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16:9: Fine Pixel Pitch LED Sales Grew 366% In 2015: IHS Research

The arrival on the market of fine pixel pitch LED displays has sparked a big jump in shipments globally, but the competitive landscape is so crowded that total revenues have only jumped slightly, according to a new marketplace report by the research firm IHS. Total unit shipments for all pixel-pitch categories in the direct-view LED video market were up 15.6 percent year over year in 2015. […]

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Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:49 AM

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Defining The Digital Workplace

Photo: Vladimir Kudinov Guest Post: Brandon Harp, Barco/X20 Media The digital workplace has many different meanings, and as someone selling visual and software solutions into that space, I constantly find myself asking  customers what the digital workplace means to them. Very few have clearly defined answers. […]

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Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:09 AM

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16:9: Chart: LCD’s Future Is Big, As In Big Screens, Says IHS

The latest IHS Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis – this one tied to Q1 2016 – says the slowdown in the economies of China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe actually shrunk the digital signage and professional display market by 3%, year on year, in 2015. But the market is coming around and is expected to grow by 2.9% in 2016, at 12.2 million. […]

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Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:02 PM

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16:9: Creative Realities SEC Filings Show Yet More Red Ink For Blended Entitity

The red ink story has continued at Creative Realities – the blended entity that includes elements of CRI, Wireless Ronin, Broadcast International and . The company filed its annual report with the SEC, which shows it had a net loss of just shy of $8 million for the 2015 fiscal year. Sales were down about 15%, and that was with ConeXus World revenues rolled in to the mix. […]

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Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:50 AM

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16:9: Swedish Firm Has 40-Plus Active Lawsuits On Its Digital Signage Patents

A small Swedish company now has dozens of lawsuits circulating in the digital billboard industry, suing those media companies for patent infringement, based on a suite of patents related to using a computer to remotely control digital signs. The company is called T-Rex Property AB, and has been around since 2003. […]

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Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:27 PM

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22 Miles Responds; Calls Four Winds Patent Lawsuit Meritless

The wayfinding-centric signage software firm 22 Miles, Inc., based in Silicon Valley, has issued a statement responding to the lawsuit last month by Four Winds Interactive, of Denver. The statement issued April 8th says the lawsuit, alleging patent infringement and related activities, is meritless and that the company will vigorously defend itself in court. […]

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Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:22 PM

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TransitScreen Raises $800K To Chase Real Estate Tech, Smart Cities Business

Washington, DC-based startup TransitScreen – which mashes up open source data like transit and traffic conditions as feeds and finished screens – has completed an $800,000 seed capital raise. […]

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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:52 PM

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Four Winds Sues 22 Miles For Patent Infringement; Alleges Reverse-Engineering Of FWI Platform

Denver-based digital signage CMS company Four Winds Interactive has filed a lawsuit in Colorado to go after Silicon Valley-based 22 Miles over patent infringement, copyright infringement and something called Patent False Marking, in addition to other related claims. […]

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Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:20 PM

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Projects: Kuwait Petroleum’s VIP Lounge Experience

This is the new VIP Executive Lounge Experience at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, that country’s biggest national oil company. The company, which has annual revenues of something like $250 billion, wanted a space for execs and guests that was luxurious and comfy, but also reinforced the company and brand through visuals. […]

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Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM

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16:9: Foxconn Completes Acquisition Of Sharp

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer, agreed to acquire Japan’s Sharp Corp for about $3.5 billion. The company that, among many things, has huge manufacturing facilities in China making iPhones, is taking roughly a two-thirds stake in the Japanese display and electronics manufacturer. […]

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Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:52 AM

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Webinar Thursday On Getting Paid Faster On SaaS Deals

The Toronto company that is marketing a way for companies to bring forward revenue from digital signage SaaS deals is doing another webinar this Thursday on how the arrangement works. The pitch from the SaaS Lending Group, which is part of Alliance Financing, is debt financing in the form of a term loan that gets tied to thew recurring revenue stream for a long-term software licensing deal. […]

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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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16:9: Combo Digital OOH Screen And Vending Machine Start-Up Gets USD 2M Bump In SharkTank

A New York City start-up that combines digital OOH screens and wall-mounted vending machines got a big PR bump and cash infusion the other night by cutting a deal on the US reality TV show Shark Tank. Vengo Labs co-founders Brian Shimmerlik and Steven Bofill wangled a $2 million deal with a pair of the show’s “Shark” investors, Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner. […]

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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:54 AM

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Sticking To Software Drives Big Growth Spike For Indoor Mapping Firm Jibestream

Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. […]

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Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:11 PM

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Christie Hires Blackberry’s Ex Head Of Innovation To Run Software Team

It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. […]

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Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:03 PM

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Finance Firm Sets Up Cash Flow Lending Service For Digital Signage Projects

The digital signage business tends to get fixated on the technology that’s front and center on projects, while really important matters, like how the things get bankrolled, don’t tend to get anywhere near as much attention. […]

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Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:01 AM

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