New York Transit System Expanding Interactive Kiosk Trial March 15, 2013 by Super User The MTA – which operates the transit systems running in New York City, has announced it is going ahead with a second phase of a pilot project for On the Go! Travel Stations, interactive touch-screen kiosks that provide trip planing information, maps and system status reports Another 77 of the ad-supported units are being added …
Stratacache Says It Now Drives 50K Digital Menu Boards March 12, 2013 by Super User Were there any question as to which companies are truly doing a lot of trade in the digital signage marketplace, consider that Stratacache is showing at a chain restaurant show starting tomorrow in Las Vegas and talking about how it is now driving 50,000 digital menu boards. The Dayton, OH-based company, in a release today, …
SEC Filings Show Symon Bought For $45 Million March 11, 2013 by Super User It appears Symon Communications was bought for $45 million as part of the mash-up acquisition/reverse merger thing that will lead, soon, to RMG Networks being a publicly listed company. The SEC filings show, in the transaction details of this deck, that Symon’s owners (primarily the VC firm Golden Gate Capital) got a “cash consideration” of $45M …
Projects: SoloHeath Wellness Stations Now In 3,000 US Retailers March 11, 2013 by Super User SoloHealth now has more than 2,000 free digital health and wellness stations out in retail locations across the United States, which the company says doubled the footprint withinb three months. The company has announced it intends to be in more than 3,500 locations by end of year, which would make it one of the larger digital …
Real-Time Buying Exchange For DOOH Does $1.5M Raise March 6, 2013 by Super User In theory, at least, some company is going to make money, instead of chew through it, rolling up and selling Digital OOH media. There are a number of companies dead (SeeSaw) or very, very quiet (rVue, Adcentricity) who have had a run at that market, and others you don’t hear much about. But the attraction …
Prysm Gets Japan Distribution Deal With Sony March 6, 2013 by Super User Sony does pro displays and video walls, but the business solution side of its business in Japan evidently doesn’t see much of a conflict in also marketing Prysm’s video display blocks in that country. Prysm has done a deal with Sony Business Solutions Corporation that will the San Jose, CA-based company’s Laser Phosphor Display technology …
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 …
Ronin Needs New Investment To Keep Lights On Past Q2 March 2, 2013 by Super User Wireless Ronin released its financials last week and the software company now appears to be in particularly difficult circumstances – needing new money in to fund operations beyond the next three months. Year to year revenue was down from $9.3 million to $6.7 million in 2012 and sales in the past quarter were only up …
Happy Group Turns On Harris-Powered Restaurant Network February 19, 2013 by Super User There hasn’t been a lot of news out of Denver-based Harris Broadcast since word months ago that the business unit was being sold off, but here’s word of an installation in Bulgaria. The Happy Group, described by Harris as that country’s top restaurant and hospitality group, has switched on a screen network in the 29 …
Dot2Dot Adds Segmentation Targeting To Ad Manager February 14, 2013 by Super User Dot2Dot Communications, the Toronto company that is the team known for a few years as Scala Canada, is back at its roots of ad inventory management and scheduling, and has announced a demographic targeting module that leverages consumer insights from another Toronto company, DM Squared. The integrated tool, exclusive to Dot2Dot’s Ad Manager software, …
