Harris Broadcast, Including Digital Signage Unit, Acquired in $225M Deal December 6, 2012 by Super User A little more than a half-year after announcing plans to divest its Broadcast Communications, Harris Corporation has reached a $225 million deal with a private equity firm. The deal with The Gores Group is $160 million in cash at closing, a $15 million subordinated promissory note and an earnout of up to $50 million based …
PC Built To Take A Licking (Or Shower) December 6, 2012 by Super User My crash course in digital signage, going back to the late 90s, involved trying to sort out whether it was possible to get a computer designed that would survive all the hard bumps, the debris, the power spikes and the general nastiness that comes with sitting on top of an elevator. We never did get …
Posterscope CSO: OOH Measurement Still In Dark Ages December 5, 2012 by Super User One of the top thinkers, and one with particular clout, weighed in Wednesday about the necessary mash-up of mobile and Out Of Home. James Davies, Posterscope’s U.S. and U.K. Chief Strategy Officer, reinforced his long-held assertion that mobile was the key to transforming OOH into two-way engagement. Davies was speaking at an Advertising Club of …
Digital Cinema’s RED Debuts Player With Digital Signage, Among Other Things, In Mind December 5, 2012 by Super User As a mere mortal who only kinda-sorta-mostly understands what geeks tell me in person and in writing, I am not quite sure what to make of the digital camera company RED saying it has a product for digital signage. On the one hand, the idea of RED have a very high-rez 4K digital cinema media …
Stratacache Shifts VP As Asia-Pacific Presence Grows December 5, 2012 by Super User STRATACACHE is getting serious about building up business on the other side of the Pacific – having opened an office in Hong Kong and now shifting a guy from the US to run the Asia-Pacific region. The Dayton, OH-based firm has appointed Stephen Choi to the newly-created role of SVP of Asia-Pacific. He’s moving from …
Project Profile: Shaw’s Waterfall Retail Displays December 4, 2012 by Super User Canadian communications and media giant Shaw Communications has started integrating digital screens into its retail stores and using Christie’s MicroTiles to full advantage as interesting, dimensional feature walls. The pix are of the 4 high by 6 wide wall done this spring at Sunridge Mall in NE Calgary – pretty close to my old Calgary Herald …
Finding The Store No. 1 Mobile Activity For Shoppers December 4, 2012 by Super User If you are a retail marketer or providing technology and services into that sector, you are probably wrestling everyday to stay on top of all the advances and gadgets having to do with smart devices. There’s lots of hand-wringing going on about showrooming (doing price comparisons between stores, while in one of those stores), but …
Tech Advances Put Digital Signage Sector On Cusp Of Major Change December 3, 2012 by Super User It’s more evident by the week that technology advances and production volumes are conspiring to put digital signage on the cusp of some major changes. The catalyst for all this change is the smart device industry, which is driving interactive software development, very fast, powerful and, most important, cheap CPUs, and low-cost retail-ready displays. Multiple …
Project Profile: Nespresso’s Interactive Sales Kiosks Now in 250+ Sites December 3, 2012 by Super User Swiss food giant Nestle Group markets its Nespresso coffee machines and capsules very deliberately as upmarket and special. You can’t buy the capsules in grocers or mass merchandisers. You instead have to order online or go to a handful of retail stores that are packaged up like snooty, high fashion boutiques. I know this because I …
Intel NUC’s Digital Signage Sector With Impressive $300 Box November 30, 2012 by Super User I certainly think about Intel being front and center in the computing business, but much more being Intel Inside as opposed to the actual PC maker. But the tech giant has started marketing something called the Next Unit of Computing, or better, the NUC. It’s a 4 inch by 4 inch little box that’s about the …
