Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Company announced a few weeks back that Lamar Media Corp., a subsidiary of Lamar Outdoor Advertising, was acquiring NextMedia Outdoor Inc. for an estimated $145 million. NextMedia provides outdoor advertising in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Lamar Advertising Company is the largest sole billboard provider [...]
Isis Capital Management LLC, a Connecticut investment firm led by Louisiana native Ron Bienvenu, is moving its headquarters and its two software portfolio companies to New Orleans next month, according to a report by the The Times-Picayune. Isis Capital buys struggling enterprise software companies, restructures them, and then sells or merges the companies. Bienvenu’s business [...]
Envoc , a Louisiana-based custom software development and application hosting company, announced earlier this month that it has acquired Maxon Media, a full-service, strategically-driven interactive design agency based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana . This expands Envoc’s offering to include branding and interactive design services. Currently, Envoc’s expertise lies in creating custom software that fits the [...]
Pollbob, co-founded by Silicon Bayou News’ founder Zach Kupperman, was featured in TechCrunch yesterday after announcing the acquisition of MisterPoll, a more established polling platform. While Pollbob is a relatively young company, launching in 2011, MisterPoll was created in 1998 as a side project. Pollbob’s purpose in acquiring MisterPoll is to roll MisterPoll’s large, [...]
Monroe, La.-based CenturyLink announced today that it will acquire all outstanding shares of Savvis common stock in a cash and stock merger valued at $40 per share, or a total of approximately $2.5 billion. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States and the largest tech company in Louisiana, providing a range [...]
