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Foxconn Plans Three More Lines on Wisconsin LCD Campus

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn is to build three ancillary facilities in Wisconsin, USA, on a campus where a $10 billion LCD factory is due for completion in 2020. The company will add a back-end packaging line, a …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Immersv Attracts $10.5M Investment

by Yvette Raikes

Interactive advertising company Immersv has completed a Series A round of funding. The financing has been led by Rogers Venture Partners and the round has raised $10.5 million towards VR technology in advertising. Immersv …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 31

UniPixel Signs Deal for Equity Credit

by Bob Raikes

UniPixel said that it has entered an equity purchase agreement that gives the company the right to “put,” or sell, up to 13.1 million shares of common stock to L2 Capital for an investment …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Unipixel| Vol 24 - Issue 30

RTL Takes 15% Minority Share in VR Company

by Andrew Fenn

European entertainment network RTL Group has invested in Israeli VR company Inception, earning a 15% stake in the company. RTL has released apps for Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear, iOS, Android, Google Daydream and HTC …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| RTL| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 28

LG and Samsung to Support Cynora Blue OLED Emitter

by Andrew Fenn

Several sources have reported that Cynora has secured funding from LG Display and Samsung in its latest round of financing. The company aimed to raise $15 million to finance the development of its new …

Tags:Germany| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 27

WaveOptics Raises Funds For Developing Important AR Optical Components

by Norbert Hildebrand

Wave Optics, a UK based technology start up (founded by Sumanta Talukdar and David Grey in 2014) has closed a second round of funding with a total of $15.5 million to continue their technology …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 24 - Issue 27

AR/VR Dealmakers Invested over $800 million in Q2

by Alan Spencer

According to Digi-Capital’s latest report, AR and VR investors laid out over $800 million in the second quarter of this year up on Q1. For the last 12 months, over $2 billion has been …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 26

iView Raises $14.7 million to Increase R&D into Pico Projection

by Alan Spencer

iView, the pico-projection engine developer based in Shenzen, has raised around $14.7 million as part of its series B funding round, the lead investor being CMS Zhiyuan Capital. iView was founded in 2006 and …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 25

New J/V in Taiwan for OLED Drivers

by Bob Raikes

INT Tech and UltraChip (which claims it will have market share of more than 90% in EPD drivers in the second half of 2017) have set up a J/V to develop drivers for OLEDs …

Tags:Display Drivers| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Samsung To Build Huge OLED Plant

by Bob Raikes

The ET Times in Korea has reported that Samsung has started to finalise a plan for a new OLED fab (tentatively called ‘A5’) which will have capacity of 180,000 G6 substrates per month, expandable …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Sky Takes Minority Stake in V-Nova

by Alan Spencer

Sky plc is taking a minority equity stake in V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions. The value of the investment is £4.5 million ($5.7 million). V-Nova already has a number of investors, including …

Tags:Codecs| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| V-Nova| Vol 24 - Issue 24