Archive for April, 2008

Queen Of The Cash Machine

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mark Williamson from the Scottish Herald writes a long and interesting piece today on Ana Stewart, founder and MD of i-design Group plc – the folks of course behind ATM:ad. i-design get a lot of press in Scotland (obviously being a bit of a local success story) but I bet shareholders who have seen their […]

Innovative Harrods Window Display

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Harrods in London has a reputation for doing some amazing things with its store window displays. You can walk past any time of the year and see some magnificent sites – there was a Maserati in the window recently. Anyway I digress, there is an interesting screen install happening later today which we will be […]

Barcelona Grand Prix

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It is of course the Barcelona Grand Prix this weekend and a lot of digital screen networks have been playing out our free to air F1 GPP content. Shown here are the driver and car championship standings playing out on one of Neo Advertising’s Shopping Malls. You can preview all of the Barcelona content over […]

Thinking About De-Listing From AIM?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

It appears that ImageSound are ACTUALLY in agreement with the majority of private investors that monitor the Digital Out of Home sector – i.e. that the outlook for small companies is particularly bleak in the current economic climate AND could get worse before it gets better! The result as highlighted by the Daily Telegraph recently […]

CBS Corp. Acquires IOA Group in South America

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Well worth a mention… CBS CORPORATION TO ACQUIRE INTERNATIONAL OUTDOOR ADVERTISING GROUP (IOA) FOR $110 MILLION IN CASH Leading Outdoor Advertising Company in South America Has Over 17,000 Advertising Faces in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS and CBS.A) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International Outdoor Advertising Group (IOA), the […]

Tveez Marketing Intelligence Raises USD 15M

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday [vc]cafe had an interesting mention of Tveez Marketing Intelligence which has recently raised $15 Million DESPITE (in our opinion) being in quite a bitter and long running legal dispute with c-nario over patents). See http://www.vccafe.com/ for more information.

ISE 2009, Amsterdam RAI, NL

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The dates have been out for ISE 2009, Amsterdam RAI, NL for a while but we forgot to add them to our Events Calendar or mention it to you… Welcome to ISE 2009 Europe’s No.1 event for the professional AV and electronic systems industry will return to the Amsterdam RAI Centre on 3–5 February 2009. […]

CAYIN Technology at Digital Signage Expo

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Now with the horrors of Sign and Digital UK firmly out the way we can look at May and in particular two events that we are really looking forward to… The first is Kiosk Europe Expo / Digital Signage Expo 2008 held in just under 2 weeks at Messe Essen in Essen, Germany from May […]

CEO SPOTLIGHT – Philippe Gribeauval, Pixman Nomadic Media, Madrid

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This month in the “CEO Spotlight”, we welcome Philippe Gribeauval, President and Chief Executive Officer Pixman Nomadic Media and Pixman Europe. You are based in Madrid but run Pixman worldwide. How did that come about and how do you find managing a global organization from Spain? My initial responsibility when we launched the Madrid office […]

Daktronics Stand at Sign and Digital UK

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

They turn the brightness up so high on LEDs – often we think to mask the poor resolution when seen up close (it wasn’t ‘dark’ whilst we were there and when we took the picture). An LED on a stand like this at a show is best seen from 20ft or more away. The Daktronics […]