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Indian sector seen needing $200m investment
Mumbai-based outdoor-advertising company Laqshya Media is gearing up for a fresh round of funding – as one commentator on India's screen media suggests the sector needs a $200m injection of private capital over the next two years.
According to local reports, Laqshya is discussion with several companies including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston, but Warburg Pincus is being tipped to acquire a 15-20 percent equity 
U.S. VCs like digital signage, but criteria are tough
Screen-media companies must have a unique value proposition if they want to get anywhere with venture-capital (VC) funding, a leading U.S. investor has told SCREENS.tv.
According to David S. Rose, chairman of investment group New York Angels, the digital-signage sector is still relatively low-profile in the investor community compared to other recent boom areas such as social networking – but awareness of its potential is growing rapidly.
European investors “sceptical of screen media”
For companies located in and around Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, it seems that if you throw a business proposal in the air, it’s likely to come back down and hit an investor on the head. But according to Ajay Chowdhury, CEO of international network operator EnQii, things are a little less bright in European territories.
EnQii was erroneously reported at the end of last year
India wonders: is it POS, or is it mass media?
Should advertisers and brands treat screens as competitors to existing mass media, as a plank in the last few feet of the consumer's journey to purchase - or as something else altogether? It's long been an issue of contention in the European and North American markets, and now the debate has sparked up again in India, as the subcontinent's growing screens sector strives to define its position in the media
Britain's VMG sells loss-making trains business
Britain’s Vision Media Group (VMG), which last week signed a deal for Clear Channel Outdoor to sell ads on its network of shopping-centre screens, today provided a further indication that it intends to concentrate on that business.
VMG, formerly known as ScreenFX, has agreed to sell its loss-making TrainFX division, which operates screens on trains in Britain’s Midlands region.
VMG had been trying to sell the TrainFX
Asian broadcasters look beyond the home
TV broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region are gearing up to package content for every possible screen, including mobile phones, PCs, and out-of-home TV, to catch their prospective consumers wherever they can.
The new focus on multiple viewing platforms including out-of-home is leading broadcasters to look at locations such as airports, as well as public and private vehicles, as possible venues where they can reach their audiences.
For instance,
Ooha puts ad screens on free Internet kiosks
Ooha Services India has installed its first Ooha Station in Chennai, offering free high-speed Internet to users for 15 minutes while carrying advertising on a public-facing LCD screen.
The station (pictured) is a 6.5-foot-high structure with an LCD monitor for free broadband Internet browsing and another 42-inch LCD mounted on top of it, according to Ooha’s founder and CEO Thomas John. The first station has been deployed at Abirami
Community Network begins push into Canada
Following a successful expansion into the Australian market, UK screen-media company The Community Network (part of the MIS Group) has opened a branch in Ottawa – with the aim of creating a network of 1500 locations across Canada in three years.
MIS has long been one of the most extensive and profitable operators in the UK, though a lack of uniform branding for its networks (including the former
