Four Winds Merges With Irish Employee Communications Firm Poppulo March 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Denver-based digital signage CMS firm Four Winds Interactive has merged with a company called Poppulo, which does email and mobile employee communication software. The combination is backed by Vista Equity Partners, the investment firm that had earlier taken a substantial ownership position in FWI. Says the PR: Through this merger, the combined business will serve 6,000+ customers, the …
Breakfast Evolves Mechanical Flip-Disc Signs As Kinetic, AI-Driven Artworks March 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years ago a Brooklyn studio called Breakfast showing its flip-disc displays off on one side of the exhibit hall floor. The company’s tech is not digital signage as we know it, but …
OnLogic Announces First Raspberry Pi-Based Industrial-Grade PC March 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Vermont industrial computer maker OnLogic has taken the interesting step of announcing its first Raspberry Pi-based industrial-grade PC, timing it in celebration of Pi Day. The little unit uses the latest CM4 Compute Module and is aimed at applications like factories, warehouses, and a range of IoT applications. The Pi 4 is also being …
SID Display Week Set For May 17-21, All Virtual For 2nd Year March 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display (SID) has opened registration for its annual Display Week trade show and conference, which will again be all virtual, running May 17-21. The event is an annual gathering of terrifyingly bright engineers and researchers in the information display sector, talking about ideas and advances in area like LED, OLED, Light …
Pro Tip: Secure LED Video Wall To Wall, Floor … Or, Ummm, Something. Or This Happens … March 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the broadcast set for ESPN’s football coverage in Colombia, and part of the visual sizzle is an LED video wall. As the brief video in the tweet embedded below shows, it is probably a good idea to affix DV LED walls to the back wall, or if that is not feasible, at least …
CRI’s Pandemic-Era Financials Likely A Window Into How Many Ecosystem Firms Fared In 2020 March 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes I used to track a now long-gone CMS software company called Wireless Ronin because of the company’s impressive record of burning through investor money, but I gradually got away from that when the company was acquired by Creative Realities and came under adult supervision. The quick story on Ronin is the company built up a …
Massive Experiential DV LED Video Walls Focal Point Of New Project In Central London March 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new development going up now in central London, in the immediate vicinity of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, includes a building with a public atrium lined inside by four-storey tall 8K DV LED video walls. The Outernet London development is a feature of new build and redeveloped properties intended to make the area …
Carousel Extends Digital Signage Reach To Clients’ WFH Screens March 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes In the past year I have read several PR pieces detailing how a digital signage CMS platform has been tweaked and expanded to enable desktop communications to all the Work From Homers, but seemingly all of them have said what’s possible, not what’s happening. Here’s a working example, from Minneapolis-based Carousel Digital Signage, which is …
ZetaDisplay Continues To Expand, Cracking Germany Via Nordland Systems Acquisition March 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay is continuing its strategy of growing, at least in part, through acquisitions, announcing a deal to acquire the German systems integrator NORDLAND systems GmbH. The deal took effect yesterday, and represents the listed company’s first move into the German market. Zeta started out by acquiring companies in Scandinavia, …
Barcelona Start-Up Nsign.TV Releases New Version Of Omnichannel CMS March 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Spanish start-up nsign.tv has announced a series of updates to what it calls its omnichannel communication platform. A Barcelona-based spin-off of Netipbox Technologies, accelerated by the incubator Lanzadera, nsign.tv says its platform is already being used by more than 150 companies in 25+ countries., including Ikea, Areas, Nespresso, Coca Cola, Haribo, Unilever, Revlon, P&G, Domino’s …
