporting that Comcast showed an 8% jump in profits in it's second quarter this year.

While they continue to loose television subscribers to rival Verizon and others, the loss was within analyst expectations. The growth is attributed to an increase in subscribers for the digital voice service.

Comcast is now the one of the largest phone companies in the U.S.

The Philadelphia Business Journal is reporting that Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc. President and CEO Barry Lipsky laid-off 10% of it's workforce in May.

HATBORO, Pa – April 5, 2008 – InfoLogix, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFLG),
a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility solutions for the healthcare and commercial industries, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets of Delta Health Systems, Inc. a company specializing in providing strategic cost management consulting services to hospitals across North America. The assets acquired include Delta’s proprietary On-Demand Executive Information System (EIS) for strategic cost management and productivity within hospitals.

"Kenexa CEO Rudy Karsan is an incredibly smart (former actuary) and normally honest and straightforward guy. At least for the first three of the six years I've known him. He's certainly done an impressive job welding together the 27 companies he acquired in the last 21 years into Kenexa. The company expects to sell more than $220 million of its deep selection of HR software and services this year.

Comcast Corp. posted 14 percent revenue growth in the first quarter, but its net income fell 13 percent and it lost 57,000 cable-television customers.

Excluding one-time gains Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA,CMCSK) realized in the first quarters of this year and last, its net income grew 10 percent. The gains resulted from the break-up of partnerships through which Comcast co-owned cable-television systems with other companies.

BERWYN, PA--(Marketwire - April 30, 2008) - Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration, today announced that it was included in JMP Securities' March 2008 report, "Top 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies." The report profiles 100 of the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software research team at JMP Securities. Boomi was the only integration company to be included on the list.

There is an article on the Motley Fool investing website that discusses the recent volatility of InterDigital stock.