GRO Capital Buys Into @Adform

Friday, April 5th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Adform A/S, a global leader of ad tech software and services, has announced that GRO Capital has become a new shareholder after injecting significant equity into the company. GRO Capital will partner with existing shareholder VIA equity and Adform’s management team with a continued focus on establishing a global independent industry leading company. Established in […]

Pikasso Senegal Acquires the Inventory of Doni SA.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Pikasso Senegal announced today that it has acquired the panels and locations of Doni, the third largest OOH advertising company in Senegal. The agreement consists in transferring the panel assets to Pikasso Senegal and the 16 employees involved in Out of Home. The agreement includes the acquisition of 1,220 faces of 6m2 and 4×3 formats […]

Four Winds Interactive Strategic Partnership w/ Vista Equity Partners

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Four Winds Interactive LLC. (FWI), has announced a strategic partnership with Vista Equity Partners, a leading investment firm focused on software, data and technology-enabled businesses. Vista collaborates with management teams to foster operational excellence, paving the way for sustainable growth opportunities, innovation, and impact in the markets they serve. The rather grandious press release stated […]

Pikasso Acquires Large Format Highway Locations From Parapub

Monday, January 28th, 2019

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Pikasso has acquired the assets of Parapub consisting on two Walls, Nahr El Mott and Zalka, and six Large Format Rooftops, all of them located on the most trafficked highway of Greater Beirut from Nahr El Mott to Antelias. Antonio Vincenti, Chairman and CEO of Pikasso, told us “We are delighted to have reached this […]

Midwich Acquires MobilePro AG

Friday, January 18th, 2019

Andrew Neale

Midwich, a specialist audio visual distributor to the trade market with operations across the UK and Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific, has acquired 100% of the share capital of MobilePro AG, a Swiss value-added distributor of audio visual products, from Omega Handelsgesellschaft m.b.h, a leading IT/AV distributor with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. The purchase […]

Re-admission of ‪@OceanOutdoorUK ‬To The London Stock Exchange

Friday, January 11th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ocean Outdoor, has (finally) announced that its ordinary shares have been re-admitted to the Standard Listing segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority, and that trading in its shares was going to recommence at 8:00am January 9, 2019 on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market (LSE: OOUT). Commenting on the re-admission, Tim […]

Gimbal Acquires UberMedia’s Managed Media Business

Wednesday, January 9th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This week, mobile analytics company UberMedia sold its managed media business to Gimbal. As part of the deal we understand that Gimbal receives UberMedia’s US footprint, an agency-heavy book of business and 10 employees to manage it. UberMedia now gets to focus exclusively on its data platform business. Gimbal CEO Rob Emrich, who declined to […]

Touchscreen Vending Machine Vengo Raises USD 7 Million

Friday, January 4th, 2019

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Bethpage, New York-based Vengo Labs LLC, that manufactures touchscreen vending machines has raised USD 7 million in new equity funding. This, we are told, likely doubles the amount of money the business has raised since the company first came to light, some three years ago when it competed on the ABC television show ‘Shark Tank’ […]

Tru-Media Technologies Acquired By ‪@YCDMultimedia ‬

Thursday, December 27th, 2018

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In its very short-lived glory days, Israeli startup Tru-Media Technologies had over 100 employees, and along with Quividi (the ONLY long serving face recognition business still in operation) pionered face, eye and image recognition in the digital signage space. Samsung partnered with them and if you believe the rumours, Nielsen even considered buying them. Very […]

Crestview Acquires ‪@EloTouch ‬Solutions

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Gores Group has long been rumoured to have wanted to dispose of Elo Touch Solutions and their Christmas wish has come true, as news filters through this week, that private equity firm Crestview Partners has acquired Elo Touch Solutions for an undisclosed sum. Alex Rose, partner of Crestview, said “Crestview seeks to invest in […]