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...Galleries marked the 10th anniversary edition of London’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair with some handsome displays through Somerset House....
...Target warned in May that it would have to discount products and cancel orders to clear excess stock in categories from televisions to outdoor furniture....
...Yes, their physical worlds are often constrained by parental controls, a lack of access to the outdoors and insane over-scheduling....
...Clear Channel Outdoor is set to reach a digital “tipping point” in the UK, generating more money from electronic advertising displays than traditional posters and billboards....
...JCDecaux, the world’s biggest outdoor media group, was its main rival in the tender process after Clear Channel Outdoor dropped out of the competition earlier this year....
...Some $1.25bn of its revenues came from the US, where the company owns the bulk of its outdoor displays....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Fresh broccoli, courgettes and spring onions are on display on his table, all grown at his farm....
...Interest in outdoor is driven at least partly by operators converting their signs to more profitable digital displays, such as the often animated adverts illuminating Times Square and Piccadilly Circus like...
...However, the scale of its ambitions was highlighted in a New Year’s Eve deal with Clear Channel Outdoor, the billboard company, and Cover Girl, the make-up brand, to display photos of Snapchat users’ celebrations...
...For advertisers, the advantages of interactive outdoor displays is not just the ability to give consumers additional information....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: A naked display of celebrity hubris / From Mr Rudy D Blake...
...With Highland and the Domain, that unequal performance is on full display. A loan to the Domain was bundled into a 2011 CMBS deal put together by Wells Fargo and RBS....
...For potential buyers, one attraction will be its strength in digital outdoor advertising, such as poster-sized displays on street stands, following extensive investment in recent years....
...The company, known as the Circle, is built around internet search engines but it dabbles in self-driving cars and “retinal” displays that evoke Google Glass....
...Frieze Sculpture Park, October 17-20, Regent’s Park, London Claire Lilley curates an outdoor display of medieval to modern and contemporary sculptures from Frieze London and Frieze Masters....
...He put those connections on display during his tenure at Yahoo by announcing a series of deals, including a strategic alliance with Facebook to resolve a patent dispute, partnerships with Spotify and Clear...
...The two have worked together on getting an American grill barbecue into Asda stores, as well as some outdoor furniture....
...A new outdoor panel range features at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and 2008 saw a limited edition collection of sculptural furniture by architects, including Zaha Hadid and Thom Mayne....
...Installed in Azam’s country estate, their lengthy conversations soon turn into a peacock display, masking a heady level of sexual and intellectual competition....
...The hotel forecourt turns into a Dubai-esque display of rainbow-coloured fountains, garishly lighting up the waving palms. A wedding party in full regalia arrives at the Méridien....
...Sales at CBS Outdoor, the billboard division, were flat in the period but should be up in the low single-digits in the coming quarter thanks to the London Olympics....
...“The main problem is that ads on such an intimate device are perceived differently from when seen on a TV screen or outdoor advertising screen,” says Christophe Cauvy, European head of digital and innovation...
...Perhaps the largest shift in recent years has been the transition from the one-way, broadcast messaging of television, print and outdoor, to the two-way conversation that social options now allow companies...
...Poignantly, there’s a display of the actual, magical, Harry Potter books in the gift shop. How would you rate that?...
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