• KoP Mall Gains New Draw: Add Zombie Apocalypse Survival to the Shopping and Dining

    KoP Mall Gains New Draw: Add Zombie Apocalypse Survival to the Shopping and Dining

    Anyone who thinks of King of Prussia Mall merely in terms of its shopping, dining, and socializing advantages can now add another: It’s been identified nationally as a good place to survive a zombie apocalypse. Emily Block explained in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The unconventional accolade to Montgomery County’s retail mecca came from JeffBet, an online…

  • Fed’s ‘No’ Stops King of Prussia Rail Line in Its Tracks

    Fed’s ‘No’ Stops King of Prussia Rail Line in Its Tracks

    All work on the proposed King of Prussia Rail — the four-mile transit extension to the Norristown High Speed Line — has halted. Thomas Fitzgerald reported the cessation in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The SEPTA plug-pull resulted from an assessment that a recent Federal Transit Administration (FTA) denial of a new-transit capital grant will propel costs…

  • Distinctly Warped Voice of a 1960s Novelty Songwriter Is Silenced in King of Prussia

    Distinctly Warped Voice of a 1960s Novelty Songwriter Is Silenced in King of Prussia

    Jerry Samuels, whose novelty tune took off in 1966, has passed away in a King of Prussia assisted living facility. Nate File reported the 84-year-old’s loss in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Samuels, from New York City, played piano by age three and wrote marketable songs by 15. He eventually moved to Northeast Philadelphia as a record…

  • Celeb Chef Guy Fieri Makes King of Prussia Mall Fast-Food Debut

    Celeb Chef Guy Fieri Makes King of Prussia Mall Fast-Food Debut

    Celebrity chef Guy Fieri is bringing his chain of branded fast-food outlets — Chicken Guy — to the King of Prussia Mall. Justin Heinze stayed abreast of the details in presenting them in the Norristown Patch. Fieri’s decision to bring his fast-food brand to Montgomery County is dollars-and-cents confirmation that as the pandemic continues to…

  • UK’s Largest Family-Owned Department Store Adopts Qlik Cloud

    UK’s Largest Family-Owned Department Store Adopts Qlik Cloud

    Qlik has announced that the UK’s largest family-owned department store, Fenwick, has adopted Qlik Cloud, to advance its analytics capabilities and empower more employees at the company to use data in their day-to-day roles. Fenwick, which launched its first store in Newcastle in 1882, is known for premium shopping and dining, with categories across beauty, fashion,…

  • King of Prussia Mall Hosts Bridal Showcases Entertainment Company Wedding Exhibit

    King of Prussia Mall Hosts Bridal Showcases Entertainment Company Wedding Exhibit

    Bridal Showcases invites residents, couples, and soon-to-be brides to an upcoming wedding exhibition at the King of Prussia Mall. The event will include everything couples need for their wedding day and married life, including wedding seminars, DJ and musician showcases, food and cake samplings, and venue and catering exhibits. The wedding exhibit will take place…

  • Qlik to Assist Leading IT Innovator in Analyzing, Drawing Insight from Data

    Qlik to Assist Leading IT Innovator in Analyzing, Drawing Insight from Data

    Qlik has announced that NTT Data Corporation, the leading innovator of IT and business services, has adopted Qlik Sense to analyze and actively draw insights from highly dense procurement data on externally acquired IT products and services. NTT Data has been at the forefront of transforming businesses through digital and IT modernization and managed services, enabling…

  • Qlik Helps Boost Store Operational Performance for Companies Like Urban Outfitters

    Qlik Helps Boost Store Operational Performance for Companies Like Urban Outfitters

    Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Urban Outfitters is a lifestyle retailer selling women’s and men’s clothing and accessories, a range of items for interior furnishing and décor and a music and technology collection. With 550 stores in the USA and 100 across Europe and the UK, gaining daily visibility of actionable data was…

  • Former Lord & Taylor Site at King of Prussia Mall Gains New Tenant

    Former Lord & Taylor Site at King of Prussia Mall Gains New Tenant

    A New York commercial real estate firm is buying part of the former Lord & Taylor store in King of Prussia Mall. Paul Schwedelson covered the arrangement in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The site, which Lord & Taylor vacated in 2021, is owned by HBC Properties and Investments (HBC), a Toronto/New York firm  (not Simon…

  • Qlik Promotes That Data Privacy is for Life, Not Just One Day a Year

    Qlik Promotes That Data Privacy is for Life, Not Just One Day a Year

    Today, Jan. 28 sees Data Privacy Day come around again, an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard personal data, and enable trust. As always, this should act as a reminder that every individual within an organization requires a basic understanding of their internal privacy rules and regulations. It has become more important than…

  • King of Prussia’s Qlik Details Data Trends to Help Businesses Thrive in 2023

    King of Prussia’s Qlik Details Data Trends to Help Businesses Thrive in 2023

    Whether inflation, global conflict or supply chain disruption, 2022 was full of significant events that have fundamentally impacted the business landscape. The undercurrent is an accelerating de-globalization process. But this isn’t just geo-political in nature; the re-distribution of power and fragmentation of data are inextricably linked. As a result, data-driven businesses are having to adapt…

  • King of Prussia-Based Qlik Has New Direction Aimed for New Year

    King of Prussia-Based Qlik Has New Direction Aimed for New Year

    This year’s theme is “Qlik Ahead,” and it is well fitting as we all look forward to a new year that is filled with the promise of great customer interactions (including in-person at QlikWorld!) and product innovation aligned to customer success. Our product team is passionate about building a best-in-class innovation pipeline that is fueled by…

  • Qlik Intends to Acquire California-Based Software Company Talend

    Qlik Intends to Acquire California-Based Software Company Talend

    Qlik has announced its intention to acquire Talend, which would bring together two Thoma Bravo-backed industry leaders with a shared focus on adding value to data to deliver business outcomes for customers. Qlik and Talend provide comprehensive and complementary capabilities with industry-leading solutions across real-time data and application integration, data governance, data quality, transformation, analytics,…

  • Preschool Friends — Now Paired in the Restaurant Business — Revive a 50s-Style Bridgeport Diner

    Preschool Friends — Now Paired in the Restaurant Business — Revive a 50s-Style Bridgeport Diner

    Steve Sicilia and Paul Salamy bonded as two-year-olds in preschool. The pair entered the food service industry as high schoolers, and now, they’re taking their experience into a Bridgeport site, Muffins. Michael Klein chronicled their personal and business connection in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sicilia and Salamy befriended each other in Mrs. Smith’s class at Good…

  • Qlik CEO Mike Capone Recognized as Most Admired CEO of 2022 By Philadelphia Business Journal

    Qlik CEO Mike Capone Recognized as Most Admired CEO of 2022 By Philadelphia Business Journal

    The Philadelphia Business Journal has declared this year’s honorees for the 2022 Most Admired CEO Awards, a class of 26 individuals from 25 companies, including a Lifetime Achievement Award winner. CEO Mike Capone of King of Prussia-based Qlik was among those recognized, writes Lisa Dukart. Capone was named CEO in 2018. He recalls his most…

  • Fans of TV’s ‘Friends’ Can Explore Its Sets Firsthand in King of Prussia in February

    Fans of TV’s ‘Friends’ Can Explore Its Sets Firsthand in King of Prussia in February

    An upcoming exhibit of sets from the NBC hit Friends is coming to the King of Prussia Mall in February 2022. Richard C. Kraus covered the event for WBRE/WYOU, Scranton, Wilkes Barre. The traveling sets are in honor of the 25th anniversary of the show, which ran on NBC from September 1994 to May 2004.…

  • DELCO Careers: Qlik

    DELCO Careers: Qlik

    Based in King of Prussia and operating in more than 100 countries, Qlik helps enterprises around the world move faster, work smarter, and lead the way forward with an end-to-end solution for getting value out of data. Its platform is the only one on the market that allows for open-ended, curiosity-driven exploration, giving everyone — at any…

  • There’s a Solid Chance Bryce Harper’s Clutch Two-Run NLCS Blast Was with a Bat Made in King of Prussia

    There’s a Solid Chance Bryce Harper’s Clutch Two-Run NLCS Blast Was with a Bat Made in King of Prussia

    Given sports figures’ highly superstitious natures, there’s an excellent chance that the bat Bryce Harper used in his bottom-of-the-eighth game winning Oct. 23 home run — the one sending the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series for the first time since 2009 — was made in King of Prussia. According to KYW Newsradio report from…