STRATACACHE Acquires Finnish Shopper Analytics Startup Walkbase September 27, 2017 by Super User Dayton, OH-based STRATACACHE has fully acquired an interesting Finnish startup called Walkbase that generates in-store analytics on shopper characteristics and patterns. The company’s software stack does the sort of tracking that uses things like roaming Wi-Fi from smartphones, as well as in-store sensors, to attach anonymous personas to consumers and then develop rich analytics around …
Keywest Technology Debuts Swiss Army Knife Media Player September 22, 2017 by Super User Software and solutions companies are always pushing out news of platform updates, but it’s not that often I see one of these companies talking about new hardware they’ve put together. Kansas City-based Keywest Technology, which has been around this industry for 15 years, is touting what it calls a multi-use player that operate as a …
Screenscape Ranked Among Fastest-Growing Companies In Canada September 15, 2017 by Super User The guys at Screenscape in beautiful little Charlottetown, PEI got some good marketing news this week – being named among the fastest-growing companies in Canada by Canadian Business magazine. Screenscape was ranked: #118 among the fastest growing companies in Canada #2 among all Atlantic Canadian companies #34 among all software companies The magazine has been …
NEC Europe Partners With Screenly, Canonical On Raspberry Pi-Powered Digital Signage Displays September 15, 2017 by Super User The European wing of NEC – NEC Display Solutions Europe – has done a partnership that sees certain NEC pro-grade digital signage displays ship with embedded Raspberry Pi modules, running Ubuntu Core Linux and pre-loaded with the Screenly’s CMS player software. The solution uses NEC’s P and V Series 40–55 inch large format displays and modular …
BroadSign Invests In Serious Security Audit And Sign-Off September 13, 2017 by Super User Montreal-based CMS software shop BroadSign has announced its cloud-based platform has been run through and certified for a tough set of security and privacy standards – noting it is the first in the digital signage DOOH industry to do so. The company, in a press release, says it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control …
Ayuda Rebrands Programmatic Ads Spinoff As Hivestack September 13, 2017 by Super User Montreal-based Ayuda Media Systems has re-branded and somewhat spun off its programmatic advertising module as it own company, and under a new brand – Hivestack. It’s a move to create some distinction between Ayuda’s core product — business process management software for out of home media companies — and what was Ayuda[x], which is …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Fahlman, Telemetry September 13, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. That’s exactly, though, the back story on Telemetry, a Vancouver, BC start-up that grew …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Douglas-Beveridge, SmartContent.TV September 6, 2017 by Super User If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. The most heavily used slider out there comes from a German company …
UK Town’s Shiny New Digital Information Station Hijacked With Porn Site September 5, 2017 by Super User Via Telford Live The person behind a local news portal in Telford, UK, northwest of Birmingham, came across one of the combined wayfinding and digital media totems in the town centre, and noticed the community information normally running on the screen had been replaced by a gallery of naughty video thumbnails. The writer notes this …
Columbus Convention Center Expansion Includes 7 by 60 Wide LED Wall September 2, 2017 by Super User Turns out that 14-foot LED selfie head isn’t the only big digital feature turned on at the convention center in Columbus, Ohio. There’s also a 7-foot tall by 60 wide fine pitch LED wall in the building, put together by solutions provider Coffman Media and running Signagelive’s CMS. It’s part of a $140 million upgrade to …
