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1022 Google Play Review HOT APP
Brilliant app This app is still my favorite Android app. I use the Pay and Go plan, and I use the Vox phone number to make calls to people, when I don't want the person to be able to capture my other cell phone number. I have changed my Vox number 2 times too. It really gives me privacy. AND, I love the video plug-in. The video is incredible. My daughter is going overseas this summer, but she will be able to make free video calls to me all summer long.
A Google User
Trail call not getting Im new user. First i installed 60min free trail but i can't call. When im trying to call your trail finish msg will come. So pls fix dis problem thank you vox
joy dcosta
Its good now I want to unsub now for few days .. how can i cancle my subscription???
Usman Arshad
Simple install... I did the video app too. vice nice
Addam Quries
Uninstall The video made me change my mind.
kaies zouaoui
One less thing to worry about... I learned about Vox through my sister when she escorted my niece to Spain for a study abroad program. She loved it, so when I went to visit another niece who is stationed in London, I downloaded it and had no complaints! I could call my niece to make all the necessary arrangements and never had to worry about getting a huge bill at the end of the month! Some other reviews were talking about the quality of the call service, but I never had an issue with that. Every call sounded just as clear as when I talk to friends and family right down the street. Love the Vox and would recommend it to anyone looking for a more economical way to stay in touch with loved ones abroad!
Terrie Vick
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A Google User July 20, 2013
Brilliant app This app is still my favorite Android app. I use the Pay and Go plan, and I use the Vox phone number to make calls to people, when I don't want the person to be able to capture my other cell phone number. I have changed my Vox number 2 times too. It really gives me privacy. AND, I love the video plug-in. The video is incredible. My daughter is going overseas this summer, but she will be able to make free video calls to me all summer long.
joy dcosta July 19, 2013
Trail call not getting Im new user. First i installed 60min free trail but i can't call. When im trying to call your trail finish msg will come. So pls fix dis problem thank you vox
VoX Communications July 24, 2013
Joy, We have email some information to you. Thank you, VoX Support.
Usman Arshad July 24, 2013
Its good now I want to unsub now for few days .. how can i cancle my subscription???
VoX Communications July 24, 2013
Usman, Please email us at support@voxcorp.net and we can take care of your subscription for you. Thank you, VoX Support
Addam Quries July 28, 2013
Simple install... I did the video app too. vice nice
kaies zouaoui August 5, 2013
Uninstall The video made me change my mind.
Terrie Vick July 20, 2013
One less thing to worry about... I learned about Vox through my sister when she escorted my niece to Spain for a study abroad program. She loved it, so when I went to visit another niece who is stationed in London, I downloaded it and had no complaints! I could call my niece to make all the necessary arrangements and never had to worry about getting a huge bill at the end of the month! Some other reviews were talking about the quality of the call service, but I never had an issue with that. Every call sounded just as clear as when I talk to friends and family right down the street. Love the Vox and would recommend it to anyone looking for a more economical way to stay in touch with loved ones abroad!
Issy Iva July 28, 2013
This is crazy... I can't believe I did not download the app sooner. The pay and Go line is very convenient
Brain Stair July 28, 2013
Nice video calling!!! I see they have the iPhone app lined up too. I need to get some friends on vox so that I can do free video calls to the iPhone.
Abra Acacia July 28, 2013
wow this was so simple even i could figure out how to use it. 5 stars for vox!
Chalsi Qward July 28, 2013
Great app!!! Greta app! call clarity is very good too. Handy when I am in a concrete building and have to go to Wi-Fi to get cell phone service.
Trading Volume 8,023,120 Exactly
Add up the trading Sell volume for the day and you get 8,023,120 exactly the amount recorded After Hours, which ends up on the tape as 16 million plus, DOUBLE COUNTS.
IMO these are prearranged trades with the BIDS as high as just over 8 million at one time at .002, and that may have been the number that the CD converted was looking to sell today.
MM will work the stock during normal hours and Short to the Bid, and AH they make the settlement trade to close out the short position.
FF could be the willing buyer that is taking the shares at .002
Bottom line don't worry about something you don't understand and can't control, leave it to the professional to get the CD converted, they are almost done and the price is holding up nicely.
Time Price Volume Market
16:03:04 0.0019 8023120 OTO
15:47:34 0.0027 6214 OTO
11:51:58 0.0021 14000 OTO
11:23:34 0.002 900000 OTO
11:23:31 0.002 500000 OTO
11:23:10 0.002 500000 OTO
11:23:08 0.002 5294800 OTO
11:23:05 0.0022 15000 OTO
10:16:45 0.0022 337220 OTO
10:14:50 0.0024 211100 OTO
10:14:44 0.0024 265000
Revenue & Profits Cure All
The financial engineering using CD's to pay down the $14 million plus debt has resulted in a company that is about to be debt free and Cash Flow Positive by year end, with about 800m shares outstanding, not bad at all in penny land.
Now why are we rushing to get that debt paid down at 10 cents on the dollar? What is the hurry that has the debt gone at about the same time that the company is scheduled to go Cash Flow Positive?
It is called a BUY OUT, and it is imperative to have that $14 debt gone from the books before anyone will seriously look at buying the company, next year.
A company with no debt and just turning cash flow positive will bring a pretty penny in this market.
7 million was one CD related Trade
6 trades for next to nothing and one large block, exactly like dozens of other times.
Funny how converting CDs always looks the same if you take the time to follow the trades.
Spread is enormous 45% or more between BID and ASK
ASK never moved lower, it actually moved higher to .0027 for past 3 hours and not a single trade.
Shareholders won't even buy 100 at .0027 for cost of $.27 cents to paint the tape anymore.
MM and CD guys trading with themselves for now.
Notice the ASK has not move
With the two dumps to the BID, for the exact amount listed, the BID gets take out and lower price shows as normal, but the ASK is still at .0025 indicating that the sellers only offered EXACTLY the number of shares that were listed in the BID, nothing more.
Bottom line, there is zero follow up interest in selling at these insane prices and only those interested in trying to get someone to give them 9 millions for .002 stand to gain in this manipulation.
It took a total of $1600 to whack the BIDS down to .002, now lets see if they can shake some out?
Waiting to see if CD still around?
Looks like buyers are waiting to see if the CD guys come a dumping once again later today. They seem to come in after getting to the office and having their morning coffee and snacks.
To get upward momentum going the dumping of CD is going to have to stop, which could be happening any day now with the FF agreeing to no more converting for the next 6 months which is really very good news for most investors and should take the pressure off the stock and let it rise to an appropriate value of 5 to 10 cents to start.
iphone & ipad app could be the catalyst that investors are looking for, particularly if there are no CD shares available, the stock price is going to rocket upward.
Please put the price back when done playing
Dear VFIN,
We would all appreciate it if you would put the price back to where you found it when you are done playing with your toys.
How silly to watch this $24 and $23 dumps to the BID, I am out of here see you all Monday.
The AH trades are Settlement Trades
Some people need to get up to speed on how CD conversion are done, and how CD holders that are converting shares to cash use the MM to make the trades on their behalf.
CD holder will contact MM such as VFIN and say we have 50 million shares of PVSP we need to sell this week or month. VFIN will work the stock selling at various times, usually by shorting the stock to hit large BIDs while opening the spread between the BID and ASK. This cat & mouse game goes on all day and usually the settlement trade will happen two seconds after market closes, and one large block will post, the settlement trade for 4 to 6 million usually, covering the daily short or most of it.
On those days where a large settlement trade happens after hours you will usually see the daily short position is fairly small, like 10% or less. When you see the large short interest figure 50% and more, usually there was no settlement trade that day to reduce the short position. Sometimes they will do that large settlement just before close also as we have seen many times.
Also, the settlement trade is ALWAYS lower than the daily trading range, which is allowing the MM to cover their shorts at a lower price, allowing them a Profit.
There is nothing illegal or sinister about the way the MM are handling the trading and it is what allows the CD holder that provided the cash to PVSP to convert the shares and provide the funding.
Hopefully they are working off inventory prior to FF agreement not to sell shares for 6 months.
5000 new Customers $50,000 month
Won't take long to get first 5000 new iPhone & ipad customers, one or two months and we will be bringing in $50,000 New Revenue a month and more. Basic second line is like $6 and with all the plans average probably in range of $10 or more so the numbers will grow fast!!
I bet we get 1000 new iphone & ipad customer in the first few weeks.
Chill was related to Fanning & unregistered shares
That deal with Fanning and the unregistered convertible shares and how it was structured caused an issue is my recollection and most likely DTCC didn't like it and put the chill into effect. It is not really an issue today it has been 2 years, the issue here is we need to become profitable, and to do that we have to grow our revenues and the Android and iPhone App along with the Calling Card give us an excellent change to do that in the next 6 months.
Lets get back on topic, and I for one can't wait to download the iphone app and purchase a second line which many cell phone users need do to poor coverage in many areas of the country.
Companies & Carriers to Sell VoX Apps
From CEO:
"We love our apps. We believe the iPhone app is much better than the Android app, and we know many people who are eager to try it. Also, those two apps cover 92% of smart phone users, as windows mobile phones continue to lag behind. We believe the release of the iPhone app is important to us, because we have indications from companies and carriers that they want to sell our apps, if they can sell both Android and iPhone."
Anyone still not believe in Double Counts?
No one really knows but it looks to me that the 1.3m at .0025 is Short to BID
The 1.3m at .0024 is the Covering, using CD holder IMO.
MM carries no risk with the short to BID and then Covers lower and pockets the difference, $130 bucks.
It is just part of the game and serves the function of allow the CD conversion and PVSP did raise much needed cash this past year, so let's not complain too much.
All investors can do is take advantage of the low price because this will end soon either with the suspension of CD selling or new news that will bring in buyer to absorb the shares.
Revenue and Profits cure all, that is where we are headed in 2013.
VoX or VoX Mobil I would assume
My guess is any day now.
Apple didn't want the PayPal
Mark said the App was set up to use PayPal for payment and Apple wanted it removed and replace with their payment system. He didn't like it but Apple runs the show so we had little choice.
We should have approval as early as tomorrow or later this week.
When you Hit the ASK, they move it
Anyone else notice that when you hit the ASK the MM will show the trade and move the ASK and place your order as the BID now.
That is illegal and is fronting
All Large Blocks All Double Counts
800,000 at .0025, 800,000 at .0024
1,020,700 at .0025, 1,020,700 at .0024
And of course many of our 10,000 share DUMPS to the BID to try and push it down.
Total volume 5 million shares, real volume, about 1/2 of that at 2.5 million.
Can't have a Loss or a Gain unless you Sell
What gains are you rambling about now?
You worry about all the things a trader worries about, Wash Rule, Tax loss selling, averaging down, averaging up, average cost per share, etc.
Worry about the fundamental business improvements and growing Revenue and Profits, that is all that matter in the long run.
Investor don't care about the short term trading swings, if the price moves lower, great I get to buy more at a better price.
You do a lot of complaining for the few grand you have invested in PVSP.
How can you see the future looking in rear view mirror?
Just amazing what odd views people can have attempting to predict a companies future success. The continue reference to what happen last year or the year before that and then hanging on to those negative believes that the future is so bleak and it always will be.
Is it that they have developed feelings of being mislead, that they were tricked, that they want to blame someone else for their lack of success?
What I have learned is that you can't change this kind of thinking nor should you attempt to as it is in their nature, their DNA so to speak.
The Glass is Half Empty and it always will be for them.
Who would want them on their team, not me, no thank you.
There is another DOUBLE Count 1.1 million
700,900, 400,000 at .0025, 10,000 at .0025, Total 1,110,900
1,100,000, at .0024 and 10,900 at .0028 Total 1,110,900
Always the same pattern. The reason to take notice of the double counting is to have a more accurate understanding of the actual number of shares of stock that are being traded and it is not that much at all when you review the tape and see the Doubles.
So when you think you could have bought x amount of shares at a particular price, the actual amount available at that price was much lower, as in 50% lower in the large blocks. The smaller trades are not always immediately handled like the larger blocks.
Very impressive how few real sellers are in this market with 740m shares outstanding shareholders are simply not interested in selling, the real share volume is very low here and most likely the result of some left over CD conversions still going on.
Some are Approved in One Day
Many resubmitted App are approved the following day. Skype had a similar issue with their app that had to be resubmitted and it was done very quickly in one or two days when they were expecting it to be one week.
Another MM Double Count 1m .0027 & .0026
They have to be MM prearranged as every time a large block comes on the BID it gets taken with in a few seconds and then the exact amount of shares for slightly less get posted also.
In this case 1m for .0027 and immediately 1m for .0026 on the tape, another double count as MM are on the other side of every trade on OTC, very few to none actual buyer to seller trades.
6 of our 10k shares Dumps for $27
Our manipulator is back at it again, have fun we love ya.
From Mobile VoIP and Beyond
In case you missed this earlier article a few months ago and have questions about where VoIP is heading you may be able to see that Web-RTC and particularly the last paragraph of the article:
"The rise in online use in general – from cloud computing to VoIP to mobile VoIP and beyond – is poised to change the landscape in communications in ways that many likely haven't even considered. Only time will tell what the ultimate impact of services like VoX Communications' mobile video calling app will look like, but it's likely to be impressive when it hits."
VoX Communications Steps Up Android Mobile VoIP App with Video Calling
February 11, 2013
By Steve Anderson, Contributing TMCnet Writer
The push for WebRTC as of late has given something of a new urgency to video calling in general. With companies like Skype (News - Alert) already having a product out, and WebRTC looking to bring browser-to-browser video calling to the mainstream, it's clear that video calling is set to step up into the mainstream.
With that in mind, it's not too surprising to see VoX Communications add free video calling to its Android (News - Alert) mobile VoIP app.
The VoX Communications Android mobile VoIP app can be found for Kindle Fire tablets of any stripe in the Amazon App Store, and according to reports, over a billion different devices can currently use the VoX VoIP app.
The app can also be found on Google Play and on the Samsung (News - Alert) App Store, opening the floodgates as far as device counts go.
Subscribers will get access to VoX's "Pay And Go" plans, which allow users to pay only for the amount of service they wish to use as opposed to paying for a block every month. VoX users can subscribe directly from the phone or tablet from which they wish to use the app, and can even choose a U.S.-based phone number without ever leaving the confines of the app itself.
Video calling, however, seems to be limited to the Amazon store for the time being. Mark Richards, chief information officer for VoX Communications, had a wide array of reasons behind the company's plan to bring video calling first to Amazon. The primary reason was to use those devices as a way to get feedback for improvement of the app itself.
Once VoX was able to "predict an exceptional and sustainable user experience," said Richards, it would launch the app for Google (News - Alert) Play.
But the focus on Android apparently came from Google's use of the VP8 codec, which VoX supports. Coupled with a sound environment – like Android's Jelly Bean version backed up by a multi-core processor – the result is an experience that Richards called "ready for prime time."
But it's worth noting, as Richards did, that all devices, and not all VoIP, "are created equal," so there will likely be plenty of room for tweaking the experience to ensure that it works across as much of the array of Android devices as is possible.
Considering a recent report from Juniper Research (News - Alert) that suggests mobile video calling will clear 160 million users by 2017 – as well as the steady rise of WebRTC as mentioned earlier – it's clear that video calling is becoming less a toy of science fiction and more a powerful tool for communications that a growing number of users are embracing.
With video calling, and video calling on mobile devices becoming a steadily larger part of the user experience, the issue of providing the bandwidth necessary is going to fall squarely on the shoulders of the current service providers. They'll be hard pressed to either launch massive upgrade projects – while keeping costs as low as humanly possible – or risk explaining to their customers why they don't have access to the new services they want to be using in the first place.
The rise in online use in general – from cloud computing to VoIP to mobile VoIP and beyond – is poised to change the landscape in communications in ways that many likely haven't even considered. Only time will tell what the ultimate impact of services like VoX Communications' mobile video calling app will look like, but it's likely to be impressive when it hits.
Amazon VoX Mobile Reviews EXCELLENT!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars BEST, February 9, 2013
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This review is from: VoX Mobile VoIP (App)
BEST APP EVER I LOVE IT EVERYBODY SHOULD GET THIS APP FOR THE LOW PRICE YOU CAN CALL 175 COUNTRIES FOR A VERY LOW PRICE WONDERFUL
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vox video app, February 8, 2013
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I love this Vox app and it is great on the Kindle tablet. It is a two step process if you want the video - just like other video apps, you download the Vox VoIP app and then you have to get the plug-in. Great quality, and I am already making video calls
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality app, February 11, 2013
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Love the ease of use and the video and voice quality. Crystal clear and the rates for international calling beat Vonage and others. You can drop the expensive carrier plans and use the VoX mobile app instead!
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1.0 out of 5 stars never installed properly in my trio app, July 15, 2013
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This never installed properly in my android trio. I have nothing more to add. That is all I can say.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have!, April 24, 2013
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If you're looking for dual Carrier/Voip then this is the app for you. Works with excellent quality and no dropped calls.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great alternative .., February 18, 2013
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Saves minutes from your cell carrier. Cheap pay and go plan , speedy customer service. Would recommend highly, tried the free trial then signed up .
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International Calling Card Signs
I could see copies of the International Calling Card Signs like the Cards on VoX Facebook, Mexico, Latin America, Asia, Europe and World Cars with bright colors nice.
Just Add a large www.voxcorp.net so they can check it out on their mobil device immediately.
Easy way to spread the word and get the benefit of viral marketing.
It really is a number game getting the benefit of viral marketing. 100 customers getting a friend to use Vox is only 200, but once you get to 10,000 you can be at 20,000 very quickly.
The VoIP company I mentioned earlier that now has 20 million customers and is growing at 500,000 new customer a MONTH is a perfect example.
Getting that first 1 million customers is the toughest and takes the longest amount of time. It took them years to get to 1 million, and now they are adding than amount in 2 months.
How About VoX Mobile Magnetic Car Signs
I am sure many shareholders would be happy to do some FREE advertising for the VoX Mobile Calling App. and Calling Cards, I know I would help out.
VoX Mobile VoIP
First Month Free
International Calling Plans
www.voxcorp.net
Get Your App Featured Apple & Google Play
How To Get Your App Featured on the front page of the App Store and Google Play
You can do all the marketing in the world to drive downloads for your app. Get a feature story on TechCrunch, buy banner ads, run a contest, throw a party at SXSW, etc. All of which are great and can be influential tactics.
But, nothing will help you get more downloads than being featured on the front of the App Store or Google Play.
I mean, we’re talking 5 – 10 – 20X the number of downloads you normally see!! Umm, yes please!
So what’s the secret? How do you get your app noticed among thousands of others?
First and foremost, Google and Apple like good, quality, unique apps. Ok, we got it…
But – not surprisingly – they also LOVE apps that show off their latest and greatest device or platform features.
Take Flipboard for instance. Good, quality, unique app – yes.
But Flipboard’s timing was what got it so much love from Apple. It was the right app at the right time. Flipboard stepped in with a great idea showing off the slick new “flip” feature of the iPad. And presto, it was the app Apple used to showcase the iPad “cool” factor.
The iPhone accelerometer is another great example. This was huge and something Apple touted heavily around the launch of the first iPhone. I worked with a gaming company at the time that created one of the first games using it. We got featured all over the stores and TV commercials, which spiked downloads through the roof.
So what are the opportunities now? Here’s our list…
1. Build Your App for Tablets
Yes – I recognize it requires extra time, money, resources, etc. But it is almost essential to make sure your app is designed for all screen sizes of phones and tablets. Google and Apple are both very high on this – right now, they look exclusively for apps that have well-designed tablet versions.
2. Highlight the Latest and Greatest
This is probably the single most important thing for differentiating your app. Read up and stay close on the latest developer tools and APIs announced via Apple and Google’s developer websites or conferences like WWDC and Google I/O.
Find opportunities to improve your design and/or build in new features as quickly as possible after they are announced. These are the apps that get PR and featuring attention in the months following big announcements.
Find a feature (even if it’s a small one) to integrate in your app. Last year, we did a few small tweaks to our widgets and notifications and added beaming functionality to a couple of our apps and – boom – we were invited to be part of Google’s booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
It’s frustrating sometimes, because often these things don’t really matter to end users, but they are a BIG DEAL to Google and Apple and will help you get noticed by them in a sea of other apps.
3. Create a Distinct UI
There is nothing Apple hates more than to know an app was initially built for Android and ported over in a half-ass way to iOS. And vice versa.
Take the time to think through the UI and design for each platform separately. It’s the little things that can really add up fast here. Apple and Google both offer resources for design review, which I would recommend taking advantage of. It’s a good way to get in front of their team and get useful ideas and feedback from their UI experts.
4. Support International Merchandising
Google has specifically made a big push on this lately as the Play Store is seeing a spike in traffic from countries outside the US – particularly India.
Offering translated versions of the app itself is ideal. But at a minimum you must update the merchandising information (including screenshots and feature images) with translated versions specific to other major countries.
Google will automatically translate your description, but you will need to manually change out the screenshots and feature images.
5. Exclusivity
If your app is built exclusively for Android or iOS, don’t forget to note that. This is another great selling point to Google or Apple.
6. Timing of release
Google and Apple differ a bit with this. Most of the time, we’ve found that Google likes to wait a bit and see how apps perform in the store before they feature them. Launch an app, get some good reviews, then pitch it to Google.
Apple prefers to feature new apps. They recommend releasing your app on Thursday to increase your odds for featuring – this is when the App Store switches out the featured merchandising.
It’s also important to time your app featuring pitches with certain holidays and events if it makes sense. For instance, if you have a celebrity gossip app look for opportunities the week of the Oscars.
7. Create a Marketing Plan and Get Media Coverage
Google and Apple want to know that they are featuring an app that you are putting marketing effort (and money) behind.
With Apple, make sure to have a Marketing Plan outlining key activities (press release, ad buys, contests, etc.) that you will be doing in conjunction with the launch or update.
As Google likes to feature apps with some time in the market, make sure to tout any positive press coverage along with positive user reviews, ratings, etc.
All this may seem like a lot of work, but I’d argue it’s worth it.
So what do you think? Have you tried these things? Are there other tactics that have worked for you? Let us know in the comments.
VoIP Provider Nipping at Heels of Skype
Tremendous potential in VoIP for companies like VoX, these guys did $80m last year and looking at $100m this year, with over 20 million users in just a few years.
Nipping At The Heels Of Skype, VoIP Provider Rebtel Passes 20M Users, $80M In Sales And A 2-Year Streak In The Black
INGRID LUNDEN
Wednesday, December 19th, 20122 Comments
When people think of consumer VoIP services, the first name to come to mind for many is Skype. But while Microsoft’s recent acquisition begins to explore a new role as a social advertising network, a competing VoIP provider, Rebtel, is hoping to gain some new ground. The Stockholm-based company, which has been in operation since 2006, today is announcing that it has passed 20 million active users, with 2012 revenues of $80 million and projected turnover of $100 million for 2013.
It has also seen a 250% increase in app downloads and paying users since 2011, with overall users growing currently at a rate of 500,000 each month.
The business of over-the-top telephony services is a hot space right now, with companies like Whatsapp nabbing business away from carriers by becoming users’ default mobile messaging service. As of August 2012 Whatsapp was delivering 10 billion messages per day. And as we’ve said in the past, we’ve heard that its been an acquisition target for Facebook.
Rebtel very much fits into that mold by offering a more cost-effective way of making calls on mobile devices, with a particular emphasis on long-distance calls that can cost a fortune otherwise if made via a mobile network. ”Our average users are consumers with a lot of first- and second-generation immigrants among them,” Bernström notes, so many of them will want to be calling family abroad.
And while we don’t know whether Skype is profitable today (it wasn’t when Microsoft bought it), Rebtel’s CEO Andreas Bernström tells me that his company is, and has been for the past two years. That’s one reason why Rebtel has yet to raise more money since picking up a Series A round of $20 million from Index Ventures and Benchmark the year it was founded. “We have $10 million in the bank today,” he tells me. Still, scale is nothing to be sniffed at: Skype currently has some 280 million monthly active users, and yesterday another competitor, Viber, yesterday announced 140 million users; its service is completely free.
That strategy may change in the future, as Rebtel gears up for further expansion. Earlier this month, it announced a new line of business as a white-label VoIP provider, releasing an SDK so that developers can incorporate Rebtel’s VoIP service into their apps.
Rebtel is primarily targeting mobile developers with the service, because that is where Rebtel itself focuses most of its business, with apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (in addition to PCs). As a point of comparison, although Skype makes a big point of how popular its mobile apps are, Bernström says that about 90% of Skype calls are made from its desktop clients.
Similar to the services offered by Twilio, the idea with the SDK is a light VoIP client that can sit embedded in other services, without the need to download a separate application for it to work.
Unlike Twilio, Rebtel is using a freemium business model for this service to attract users. While still in beta, all of it will be offered for free “with no restrictions on it because we want to understand how the market will accept and work with the SDK,” he says. He notes that since Rebtel announced two partners — VIVfone, a mobile CRM app still in stealth mode; and app developer house MobisleApps, for it to incorporate it into that apps that it makes — it’s had “a number of calls from sizeable companies to test and use this.”
Ultimately, Rebtel will make money by offering SLAs and other services to larger companies that want to incorporate the SDK; and it will also introduce a licensing fee for particularly heavy usage.
There is also a third revenue stream that is more about pushing its direct-to-consumer service: when you press an icon to initiate a call, you get a “powered by Rebtel” notice.
For each person that clicks that to download the native Rebtel client, “We are willing to pay developers for that referral traffic,” he says, because Rebtel has figured out that it is relatively successful in generating revenue from users who download its apps. “We have a 5% conversion from downloads to paying customers, each of who pay $23 dollars per month. We typically have a 35% margin on that. That means we can work out what the value of one app download is.”
Tablet Usage Critical to Mobile Advertising's Future
June 03, 2013 -- By Michael
While still a nascent but emerging industry, mobile advertising has seen consistent gains across the last twelve months, marketed by a dramatic influx of investment and amplified faith among traditional advertisers rapidly adapting to modern marketing demands and trends.
But according to the latest industry data, the role of the tablet computer can’t be discounted in mobile advertising’s expansion either.
“Mobile advertising looks like a spring seedling underneath the massive cloud that was $216 billion worth of all advertising in the U.S. last year,” writes Matt Kapko in a ClickZ report published Monday. “While it produced almost $4.75 billion, or 2 percent of all ad spend last year, mobile is riding a wave of growth that continues to outpace online by a large margin.”
John Fletcher, senior analyst at SNL Kagan, was cited in the new report, which notes the dramatic “shifts, trends, and new kids on the block” that are influencing the bottom line for advertising.
Tablet use among the U.S. population is playing a profound role as the trajectory of mobile advertising steepens. About 22 percent of the U.S. market, or 69.5 million consumers, now use tablets, Fletcher says. Tablet usage grew 167.2 percent from 2010 through 2012, according to SNL
Kagan’s latest data.
“I’ve heard that tablets are growing at a faster adoption rate than any technology in history,” Fletcher is quoted. “The barriers to purchase these things are really low regardless of your household income.”
With tablets permeating the mass market to a significant new degree with each passing quarter, new ad formats and mechanisms to engage consumers via the tablet – including video advertising, rich media ads, and highly interactive ad units put forward by today’s top ad networks – are shifting public opinion on mobile advertising deep into favorable territory.
In fact, on Device Research recently published a study showing 70% of users consider mobile ads on smartphones as a personal invitation rather than an intrusion.
The same study showed that users want these ads to help them explore products they’re interested in and subsequently enable them to make a purchase decision then and there.
So… has adopting new technologies and observing the evolution of mobile ad formats changed your opinion about the value or role of mobile advertising today?
Mobile is the Center of the Marketing Universe
Because mobile advertising can give brands unique capabilities to reach customers with unprecedented engagement and relevance, it has begun to shift from a secondary marketing strategy into taking center stage.
And just in time. More than 90% of consumers have their mobile phone within arm’s reach around the close, making it clear that mobile’s “power of the personal” must be at the core of the connected experience. In the United States alone, 56% of adults have a smartphone, creating huge opportunities to deliver targeted and relevant messages in-the-moment.
Mobile Data Can Be Tracked & Measured
If the NSA has taught us anything, it’s that what we do on our phones is trackable. From who we call or text to where we are and when we do it, that information is readily available. And mobile advertisers don’t need a subpoena to get it. But of course, they’re not after who you’re talking to – they’re more interested in understanding what you want, when you want it.
As such, mobile isn’t so much a vertical, the same way that other media like radio and television are. Rather, the mobile market is much more horizontal. Advertisers can measure the full end-to-end experience and glean contextual information from it, much more deeply than they can more traditional media.
Mobile Advertising is Slightly More Advanced than the Mobile Web
In the United States, most everyone has a smartphone in addition to having access to an internet desktop. But in other parts of the world, it’s cell phone only. Recent studies have shown that 64 percent of users worldwide are from developing countries, and in Africa, mobile phone sales have increased by 550 percent due to growing popularity. As a result, mobile technologies are more developed when it comes to honing SMS-based techniques, data collection and geolocation tracking. Strecker says that such exposure and experience has made applying these practices to mobile advertising easier.
Mobile Advertisers are Hungry For More
Compared to publishers and operators who have not been as quick to adapt, mobile advertisers are looking for new ways to create unique experiences. The pace of change within the industry is very rapid, says Strecker, which can be attributed to the lack of mobile standards. Unlike the online world, standards for mobile have been slow to evolve, so mobile advertisers can experiment and innovate more than can on the traditional web.
Customers Are Complacent About Access to Mobile Behaviors (For Now)
Though consumers are worried about governments accessing their private data, they have seemed rather complacent when it comes to giving access to advertisers, operators and publishers. Of course, many are asked to consent or opt-in, but the majority of us don’t read the fine-print before clicking “agree.” Additionally, younger generations of mobile users consider trading their privacy for a better customer mobile experience as fair. As a result, mobile advertisers are able to predict our behaviors based on our history, making it easier for them to get us to switch brands at the right time.
Strecker says it doesn’t require much information to infer behaviors either. Using the weather, for instance, advertisers can target consumers at risk of allergies and on their way to sporting events to improve conversions.
Well said Lonnie
The real potential of VoIP as you say is not voice, it is video and in many, many forms including streaming, and real time video such as WEB-RTC.
People may not like to talk about WEB-RTC but this is going to be more than HUGE, this Browser based technology is going to revolutionize communication with real time communication, including audio and video anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Add in the Advertising component for Mobile Apps & devices and the opportunities are nearly limitless. The headlines just this week regarding Facebook having finally figured out how to move advertising off the desk top and onto Mobile Devices has the stock exploding.
The future is clearly Mobile Communications and Mobile VoIP is the most cost effective and efficient way to handle all those little data bits, and VoX is smack in the middle of the Mobile Explosion.
How about all the Wall Street Analysis that are now publishing new reports about Facebook and Mobile Advertising, starting with "WE WERE WRONG"
Facebook Turns In Big Quarter As Mobile Ads Drive Growth
Total Ad Revenue Grew 53% Over the Same Period Last Year
By: Cotton Delo Published: July 24, 2013
The migration of Facebook's user base to mobile devices has been seen as an existential threat to the social network, but its mobile ad revenue is starting to keep up. It grew to 41% of total ad revenue in the second quarter, sending its shares up more than 17% to $31 after-hours trading.
While Google and Yahoo struggle with mobile, Facebook seems to have figured it out. Mobile has climbed steadily upward as a percentage of Facebook's total ad revenue since the third quarter of last year. It grew from 14% to 23% to 30% and now made the biggest quarter-over-quarter jump to 41%.
Mark Zuckerberg
Considering the global patterns of Facebook usage, demonstrating mobile ad revenue acceleration is critical for the company. There were 819 million mobile monthly active users on Facebook as of June 30, up 51% over the previous year. That's 71% of the total who access the social network at least once a month.
The bottom line is that although desktop affords much more real estate for ads, including a whole right rail that's missing from the Facebook mobile app and is mainly embraced by direct-response advertisers, fewer and fewer users will be logging in to see it.
Just look at all the DOUBLE Counts
This is all MM double counts, real volume is 1/2 the total amount.
1.235 million .0023, immediately 1.235 million .0022 and on & on.
The 500k at .0023, other side 500k at .0022
The 1m at 12:39:55 at .0024, then the 10k for $23 to get the price lower, then the 1 million gets handed off at 12:40:21, these are the same shares being recorded 2 X which shows the MM trade.
The next trades at 11:59:41 for 300k, then 700k, at .0023 for 1 million, then the 10k at .0023 to knock the BID down to .0022 and the 700k & 300k gets counted again at .0022.
Price Volume Market
14:28:03 0.0022 500000 OTO
14:27:56 0.0023 500000 OTO
13:31:58 0.0022 164300 OTO
13:31:52 0.0022 490000 OTO
12:40:21 0.0022 1000000 OTO
12:40:18 0.0023 10000 OTO
12:39:55 0.0023 1000000 OTO
12:31:28 0.0024 100000 OTO
12:00:48 0.0022 400000 OTO
12:00:46 0.0022 700000 OTO
12:00:27 0.0023 10000 OTO
12:00:20 0.0023 700000 OTO
11:59:41 0.0023 300000 OTO
11:44:51 0.0024 9000 OTO
11:21:36 0.0024 50000 OTO
11:10:05 0.0024 500000 OTO
11:09:57 0.0024 400000 OTO
11:09:30 0.0023 100000 OTO
11:09:20 0.0024 50000 OTO
10:41:14 0.0024 1000 OTO
10:40:44 0.0024 10000 OTO
09:57:55 0.0028 33500 OTO
09:57:03 0.0025 10000 OTO
09:56:40 0.0023 6500 OTO
09:55:49 0.0023 50000 OTO
09:50:07 0.0023 262000 OTO
09:50:03 0.0023 10000 OTO
09:50:01 0.0023 1000000
Why do "some longs" feel beat up?
I don't feel beat up, sad, depressed, confused or any of the other things that so called investor are complaining about.
IMO the worst metric an investor can use is "price", it is fluid, it will be up and it will be down.
"Price" is a trader's life blood, it is the one and only thing that they follow, they live and die by chasing the price, buying and selling with every tic, and that is fine if you play for hundredths of a penny, I don't play that game for a simple reason, you can't win at it. It is a pipe dream that you are smarter than the market and there is no money to be made, peanuts at best.
Investors should be evaluating their position at least once a quarter to see if they should increase or decrease their position based on company fundamentals. If you don't like a stocks fundamentals then by all means adjust your position, including closing it out all together and move on to something else.
I like what I am hearing from PVSP management and the sector of Mobile Apps and Telecommunications is very solid and huge dollars are available for the company to grow exponentially if they can execute on their business plan.
Mobile Apps for Android & iphone covers 90% plus of the mobile devices out there.
Calling Cards are an easy, low cost way to positively impact the bottom line.
Margins 57% are exception in the VoIP sector and easy road to profitability.
This board is dominated by a few posters that are extremely negative and disruptive, and do not represent the majority of normal long term investors, most of which never post on this board.
All those 10k share Dumps $22 Bucks
Notice the number of $22 DUMPS to the BID, there is your short that wants lower to cover.
Time Price Volume Market
15:59:32 0.0022 10000 OTO
15:59:29 0.0022 10000 OTO
15:53:31 0.0023 157619 OTO
15:51:49 0.0024 291000 OTO
15:49:14 0.0023 10000 OTO
15:49:13 0.0023 10000 OTO
15:39:47 0.0024 10000 OTO
15:31:14 0.0024 100000 OTO
15:28:49 0.0023 50000 OTO
15:28:42 0.0024 10000
Those Little ads on Mobile devices WOW
LOS ANGELES — Facebook is turning into one of the first companies to figure out how to turn those tiny little ads on mobile phone screens into big business.
Perhaps ushering in a new era of turning the proliferation of mobile consumption of news and information on devices into a massive business, Facebook is turning the heads of Wall Street who thought it was a losing battle.
"The very negative view on Facebook is evaporating," says Colin Sebastian at Robert W. Baird. "You can't ignore a billion users."
Profit reported this week by Facebook not only blew away forecasts, but it was largely driven by a moneymaking machine inside the company linked to mobile apps. Only about a year after redoubling efforts to make money off mobile users, Facebook saw its number of mobile users explode 51% during the quarter. But more important for a company that was created for desktop computers, now 41% of advertising dollars comes from mobile users.
"They're lucky," says Rick Summer of Morningstar. "They have fantastic assets that translate well to a mobile experience."
Facebook's moves with turning mobile access into money blew away Wall Street, which has soured on the company's future. "We were wrong," was the title of a report by Richard Greenfield at BTIG, who had rated the stock a sell with a $22-a-share price target.
It was over $30 went to 60 cents
The point is it takes time and they got absolutely killed at one time also, from over $30 a share to less than .60 cents a share and it took 5 years to recover and pull out of that tail spin.
Revenue and Earnings are the only thing that count, the rest is just background noise.
I believe this is a long term growth story and they are smack in the middle of the HOTTEST emerging market out there, Mobile VoIP and Mobile Advertising, and all things Mobile!
They will get a nice piece of this business and having quality products is priority one, without that you don't have a chance, and we have got some great Mobile Apps for Android and Iphone coming soon.
VoIP provider On FIRE at $9.50/share
How about that, is our VoIP sector HOT or what?
Was less than .60 few years back and now I may sell my 50,000 shares and buy PVSP, about 200 million shares just to make this this interesting.
I believe that PVSP will be just as successful as these guys and maybe even more so as we are even more focused on Mobile VoIP.
Hedge fund SAC Capital indicted, VFIN Next?
Hey VFIN check it out!!
Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY 12:13 p.m. EDT July 25, 2013
(Photo: Jenny Boyle, PR Newswire)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Charges could make it difficult for SAC Capital to continue operations
NEW YORK — SAC Capital Advisors, one of Wall Street's largest and most profitable hedge funds, has been indicted on criminal charges for its role in insider trading offenses committed over a decade by many of its employees.
Though SAC Capital billionaire founder and head Steven Cohen was not charged individually, the indictment charged his Connecticut-based hedge fund and three of its affiliates with wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud — allegations that could cripple the nationally known fund.
Richard Lee, an SAC portfolio manager responsible for directing a $1.25 billion "special situations fund," pleaded guilty to insider trading charges Tuesday in the years-long SAC Capital investigation, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office said as prosecutors unsealed his plea.
The charges represent the hardest yet in a series of major legal blows for Cohen, who runs the fund and uses it as an investment and trading vehicle for his personal fortune.
The 41-page indictment charged that the insider trading scheme "was substantial, pervasive and on a scale without known precedent in the hedge fund industry."
Documents: Indictment and related documents
The alleged scheme was run through numerous portfolio managers and research analysts "who engaged in a pattern of obtaining inside information from dozens of publicly traded companies across multiple industry sectors," the indictment charged. The company allegedly:
• Sought to hire portfolio managers and analysts "with proven access to public company contacts likely to possess inside information."
• Gave portfolio managers financial incentives to give Cohen recommendations about "high conviction" trading ideas in which they had an "edge" over other investors. But the managers weren't "questioned when making trading recommendations that appeared to be based on inside information," the indictment charged.
• Failed to use effective compliance procedures or practices to prevent portfolio managers and analysts from engaging in insider trading.
The portfolio managers and research analysts "were required to share their best investment ideas with the SAC owner" — Cohen — "while indications that those ideas were based on inside information were often ignored," the indictment charged.
It listed numerous former SAC employees who have recently been accused or convicted on charges of trading on inside information while working for the hedge fund or its affiliates.
"The relentless pursuit of an information 'edge' fostered a business culture within SAC in which there was no meaningful commitment to ensure that such 'edge' came from legitimate research and not inside information," the indictment charged. "The predictable and forseeable result ... was systematic insider trading ... resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits and avoided losses at the expense of members of the investing public."
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference to discuss the case.
An SAC Capital spokesman did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment on the charges. But the company has said the company and Cohen had done nothing wrong.
The indictment could speed a recent outflow of investors from SAC Capital, though the company earlier this week sent employees a notice that it planned to continue normal operations. Until recent months, the fund held an estimated $15 billion.
Stuart Slotnick, a New York City defense lawyer who's not involved in the case, said "there's a great likelihood they (SAC Capital) will continue to lose investors" as a result of the government action.
"But don't forget, there are billions of dollars of (Cohen's) personal money in the fund," said Slotnick. "And what may result, at least in the short term, is that the business turns into a family fund, a family business that has employees, has a corporate structure and continues."
The widely anticipated criminal charges come after SAC Capital and CR Intrinsic, another Cohen affiliate, earlier this year agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission a record $615 million in penalties to resolve civil insider trading charges against the firms.
Additionally, the SEC on July 19 filed civil administrative charges against Cohen himself, alleging that he "failed reasonably to supervise" two senior portfolio managers who themselves have been been hit with insider trading charges and are awaiting trial.
The civil case fell short of accusing Cohen, a hedge fund giant and one of the nation's richest people, with similar insider trading allegations. But an SEC victory could bar him from handling investor funds, a penalty that could force him to shut down portfolios that until recently investor withdrawals totaled more than $15 billion.
In the civil case, the SEC alleged that Cohen received "highly suspicious" non-public information in 2008 from top financial lieutenants Mathew Martoma and Michael Steinberg, who have pleaded not guilty in their cases. The allegations involved stock trading in pharmaceutical firms Elan and Wyeth, as well as in computer giant Dell.
Instead of heeding his supervisory responsibility to investigate, the SEC charged that Cohen "ignored red flags" and allowed trading on the information to proceed, thereby earning profits and avoiding losses totaling more than $275 million.
Disputing the charges, attorneys for Cohen have said he "had every reason to believe" that one of the portfolio managers relied only on public information and that the hedge fund founder didn't read a crucial email sent by the other manager.
"Steven Cohen did nothing wrong, and any fair review of the evidence will show that the SEC's charges are unfounded," his lawyers said.
The civil case against Cohen is scheduled to begin with an Aug. 26 hearing before SEC Chief Administrative Law Judge Brenda Murray.
John Coffee, a Columbia University law school professor expert in securities law last week said it's relatively rare for the SEC to bring such a case as an administrative proceeding, rather than in federal court.
The move potentially gives the SEC "home court advantage," said Coffee, because the rules of evidence are somewhat less strict than in federal court and could enable the agency to introduce more hearsay evidence.
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Conversions Suspended
CEO told you that Fund was suspending conversions and it looks like we have new funding for the next six months that will help get us to Cash Flow Positive at year end, and IMO it signals the end to share conversions and selling by VFIN on CD holders behalf.
Party On!
Facebook Stock Soars 25% on MOBILE-ADS
Told you folks, mobile -ads are HOT, HOT, HOT, is where we are heading on VoX Network.
Facebook’s CEO Defies Mobile-Ad Skeptics as Sales Soar
By Douglas MacMillan & Brian Womack - Jul 25, 2013 4:39 AM ET
Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s decision last year to bet big on mobile software is paying off, with sales of ads on wireless devices now on track to surpass revenue from desktop computers.
Surging demand for mobile advertising helped profit and revenue top analysts’ estimates in the second quarter. The results sent shares of the world’s most popular social-networking service up 21 percent in extended trading yesterday, leaving them poised for a record one-day gain today.
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July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Rob Jewell, founder and chief executive officer of Spruce Media, and David Kirkpatrick, CEO of Techonomy Media and author of "The Facebook Effect," talk about Facebook Inc.'s second-quarter earnings and outlook. Facebook reported sales and profit that exceeded estimates as it lured more advertisers to its mobile services. Jewell and Kirkpatrick speak with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)
The results may finally quiet concerns, voiced by analysts and investors since Facebook’s May 2012 initial public offering, that the rising popularity of smartphones and tablets is outpacing its ability to make money selling promotions to mobile users. By letting marketers show messages in the news feed on such devices, and shifting development efforts toward applications, Zuckerberg is delivering on his promise of making Facebook a “mobile-first” company, according to Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in New York.
“There’s latent demand for marketers to spend money on Facebook,” Rohan, who rates the shares a buy, said in an interview. “The company finally introduced the right set of ad products to facilitate that.”
Revenue rose 53 percent to $1.81 billion in the latest quarter, the company said in a statement yesterday. Profit excluding certain items was 19 cents a share. Analysts had projected profit of 14 cents on sales of $1.62 billion on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Blowout Quarter
Facebook added 17 percent to the equivalent of $30.94 in German trading at 10:30 a.m. Frankfurt time. They rose as much as 21 percent to $31.98 in extended trading yesterday, signaling the $64 billion company may exceed its record one-day gain of 19 percent in October, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“Finally, the blowout quarter that Facebook bulls have been waiting for,” said Paul Sweeney, an analyst at Bloomberg Industries. “Among many impressive data points, I think investors will focus on the percentage of revenue from mobile of 41 percent, which was well above consensus.”
Facebook, which had priced its IPO at $38 a share, saw its stock slump as low as $17.55 in September and was trading 30 percent below its initial offering price before yesterday’s results. Concern about Facebook’s ability to shift to mobile has weighed on the company’s shares since its $16 billion IPO, the largest technology offering on record.
Even with the decline, the Menlo Park, California-based company traded at 115 times earnings as of yesterday’s close, more expensive than 98 percent of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Mobile Push
Mobile ads, which made up 30 percent of revenue in the first quarter, will soon account for more than half of advertising dollars, Zuckerberg said on a conference call. The number of mobile users expanded 51 percent to 819 million during the quarter. The total number of Facebook members was 1.15 billion, compared with 1.11 billion in the earlier period.
“This quarter represents a strong validation that we’re effectively navigating the shift to mobile,” David Ebersman, Facebook’s chief financial officer, said in an interview. “All the investments we’ve been making in the business have been paying off.”
Facebook is projected to take 13 percent of the global mobile-advertising market this year, up from 5.4 percent last year, according to EMarketer Inc. Even so, the company remains a distant No. 2 to Google Inc. (GOOG), which is expected to grab 56 percent of the market in 2013.
Facebook has stepped up efforts with its mobile services, including updates to its smartphone applications and a new video feature for photo-sharing service Instagram.