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Intel has acquired a 20% stake in China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, a state-owned company that owns China’s second and third largest chip designers, Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics. Intel spent $1.5 billion to acquire the stake, which it says will enable Intel to increase its presence in the smartphone and tablet markets. China’s Ministry of Industry … Read more
JVC Americas and Kenwood USA have merged their US operations to form a single subsidiary. The merger completes a process that was first announced in April, and is designed to enhance operating efficiencies and spur innovation throughout the company. The two entities will consolidate their business and financial resources under the new company, though JVC … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 19″ standard aspect ratio (5:4) category. There are 16 brands featured in the advertising with Philips, Acer and Iiyama the top three advertised brands. In France, Philips leads with Iiyama and Samsung in joint second. In Germany, Acer leads Philips and Fujitsu, while in the UK, … Read more
Florian Rotberg started the event by talking about his company, Invidis, which organises the conference. One of the key things that Invidis does is to track the “mood” in the digital signage industry and works with OVAB on this. Over recent years, the range of countries has been increasing . Oliver Schwede covered the market … Read more
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Rob Brinklow is from RMG Networks, which used to be called “Symon Communications” and claims to be the largest publically-traded digital signage company providing end to end solutions. It is US owned. The company has made its own CMS platform and hardware player but the key activity is to develop solutions and cover installation and … Read more
Oliver Schwede introduced a session on analytics measurement and the legal implications of digital signage analytics. Schwede asked Dannel Gasser of Relevance Analytics “What is the role of analytics in the store?”. Gasser said that if you asked an online retailer not to use analytics, they would say you are crazy, but in digital signage … Read more
The final session was a panel discussion featuring our own Bob Raikes, Ronni Guggenheim of Navori, Brian Dusho of Broadsign, Damon Crowhurst of Scala and Vladimir Kozlov of Digisky and was moderated by Oliver Schwede. Schwede started by asking Raikes about market development. Although individual regions can be very up and down, broadly over EMEA, … Read more
There was a small exhibition area in the lobby of the Kempinski Hotel where the conference was held. I thought that there was less of interest on display this year, as exhibitors seemed to have made less effort, having, presumably, decided this was more of a networking event. Companies with some presence included Samsung, LG, … Read more
Russian distributor Di-House has expanded its range with gaming notebooks from Gigabyte.
Exertis Micro-P is now the exclusive distributor of Acer’s Aspire E10510P laptop in the UK.
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