PA Tech Awards deadline extended to tonight at midnight; Vote [Links]

• Organizers tell us that the deadline for nominations for the PA Tech Awards, which we covered last month, has been extended to midnight tonight. Vote Philly!
• Spot the most defibrillators in Philly, win $10K! [SciStarter — An interview with Penn Prof. Raina Merchant, who is behind the effort we covered
• Hedger pausing on print [New York Post] — Randy Smith, who owns nearly a third of the company that publishes Philly.com and the newspapers, is trying to sell, reports the paper. More from Poynter.
• SAP will add 500 jobs in Newtown [Delaware County Daily Times]
• AstraZeneca to cut 7,300 more jobs amid fourth-quarter profit drop [Inquirer]

• Dell Forms Software Group, Names Former CA CEO as Head [PC World] — With Berwyn’s Boomi division playing a role
• Sunoco CEO Elsenhans to step down [Philadelphia Business Journal] — Lynn Eisenhans
• Philly fuse maker chooses Bucks over North Carolina [PhillyDeals:Inquirer] — Action Manufacturing is moving 175 jobs out of North Philadelphia to a new Bucks County spot
• A Geek’s Guide to First Friday & Second Saturday: February 2012  [Geekadelphia]
• Quantum Leap’s tweet counter picks up more buzz [Delaware Online] — Newark, Del.-based analytics company
• “Jackpot Internet Cafe” will offer high-end computers and software, as well as sweepstakes games [PlanPhilly] — A Fishtown business that has concerned residents compromises and pitches itself as a more of an internet cafe.
• #visitUS: Help Curate a Philly Foursquare List, Get Philly a City Badge [Geekadelphia]
• Apostrophe just got easier [P’unk Ave newsletter] — More from the South Philly web firm’s CMS
• Drew Bacon’s Poppler: The Geekiest Guitar in Philadelphia [Geekadelphia] — Video below.

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