by Tom LeBlanc | Dec 1, 2016 | News
When a company with $19 billion in equity capital talks, other companies tend to listen.That was especially true for AVI-SPL, the AV industry’s largest integration firm with $600 million plus in annual revenue, when it was being acquired by H.I.G. Capital, a...
by Tom LeBlanc | Nov 29, 2016 | Insights, News
The buck stops with the IT director. If you’ve ever sold technology to an organization, you know that. Let’s face it, if you’ve ever tried to procure technology for your own organization, you also know that. It didn’t used to be that way. Not...
by Tom LeBlanc | Nov 23, 2016 | News
In an industry that simultaneously complains that it has too few standards and too many acronyms, SDVoE has something for everybody. The Software Defined Video Over Ethernet (SDVoE) Alliance aims to speed up and optimize the transition to AV over IP by bringing...
by Tom LeBlanc | Nov 18, 2016 | News
Samsung and Harman must be flattered. People care a lot and have many questions following Samsung’s November 14 announcement of its agreement to acquire Harman International for $112 per share or roughly $8 billion.The announcement of the acquisition focused...
by Tom LeBlanc | Nov 16, 2016 | Insights, News
We had some fun with the U.S. Presidential election. Who can blame us, right? The 2016 election played out like a reality show in front of our eyes. It even included ultra-dramatic episodes in the form of must-see, tension-filled debates. Then it ended with a surprise...