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On December 22, 2008 Sina (SINA.NSADAQ) and Focus Media (FMCN.NSADAQ) reached a cooperation agreement and announced the merging of the two companies. Under the agreement, Sina will be allocating 47,000,000 shares of its common stock to Focus, to buy Focus building television, framework advertising and business-related assets such as in-store advertising. The whole transaction value […]

Rumour this week was that Mood Media had just made an acquisition. Many in the industry believed that it might be POS in Germany or Music Marketing Services’ service and installation business but we are pretty confident that it is actually Music Matic an in-store radio and creative business with offices in Paris, Spain and […]

We asked two months ago how one exactly “measures the business climate of an industry” BUT we are now much closer to finding out. OVAB Europe‘s announcement that it has been working on a data gathering exercise for some time has started with the first survey questions going out to recipients across Europe recently and […]

BIg news in Germany is the start of an Aldi TV digital signage pilot – Aldi of course are the discount supermarket chain and that they should be trialling screens is actually quite interesting – especially in the light of such notable retail ‘failures’ from folks in how should we say, the higher end of […]

It’s rumoured in the US that CBS Outernet are having significant problems and as a result are likely to kill off their Grocery TV business in the coming weeks. If they do close it of course that really just leaves them with GameStop (albeit 5,500 locations) and AutoNet TV. With game sales dropping something like […]

Six weeks ago we wrote ‘The Ecosystem Cometh‘ and if more proof was needed to show the maturity of the industry check out (a) the ongoing BlueFox special offer for free content for two months and (b) ScreenFeed’s excellent real-time updated media content (Images, Video and Audio) subscription offer. signagelive are usually at the forefront […]

Still for sale EK3 yet still denying it to all and sundry has just purchased Montreal based Enixa Media – as it says on the web site (Enixa) “is now under the management of London, Ontario digital narrowcasting provider, EK3” As reported on the Digital Signage in Canada blog “Enixa Media, Inc. managed and installed […]

Expect a big announcement from Heathrow Express and / or JCDecaux in the UK in the next 48 hours. Nothing has been installed just yet but LOADS and loads of digital screens are planned almost everywhere at the Heathrow Airport terminus. They planned to be all installed by the end of October and include screens […]

Michael Quinn was one of THE level headed folks at Premier Retail Networks (PRN) – sad then to hear that he will be leaving at the end of July. Michael was most recently Chief Strategist at Premier Retail Networks. We don’t need to tell many people that this ‘level-headedness’ was rare in the higher echelons […]

We believe that Cisco is obviously struggling to put forth a digital signage model that works and in the absence of any strategy or value add that makes for a tough sell. We have heard a few times in the last couple of week complaints from some of their VARs about their new pricing strategy. […]