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ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:39 am

ITI World Investment Group Inc. (CNQ: ITIW) is “One to Watch”

ITI World Investment Group is an Investment Holding Company that owns part, all, or a majority of other companies' outstanding stock. Currently, the company owns a 100% equity interest in First Choice Products Inc. (www.firstchoiceproductsinc.com), which is focused on designing, acquiring patents, and manufacturing a range of revolutionary products. Presently, First Choice Products’ primary focus is on the marketing and sales of existing product lines. Through Investment Holding’s unique setup, share owners enjoy lower risk and are able to own a number of different companies. In the U.S., 80% or more of voting stock must be owned before tax consolidation…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:27 am

GoFish Corp. (GOFH.OB) Expands Its Network and Broadens Audience Reach

GoFish Corporation, a leading online entertainment and media company, has added MinyanLand, a virtual community for kids and their parents, to its network. With the addition of MinyanLand, GoFish has expanded its domestic network to more than 23 million unique visitors per month, which now brings their globally monthly traffic to 71 million unique visitors per month, ranking them number one among youth properties, according to comScore Media Metrix's June 2008 report. MinyanLand is a finance-focused virtual platform designed to engage, entertain and educate kids and families about the basics of economics and finance on a real-world level. It addresses…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:16 am

ERHC Energy Inc. (ERHC.OB) Works the West Coast Oil & Gas Fields of Africa

Playing the risk/reward game in business can be an interesting adventure. Getting the reward without risk is always nice, but not half as exciting or potentially rewarding as venturing into shark-filled waters to retrieve it. Generating large rewards requires taking risk, and in some instances, not always monetary risk. ERHC Energy Inc., a US-based oil and gas exploration and development company, works to exploit oil and gas deposits off the coast of West Africa. The company currently holds positions in 6 of 9 blocks within the Joint Development Zone and exploration rights within the Sao Tome and Principe exploration zone.…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:11 am

Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) Always Innovating and not A Chip off the Old Block

Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) is a semiconductor company which specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. Headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, they list on the NASDAQ as part of the Semiconductor-Integrated Circuits industry. Incorporated in 1971, the company's initial public offering was in November of 1980. Their semiconductor products provide connectivity, networking, or embedded control solutions to serve a variety of markets. These include the consumer electronics, automotive infotainment, computing, industrial, and high-speed communications markets. Standard Microsystems develops semi-custom, application specific, and standard products that allow their customers to access or transfer their digital…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 6:09 am

Thomas Weisel Partners Group (TWPG) Focuses on Growth Sectors

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Thomas Weisel Partners Group (TWPG) is an investment bank founded in 1998. Their corporate focus is to secure investment opportunities in growth sectors of the economy. As part of the Investment Brokerage-National industry, the company trades on the NASDAQ and has a current market capitalization of $187.39M. The company also has offices in Baltimore, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, New York City, Portland, Silicon Valley, and Toronto. In addition, they have offices in London, England; Mumbai, India; and Zurich, Switzerland. From these offices, the key growth areas they target are the consumer, energy, financial services,…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 5:31 am

Strategies for Sustaining Growth – Mid-Week Management Mantra

Business management as a discipline is more popular with large corporations than it is with small business owners and stock investors. This may be because a top business school education is so outrageously expensive. Students who invest to obtain MBAs need high salaries and extravagant perquisites to realize material returns. Business management, in an academic sense, can provide maximum impacts on small enterprises and individual stock portfolios. This new mid-week series seeks to apply new business management thinking to portfolios of retail investors. Growth is a self-destructive shark. A flash-in-the-pan disappoints as much as it delights. Information Technology and Telecommunication…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 5:28 am

All Healthcare Can Benefit from the Cardionet Inc. (BEAT) Business Model

Knowledgeable investors will be delighted to stumble on this stock. It is no mirage in the investment desert of July 2008. This corporation has embarked on a voyage that we can justifiably compare with the most legendary ventures of North America. This stock requires domain expertise for proper evaluation. Medical professionals of all genres and patients who use the company’s products and services are best positioned to appreciate the breakthroughs in healthcare that this business model provides. Irregular heartbeats can strike at any time. It is a significant factor of disease and death. A routine medical examination may not always…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:14 am

Axial Vector Engine Corp. (AXVC.PK) Receives $45 Million in Financing

Axial Vector Engine Corporation recently announced the receipt of $45 million in project financing from Emirates International Capital Advisory (EICA), a global hedge fund management firm. Axial is a U.S. based firm with a branch office in Dubai, focused on the development of a new, smaller and lighter internal combustion engine that produces significantly greater horsepower and three times more torque on less fuel than conventional engines of similar size. The $45 million in financing will be primarily used for Axial’s engine and generator technology rollout. Axial's engine technology is already in production for military use in a partnership venture…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:12 am

Stock Forum Destinations: BoardCentral.com

BoardCentral.com allows users to bypass individual on-line message boards. This service lets users read from and post to many of the top message boards, all from the BoardCentral Web site. Among the message boards covered are Yahoo! Finance, RagingBull, The Motley Fool, SiliconInvestor, and ClearStation. At the BoardCentral Web site, visitors can type in individual ticker symbols and Board-Central will scan the postings of 13 different on-line message boards and list the most recent posts from each board. You can then read the separate messages and post responses (most message board sites require some type of registration before being able…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 4:09 am

Stock Forum Destinations: Silicon Investor

Silicon Investor consists of more than 450,000 registered members and has a litany of message boards on a wide range of subjects. The site’s homepage contains a list of the “top 10 hot investment boards.” By choosing “forums” you can see lists of newly introduced boards, active subjects (investment and other) and the most popular subjects and posters. Silicon Investor allows members to “mark” favorite users and message boards and will send notification when recent activity by those marked has been posted. Individual stock data is provided by Quotemedia. You can also create WatchLists. The more posts you write, the…

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