Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We just had a nice chat with David Staas, former senior vice-president of marketing at San Francisco-based JiWire, who, we discovered, is currently holding the title of interim CEO. David Courtney, former CEO, left the company recently. Staas will be speaking at Street Fight Summit West on June 5, during which he’ll be making an […]
The fourth annual Emerging Display Technologies Conference from DisplaySearch will be held at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara on 13th to 14th August 2012. The event, we are told, will showcase the latest touch screens, OLED displays, lighting, and emerging displays. More information here.
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We were first to bring you the news that BroadSign International filed Chapter 11 documents in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware in early March and we are also the first to bring you news that they have finally emerged from it (Chapter 11) and have been sold to the likely only bidder on […]
The Outdoor Advertising Convention (OAC) – an expo, convention and awards event for the OOH advertising industry in the region will be returning to Mumbai in June for its eight edition. OAC 2012 will be held on 8-9th June 2012 at the Hotel Renaissance, Powai, Mumbai. The theme for this year’s event is Disrupt the […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Canadian Blood Services is partnering with ScreenScape, Charlottetown, to develop a place-based media network that will power digital displays at 40-plus permanent collection sites and bring its messaging to their donors and staff across Canada. Canadian Blood Services is a national, not-for-profit charitable organization that manages the supply of blood and blood products in all […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
A recent Yahoo! survey conducted by Ipsos MediaCT says that people love their tablets so much that 1/3 of men frequently take theirs to the bathroom. No word on any similar move by women! Ed Well, that’s not entirely true: Apparently one in four women would rather give up sex than give up their tablet, […]
NFC specialists Near Field Solutions have announced the launch of ‘Tagomatic’, a new device which has been designed specifically to provide simple NFC interaction in the digital signage / multi-sheet poster environments. In many traditional advertising scenarios passive NFC tags can be added to (non digital) posters which then make the poster interactive – however, […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We learned of a new company yesterday, based in Montreal and co-founded by Kamran Ahmed, CEO, and Stéphane Tramblay, CTO. Aptovision is a privately held corporation (with some venture capital backing) that is focused on delivering licensable technologies for current and next generation audio-video (AV) signal processing and distribution systems. While Aptovision is a new […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Our good friend Steve (‘only my ex-wife calls me Stephen’) Nesbit (and regular co-chair at the October Investor Conference in NYC) was at pains this afternoon to tell the several dozen callers and emailers who contacted him that he had not just joined NewBay Media! Yep, you heard that right – NewBay Media announced earlier […]
If there are any Europeans or North Americans other nationalities may not apply who are heading out to Tokyo for #dsj2012 which is is being held 13th to 15th June AND fancy meeting up one night then please let Adrian or I know. My business partner and I will be there that whole week; Adrian […]
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