Financials: Wireless Ronin Still Deep In Red, But Losses Getting Smaller August 10, 2012 by Super User Wireless Ronin had its latest SEC-required opening of the kimono session Thursday, reporting quarterly reults and getting on a conference call with analysts. In short, it’s an ongoing struggle and the interesting thing is the analysts are getting kinda cranky and pushy, something I’ve not noticed in reading transcripts from earlier reports. The execs tell …
Retail: Spanish Bank’s Flagship Goes Big On Digital August 8, 2012 by Super User The Spanish bank BBVA went big on digital at its newly opened flagship branch in central Madrid. The branch has a 63-foot LED ribbon facing the street, as well as video walls and some nicely designed and integrated self-service digital slabs in the customer areas. The program was put together by John Ryan, which is …
Adcentricity Buys Proximity Marketer August 7, 2012 by Super User Adcentricity has been very quiet since its acquisition by Bee Media back in April, and a couple of runs through the company’s site has not left me entirely grounded on what it now is or does. But, evidently mobile marketing is part of the mix. The company announced today “the acquisition of the business of …
Does The Digital Signage Sector Really Need A Seal Of Professional Excellence? August 7, 2012 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation sent around a note today announcing a Seal of Professional Excellence for the industry – something a company can get if it adheres to the DSF’s Professional Standards I guess I’d know even existed were I a member. “Derived from the Privacy Standards that were developed by the Standards Committee,” says …
Adspace Gets Access 360’s Mallvision, And With It, Vertical Dominance August 7, 2012 by Super User When you are #2 you can either try harder, or try something else. Access 360 has gone the “something else” route, making the word official that it is getting out of the shopping mall media business and focusing on its other vertical: sports venues. The assets and presumably the contracts for its Mallvision program have …
MediaTile’s Assets Picked Up By Toronto’s Corum Digital Corp August 6, 2012 by Super User Toronto-based Corum Digital Corporation has bought the assets of Scotts Valley, California-based MediaTile, the second company picked up by Corum in the past year or so. The deal doesn’t come with any announced numbers, but MediaTile was thought to have been struggling fairly mightily for the last couple of years, so this was probably – …
Interactive: Screenreach Launches Dance With Cheryl Cole Mobile App August 6, 2012 by Super User The guys at Screenreach have launched a program that lets shoppers at a UK mall spark up their smartphones and emulate the dance moves of Brit pop star Cheryl Cole. The movement-based dance game requires people – presumably 16 year old girls are the audience here – to download a Screach mobile app and then …
Content: Rise’s Interactive Profiler Gadget Used For College Hall Of Fame August 6, 2012 by Super User Halls of fame and donor walls are recognition efforts that are really well-suited to interactive digital screens, simply because a plaque or photo can only tell relate the bare essentials about the people people being celebrated. RiseVision has a post up on its blog pointing out how a small college in Oregon, southwest of Portland, …
Singapore MediaCo Using Digital TV To Drive Digital OOH Bus Stop Network August 3, 2012 by Super User A Singapore media company is using what seems to be a pretty unique way to get content running Digital OOH screens at bus stops there. MediaCorp, described as Singapore’s leading media company, is using data channels in the country’s DVB-T digital television broadcasting system to deliver content. Instead of cellular broadband or hard-wired copper, the …
Ardinger Leaves Nanonation; Joins University Tech Transfer Arm August 1, 2012 by Super User Brian Ardinger has left Nanonation, and this was his first day on the job as an advisor at a tech business accelerator. “I’m starting a new gig as the new “Entrepreneur in Residence” at NUtech Ventures,” Brian told me in an email. “NUtech is the technology transfer arm of University of Nebraska. They’re trying to make …
