Archive for June, 2010

DW Green And EnQii Launch GreenTV

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

DW Green Company and EnQii today announced their partnership in launching GreenTV, a self-contained digital signage system that delivers powerful, targeted messaging to customers of grocery chains across North America. With the launch of GreenTV, EnQii and DW Green Company will provide grocery retailers with highly effective, supermarket-focused content designed to drive incremental sales and […]

Nielsen Set To IPO

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Media measurement firm Nielsen on Thursday filed with the SEC for an initial public offering that aims to raise up to $1.75 billion. J.P. Morgan Securities and Morgan Stanley have signed on as underwriters. Nielsen was acquired in 2006 for $10 billion by an investor group that included AlpInvest Partners, The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle […]

EnQii One Of Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe Tech Companies

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Congratulations to EnQii who were selected this week as a Red Herring Top 100 Europe Tech Company. Red Herring announced its Top 100 Award in recognition of the leading private companies from Europe, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries. Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction […]

Roland Garros. Cheers Adidas!

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

After the giants of tennis had slugged it out on the centre-court, some of us ex-music bizzers went out on a ‘lig’ at the champagne-soaked Adidas VIP Room at the Roland Garros Tennis Mecca in Paris. The pretext was to confirm the affinity between tennis people & the music business. In France, Yannick Noah makes […]

Orangina Campaign, Paris

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

One thing’s for sure and that’s wherever you see an SA DigiAdvan a crowd will surely gather (see larger picture below – note the usually black DigiAdvan seems to have been wrapped in an ‘orange’ colour) even if there are half naked long legged giraffes in red body suits sitting on top of Smart Cars […]

Capital Networks Helps Travelers Get News

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Travelers passing through five major Canadian airports, including Toronto Pearson International Airport, the busiest in Canada, now have access to critical news and weather reports via CBC: News Express broadcast service, powered by Capital Networks Ltd.’s Audience digital signage solution. Audience enables CBC News Express to present the latest video content and live data feeds […]

Parallel Worlds – Asia to Establish Regional DOOH Association

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

This week’s Parallel Worlds bring us big news that Asia’s digital out of home industry has reached a significant milestone. It’s been confirmed that the establishment of a multiple country, regional association to help advocate, evangelize and educate on placed based media is soon to be officially announced. The official name is still a well […]

Prysm Readies For Launch

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Andrew Neale

At ScreenMedia Expo in London at the beginning of May, PSCo were showing the latest generation of the Prysm Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) system on their stand, and announced that they were partnering with Prysm to bring the system to market in the UK. This was significant – it was the first time the display […]

Sticky: NEC President Pierre Richer VUKUNET Exclusive

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Andrew Neale

We see that NEC Display Solutions announced it is now making its VUKUNET digital signage software free to any network operator or reseller, even if they don’t sign up to the ad serving platform, with nice timing just in advance of #Infocomm2010 next week. We have not had our hands on the software yet, so […]

Sticky: Will Work For Love: Jesse Gavin, Screenfeed, Edina

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Jesse Gavin is lead content developer at Screenfeed in Edina, Minnesota, U.S.. His responsibilities include generating concepts for new types of content and developing processes for the generation of Screenfeed’s content (web applications for human content editors, dynamic image generation, animation programming and more). Describe your personal work space. I have a large L-shaped desk […]