YCD Multimedia buys C-nario and pockets a new $6 million fundraising round from the venture capital companies involved.

This is another consolidation that delineates the digital signage industry’s need to grow bigger players, players that can offer end-to-end solutions that encompass everything from content management to measurement and analytics.

This acquisition and the funding will expand its reach to serve more than 2000 brands, including leading Fortune 500 global brands, in over 40 countries worldwide. The company also hopes to deliver Read more...

ComQi announces its partnership with Path Intelligence, a company that detects and predicts how shoppers and visitors will behave within enclosed environments such as malls, retail stores, transportation hubs and stadiums.

Instead of camera-based tracking, Path Intelligence captures data on shoppers by passively and anonymously observing the movement of their mobile phones. The firm provides customized information on how many shoppers visit by department, how long they stay, how frequently they come back, which stores they visit during their mall Read more...

Trans-Lux Corporation unveils its TL Control Digital Display Platform. More than just a software system to create or administer content for digital signage, the integrated TL Control Platform provides the means to manage the entire process including template authoring, playlist building and preview and playout.

TL Control Digital Display Platform renders broadcast quality graphics and video in real time with the capability to change individual content elements without requiring entire video segments to be re-rendered. The TL Control Template Maker Read more...

Teatro alla Scala in Milan is one of Europe’s famous venues for performing dramatic opera. The International Scala Conference, a digital signage lovefest, brought some theatre of its own to its annual conference in Netherlands.

In front of 300 attendees from 45 countries, Scala wasted no time in playing out its biggest scene: CEO Gerard Bucas will retire and Tom Nix becomes the man in charge of digital signage’s largest software platform.

That change at Scala’s helm caught many offguard and probably overshadowed the real drama, the real opera that is playing out in the digital signage market where Scala is a major actor.

The “theatre playbill” that outlines this drama is a slide from their Scala presentation at the conference: the Eight Pillars of Scala strategy. Where goes Scala, there goes the industry…which is what makes these eight “pillars.” Read more...