The UK-based digital signage CMS company ONELAN has been acquired by Uniguest, a Nashville-based company best known for operating the business centers in hotels, across several major chains. […]
An auto industry-focused media publisher in Toronto and the Dallas-based CMS and solutions provider Reflect have formed a strategic alliance aimed directly at providing in-store solutions for auto dealers. […]
The European wing of the Digital Signage Federation – DSF Europe – has announced a new leadership set-up. Dirk Huelsermann is stepping back from his long-running position as chairman (since inception nine years ago as OVAB Europe) and the organization will now have a President as its head. […]
More and more digital signage software companies are starting to catch on to how the cannabis industry presents a lot of opportunity for menu boards, promo displays and interactive product information stations. […]
Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. […]
The big LED display manufacturer Leyard, based in China, has acquired the German video wall and display cube company eyevis – giving the company a greater sales and marketing foothold in western Europe and into the Middle East. The announcement names both Leyard and Portland, OR-based Planar (which Leyard acquired) as the companies leading the deal. […]
New research is suggesting confidence in the durability of commercial display products will mean the numbers of them will grow, per location, by 20 percent over the next three years. A new report from the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and PMA Research says that growth will happen even though replacement cycles for displays are getting lengthier. […]
Via Pot Network With all of Canada going to legalized cannabis this summer and more U.S. states doing so (California is roughly the same population as Canada) there will be a lot of points of sale and a lot of digital menus and promo displays over the next few years. […]
Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose. Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on demand. […]
RMG Networks has done a definitive merger agreement with its board chairman to take the company private, after several years operating as a public company. The deal opens a window for a third-party suitor to, in effect, make a “superior” offer before this deal closes. The merger deal is with Greg Sachs, RMG’s Executive Chairman, under the company name SCG Digital, LLC. […]
I remember years ago somebody or other talking about how one day PCs were going to be the same form factor as smartphones. We are apparently there (though arguably we’re past that with stick PCs). The Hong Kong manufacturer Zotac is marketing a super thin and light PC that’s somewhere between a portable hard drive and smartphone in dimension. […]
STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. […]
One of the big challenges on the technology side of digital signage is keeping up with all of the emerging hardware and software options on the market. It used to be a reasonably simple case of developing software in one OS or another and getting it running on a PC. […]
In what seems like a pretty smart move, among several lately, BrightSign has paired up with yet another tech company in the digital signage ecosystem to make its little purple media players part of the offer and solution. […]
The guys at Belgium-based subscription content service Seenspire have launched what they’re calling the first ever pay-per-screen pricing plan for the digital signage industry, with unlimited access to Seenspire’s cloud-based content library of 250-plus feeds. The new plan applies a monthly fee per screen, done on a sliding scale that reduces the fee as networks add more screens. […]
