Korbyt Now Majority-Owned By PE Firm; Investment Brings “Significant” Growth Capital July 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Dallas-based software firm Korbyt has a new majority owner, the Boston private equity firm Clearhaven Partners. The company in an announcement this morning said it has received “significant growth investment” funding in the deal, enabling it to grow sales and the partner ecosystem, as well as drive additional software development on its SaaS platform. “Clearhaven’s …
Florida Organic Grocer Fills New Store With LCD Ribbon Displays July 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting application of natively-manufactured LCDs – as opposed to cutting and re-manufacturing 16:9 screens – as ribbon displays in a small-ish organic grocery in Naples, Florida. The Food and Thought 2 store has a series of single and two-sided displays around the store, from larger-format versions suspended from the ceiling to shelf-edge …
Integrator Giant Diversified Tweaks Its Brand: Positions Itself As Disruptor July 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes In newspaper circles, this is what would be referred to as a slow news day – peak holiday season and not a whole bunch shaking out there, it seems. So we bring you news that NJ-based Diversified, one of the largest pro AV systems integrators has refreshed its brand – same name, but a tweaked …
Brussels Airport Transitions FIDS Video Walls From LCD To Fine Pitch LED July 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes It was always just going to be a matter of time when fine pitch LED costs would reduce to a point that they would fully supplant LCD-based video walls, and we appear to be there even with pedestrian use-cases like FIDS displays at airports. The airport in Brussels, Belgium has flight information (FIDS) videowalls that …
Dutch Start-Up Mashes Up Large Format E-Paper Displays And Newspaper Front Pages As Functional Art July 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes As spotted in TechCrunch … E Ink displays have been touted as replacements for a lot of different monochrome and basic color print products, like transit schedules and posters. But now there’s a company selling a 32-inch e-paper display that shows the front pages of newspapers. My first 20 years of working were at daily …
No NUCs: Intel Getting Out Of Direct Manufacturing Of Mini PCs July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Intel has been notifying its ecosystem partners that it is backing out of direct investment its small form factor Next Unit of Computing (NUC) business, sunset-ing its own product line but encouraging partners to keep working with the reference designs. So specialty computing vendors in the digital signage and pro AV sectors that have their …
Here’s A Chiller Fridge Media Solution That Does The Job But Doesn’t Bust Budgets July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different, and probably way less costly and involved demo of going at the idea of adding digital signage to chiller fridges. While companies like Cooler Screens have gone down the path of retrofitting the heavy, expensive and custom-sized chiller doors in high foot traffic retail (and run into a big problem), Fargo, …
Philly’s Airport Rolling Out TSA Wait Time Screens Across Terminals July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Flashy, big dollar video walls and experiential installations at renovated airports tend to get the attention of industry writers and observers, and that makes sense, but there is a whole subset of very pedestrian – even boring – deployments that are just as important to making passenger experiences enjoyable. Like TSA screening status boards at …
Hastings Stepping Back From CEO Role At BrightSign; But Only To Work Instead As Its CTO July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes Jeff Hastings is stepping back from his longtime role as CEO of the media player firm BrightSign, but sticking with the company as co-CEO through 2023 and then CTO in the new year. His co-pilot will be Steve Durkee, who if I have the right guy from LinkedIn has been with manufacturer Legrand I AV …
Bahrain Star-Up Touts Autonomous Wandering Ad Screen Robots July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes I was amazed at a couple of recent trade shows to still see companies marketing an ad solution that involves screens that are attached to backpacks and harnesses worn by people, the displays looming over the heads of the humans, or running on the backpacks. It’s an idea and effort that’s been around for maybe …
