There’s nothing new about media on taxi tops, but a San Francisco start-up called Firefly is trying to go about it with a different approach. Firefly describes itself as the first mobility-based SmartScreens platform – an advertising media firm that gets it footprint and scale from the rideshare industry. […]
Tampa-based in-store marketing solutions provider Spectrio has merged with Louisville-based Codigo, a digital signage and kiosk software and solutions shop that has long focused on the financial services industry. “Over the years, Spectrio has focused on client growth in automotive, healthcare, hospitality, veterinary, and retail verticals. […]
There is now a Scala China, in the wake of parent company STRATACACHE acquiring a tablet and computing device manufacturing company based in Ningbo, China. The company, formerly known as POPSCREENS, is now Scala China – positioned as a solution for interactive retail displays. The deal gets CEO Chris Riegel a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility, and more than 125 new employees. […]
In what seems like a slightly-odd partnership, Leyard (and Planar, which it acquired) have forged a partnership with a competitor to build up its LED display capabilities in the sports and entertainment market. […]
Dayton, Ohio-based digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE has acquired the UK integrator Sys-Teams, giving the company in-house European capability for installation, integration and field services. Sys-Teams has focused its projects in the UK and EU and, under STRATACACHE, plans to expand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, beginning with Germany and the Benelux region. […]
SEC filings by Creative Realities show the solutions provider is buying Allure from Christie Digital out of money it hopes through an offering of common stocks and warrants. I go into rapid eye-blink mode when I read SEC filings (I did not miss my calling as a securities lawyer), so I am quoting this verbatim. Some of you will understand it. […]
The big Spanish pro AV integrator TRISON just got bigger, with the closed acquisition of France’s TMM Communication. Based in A Coruña, TRISON has implemented more than 10,000 projects to date globally and has a pile of tier 1 clients like New Balance, Sephora, Ikea, Porsche and so on. The company did 52 million euros in sales last year. […]
The winding road that has characterized the story of RMG Networks in the last 10 years has added another turn with news that the Dallas-based digital signage solutions company has been acquired and taken off the stock market, converted to a privately-held entity. […]
Christie Digital Systems seems to be going back to its core business – having wound down the digital signage creative shop Arsenal Media (which become Christie 360) and now selling off Allure Global, the cinema and QSR-focused digital signage solutions provider. Allure’s new masters are the guys at Creative Realities, also known as CRI. […]
Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe. […]
Co-working space giant WeWork is getting into a very distinct, narrow part of the digital signage market, acquiring a Salt Lake City company that specializes in digital meeting room signs and the usage and optimization analytics generated by that software platform. […]
There’s a bunch of interesting nuggets of information in a local paper’s interview with Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel – most notably that he expects to be north of 1,000 employees within a year. Talking to the Dayton Daily News, Riegel says he’s now at 750, with 320 of them in Dayton. […]
Digital signage management software firm X2O Media is going after its old CEO in a Las Vegas court, claiming his new firm has misappropriated trade secrets. X2O is also claiming, as reflected in filings with the US District Court in Nevada, breach of contract and trademark infringement by Xentiant Technologies and its founder David Wilkins. […]
Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface Geoff Bessin You’re probably aware of the Innovator’s Dilemma. An innovative company corners a market and then becomes inwardly focused, directing efforts towards protecting its existing business model and technology rather than innovating further. The result is a company that becomes vulnerable to the type of upstarts they once were. […]
Stingray Digital Media Group is one the world’s biggest providers of multi-platform music services, with 11,000 commercial clients in 156 countries. […]
