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Tele2 to buy Com Hem of Sweden

by Bob Raikes

Tele2 a telco from Sweden is to buy local cable operator, Com Hem, in a deal that values the company at €2.65 billion. If the deal goes ahead, the new organisation will be the …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Sweden| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Mercedes to Use OLEDs from LGD in 2022

by Bob Raikes

We have seen reports, credited to Business Korea, that LG Display expects Mercedes to adopt the company’s OLEDs in production vehicles in 2022. The company is already supplying LCDs to Mercedes. Separately, Business Korea …

NGCodec raises $8 million in Funding

by Bob Raikes

Codec developer, NGCodec, which is working on HEVC and V-Nova and has Xilinx as an investor, has raised $8 million in Series A funding bringing the total funding raised by the company to $15.9 …

Tags:Codecs| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Flex Develops AR Headset Using ‘Sketch to Scale’ Concept

by Bob Raikes

Flex has been trying to promote the range of design and manufacturing facilities that it is able to provide to brands, with its ‘Sketch to Scale’ tag line. The company saw that there are …

Dell Slims Monitors to a New Level

by Bob Raikes

Dell was next door to Lenovo in one of the Venetian restaurants and we had a look around, although it was very noisy and crowded! The most interesting story on the display said was …

Tags:CES 2018| Desktop Monitors| Edge Backlights| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Bagtag Confirms Lufthansa

by Bob Raikes

Bagtag, which told us earlier in 2017 at PTE (BagTag is Getting There…) that it was ‘very close’ to announcing some support for its E Ink-based baggage labels, has now confirmed that Lufthansa, Swissair …

CSOT Completes G6 LTPS Plant

by Bob Raikes

CSOT is reported to have completed its T4 G6 LTPS OLED factory, which was built starting June 2017 and which is ready four months ahead of schedule. The capacity once fully operating is estimated …

WaveOptics announces Augmented Reality partnership with Coretronic Corporation

by Bob Raikes

WaveOptics, a designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides, announced a partnership with Coretronic, the Taiwanese-based worldwide number one provider of DLP projection solutions. This partnership is intended to advance AR system integration, while lowering …

Kyulux in Trouble?

by Bob Raikes

We heard over the New Year holiday that Japanese TADF developer, Kyulux, was going through some substantial changes in management, including the loss of its CEO Christopher J. Savoie, its VP of Products, announced …

LFD Touch Moves to PCap but Big LFD Share Growing

by Bob Raikes

A hat-tip to Sixteen-nine.net for getting hold of some interesting data from IHS Markit that is part of the data that the researcher supplies to members of the Digital Signage Federation in the US. …

Tags:Digital Signage Data| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 25 - Issue 02

LDM CES 2018 Catch Up

by Bob Raikes

Micro-Star International (MSI) showed a range of monitors for gaming at CES under the Optix sub-brand. There are two 27″ curved monitors with 1800R and using VA panels to support 144Hz refresh and 1ms …

MDM CES Round-up

by Bob Raikes

Boarding VAR is from France and was part of the French contingent in the Eureka Park. The company believes it has a solution to the problems caused by VR upsetting people by causing motion …