MGI Acquires @Platform161

Wednesday, July 15th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Media and Games Invest (MGI) has acquired Platform161. MGI have quickly gained a strong market position in the games and mobile advertising sector having invested in the likes of Verve, PubNative, Applift, ReachHero and Gamigo AG Marco Kloots, CEO Platform161 said “This is a great next step for our company. We believe in the strategy […]

Thayer Ventures Gives @GoSwiftmile USD 5 Million

Thursday, July 9th, 2020

Tristan Cotterill

Swiftmile, the startup that makes and deploys charging stations for electric bikes and scooters in cities, has raised a USD 5 million round led by Thayer Ventures with participation from Verizon Ventures, Alumni Ventures Groups and WSGR. This round brings Swiftmile’s total funding to USD 11 million. Swiftmile co-founder and CEO Colin Roche said “What’s […]

Tractor Outdoor and UrbanSigns Merge

Monday, July 6th, 2020

Tristan Cotterill

Cape Town based Urban Signs has combined forces with Tractor Outdoor to form Urbantrac, which will be run and operate exclusively under the Tractor Media umbrella – we featured Tractor Outdoor in a CEO Spotlight back in February 2019, Ed (click here for same). Ben Harris, Managing Director at Tractor Outdoor told us “We have […]

Google Acquires #AR Glasses Startup, North

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Tristan Cotterill

Google has acquired Canadian based North, formerly Thalmic Labs, an augmented reality (smart) glasses startup for an undisclosed price. North’s co-founders Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey and Aaron Grant said in a statement “Early on, our focus was on new forms of interaction with Myo, a gesture based input device that directly coupled neuro-muscular impulses into […]

infiLED EM To Be Acquired By @BENDAC_Group

Wednesday, June 24th, 2020

Andrew Neale

The Bendac Group, which is fast becoming one of the largest LED solution providers in Europe, Middle East and Africa has announced that it is to acquire infiLED EM. infiLED EM, founded in 2015, currently owns the infiLED Trade Mark in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and has the exclusive rights […]

Kinly Acquires AVMI

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Kinly, a leading global specialist in video collaboration services, headquartered in Amsterdam, today announced the acquisition of AVMI, a leading global AV-integrator and managed services provider, headquartered in London. The statement said that the acquisition of AVMI will strengthen Kinly’s position as Europe’s number one player and firmly establishe them as a global top three […]

Moving Walls Acquires Ahoy’s #AdTECH Platform

Monday, June 1st, 2020

Tristan Cotterill

Moving Walls Group, a Singapore-headquartered advertising technology provider announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Ahoy, an AdTEC company that has built a proprietary location-based advertising platform. Ahoy’s mobile advertising capabilities will become part of both Moving Walls’ OOH planning platform and Location Media Xchange (LMX), a newly formed company that will […]

Ride Share Vugo Raises Minimum USD 850,000

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Despite the July 2019 ‘Vugo ruling’ and the fact that others in the space are flailing, Firefly have repeatedly already burnt through almost USD 40 million (and look where they are), Florida Funders is leading a Series A investment round for Minneapolis-based startup Vugo, which they hope will raise them a minimum of USD 850,000. […]

Verizon Acquires Zoom Rival @BlueJeansNet

Friday, April 17th, 2020

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Verizon Business announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BlueJeans Network, a trusted enterprise-grade video conferencing and event platform. The acquisition expands Verizon’s immersive unified communications portfolio. BlueJeans’ cloud-based video service currently serves a wide variety of business segments from small organizations to some of the world’s largest multinational brands, […]

XTD Acquires oOh! Media’s Health Network Assets

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

Tristan Cotterill

Under the new leadership of industry veteran Adam Cadwallader,. who joined the digital transit media company XTD on August 1, 2020, the company is continuing to diversify its future acquiring the oOh! Media ‘Health’ network in an asset sale and purchase agreement in an all cash transaction. This national health network operates in 58 ‘mega’ […]