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ThursdayMar 24, 2016 1:52 pm

Elio Motors Inc. (ELIO) Offers Dramatic New Approach to Multi-Billion Dollar Automotive Market

Arizona-based startup company Elio Motors Inc. (OTCQX: ELIO) represents a refreshingly different take on the changing American automotive market. Instead of wrestling with untested, high-priced technologies aimed at elite consumer markets, Elio is focused on the essential consumer basics of price and operational efficiency, taken to the extreme. It’s a bit like the approach of Henry Ford, who was smart enough to recognize the potential of a mass automotive market while other car makers produced expensive toys for the rich. To Elio, the key to the marketplace is a set of parameters that, in spite of what the industry says,…

ThursdayMar 24, 2016 12:54 pm

Overstock.com, Inc. (OSTK) Remaining at the Forefront of eCommerce with Culture of Innovation

Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) is an online retailer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, that sells a wide variety of products at low prices. Originally founded in early 1999, the company’s goal was to be the premier seller of excess inventory on the web. Today, Overstock.com has expanded beyond selling surplus inventory to offer a huge selection of consumer goods ranging from furniture and home décor to cars. In an effort to better represent this shift in business strategy, the company acquired the O.co URL in January 2011 and began incorporating it into parts of its brand, including, most notably,…

ThursdayMar 24, 2016 12:33 pm

International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCO) Developing Therapeutic and Biomedical Products on a Global Scale

International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB: ISCO) is a company focused on the therapeutic applications of human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs) and the development of cell-based research and cosmetic products leading to commercialization. ISCO's core technology, parthenogenesis, is achieved through the creation of pluripotent human stem cells from unfertilized oocytes (eggs). hpSCs avoid the ethical issues associated with the use or destruction of viable human embryos. Company scientists have created the first parthenogenetic, homozygous stem cell line that can be a source of therapeutic cells for hundreds of millions of individuals of both genders and all ages and racial background with…

ThursdayMar 24, 2016 12:03 pm

Elephant Talk Communications (ETAK) Provides Update to Shareholders on ValidSoft Divestiture

Divestitures are a way for a company to manage its portfolio of assets. As companies grow, they may find they are trying to focus on too many lines of business and that they must close some operational business units in order to focus on more profitable lines. This is a problem that conglomerates may face. Companies may also sell off business lines if they are under financial duress. For example, an automobile manufacturer that sees a significant and prolonged drop in competitiveness may sell off its financing division in order to pay for the development of a new line of…

ThursdayMar 24, 2016 11:16 am

Alternet Systems (ALYI): Predictive Analytics Market Expected to Grow to $9.2 Billion by 2020

From drug discovery to price optimization, across virtually every industry, more companies are using predictive analytics to increase revenue, reduce costs, and modernize the way they do business. Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: ALYI) revolutionizes how leading organizations optimize data analytics and automate marketing research operations. The company’s integrated analytics, micro segmentation and marketing automation technologies empower marketing organizations to create and develop critical marketing decision matrixes. The company’s solutions give clients proprietary market view across diverse data sources; allow discovery of unique audience and location microsegments; automate data management; and generate recommendations at micro level P&L-oriented yield optimization, across products,…

ThursdayMar 24, 2016 10:52 am

OurPet’s Company (OPCO): Millennials’ Robust Growth in Pet Ownership Should Attract Attention

Millennial pet ownership grew 25 percent between 2007 and 2015, while the number of pet owners in the 35-and-older age group increased just 14 percent, according to an article on the MediaPost website (http://dtn.fm/WEq3D). Even more significant, the majority of growth among millennials came from multicultural young adults, thus making Latinos, in particular, a key millennial pet owner segment. Diversity in a company’s product portfolio is essential to capitalizing on this type of trend. Packaged Facts projects that millennials will be responsible for adding another 2.6 million pet owners between 2015 and 2020. There are 43 million pet owners in…

ThursdayMar 24, 2016 8:41 am

Agora Holdings, Inc. (AGHI) Continues Steadfast Integration with YouTube

A leading international family entertainment and media enterprise, Agora Holdings, Inc. (OTC: AGHI) offers TV, studio entertainment, interactive media, media networks, and consumer products. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Geegle Media, the company aims to fill the needs of social media, TV, data storage software, and other optimizing solutions. In July 2015, Agora Holdings, through Geegle Media, developed GeegleTV, which combines radio, news, TV on demand, newspapers, sports, and kids content for an exciting interactive experience. GeegleTV has customizable services for a wide range of users. For example, freelancers and content producers have their own channel, which delivers helpful, usable content.…

WednesdayMar 23, 2016 3:06 pm

Immune Therapeutics’ (IMUN) Lodonal Armors Africa against AIDS

Thought to have originated in Africa, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has undoubtedly become a scourge of the continent, particularly south of the Sahara. According to AVERT, the U.K.-based international charity, in sub-Saharan Africa, 24.7 million people, or about 4.7% of the continental population, were living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2013, the last year for which data is available. Over one million of those individuals have died every year since. South Africa, with 5.9 million, has the highest number of infected persons. Swaziland’s HIV infection rate of 27.4% (2013) is the highest worldwide. In Nigeria, although the…

WednesdayMar 23, 2016 11:39 am

Star Mountain Resources, Inc. (SMRS) Strengthens Cash Position as Zinc Prices Continue to Surge

Earlier this week, Star Mountain Resources, Inc. (OTC: SMRS) filed a form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding a promissory note issued by its wholly-owned subsidiary, St. Lawrence Zinc Company, LLC, in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000 payable to the Development Authority of the North Country, a New York public benefit trust. Payments of accrued interest associated with the loan are set to commence on April 1, 2016. Repayment of the principal amount, as well as all accrued and unpaid interest, is due on or before April 1, 2017. In the filing, the company states that…

WednesdayMar 23, 2016 11:21 am

OurPet’s Company (OPCO) Reaches Favorable Settlement in Patent Infringement Case

Before the opening bell, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) announced a patent infringement settlement with Van Ness Plastic Molding Co., Inc. In the previously filed suit, OPCO alleged that Van Ness’ stainless steel, rubber-bottomed bowls infringed upon the company’s 529 utility patent, which covers a feeding dish with rubber on the bottom where the rubber does not extend up a sidewall. According to the news release, the matter was settled favorably to OurPet’s. “We are pleased with the outcome of this patent infringement case,” Dr. Steve Tsengas, president and chief executive officer of OPCO, stated in this morning’s news release. “In…

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