The Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA) put out new numbers today suggesting the Digital OOH sector’s revenue growth rate for the first half of 2015 outpaced all other major media. […]
And we’re back. What’d I miss? I dutifully ignored all but a couple of email-based fires, so for all I know there were big mergers and massive product announcements. […]
Taking Friday and next week off, so few (or more likely no) posts. Playing golf with son. Based on my time at the driving range today, I will spend a lot of time in the trees. […]
The UK firm Signagelive has changed the business card on Raffi Vartian, shifting him from Chief Operating Officer to Chief Marketing Officer of the company. R&D and operations are all based near Cambridge, England, so having the head of ops in Chicago – where Vartian lives – didn’t make a whole pile of sense. […]
Google Alerts is a little tool I use to pay attention to the various news wires and sent me regular digests of stuff that moves on digital signage and other key phrases. Among the regular news items that come up are reports from research companies I’ve never heard of, that definitively say how the signage industry is going to grow in the next several years. […]
Via Bloomberg A former Amazon exec’s startup is running a test in a Manhattan Beach, CA Macy’s that mashes up digital screens, mobile and some old-school warehouse ideas to rethink the shopping experience. […]
Dallas-based RMG Networks has released its latest quarterly financials, which suggest the company’s turnaround efforts are starting to make a difference and getting the corporate-focused signage software and solutions company closer to running in the black. […]
Planar’s CEO is telling staff and customers that it is business as usual for the Portland, OR company in the wake of the announced acquisition by Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard. Of course, executives tend to say that in the wake of M&A events, and often that isn’t the case. […]
I think AOPEN may have some challenges with the price-points for its new commercial Chromebox and Chromebase – they’re priced accordingly, but the market mostly equates Chromebox to sub-$200 devices. However, the Taiwan company does a very nice job with this explainer video showing the products, features and benefits and applicability. […]
The blending of LED and display technologies and companies continues. Specialty, high-end display panel maker Planar Systems has been acquired by the Chinese high-end indoor LED firm Leyard Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. The companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement, that would see a U.S. […]
If I wandered into work at ConeXus World this morning, and a colleague let me know the company just got acquired by Creative Realities, I’d probably head for whatever local bar was open that early, to order a very stiff drink. And it wouldn’t be a celebratory drink, since everything my new masters touch seems to turn red. Creative Realities, Inc. […]
The UK digital signage firm Amscreen has decided to formally sell off its media division to its longtime media sales partner DigiCom, so that Amscreen can focus on software and hardware. DigiCom Out of Home takes ownership of the media sales and marketing activities for some 3,500 UK digital roadside and healthcare networks running with Amscreen’s LCD/LED screen combos. […]
Hisense’s Major Expansion: Acquiring Sharp America (PRNewsFoto/Hisense) China’s Hisense Group and Japan’s Sharp announced a deal today that sees Hisense buying all the equity and assets of Sharp’s TV factory in Mexico (for $23.7 million) and with that the rights to use the “Sharp” brand name and all its channel resources in both North and South American regions. […]
Sitting in Charlotte Airport and resisting the siren call of a local summer wheat beer at the bar a few gates down, at the tail end of three weeks of pretty much non-stop travel, and eating. […]
This week and next, just like last week, sees me in a whole buncha airports and hotels, so posts will be spotty. It’s summer, and theoretically not a whole pile going on anyway. Whatever normal is for this thing should resume at the start of August. […]
