Artificial Life Reports Profits for Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2007 Year End
Friday March 14, 7:00 am ET
HONG KONG, March 14, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc. (OTC BB:ALIF.OB - News) (http://www.artificial-life.com), a leading full service provider of award winning mobile technology and applications, today reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended December 31, 2007, and for the year ended December 31, 2007.
Revenues for the fourth quarter were $3,116,754 as compared to $259,882 for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2006. The increase of revenues of $2,856,872 or approximately 1,000% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2006 was mainly due to increased product license income from pre-installment deals for mobile handsets, increased download and monthly subscription revenues for 3G games derived from mobile operators, resellers and hand set distributors.
Net income for the fourth quarter was $2,199,996 as compared to a net loss of $2,231,686 for the same quarter in 2006. Net income for the fourth quarter of 2007 was mainly due to the substantial increase in revenues and a gain on extinguishment of liabilities.
Revenues for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 were $5,801,212 as compared to $856,334 for the year ended December 31, 2006. The increase of $4,944,878 or 577% was primarily due to increased licensing revenue generated from our core mobile products.
Net Income for the year ended December 31, 2007 was $1,011,817 as compared to a net loss of ($2,942,532) for the year ended December 31, 2006. This increase of $3,954,349 was primarily due to a strong increase in sales of our mobile products and technologies, a gain on extinguishment of liabilities and decrease of stock-based compensation expense offset by increased costs for global expansion.
The net income per share for the year ended December 31, 2007 was $0.03 as compared to a net loss per share of ($0.10) for the year ended December 31, 2006.
Eberhard Schoneburg, Artificial Life's Chief Executive Officer, said, ``2007 was a very successful year for us with strong growth and major progress in our global expansion. We are now selling our products through over 100 active channels of resellers and carriers around the globe and sold over 4 million licenses of our mobile games in 2007.We have also been able to attract major global brands as new partners and became a full service mobile applications provider offering not only games but also medical applications and even interactive mobile TV systems. As a result of all this our revenues increased strongly while we kept cost of operations under tight control and therefore turned profitable. We will put all our efforts into maintaining this positive trend in 2008 and beyond. Our short term goal in 2008 is to penetrate many more new markets including China and South America. In addition we will release several new exciting mobile games in the coming weeks and months for the usual 2G and 3G handsets and will also start launching games for the iPhone(r) and iPod Touch(r) platforms. Besides expanding further in the mobile games market we also intend to make strong progress in the area of mobile business applications, mobile diabetes monitoring and mobile TV with the first major installations of our SMS Galaxy system.''
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended
December 31, 2006 and 2007
2006 2007
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Revenue:
Software license agreements $ 841,334 $5,784,211
Application services and other 15,000 17,000
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Total revenues 856,334 5,801,212
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Operating expenses:
Engineering and cost of sales 1,330,967 2,113,172
General and administrative 1,625,017 1,492,012
Research and development 341,861 296,283
Sales and marketing 1,045,562 1,853,777
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Total operating expenses 4,343,407 5,755,244
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(Loss) income from operations (3,487,073) 45,968
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Other income (expense):
Interest income 32,269 19,271
Interest expense (22,185) (157,412)
Gain on extinguishment of
liabilities -- 685,130
Foreign currency transaction
gains (losses) and other (17,418) 85,730
Gain on value of derivative
liability 551,875 --
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544,541 632,719
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(Loss) income before income tax (2,942,532) 678,687
Income tax benefit -- 333,130
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Net (loss) income (2,942,532) 1,011,817
Foreign currency translation adjustment -- (34,114)
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Comprehensive (loss) income $(2,942,532) $ 977,703
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Net (loss) income per share:
Basic $ (0.10) $ 0.03
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Diluted $ (0.10) $ 0.03
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Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic 30,801,573 35,977,335
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Diluted 30,801,573 40,159,151
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* Based on Audited Financial Statements
Consolidated Balance Sheet December 31, 2006 and 2007
ASSETS
December 31, December 31,
2007 2006
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Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 6,210,435 $1,338,158
Accounts receivable 5,198,028 294,005
Receivable from issuance of
common stock 224,500 --
Prepaid expenses and other 355,541 --
Deferred tax asset 170,000 --
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Total current assets $12,158,504 $1,632,163
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Fixed assets 1,810,978 98,796
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Prepaid license rights 591,093 200,000
Prepaid expenses, deposits and other
assets 271,137 332,607
Deferred tax asset 163,130 --
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$ 1,025,360 $ 532,607
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TOTAL ASSETS $14,994,842 $2,263,566
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 789,166 $1,414,157
Accrued expenses 1,113,585 414,167
Note payable to officer/stockholder 751,860 222,805
Notes payable, net of discount of
$99,000 901,000 --
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Total liabilities (all current) 3,555,611 2,051,129
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Commitments and contingency
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $.01 par value;
5,000,000 shares authorized, no
shares issued and outstanding
Common stock, $.01 par value;
130,000,000 shares authorized,
43,905,509 shares issued and
outstanding 439,055 337,134
Additional paid-in capital 46,315,296 36,168,126
Notes receivable from stockholders (19,577) (19,577)
Accumulated deficit (35,261,429) (36,273,246)
Accumulated other comprehensive
loss (34,114) --
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Total stockholders' equity 11,439,231 212,437
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TOTAL LIABILITIES AND
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY $14,994,842 $2,263,566
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* Based on Audited Financial Statements
About Artificial Life
Artificial Life, Inc. (OTC BB:ALIF.OB - News) is a public U.S. corporation headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Berlin (EMEA headquarters) and Tokyo. We are a leading global full service provider of award winning mobile technology, mobile TV, content, games and business applications (see also our Company's homepage: http://www.artificial-life.com; and our m-commerce portal: http://www.botme.com).
Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release contains ``forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding our future results of operations, financial condition and business prospects. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as ``may,'' ``will,'' ``should,'' ``expect,'' ``intend,'' ``plan,'' ``anticipate,'' ``believe,'' ``estimate,'' ``predict,'' ``potential,'' ``continue,'' or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Although such statements are based on our own information and information from other sources we believe to be reliable, you should not place undue reliance on them. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual market trends or our actual results of operations, financial condition or business prospects may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our ability to obtain additional funding to operate and grow our business; the unproven potential of our mobile gaming business model; changing consumer preferences and uncertainty of market acceptance of our products; timely adoption and availability of 3G mobile technology; market acceptance for use of mobile handheld devices to play the interactive games; unpredictable mobile game development schedules; our reliance on a relatively small number of brands; our ability to license brands from others; our dependence upon resellers and telecommunication carriers and operators to distribute our products; our ability to successfully develop, introduce, and sell new or enhanced products in a timely manner; and the timing of new product announcements or introductions by us or by our competitors. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please see the documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 13, 2008. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.
Contact:
Artificial Life, Inc.
Ada Fong
+852 3102 2800
ir@artificial-life.com
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Source: Artificial Life, Inc.
