Zoom gets new backing for expanding digital footprint September 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesDallas-based ORIX Venture Finance has provided what it calls debt financing – no numbers stated – to Zoom Media Group Inc. to let that Montreal media company expand its footprint and services in the US and Canada, particularly as it relates to digital displays. Orix describes it as an enterprise term loan and revolving line …
RMG takes over national sales for two health and wellness networks in US August 24, 2010 by Dave HaynesReach Media Group, which may quite possibly have the deepest pockets and biggest DOOH ambitions in the sector right now, just made a couple of announcements this morning about effectively becoming a sales rep house, along with owner/operator of its own DOOH nets. RMG has done a deal to sell the ad avails for Everwell, …
Wireless Ronin gets de-listing warning from NASDAQ August 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis will not, I’d expect, be happy news for the people holding shares in Wireless Ronin. The SEC filing on Thursday: ITEM 3.01 NOTICE OF DELISTING OR FAILURE TO SATISFY A CONTINUED LISTING RULE OR STANDARD; TRANSFER OF LISTING.(a) On August 17, 2010, we received a deficiency letter from the NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) Listing Qualifications …
Masters Series: Review from Wednesday's event in TO August 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesBoth Lyle Bunn, who organized, and Dmitry Sokolov, who attended, have sent along their reports from the Digital Signage Masters Series event held in Toronto Wednesday. I couldn’t go, but saw a pile of Tweets from Dmitry (Ingram Micro’s DS guy up here amid the ice floes and polar bears), about the proceedings. My first …
The digital signage patents keep on coming … August 13, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe Marlin Company of Wallingford, CT has been granted a second patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,765,273) for its content solution for the Electronic Communication Station, a digital signage product for workplace communications. Since 1913 Marlin has been publishing workplace content to help companies communicate critical messages on safety, productivity, teamwork, quality, etc. While Marlin’s roots …
$68.7 million later, "the business model works …" August 13, 2010 by Dave Haynes“Under the leadership of Scott Koller and Darin McAreavey, we have clearly demonstrated a capacity for delivering on key financial performance metrics over the past quarter,” said James C. (Jim) Granger, chief executive officer at Wireless Ronin. “We delivered double digit growth both sequentially and on an annual basis — the highest revenue levels since …
Ronin revenues up, but so is burn rate August 12, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe latest required filings for publicly-listed Wireless Ronin show hardware, software and services sales are heading in the right direction, but the burn rate the company was trying to slow is actually up, not down. Sales are almost double that of Q2 2009 (aka depths of recession), which is good to see. However, despite something …
Adcentricity paints darker picture of DOOH spend from Q2 August 11, 2010 by Dave HaynesI tend to run into Jeff Atley after hours at trade shows, after we’ve both had a few pops and are not all that eloquent. Or coherent. So when the VP and co-founder of Adcentricity rattles off this sort of thing in his writing, I’m amused. “This does not, however, translate directly to an equivalent spending ratio …
Digital Signage Expo tweaks, expands 2011 conference program August 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesDigital Signage Expo is only six months away and with luck, that will be the next time I am in Lost Wages. Been there a little too much this year. The DSE folks have announced changes to the conference program for 2011, breaking it up into nine tracks to serve different target audiences: • Digital …
NASCAR Hall of Fame fan board lit up with 250-plus of Christie's MicroTiles August 5, 2010 by Dave Haynes(Disclosure: I do some writing for Christie, and prepared a case study on this project) One of the first BIG projects to come along for Christie Digital’s much-covered, much-praised MicroTiles technology is a signature installation at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC. The facility opened this spring and a focal point is a …