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London summit “is first for digital signage’s end users”
Digital out-of-home event organiser the Strategy Institute has named nine organisations it will be featuring in exclusive case studies at the Digital Signage Strategies Forum in London this May.
The event, running prior to and alongside Screen Media Expo Europe, will include case studies of how digital signage has been used at Ericsson in the UK; Infiniti Europe in Switzerland; Sovereign Bank and the Newseum in the U.S.; the 
Hacker sneaks porn onto Moscow billboard
A hacker has been arrested in Moscow after replacing advertising on a digital billboard with hardcore pornography.
The explicit video, shown for about a quarter of an hour on the billboard above the Russian capital’s Garden Ring thoroughfare before authorities shut it off, caused one man to suffer a fatal heart attack, according to local reports.
The hacker, described as an unemployed man of about 40, is said
RAM gets serious: buys ASG, prepares for TrainFX launch
Britain’s RAM Investment Group is deepening its commitment to digital out-of-home, buying ASG Media Group – until recently known as Avanti Screenmedia – and also gearing up for the launch of its TrainFX network with the appointment of an advertising-sales house.
RAM bought the business and assets of ASG after it went into administration at the beginning of this month, and has now renamed it ASG Estates.
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Focus to concentrate on OOH, but Jiang takes cinema job
China’s Focus Media Holding appears to be returning to its out-of-home roots after its abortive merger with Internet giant Sina and last year’s ignominious departure from the mobile-phone advertising business.
Founder and CEO Jason Jiang (pictured) warned in a recent interview that the company’s results for the third quarter would show a dip, as up to half a dozen of Focus’s less profitable businesses are removed from its fiscal
Who ya gonna call? A digital out-of-home consultant...
New firms specialising in content, business planning and security attest to the continuing development of the digital out-of-home service sector in North America.
Dylan H. Jones, one of the driving forces behind the development of digital signage in Wal-Mart’s stores, has established Jones Digital Media (JDM) in San Francisco as a creative agency offering its services to retailers, network operators, and brands.
Jones, who will act as
Focus takeover: Sina CEO still hopeful as deadline looms
China’s digital out-of-home market leader Focus Media Holding and Internet firm Sina could restructure their $1.3bn takeover deal after failing to secure government approval.
Speaking with analysts following the announcement of Sina’s second-quarter financials, Sina CEO Charles Chao said that the deal, which would see his firm acquire most of Focus’s out-of-home business, “will now be completed without the approval from the Chinese commerce department for the anti-trust review.
Abu Dhabi out-of-home forum seeks speakers
A digital out-of-home event in the United Arab Emirates this autumn is looking for expert speakers.
A one-day forum on digital signage will run alongside the Signage, Imaging and Media (SIM) exhibition at Abu Dhabi’s National Exhibition Centre on 18-20 October.
Presenters booked to date include Raad Raad of MxN Middle East, Kevin Jones from MENA, Ziad Jarrar of Spotmedia, and Frank Emerson from the UK’s Pixel Inspiration.
IN DEPTH: Avanti reshuffles, adds malls and C-stores
Avanti Screenmedia Group in the UK today transformed its senior management team in an overhaul which is being perceived as a cementing of control by its shareholder Neo Media Group.
Christian Vaglior-Giors, Neo’s chairman and CEO, now also becomes Avanti’s non-executive chairman, while the current non-executive chairman Mick Desmond, CEO Simon Rees and non-executive director Richard Vos all depart.
Sales director Jamie Ball, with Avanti since 2004, becomes
