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OurPet’s Company (OPCO) CFO Scott Mendes Presenting at the MicroCap Conference
Earlier today, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) announced that Scott Mendes, the company’s chief financial officer, will be presenting alongside executives from 60 other companies at this year’s MicroCap Conference, which is set to take place October 24-25 at the Hotel Monaco in Philadelphia. Mendes is scheduled to make his presentation on October 25 at 5:00 p.m. Planned topics of discussion include OurPet’s Company’s innovative, trend-setting pet products and accessories, including the cutting-edge OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ (http://dtn.fm/sOK6q) product line, which leverages Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to foster a stronger connection between pets and their owners.
For more information on the MicroCap Conference, visit http://dtn.fm/kjJH5
Mendes’s upcoming presentation comes on the heels of a similar presentation by Kathleen Homyock, OPCO’s vice president of sales and business development, at last month’s National Pet Industry Trade Show hosted by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) Canada. In her presentation, titled ‘Technology Translated to Pet Fitness, Food and Fun’, Homyock offered an in-depth look at how intelligent technology accessories can help pet owners more effectively monitor the health and wellbeing of their pets. These benefits are at the core of the company’s Intelligent Pet Care™ product line, including the SmartScoop – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/7eSSn), the SmartLink Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/8rEpu) and the SmartLink Waterer – Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/6NllS).
“It is always interesting to speak with industry professionals about how smart technology is changing pet products,” Homyock stated in a recent news release. “I was excited to have the opportunity to speak at the show in September and I am even more excited to work for a company that values this technology and continuously works to bring intelligent health and fitness monitoring products into the marketplace.”
OurPet’s Company’s commitment to innovation doesn’t end with its Intelligent Pet Care™ product line. According to data from the American Pet Products Association, there are currently about 175 million companion dogs and cats in the United States alone, with roughly 650 million worldwide. The growth of the pet population in recent years has led to pet waste becoming a significant environmental concern, with companion dogs producing roughly 10 million tons of waste annually in the U.S. OurPet’s Company is currently focused on creating environmentally-friendly solutions to the growing problem. Through a new partnership with Paulee Cleantec, Ltd., OurPet’s Company aims to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to the environmental issues stemming from improperly managed pet waste.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com
Moxian, Inc. (MOXC) Enhancing Relationships between Users and Merchants with Consumer Behavior Data
Consumer behavior is the study of why users buy or do not buy a product or service. This data also includes the why, what, when, where, and how. Consumer behavior attempts to understand the buyer’s decision-making process. It studies individual consumer habits while taking into account things like demographics, age group, religion, and more in order to understand what people want from their shopping experience.
There are, of course, a wide range of factors that can influence customer behavior. Some of these include: the environment, social variables, cultural variables, pricing, promotions, product quality, and customer service. Also, as mentioned above, demographic factors affect customer behavior. These include age, gender, marital status, income, education, and occupation.
With consumer behavior data being at the forefront of e-commerce today, the goal is to know what consumers want before they even ask for it. Algorithms and big data are now enabling retailers to capitalize on their consumers by offering them what they want based on their shopping history and all the other variables.
With marketers now having access to all sorts of useful data, it is no wonder they are able to target prospective clients and consumers and link them to specific merchants and products. Companies such as Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) who are in the business of providing social media marketing and promotion platforms to retailers allow merchants to run highly targeted and successful advertising campaigns.
MOXC enables consumers and merchants to better interact thanks to consumer behavior data compiled in the Moxian database. With this information, merchants are able to identify consumer patterns, identify individual customers, uncover opportunities to deliver integrated and targeted marketing campaigns, and optimize marketing efforts for the future. Moxian works on the basis that consumers and businesses should be able to connect and interact more easily with one another to achieve the concept of “online lifestyle, offline fun.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com
eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Adds Brent Gove Team to Growing Brokerage Division
Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through subsidiary eXp Realty, announced the addition of the Brent Gove team, a leading real estate team operating in California, to its family of agents and brokers. Gove brings nearly two decades of industry experience to the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™. During this time, he earned a spot as one of the 11 most successful agents in the global RE/MAX (NYSE: RMAX) network, completing 429 transactions accounting for about $169 million in sales volume in 2005 alone. Gove then moved to Keller Williams Realty, where he served as CEO and team leader of the company’s most profitable market center in 2010. Despite only switching brokerages once throughout his extensive career in the real estate industry, Gove pointed to the tremendous value proposition offered by eXp Realty as a key driver in his decision to make the jump to EXPI.
“Everyone on my team is excited about the opportunity to become an owner of eXp World Holdings and to be part of a community of agent-owners working closely together with systems and infrastructure that will allow us to continue to grow both as a team and as professionals — building relationships and organizations that span across borders,” Gove stated in this morning’s news release. “eXp Realty represents the best opportunity for us as a team and as individuals.”
The addition of the Brent Gove team to the eXp Realty family continues to build on what has been an eventful October for the company. Just last Friday, EXPI announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top international luxury agent in South Texas, to eXp Realty. In the news release, Herrera hailed the eXp Realty business model as “the strongest in the industry.” According to an update issued last week, the company’s real estate brokerage division currently boasts a family of agents and brokers that includes more than 1,900 members across 41 high-demand markets in the United States and Canada. This marks an increase of about 120 percent from the beginning of 2016.
“We are excited, not only by our growth, but by the quality of agents that are being attracted to eXp Realty,” Jason Gesing, chief executive officer of eXp Realty, stated in a recent news release. “Increasingly throughout the year, eXp Realty has become the brokerage of choice for top producing agents and teams, and for brokerage owners looking to increase profits, achieve scalable growth, and deliver the opportunity of ownership to the agents in their organization.”
These growth milestones come on the heels of EXPI’s third annual real estate convention, which took place from October 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas. The company reports that nearly one-third of the agents and brokers licensed with eXp Realty at the time of the event were in attendance, representing more than a threefold increase from the previous year’s convention and marking the first time that the company has sold out one of its major annual events. Russ Cafano, president of EXPI, summed up eXp Realty’s recent performance in a news release.
“[W]e have uncovered a total value proposition which resonates with real estate professionals but to date, no firm had figured out how to implement,” he stated. “Our growth numbers clearly indicate that we have hit a sweet spot in the industry.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Offers Shareholders Additional Details Regarding MediGain Acquisition
Before the opening bell, Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP) issued a news release giving prospective shareholders additional insight into the company’s acquisition of MediGain, LLC. In the update, Mahmud Haq, chief executive officer of MTBC, highlighted the importance of the acquisition to the company’s growth strategy.
“As announced last week, we are very pleased to have acquired MediGain, which marks an important corporate milestone as our largest acquisition to date, and demonstrates the highly strategic nature of our successful, acquisition-based growth strategy,” Haq stated.
In the news release announcing the acquisition, MTBC CFO Bill Korn stated that the company completed the acquisition “at a compelling valuation that represents a significant discount as compared to the industry norm.” This morning’s update highlighted that MTBC, through wholly-owned subsidiary MTBC Acquisition, Corp., acquired all of the assets of MediGain and its affiliate for a purchase price of $7 million, which included $2 million paid at closing with a remaining balance of $5 million due at the beginning of next year.
Korn went on to predict that the addition of MediGain and affiliate Millennium Practice Management, LLC to MTBC will “contribute to our positive Adjusted EBITDA by the end Q1 2017.” This assessment was further validated with this morning’s update. In total, the accounts in good standing that were acquired as part of the MediGain acquisition are expected to contribute more than $10 million of annual revenues to fuel MTBC’s financial growth in 2017. With this performance, MTBC management expects incremental profits from the MediGain acquisition to greatly exceed its cost of capital, putting it on course to be accretive to the company’s shareholders as early as 2017.
To learn more about the MediGain acquisition, view MTBC’s Form 8-K at http://dtn.fm/4dGUh
“There are significant synergies between the two companies,” Gary Smith, a provider of leadership to MediGain Practice Management, explained in this morning’s update. “Our global team of professionals and proprietary technology will allow us to continue improving operating margins while delivering world-class service to our clients.”
On October 3, MTBC originally announced the closing of the MediGain acquisition, marking its largest acquisition to date. Included in the transaction, MTBC acquired substantially all of MediGain’s assets, including existing customer accounts, intellectual property, and offshore operations in both India and Sri Lanka. In addition to strengthening its total number of accounts, the acquisition effectively bolstered the MTBC team with talented members in North America while greatly expanding its Asia-based operations into new markets with “talented, cost-effective workforces.”
For more information, visit www.MTBC.com
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Medical Transcription Billing Corp. (MTBC) (MTBCP) Full-Spectrum Web EHR & Services Platform Poised to Pop as Healthcare IT Market Booms
A recent report (http://nnw.fm/K8iRV) on the global Healthcare IT (HIT) market from Technavio projects an attractive seven percent CAGR for the space over the next four years, when the U.S. sector alone will generate upwards of $75 billion annually. The analysts at MarketsandMarkets affirmed this outlook in their report on the sector late last year (http://nnw.fm/UO9j8), projecting that the global healthcare IT market will see a CAGR nearly twice the Technavio figure when all sources are accounted for, coming to represent a total market valued at somewhere in the neighborhood of $228 billion by 2020.
The biggest names in the industry today are looking to capitalize on this growth, with players such as Athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE), Mckesson (NYSE: MCK), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Philips Healthcare (NYSE: PHG), and Siemens Healthcare (OTC: SIEGY) all making sizable bets on the future of the space. Another important aspect of this growth story is the proliferation of mobile devices, as the EHR (electronic health records) landscape becomes increasingly saturated with mHealth features like mobile apps and digital personal health records. Consider the installed base of some 2.6 billion smartphone users worldwide (http://nnw.fm/xtM0G), a figure set to grow 134 percent by 2020, and you can start to understand why the mobile medical workplace is perhaps a foregone conclusion. North America, as the currently (and for the foreseeable future) largest regional segment of the HIT space, is no doubt where the majority of the global market’s action will be. So it makes sense to start looking at competent, multiple-threat operators in the healthcare IT market that are accessible to the average retail investor, and which have an established footprint in the states.
Trading under a dollar, with a rapidly growing portfolio of products and service offerings, Medical Transcription Billing (NASDAQ: MTBC) (NASDAQ: MTBCP) for instance has made some impressive headway in this sector since its IPO in 2014. The company has rapidly blossomed into one of the most compelling full-spectrum, cloud-based EHR (ChartsPro™), practice management (PracticePro™) and mHealth solutions providers around. MTBC packs a powerful one-two punch of products and services that collectively constitute a unified, database-driven and fully integrated WebEHR platform, spanning everything from billing, data management, transcription, chat scribing, and business intelligence, to value-added and consultancy services. This is exactly the kind of one-stop-shop healthcare customers in this market are looking for.
Founder, chairman and CEO Mahmud Haq, as well as president and Director Stephen Snyder and CFO Bill Korn, made quite a showing at the 2016 Marcum MicroCap Conference (http://nnw.fm/Tu5j4) back in June, just before the launch of the company’s hospital receivables management service via acquisition of New Jersey healthcare financial specialists WFS Services. The WFS Services acquisition superbly augmented the company’s already strong position in ambulatory (outpatient) services and enables MTBC to aggress the huge opportunity of underserved demand in patient balance collection and aged insurance accounts receivable. By exploiting its unique technological advantages and vast sums of expertise in order to serve the ominously compounding need for solutions to the nuanced and often arduously difficult challenges of collection and aged insurance accounts receivable, MTBC is setting itself up for long-term growth.
The company has had a laser-focus on strategic growth toward its 2016 objectives, scoring a spate of notably appropriate recent acquisitions, including Renaissance Physician Services (Tennessee), Gulf Coast Billing (Texas), and the WFS Services deal. And yet MTBC managed to wrap up Q2 with $6.6 million in cash on the balance sheet. This an extraordinarily visionary approach to this space for a relatively young company like Medical Transcription Billing, but management can read the handwriting on the wall: the healthcare IT market is only going to get hotter. Strengthening its already enviable position in the sector through shrewd acquisition is how the company set a new milestone for revenue growth from Q1 to Q2 this year, and the company hopes to continue this trajectory on the strength of things such as having already developed a comprehensive ICD-9 to ICD-10 mapping and transitioning solution.
And it is not just the increasing complexity of the space that will allow full-spectrum operators like MTBC to prosper amid all this demand growth. As new systems must be rapidly defined and rolled out to handle an ever more stringent regulatory environment, mounting demand for knowledgeable consultancy and expert services will likely continue to increase at a geometric rate. Medical Transcription Billing will prosper because its suite of offerings is able to deliver considerably enhanced efficiency and profitability metrics, something which is of paramount concern to everyone in the industry, as there exists a pressing requirement to bring down overall healthcare costs.
A set of common drivers behind all this demand growth are made strikingly clear in both of the aforementioned reports. Chief among these drivers is the rise-and-rise of EHR (electronic health records) solutions in general, spurred on by a concomitance of actors, such as the prevailing lack of in-house IT capabilities among most sector operators, the ease/robustness of cloud services, and the inherently complex regulatory environment that just gets more nebulous with each passing year. The MarketsandMarkets and Technavio reports mentioned earlier were both keen to acknowledge how everything in the industry is shifting toward external cloud and SaaS (software as a service) solutions. One of the fastest growing segments of the HIT market is healthcare provider solutions, where a projected 16.4 percent CAGR (MarketsandMarkets) shows just how hot the game truly is when it comes to solving the regulatory compliance/assurance woes that face today’s healthcare providers.
This is an area where something like MTBC’s fully integrated Meaningful Use Stage 2-certified and web-based EHR platform ChartsPro really shines. ChartsPro gives a practice everything required to easily execute a Meaningful Use Stage 2 implementation, including the necessary training, and the company even provides an MU expert to each of its clients as part of its regulatory compliance services package. Ranked among the best of the best by Utah-based health informatics research outfit and industry benchmark KLAS, and certified by the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology), ChartsPro can handle all the critical functions of a medical practice and is just the kind of highly intuitive, yet powerful framework that the clinical solutions segment of the healthcare IT market now demands. Notably, this segment has a projected 19.8 percent CAGR through 2020.
Whether it’s chart creation backed up by the company’s digital transcription technology, ChartScribe (a digital audio dictation to complete charts solution which is fully integrated into the ChartsPro architecture), or a host of other mission critical tasks, the web native ChartsPro platform is ideal for an increasingly work-anywhere digital environment full of tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Correct and timely patient charts are essential at every practice and ChartsPro handles this key task beautifully, while delivering similarly excellent results when it comes to things like document management, claim creation, e-prescription, lab test ordering, PHR handling and scheduling.
The consistently emerging PM (precision medicine) model of healthcare, which is reinforced by a similarly emergent technical foundation and the need for tailored medicine in areas like cancer, will continue to be a substantial driver both for the HIT space, and for MTBC itself. This single market alone will likely grow to nearly $88 billion by 2023 according to a report by Global Market Insights (http://nnw.fm/Rb3vb), with factors such as genome sequencing ($8 billion last year), and new drug discovery playing major roles. The White House has dedicated $55 million toward a new PM initiative, the industry has responded, and now it will be up to operators in the healthcare IT sector to pick up the ball and run with it. The explosion of diagnostics alone could send a multiple-threat WebEHR outfit like MTBC into the stratosphere. It should be interesting to see how things shake out for this aggressive young cloud-savvy player.
For more information, visit www.MTBC.com
MTBC is "One to Watch"
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC) is an award-winning healthcare IT company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary web-based solutions and related business services to a diverse and growing number of healthcare providers throughout the United States. The company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform helps healthcare providers by increasing revenues, aiding clinical and business decision making, reducing administrative burdens, streamlining workflows, and reducing operating costs.
Servicing thousands of doctors in over 40 states across more than 63 healthcare specialties, MTBC’s platform of products and best-in-class services is scalable and functional according to need. The integrated service offering helps physician practices cost-effectively and successfully meet regulatory challenges, improve their financial performance, and increase efficiency to prosper amidst a rapidly shifting healthcare industry.
MTBC’s product portfolio includes electronic health records, practice management, patient engagement and mHealth smartphone and tablet apps – all of which are fully supported by and integrated with the company’s core managed billing service. In addition, the company offers and array of value-added services, including medical transcription, coding and business intelligence. The standard fee for its complete, integrated, end-to-end solution is calculated as a percentage of a practice’s healthcare-related revenues, and is among the lowest in the industry.
While MTBC’s ICD 9 to ICD 10 app is ranked No. 1 on Apple Store and Google Play as the most downloaded app in its category, MTBC itself is the recipient of enviable awards. Among others, the company is ranked among the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), is a Microsoft® Certified Partner, and has been awarded the Surescripts® White Coat of Quality.
The Company went public via an IPO on Nasdaq in July 2014, and acquired three competitors at the same time. It acquired two small competitors during the third quarter of 2015, three during the first nine months of 2016, and a larger company in October 2016.
The company also boasts a base of longstanding clients and recently launched its Client Loyalty Program to thank its clients for using MTBC’s services. As part of the program, MTBC is awarding 100 shares of its publicly traded common stock to its providers and 1,000 shares for referring other physician practices. New MTBC clients are also eligible to participate and receive awards.
Under the direction of a diverse and highly experienced management team, MTBC serves a diverse field of healthcare entities ranging from single physicians and medium-sized practices to independent physician associations, consistently innovating to keep pace with the broader global healthcare environment.
Twitter Hires AngelHack Founder for Virtual Reality Initiative
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Twitter has hired AngelHack founder Gregory Gopman to work on its nascent virtual reality (VR) initiative, Variety has learned. The company may add native 360-degree video integration as well as 360-degree video live streaming to its products in the coming months.
A Twitter spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gopman, who started as VR Program Manager at Twitter this month, most recently worked for UploadVR, a Bay Area-based VR news site, events producer and co-working space. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of AngelHack, a company that has been organizing corporate hackathons for companies like Comcast, Hasbro and Hearst, at one point staging more than 100 hackathons per year.
Twitter first toyed with the idea of 360-degree videos in June, striking a partnership with Samsung and the NBA to distribute such videos of the NBA finals via the service. However, the partnership didn’t actually lead to a native integration of 360-degree videos on Twitter. Instead, users had to click through to Samsung’s website to watch the videos in question.
Since then, Twitter has made some moves to more wholeheartedly embrace 360-degree videos and virtual reality. At the end of June, Twitter hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli as director of AR&VR. And the company is currently hiring for an AR & VR team that’s supposed to develop “the next generation of live product experiences.”
Some of this will undoubtedly involve 360-degree video live streaming. Twitter-owned Periscope added the ability to stream live video from external cameras and broadcast production setups to Periscope and Twitter users last week. Currently, those live streams are limited to traditional, or “framed” video content. However, the company is already working on adding the ability to also stream from 360-degree cameras, and may add this feature in the coming months.
OurPet’s Company (OPCO) CFO Scott Mendes Presenting at the MicroCap Conference
Earlier today, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) announced that Scott Mendes, the company’s chief financial officer, will be presenting alongside executives from 60 other companies at this year’s MicroCap Conference, which is set to take place October 24-25 at the Hotel Monaco in Philadelphia. Mendes is scheduled to make his presentation on October 25 at 5:00 p.m. Planned topics of discussion include OurPet’s Company’s innovative, trend-setting pet products and accessories, including the cutting-edge OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ (http://dtn.fm/sOK6q) product line, which leverages Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to foster a stronger connection between pets and their owners.
For more information on the MicroCap Conference, visit http://dtn.fm/kjJH5
Mendes’s upcoming presentation comes on the heels of a similar presentation by Kathleen Homyock, OPCO’s vice president of sales and business development, at last month’s National Pet Industry Trade Show hosted by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) Canada. In her presentation, titled ‘Technology Translated to Pet Fitness, Food and Fun’, Homyock offered an in-depth look at how intelligent technology accessories can help pet owners more effectively monitor the health and wellbeing of their pets. These benefits are at the core of the company’s Intelligent Pet Care™ product line, including the SmartScoop – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/7eSSn), the SmartLink Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/8rEpu) and the SmartLink Waterer – Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/6NllS).
“It is always interesting to speak with industry professionals about how smart technology is changing pet products,” Homyock stated in a recent news release. “I was excited to have the opportunity to speak at the show in September and I am even more excited to work for a company that values this technology and continuously works to bring intelligent health and fitness monitoring products into the marketplace.”
OurPet’s Company’s commitment to innovation doesn’t end with its Intelligent Pet Care™ product line. According to data from the American Pet Products Association, there are currently about 175 million companion dogs and cats in the United States alone, with roughly 650 million worldwide. The growth of the pet population in recent years has led to pet waste becoming a significant environmental concern, with companion dogs producing roughly 10 million tons of waste annually in the U.S. OurPet’s Company is currently focused on creating environmentally-friendly solutions to the growing problem. Through a new partnership with Paulee Cleantec, Ltd., OurPet’s Company aims to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to the environmental issues stemming from improperly managed pet waste.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com
OPCO CFO Scott Mendes Presenting at the MicroCap Conference
Earlier today, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) announced that Scott Mendes, the company’s chief financial officer, will be presenting alongside executives from 60 other companies at this year’s MicroCap Conference, which is set to take place October 24-25 at the Hotel Monaco in Philadelphia. Mendes is scheduled to make his presentation on October 25 at 5:00 p.m. Planned topics of discussion include OurPet’s Company’s innovative, trend-setting pet products and accessories, including the cutting-edge OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ (http://dtn.fm/sOK6q) product line, which leverages Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to foster a stronger connection between pets and their owners.
For more information on the MicroCap Conference, visit http://dtn.fm/kjJH5
Mendes’s upcoming presentation comes on the heels of a similar presentation by Kathleen Homyock, OPCO’s vice president of sales and business development, at last month’s National Pet Industry Trade Show hosted by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) Canada. In her presentation, titled ‘Technology Translated to Pet Fitness, Food and Fun’, Homyock offered an in-depth look at how intelligent technology accessories can help pet owners more effectively monitor the health and wellbeing of their pets. These benefits are at the core of the company’s Intelligent Pet Care™ product line, including the SmartScoop – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/7eSSn), the SmartLink Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/8rEpu) and the SmartLink Waterer – Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/6NllS).
“It is always interesting to speak with industry professionals about how smart technology is changing pet products,” Homyock stated in a recent news release. “I was excited to have the opportunity to speak at the show in September and I am even more excited to work for a company that values this technology and continuously works to bring intelligent health and fitness monitoring products into the marketplace.”
OurPet’s Company’s commitment to innovation doesn’t end with its Intelligent Pet Care™ product line. According to data from the American Pet Products Association, there are currently about 175 million companion dogs and cats in the United States alone, with roughly 650 million worldwide. The growth of the pet population in recent years has led to pet waste becoming a significant environmental concern, with companion dogs producing roughly 10 million tons of waste annually in the U.S. OurPet’s Company is currently focused on creating environmentally-friendly solutions to the growing problem. Through a new partnership with Paulee Cleantec, Ltd., OurPet’s Company aims to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to the environmental issues stemming from improperly managed pet waste.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com
Moxian, Inc. (MOXC) Enhancing Relationships between Users and Merchants with Consumer Behavior Data
Consumer behavior is the study of why users buy or do not buy a product or service. This data also includes the why, what, when, where, and how. Consumer behavior attempts to understand the buyer’s decision-making process. It studies individual consumer habits while taking into account things like demographics, age group, religion, and more in order to understand what people want from their shopping experience.
There are, of course, a wide range of factors that can influence customer behavior. Some of these include: the environment, social variables, cultural variables, pricing, promotions, product quality, and customer service. Also, as mentioned above, demographic factors affect customer behavior. These include age, gender, marital status, income, education, and occupation.
With consumer behavior data being at the forefront of e-commerce today, the goal is to know what consumers want before they even ask for it. Algorithms and big data are now enabling retailers to capitalize on their consumers by offering them what they want based on their shopping history and all the other variables.
With marketers now having access to all sorts of useful data, it is no wonder they are able to target prospective clients and consumers and link them to specific merchants and products. Companies such as Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) who are in the business of providing social media marketing and promotion platforms to retailers allow merchants to run highly targeted and successful advertising campaigns.
MOXC enables consumers and merchants to better interact thanks to consumer behavior data compiled in the Moxian database. With this information, merchants are able to identify consumer patterns, identify individual customers, uncover opportunities to deliver integrated and targeted marketing campaigns, and optimize marketing efforts for the future. Moxian works on the basis that consumers and businesses should be able to connect and interact more easily with one another to achieve the concept of “online lifestyle, offline fun.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com
MOXC Enhancing Relationships between Users and Merchants with Consumer Behavior Data
Consumer behavior is the study of why users buy or do not buy a product or service. This data also includes the why, what, when, where, and how. Consumer behavior attempts to understand the buyer’s decision-making process. It studies individual consumer habits while taking into account things like demographics, age group, religion, and more in order to understand what people want from their shopping experience.
There are, of course, a wide range of factors that can influence customer behavior. Some of these include: the environment, social variables, cultural variables, pricing, promotions, product quality, and customer service. Also, as mentioned above, demographic factors affect customer behavior. These include age, gender, marital status, income, education, and occupation.
With consumer behavior data being at the forefront of e-commerce today, the goal is to know what consumers want before they even ask for it. Algorithms and big data are now enabling retailers to capitalize on their consumers by offering them what they want based on their shopping history and all the other variables.
With marketers now having access to all sorts of useful data, it is no wonder they are able to target prospective clients and consumers and link them to specific merchants and products. Companies such as Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) who are in the business of providing social media marketing and promotion platforms to retailers allow merchants to run highly targeted and successful advertising campaigns.
MOXC enables consumers and merchants to better interact thanks to consumer behavior data compiled in the Moxian database. With this information, merchants are able to identify consumer patterns, identify individual customers, uncover opportunities to deliver integrated and targeted marketing campaigns, and optimize marketing efforts for the future. Moxian works on the basis that consumers and businesses should be able to connect and interact more easily with one another to achieve the concept of “online lifestyle, offline fun.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com
How to play Facebook Messenger's hidden games
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Facebook’s Messenger is one of the most used messaging apps on the planet. And while there are plenty GIFs, stickers and photos to throw into your messages, sometimes you might just want to goof off and play a quick game with your friends.
To that end, Facebook (FB) has included a few hidden games in Messenger. I’m talking about games that let you play basketball, soccer and chess against your friends while you’re waiting for a dentist appointment or in line at the grocery store.
Here’s how to play.
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eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Adds Brent Gove Team to Growing Brokerage Division
Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through subsidiary eXp Realty, announced the addition of the Brent Gove team, a leading real estate team operating in California, to its family of agents and brokers. Gove brings nearly two decades of industry experience to the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™. During this time, he earned a spot as one of the 11 most successful agents in the global RE/MAX (NYSE: RMAX) network, completing 429 transactions accounting for about $169 million in sales volume in 2005 alone. Gove then moved to Keller Williams Realty, where he served as CEO and team leader of the company’s most profitable market center in 2010. Despite only switching brokerages once throughout his extensive career in the real estate industry, Gove pointed to the tremendous value proposition offered by eXp Realty as a key driver in his decision to make the jump to EXPI.
“Everyone on my team is excited about the opportunity to become an owner of eXp World Holdings and to be part of a community of agent-owners working closely together with systems and infrastructure that will allow us to continue to grow both as a team and as professionals — building relationships and organizations that span across borders,” Gove stated in this morning’s news release. “eXp Realty represents the best opportunity for us as a team and as individuals.”
The addition of the Brent Gove team to the eXp Realty family continues to build on what has been an eventful October for the company. Just last Friday, EXPI announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top international luxury agent in South Texas, to eXp Realty. In the news release, Herrera hailed the eXp Realty business model as “the strongest in the industry.” According to an update issued last week, the company’s real estate brokerage division currently boasts a family of agents and brokers that includes more than 1,900 members across 41 high-demand markets in the United States and Canada. This marks an increase of about 120 percent from the beginning of 2016.
“We are excited, not only by our growth, but by the quality of agents that are being attracted to eXp Realty,” Jason Gesing, chief executive officer of eXp Realty, stated in a recent news release. “Increasingly throughout the year, eXp Realty has become the brokerage of choice for top producing agents and teams, and for brokerage owners looking to increase profits, achieve scalable growth, and deliver the opportunity of ownership to the agents in their organization.”
These growth milestones come on the heels of EXPI’s third annual real estate convention, which took place from October 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas. The company reports that nearly one-third of the agents and brokers licensed with eXp Realty at the time of the event were in attendance, representing more than a threefold increase from the previous year’s convention and marking the first time that the company has sold out one of its major annual events. Russ Cafano, president of EXPI, summed up eXp Realty’s recent performance in a news release.
“[W]e have uncovered a total value proposition which resonates with real estate professionals but to date, no firm had figured out how to implement,” he stated. “Our growth numbers clearly indicate that we have hit a sweet spot in the industry.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
EXPI Adds Brent Gove Team to Growing Brokerage Division
Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through subsidiary eXp Realty, announced the addition of the Brent Gove team, a leading real estate team operating in California, to its family of agents and brokers. Gove brings nearly two decades of industry experience to the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™. During this time, he earned a spot as one of the 11 most successful agents in the global RE/MAX (NYSE: RMAX) network, completing 429 transactions accounting for about $169 million in sales volume in 2005 alone. Gove then moved to Keller Williams Realty, where he served as CEO and team leader of the company’s most profitable market center in 2010. Despite only switching brokerages once throughout his extensive career in the real estate industry, Gove pointed to the tremendous value proposition offered by eXp Realty as a key driver in his decision to make the jump to EXPI.
“Everyone on my team is excited about the opportunity to become an owner of eXp World Holdings and to be part of a community of agent-owners working closely together with systems and infrastructure that will allow us to continue to grow both as a team and as professionals — building relationships and organizations that span across borders,” Gove stated in this morning’s news release. “eXp Realty represents the best opportunity for us as a team and as individuals.”
The addition of the Brent Gove team to the eXp Realty family continues to build on what has been an eventful October for the company. Just last Friday, EXPI announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top international luxury agent in South Texas, to eXp Realty. In the news release, Herrera hailed the eXp Realty business model as “the strongest in the industry.” According to an update issued last week, the company’s real estate brokerage division currently boasts a family of agents and brokers that includes more than 1,900 members across 41 high-demand markets in the United States and Canada. This marks an increase of about 120 percent from the beginning of 2016.
“We are excited, not only by our growth, but by the quality of agents that are being attracted to eXp Realty,” Jason Gesing, chief executive officer of eXp Realty, stated in a recent news release. “Increasingly throughout the year, eXp Realty has become the brokerage of choice for top producing agents and teams, and for brokerage owners looking to increase profits, achieve scalable growth, and deliver the opportunity of ownership to the agents in their organization.”
These growth milestones come on the heels of EXPI’s third annual real estate convention, which took place from October 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas. The company reports that nearly one-third of the agents and brokers licensed with eXp Realty at the time of the event were in attendance, representing more than a threefold increase from the previous year’s convention and marking the first time that the company has sold out one of its major annual events. Russ Cafano, president of EXPI, summed up eXp Realty’s recent performance in a news release.
“[W]e have uncovered a total value proposition which resonates with real estate professionals but to date, no firm had figured out how to implement,” he stated. “Our growth numbers clearly indicate that we have hit a sweet spot in the industry.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Offers Shareholders Additional Details Regarding MediGain Acquisition
Before the opening bell, Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP) issued a news release giving prospective shareholders additional insight into the company’s acquisition of MediGain, LLC. In the update, Mahmud Haq, chief executive officer of MTBC, highlighted the importance of the acquisition to the company’s growth strategy.
“As announced last week, we are very pleased to have acquired MediGain, which marks an important corporate milestone as our largest acquisition to date, and demonstrates the highly strategic nature of our successful, acquisition-based growth strategy,” Haq stated.
In the news release announcing the acquisition, MTBC CFO Bill Korn stated that the company completed the acquisition “at a compelling valuation that represents a significant discount as compared to the industry norm.” This morning’s update highlighted that MTBC, through wholly-owned subsidiary MTBC Acquisition, Corp., acquired all of the assets of MediGain and its affiliate for a purchase price of $7 million, which included $2 million paid at closing with a remaining balance of $5 million due at the beginning of next year.
Korn went on to predict that the addition of MediGain and affiliate Millennium Practice Management, LLC to MTBC will “contribute to our positive Adjusted EBITDA by the end Q1 2017.” This assessment was further validated with this morning’s update. In total, the accounts in good standing that were acquired as part of the MediGain acquisition are expected to contribute more than $10 million of annual revenues to fuel MTBC’s financial growth in 2017. With this performance, MTBC management expects incremental profits from the MediGain acquisition to greatly exceed its cost of capital, putting it on course to be accretive to the company’s shareholders as early as 2017.
To learn more about the MediGain acquisition, view MTBC’s Form 8-K at http://dtn.fm/4dGUh
“There are significant synergies between the two companies,” Gary Smith, a provider of leadership to MediGain Practice Management, explained in this morning’s update. “Our global team of professionals and proprietary technology will allow us to continue improving operating margins while delivering world-class service to our clients.”
On October 3, MTBC originally announced the closing of the MediGain acquisition, marking its largest acquisition to date. Included in the transaction, MTBC acquired substantially all of MediGain’s assets, including existing customer accounts, intellectual property, and offshore operations in both India and Sri Lanka. In addition to strengthening its total number of accounts, the acquisition effectively bolstered the MTBC team with talented members in North America while greatly expanding its Asia-based operations into new markets with “talented, cost-effective workforces.”
For more information, visit www.MTBC.com
MTBC Offers Shareholders Additional Details Regarding MediGain Acquisition
Before the opening bell, Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP) issued a news release giving prospective shareholders additional insight into the company’s acquisition of MediGain, LLC. In the update, Mahmud Haq, chief executive officer of MTBC, highlighted the importance of the acquisition to the company’s growth strategy.
“As announced last week, we are very pleased to have acquired MediGain, which marks an important corporate milestone as our largest acquisition to date, and demonstrates the highly strategic nature of our successful, acquisition-based growth strategy,” Haq stated.
In the news release announcing the acquisition, MTBC CFO Bill Korn stated that the company completed the acquisition “at a compelling valuation that represents a significant discount as compared to the industry norm.” This morning’s update highlighted that MTBC, through wholly-owned subsidiary MTBC Acquisition, Corp., acquired all of the assets of MediGain and its affiliate for a purchase price of $7 million, which included $2 million paid at closing with a remaining balance of $5 million due at the beginning of next year.
Korn went on to predict that the addition of MediGain and affiliate Millennium Practice Management, LLC to MTBC will “contribute to our positive Adjusted EBITDA by the end Q1 2017.” This assessment was further validated with this morning’s update. In total, the accounts in good standing that were acquired as part of the MediGain acquisition are expected to contribute more than $10 million of annual revenues to fuel MTBC’s financial growth in 2017. With this performance, MTBC management expects incremental profits from the MediGain acquisition to greatly exceed its cost of capital, putting it on course to be accretive to the company’s shareholders as early as 2017.
To learn more about the MediGain acquisition, view MTBC’s Form 8-K at http://dtn.fm/4dGUh
“There are significant synergies between the two companies,” Gary Smith, a provider of leadership to MediGain Practice Management, explained in this morning’s update. “Our global team of professionals and proprietary technology will allow us to continue improving operating margins while delivering world-class service to our clients.”
On October 3, MTBC originally announced the closing of the MediGain acquisition, marking its largest acquisition to date. Included in the transaction, MTBC acquired substantially all of MediGain’s assets, including existing customer accounts, intellectual property, and offshore operations in both India and Sri Lanka. In addition to strengthening its total number of accounts, the acquisition effectively bolstered the MTBC team with talented members in North America while greatly expanding its Asia-based operations into new markets with “talented, cost-effective workforces.”
For more information, visit www.MTBC.com
Why Twitter Is a Media Company
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If you are among the 73% of American adults who don't log in to Twitter at least once a month, you can be forgiven for viewing it primarily as a place where presidential candidates launch broadsides and celebrities embarrass themselves.
Twitter Inc.'s long struggle to define itself goes hand in hand with its recent inability to grow beyond its active but hard to grasp subcommunities. The mix of content, curation, humor, self-promotion and invective confounds its product teams, leaders and investors.
So let's define Twitter once and for all. Twitter is a media company that happens to be based in San Francisco, and it should be structured, led and valued as such. Twitter is no longer a technology-driven hypergrowth unicorn. Twitter has, in a way, admitted as much. Last week, in a memo to Twitter staff, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey called the service the "People's News Network."
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eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Welcomes Top-Ranked Real Estate Agent to eXp Realty, Shares Surge
Shares of eXp World Holdings (OTCQB: EXPI) climbed 12% in Friday’s mid-day trade after the company announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top-rated international luxury agent in South Texas, as the newest member of its eXp Realty, LLC real estate brokerage division in San Antonio, Texas. The company’s stock may also be moving on momentum from yesterday’s news that it has grown its family of agents and brokers to more than 1,900 across 41 markets in North America, up from 864 agents at the start of the year.
With nearly 30 years of previous business experience behind him, Herrera launched his real estate career in 2010 and quickly became a recognized leader within and among the luxury agent community.
In 2015 Herrera achieved production of more than $15 million, followed by more than $24 million in 2016. He was aptly named the #1 International Luxury Agent in San Antonio, Hill Country and South Texas by Luxury League, and has been a member of the Platinum Top 50 San Antonio group of agents from 2012-2016.
Herrera was first introduced at a press availability last week when eXp Realty – the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage® – held its third annual conference in San Antonio.
“The eXp Realty business model is the strongest in the industry,” Herrera stated in today’s news release. “I am excited about the opportunity for true ownership, not just for me, but for my loyal and talented team members, and I am excited to teach and coach eXp agents from all markets who aspire to work in luxury on the eXpWorld campus. This is the future of real estate and I want to be a part of it.”
eXp Realty CEO Jason Gesing welcomed Herrera to the team and commented that his “desire to share what he knows is perfectly aligned with our ownership culture and we look forward to his leadership and contributions for many years to come.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
Monaker Group’s (MKGI) Maupintour, an Active Presence on Fast-Growing Luxury Travel Market
The luxury travel market has been growing faster than overall travel in recent years, fueled by global consumers’ increasing tendencies to spend their income on life experiences rather than material goods. The trend is likely to continue over the next decade, with new business opportunities and challenges for leading providers of luxury tours such as Monaker Group, Inc.’s (OTCQB: MKGI) Maupintour.
Luxury travel had a compound annual growth rate of 4.5% between 2011 and 2015, and this growth is likely to continue at an even faster rate over the next decade. It is expected that luxury trips (http://dtn.fm/l2C0D) will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2% through 2025, while overall travel will grow at a rate of 4.8%. The main catalyst for this growth is consumers’ general desire for more rewarding experiences achieved via travel, therefore leading to improved tourism industry standards and services.
It is worth noting that nowadays, the definition of luxury travel is less strict than before, relating more to personalized experiences and top notch services rather than the outdated image of sipping martinis by the pool or simply going on a luxury cruise to exotic destinations. The idea of excitement and the promise of unique experiences are essential to luxury tourism nowadays, while the desire for high-quality service and exclusive privacy and security remains a significant component.
North America and Western Europe are still the most popular destinations for luxury travelers, accounting for 64% of worldwide outbound luxury trips. However, the Asia Pacific luxury market is growing at an accelerated rate, outpacing the overall growth of the European market. India’s luxury travel market is also growing fast, with a compound annual growth rate of 13%.
All of these destinations are currently included on the list of luxury tours offered by Maupintour, a company with 65 years of experience in offering luxury and customizable private tours to the best destinations in the world. Some of the top luxury tours on the company’s roster this fall include a 9-day tour of traditional Christmas markets – Austria and Germany, a 12-day tour of China’s top tourist and historic sites, and a 10-day tour of Athens and the Greek Islands.
Since it was founded by Tom Maupin in Lawrence, Kansas, Maupintour has built a name for itself as an innovative, forward-thinking travel company with a reputation for creating unique, outstanding itineraries. In 1956, it was the first company to organize tours to the Soviet Union after World War II. Maupintour’s commitment to its core principles and traditions of leadership, variety, quality, value, service and fulfilling all its travelers’ dreams have made it a leading provider of luxury travel services with the highest repeat customer rate in the industry.
Maupintour is just one of the travel-focused companies currently owned by Monaker Group. The group’s flagship is NextTrip.com, a real-time booking platform that allows travelers access to both alternative lodging rentals and traditional hotel accommodation, as well as to other travel services such as airline booking or car rentals.
For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com
eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Welcomes Top-Ranked Real Estate Agent to eXp Realty, Shares Surge
Shares of eXp World Holdings (OTCQB: EXPI) climbed 12% in Friday’s mid-day trade after the company announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top-rated international luxury agent in South Texas, as the newest member of its eXp Realty, LLC real estate brokerage division in San Antonio, Texas. The company’s stock may also be moving on momentum from yesterday’s news that it has grown its family of agents and brokers to more than 1,900 across 41 markets in North America, up from 864 agents at the start of the year.
With nearly 30 years of previous business experience behind him, Herrera launched his real estate career in 2010 and quickly became a recognized leader within and among the luxury agent community.
In 2015 Herrera achieved production of more than $15 million, followed by more than $24 million in 2016. He was aptly named the #1 International Luxury Agent in San Antonio, Hill Country and South Texas by Luxury League, and has been a member of the Platinum Top 50 San Antonio group of agents from 2012-2016.
Herrera was first introduced at a press availability last week when eXp Realty – the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage® – held its third annual conference in San Antonio.
“The eXp Realty business model is the strongest in the industry,” Herrera stated in today’s news release. “I am excited about the opportunity for true ownership, not just for me, but for my loyal and talented team members, and I am excited to teach and coach eXp agents from all markets who aspire to work in luxury on the eXpWorld campus. This is the future of real estate and I want to be a part of it.”
eXp Realty CEO Jason Gesing welcomed Herrera to the team and commented that his “desire to share what he knows is perfectly aligned with our ownership culture and we look forward to his leadership and contributions for many years to come.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
EXPI Welcomes Top-Ranked Real Estate Agent to eXp Realty, Shares Surge
Shares of eXp World Holdings (OTCQB: EXPI) climbed 12% in Friday’s mid-day trade after the company announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top-rated international luxury agent in South Texas, as the newest member of its eXp Realty, LLC real estate brokerage division in San Antonio, Texas. The company’s stock may also be moving on momentum from yesterday’s news that it has grown its family of agents and brokers to more than 1,900 across 41 markets in North America, up from 864 agents at the start of the year.
With nearly 30 years of previous business experience behind him, Herrera launched his real estate career in 2010 and quickly became a recognized leader within and among the luxury agent community.
In 2015 Herrera achieved production of more than $15 million, followed by more than $24 million in 2016. He was aptly named the #1 International Luxury Agent in San Antonio, Hill Country and South Texas by Luxury League, and has been a member of the Platinum Top 50 San Antonio group of agents from 2012-2016.
Herrera was first introduced at a press availability last week when eXp Realty – the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage® – held its third annual conference in San Antonio.
“The eXp Realty business model is the strongest in the industry,” Herrera stated in today’s news release. “I am excited about the opportunity for true ownership, not just for me, but for my loyal and talented team members, and I am excited to teach and coach eXp agents from all markets who aspire to work in luxury on the eXpWorld campus. This is the future of real estate and I want to be a part of it.”
eXp Realty CEO Jason Gesing welcomed Herrera to the team and commented that his “desire to share what he knows is perfectly aligned with our ownership culture and we look forward to his leadership and contributions for many years to come.”
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
Monaker Group’s (MKGI) Maupintour, an Active Presence on Fast-Growing Luxury Travel Market
The luxury travel market has been growing faster than overall travel in recent years, fueled by global consumers’ increasing tendencies to spend their income on life experiences rather than material goods. The trend is likely to continue over the next decade, with new business opportunities and challenges for leading providers of luxury tours such as Monaker Group, Inc.’s (OTCQB: MKGI) Maupintour.
Luxury travel had a compound annual growth rate of 4.5% between 2011 and 2015, and this growth is likely to continue at an even faster rate over the next decade. It is expected that luxury trips (http://dtn.fm/l2C0D) will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2% through 2025, while overall travel will grow at a rate of 4.8%. The main catalyst for this growth is consumers’ general desire for more rewarding experiences achieved via travel, therefore leading to improved tourism industry standards and services.
It is worth noting that nowadays, the definition of luxury travel is less strict than before, relating more to personalized experiences and top notch services rather than the outdated image of sipping martinis by the pool or simply going on a luxury cruise to exotic destinations. The idea of excitement and the promise of unique experiences are essential to luxury tourism nowadays, while the desire for high-quality service and exclusive privacy and security remains a significant component.
North America and Western Europe are still the most popular destinations for luxury travelers, accounting for 64% of worldwide outbound luxury trips. However, the Asia Pacific luxury market is growing at an accelerated rate, outpacing the overall growth of the European market. India’s luxury travel market is also growing fast, with a compound annual growth rate of 13%.
All of these destinations are currently included on the list of luxury tours offered by Maupintour, a company with 65 years of experience in offering luxury and customizable private tours to the best destinations in the world. Some of the top luxury tours on the company’s roster this fall include a 9-day tour of traditional Christmas markets – Austria and Germany, a 12-day tour of China’s top tourist and historic sites, and a 10-day tour of Athens and the Greek Islands.
Since it was founded by Tom Maupin in Lawrence, Kansas, Maupintour has built a name for itself as an innovative, forward-thinking travel company with a reputation for creating unique, outstanding itineraries. In 1956, it was the first company to organize tours to the Soviet Union after World War II. Maupintour’s commitment to its core principles and traditions of leadership, variety, quality, value, service and fulfilling all its travelers’ dreams have made it a leading provider of luxury travel services with the highest repeat customer rate in the industry.
Maupintour is just one of the travel-focused companies currently owned by Monaker Group. The group’s flagship is NextTrip.com, a real-time booking platform that allows travelers access to both alternative lodging rentals and traditional hotel accommodation, as well as to other travel services such as airline booking or car rentals.
For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com
MKGI's Maupintour, an Active Presence on Fast-Growing Luxury Travel Market
The luxury travel market has been growing faster than overall travel in recent years, fueled by global consumers’ increasing tendencies to spend their income on life experiences rather than material goods. The trend is likely to continue over the next decade, with new business opportunities and challenges for leading providers of luxury tours such as Monaker Group, Inc.’s (OTCQB: MKGI) Maupintour.
Luxury travel had a compound annual growth rate of 4.5% between 2011 and 2015, and this growth is likely to continue at an even faster rate over the next decade. It is expected that luxury trips (http://dtn.fm/l2C0D) will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2% through 2025, while overall travel will grow at a rate of 4.8%. The main catalyst for this growth is consumers’ general desire for more rewarding experiences achieved via travel, therefore leading to improved tourism industry standards and services.
It is worth noting that nowadays, the definition of luxury travel is less strict than before, relating more to personalized experiences and top notch services rather than the outdated image of sipping martinis by the pool or simply going on a luxury cruise to exotic destinations. The idea of excitement and the promise of unique experiences are essential to luxury tourism nowadays, while the desire for high-quality service and exclusive privacy and security remains a significant component.
North America and Western Europe are still the most popular destinations for luxury travelers, accounting for 64% of worldwide outbound luxury trips. However, the Asia Pacific luxury market is growing at an accelerated rate, outpacing the overall growth of the European market. India’s luxury travel market is also growing fast, with a compound annual growth rate of 13%.
All of these destinations are currently included on the list of luxury tours offered by Maupintour, a company with 65 years of experience in offering luxury and customizable private tours to the best destinations in the world. Some of the top luxury tours on the company’s roster this fall include a 9-day tour of traditional Christmas markets – Austria and Germany, a 12-day tour of China’s top tourist and historic sites, and a 10-day tour of Athens and the Greek Islands.
Since it was founded by Tom Maupin in Lawrence, Kansas, Maupintour has built a name for itself as an innovative, forward-thinking travel company with a reputation for creating unique, outstanding itineraries. In 1956, it was the first company to organize tours to the Soviet Union after World War II. Maupintour’s commitment to its core principles and traditions of leadership, variety, quality, value, service and fulfilling all its travelers’ dreams have made it a leading provider of luxury travel services with the highest repeat customer rate in the industry.
Maupintour is just one of the travel-focused companies currently owned by Monaker Group. The group’s flagship is NextTrip.com, a real-time booking platform that allows travelers access to both alternative lodging rentals and traditional hotel accommodation, as well as to other travel services such as airline booking or car rentals.
For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com
Net Element, Inc. (NETE) Growing With Mobile Payment Trends
According to Mobile Payment Today (http://dtn.fm/A792n), mobile payments are expected to reach $3 trillion by 2021, up 5% from 2016. Thanks to the increased use of mobile devices, the market for mobile payments continues to expand worldwide. Although Asia Pacific, specifically China, still dominates the market, the U.S. and U.K. are not far behind. Digital research conducted by Euromonitor International shows that by 2020 both countries will emerge alongside China with more people making payments from their mobile devices. In the U.S., mobile payments are expected to grow at the fastest rate. By 2020, mobile payments are expected to increase by 26% from 2016.
People are more willing than ever to make payments from their mobile devices as they are more digitally capable. Vendor and service industries, such as clothing stores, taxi drivers, and others, are now routinely accepting this medium of payment because it is largely expected by consumers. Who are these consumers? For the most part, they are millennials.
Millennials are making a serious impact on the transition to mobile commerce. They are the ones adopting new technologies. Not only this, millennials control 30% of gross income, a number that will potentially grow to just under 50% by 2025 when counting the new generation Z. With more connected consumers than ever, it is no surprise that companies focused on mobile payments are doing their best to become top players in the industry.
Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) is a global technology-driven group with a specific focus on mobile payments and value-added transactional services. Net Element’s key products include a range of point of sale solutions available on both Android and iOS mobile devices. The company’s solutions enable both merchants and consumers to make and receive transactions efficiently and safely. NETE also offers reports and analytics, allowing organizations to get a better overall view of their business.
NETE has shown strong transaction volume growth from January to July of this year and has become payments partner for Dunkin’ Donuts in Russia. The company has also entered into an agreement with ExLine, enabling payment acceptance for more than 50,000 of ExLine’s customers.
For more information, visit www.NetElement.com
Net Element, Inc. (NETE) Growing With Mobile Payment Trends
According to Mobile Payment Today (http://dtn.fm/A792n), mobile payments are expected to reach $3 trillion by 2021, up 5% from 2016. Thanks to the increased use of mobile devices, the market for mobile payments continues to expand worldwide. Although Asia Pacific, specifically China, still dominates the market, the U.S. and U.K. are not far behind. Digital research conducted by Euromonitor International shows that by 2020 both countries will emerge alongside China with more people making payments from their mobile devices. In the U.S., mobile payments are expected to grow at the fastest rate. By 2020, mobile payments are expected to increase by 26% from 2016.
People are more willing than ever to make payments from their mobile devices as they are more digitally capable. Vendor and service industries, such as clothing stores, taxi drivers, and others, are now routinely accepting this medium of payment because it is largely expected by consumers. Who are these consumers? For the most part, they are millennials.
Millennials are making a serious impact on the transition to mobile commerce. They are the ones adopting new technologies. Not only this, millennials control 30% of gross income, a number that will potentially grow to just under 50% by 2025 when counting the new generation Z. With more connected consumers than ever, it is no surprise that companies focused on mobile payments are doing their best to become top players in the industry.
Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) is a global technology-driven group with a specific focus on mobile payments and value-added transactional services. Net Element’s key products include a range of point of sale solutions available on both Android and iOS mobile devices. The company’s solutions enable both merchants and consumers to make and receive transactions efficiently and safely. NETE also offers reports and analytics, allowing organizations to get a better overall view of their business.
NETE has shown strong transaction volume growth from January to July of this year and has become payments partner for Dunkin’ Donuts in Russia. The company has also entered into an agreement with ExLine, enabling payment acceptance for more than 50,000 of ExLine’s customers.
For more information, visit www.NetElement.com
NETE Growing With Mobile Payment Trends
According to Mobile Payment Today (http://dtn.fm/A792n), mobile payments are expected to reach $3 trillion by 2021, up 5% from 2016. Thanks to the increased use of mobile devices, the market for mobile payments continues to expand worldwide. Although Asia Pacific, specifically China, still dominates the market, the U.S. and U.K. are not far behind. Digital research conducted by Euromonitor International shows that by 2020 both countries will emerge alongside China with more people making payments from their mobile devices. In the U.S., mobile payments are expected to grow at the fastest rate. By 2020, mobile payments are expected to increase by 26% from 2016.
People are more willing than ever to make payments from their mobile devices as they are more digitally capable. Vendor and service industries, such as clothing stores, taxi drivers, and others, are now routinely accepting this medium of payment because it is largely expected by consumers. Who are these consumers? For the most part, they are millennials.
Millennials are making a serious impact on the transition to mobile commerce. They are the ones adopting new technologies. Not only this, millennials control 30% of gross income, a number that will potentially grow to just under 50% by 2025 when counting the new generation Z. With more connected consumers than ever, it is no surprise that companies focused on mobile payments are doing their best to become top players in the industry.
Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) is a global technology-driven group with a specific focus on mobile payments and value-added transactional services. Net Element’s key products include a range of point of sale solutions available on both Android and iOS mobile devices. The company’s solutions enable both merchants and consumers to make and receive transactions efficiently and safely. NETE also offers reports and analytics, allowing organizations to get a better overall view of their business.
NETE has shown strong transaction volume growth from January to July of this year and has become payments partner for Dunkin’ Donuts in Russia. The company has also entered into an agreement with ExLine, enabling payment acceptance for more than 50,000 of ExLine’s customers.
For more information, visit www.NetElement.com
Twitter Announces Periscope Producer, A New Way to Share Professional, Produced Live Video
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Twitter has unveiled Periscope Producer, a new way for brands, media organizations and other live video creators to share high-quality, produced live video on Periscope and Twitter. By broadcasting live video with Periscope Producer, Twitter partners can broadcast higher-quality content through external cameras and software and support the engagement elements found on Periscope and Twitter with minimal setup.
"Allowing people to create and share produced live video on Periscope has always been part of our vision and opens up new types of content for everyone to watch live," said Kayvon Beykpour, CEO of Periscope. "Periscope allows anyone to watch something with an audience, and now they're able to watch daily shows, large and small-scale events and other live video with compelling content from creators they know and love. High-quality, produced live video can now be shared anywhere through a Tweet."
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OurPet’s Company (OPCO) Teaches Old Dogs (and Cats) New Tricks with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ Product Line
OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) is proving the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” wrong with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products. According to the April 2016 issue of industry journal Pet Age, “OurPet’s Company showcased what is perhaps the most complete line of technology-integrated products, Intelligent Pet Care,” at the Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Florida from March 16-18.
“Pets are smarter than you may think, but it’s often difficult for them to clearly communicate their needs,” says Dr. Steve Tsengas, founder and CEO of OurPet’s Company. In other words, for cats and dogs, dumb doesn’t mean stupid. Since they cannot speak, they need help getting our attention. And that is exactly what the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products (http://dtn.fm/1qVBg) is designed to do.
Dr. Tsengas is right. Earlier this year Nature World News reported (http://dtn.fm/5ySP7) on a study of border collies conducted jointly by the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Edinburgh which ‘found… dogs have measurable IQs, much like people’. Border collies, used as sheep dogs, are particularly smart. Stanley Coren, a canine expert and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, found that the average border collie, poodle or German shepherd was on par with two-year-olds in terms of language. In basic arithmetic, ‘they would trump a 3- or 4-year-old’ (http://dtn.fm/PI9nk).
At the National Pet Industry Trade Show on September 17-18, at the International Centre Mississauga in Canada, Kathleen Homyock, vice president of sales and business development, talked about how OurPets® intelligent technology accessories might ‘talk’ for pets and enable their owners to monitor their health and wellbeing in a presentation titled ‘Technology Translated to Food, Fun and Fitness’ (http://dtn.fm/2qUer).
Homyock’s presentation highlighted the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line, the industry’s first pet care lifestyle brand that offers a complete line of smart products for monitoring pets’ health. The Intelligent Pet Care™ line leverages a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to empower pets to indicate their needs, enabling a stronger connection between pet and owner for more complete care. The products in the line are controlled and accessed through the IntelligentPetLink™ smartphone app.
The line includes the SmartScoop® – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/UR4xf), which uses infrared technology to sense when your cat goes in and out of the box. It, accordingly, engages a mechanism that scoops the waste into a bin, simultaneously making a report via Bluetooth® to the smartphone app.
A SmartLink™ Tag (http://dtn.fm/j77H1) can be attached to your pet’s collar. When paired with the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ products, it allows monitoring. If your pet is wearing it, the SmartLink™ Waterer- Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/7ROrs) will use Bluetooth® technology to dispense filtered water from its reservoir through a two-tier waterfall design.
The SmartLink™ Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/Dt2ZJ), which employs the same technology, regulates and monitors your pet’s feeding regime. And the SmartLink™ Gateway – Wi-Fi Pet Care Connector (http://dtn.fm/6HiOt) converts a short-range Bluetooth® signal into a long-range Wi-Fi signal so you can monitor your pets’ outside of the home.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com
OurPet’s Company (OPCO) Teaches Old Dogs (and Cats) New Tricks with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ Product Line
OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) is proving the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” wrong with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products. According to the April 2016 issue of industry journal Pet Age, “OurPet’s Company showcased what is perhaps the most complete line of technology-integrated products, Intelligent Pet Care,” at the Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Florida from March 16-18.
“Pets are smarter than you may think, but it’s often difficult for them to clearly communicate their needs,” says Dr. Steve Tsengas, founder and CEO of OurPet’s Company. In other words, for cats and dogs, dumb doesn’t mean stupid. Since they cannot speak, they need help getting our attention. And that is exactly what the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products (http://dtn.fm/1qVBg) is designed to do.
Dr. Tsengas is right. Earlier this year Nature World News reported (http://dtn.fm/5ySP7) on a study of border collies conducted jointly by the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Edinburgh which ‘found… dogs have measurable IQs, much like people’. Border collies, used as sheep dogs, are particularly smart. Stanley Coren, a canine expert and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, found that the average border collie, poodle or German shepherd was on par with two-year-olds in terms of language. In basic arithmetic, ‘they would trump a 3- or 4-year-old’ (http://dtn.fm/PI9nk).
At the National Pet Industry Trade Show on September 17-18, at the International Centre Mississauga in Canada, Kathleen Homyock, vice president of sales and business development, talked about how OurPets® intelligent technology accessories might ‘talk’ for pets and enable their owners to monitor their health and wellbeing in a presentation titled ‘Technology Translated to Food, Fun and Fitness’ (http://dtn.fm/2qUer).
Homyock’s presentation highlighted the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line, the industry’s first pet care lifestyle brand that offers a complete line of smart products for monitoring pets’ health. The Intelligent Pet Care™ line leverages a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to empower pets to indicate their needs, enabling a stronger connection between pet and owner for more complete care. The products in the line are controlled and accessed through the IntelligentPetLink™ smartphone app.
The line includes the SmartScoop® – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/UR4xf), which uses infrared technology to sense when your cat goes in and out of the box. It, accordingly, engages a mechanism that scoops the waste into a bin, simultaneously making a report via Bluetooth® to the smartphone app.
A SmartLink™ Tag (http://dtn.fm/j77H1) can be attached to your pet’s collar. When paired with the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ products, it allows monitoring. If your pet is wearing it, the SmartLink™ Waterer- Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/7ROrs) will use Bluetooth® technology to dispense filtered water from its reservoir through a two-tier waterfall design.
The SmartLink™ Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/Dt2ZJ), which employs the same technology, regulates and monitors your pet’s feeding regime. And the SmartLink™ Gateway – Wi-Fi Pet Care Connector (http://dtn.fm/6HiOt) converts a short-range Bluetooth® signal into a long-range Wi-Fi signal so you can monitor your pets’ outside of the home.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com
OPCO Teaches Old Dogs (and Cats) New Tricks with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ Product Line
OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) is proving the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” wrong with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products. According to the April 2016 issue of industry journal Pet Age, “OurPet’s Company showcased what is perhaps the most complete line of technology-integrated products, Intelligent Pet Care,” at the Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Florida from March 16-18.
“Pets are smarter than you may think, but it’s often difficult for them to clearly communicate their needs,” says Dr. Steve Tsengas, founder and CEO of OurPet’s Company. In other words, for cats and dogs, dumb doesn’t mean stupid. Since they cannot speak, they need help getting our attention. And that is exactly what the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products (http://dtn.fm/1qVBg) is designed to do.
Dr. Tsengas is right. Earlier this year Nature World News reported (http://dtn.fm/5ySP7) on a study of border collies conducted jointly by the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Edinburgh which ‘found… dogs have measurable IQs, much like people’. Border collies, used as sheep dogs, are particularly smart. Stanley Coren, a canine expert and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, found that the average border collie, poodle or German shepherd was on par with two-year-olds in terms of language. In basic arithmetic, ‘they would trump a 3- or 4-year-old’ (http://dtn.fm/PI9nk).
At the National Pet Industry Trade Show on September 17-18, at the International Centre Mississauga in Canada, Kathleen Homyock, vice president of sales and business development, talked about how OurPets® intelligent technology accessories might ‘talk’ for pets and enable their owners to monitor their health and wellbeing in a presentation titled ‘Technology Translated to Food, Fun and Fitness’ (http://dtn.fm/2qUer).
Homyock’s presentation highlighted the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line, the industry’s first pet care lifestyle brand that offers a complete line of smart products for monitoring pets’ health. The Intelligent Pet Care™ line leverages a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to empower pets to indicate their needs, enabling a stronger connection between pet and owner for more complete care. The products in the line are controlled and accessed through the IntelligentPetLink™ smartphone app.
The line includes the SmartScoop® – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/UR4xf), which uses infrared technology to sense when your cat goes in and out of the box. It, accordingly, engages a mechanism that scoops the waste into a bin, simultaneously making a report via Bluetooth® to the smartphone app.
A SmartLink™ Tag (http://dtn.fm/j77H1) can be attached to your pet’s collar. When paired with the OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ products, it allows monitoring. If your pet is wearing it, the SmartLink™ Waterer- Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/7ROrs) will use Bluetooth® technology to dispense filtered water from its reservoir through a two-tier waterfall design.
The SmartLink™ Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/Dt2ZJ), which employs the same technology, regulates and monitors your pet’s feeding regime. And the SmartLink™ Gateway – Wi-Fi Pet Care Connector (http://dtn.fm/6HiOt) converts a short-range Bluetooth® signal into a long-range Wi-Fi signal so you can monitor your pets’ outside of the home.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Set for Growing Healthcare IT Market
According to the report “Healthcare IT Market by Product (EHR, RIS, PACS, VNA, CPOE, mHealth, Telehealth, Healthcare analytics, Supply Chain Management, Revenue Cycle Management, CRM, Claims Management, Fraud Management) by End User (Provider, Payer) – Global Forecast to 2020” (http://dtn.fm/vWgw3), the Global Healthcare IT Market is expected to grow to $228.8 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4%.
Much of this expected growth has been put down to the fact that healthcare providers are starting to add more healthcare IT solutions in order to meet and stay up-to-date with regulatory and legal requirements put in place for the safety and care of patients. In addition, healthcare costs continue to rise, and these solutions allow healthcare organizations to offer better quality healthcare while remaining operationally efficient.
According to the report, North America and Europe will account for the majority of shares of the global healthcare IT market, thanks to technological competencies in the healthcare industry, along with well-established HCIT infrastructures. In the U.S. alone, there is a wide range of large and small companies providing diverse administrative and technological support services to the healthcare industry, such as Rennova Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNVA), and Accretive Health, Inc. (OTC: ACHI).
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP), an award-winning healthcare information technology company that offers “physician practices a comprehensive product portfolio of fully integrated WebEHR, revenue cycle and practice management solutions and other related business services including transcription and data management,” is seen as being especially well positioned to take advantage of the anticipated growth. With a strong focus on R&D and innovation, MTBC is constantly developing new solutions to disrupt the healthcare IT industry, including a suite of mobile health apps for use by physicians and patients.
MTBC has been assigned an average broker rating score of 1.00, representing a Strong Buy rating. The company also recently closed its largest acquisition: MediGain, LLC and its affiliate, Millennium Practice Management, LLC. This is the company’s largest acquisition of revenue cycle management customer accounts ever, enabling it to expand its client database. MTBC believes the combination of its current position within the market and its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of MediGain, LLC and Millennium Practice Management, LLC will allow it to show significant revenue growth for the coming year.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.MTBC.com
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Set for Growing Healthcare IT Market
According to the report “Healthcare IT Market by Product (EHR, RIS, PACS, VNA, CPOE, mHealth, Telehealth, Healthcare analytics, Supply Chain Management, Revenue Cycle Management, CRM, Claims Management, Fraud Management) by End User (Provider, Payer) – Global Forecast to 2020” (http://dtn.fm/vWgw3), the Global Healthcare IT Market is expected to grow to $228.8 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4%.
Much of this expected growth has been put down to the fact that healthcare providers are starting to add more healthcare IT solutions in order to meet and stay up-to-date with regulatory and legal requirements put in place for the safety and care of patients. In addition, healthcare costs continue to rise, and these solutions allow healthcare organizations to offer better quality healthcare while remaining operationally efficient.
According to the report, North America and Europe will account for the majority of shares of the global healthcare IT market, thanks to technological competencies in the healthcare industry, along with well-established HCIT infrastructures. In the U.S. alone, there is a wide range of large and small companies providing diverse administrative and technological support services to the healthcare industry, such as Rennova Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNVA), and Accretive Health, Inc. (OTC: ACHI).
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP), an award-winning healthcare information technology company that offers “physician practices a comprehensive product portfolio of fully integrated WebEHR, revenue cycle and practice management solutions and other related business services including transcription and data management,” is seen as being especially well positioned to take advantage of the anticipated growth. With a strong focus on R&D and innovation, MTBC is constantly developing new solutions to disrupt the healthcare IT industry, including a suite of mobile health apps for use by physicians and patients.
MTBC has been assigned an average broker rating score of 1.00, representing a Strong Buy rating. The company also recently closed its largest acquisition: MediGain, LLC and its affiliate, Millennium Practice Management, LLC. This is the company’s largest acquisition of revenue cycle management customer accounts ever, enabling it to expand its client database. MTBC believes the combination of its current position within the market and its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of MediGain, LLC and Millennium Practice Management, LLC will allow it to show significant revenue growth for the coming year.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.MTBC.com
MTBC Set for Growing Healthcare IT Market
According to the report “Healthcare IT Market by Product (EHR, RIS, PACS, VNA, CPOE, mHealth, Telehealth, Healthcare analytics, Supply Chain Management, Revenue Cycle Management, CRM, Claims Management, Fraud Management) by End User (Provider, Payer) – Global Forecast to 2020” (http://dtn.fm/vWgw3), the Global Healthcare IT Market is expected to grow to $228.8 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4%.
Much of this expected growth has been put down to the fact that healthcare providers are starting to add more healthcare IT solutions in order to meet and stay up-to-date with regulatory and legal requirements put in place for the safety and care of patients. In addition, healthcare costs continue to rise, and these solutions allow healthcare organizations to offer better quality healthcare while remaining operationally efficient.
According to the report, North America and Europe will account for the majority of shares of the global healthcare IT market, thanks to technological competencies in the healthcare industry, along with well-established HCIT infrastructures. In the U.S. alone, there is a wide range of large and small companies providing diverse administrative and technological support services to the healthcare industry, such as Rennova Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNVA), and Accretive Health, Inc. (OTC: ACHI).
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP), an award-winning healthcare information technology company that offers “physician practices a comprehensive product portfolio of fully integrated WebEHR, revenue cycle and practice management solutions and other related business services including transcription and data management,” is seen as being especially well positioned to take advantage of the anticipated growth. With a strong focus on R&D and innovation, MTBC is constantly developing new solutions to disrupt the healthcare IT industry, including a suite of mobile health apps for use by physicians and patients.
MTBC has been assigned an average broker rating score of 1.00, representing a Strong Buy rating. The company also recently closed its largest acquisition: MediGain, LLC and its affiliate, Millennium Practice Management, LLC. This is the company’s largest acquisition of revenue cycle management customer accounts ever, enabling it to expand its client database. MTBC believes the combination of its current position within the market and its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of MediGain, LLC and Millennium Practice Management, LLC will allow it to show significant revenue growth for the coming year.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.MTBC.com
eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Teams with New Story to Aid Relief Efforts in Haiti
Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through wholly-owned subsidiary eXp Realty, announced a partnership with New Story, a charitable organization focused on constructing homes in Haiti and other impoverished areas. Originally highlighted last Friday as part of the company’s third annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, the partnership entailed a challenge for eXp Realty’s agents and brokers to raise $18,000 in order to fund three new homes in Haiti and aid in the ongoing relief of damage caused by both the 2010 earthquake, which claimed nearly 300,000 lives, and Hurricane Matthew, which struck the island nation just last week. According to today’s update, EXPI’s challenge was met within three hours of the announcement, and the company’s agents and brokers have since raised more than $35,000 to fund additional relief projects.
“We are honored and deeply grateful to the eXp Realty community, whose members have immediately demonstrated a great generosity of resources and spirit to help families in need,” Brett Hagler, chief executive officer of New Story, stated in today’s news release. “eXp Realty agents understand that talent is universal but that opportunity is not and they recognize that a home provides the foundation for family, for safety, and for the creation and pursuit of opportunity.”
New Story’s infrastructure costs and salaries are underwritten in full by private partners, allowing the organization to allocate 100 percent of donations directly to people in need. As an added layer of contribution, New Story employs local workers and resources when constructing these homes, providing additional opportunities to residents of the impoverished areas.
To date, New Story has constructed hundreds of homes in Haiti by leveraging a cost-effective building plan that can be completed for roughly $6,000. Despite the low cost, these structures have shown to be extremely resilient. According to New Story, all of the dwellings weathered the impact of Hurricane Matthew without significant damage.
For eXp Realty, the decision to partner with New Story came as the result of a demand among its agents and brokers “to identify and serve a greater purpose as a central component of their businesses,” according to CEO Jason Gesing. The company has been experiencing rapid growth as of late, most recently through its August expansion into the State of Alaska. In total, eXp Realty is currently operational in 41 states; Alberta, Canada; and the District of Columbia, and its family of agents and brokers now includes more than 1,800 members.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
Moxian, Inc. (MOXC) Enables Merchants to Expand Reach via Targeted Advertising Campaigns
Traditional marketing campaigns are often a shot in the dark, with merchants sending out a particular message to as many people as possible, hoping it will stick. Even with more refined tactics that allow marketers to target a particular customer group based on age or education or income level, it is nearly impossible to reach out to customers individually. But with the advent of social media, businesses have found it is easier than ever to stay connected with their target audiences and to reach those audiences with personalized messages specifically developed for each and every segment of their client base.
Social customer relationship management (CRM) tools and intelligent data analytics services such as the ones offered by China’s Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) are now of crucial importance for merchants who seek to know their audience and their preferences better and incorporate this information into their marketing strategies. The number of social media users worldwide is expected to grow to 2.5 billion by 2018, which in turn is more than likely to have a major impact on consumer habits and on merchants’ strategies to tap into an ever-growing customer base. While traditional customer relationship management tools typically only collect and manage static data about customers based on their interactions with the company over phone or email, Social CRMs add an essential layer of information: the information put out there by the customers themselves through their social media profiles. This allows merchants to develop a more complete profile of their target audience and therefore take action faster and develop customized messages and campaigns for each consumer group.
Capitalizing on this trend, Moxian found an innovative way of combining social media with business intelligence, all built around a proprietary Social CRM tool developed with the specific goals of helping consumers and businesses interact better and allowing merchants to run targeted advertising campaigns and promotions. Via the Moxian+ Business app, with its built-in Social CRM, businesses can compile behavior data about their customers, getting to know their audience better and offering users a more personalized experience. The app also allows businesses to set up online stores and generate customized reports based on intelligent data analytics, but also stay in touch with their social media followers and customers and answer their queries in real-time through an instant messaging system.
User data is collected through a dedicated app for shoppers, the Moxian+ User app, which includes social networking capabilities, a gaming center and a rewards redemption center. Designed specifically for consumers, the app includes Moxian’s proprietary virtual currency, Mo-Coins or MO-Points, which can be earned by playing games and then exchanged for prizes from Moxian or merchant users. The social networking tool allows users to set up customized profiles, join chat groups, find friends and topics of interest, and more. The app also includes an online mall and personalized shopping recommendations, including nearby vendors, offers and promotions, based on a user’s preferences and geo-location.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com
eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Teams with New Story to Aid Relief Efforts in Haiti
Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through wholly-owned subsidiary eXp Realty, announced a partnership with New Story, a charitable organization focused on constructing homes in Haiti and other impoverished areas. Originally highlighted last Friday as part of the company’s third annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, the partnership entailed a challenge for eXp Realty’s agents and brokers to raise $18,000 in order to fund three new homes in Haiti and aid in the ongoing relief of damage caused by both the 2010 earthquake, which claimed nearly 300,000 lives, and Hurricane Matthew, which struck the island nation just last week. According to today’s update, EXPI’s challenge was met within three hours of the announcement, and the company’s agents and brokers have since raised more than $35,000 to fund additional relief projects.
“We are honored and deeply grateful to the eXp Realty community, whose members have immediately demonstrated a great generosity of resources and spirit to help families in need,” Brett Hagler, chief executive officer of New Story, stated in today’s news release. “eXp Realty agents understand that talent is universal but that opportunity is not and they recognize that a home provides the foundation for family, for safety, and for the creation and pursuit of opportunity.”
New Story’s infrastructure costs and salaries are underwritten in full by private partners, allowing the organization to allocate 100 percent of donations directly to people in need. As an added layer of contribution, New Story employs local workers and resources when constructing these homes, providing additional opportunities to residents of the impoverished areas.
To date, New Story has constructed hundreds of homes in Haiti by leveraging a cost-effective building plan that can be completed for roughly $6,000. Despite the low cost, these structures have shown to be extremely resilient. According to New Story, all of the dwellings weathered the impact of Hurricane Matthew without significant damage.
For eXp Realty, the decision to partner with New Story came as the result of a demand among its agents and brokers “to identify and serve a greater purpose as a central component of their businesses,” according to CEO Jason Gesing. The company has been experiencing rapid growth as of late, most recently through its August expansion into the State of Alaska. In total, eXp Realty is currently operational in 41 states; Alberta, Canada; and the District of Columbia, and its family of agents and brokers now includes more than 1,800 members.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
EXPI Teams with New Story to Aid Relief Efforts in Haiti
Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through wholly-owned subsidiary eXp Realty, announced a partnership with New Story, a charitable organization focused on constructing homes in Haiti and other impoverished areas. Originally highlighted last Friday as part of the company’s third annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, the partnership entailed a challenge for eXp Realty’s agents and brokers to raise $18,000 in order to fund three new homes in Haiti and aid in the ongoing relief of damage caused by both the 2010 earthquake, which claimed nearly 300,000 lives, and Hurricane Matthew, which struck the island nation just last week. According to today’s update, EXPI’s challenge was met within three hours of the announcement, and the company’s agents and brokers have since raised more than $35,000 to fund additional relief projects.
“We are honored and deeply grateful to the eXp Realty community, whose members have immediately demonstrated a great generosity of resources and spirit to help families in need,” Brett Hagler, chief executive officer of New Story, stated in today’s news release. “eXp Realty agents understand that talent is universal but that opportunity is not and they recognize that a home provides the foundation for family, for safety, and for the creation and pursuit of opportunity.”
New Story’s infrastructure costs and salaries are underwritten in full by private partners, allowing the organization to allocate 100 percent of donations directly to people in need. As an added layer of contribution, New Story employs local workers and resources when constructing these homes, providing additional opportunities to residents of the impoverished areas.
To date, New Story has constructed hundreds of homes in Haiti by leveraging a cost-effective building plan that can be completed for roughly $6,000. Despite the low cost, these structures have shown to be extremely resilient. According to New Story, all of the dwellings weathered the impact of Hurricane Matthew without significant damage.
For eXp Realty, the decision to partner with New Story came as the result of a demand among its agents and brokers “to identify and serve a greater purpose as a central component of their businesses,” according to CEO Jason Gesing. The company has been experiencing rapid growth as of late, most recently through its August expansion into the State of Alaska. In total, eXp Realty is currently operational in 41 states; Alberta, Canada; and the District of Columbia, and its family of agents and brokers now includes more than 1,800 members.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com
Moxian, Inc. (MOXC) Enables Merchants to Expand Reach via Targeted Advertising Campaigns
Traditional marketing campaigns are often a shot in the dark, with merchants sending out a particular message to as many people as possible, hoping it will stick. Even with more refined tactics that allow marketers to target a particular customer group based on age or education or income level, it is nearly impossible to reach out to customers individually. But with the advent of social media, businesses have found it is easier than ever to stay connected with their target audiences and to reach those audiences with personalized messages specifically developed for each and every segment of their client base.
Social customer relationship management (CRM) tools and intelligent data analytics services such as the ones offered by China’s Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) are now of crucial importance for merchants who seek to know their audience and their preferences better and incorporate this information into their marketing strategies. The number of social media users worldwide is expected to grow to 2.5 billion by 2018, which in turn is more than likely to have a major impact on consumer habits and on merchants’ strategies to tap into an ever-growing customer base. While traditional customer relationship management tools typically only collect and manage static data about customers based on their interactions with the company over phone or email, Social CRMs add an essential layer of information: the information put out there by the customers themselves through their social media profiles. This allows merchants to develop a more complete profile of their target audience and therefore take action faster and develop customized messages and campaigns for each consumer group.
Capitalizing on this trend, Moxian found an innovative way of combining social media with business intelligence, all built around a proprietary Social CRM tool developed with the specific goals of helping consumers and businesses interact better and allowing merchants to run targeted advertising campaigns and promotions. Via the Moxian+ Business app, with its built-in Social CRM, businesses can compile behavior data about their customers, getting to know their audience better and offering users a more personalized experience. The app also allows businesses to set up online stores and generate customized reports based on intelligent data analytics, but also stay in touch with their social media followers and customers and answer their queries in real-time through an instant messaging system.
User data is collected through a dedicated app for shoppers, the Moxian+ User app, which includes social networking capabilities, a gaming center and a rewards redemption center. Designed specifically for consumers, the app includes Moxian’s proprietary virtual currency, Mo-Coins or MO-Points, which can be earned by playing games and then exchanged for prizes from Moxian or merchant users. The social networking tool allows users to set up customized profiles, join chat groups, find friends and topics of interest, and more. The app also includes an online mall and personalized shopping recommendations, including nearby vendors, offers and promotions, based on a user’s preferences and geo-location.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com
MOXC Enables Merchants to Expand Reach via Targeted Advertising Campaigns
Traditional marketing campaigns are often a shot in the dark, with merchants sending out a particular message to as many people as possible, hoping it will stick. Even with more refined tactics that allow marketers to target a particular customer group based on age or education or income level, it is nearly impossible to reach out to customers individually. But with the advent of social media, businesses have found it is easier than ever to stay connected with their target audiences and to reach those audiences with personalized messages specifically developed for each and every segment of their client base.
Social customer relationship management (CRM) tools and intelligent data analytics services such as the ones offered by China’s Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) are now of crucial importance for merchants who seek to know their audience and their preferences better and incorporate this information into their marketing strategies. The number of social media users worldwide is expected to grow to 2.5 billion by 2018, which in turn is more than likely to have a major impact on consumer habits and on merchants’ strategies to tap into an ever-growing customer base. While traditional customer relationship management tools typically only collect and manage static data about customers based on their interactions with the company over phone or email, Social CRMs add an essential layer of information: the information put out there by the customers themselves through their social media profiles. This allows merchants to develop a more complete profile of their target audience and therefore take action faster and develop customized messages and campaigns for each consumer group.
Capitalizing on this trend, Moxian found an innovative way of combining social media with business intelligence, all built around a proprietary Social CRM tool developed with the specific goals of helping consumers and businesses interact better and allowing merchants to run targeted advertising campaigns and promotions. Via the Moxian+ Business app, with its built-in Social CRM, businesses can compile behavior data about their customers, getting to know their audience better and offering users a more personalized experience. The app also allows businesses to set up online stores and generate customized reports based on intelligent data analytics, but also stay in touch with their social media followers and customers and answer their queries in real-time through an instant messaging system.
User data is collected through a dedicated app for shoppers, the Moxian+ User app, which includes social networking capabilities, a gaming center and a rewards redemption center. Designed specifically for consumers, the app includes Moxian’s proprietary virtual currency, Mo-Coins or MO-Points, which can be earned by playing games and then exchanged for prizes from Moxian or merchant users. The social networking tool allows users to set up customized profiles, join chat groups, find friends and topics of interest, and more. The app also includes an online mall and personalized shopping recommendations, including nearby vendors, offers and promotions, based on a user’s preferences and geo-location.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com
Twitter takeover roundup: Who’s interested in acquiring the social media giant?
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Will Twitter be snapped up by a larger corporation later this month? Rumors regarding a takeover of the popular, but struggling social media giant have been circulating for the best part of the year.
Following two consecutive quarters of stagnant user growth, Twitter is reportedly set to evaluate formal acquisition bids on October 27 in an effort to ease its investors’ concerns over its shrinking stock price. That same date will also mark the release of the company’s third quarter earnings, revealing whether its big gambits on live video and changes to its core tweeting experience have paid off.
Despite reports of initial interest from Google, Salesforce, and Disney, recent speculation has dashed almost all hope of any of those companies putting forward a bid. Meanwhile, internal rumblings suggest that Twitter itself could be divided on the issue of a takeover. Twitter has thus far refused to comment on what it terms “rumor and speculation.”
As the all-important date draws ever nearer, we’ve compiled the essential roundup of all the major news around the tech acquisition that has everyone talking.
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