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As Economy Rebounds, Emerald Expo Books Strong Fiscal 1st Quarter Results

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2021 CEDIA Expo owned by Emerald Expositions
The 2021 CEDIA Expo, owned by Emerald Expositions [Click to enlarge]

Value of EEX Stock Increases Nearly 19% on the Announcement

Emerald Holding Inc., the parent company of Emerald Expositions, a division that owns the CEDIA Expo trade show and CEPro media, announced its results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2022 year today – and these results clearly showed a strong rebound from the last two COVID-19 impacted years. With both revenues and earnings showing substantial increases, Emerald’s President and CEO Hervé Sedkey stated that “…we are in the midst of a robust recovery.”

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Crestron Research Center is Renamed in Honor of Founder George Feldstein

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Crestron dedication of the George Feldstein Technology Center

In the summer of 2019, just months before the onset of COVID-19, Crestron Electronics, Inc. (Crestron) invited me to tour several of their facilities, including the lab at the heart of almost everything they do…the Research Center. It was beyond impressive, and I’ve been in some really impressive labs in my career. At the time, I said it was “like Disneyland for geeks.” That includes geeks like me!

Now, in honor of the company’s founder, Crestron has renamed the facility the George Feldstein Technology Center. This is a fitting tribute to the man who spent his days there constantly tinkering with new products, product concepts, and technology.

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Tech’s Newest Power Couple: Sony and Honda

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Sony and Honda CEOs announce joint venture

So Sony has just pulled a major donut – finally coming full circle. Sony Group’s CEO stood alongside Honda Motor’s CEO as the two companies announced that they were forming a joint venture with automotive manufacturing powerhouse Honda agreeing to partner with the sensor and mobile entertainment electronics king Sony to actually manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) – or what we’ve known up to this point as the Sony Vision-S vehicles. At last, our trip down the long and winding (and confusing) road has arrived at a final destination.

And with this announcement, we now have tech’s newest power couple…

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Snap One Unleashes an Array of New Products at Virtual Partner Summit

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Ryan Marsh, Snap One EVP of Sales

New Introductions for Control4, OvrC, Episode and Triad

Last Friday, Snap One held a Virtual Partner Summit in which they unveiled a whole roster of new products to dealers participating in the online event. It was an impressive launch in key product areas for the company including OvrC, audio, new controllers, new soundbar and wireless sub, new architectural speakers, a major new operating system upgrade called OS 3.3.0, and more.

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Emerald on the Road to Recovery as Live Events Restart, But It’s Bumpy

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Photo from CEDIA Expo 2021
CEDIA Expo 2021

Emerald Holding Inc., [NYSE:EEX] parent company to Emerald Expositions, which itself is the parent company of CEDIA Expo, and CE Pro (and other former EH Publishing properties) announced this morning their financial results for both their fourth quarter and full year, fiscal 2021. As the company has begun to restart their live in-person events, they reported a revenue gain over fiscal 2020 – a year of almost total lockdown and the absence of live events.

But the gain seems surprisingly small.

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Samsung Sent Jets to Return 20 COVID-Infected Execs & Staff at CES 2022

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From CES 2022

How Many Infected at CES? CTA & NV Health Official’s Won’t Say

Multiple media outlets, including the venerable Reuters News Agency, are reporting that Samsung Electronics chartered two jets to return a total of 20 of their executives and staff who became infected with COVID-19 at CES 2022. In addition to this, South Korean health officials are reporting that a total of 70 Korean nationals – including the 20 Samsung employees – returned (or are trying to return) from CES infected by COVID.

Was CES 2022 an echo of the rumored CES 2020 super-spreader event?

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ISE Postpones February Show Due to Rising Omicron Infections

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Taking Action to Prioritize Attendee Safety

Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), a popular custom integration trade show that takes place in Barcelona, Spain, announced this week that the show managers have decided to postpone the event from its originally scheduled run of February 1-4, 2022 to now May 10-13, 2022. The reason for the postponement is due to the rapid rise of Omicron-variant COVID-19 infections in Spain as well as its impact on international travel overall.

See more on the ISE decision to postpone the show…

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CTA Says These are the Top Tech Trends; Do You Agree with Their Picks?

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Steve Koenig, VP of Research for the CTA at CES 2022

On Monday evening (January 3, 2022), as part of their festivities kicking off the 2022 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Vice President of Research for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Steve Koenig shared what the association believes to be some of the top trends in Tech today. Saying, “…we’ve witnessed an abundance of innovation across this whole season and certainly over the past year…”

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The Two Biggest Announcements from CES 2022 Media Day Press Events

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Sony CEO Yoshida at CES 2022 media day

Warning: A Favorite Acronym has been Co-opted

So let me start by saying there was a veritable slew of introductions at CES 2022 Media Day, which took place on Tuesday before the show opened. Most of them were incremental advancements of existing product lines. Only a couple of announcements rose above the noise to catch the attention of just about everyone who attended those presentations. One from an industry stalwart…and another from out of left field (almost literally).

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CES 2022 Forced to Remove Programs from Schedule in Wake of Cancellations

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Day 1 of CES 2022 at the Venetian
Just before opening at the Venetian on Day 1 of CES 2022

Heading to CES 2022? Be sure to check the online version of the show schedule regularly, as Advertising Age (Ad Age) is reporting that CES has apparently removed “a slate of programs,” including several previously scheduled sessions and panels planned for Tuesday. The move is said to be a result of so many companies and executives canceling or otherwise pulling out of the show.

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