Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We learned last week that mobile app marketing platform Fiksu Inc., Boston, has raised $10 million in Series B financing led by Qualcomm Ventures, San Diego, a new investor, and from returning investor Charles River Ventures, Cambridge, Massa chusetts. This is being added to Fiksu’s earler funding of $7.8 million to further accelerate the company’s […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The 6th Munich Digital Signage Conference 2012 put together by the folks over at invidis hasn’t got an agenda just yet but it does have some dates – the 19th to 21st September 2012 if you include the various workshop sessions, annual meetings etc tagged onto the beginning and end of the actual one day […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We’ve learned that, with the help of some unnamed retailers in the U.S., IBM is testing an augmented reality app that can be downloaded by shoppers either in-store at the beginning of a shopping trip or beforehand on their smartphones or tablets. Developed by IBM researchers in Haifa, Israel, the app allows the shoppers describe […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Last week Neo Advertising GmbH under the guidance of super smart Managing Partner Sven C. Jacobi opened a showroom in Hamburg… The showroom only went and got coverage with Bild – a well known German tabloid newspaper with something like 12 million readers!
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
New York-based Access 360 Media, place-based media company, has signed an agreement to represent the College Gametime Network to its growing list of national sports advertisers. CGN operates the in-venue TV system in over 30 of the nation’s top colleges and universities. Among the CGN partner schools to date are: Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
ComQi, the global multi-channel message management company, today announced a partnership with Almo Corporation, the largest US distributor of appliances, consumer, professional AV and specialty AV solutions. Almo will distribute ComQi’s extension and distribution equipment for Pro-AV and Digital Signage applications. Almo has specialized in the distribution of video, audio & telecommunications products in the […]
A digital outdoor display installed in Dothan, Alabama represents 2,000 off-premise advertising displays built and installed worldwide by YESCO Electronics since 2002. The display is owned and operated by Durden Outdoor Displays, Inc. Dothan, AL. Durden owns and manages over 1,000 bulletin, rotary poster, and digital faces across 8 counties in southeast Alabama. According to […]
After a 30 minute coffee break at #RB-ISE2012 – the @RetailBulletin‘s In-Store Engagement Conference in London we are back in the conference centre with Guy Cheston, Media Sales Director at Harrods of course. He describes Harrods as now in effect a Media Owner in their own right due to the amount of opportunity for brands […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
In a cortege that must have used more fuel than a Red Arrows performance over the Farnborough Air Show (more on that on our visit there later this week) Digital Signage of a sort (and a streaker) came to Henley-on-Thames early this morning. The Olympic Torch plus assorted sponsors’ trucks and buses (Samsung, Coca-Cola, Lloyds-TSB […]
I am currently listening to a fantastic presentation by Claire Zuurbier here at #RB-ISE2012 – the @RetailBulletin‘s In-Store Engagement Conference in London. Claire works at the major UK retailer Marks & Spencer (commonly known as M&S) and she’s telling us that M&S is spending GBP 100 million over the next three years on digital in-store […]
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