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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 …

Apple and the Tech Industry

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to Forbes, Apple is the most valuable brand followed by Google and Microsoft. This helps to understand how a downgrade of Apple’s stock by Mizuho Securities’ Abhey Lamba caused a massive shift in …

Tags:Apple| Investment| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Videri Strengthens Ties with Wistron

by Yvette Raikes

US digital signage company, Videri, is strengthening its relationship with Taiwanese ODM company Wistron, according to Digitimes. Wistron plans to invest $100 million in Videri, which is developing cloud-based software solutions.

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

BC05 Mizhou Looks at Finance and Supply

by Bob Raikes

Yasuo Nakane is an analyst from Mizhuo Securities where he looks at the display industry and was introduced by Young as a highly respected analyst in the FPD industry. If you think that Ross …

eMagin Finance News 19/05/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

eMagin has announced that it has priced an underwritten offering of an aggregate of 3,300,000 shares of common stock, together with warrants to purchase up to 1,650,000 shares of common stock of the company, …

Tags:eMagin| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Avegant Wins More Funding

by Bob Raikes

Avegant, which has so far focused on headsets for viewing video, has raised $13.7m in additional funding to further develop its ‘light field’ displays. The FT reports that Avegant has now raised around $50 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Eizo MIL Test Facility Completed

by Bob Raikes

Eizo has completed the building of a new facility for the testing of products to MIL standards at its headquarters in Hakusan, Japan. MIL standards mandates materials that can be used remain stable under …

Tags:Eizo| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Light Polymers Raises Funding for OLED Expansion

by Alan Spencer

Light Polymers has announced a $24.3 million funding round, so that it can expand research and development and scale up the chemistry and film production of its 35 micron-thick OLED circular polariser. The company …

Apple Suppliers Boost Capex

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes has reported that two companies in the supply chain for touch on iPhones, General Interface Solutions and TPK Holdings, have both set aside substantial sums for capital investment ($163 million and $151 million, …

UniPixel Raises $10m in Public Offering

by Bob Raikes

UniPixel of Santa Clara in the US said that it has completed a $10 million public offering of common stock and warrants. The stock was placed privately and adds to the $3 million of …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Unipixel| Vol 24 - Issue 07

8i Wins $27 Million for Mixed Reality App

by Bob Raikes

8i, a company that is developing ‘holographic’ technology for VR & AR has won a $27 million Series B round of investment to release a new app called Holo. The round was led by …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 06

$1.8 Billion VC Funding for VR/AR in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Last year, the funding for VR/AR companies reached $1.8 billion, ending much higher than in 2015. According to Greenlight Insights year-end analysis of individual deals back to 2011, both median-deal size and the total …

Tags:AR/VR| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 04