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FridayJul 18, 2008 6:26 am

Electronic Game Card Inc. (EGMI.OB) is Granted Two Additional International Patents for Game Card Platform, Begins New Pre-school Educational Project

Sometimes, technological change gets moving so fast that new applications for a technology get passed by in the haste of offering the “next big thing.” It really doesn’t matter what technology it is, other than it is the next evolutionary step. In-between those “next big thing” steps, however, are little segments of that technology that get ignored in favor of the next large-scale score. An investor that can find a company working a step or two behind the advancing technology to exploit it fully is the investor that may profit. Electronic Game Card Inc., an electronic game software developer and…

FridayJul 18, 2008 5:49 am

Spicy Pickle Franchising Inc. (SPKL.OB) – Serving Up Growth

Spicy Pickle Franchising Inc. (SPKL.OB) is a casual dining restaurant chain. Spicy Pickle restaurants serve high quality meats and fine Italian artisan breads, a wide choice of ten cheeses and a variety of spreads and toppings to create healthy, tasty panini and sub sandwiches with flavors from around the world. Spicy Pickle offers menu items that are far beyond traditional fast food, but without the higher prices of most casual dining restaurants. The company is expanding rapidly, and recently opened their 42nd restaurant in Michigan. Michigan represents the 14th state that the company is now operating in. Spicy Pickle's goal…

FridayJul 18, 2008 5:14 am

Hyperdynamics Corp. (HDY) in Play in West Africa and at Home

Hyperdynamics Corp. (HDY) is an independent oil and gas company with corporate headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas. They also have a West African office in the Republic of Guinea, as well as a Louisiana office. The company trades on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) as part of the Oil & Gas Drilling and Exploration industry and has a market capitalization of $93.63M. Through their subsidiary, SCS Corporation, they own the rights to explore and develop 31,000 square miles of offshore territory in the Republic of Guinea. Hyperdynamics Corp. is also focusing on U.S. production in proven areas. The Production Sharing…

FridayJul 18, 2008 5:09 am

i2 Telecom International Inc. (ITUI) is Getting People Talking

Founded in February of 2002 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, i2 Telecom International Inc. provides telecommunications services employing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology. i2Telecom's switching centers in Atlanta, Georgia provide full access to global telecommunications carriers. This enables micro-gateway users to complete calls to any phone around the globe inexpensively and with great quality. The company introduced MyGlobalTalk™ in January of this year. This product received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Internet Telephony Magazine. MyGlobalTalk provides Internet telephone usage to every cell phone user, independent of wireless carrier technology, handset manufacturer, or type of wireless carrier…

FridayJul 18, 2008 4:02 am

How to Grow a Business & Stock Investment Mind – The Productive Week-End Series

A teacher from a famous business school has said words to the effect that a buyer and a seller of a stock cannot both be right at the same time. A win-win is extremely rare in stock exchange transactions. The rule that applies to most stock trades is that owners and holders see the future of an organization differently from an entity that disposes of any security. Industrial psychology dominates the stock market. How many stock brokers, credit rating agencies, and celebrated business analysts study the workings of human minds? Every stock investor has a choice: understand and use the…

FridayJul 18, 2008 3:56 am

Which Small Capital Stocks Will Graduate to the Big League? A Series on Treasured Investing Tactics for Today

Green business is black. Nominal losses have plagued many enterprises that are based on environmental conservation principles. Sustainable technologies are notorious for red lines on financial reports. All this is only because the SEC is not bothered with environmental and social accounting. It has been more than a decade since Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School first postulated the good business sense of using green technologies for solid competitive advantage. Many of those who listened to him have become giants today. Apple uses conservation technologies to keep manufacturing costs low. Toyota does the same. Brazil has stolen a…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 7:34 pm

SkyPostal Networks Inc. (SKPN.OB) Serving a Growing List of Countries in Latin America and Europe

SkyPostal Networks Inc. is one of the leading private mail networks in the Latin America – Caribbean region. Thanks to a recently signed strategic marketing agreement with Deutsche Post's DHL Global Mail, SkyPostal has now expanded its services into Europe. The expansion into Europe through a joint venture with DHL Global, drastically increases SkyPostal’s service area. Previously, SkyPostal serviced only the following countries in the Latin American – Caribbean area: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay, El Salvador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Panama, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Nicaragua, Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana,…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 7:29 pm

Gull Holdings Terminates Offer to Acquire USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (USNA)

Gull Holdings, Ltd. and Unity Acquisition Corp. recently announced that they have terminated their acquisition offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: USNA), a developer and manufacturer of high-quality nutritional and personal care products that are sold directly to preferred customers and associates throughout 13 international markets. Upon review of the results of the acquisition offer and feedback from the company’s shareholders, Gull Holdings, Ltd. realized that they would not receive tenders of a sufficient number of shares to satisfy the non-waivable condition to the offer that the purchaser own at least 90…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 7:27 pm

Convergys Corporation (CVG) to Acquire Intervoice, Inc. (INTV) for $8.25 per Share

Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a leader in relationship management that provides solutions to optimize interactions between customers and employees, and Intervoice, Inc. (NASDAQ: INTV), a provider of converged voice and data applications and tools and infrastructure, recently announced that they have approved a definitive merger agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Convergys Corporation will acquire Intervoice, Inc. for $335 million in cash or the equivalent of $8.25 per share. By integrating Intervoice’s speech automation, web self-care and mobile applications, Convergys Corporation will be able to provide an array of automated and live-agent services to its customers, which include T-Mobile…

ThursdayJul 17, 2008 12:01 pm

OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNT) Releases Panorama 5.5 Software

OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNT) is a provider of solutions for managing networks and applications. Those solutions address: application performance management; network planning, engineering, and operations; and network R&D. Based in Bethesda, Maryland and in operation since 1986, the company differentiates itself from other management software providers by focusing on analytics. OPNET recently released OPNET Panorama 5.5 software, its solution for real-time application monitoring and analytics across complex, multi-server infrastructures. Embedded in OPNET algorithms is a certain intelligence that possesses the knowledge of how network devices, protocols, applications and systems interact, thus allowing users to quickly identify the root cause of…

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