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Panasonic has celebrated 35 years of operation in China. Around 400 people attended a celebration at the China World Hotel Beijing, including the president of Panasonic, Kazuhiro Tsuga. Over the past 35 years, the company’s Chinese operations have moved from home appliance manufacturing to include R&D, sales and service.
For the third year running, BenQ has been taken on as the exclusive supplier and offical partner of the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) finals. The finals run between 29th October and 2nd November in Paris. BenQ will supply more than 200 of its XL-series monitors to the event.
The UK’s Rugby and Football Union (RFU) has entered into a three-year partnership with Samsung. Through the agreement, Samsung will install more than 700 Smart Signage digital displays at Twickenham Stadium, with more at the England rugby team’s training ground at Pennyhill Park. A competition has also been announced, running through the 2014/15 rugby season, … Read more
Stino Eyevis and MMD will jointly showcase digital signage products at Viscom in Frankfurt next month. These will include the new iChannel 7 content management system; an in-store cloud radio service; and ePromoter, an Android-based smart remote screen management solution (all seen in Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39). TouchPromoter, multitouch and kiosk presentation software, … Read more
VESA will run a half-day workshop on its new DisplayPort 1.3 and DisplayPort Alt Mode standards in Taipei, Taiwan, on 13th November. Entrance is free to VESA members and non-members. Register at http://tinyurl.com/qzns96c.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced plans to restructure its business and has said that it will cut 7% of its global workforce, so the cut is estimated to be around 710 employees. The announcement came as AMD released its third quarter results, returning to profit in the quarter from a net loss of $36 … Read more
Following its spin-off from parent company CBS Corp. (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 12), CBS Outdoor Americas has rebranded itself. From 20th November the company will be known as ‘Outfront Media’. More than 100,000 displays nationwide will be rebranded as part of the process.
Dutch media outlet The NL Times reports that Ziggo will cut around 20% of its staff as a result of its merger with Liberty Global’s UPC Netherlands division (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 2). Combined, UPC and Ziggo will have about 4,500 employees, of which about 900 will be made redundant. The job losses are … Read more
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reported its third quarter results, posting a net profit of $17 million on turnover of $1.43 billion, which compares with a net profit of $48 million on turnover of $1.46 billion in Q3 of last year. In the first nine months of the year AMD succeeded in narrowing its net … Read more
Barco NV has released selected results for the third quarter of this year. The company said that sales for the quarter were 0.8% higher year on year at
Earlier this month, Sharp signed a white goods licensing deal with Vestel. It was later expanded and includes an agreement to license Sharp’s AV business in Europe to Universal Media Corporation (UMC) in Slovakia. Sharp’s consumer electronics business in Europe, which is focused on LCD TVs, has been suffering losses since 2008 (and the entire … Read more
AOC displays are now being offered in Germany and Austria by Action Europe.
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