3M has gone after a pair of touch display manufacturers, with lawsuits alleging its patents for metal mesh conductor technology has been infringed. The latest lawsuit was filed in a federal district court in Las Vegas against South Korea-based Tovis Co. Ltd. […]
Half of the board of Dallas-based RMG Networks resigned earlier this month in the wake of decisions surrounding proposals to acquire the software and solutions company. […]
Montreal-based Stingray has acquired Novramedia, a small Toronto-based digital signage solutions company that has a big client in the Bank of Montreal. Stingray says the deal supports its business plan and growth strategy. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Stingray will fully own and operate Novramedia, and the Novra exec team stays in place. […]
Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, ProntoTV Looking back at the last few years in the digital signage industry, there has been an increase in articles and a growing focus on ROI. It has become a buzz phrase for sales and marketing reps, and a holy grail for clients. I am a marketing manager for a digital signage company in Norway, so I’ve used my share of ROI slides in presentations. […]
NYC-based Perch, which has for several years been developing very clever interactive merchandising pieces for retail, has announced a $1.7 million seed funding raise and a high profile addition to its advisory board.Perch first came on my radar several years ago with an overhead projection system that turned an ordinary white merchandising table into a very nicely designed interactive lift and learn device. […]
Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has acquired “certain assets” of Insteo, the Long Beach, CA content and creative shop. Almo has been tight with Insteo and its CEO/Founder Jim Nista for several years now, and the deal formalizes an arrangement that makes Almo capable of offering what can be lucrative digital signage content services through its partner channel. […]
Buffalo, NY-based Stampede, one of the biggest Pro AV distribution companies out there, has been acquired by the technology division of DCC plc, a £14.3 billion revenue, London Stock Exchange-listed (LSE) sales, marketing and support services group based in Dublin, Ireland. DCC has about 11,000 people across four divisions, and operates in 17 countries. […]
It appears RMG Networks has a new suitor, a couple of months after the signage solutions company’s board chair did a merger agreement to take the public company private, but left the door open for a third-party entity to make a “superior” offer before this deal closes. […]
Consolidation continues in the Scandinavian digital signage ecosystem, with news overnight that ZetaDisplay has acquired Norwegian solutions provider Webpro in a cash deal worth NOK 21 million, which is about $2.5 million USD. The deal also has performance-based supplemental payments. […]
If you deal with companies over in Europe, you’ve probably been carpet-bombed lately by email requests to update your subscription settings for things like product announcements. That all owes to something called GPDR, the General Data Protection Regulation that goes into effect in the European Union at the end of this week. […]
AV Junction, the start-up that’s set up a dedicated online marketplace connecting AV freelancers with hiring companies like integrators, now says it has more than 1,000 entries in its database and is helping get work done globally. […]
The UK-based digital signage CMS company ONELAN has been acquired by Uniguest, a Nashville-based company best known for operating the business centers in hotels, across several major chains. […]
The European wing of the Digital Signage Federation – DSF Europe – has announced a new leadership set-up. Dirk Huelsermann is stepping back from his long-running position as chairman (since inception nine years ago as OVAB Europe) and the organization will now have a President as its head. […]
If you are used to dealing with Milestone for Chief display mounts and related tech for your digital signage projects, you should know that the Milestone brand is all but done – and the company is consolidating branding under its new owners, Legrand. […]
The big LED display manufacturer Leyard, based in China, has acquired the German video wall and display cube company eyevis – giving the company a greater sales and marketing foothold in western Europe and into the Middle East. The announcement names both Leyard and Portland, OR-based Planar (which Leyard acquired) as the companies leading the deal. […]
