Almo Puts Last Week’s E4v Classes And Sessions Online, For On Demand Viewing March 16, 2021 by Super User The big Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo had the early spring version of its E4 Evolution (E4v) educational series last week, and has now put all the material online for a month to access on demand. The E4v Flex Experience is described as a “month-long, on-demand opportunity for integrators, end users and tech managers to access all …
Four Winds Merges With Irish Employee Communications Firm Poppulo March 15, 2021 by Super User Denver-based digital signage CMS firm Four Winds Interactive has merged with a company called Poppulo, which does email and mobile employee communication software. The combination is backed by Vista Equity Partners, the investment firm that had earlier taken a substantial ownership position in FWI. Says the PR: Through this merger, the combined business will serve 6,000+ customers, the …
TouchSource Monetizes Office Tower Directory Screens Via New DOOH Media Network March 15, 2021 by Super User A Denver company that has long focused on providing touch-based directory technologies to commercial property owners and operators has taken the interesting step of rolling up the screens as a DOOH media network. Directory screens in office properties are now part of what has been dubbed the TouchSource Directory Media Network. Says TouchSource in launching …
SID Display Week Set For May 17-21, All Virtual For 2nd Year March 12, 2021 by Super User The Society for Information Display (SID) has opened registration for its annual Display Week trade show and conference, which will again be all virtual, running May 17-21. The event is an annual gathering of terrifyingly bright engineers and researchers in the information display sector, talking about ideas and advances in area like LED, OLED, Light …
ISE Scales Back From June Main Show To Four Regional Events In Europe That Month March 11, 2021 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe’s 2021 plans for a Barcelona show in June have been officially scaled back to a two-day hybrid event in that city, followed by three more June events in other European cities. Show managers Integrated Systems Events, and its co-owners AVIXA and CEDIA, have jointly announced ISE Live & Online, a series of …
PatientPoint, Outcome Health Merged To Create Huge DOOH Media Network March 10, 2021 by Super User Cincinnati-based PatientPoint has merged with Chicago’s Outcome Health to create PatientPoint Health Technologies, a huge DOOH media network focused on physician-patient environments. The combined company, which primarily does screens in waiting rooms, has a reach of nearly 150,000 unique healthcare providers, and a potential audience of roughly 750 million people annually. “This timely, strategic transaction …
CRI’s Pandemic-Era Financials Likely A Window Into How Many Ecosystem Firms Fared In 2020 March 10, 2021 by Super User I used to track a now long-gone CMS software company called Wireless Ronin because of the company’s impressive record of burning through investor money, but I gradually got away from that when the company was acquired by Creative Realities and came under adult supervision. The quick story on Ronin is the company built up a …
Massive Experiential DV LED Video Walls Focal Point Of New Project In Central London March 9, 2021 by Super User A new development going up now in central London, in the immediate vicinity of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, includes a building with a public atrium lined inside by four-storey tall 8K DV LED video walls. The Outernet London development is a feature of new build and redeveloped properties intended to make the area …
PRN Launches Airport DOOH Network, Looking To Fill Void Created by CNN Airport Shutdown March 8, 2021 by Super User The shopper engagement firm PRN is making a move to fill the vacuum left in U.S. airport departure lounges created by CNN winding down its airport TV business. PRN, which got its start in media almost 30 years ago, putting TVs in Walmarts and other big box retail venues, is launching the Ascend Media Network, …
DV LED Demand Recovering, But Almost 70% Of Trade In Chinese Market: Research March 8, 2021 by Super User The market research firm OMDIA says the Direct View LED video display market is coming back as the COVID-19 pandemic slows, but the recovery is somewhat limited to China. Recovery began in the third quarter and accelerated further in the 4th quarter, says OMDIA in a brief. “In Q4 2020, 336,257 square meters were shipped, …
