SEC Filings Show Symon Bought For $45 Million March 11, 2013 by Super User It appears Symon Communications was bought for $45 million as part of the mash-up acquisition/reverse merger thing that will lead, soon, to RMG Networks being a publicly listed company. The SEC filings show, in the transaction details of this deck, that Symon’s owners (primarily the VC firm Golden Gate Capital) got a “cash consideration” of $45M …
Projects: SoloHeath Wellness Stations Now In 3,000 US Retailers March 11, 2013 by Super User SoloHealth now has more than 2,000 free digital health and wellness stations out in retail locations across the United States, which the company says doubled the footprint withinb three months. The company has announced it intends to be in more than 3,500 locations by end of year, which would make it one of the larger digital …
Aerva Fires Up Locos Tacos Campaign In Times Square March 8, 2013 by Super User Boston-based software company Aerva has a big social-mobile-Digital OOH campaign up and running with Taco Bell on a ClearChannel spectacular board in NYC’s Times Square. The campaign is a product launch this week for Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos. Through the five week campaign, users can send their picture to the digital billboard. Taco Bell’s …
Guest Post: DSE Grows in Size and Energy March 8, 2013 by Stephen Randall This post originally appeared in HDTV Expert Digital Signage Expo, running from February 26 to 28 this year in Las Vegas, had 22% more exhibitors this year than last, but the growth felt larger than that and the high energy level was palpable. Exhibitors I questioned were pleased with their booth traffic, with some “complaining” …
DSA Plans 2-Day Spring Symposium In DFW March 7, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association staging a two-day symposium May 9-10 in Dallas – kind of a micro-conference that has fees but also appears to be bankrolled by a handful of sponsoring vendors. The event, which is day of yakking split across two days, is at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center. Thursday, May 9 …
Projects: Christie’s MicroTiles Seem To Grow Off Lobby Walls March 7, 2013 by Super User Christie’s Canadian headquarters in the Kitchener-Waterloo area got an addition last year, and a second lobby entrance to the sprawling facility. Arsenal Media, SRM Architects and rp Visual Solutions came up with a very cool, almost organic design that embeds Christie’s MicroTiles into the walls and elevator column. The project won a Silver Apex award …
Video: 2XM Demos Multi-Platform Interactive Retailing March 7, 2013 by Super User There is a digital conference called DX3 on this week in Toronto and I unfortunately haven’t had the free time to tear down there and have a look, as I did last year. It’s too bad, because one of the companies I wanted to catch up with there is 2XM Interactive from Montreal, which some …
Video/Pix: NYC’s Reinvent Payphone Finalists March 7, 2013 by Super User Tech blog The Verge has a good piece up this morning about finalist entries in a competition intended to reinvent payphones in New York City. It’s an initiative, reports the blog, that invites students, urban planners, and designers to propose their visions for the payphone of the future. The finalists were selected as winners in six …
DSE 2013 Stats Up Across Board March 7, 2013 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo people have released stats for last week, some I am not convinced I was supposed to see (and will hold back on). Actual attendance was 4,080, which was up slightly from a year earlier and not as high as expected, as the DSE folks speculate that there were some 1,400 no-shows …
Video Blog: Samsung’s New SoC Smart Signage March 7, 2013 by Super User My Signagelive friends, Jason Cremins and Raffi Vartian, have been talking up a storm with anyone who will listen about the merits and possibilities of Samsung’s SoC product, which was announced at ISE and then announced formally for the N. America market last week at DSE. It interests me as a product for a few …
