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Popcom, who build high-IQ automated retail technology – think kiosks or ‘intelligent vending platforms’ are trying to raise more money via a crowd funding campaign. This is the second time that they have resorted to crowdfunding to raise money. Back in April 2019 they raised USD 1.07M. Their Founder, CEO, and Director Dawn Dickson is […]

Foursquare, the 10-year-old location platform based in New York City, this week announced its plan to merge with Factual. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The merged company will keep the Foursquare moniker, and Foursquare CEO David Shim will remain at the helm, with Factual’s founder and now-former CEO Gil Elbaz joining Foursquare […]

JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, has announced that it is to acquire a minority stake, through its wholly owned subsidiary JCDecaux Innovate incorporated in Hong Kong, in a consortium of investors which formed a special purpose vehicle (“Offeror”) to make a voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire all […]

NEC Corporation (NEC, TSE: 6701) and Sharp Corporation (Sharp, TSE: 6753) have agreed to create a joint venture by combining NEC Display Solutions, Ltd., a subsidiary of NEC, with Sharp. Hisatsugu Nakatani, President, NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. said “NEC offers one of the broadest visual solutions portfolios in the industry, and with a consultancy-led sales […]

Workflow and managed print services specialist Karlson and Intevi have been jointly acquired to create Aura Futures, a new company which aims to be a leading consultancy and technology provider, offering a full end-to-end service for clients from consultancy to integration. The newly-formed business will operate across six offices globally, servicing 300 large clients in […]

Billups has acquired MacDonald Media. Billup’s footprint now covers 16 U.S. markets. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. David Krupp, Billups CEO, Americas told us “Our intent is to create the media investment scale of the holding company specialists, while providing the strategic thinking and analysis of a comms planning agency backed by […]

NFS Leasing, Inc. and Starlite Media LLC have announced that they have entered into two additional credit facilities which will fund Starlite Media’s transformation from a place-based static out-of-home and at-store advertising company to one of the most advanced digital place-based OOH and shopper marketing companies in North America. In addition to providing these new […]

Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) has announced that it has participated in a Series A investment round in Xdisplay Company. Xdisplay Company creates and owns leading intellectual property and capabilities in microLED mass transfer technology. Daktronics President and CEO Reece Kurtenbach said “We see a lot of promise in microLEDs and the products we can produce with this […]

Ride-sharing Ad-Based wannabee startup Halo Cars has been acquired by Lyft. Lyft confirmed the deal but declined to share any details. It’s likely to be negligible, Whilst Halo Cars had raised a small pre-seed round, it was very small, operated only in a few US Cities and like all the businesses our there that let […]

Midwich, a specialist audio visual distributor to the trade market with operations across the UK and Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific, has announced that it has acquired 100% of the share capital of Starin Marketing, Inc., a US-based, specialist value-added distributor of AV products. Stephen Fenby, the Midwich Group Managing Director, told us “We are […]