CRI Carries On Ronin’s Red-Splashed Ways; Cash Doesn’t Match Burn Rate Needs For Q2 July 6, 2015 by Super User 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 …
ICX Association Hands Out Its First Excellence Awards July 2, 2015 by Super User I’ve heard some positive reviews coming out of the Interactive Customer Experience Association’s event in Chicago earlier this week – with loads of end-users and supplier/vendors limited to those that had some tie through sponsorship or awards to the event. If I read the tweets right, it was sold out. The ICX Association is the new …
RMG Networks Sells Off Its Airline Media Business July 1, 2015 by Super User 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. Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), a media company focused on the travel industry, has “certain assets” from RMG Networks Holding Corporation – the ones related to …
STRATACACHE Buys IZ-ON Media & Big Retail Footprint July 1, 2015 by Super User 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. The deal gives the Dayton, Ohio company – which is evolving into a lot more than a software CMS firm – a big footprint in many of the top retailers in …
Liveposter’s Martin Porter Rounds Out Terrific DSrupted Line-up June 30, 2015 by Super User I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. …
Videos: BlueBite’s Sizzle Reel On IoT Marketing June 29, 2015 by Super User BlueBite works on the edges of the digital signage and digital OOH spaces enabling interactivity from displays and static posters to mobile devices. This is a sizzle reel the NYC-based interactive company has just put out that nicely shows some of the real world, pragmatic possibilities for stuff like NFC tags. I like it because …
Panasonic Buys NYC-Based Digital Signage Solutions Firm MagicInk June 29, 2015 by Super User 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. This is just one in a series of planned …
Live Posters Sense How Busy London Pubs Are; Nudges People In For A Pimm’s June 24, 2015 by Super User Here’s another very clever idea enabled by the guys at LivePoster in the UK – a digital poster tied-in to smartphone-sensing data that tells passers-by whether a pub is busy and suggests dropping in for a drink. The Spirits Business trade publication reports how booze giant Diageo is behind a digital poster trial tied to a …
Monster, Aerva Patent Dispute Settlement Could Have Broad Implications For Running Social Media On Screens June 24, 2015 by Super User 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 …
Titan, Control Group Pair Up At Intersection! June 24, 2015 by Super User 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. Titan and Control are two of the key companies behind LinkNYC, the big project aimed at …
