Technology
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In a Post-Pandemic World, This Local Start-Up Enables Companies to Find Ways to Personalize Benefits for Their Employees
Wayne-based Lluna, a people ops platform that launched in December, offers employees and their managers a centralized place to review and agree on personalized benefits, writes Paige Gross for Technical.ly Philly. Lluna facilitates the engagement and retention of employees by enabling companies to offer workers benefits that best suit their lifestyle. For example, an employer…
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Tech Tips With Margaret: The Advantages of Zoom Phone
Everyone has become well-acquainted with Zoom’s video call service, and it has become one of the standard ways for working professionals to stay in touch virtually. However, Zoom also recently celebrated the two year anniversary of its new service designed to give professionals even more versatility: Zoom Phone. As the name suggests, Zoom Phone is…
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Tech Tips with Margaret: 4 Pointers to Keep Your Zoom Meetings Safe and Secure
The last year has turned Zoom into a normal part of the workday for many people. However, communicating virtually can make it more difficult to keep sensitive information secure. It can be easy to overlook that someone who is not supposed to be part of your virtual session has slipped in. The way we work…
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King of Prussia-Based Qlik Helps Ambulance Service in the U.K. Clear the COVID-19 Data Fog
When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the United Kingdom’s South Central Ambulance Service leaned on King of Prussia-based Qlik to help keep pace with and make sense of the data, writes Brian McKenna for Computer Weekly. SCAS’s front-line paramedics, who are featured on the television show Inside the Ambulance, and their managers…
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Forbes: Paoli-Based Search Engine, Google Rival Reaches Milestone
DuckDuckGo, a Paoli-based search engine and Google rival that prides itself on protecting user privacy, recently topped 100 million daily searches for the first time, writes Brooke Crothers for Forbes. The search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg achieved the milestone on Jan. 11 with 102,251,307 queries. DuckDuckGo previously reached the milestone of 50 million searches…
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Tech Tips With Margaret: Injecting Fun and Personality into Your Next Executive Zoom Meeting
For many, the last year with the pandemic has turned video conference services like Zoom from conveniences into workplace necessities. It hasn’t been an easy transition having to navigate challenges like video chat etiquette. However, now that Zoom meetings have been the norm for workers for so many months, the biggest hurdle might just be…
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Tech Tips With Margaret: 9 Hints to Make Your Zoom Meetings More Productive and Less Draining
Wherever you turn, someone wants to have a Zoom meeting. They happen with the best of intentions, to update everyone on company goals or to refine the projected revenue estimates for next year’s budget. So what’s so wrong about having lots of meetings? It’s a time killer. Meeting scientist Joseph Allen, Ph.D., says senior managers…
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Worship Summit Live Returns to Help Ready Places of Worship for Live-Streaming Services
After four successful educational sessions in 2020, Worship Summit Live will return for a fifth session to guide worship leaders and volunteers on the latest technical training for video production and live-streaming services. On Thurs., Feb. 11 from 11 AM-5 PM, Worship Summit Live 5 will host church production and technology experts who will demonstrate…
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Montgomery County Leadership: Dennis Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, Qlik
Dennis Johnson, the Chief Financial Officer at Qlik, the King of Prussia-based company that is the leading business intelligence and data visualization software company in the world, spoke with MONTCO Today about growing up in Northeast Philly, the Lehigh Valley, and Bucks County; his jobs delivering the Bucks County Courier Times newspaper and working in…
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COVID-19 Exposure Apps Work—If People Are Using Them
There are now more than 150 million Americans who could receive pop-up notifications from local health authorities if they have spent time near somebody who has tested positive for COVID-19, but only if more people activate them, writes Geoffrey A. Fowler for The Washington Post. There has been early evidence that using such anonymous smartphone…
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Zoom Phone From Haverford Systems Is the Next Step in the Business PBX Experience
Since the pandemic started and everyone went into some version of lockdown last spring, Zoom has become a household name; a way for people to connect, build relationships, and do business. Now the Zoom Phone, with more than 400 features, enhances and modernizes the Zoom and PBX experience. The Zoom Phone starts with video conferencing…
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Pennsylvania Passes One of Least Restrictive Autonomous Delivery Robot Laws
In November, Pennsylvania passed one of the nation’s least restrictive laws that regulate the movement speed and weight of autonomous delivery robots, writes Ryan Deto for the Pittsburgh City Paper. The law was passed without Gov. Tom Wolf’s signature and mostly along partisan lines, with Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposing and calling it a…
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StreamGeeks to Host Second Annual Summit Highlighting World’s Top Live Streaming Platforms
The StreamGeeks, a West Chester-based group of video production experts dedicated to helping businesses discover the power of live streaming, will host the second StreamGeeks Summit on Friday, Dec. 11 from 1-6 PM. The event will host panel discussions to uncover the business opportunities that live streaming brings. Last year, the StreamGeeks Summit was the…
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See Which Montco Company Made Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500 List
Seven Philadelphia region companies have found their place on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500 list, with Ambler-based Phenom People among them, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The provider of Talent Relationship Marketing platform came highest in the entire region at No. 168. The list ranks the top 500 tech and life sciences…
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Bryn Mawr Practice Using SpaceX Robot to Help Patients Fight Baldness
Dr. Andrew Kwak, founder of The Lumen Center in Bryn Mawr, is using robot-assisted surgery systems to help his patients fight baldness, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Kwak, a cosmetic surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive procedures, said his practice is the first in the region to offer a robotic hair transplant…
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Qlik Supports Malvern Nonprofit That Offers Transformative Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Services
By Kristen de Marco Mental health, as much as physical health, matters in treating the whole person, especially in these challenging times. For the past few years, Qlik, through Qlik.org, has been supporting my organization, Gateway HorseWorks, located in Malvern, through various means, including financial and software grants, to further our work incorporating horses for…
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Qlik Acquires Integration, Automation Platform Provider Based in Belgium
Qlik has acquired Blendr.io, an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure embedded integration and automation platform (iPaaS) that seamlessly automates data integration and orchestration of processes across 500-plus SaaS applications and cloud data sources. Blendr.io is based in Ghent, Belgium. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Purpose-built for embedded SaaS use cases and enterprise integration workflows,…
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Qlik CEO Joins Other Business Leaders in Nationwide Initiative to Help Their Employees Vote
A Day for Democracy, a nonpartisan initiative founded by CEOs to encourage employers across the U.S. to take a pledge to help increase voter participation, has announced that the leaders of several Pennsylvania businesses, representing more than 18,000 employees in the state, have pledged to help their employees vote in the upcoming elections. In taking…
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