Leap Motion Acquired by @Ultrahaptics

Thursday, May 30th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, the world leaders in mid-air haptics, contactless interfaces and hand tracking technologies, today announced a strategic deal which will combine their expertise and create the world’s leading spatial interaction company. We are told that the combination of teams and their technologies will accelerate innovation and enhance commercial applications. This means both […]

Ocean’s Interbest Acquires Beyond Outdoor

Thursday, May 30th, 2019

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Following on from premium out-of-home media owner Ocean acquiring both Ngage Media and Interbest in March 2019, news comes that Interbest (now part of Ocean of course) has expanded its digital roadside advertising offer, with the acquisition of Beyond Outdoor. We are told that this deal concludes discussions, which were underway back in March. All […]

Pikasso Launches in Armenia And Acquires the Inventory of Arabella

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Pikasso announces today that it has entered the Armenian market under the name of Pikasso OOH LLC and launched its activity with the acquisition of the inventory of locations of Arabella. This inventory is composed of Large Formats: Unipoles, Rooftops, and Billboards, all of them located in prime locations in Yerevan. Yerevan is the administrative […]

#CapitalAtRisk @Pavegen’s Equity Crowdfunding Campaign

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

They’ve have had six funding rounds raising USD 5.1 Million over the past few years and next week, Pavegen will announce that they’ve secured institutional investment from Tamar Capital and the Hinduja Group (with 2018 revenues of USD 50bn, the Hinduja Group has expertise across energy, urban infrastructure and technology in India and the rest […]

Firefly To Announce Latest Funding Round

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We hear that Firefly, who only raised USD 21.5M in Seed Funding back in December 2018 have already had to dip back into the market and are soon to announce a further funding round. In June, they’ll also likely officially announce and expansion into New York.

The TRISON Group Acquires @BeaverGroup

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday A Coruña (Spain) based TRISON Group announced that is had acquired Beaver Group, one of the true leaders in the creation of customer experience audiovisual solutions based on display, digital signage and interactive technologies. This follows on from TRISON’s October 2018 acquisition of TMM Communication. Peter Critchley, Beaver Group’s CEO and co-founder rang to […]

The @CampsiteProject Acquired by @Broadsign

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Broadsign, the leading out-of-home marketing platform, has announced that it has acquired Campsite, an innovative Canadian digital out-of-home ad exchange that automates the buying and selling of DOOH inventory. This news follows the recent announcement that Broadsign had acquired the industry’s premier out-of-home enterprise business solution, Ayuda Media Systems. Both transactions have closed. Adam Green, […]

Diversified Acquires Australian Business Rutledge AV

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

Andrew Neale

Diversified has announced the acquisition of Rutledge AV, described as one of the top integrators in Australia,. Fred D’Alessandro, Diversified founder and CEO was quoted as saying “I’m very excited for this endeavour, expanding our capabilities into the Australian market and being a true global technology partner for our clients,” said The Rutledge team and […]

Broadsign Acquires @AyudaSystems

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Broadsign International Inc., billed by many (including this publication) as the leading digital out-of-home marketing platform is now, surely, truly that, as it announces today that it has reached an agreement to acquire its main competitor Ayuda Media Systems. Burr Smith, President and CEO of Broadsign told us “This is a tremendous opportunity to bring […]

Global Outdoor is Born

Thursday, April 18th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) this week (finally) approved the acquisition of Exterion Media by Global, the Media & Entertainment group, enabling Global to move forward with the full launch of its new Outdoor division, following the simultaneous purchases of Primesight and Outdoor Plus in September 2018 and Exterion Media in November 2018. […]