NDS Pivots PADS4 From Digital Signage-First To Broader User Experience Platform February 9, 2021 by Super User We’re starting to see companies in the digital signage sector starting to refine and re-package what they do in ways that gets them out of the box of being just a digital signage provider. On the heels of merging with the smart building platform LCS last year, the Dutch software firm NDS has started calling …
DOOH EV Charging Network Volta Does Special Purpose Merger; Hopes To Raise $600M February 8, 2021 by Super User Volta Industries, which has a Digital OOH ad network built around electric vehicle charging stations, has announced plans for a merger with a special purpose acquisition company with hopes of generating $600 million for its network buildout. The overall value of the deal is estimated to be $1.4 billion. The deal comes just three weeks …
Seoul Office Block’s LED Windows Become Public Art At Nightfall February 5, 2021 by Super User This is a relatively small office block somewhere in Seoul that has LEDs embedded in the architectural glass, and transforms into a public art piece once it gets dark. The tech is from a Korean company – G-Smatt. In the US, it is GLAAM America. The proposition with this technology is that this is not …
Shenzhen’s LP Display Marketing DV-LED Posters Hardened Against Damage, Abuse February 5, 2021 by Super User Email pitches come in day and night from lesser known Chinese DV-LED display manufacturers, showing me their versions of displays and infrastructure. I look at them, but it’s rare when there’s anything new to write about. And really, most of the people e-mailing seem to want me to batch-order product. Press is secondary. But there …
Austrian Shoe Outlet Gets Beyond The Rectangle With Interesting Video Wall February 4, 2021 by Super User This is a really nice outlet shoe store in Feldkirchen, Austria that has an interesting mosaic video wall at the checkout and service area, and works other displays into the store fixtures. Designed by umdasch Store Makers, the legero united “shoemakers outlet” puts four brands – legero, superfit, VIOS and Think! – under one new …
Cowboys Kit Out Home Stadium With More Than 1,000 New LG Displays February 4, 2021 by Super User The fit-out is pretty standard concession and concourse stuff, but it’s hard to ignore a digital signage project that involves more than 1,000 screens in one venue. The NFL’s Dallas Cowboys play their games at AT&T Stadium, which upgraded its fan areas with a few truckloads of LG commercial displays. The stadium, says the team’s …
Appspace Acquires The Marlin Company, Growing Its Workplace Experience Offer February 3, 2021 by Super User I am pretty sure this happened months and months ago, but the Dallas-based CMS software firm Appspace is just now announcing it has acquired The Marlin Company, a longtime workplace messaging company. Marlin solutions, says a press release, “are now part of the Appspace workplace experience platform. The acquisition also provides Marlin customers with new …
SageNet Acquires Convergent, Boosting The IT Services Firm’s Turnkey Digital Signage Chops February 2, 2021 by Super User SageNet, a Tulsa-based managed network services and cybersecurity solutions provider, has acquired Convergent, the longtime digital signage solutions provider operating out of suburban Atlanta. Convergent will now be branded as Convergent, a SageNet Company, and the leadership in Atlanta and Toronto will “operate as usual as the integration process proceeds.” Convergent, until this deal a …
Digital Signage Awards Night Pushed Off By UK COVID-19 Restrictions February 1, 2021 by Super User Almost all of the emails I get from industry awards that involve shifting dates have to do with extending submission deadlines, but in the case of the global Digital Signage Awards, the date for handing out the prizes has been necessarily shifted because of COVID-19. The prizes were originally intended to be handed out this …
MicroTouch Interactive Display Brand Back; TES America Revives After Buying From 3M February 1, 2021 by Super User If you were somebody who bought or specified 3M interactive touch products, the familiar MicroTouch line of touch monitors sold for many years by that Minnesota tech giant has been re-launched via a separate company, TES America. TES, in PR, says it has outfitted MicroTouch with an all-new look and is expanding the line of …
