Here’s some good news to take on-board during this dark business period, and a reminder that business will come back soon enough. Revenue in the worldwide LED video display market went up by 34.7 percent in 2019, driven by surging demand for fine pixel pitch (FPP) products. […]
Sixteen:Nine is working with the Munich-based consulting, events and publishing firm invidis on a marketplace survey to get some sense of what impacts companies within the digital signage eco-system expect to see because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. […]
Samsung has started marketing what it calls its Business TV, or Pro TV. It’s a “prosumer” display – a TV with some commercial display features – bundled with a light CMS application that small business operators can control and manage off a smartphone. […]
Here is some mildly encouraging news – while North America and Europe are turning into big quarantine zones, China is coming out of that phase and technology manufacturing is getting back to normal. […]
NYC-based CMS software firm ComQi has pulled out of Digital Signage Expo, which is scheduled to open in three weeks in Las Vegas. Stu Armstrong, the company’s President, called Monday afternoon to fill me in, explaining it was a very hard decision to back out of a show the company has been at, in some fashion, since DSE’s inception. […]
Minneapolis-based digital signage CMS Skykit has announced it is being spun off from its parent company, four years after it was launched by the Google-centric cloud services company Agosto. “Skykit was born from Agosto’s award-winning innovation in the public cloud,” says Skykit CEO Irfan Khan. […]
A San Francisco digital signage company has turned to the power of celebrity to help market and guide its solutions – with actor Mark Wahlberg coming on as a strategic advisor. Wahlberg had already been an early investor and customer of Raydiant’s restaurant-centric solution, deploying it in the family-owned Wahlburgers fast casual burger chain. […]
One of the challenges any technology company faces in penetrating a vertical market is crossing the divide from selling something that would be nice to have, to offering something that is seen as essential. […]
There is, unsurprisingly, precious little detail, but McDonald’s is starting to generally talk up and validate its $300M acquisition a year ago of the Israeli AI startup Dynamic Yield, which is enabling the QSR giant to optimize suggestive selling in its drive-thru lanes and elsewhere. […]
Direct view LED manufacturer Daktronics evidently sees microLED as part of its indoor display future, having announced it was part of a Series A investment round in X Display Company (XDC), a Raleigh-Durham, NC start-up that “creates and owns leading intellectual property (IP) and capabilities in microLED mass transfer technology. […]
A Japanese firm that specializes in currency and coin processing evidently sees a QSR future that is increasingly cashless, responding by investing in a French company that is seeing a lot of success in self-ordering, cashless kiosks. […]
The ride share firm Lyft has acquired a small startup called Halo Cars, which puts digital OOH ad displays on top of drivers’ cars, providing a incremental revenue for willing drivers. The ad startup – along with another one called Firefly – drafts off the well-established ad format of printed and more recently digital signs mounted atop taxis. […]
Chinese LED manufacturer Absen has taken the seemingly unusual step of pushing out an announcement designed to allay any concerns buyers may have about supplies of direct view module product in the midst of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation. There are many, many reports coming out of the Asian tech press about production slowdowns or shutdowns because of labor shortages and travel restrictions. […]
The Canadian out of home media firm PATTISON Outdoor Advertising has rolled its digital division – started via acquisition several years ago – into the overall brand. That means PATTISON Onestop is no more as its own, slightly separate thing, and is just part of overall PATTISON. […]
RMG Networks has been doing workplace communications and employee engagement since the days the Dallas company was known as Symon Communications. There have been some interesting twists and turns in the story of RMG – like a curious spell as a digital out of home media company that ALSO did the legacy Symon stuff. […]
