The long-running digital signage CMS software firm Rise Vision has been acquired by AUO Display Plus, a business unit of Taiwanese manufacturer AU Optronics. ... […]
If you cast your mind back a year and plus, you may have vague memories of these places called airports, and venues and things in them where you bought stuff, like Gravol or $6 bottles of water. A company that somewhat specializes in airport retailing – Hudson – has started to fit out non-staffed locations with LED screens to locate the stores, draw attention, and market products. […]
After more than 16 years running sales and being the “face” of ComQi, in its various iterations, Stu Armstrong has taken on the new task of Chief Revenue Officer for JohnRyan. The new role is more of an assignment than career move, as both ComQi and JohnRyan are owned by the Taiwanese display manufacturing giant AU Optronics. […]
NYC-based CMS software firm ComQi has pulled out of Digital Signage Expo, which is scheduled to open in three weeks in Las Vegas. Stu Armstrong, the company’s President, called Monday afternoon to fill me in, explaining it was a very hard decision to back out of a show the company has been at, in some fashion, since DSE’s inception. […]
New York, February 5, 2020 — ComQi has acquired JohnRyan in a deal that sees both of the software and services companies broadening their knowledge and capabilities to serve client needs across an increasingly diverse and global retail marketplace. […]
A couple of long-running digital signage CMS companies have linked up, with NYC-based ComQi acquiring Minneapolis-based JohnRyan. The deal, which is formalized today but comes with no details on $$ or terms, sees both companies operating as their own entities and brands, but with some cross-pollination expected on things like sales and R&D. […]
The NYC-based digital signage CMS firm ComQi is starting to show some tangible technical evidence of its ties to parent company AUO, the Taiwanese display manufacturer that acquired them last year. […]
ComQi – DSE Booth #1812 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Even though our primary focus is Retail, we have successfully delivered solutions across all vertical such as QSR/Food Service, Sports & Entertainment, Healthcare, Hospitality, Grocery, Banking and Corporate Communications. […]
Decathlon is the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, with more than 1,350 stores in 39 countries, but the French company only recently entered the US market. […]
Word got out a few weeks ago that New York-based ComQi had been acquired by Taiwan’s AU Optronics Corporation (AUO), but the two companies have only formally announced and confirmed the deal this week. […]
Digital signage CMS software firm ComQi has reportedly been acquired for $28 million USD by Taiwanese flat panel display manufacturer AU Optronics in a play to become a total solutions provider in this industry. It’s a lot of money, and from what I understand is more than what Stratacache paid for Scala. […]
The digital signage industry has gradually come around to the idea that buyers are less interested in how things work than they are in what the things will do for them. You see that reflected in trade show booths that are increasingly putting the technology in context, like faux retail settings. The next step, logically, is to have real stores as the showrooms. […]
The big World Duty Free shop in the international terminal at Detroit’s main airport has added a set of displays aimed at energizing the store experience and driving sales and promotions. The showcase feature is a 3mm pitch LED halo ring hanging like a lighting fixture, the idea being the circular display is visible anywhere in the store. […]
Pretty much every convenience store I’ve been in, for almost 20 years doing this stuff, has left me shrugging about their digital signage effort – but the program put in by a travel stop chain called Love’s is an exception. It looks really good. And smart. […]
Here’s a roundup of press releases in my inbox that rise above the “We’re at DSE, come see us” notes I get in waves right now. Tightrope Debuts Carousel 7.0 St. Paul, Minnesota’s Tightrope Media Systems is releasing version 7.0 of its Carousel digital signage CMS today and showcasing it next week at Digital Signage Expo, booth 134. […]
