Uniguest Continues M&A Roll-Up, Acquiring UK-based IP Video Firm MediaStar Systems November 2, 2022 by Super User Nashville-based Uniguest continues to make acquisitions, with news this afternoon of a deal to buy MediaStar Systems (formerly Cabletime Limited), an IP video and digital signage provider to the professional AV industry. Founded in 1984, the UK company develops IPTV and digital signage software and hardware solutions, and is known as one of the more …
Yarooms Gets 2M EU Investment Round To Grow Workplace Solutions Business November 1, 2022 by Super User The Romanian tech firm Yarooms has closed a 2M Euro investment round the company will use to help drive sales growth for its SaaS-based workplace software solutions, which started with room booking but now incorporates several applications like desk booking, visitor management and lobby digital signage. Founded in 2010, the company describes itself as a …
Sweden’s Visual Art Rolling Out Smart Display-Driven Menu Board Solution Across European Subway Stores November 1, 2022 by Super User The Swedish digital signage solutions provider Visual Art is seeing a big spike in its deployed footprint through a digital menu board rollout across Subway sandwich shops in Europe, with 1,300 outlets already converted to its platform and services. Visual Art, reports our German language content partner Invidis, is the new Subway partner for all …
LA Clippers’ New Arena’s Tech Plans Guided By Digital Transformation Giant Globant October 27, 2022 by Super User If you are planning on chasing the digital display business for the new home of the LA Clippers NBA team, your path probably takes you through a giant digital transformation company called Globant – which will “connect the technologies” that bring the vision for what will be the Intuit Dome to life. Says PR: Globant, …
Amazon Launches “Digital Signage Ads” Programmatic Solution For Its Fresh Bricks And Mortar Stores October 27, 2022 by Super User Amazon has confirmed it is now kinda sorta doing digital signage – albeit in its own stores. The online retail Godzilla has formally introduced something called Digital Signage Ads in Amazon DSP, which starting next month enables “eligible US advertisers via managed service, make it easier for brands to advertise within Amazon Fresh stores. With …
GRUBBRR Broadens Sports Venues Offer With Acquisition Of Mobile Ordering Platform Noble October 27, 2022 by Super User It should be readily apparent to digital signage companies chasing specific verticals that they’re probably going to get more traction with buyers if the solution they’re touting is open and working with the other software systems that drive operations in those targeted venues. It’s particularly the case when technology advances are changing how these venues …
DOOH Network Focused On Screens Inside Rideshare Cars Goes Under October 25, 2022 by Super User A digital out of home ad network start-up based on tablets in view of passengers in the rear of ride-share cars, paired with AI-based analytics, has had a messy demise. The DOOH network ALFI has ceased operations and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, four years after founding and about 17 months after going public on …
New $5B, Digital-Heavy Arena/Resort Complex Touted For North End Of Vegas Strip October 24, 2022 by Super User I assume it would be wise for any sales or business development person to add an asterisk to sales opportunity reports when the project involves a Las Vegas entertainment resort not owned and backed by MGM, Caesars, Wynn or another well-established resorts brand. That would certainly be the case with the All Net Resort & …
PE-Backed LED Display Maker Watchfire Signs Makes Its First Industry Acquisition October 24, 2022 by Super User Large-format LED display maker Watchfire Signs has made its first acquisition since its own purchase earlier in the year – with the now private equity-backed firm buying the assets of Anthem Displays in rural North Carolina. Based in Elizabethtown, NC, Anthem Displays was a digital billboard manufacturer since 2014, majority-owned the last couple of years …
London’s Decaying Battersea Power Station Brought Back To Life As Mixed-Use Development October 24, 2022 by Super User The old Battersea Power Station – a huge coal-powered electric generation station along the Thames in London – has been revived after decades of sitting derelict, opening up 10 days ago as a mixed-use development that includes retail, dining and high-end residential. The giant brick industrial block has been restored and spruced up in much …
