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Anyone who cares about Marks & Spencer will still be cursing the Belgian idiot who got rid of their two stores in Paris a couple of years ago. The smaller one was in the urban-chic Marais district and did a roaring trade selling soggy white sandwiches to Parisian office workers who wanted to savour the [...]
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Futuramedia has donated 50 of its 42” screens to a leading French charity, Emmaüs. Following an upgrading of its installed screens, the company decided to give the replaced screens for the charity to sell off. The sale will take place on the weekends of November 26/27 and December 10/11 in the suburbs of Paris. The [...]
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At a time when the digital media market is undergoing a period of restructuring, French software developer and digital media company Mirane, has announced that it has been acquired by the French industrial group, Groupe Madic, for an undisclosed sum. The company was created in 1997 by Cyril Michel, Laurent Bolzon and Olivier Garosi, and [...]
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It’s supposedly happened, been announced so many times now we never know what to believe but here we see yet another announcement that McDonald’s USA is launching a TV channel that will run inside its outlets and that will feature a portion of original programming. We are told that the programming will be targeted by [...]
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Futuramedia has been following the Rugby World Cup since September. From the beginning of the tournament, the company has been displaying results and announcing upcoming games on both its Malls and Pharmacy networks. The company’s in-house graphic department supplied the 3D animations used to trail the announcements. 50 million hopeful French people will have seen [...]
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Thierry Destombes formerly Country Manager France and Belgium chez Minicom Advanced Systems (his words not ours) is now, it seems with Magenta Research as they (Magenta) open an office in Paris.
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N-Allo, an established name in Belgium’s contact centre landscape, and a subsidiary of Electrabel, expands its professional services by taking a majority stake in Digitopia. Digitopia – the biggest player in Belgium in digital signage – will complement N-Allo’s offer in the field of new digital solutions for optimising the interaction between customer and company. [...]
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I had been planning to go to VISCOM in Paris next week, sort of by reflex. After all, they announce “200 exhibiting companies – over 500 brands represented - 12.000 professionals attending” so it must be good. To prepare my visit, I used the web site search engine to identify the Digital Media Exhibitors – very [...]
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Kinepolis, one of the largest movie theatre groups in Europe, has fully embraced digital signage in their multiplexes. Today’s digital signage technology opens up a world of possibilities to target cinemagoers quickly and effectively, presenting them with seat booking information, ticket pricing, advertising, and many things more. In this video, Nicolas Hamon, Image and Sound [...]
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The 5th Munich Digital Signage Conference 2011 got off to a cracking start with the keynote address from Invidis’ now familiar dynamic duo – Florian Rotberg & Oliver Schwede. Florian announced visitors from India, Korea and Canada, but the attendance was predominantly German, with more presentations in Goethe’s language than last year. Which is all [...]
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