Creative Realities, Inc. has filed an S-1 IPO registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Filed last Thursday, the S-1 says: This prospectus relates to the resale of 32,128,832 shares of common stock of Creative Realities, Inc. […]
LED signmaker Watchfire Signs has acquired digital signage software firm Aerva, in a deal that closed early this month. Based in Danville, Illionois – west of Indianapolis and south of Chicago – Watchfire builds large-format outdoor LED boards, servicing everything from media companies to schools and communities. […]
There are things you want to inherit when you acquire another company, but a penchant for red ink is probably not among them. New York-based Creative Realities in the year since it merged with Wireless Ronin is now reliably spitting out the same butt-ugly quarterly statements that followers grew accustomed to seeing when Ronin was still a thing. […]
STRATACACHE has acquired IZ-ON Media, the company formerly and arguably better known as PRN, picking it up in a cash deal with its French owners Technicolor. […]
It looks like the last little bits of the media business built up by RMG Networks are being sold off, and RMG is now pretty much Symon Communications again, under the newer name. […]
Panasonic has acquired a small, privately-owned NYC-based digital signage solutions provider called MagicInk Interactive LLC, picking up retail planning and deployment expertise. “After reviewing the potential acquisitions in this area, we believe that MagicInk is well positioned to help us significantly expand our digital signage business. […]
A pair of companies long active in digital signage and digital out of home have reached an out of court patent dispute settlement that could have broader implications for the use of social media feeds on networked digital screens. Boston-based software and solutions firm Aerva has reached a settlement in a patent infringement action filed by Orlando-based media firm Monster Media on Feb. […]
The outdoor ad firm Titan and interactive/technology agency Control Group have been merged into a new urban experience company called Intersection! – the deal bankrolled by a consortium that’s led by Sidewalk Labs, a newly-minted partnership between Google and former Bloomberg CEO Dan Doctoroff. […]
If Google Trends is a real measure of activity and interest in digital signage, Canada is the hotbed country, but Dubai is the hotbed city at the moment. These are charts from the past 12 months. This graph shows web activity and you can see how the timeline kinda syncs up with ISE, DSE and the just-finished InfoComm. […]
Montreal-based VIF Télé, which runs and manages signage networks in the Quebec market, has expanded its service offering by acquiring the operations of a company that does SMS send-outs and tracking. Taking on SMS Looky allows VIF Télé to offer a system for managing the simultaneous sending, receiving and tracking of text messages to targeted, opted-in audiences. […]
A pair of Canadian indoor advertising companies that have both competed for business and collaborated on projects for the last 20 years have traded network properties in a move that allows both to focus on well-defined verticals. Montreal-based Newad is buying the restaurant/bar, campus, fashion, business, media and golf networks from Zoom Media, also from Montreal. […]
A pair of Charlotte, NC companies have merged, putting together a combined offer that includes things as diverse as low-cost media players, video analytics and interactive stations. The interactive touchscreen firm T1V has bought the assets of Cenique USA, which now do business as Cenique Global, a division of T1V. […]
Webinars and online hangouts are anything but new ideas, but Denver-based Four Winds Interactive appears to be going at the idea with a different spin – aiming at C-level people with executive talks that aren’t just directed by sales people or sales engineers. […]
Denver-based signage software firm Four Winds Interactive got a nice little nod recently from the tech-centric market analysis firm Gartner, listing it among a tight selection of Cool Vendors for Content Management for 2015. […]
A boutique market research firm in Sweden, focused on the Internet of Things and Machine to Machine connectivity businesses, has pushed out a report suggesting global shipments of networked digital signage displays grew by 21.7 percent last year. Berg Insight suggests that high growth will continue for the next several years, ticking along at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7 percent. […]
