After a positive stretch, the first in years for the blended entities, Creative Realities is back well into the red ink zone, based on new SEC filings. We have incurred net losses and negative cash flows from operating activities for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015. […]
Acer is taking on 51% ownership in another Taiwan tech company, Aopen, in what is described as a core strategy to expand its digital signage business. Acer will participate in a private placement of 36.5 million new common shares of AOpen at a price of $0.38 per share USD. This is a bit of a back to the future thing since Aopen was originally a subsidiary of Acer, going back to the ’90s. […]
Were there any doubt STRATACACHE is still in acquisition mode, consider news today that the company has created a new business unit called STRATACACHE Capital and hired industry veteran Dirk Huelsermann as its Managing Partner. […]
Sharp seems to be on the rebound after a seriously rough economic patch for the Japanese electronics giant. Less than three years ago there were big concerns Sharp was going under, having registered a nearly $2 billion loss. Now Reuters is reporting Sharp Corp has reported its fourth consecutive quarter of net profit, and sales are ticking along nicely. […]
Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay AB is continuing its European roll-up efforts, buying what it describes as the largest and leading provider in Holland. ZetaDisplay has done a deal to acquire all of the shares of QYN BV, for SEK 83.3 million, or about $10 million USD. […]
You don’t see a lot of IPOs being floated out there by digital signage companies, but that’s what NYC-based Digital Social Retail is taking the necessary steps with the SEC to do. […]
Guest Post: Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Enplug The way we communicate in the workplace on the topic of appropriate behavior is clearly broken. Nothing shows this more clearly than the alleged sexual transgression charges against Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, and Roy Price. Phyllis Zimbler Miller Of course, companies have policies against sexual harassment in the workplace. […]
There are undoubtedly many, many times when C-suite people get the bill in from the company law firm, and wonder what the hell all those zeroes after a $ sign amounted to – but maybe not around Atlanta-based NanoLumens, which appears to have very gone 4 for 4 in its legal actions this summer with LED display competitors. […]
Chicago-based Outcome Health is having a bit of a bad press day after the Wall Street Journal published this afternoon the results of a five-month look into the digital OOH media company, with the story suggesting the company misled the media value of its network to its core advertising clients. […]
If you want to get a sense of what’s really going on with the digital out of home media business and the technology ecosystem that feeds into it, you need to pay attention to Mark Boidman. That’s his gig – looking at the opportunities and risks of the business, as a partner running the marketing services wing of New York investment banking house Peter J. Solomon Company. […]
On the immediate heels of Diversified announcing its acquisition yesterday of MCW, rival integrator AVI-SPL announced this morning its acquisition of one of the largest pro AV integrators in Canada, Sharp’s Audio Visual. […]
New Jersey-based integrator Diversified continues to roll up the technology solutions provider market in the U.S,, announcing today the acquisition of Ashburn, VA based MCW, an IT and AV systems integrator with particular strengths in electronic security and surveillance. The acquisition expands Diversified’s services into an established book of electronic security business across the U.S. […]
Via New Zealand Herald A New Zealand startup called DROPIT has an interesting sports engagement app designed to keep fans involved in games during breaks, instead of staring at their phones. […]
Chris Riegel at his King’s Landing offices. Dayton, OH-based STRATACACHE has fully acquired an interesting Finnish startup called Walkbase that generates in-store analytics on shopper characteristics and patterns. […]
The guys at Screenscape in beautiful little Charlottetown, PEI got some good marketing news this week – being named among the fastest-growing companies in Canada by Canadian Business magazine. […]
