In one of the biggest Chinese technology deals of 2008, Chinese Internet portal Sina.com has entered into a definitive agreement worth about USD1 billion with Focus Media Holding Limited to acquire substantially all of the assets of Focus Media’s digital out-of-home advertising networks, including LCD display network, poster frame network and in-store network.
Focus Media will retain its Internet advertising division, the movie theater advertising network portion of its commercial location network and certain traditional billboards.
SpanImage, the UAE’s leading digital signage firm, announced today Oman Oil Marketing Company (OOMC) has chosen their digital solution to act as the communication platform to its visitors and employees to display current information on services, promotions, policy change and major regional and local news.
Noventri announces installation of proprietary digital signage technology at DC’s Newseum. High-end digital signage is part of the museum’s efforts to create an interactive environment for patrons and news related history.
Design Reactor has become a member of Cisco’s Academy of Digital Signage (ADS) through which it will offer digital signage solutions.
Scala, the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for the digital signage and advertising management markets, today announced Alpha Japan has selected Scala’s award winning digital signage platform to power its ASP service named “Primix™ VISION”, primarily focused at retail customers. With 150 systems deployed and another 300 scheduled to deploy by mid-2009, Alpha Japan has demonstrated is success in the Japanese marketplace.
Four Winds Interactive and USA TODAY have partnered on a digital signage initiative that will bring an unprecedented digital concierge to each new and redesigned lobby in the Courtyard by Marriott(R) brand. Debuting late last year as a prototype, the GoBoard(TM) acts as an interactive digital information center for guests, showcasing live news from USA TODAY and running off of the Four Winds Interactive digital signage software platform. Now available in eight hotels, Courtyard expects to rollout the GoBoard and lobby redesign at 150 hotels by the end of 2009.
Planet-Tek Systems, a leader in digital signage management solutions, is launching The Marketplace Station™ series of digital signage “stations” at Whole Foods Market locations in Toronto (Yorkville) and Oakville, in November 2008. The stations, with targeted full-motion communications in select store departments, will help marketers in store heighten their point-of-purchase initiatives, and will benefit consumers with product info and food/lifestyle ideas.
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading stand-alone provider of commercial LCD displays and projectors, today announced that it received a DIGI Award for Best Media Player for its high-end MPD-SBC-16 single board computer, an innovative solution for digital signage deployments. The fourth annual awards from The Digital Signage Group were presented recently at the Digital Signage Show in New York and honor excellence in the digital signage industry.
Westinghouse Digital Electronics, one of the leading LCD TV manufacturers in the U.S.*, now gives businesses a dynamic twist to attract customers and advertise like never before. With its new neonSource, neonNow and neonPlayer products, businesses have an advanced way to turn their entertainment or information displays into powerful digital signage tools. Created for the hospitality education, food service, retail and point-of-sale industries, the neonSource and neonNow software solutions give businesses the ability to easily create professional digital signs and ads like never before.
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received a $140 million order to provide systems integration and information technology (IT) services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). NGA, a major intelligence and combat support agency of the Department of Defense, is acquiring the services under a new multi-vendor five-year, IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity) contract. Harris will perform the contract through its National Intelligence Programs business.
Neoti Broadcast Network, the community digital signage across Indiana and Ohio, is to run an Atheles of the Month program on its digital signage displays in the Fort Wayne area. The idea is to honor students from the community who excel either on the field or in the classroom.
Clear Channel Interspace Airport Advertising has installed its latest 65″ high definition LCD digital signage screens and interactive kiosks in the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans.