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A more in-depth description of Calyp (2011):
http://socialtimes.com/socialmedia-apps-bluecalypso_b64649
The speculation flowing from this product in 2011 seems to be one reason the stock commanded a price near $1 per share at one point.
This came pre-lawsuits, correct?
An interesting press release about Rick Perry using Calyp for his 2011 presidential run:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111202005302/en/Presidential-Candidate-Gov.-Rick-Perry%E2%80%99s-Campaign-Selects
From archived versions of the old website (http://web.archive.org/web/20111116021917/http://bluecalypso.com/about-us.aspx), I am thinking Calyp is an older version of something which morphed into the better-named Popshare, etc.
So it's definitely nothing new, but it's still an easy-to-grasp example of how their products have the potential of making them money, if executed successfully to a market that's listening -- and it seems the market's listening now.
Thanks for sharing this.
I used to have the same nice but modest price target as Merriman (40 cents), which would have also put its market cap still below a company like MEETME. Now, I'm starting to dream a bit with this stock.
On 10/10, Cowen and Company reduced its price target for VISTA from $3.57 to $2.91, and maintained its rating of Outperform.
Found here: http://charts.stocktwits.net/production/original_16417703.png?1381443522
Well, I wish I sold at a buck. Calandra's latest reports have focused on Colombia miners, one of which (Red Eagle) jumped 53 percent in the last hour or two of trading in Canada.
Re:GSV, it has about 250,000 shares being shorted (according to recent Northern Miner update), and I think it may drop back to the 70 cents area (if gold prices are not kind next week). Should that happen, I'll buy a lot. I am more comfortable with GSV than with almost any other exploratory miner, and I think it will be acquired by end of next year.
Despite falling a bit, as of late, it does seem to have held a lot of its recent gains, and I don't think we will see shares for 59 cents again.
They should get their environmental permits for Mt Todd, etc, before end of year. There's a possibility they will also sell or already have sold the Colomac mining equipment (though I'd like to think they'd have mentioned the sale if it occurred already).
Re: next year, the primary catalysts will likely be gold prices (if they rise), MIDAS (which is coming out with a resource update in Winter, and some report in Spring), and any new sales of non-core properties (or of any payments received from Awak Mas or the Liongold project). I think Guadalupe is worth very little at this time, given gold prices, its modest IRR at $1400, and its overall modest size, so I am assuming no Guadalupe sale unless optimism re-emerges in the sector.
If gold drops to $1000-1200 for the next year or two, as the bears predict, then VISTA will prove to have been smart for selling Los Cordones. Regardless, they no longer have near-term liquidity concerns and, with Mt Todd, have a huge deposit that some major will eventually want.
Also, analysts like Brent Cook continue to think MIDAS is the mine which will offer the best profit margins to a major once it goes into production (in 2019-thereabouts), and it could easily be sold next year (though the longer they hold out, the better the price MIDAS will likely get).
(from stockhouse)
A devastating report by Joseph Fazzini of Dundee Capital Markets has seen the share price of Colossus Minerals (TSX:T.CSI, Stock Forum) tumble 11% down to $0.61, continuing a fall from $0.86 earlier in the month.
Already under pressure from technical challenges in its Serra Pelada project in Brazil, Fazzini held nothing back, stating “given the technical challenges encountered (brought on by water and challenging ground conditions), realizing [potential opportunities] now appears a less likely scenario for the shareholders of CSI.”
It continues, “In the case of CSI, we believe the options for raising new capital are few and expect that any future cash injections would likely be arranged under highly punitive terms. The prospect of adding further financial burden to what is already a leveraged capital structure in the context of a soft metal price environment has us concerned.”
“Given our lack of balance sheet comfort, management’s failure to budget and operational challenges that remain, we are downgrading CSI to a SELL (from Neutral) and reducing our target to $0.50 (from $0.80.”
Today a lot of Options expires. Maybe that's what has also helped keep the stock down. Noticed that Guyana Goldfields just announced a 6.3 million purchase of mining equipment btw. Since their CEO and VISTA's mgmt go back a while (ANV days), am hoping we'll eventually find out that the VGZ mining equipment for sale has indeed been sold.
Anyway, best of luck on your bet. Its PPS has been suppressed so long, it's bound to have a good day or two in the near future.
Lost all gains in after-hrs on a sub-500 dollar bet.
Blue Calypso to Conduct Business Update Conference Call
7:05a ET October 17, 2013 (Business Wire)
Blue Calypso, Inc., (OTCBB: BCYP), developer of digital innovation intellectual property, products and services, will host a conference call on Wednesday, October 30th at 4:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. CT to provide an update on the company's vision and an overview of its business. CEO Bill Ogle will deliver remarks followed by a question and answer session.
To access the call in the U.S. please dial 877-941-4775 and for international calls dial 480-629-9761 approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the conference. The conference ID is 4645900. The conference call will also be broadcast live over the Internet and available for replay for 180 days at www.bluecalypso.com. In addition, a replay of the call will be available via telephone for two business days, beginning two hours after the call. To listen to the replay, in the U.S., please dial 877-870-5176 and internationally, 858-384-5517. Enter access code 4645900.
Today is the day Invecture pays its first of 2 payments to VISTA. So far, there are only sells. Mostly in blocks of 100 or 200 shares.
Due to all the SELLS, bid should be dropping IMO, but I guess they will keep it at that price until the selling from this one seller has stopped. Is this the sign of a short ending his position or a short reaffirming his position?
Today is the day Invecture pays its first of 2 payments to VISTA. So far, there are only sells. Mostly in blocks of 100 or 200 shares.
Due to all the SELLS, bid should be dropping IMO, but I guess they will keep it at that price until the selling from this one seller has stopped. Is this the sign of a short ending his position or a short reaffirming his position?
New Calandra update from Thursday (found via his Twitter page:
BURON, CALIFORNIA — GOLD STANDARD VENTURES shares in Canada and the USA, along with an ancillary listing in Germany, are rising smartly this week.
As much as 50 percent in several days for GSV (in Canada and USA and 6AZ in Germany).
This is a heady move that is linked to: 1. Jonathan Awde, Dave Mathewson and the rest of the team are narrating the Railroad story for investors in the USA; 2. TCR confirmed via BCSC filing in Canada that Agnico-Eagle is the 4.9 percent owner of GSV shares from the August 2, 2013, placement; 3. at least two companies, one of them AEM, is on site this week and next near Elko, Nevada; one of them is said to be more interested in the copper than the gold; and 4. Gold Standard is disseminating its data releases and news in Germany, where it has a listing.
Says a company spokesman, Luke Norman, “We have paid for our news releases to be translated in German and disseminated on German mainstream press locations.” That translation happened Oct. 2.
IR-World, the distributor in Austria, runs or has relationships with a flock of European newsletters and investor outreach agencies. Its venue is http://www.ir-world.com/en/index.html. The newsletters associated with the service are seen at the bottom of the home page and include German sites such as http://www.smallcapinvestor.de/index.php?home.
Just as importantly, the Austria firm, headed by Joaquim Brunner, uses partners whose networks have influence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. See: http://www.ir-world.com/en/partner.html.
I thought our TCR audience would like to keep up with the marvellous yet almost instantaneous rise in GSV shares. Until last week, the only regular coverage of the shares, aside from two or possibly three brokerage houses/investment banks, including Macquarie Securities in Canada, has been TCR — The Calandra Report.
As I write this, the shares have reached $1 USA and higher in Canada. Much of the volume is from North America. Germany trading is brisk today, as much as 420,000 shares with the euro-share price rising 13 percent.
The trade volume today in Germany is multiples greater than the usual amount.
I am patient and intend to hold my shares, which I began buying in October 2011 after having seen Railroad with Mr. Mathewson and Mr. Awde.
If German-language distribution of GSV’s above-average drill assays (September) can goose a 50 percent gain in a junior mining stock, then perhaps the Munich Gold Show in early November is worth revisiting?
I don’t think so. Says Mr. Norman, a co-founder of Gold Standard Ventures. “I’d like to think we have geologists seeing gold oxide at one of our holes.”
That would be RRB13-1 AT BALD MOUNTAIN, which was released to the public October 2. That was another big-volume day in Germany trading, by the way.
GOLD AFICIONADOS, and at least two bank analysts, have pointed to the heap-leach characteristics of the latest assay.
For our part, we continue to wait for geologist Dave Mathewson and team’s work at vectoring closer to the source of the Carlin-style deposit’s sedimentary hosted gold, with silver and copper. I am in until GSV sells the asset or the entire company.
I definitely think its removal from Russell 3000 (?) and GDXV are having much more significant effects on how it trades than I ever would have expected. It now trades very light. And half the time or greater, both the Buy and ASK are less than the share price.
Anyway, best of luck. I was a lucky seller the last time it hit 85 cents, and am now a baffled owner, less than a month later, of considerably more shares than I ever expected to own, with average of 47 cents. I have no fear about its long-term future, but as with many others, my goal was not so long-term with this one.
There's no reason it should trade at these levels, where either Mt Todd or its shares in MIDAS are worth nothing, but it seems it might be able to stay at these levels a frustratingly long time.
A 30,000 share buy/sell (not sure which) in pre-market.
Van Eck went from 15 percent ownership of shares to slightly under 1 percent. Check recent SEC filings.
Their departure is likely one of the reasons for the dramatic collapse, along with the removal from GDX and GDXV.
At 34 cent, btw, you are saying the shares will drop to less than the value of the MIDAS shares they are holding. Coupled with cash from the LoS Cordones sale (mentioned now on the Invecture site too), minus Sprott payment, this miner is selling now for less than cash on hand, with all of its properties at basically zero value.
I would like to think it would rise dramatically tomorrow, but who knows? If other stocks do well, I will throw more into it, and pray a lot.
An earlier press release from August may shed more light on the full scope of services offered by InegraColor does (and how some are related to what Blue Calypso does, as already mentioned by Mountain Mom in her post). I have much less shares in Blue Calypso than I did one month ago (due to an unfortunately false belief that gold prices were ready to soar) but 19 cent per share seems safe again (where once, I was always afraid it would drift back to 13 cents):
DALLAS—June 10, 2013—IntegraColor has announced that it has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement that extends its relationship with the American Heart Association. Under the terms of this agreement, IntegraColor will provide a comprehensive range of products and services to include creative design services, curriculum products, audio/video product and a wide range of product consultation. IntegraColor is also helping the American Heart Association deliver its line of Emergency Cardiovascular Care curriculum globally through a comprehensive online publication library tool...
"We are very pleased and proud to continue and expand this long-term and valued relationship," noted Larry C. King, IntegraColor’s CEO and president. "As a visual communications company, our comprehensive offering of technology, creative solutions, print, and logistics platforms are ideally suited to support our customers as they bring content to audiences through a variety of media."
Invecture paid 12.8 million for Kimber Resources assets just weeks before this deal was made. I think Invecture was pressing for the change in the deal, not VISTA, as the Kimber assets were very comparable to Los Cordones.
I do think the money helps VISTA a lot, and I agree -- if they sell that mining eqipment that Invecture did not want, hope they use it to buy another property at rock-bottom prices. Since I'm almost all-in on this stock too, at these prices, I really hope future catalysts are not just sales of tools and what-not.
As for mt Todd? I think it will either get acquired, partnered, or occasionally mentioned in press releases to remind shareholders that VISTA still owns it. I am hoping the price pressure on VISTA shares puts pressure on MIDAS to get acquired next year too -- but doubt that will happen, and likely, it's good that doesn't happen either.
It's going to move the stock. That's what stockholders want. The big potential profits may be in the patents, but having some potential in the company too helps quite a lot.
100,000 Insider buy from CEO at .40 per share on Oct 7.
Stock seemed to crash extra on the news.
You don't need to just buy gold miners with good stories. I find it much easier to make money on crushed miners that seem like they've reached a point where they can go nowhere but up. FOr one, it's just easier to respect any profits made from them, as you don't go in with the assumption that the sky's the limit.
I have no clue what's making the move. I personally got so used to this stock going up, then drifting back. This week's movement has been a big surprise to me.
As for the "hole" comment mentioned in the Calandra article, it might have been a reference to Brent Cook's analysis of GSV. Cook is my favorite analyst, but he sold his shares last year after losing faith in the potential of the deposit. I'll be interested to read his future comments on their progress.
http://www.stockhouse.com/Opinion/Independent-Reports/2013/10/07/Nevada-developer-set-to-double-Gold-Standard-(GSV)
GSV is one of Calandra's bigger investments. His Report (which now costs money in the states) seems always to be posted on Stockhouse.
Calandra Report update (from Monday)
GSV: JUST MET with Jonathan Awde of Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (TSX: V.GSV, Stock Forum).
Buy the shares today or Tuesday if you believe the Nevada developer is close to seeing a 4.9 percent stake in the company double -- from a large miner, probably active in Nevada. My bet is Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (TSX: T.AEM, Stock Forum), but that is pure speculation as it also could be someone smaller ... or bigger.
Any increase in x-company's holdings will come at a premium with no warrant, just like the last financing. The company likely would be required to file its holdings at SEDAR.
In addition, a fresh hole is in the lab. GSV has had several joint venture offers on its Railroad properties near Elko. None were good enough to cut the quick.
"Unfortunately, we live and die by each hole, which if you understand the nature of Carlin-style deposits, is not the way it should be with the Railroad property (Rain District)," Jonathan says.
I am buying more shares today or Tuesday. The number of drill rigs operating in Nevada -- like the rest of the world -- is down 65 percent this year, perhaps more. That is total rigs, not GSV.
Says Awde, "We've kept our team. We are negotiating successfully on our Pinon properties." Those are low grade oxide -- perhaps 1 million ounces and a lot like Newmont Mining Corp.'s (NYSE: NEM, Stock Forum) Emigrant Mine in Nevada. Cheap mine to build -- maybe $60 million at Emigrant.
GSV owns about 51 % of the Pinon properties, to the south of Railroad.
Geologist Dave Mathewson, leading a team that includes Steven Koehler, Mac Jackson, Steve Moore and Robert Edie among others, has been "vectoring to the north" at the prime target at Railroad, the North Bullion Deposit. At least two companies - one Wednesday and one next week -- are kicking tires at the property.
They are busy even with the dumpster market for prospectors continuing into autumn here in western USA. The technical team will oversee another 15 drill holes through December.
Thanks for your updates re: Pacer stuff today btw. This does seem a stock where you're occasionally betting on your own daydreams of what may or may not be happening, so any piece of information (even announcements that there is no new information, as yet) during significant price movements for the stock are helpful... Anyway, thanks again.
can anyone explain what was negative in this latest press release? They're mentioned as a takeover target in a Mineweb article today too, so its downward price action baffles me unless there's a sense it will be denied its permits. I realize that risk, though I can't see it happening...
have pacers been filed?
Received a target PPS of $1 per share. Supposed to come out with news this week that will update their mineral resources, etc...
If and when the company gets its mining permits, this will likely double quickly. I had to reinvest at these ridiculous prices, but it's more of a gamble than most, I think. A true high risk/high reward gamble.
Total assets (minus its shares of MIDAS) are now being valued at about 6 million dollars, or about 50 cents per gold ounce (indicated and measured). Have sold some other miners for minor losses in order to move more here. This PPS is just ridiculous.
Anecdotal info from Thom Calandra (who said in August no rush to buy anything but maybe GSV... he's also hinted that rumor is they are apparently wining and dining one major -- Agnico Eagle? -- but who knows...)
Last week, in a presentation panel in Toronto, I told an audience of 200 that Gold Standard Ventures‘ (GSV in Canada and USA) Dave Mathewson and another Nevada stalwart, geologist Roger Steininger at NuLegacy Gold (NUG in Canada), were of a type: good old Nevada boys in their senior years, with old-style prospecting habits and a kick-bum country-boy accent.
GSV came in today with 98 meters of 3-plus gram gold in one of its headline exploration holes at Railroad.
It is looking, says Mr. Mathewson, like a large (2 million ounces gold with silver?) Carlin-style deposit in the Nevada badlands.
Gold Standard CEO Jonathan Awde, about 33-odd years younger than Mr. Mathewson, tells us today Thursday, “Northern offset of 13-8. Very important to see this kind of continuity and grade distribution. Really opens up the whole northern portion of the North Bullion Fault Zone. “
I thought the san ramon pea from red eagle was pretty good, but market seems to not like it. Now down a bit in Canadian markets. Curious if a good write-up has been written on it, etc.
PEA for Red Eagle's Santa Rosa mine released today. NPV of 150 million. 47 percent IRR at $1300 gold.
If you get your shares under 30 cents per share, expect the stock to double for you.
Great new drilling results at perhaps just the right time were released today.
From the press release -- "Dave Mathewson, Gold Standard's Vice President of Exploration, stated, "We are increasingly confident that the North Bullion gold deposit represents a major Carlin-style discovery within the large, prospective district-scale, multiple target setting of our Railroad project. We continue to explore for and expand mineralization at North Bullion. Discovery of uniformly thick, high grade mineralization in the lower breccia zone is a very positive development and lends favorably to the discovery of similar zones and additional high grade extensions to what we have discovered to date. We are also applying what we have learned elsewhere along the very prospective and essentially unexplored 10 kilometer long Bullion Fault Corridor now fully controlled by Gold Standard. We recently completed CSAMT (Controlled source audio magneto-telluric) survey coverage, geologic mapping and extensive additional surface sampling along the Bullion Fault Corridor - only a small portion of which has been previously tested by drilling. Surface geochemistry and geology, combined with the gravity and CSAMT data, have identified several compelling, untested target opportunities toward the south within the Bullion Fault Corridor target zone."
Blue Calypso Expands IP Portfolio by Purchasing Mobile Gamification Technology
7:05a ET September 18, 2013 (Business Wire)
--New technology, branded DashTAGG, combines online and in-person gaming with physical locations and events
--Partners prepare to beta test DashTAGG
Blue Calypso, Inc., (OTCBB:BCYP), developer of digital innovation products and services for the social media marketplace, increased its intellectual property portfolio by purchasing proprietary mobile gamification technology in an all-stock transaction for approximately $150,000.
Blue Calypso has already applied for one new patent based on the integration of this technology with its own platform. Management expects to further develop the intellectual property purchased as well as file a family of patent applications. This new family of patents combined with Blue Calypso's existing patents, creates an unprecedented IP portfolio in the social media space.
The mobile technology which was purchased has been rebranded as DashTAGG(TM) which is a unique social mobile game of "tag" that requires both physical and digital participation. Games can be sponsored by one or more retailers, event sponsors or product manufacturers. To acquire "TAGGs," players must visit participating retail locations and scan codes. While at these destinations, they may be presented with redeemable in-store offers. Top performers are rewarded for their participation with merchandise, points and badges.
"Adding gamification capabilities to our social amplification suite creates additional opportunities for product development and licensing," stated Blue Calypso's Founder and Chief Technology Officer Andrew Levi. "DashTAGG is similar to our other products as it targets entities that use social media and brand advocacy to influence brand awareness; therefore, we can leverage our existing sales and development infrastructure. We believe this transaction is an excellent example of our growth strategy at work and launches Blue Calypso into a unique un-tapped segment of influencer-driven marketing and advertising."
"Our new technology bridges physical and digital gamification. We believe consumer-facing businesses, such as retailers, restaurants, media & entertainment, sports and major event planners, will seize the opportunity to use DashTAGG to increase in-store foot traffic, visitor-to-buyer conversion rates and influencer advocacy branding. Already, we have secured partners who are committed to beta version testing," concluded Levi.
And the company had 2 settlements since then, which may have changed their financial situation a smidge.
Since stock is not trading now, I assume some news is forthcoming. This is what their Twitter acct is telling us: "As a brand or a fellow social media manager, what strategies do you employ to gain more followers on Major Social Media Channels?"
Obviously disappointed by their Twitter, but I disagree with your interpretation. They have no need to modify their agreement with Merriman so that their loan would be for less money if they need more money.
Merriman has been one of the main traders, and debentures always mean headaches for shareholders. Getting rid of them is good.
It went up to 15.25 on one trade, then the one trade seemingly got cancelled. No shares traded so far (accdg to TDAmeritrade).
The way I interpreted it, they are modifying a 2 million dollar loan from Merriman (touted at the time as being non-dilutive, at 25 cents per share, which was higher than the 21 cent per share which Blue Calypso was at the time of the original announcement), and essentially making it a 1 million dollar loan.
This means they are essentially saying they did not need the 2 million, and they are trying to end the intentional selling that was being done to lower the PPS in order to get new shares at a lower PPS. In short, they are hoping the lender to also benefit from the share prices to increase, not decrease...
Anyway, I do not think it suggests they are in need of money. actually, the reverse.
It is my luck to have invested in a stock where the "bulls" are rooting against its PPS.
Alas, really wish in retrospect that I was more heavily invested in April, but such is life. GLTA...