Midwich Acquires NMK Group

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Midwich has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Nicolas M. Kyvernitis Electronics Ent., NMK Middle East FZE and Edge Electronics Trading LLC. Based in the UAE and Qatar, the NMK Group is a value-added distributor of AV products and represents Midwich’s entry into the Middle Eastern market. As part of […]

Platinum Equity Acquires Ingram Micro

Thursday, December 10th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Platinum Equity has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ingram Micro Inc., the world’s largest provider of technology logistics services and solutions, from HNA Technology Co., Ltd, a part of HNA Group, in a transaction valued at USD 7.2 billion. The sale is expected to be completed by the first […]

Slido Acquired By Cisco

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held Slido s.r.o., a technology company that provides a best-in-class audience interaction platform. Slido technology enables higher levels of user engagement―before, during and after meetings and events. The Slido technology will be part of the Cisco Webex platform and enhance Cisco’s ability to offer new levels of […]

Spectrio Acquired

Monday, December 7th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour in the US is that Spectrio LLC has just been acquired. It sounds like current owner Bertram Capital has sold to another P/E company. It was only in September that they acquired Industry Weapon.

Kepler Group Acquires @InfectiousMedia

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

US-based digital marketing agency Kepler Group has acquired Infectious Media. We understand that Infectious Media will retain its brand name for the time being but will be rebadged as Kepler in some form of staged process. Infectious was founded by chief executive Martin Kelly and chief operating officer Andy Cocker back in 2008 and has […]

Vector Capital Acquires @MoodMedia

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mood Media, who these days, like to describe themselves as the world’s leading in-store media solutions company (dedicated to elevating the Customer Experience). David Fishman, a Managing Director at […]

PORTL Hologram Raises $3M

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

PORTL Hologram has raised USD 3M from famed venture investor Tim Draper, former Electronic Arts executive Doug Barry and longtime awards-show producer Joe Lewis. David Nussbaum, the founder of PORTL Hologram turned the excitement generated by hologram performance given posthumously by Tupac Shakur at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts festival into a business. […]

Mexican OOH Network Cattri Acquires @LightboxOOH

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Lightbox OOH Video Network has been acquired by Cattri, a leading out-of-home technology company based in Mexico City. The deal, backed by PC Capital, a Mexican private equity firm specialising in growth equity investments, and Altum Capital, a Mexico City-based private credit fund, positions Cattri to gain entry into the U.S. market through Lightbox’s network […]

PGK Digital Networks Acquired By REVEZ Corporation

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

Tristan Cotterill

REVEZ Corporation announced this week that it has acquired PGK Digital Networks, a Singapore-based media owner and operator of digital media networks, digital out-of-home advertising networks and digital sport networks. We are reliably informed that this move is strategically aligned with REVEZ’s business vision for a full value-chain digitalisation for clients and partners in both […]

#AdTECH @Vibenomics Closes USD 6.5M in Funding

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Vibenomics, who describe themselves as a location-based Audio Out-of-Home (AOOH) advertising and experience company, this week announced USD 6.5 million in Series A2 funding to support the launch of additional national networks in convenience stores and grocery retailers fuelled by the rising momentum in programmatic technology. BIP Capital, who led Vibenomics’ Series A funding earlier […]