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Outerwall Q3 Income Climbs 108%, Redbox Rentals Continue To Decline
BELLEVUE, WA – During the third quarter ended Sept. 30, Outerwall Inc.’s net income jumped by 108% to $37.3 million from $17.9 million a year earlier. Quarterly revenue fell 6.9% to $512.1 million from $549.9 million in the third quarter of 2014.…
Redbox, Coinstar And ecoATM Owner Outerwall Buys Gadget Trade-In Site Gazelle For $18 Million
(Techcrunch, November 3, 2015) – Outerwall, the automated kiosk operator that runs Redbox, Coinstar and ecoATM machines, has made a move into e-commerce with the acquisition of Gazelle.com – an online site that buys and sells pre-owned consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, desktop…
Meet Mark Bowles: San Diego Tech Guru
(San Diego Union Tribune, October 9, 2015) – When Mark Bowles tells you he’s working on something new, something that will have a profound impact on health care, you listen. That’s because the 52-year-old serial entrepreneur and investor has the…
ecoATM Expands Kiosks to Austin
Austin, TX (KEYE TV, April 6, 2015) – If you’ve got an old phone stashed in a drawer, it’s now easier than ever to trade it for instant cash. Big green kiosks called ecoATMs are popping up across Austin. It looks…
ecoATM acquired by Outerwall (Redbox, Coinstar)
ecoATM was purchased for $350 million by Outerwall (formerly Coinstar) in July 2013 while incubating in EvoNexus. When ecoATM was first admitted into the EvoNexus incubator their kiosk was nothing more than a cardboard/plywood box. However, ecoATM continued developing their product…
The Honorable Willie Brown, Jr. Joins ecoATM Advisory Board
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Feb. 25, 2015, PRNewswire) — ecoATM®, the nationwide network of automated electronics recycling kiosks, today announced that Mr. Willie Brown, Jr. has joined the company’s Advisory Board to aid ecoATM in its efforts to champion environmental and technology…
E-Waste Recycling Kiosks Continue to Catch On
(Waste 360, February 19, 2015)–The latest “pop the champagne” moment for Bellevue, Wash.-based Outerwall Inc. happened earlier this month when the company surpassed the 4 million mark in terms of the number cell phones, tablets, MP3 players and other electronic…
EvoNexus Alumni ecoATM collects four million devices at nationwide recycling kiosks
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Feb. 12, 2015, PRNewswire) – The average American upgrades their mobile phone every 18 months, and, with top device manufacturers putting more devices in the hands of consumers through record smartphone sales in 2014, the buyback industry continues…
EvoNexus Alumni ecoATM Names New Director of Law Enforcement Relations
SAN DIEGO, CA (Jan. 30, 2015, PRNewswire)–ecoATM, Inc., the company with a nationwide network of automated electronics recycling kiosks, today announced a new addition to its law enforcement relations team. The team serves as the liaison between ecoATM and the…