Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
OUTFRONT Media Inc., New York, and JCDecaux SA, Paris, have entered into an agreement to sell the Latin America business of OUTFRONT Media to JCDecaux Latin America / Corameq, which is 85% owned by JCDecaux SA. The purchase price is $82 million cash, subject to working capital and indebtedness adjustments. The transaction is expected to […]
Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media
A week today, The DailyDOOH Investor Conference, now in its 10th year, takes place slap bang in the middle of New York Digital Signage Week. It’s the pre-eminent networking and matchmaking event for senior executives involved in the out of home, digital out of home, digital place based and digital signage sectors. Once again, we […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
VeriFone Media, New York, has acquired Curb (originally Taxi Magic), a company that provides e-hail and media-enabled payment services for taxis in 60 U.S. cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles. Curb’s media-enabled payment terminals are installed in almost 15,000 taxis, bringing Verifone Media’s total number of media-enabled taxi payment screens to more than 35,000 […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Gimbal Inc., San Diego-based mobile engagement and location intelligence platform, has just announced the acquisition of Phigital’s rich mobile experience suite. “This is exciting news for advertisers and their agencies that want a comprehensive solution they can use to design rich media content that will be delivered based on Gimbal’s macro and micro-location triggers,” says […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Here is the full agenda for The DailyDOOH Investor Conference which takes place Wednesday November 4, 2015 during New York Digital Signage Week. 08.15 Registration & Breakfast 09.00 Opening Remarks Adrian J Cotterill | Steve Nesbit 09.30 OOH: Creating the Constellation for the IoT | Jeremy Male | CEO | Outfront Media In a world […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
It’s been a long time coming – years in fact. Back in November 2014 we (last) wrote that the JCDecaux acquisition of CEMUSA (announced March 2014) still hadn’t closed and that we had heard from several people close to the deal that the new #LinkNYC arrangement / CityBridge contract was not helping matters either. BUT […]
INRIX®, Inc., a leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected driving services worldwide, announced it has completed the acquisition of ParkMe, a Santa Monica, CA company that helps consumers find parking, make reservations and mobile payments worldwide. This deal makes INRIX the preferred provider of parking information and services to leading automakers, transportation agencies […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announced this week its acquisition of 70% of Eye Catcher Media, Peru’s leading advertiser in transport and shopping centres. This acquisition reinforces JCDecaux’s presence in Peru, where it won the advertising concession for Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima in December 2014. Founded […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Well, it all sounded a little bit premature and so it was. News just in then, that Primesight has withdrawn from talks to acquire Eye Airports. Primesight was announced as preferred bidder for the airport specialist in July 2015 but has ended discussions following difficulty reaching satisfactory contractual agreements with some of the parties involved. […]
APN Outdoor this week announced its acquisition of New Zealand based billboard business, Roadside Attractions, from Twisted World Limited. Founded in 1997, Roadside Attractions is an established national billboard operator, with 113 panels throughout the country. The portfolio was attractive to APN Outdoor because of the complementary nature of the sites geographically; including important markets […]
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