Ronin Looking For $1.56M In Direct Public Offering March 5, 2013 by Super User With money on hand running out, Wireless Ronin has announced an agreement to sell approximately $1.56 million of its securities in a registered direct offering. The Minneapolis-based digital signage software and services firm will “issue 868,000 units at a price of $1.80 per unit, with each unit consisting of (i) one share of common stock, and …
Mixer Wrap-Up And 2014 Plans March 5, 2013 by Super User I sent off an email to everyone who registered for last week’s mixer, thanking them for coming out (297 did) and asking for comments. A separate email went to sponsors. The consensus seems to be that the venue was ideal in location, size, style and service – so our much-travelled little event may finally have …
Intel And Sapient Demo’d Nice Interactive Retail Piece At DSE (with Video) March 5, 2013 by Super User I have seen some stuff at Intel’s booth at past DSEs that I thought were interesting but didn’t have a prayer of ever getting outside a trade show booth environment. But as I squeezed and slipped my way through Intel’s glass corral last week I saw some stuff that I thought had legs. The one …
“Thought Leadership” In Pulp Magazine Form March 5, 2013 by Super User If digital signage content conferences had pulp magazine covers … Courtesy of a strange but very cool service called Pulp-O-Mizer.
RMG Revives DirecTV Bar Product As ChalkboxTV March 4, 2013 by Super User At DSE a year ago RMG Networks and DirecTV launched Message Board, a small business product aimed at adding entry-level reverse L marketing messages on TV screens in places like bars. There was a big dinner at a very nice restaurant in the City Center with very nice wine (which I missed because of the …
Symon Merger Continues RMG Path To Going Public March 4, 2013 by Super User There is a very high quotient of securities lawyer blah-blah in this announcement, but as far as I can figure this is part of the expectation that RMG Networks will go public this year. Symon Communications announced at the end of last week that it was merging with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp., described as a …
Detail: BroadSign’s New $99 Android Player March 4, 2013 by Super User A lot of people I chatted with last week mentioned BroadSign’s re-emergence at Digital Signage Expo in a full booth (this time last year they’d announced Chapter 11 re-structuring) and the unveiling of a $99 Android-based player. Going Android is in no way unique, but what distinguishes what BroadSign is doing from many of the …
List: DSE 2013 Apex Digital Signage Project Awards March 3, 2013 by Super User Here are the Apex Award winners announced at last week’s Digital Signage Expo. The awards are for project execution. The DSE 2013 Apex Award of the Year: Build-A-Bear Workshop, Nominated by Build-A-Bear Workshop Arts, Entertainment & Recreation: GOLD: Westfield San Francisco Centre, Nominated by Obscura Digital SILVER: Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, Nominated by Intermedia Touch Inc. BRONZE: Mansfield …
DSE 2013 Impressions March 3, 2013 by Super User I try to write a daily set of impressions from my time at DSE each year, and my first impression is that I was way too freakin’ busy to write up my impressions. I think I was in the press room twice on Day 1 and once on Day 2. So, back at the bait …
Video: Simple, Effective Sponsor Messaging March 2, 2013 by Super User One of the things we did at the DSE mixer earlier this week was run promo/branding videos for all the sponsors. It was, we thought, more effective than trying to SHOUT OVER THE CROWD to thank the sponsors verbally. Saw that at another cocktail party. Doesn’t work. People keep talking. We did one for ourselves, …
