Real-Time Buying Exchange For DOOH Does $1.5M Raise March 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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, …
Four Winds Gets Top 50 Ranking Among Forbes’ Most Promising US Firms February 8, 2013 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has been ranked #41 in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies, which is a list of 100 privately-held, high-flying companies. David Levin, President and CEO of FWi, was also pegged by the business publication as one of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The company, which does digital signage …
Christie’s Book Of Shapes Now A Free iPad App (Or PDF) February 1, 2013 by Dave Haynes For the purposes of full disclosure, this is a bit of a shameless plug. Christie has published and released The Book of Shapes – a “coffee table” style book that showcases projects around the globe that have used the company’s MicroTiles to somewhat reinvent the idea of video walls and digital display in retail and arhcitectuarl …
RMG Gets Unfocused Again, Taking Over Akoo’s Failed Mall Media Network January 31, 2013 by Dave Haynes News that RMG Networks has taken over the screens in shopping malls that were previously run by Akoo comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the San Francisco-based company had last year got out of verticals like fitness to focus solely on airline travel. Now the company is selling a huge network of …
ComQi Exits The Com Side Of Business Via Kramer Licensing Deal January 29, 2013 by Dave Haynes An email just came in that says Kramer Electronics and ComQi have done a “global strategic partnership agreement” that has the Com in ComQi effectively dealt to Kramer. The agreement, says a release timed for Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, provides Kramer Electronics with exclusive manufacturing, sales and marketing rights for ComQi’s (former Minicom Digital Signage) …
