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The purchase and rebranding of Metromedia Plus by multimedia and telecommunications company Cogeco Inc. marks the first foray into transit and/or out-of-home and digital out-of-home for Cogeco. “Cogeco was interested because it fits in so well with its radio properties, with both consumed when people are outdoors and moving around, and often at the same […]

“What’s going on with DOOH at Fuel Dispensers & Integrated Fueling Solutions provider Gilbarco Veeder Root then?” we wrote back in April, continuing in that specific post by saying “We only ask cos’ we have seen an awful lot of social media activity from them on our LinkedIn group and elsewhere”. Well, sometimes our ears […]

From those software vendors who haven’t drunk the Intel Kool-Aid, the CEO cry we continue to hear is “be honest Intel who the hell is using Intel AIM Suite?” Apart from a few over publicised trials and one-offs we figure that the answer is pretty much no-one AND it’s definitely had no traction in the […]

We hear news that signagelive are developing a brand new Player API that will enable third parties to connect their own media players to signagelive’s existing cloud-based content management system. They currently have a number of partners who are already doing this such as BrightSign and IAdea (and some that are yet to be announced). […]

Montreal-based Metromedia Plus, specialized since 1993 in transit advertising across Canada, has officially become Cogeco Metromedia. We’ve learned that the company was quietly bought by multimedia company Cogeco in December and the merger is now official with the change of the corporate identity. We are looking forward to getting more information about the purchase, but […]

Media industry veteran Patrick Galante has been appointed senior vice-president of sales and marketing at Corum Digital Corporation, Vaughan, Ontario, provider of innovative and interactive digital signage systems. Galante is responsible for overseeing all sales and marketing aspects of both the recently acquired MediaTile and firmCHANNEL brands of digital signage. Prior to joining Corum, Galante […]

When today’s road warriors hit the trail, they are armed with three or four mobile devices to help them stay connected to office and home. That’s one of the findings of a hotel business and technology study commissioned by Four Points by Sheraton, a Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. brand. The survey polled a […]

Chicago-based Braintree, payments platform for online and mobile commerce, recently acquired Venmo, a mobile and social payment application that makes it seamless for consumers to make and share payments with their mobile phones. The addition of Venmo’s digital wallet and person-to-person payment application extends Braintree’s payment platform to consumers for the first time. “The addition […]

UB Media Inc., Montreal, and Touchtunes Interactive Networks, New York, have announced a strategic partnership for representation of advertising sales of Touchtunes’ entire Canadian network of over 2,000 touchscreen-enabled digital media players located in bars and restaurants across Canada. Touchtunes is one of the largest measured digital out-of-home networks in North America, with more than […]

We noticed that VeriFone Systems Inc. was awarded a contract to supply the Beall’s Inc., retail chain with the recently introduced MX 915, VeriFone’s advanced payment and media-enabled solutions system in a space-saving form factor. Beall’s also will be complementing the MX 915 with VeriFone HQ, an advanced estate management solution allowing it to easily […]