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Wireless Ronin blames economy for 35 layoffs
U.S. digital-signage software firm Wireless Ronin Technologies yesterday laid off a fifth of its workforce, citing a “sluggish economy”.
The company, which markets the RoninCast system, has shed 35 employees and contractors accounting for about 22 percent of its head count. After the departures, Wireless Ronin has 125 staff.
The layoffs – affecting workers with roles in sales and marketing, product development, project management and administration – were 
Ex-CBS boss opens sales house for UK independents
The former international CEO of CBS Outdoor has launched a sales house to represent independent UK digital out-of-home firms.
Joining Tom Goddard (pictured) at new company Digicom are Ralph Ahern, formerly commercial director at outdoor firm Titan, and Tim Butler, formerly CTO at CBS Outdoor.
Meanwhile, CBS Outdoor in the UK has established a retail sales division to manage the advertising contract it holds at the giant new
What crunch? Pixman, EnQii raise $25m
Despite the rapid drying-up of bank and private finance, Canada’s Pixman Nomadic Media and UK-based EnQii have between them succeeded in raising $25m to fund continued growth.
Wearable-media specialist Pixman has raised more than CAD7.6m ($7m) through private placements, while the UK’s Amadeus Capital Partners and Wellington Partners have jointly invested $18m in EnQii’s series B financing round.
EnQii joins about 50 other companies in which Amadeus has
Focus Enhancements goes into Chapter 11
Technology supplier Focus Enhancements has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and been de-listed by the NASDAQ.
The company, which was traded under the ticker symbol FCSE, markets a number of AV and digital-media products such as media players for applications including digital signage.
Focus’s troubles appear to have come to a head on 15 September, when the NASDAQ exchange notified the company that its
Web content will complement elevator screens
Gannett-owned Captivate Network is the latest digital-signage operator to integrate out-of-home and Web content.
The company is repositioning its Website as a consumer-facing service with news and blog content to complement the programming (pictured) that appears on Captivate’s screens in office-building elevators.
“Fifty percent of the time, when someone’s in the elevators, the next stop is their desk,” CEO Mike DiFranza was quoted as saying. “I can’t tell
Celebrity chef calls for end to restaurant TV
One of Britain’s best-known chefs has joined the chorus of opposition to out-of-home TV with a magazine column criticising the spread of screens in restaurants and bars.
Writing in the latest issue of Waitrose Food Illustrated – a magazine produced for and distributed by the upmarket grocer – Richard Corrigan recounts a recent dining experience: “As you try to converse with your companion, a screen hovering over your table
Amscreen prepares to launch; Simon Sugar at the helm
Sir Alan Sugar’s son Simon will head the new out-of-home digital-signage division of Amshold set to be launched in the UK next month, despite rumours that Lee McQueen, the winner of this year’s The Apprentice BBC programme, was to take the role.
To be known as Amscreen, the division will launch with the promotional tag of “Your Media in Real Time”, pitching its services at the British market.
In search of a $500,000 sales uplift
Can digital signage sell houses? Pamela Olander hopes so – the real-estate developer from Palatine, Illinois has plastered her own image over a local digital billboard in a last-ditch effort to attract buyers.
Olander bought time on the Clear Channel Outdoor roadside digital sign, which shows two versions of her spot plus three other ads every 90 seconds, after reducing the price of a newly-built property from $799,000 to
