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James Musick quoted in January 2012 biotechnology article......
CEO James Musick was quoted in a January isssue of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. The article is about the cell culture media industry. Musick's quote can be found on page 2......
“I don’t know that there are specific differences between media used for mesenchymal stem cells or for other mesenchymal cells,” explains Jim Musick, Ph.D., president of Vitro Diagnostics. “Media requirements depend more on the cell’s origin—mesenchymal, endodermal, epidermal—than whether it’s a stem cell or not.”
daviddodd...Wall Street Resources, Sean Marconi......
Does anybody know the firm referred to and has anyone checked out exactly what they do?
db7...email promo, 510(k) application, website, Romania.....
geez, I wish at least it was one of the good pump teams lol... looks like they might be done already
guess we should have sold over .15 and rebought here
On February 7, 2012, the Company’s board of directors ratified the terms of a consulting agreement dated January 24, 2012 with a marketing firm to provide certain public and investor relations services. The agreement has an initial six-month term and may be terminated by either party upon a material breech of the agreement. It includes several phases for which the consultant shall be compensated upon completion. The initial phase includes the completion of various strategies for which the consultant received cash compensation of $5,000 and 120,000 of the Company’s common stock, which was valued at $4,800 as discussed above. Phases II & III includes certain services regarding the Company’s online efforts, including the design and implementation of a more robust Company website, and positioning the Company as a potential investment and supplier of stem cell products within select social media. The consultant will be entitled to additional compensation for completion of Phases II & III of approximately $12,000 payable in cash or a combination of cash and common stock to be determined by the Company upon completion. For the three months ended January 31, 2012 a total of $9,800 consisting of the initial cash payment and common stock issued was charged to operations.
The cells were processed no longer than 4 hours after bonemarrow harvesting. In parallel, human MSC line was obtained from Vitro BioPharma (Native Human MSC, CO, USA).
10-K...new item, fully-diluted share count.....
Interesting piece of information in the 2011 10-K, regarding a 1.5M share issuance to management/directors if a merger occurs. This must be something recently put in place because no previous filing has made mention of it......
Unless otherwise indicated, each person named in the table exercises sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares beneficially owned. As at the date hereof, TGFIN Holdings, Inc. had outstanding 23,321,045 shares of its common stock. Percentages are not adjusted to reflect 1,800,000 shares awarded to management over the past several years, and not yet issued, nor 1,500,000 conditionally awarded to management pending the signing of an acceptable merger, to be issued immediately before such merger, and not yet issued, resulting in 25,121,045 and 26,621,045 total shares, respectively.
SUIP(.006)...SGBL shell valuation......
Somewhat interesting to note that Tim Shaojun Sun's other shell (SGBL) has popped up to the $1-2 area in the last couple of weeks. SGBL has 3.36M shares outstanding, with insider ownership of 2.7M shares (80.4%).
Adjusted for the differences in insider ownership between the two shells, SGBL is trading at a valuation that is 20-40X higher than the SUIP shell.
I figure that any significant/positive development with the SGBL shell should eventually bring attention to SUIP.
db7...YIHG......
The shares from the December 2011 S-8 (1.25M) were issued sometime during January/February, so going forward YIHG will have a slightly higher outstanding share count (13.3M shares). Despite the additional shares/expense associated with the S-8 issuance, I anticipate that YIHG should remain attractive from a valuation perspective at current prices.
According to the 10-K, the company appears to have finished restructuring its store lineup and is now focusing more on expansion. Two new retail stores (which is where the company generates the largest percentage of its revenue) were opened in the first quarter, and two supermarkets were added to the distribution lineup......
Decens Foods, our variable interest entity or VIE, through which we conduct our bakery operations in the PRC, was established in September 2003 and at that time acquired the bakery operations of Changchun Decens, then a state owned enterprise that that had succeeded to a business that was established in the third year of the reign of Emperor Xuantong Qing Dynasty (1911AD). At the time we acquired Changchung Decens it was focused on producing approximately 300 traditional Chinese bakery items, operated two retail stores and sold its products to only a limited number of supermarkets. Since the acquisition of Changchun Decens by Decens Foods, Ms. Song has sought to expand the number of items produced by Decens Foods, to widen the geographical area in which its distributes its products and to increase the channels of distribution used to reach the ultimate consumer, while also instilling a profit oriented culture. By 2009 Decens was operating 11 retail stores and its revenues had grown to $11,868,474. During 2010 and 2011 Decens sought to improve its profitability by opening new stores in better locations and closing smaller less profitable stores. As of the end of 2011 Decens was operating 13 retail stores. Decens intends to continue to open new stores for the foreseeable future within Jilin Province, and seek to increase the number of third parties that distribute its products. As part of its effort to expand, since the beginning of 2012, Decens has commenced distributing its products through 2 supermarkets located in Songyuan City, the fourth largest city in Jilin, and has opened 2 retail stores in Songyuan. Today, as more fully discussed below, Decens Foods manufactures approximately 600 items, including western foods as well as traditional Chinese bakery products and distributes its products throughout Jilin Province.
The shareholders of Decens Foods desire to access the US capital markets to obtain funds to expand the operations of Decens Foods and, potentially, to acquire other business, including food production and distribution businesses in China.
db7...website changes, promotional activity....
i was very suprised at the number of shares that came loose <= .08 recently
A 25 year old apparel company with 3 clothing factories, 1,500 employees, several own brands, operating 40 stores in China. In addition to selling its products nationwide in China, client sells to the U.S., Europe, Middle East and South America. The client is highly profitable and has a growth rate about 30-40%. ? The client plans to open stores in the US, increase its store locations in Cina and to commence a comprehensive website operation. ?? Estimated completion for listing, June 2012 at what time SinoCubate will own an equity position in the client.
For the services, SinoCubate will typically charge between 7 – 15% of equity in the client company, corresponding to an ownership in the client company valued from $5 million and up, to be free trading 6 months after completion of each transaction. In addition, they may invest in the target company at an attractive valuation.
"SBAT" currently has one client that plan to list in June, which will result in equity to SinoCubate worth in the range of US $7 – 10 million, plus two other clients, of which SinoCubate’s portion will be worth US $3-6 million.
Anti-dilution clause...reply to private message......
There is a quite interesting anti-dilution clause in this RM agreement, which will probably go mostly unnoticed by investors. Basically, for a one-year period following the closing of this RM, the DION shell owners (that is us, the holders of the 28.05M shares prior to the RM closing) are guaranteed to maintain a 5% ownership of the new company. Any issuance of new shares (in the form of common, options, warrants, etc.) during this one-year period will result in the shell owners receiving additional shares.
Off the top of my head, I can not recall seeing this type of anti-dilution protection for the lowly retail shell shareholders in any shell/RM I have been invested in or monitored fairly closely.......
Roy Teng...May 9, DealFlow Media conference......
Roy Teng (current member of DION's Board of Directors) will be a panelist at the DealFlow Media conference in Beijing to be held May 9-10, 2012. The discussion topic he will be part of is titled "What are the options for undervalued public companies?". Teng is a Managing Director at Brean Murray Carret & Co.
http://www.dealflow.com/conferences/outlook_for_chinese_companies/agenda.cfm
The DION RM will probably be completed by that date, if the 90-day time frame (January 30-April 30) for the merger remains in effect.
Central Mega Limited (Jeff Teng, Roy Teng's father) should own about 23+% (6.5M shares) of DION just prior to the RM.
DION's other major shareholders prior to the RM (current CEO Bernard Kravitz and Rui Mai) should each own amounts of shares just slightly less than CML's amount.
SBAT...update.....
Regarding a follow-up to this post I made about SBAT.....
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=71592973
After receiving the email from CEO Tom Simeo on 2/1/2012, I waited for about 3.5 weeks but still had not received his response to the questions I asked, and SBAT was still under a "revoked" status at the Nevada SOS. So I emailed him on 2/27, reminded him of the Nevada situation, and again asked him the questions about the ownership status of the 14.5M shares that were sent to Viking, and the source/nature of the money for SBAT's anticipated investments in its client companies.
The next day the filings and reinstatement appeared at the Nevada SOS. Later in the week the CEO responded to my email, noting that SBAT was back in good standing with Nevada. Unfortunately, he did not answer my questions.
I have additional questions I would like answered, but I was waiting to see what type of detailed response I could get to the first set of questions. I am getting the sense that he is either unwilling or unable to provide the information I am looking for, so I think any further attempt to get the info from him is probably just going to be a waste of my time.
I think it would be extremely helpful to current/prospective shareholders if the company would provide a much more detailed explanation of SBAT's business activities, the financing of its investments in the client companies, and its current/future relationship and interaction with Viking Investments Group (Nevis and St. Kitts). Now that I have brought some areas of shareholder questions/concerns to the attention of the CEO, it will be interesting to see if any of these things get addressed in the upcoming 10-K or a future press release.
Disclosure of material events in a timely and clear manner is an area that SBAT management needs to significantly improve. One- to three-month delays in filing 8-Ks for important items doesn't help instill investor confidence.
On a more positive note, I noticed last Tuesday or Wednesday that Viking placed another job posting in China. They are looking for a total of 4 Chief Financial Officers to work with client companies. So it appears that SBAT's pipeline of clients is probably continuing to grow......
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522%25E7%25BE%258E%25E5%259B%25BD%25E7%2591%259E%25E9%2587%2591%25E6%258A%2595%25E8%25B5%2584%25E9%259B%2586%25E5%259B%25A2%25E6%259C%2589%25E9%2599%2590%25E5%2585%25AC%25E5%258F%25B8%25E4%25B8%258A%25E6%25B5%25B7%25E4%25BB%25A3%25E8%25A1%25A8%25E5%25A4%2584%2522%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DX%26tbo%3D1%26tbas%3D0%26biw%3D1008%26bih%3D583%26tbs%3Dqdr:y%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&twu=1&u=http://jobs.zhaopin.com/shanghai/%25E9%25A2%2584%25E5%25AE%25A1%25E9%2583%25A8%25E9%25AB%2598%25E7%25BA%25A7%25E7%25BB%258F%25E7%2590%2586%25EF%25BC%2588%25E7%25BE%258E%25E5%259B%25BD%25E4%25BC%259A%25E8%25AE%25A1%25E5%2587%2586%25E5%2588%2599%25EF%25BC%2589_275670913250047.htm&usg=ALkJrhjSaIvLWPlTUtMUKRb2IhrUBfI1yA
$hellKing...DION's interesting anti-dilution clause......
Most of the time when the initial RM 8K comes out the RS is already equated that Ive seen but if they do do a RS I hope they dont do any RS larger than 1 for 10. Chinese cos have a bad reputation for doing large RSs off the bat.
Hopefully the CEO worked out a deal for shareholders not to get shafted.
db7...RM share structure, website, etc......
DION's current business is being taken private by the CEO, so there shouldn't be any spin-off of the current business to shareholders.
On a fully-diluted basis (and assuming the deal is structured on the 10M net income level) there would be about 561M shares outstanding and net income about .018 per share. ......
1) 25.8M shares currently outstanding
+ 2.25M shares to be issued prior to closing (Section 5.12)
= 28.05M shares outstanding prior to closing
2) 28.05/.05 = 561M shares
3) 10/561 = .0178 eps
I am working under the assumption that rather than increasing the authorized shares up to accomodate a large 561M share structure, the RM company prior to converting any preferred shares will most likely just reverse split the DION shell shares down to a more reasonable and institutional/uplisting friendly number. The 95%/5% transaction ratio is firmly set (again depending on the net income number for 2011), so any reverse split will not fundamentally change anything for current shareholders of the soon-to-be DION shell.
The website for Shangrao Baihuazhou Industrial Co. (http://www.srbhz.com.cn/) doesn't appear to be online/accessible at the moment, and I'm not currently aware of an alternative site.
You can get some limited/general corporate information and some pictures of the plants/products the company sells from business/government sites, like the one below. If I recall correctly one of the sites mentioned that the company has a flower base under cultivation of about 220+ acres (not sure if that just includes flowers, or other plants as well)......
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://srbhz.cn.alibaba.com/&ei=S6wxT_b8KOjL0QGsotzJBw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CD0Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522%25E4%25B8%258A%25E9%25A5%25B6%25E7%2599%25BE%25E8%258A%25B1%25E6%25B4%25B2%25E5%25AE%259E%25E4%25B8%259A%25E6%259C%2589%25E9%2599%2590%25E5%2585%25AC%25E5%258F%25B8%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_zh-CN%26sa%3DX%26tbas%3D0%26tbs%3Dlr:lang_1zh-CN%26prmd%3Dimvns
The Chairman (Li Xiaoling) is female. Here is a picture of Xiaoling at a Shangrao City Flower Association meeting held about 3 months ago......
http://www.jxsragri.gov.cn/html/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=12077
Traderfan...SNPY net income......
SNPY, what's your net income guess after the merger is completed and contributes to the books?
db7...SB_AT.....
sb_at .15 ask now.. not sure what's up there.. still holding my shares
RichieBoy...Copower English translation.....
Any idea if either of these businesses mentioned are in Mongolia? A shame Copower website didn't translate to English
Jiao Xuding...Copower Enterprise.....
I don't think Jiao Xuding currently owns any shares of SUIP. The money involved in that $3M investment was returned, and all of the shares/warrants issued in connection with that investment were cancelled, as per the filing snippet you included in your post.....
As I mentioned in a previous post, that $3M investment demonstrated to me that SUIP's management has some interesting connections (which may or may not prove to be beneficial in the future): 1) SUIP's purchase of that SJEL convertible note was part of a SJEL financing that included some institutional investors and, 2) Jiao Xuding's direct investment in SUIP was something I found somewhat interesting because of who he is and the obvious extensive connections he may have developed over the years.
Jiao Xuding is 41 years old and Chairman/Founder of privately-held Copower Enterprise (he started the company when he was 26 years old).
China reverse mergers...reply to private message.....
Reply to the person who sent me a private message about RNPR/YIHG and China RMs in general.....
Regarding RNPR/YIHG: I would say if you are at all uncomfortable holding a position in this stock, you should be able to find buyers for your position in the 5-15 cent area. No sense in holding onto something you seem to regret buying.
This past year has not been particularly kind to reverse mergers (and most stocks, for that matter), regardless of whether they are China RMs or completely domestic companies in nature. Stagnant or sub-par performance is not a trait exclusive to China RMs in today's stock market.
I happen to like the "niche" type of play that YIHG currently represents (pastry/snack food consumption in China). Up to this point, I am pleased with how the CEO has handled the RM. Her background is impressive, and the reverse merger is structured in a manner that is conducive to upside for the retail investor.
Regarding China reverse mergers in general: There is no question that a negative atmosphere surrounds China stocks, and anyone investing in these particular stocks should be aware and accepting of the risks and general sentiment. But sometimes sentiment/conditions can change in the market (often seen only in hindsight), and some interesting opportunities might arise.
While there are a lot of people talking disparagingly about China-related stocks right now (and in many cases, justifiably so), I think people are making a mistake if they believe this is just a problem exclusive to US-listed China RMs or China IPOs. There is a legitimate chance that prominent US-based multinational companies trading on the upper exchanges here in America could find themselves under attack from shorts and facing possible delisting if things continue to escalate.
Basically the tactics and avenues of attacks that shorts are using to bring down the US-listed China stocks are forming a "template" that could very easily be applied toward attacks on companies like Microsoft, General Electric, etc, etc. Any company that has operations in China is at pretty serious risk here, regardless of whether their accounting/operations in China are completely free of fraud.
The pressure is intensifying on the SEC to reach an agreement with China that would allow PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) inspections of Chinese audit firms. Anything less than full/complete inspections and full/complete compliance with SEC requests is something that could play directly into the shorts' hands. I think it was one of Forbes columnists/bloggers that made the point this past year that (and I paraphrase here) the SEC knows that Microsoft would not be able to comply with a request to see all documents/information related to the audit of its China operations because the company doesn't have them and the audit firm will not provide them.
Senator Charles Schumer (via the letter he sent to the PCAOB a few weeks ago) is basically demanding that the PCAOB immediately terminate the registration of any China audit firm that refuses to comply with an inspection request. If that were to happen, all of these US-based multinationals would be unable to consolidate their China operations. Which would result in these companies being unable to comply with the audit requirements of the NYSE/NASDAQ exchanges.
DesertRat1...HAZN shell.....
Michael Klinicki's other shell (HAZN) will probably get filled by an edible fungi (mushroom) company, based on the name change to "China Liaoning Dingxu Ecological Agriculture Development, Inc."......
On October 26, 2011 Hazlo! Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Certificate of Amendment with the Secretary of State of Nevada changing the name of the Company to China Liaoning Dingxu Ecological Agriculture Development, Inc. The change of name was effective immediately upon filing. No other change was made to the Certificate of Incorporation.
Awestruck press release......
Awestruck Marketing Group issued a press release on Thursday announcing the name change. Lawrence Butler has a couple of statements in the release......
TrashTalkFCM Becomes AWESTRUCK Marketing Group
Agency's New Brand Reflects Continued Delivery of Meaningful Experiential Marketing Programs That Are Amplified via Social and Digital Platforms
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 1999, the team at TrashTalkFCM has been providing highly successful experiential marketing programs to the world's leading brands. From their early guerrilla work and nontraditional media offerings to their national tours and large-scale, high profile events, TrashTalkFCM has emerged as a leader in the experiential field, with a reputation as a trusted partner in providing creative, measurable marketing solutions impeccably executed in ways that provide meaningful brand experiences for consumers. To reflect this emergence as a premiere experiential agency, TrashTalkFCM is now AWESTRUCK Marketing Group.
"As the business of marketing has changed over the last dozen years, so have we," said Lawrence Butler, AWESTRUCK Marketing Group's Chief Executive Officer. "Successful brands these days are looking to engage with their consumers in ways that are truly meaningful to them. Ways that will leave them awestruck and make them want to share these experiences with their friends and family. AWESTRUCK Marketing Group is entirely focused on providing just these types of experiences."
To maximize the impact, personal connection and ultimately the ROI of their experiential and event work, AWESTRUCK now provides a full service approach to their clients' marketing objectives. Working with strategic partners and new technologies as needed, AWESTRUCK strives to enhance the meaning and execution of each brand experience while giving consumers the incentives and tools to quickly amplify that experience socially.
"Every program we put together is designed to be shared socially," said Robin Potash, AWESTRUCK's President. "With the technology so readily available these days, every experiential program is an opportunity for massive reach. This is a new frontier for experiential marketing, and our team is thrilled to be at the forefront of it. It's exciting."
To complete the support of the new brand, AWESTRUCK is also rolling out a new website, sizzle reel and a full suite of collateral with an entirely new look and feel.
"After so many years as TrashTalkFCM, we decided it was finally time to take out the trash," said Butler. "Our clients all agree that our work, our creativity and our dedication to the success of their business is better reflected in the name AWESTRUCK."
For more information about AWESTRUCK Marketing Group, visit www.getawestruck.com.
ABOUT AWESTRUCK MARKETING GROUP
AWESTRUCK is a full service experiential agency that produces marketing solutions and events that drive measurable results for brands seeking true engagement with their target consumers. And because every experience is an opportunity to connect, they amplify our work via integrated social and digital media. Based in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, they conduct world class operations everywhere in between.
SUIP(.0133)...shell......
6.9M shares outstanding
5.5M float
$92K market cap
I have a large position built at a 3-cent average. Although SUIP may have a large float (from a percentage standpoint), it has been my experience that accumulating shares can be a bit more difficult than a person might expect. Momentum players who entered the stock in the past year found that it can move pretty quickly on relatively light volume (sub-penny to .15+). It wouldn't surprise me if another momentum-type of run develops sometime during the next year or so.
I consider prices under 3 cents to be particularly attractive for entry/accumulation because it helps provide some "valuation protection" if management decides to increase its insider ownership percentage. For example, if management increased its ownership up to say 75% or so, the valuation of the shell is still under $700K at 3 cents (22M shares x .03).
The two brothers (CEO Xuguang Sun and CFO Tim Shaojun Sun) who control this shell are the owners/management of Tianxing Lighting and Electric. This mainland China company is involved in lighting-related products (bulbs, fixtures, etc), primarily manufactures products under the "Visun" brand. I am not sure if the brothers are also involved with the parent company (Visun Lighting Group). Originally some years back, they were planning on bringing the lighting company public through the shell (I think it does about $60M in revenue per year), but I believe they are now focusing their merger/acquisition attention on other companies/assets.
SUIP filed its 10-K on Friday. There may or may not be any significance to the timing of that filing, but I found it a bit interesting that the report was filed 5+ weeks earlier than it normally is done (usually SUIP files around the last week in December).
Also, for the past 8 quarters or so the CFO has been reserving some variation of the "Sunrise Mining Corporation" at the Nevada SOS site, possibly indicating the potential interest the company has in acquiring mining-related assets or businesses. The last reservation expired at the end of October. The CFO in the past has allowed some lapses in the reservation, but it will be interesting to see if he renews the reservation this time. If he doesn't renew, that could be a potential indication that something might be taking place or at the very least the company might be focusing its attention on other industries/sectors.
SSP...Lawrence Butler...Livingston departure.....
That photo of Lawrence Butler on the Awestruck Marketing Group website is the first/only image of Lawrence that I have run across in the time I have owned AHAG. The facial resemblance to his father (Marshall D Butler) is very noticeable.....
http://www.coastal.edu/magazine/spring2008/gifts.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39310493@N02/3616735559/
Interesting to note that about a month prior to this change in company name/image from TrashTalkFCM to Awestruck Marketing Group co-founder Andrew Livingston left the company to go work for Rodale. I am guessing that Lawrence may have purchased any ownership interest Livingston may have had, or at a minimum Lawrence probably now has increased his management control over TrashTalkFCM/Awestruck.
RNPR(.19)...China bakery products.....
Trailing 12-month numbers based on Q3 report:
12M shares outstanding
$2.3M market cap
$6.4M net income
.53/shr net income
.36 PE
There will probably be some nice shorter-term trading opportunities in the stock from around this 10-cent area. But on a hunch I am probably going to hang on to those 6-cent shares and see if I can get at least a 10/20-bagger.
SBAT(.40)...finished accumulating a position.....
According to the 11/04/2011 8-K, SBAT has now acquired 100% ownership of Viking Investments Group....
...SBAT now owns the current/future pipeline of Viking's incubation/RM/IPO projects and investments.
SBAT(.25)...acquires ownership of Viking.....
18M shares outstanding
$4.5M market cap
According to the 11/04/2011 8-K, SBAT has now acquired 100% ownership of Viking Investments Group. The 3 stock transactions that have occurred between the two parties over the last several months have resulted in what is basically a reverse merger between SBAT and Viking. The original SBAT shell (1M shares) represents about 5.5% of the new business........
As of the signing of this Agreement, VIKING will cease all its operations in China and transfer all rights, title and interest related to its business in China to SINOCUBATE and its wholly owned subsidiary, Viking Investments Group LLC (Nevada).
db7...bid/ask sizes.....
don't know how close u watch but there have been several very large bids come and go... also a 500k ask at .04 if i recall correctly
i 'think' someone is/was trying to scare some shares into the bid
db7...SportsCast Apps website update.....
It should be interesting to see what happens here. Sam Gaer has continued to support TGFN ($6.5K in convertible financing at .015 this quarter). Unless Sam intends to finance TGFN in perpetuity, there will need to be a significant improvement/growth in the current operating business and/or a significant merger/acquisition.
I am assuming that the Shane Gaer who appears as a Managing Director in the "About Us" section in the SportsCast Apps website is a son/relative of Sam Gaer. Over the weekend some biographical information was put up on the website, and there may have been some minor tweaks to the site.
I think Shane Gaer is probably around 18-years-old and a Senior at Riverdale Country School (a private school in New York City, tuition is about $40K per year).....
Shane brings about 14 years of athletic experience to SportsCastApps. He is a LHP for the Long Island Titans Gold summer league team, and finished the season with a 23 inning scoreless streak (including a no hitter). Shane combines his athleticism with a knack for computer science to give iDev3 a unique skillset. This summer, Shane was not only an essential part of his baseball team, but he also guided the transformation of the SportsCast into the world of ad-supported apps. What's next Shane?
See more on Shane's Blog... (COMING SOON)
db7...new product announcements on website.....
steadily creeping up
mccoy...More For Less, Lawrence, Marshall......
Looks like he's in oil and energy alsowww.linkedin.com/pub/lawrence-butler/8/525/950.
SBAT's new website.....
The SinoCubate website has started coming online today. The site has quite a different graphical look compared to what I remember the site looked like back during that brief 2009/2010 period. Interesting to note the website title on all the pages is "Viking Investments Group LLC", and the Viking website doesn't appear to be accessible since SBAT's site has come online. A couple items of interest.....
1) From the "Our Business" section.....
SinoCubate will invest directly in stages, in Chinese companies (“Incubating Companies’) to be listed in the United States or elsewhere at a later stage when the incubating company has reached a mature stage (the incubating period) and will qualify as a stand-alone publicly listed company, typically 1-2 years after the initial investment.?
During the incubating period, SinoCubate will provide capital, management support and advice, and prepare the incubating company to become a publicly listed company.?
In consideration for the incubating service and investments, the entrepreneur will give up a certain percentage, typically 10-15% of the ownership in the Incubating Company to SinoCubate, thereby maintaining a substantial controlling ownership of the company.
SinoCubate, ticker, SBAT, is an American publicly listed company on the OTCBB in United States, which until the summer of 2011 was a shell company. It is anticipated that SinoCubate will file an application to migrate to BX Venture Market or NASDAQ during the first quarter of 2012.
Job postings increase...includes brokers and IR......
There has been another large increase in job postings by Viking Investments Group in the last week/month. The job listings include front office personnel, CFOs for client companies, business development people, etc.
For the first time that I can recall, Viking is now advertising for securities account managers (brokers and/or fund managers) and people to work in the investor relations department. The IR job listing is particularly interesting because it is the first Viking job posting that mentions SinoCubate.
Security account managers (10 people)....
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://jobs.zhaopin.com/shanghai/%25E8%25AF%2581%25E5%2588%25B8%25E9%2583%25A8%25E5%25AE%25A2%25E6%2588%25B7%25E7%25BB%258F%25E7%2590%2586_275670913250068.htm&ei=S42MTrH-EI2DsgKf8rnaBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CIYBEO4BMAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522www.vikinginvestments.com%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_zh-CN%26safe%3Dimages%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1008%26bih%3D583%26tbs%3Dlr:lang_1zh-CN,qdr:y%26prmd%3Dimvns
Customer Service (investor relations, 1-2 people).....
I need 1-2 young people to help with investor relation work.
Their job is mostly on the computer, responding to investor inquiries by email, corresponding by chat with investors, handling the investors email list, posting Blogs on varies investor boards, maintaining our facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and maintaining the website for SinoCubate, etc.
Simeo items...Twitter message, Anpro PE.....
1) CEO Tom Simeo posted this message on his Twitter account yesterday.....
Stay tuned! I will shortly launch our US publicly listed investment vehicle focused on high quality Chinese companies.
db7..RNPR(.085)...undervalued RM model.....
12M shares outstanding
$1M market cap
.43/shr trailing 12-month earnings
.2 PE
There will probably be some nice shorter-term trading opportunities in the stock from around this 10-cent area. But on a hunch I am probably going to hang on to those 6-cent shares and see if I can get at least a 10/20-bagger.
It does appear that the CEO has initially structured this as an undervalued RM. So there does exist the potential for significant upside, depending on general and China-stock market conditions. Below is something I posted on the CDBH message board last year regarding my definition of "fully-valued" and "undervalued" reverse merger models......
If I recall correctly, about 2-3 years ago China put in place a policy that was suppose to prohibit "under-valued" RM transactions. For example, if a Chinese RM candidate was evaluated as being worth $10M then in order to complete a reverse merger that Chinese company would need to receive basically $10M worth of shell shares. You would not be allowed to give the Chinese company a small number of shares worth say $1M and then let the market "naturally" correct the share price/valuation up to the $10M level.
The "under-valued" RM models are where you get the really nice 20 cent to $5 overnight types of moves. I think LNDT and SVPE are probably two good recent examples of that. Obviously that policy has been changed or the Chinese government is no longer rigidly enforcing it because I have been seeing a number of these types of deals.
TGFN(.011)...registered SportsCast Apps website.....
Might be worth watching in case some kind of activity picks up in the coming weeks/months. Along with Sam Gaer's convertible financing at .03 that I mentioned in the above post, I think he also did some convertible financing at .015 subsequent to the last quarterly report. On a fully diluted basis I think there is probably around 27M shares outstanding, prior to any additional financing/dilution that might show up in the next quarterly.
Filed a NT 10-Q on 8/12 and is currently deliquent on that quarterly report. Interesting to note that 4 days after making that NT 10-Q filing, the sportscastapps.com website was registered. Although not fully functional at the moment, its existence would seem to suggest the company intends to remain active in the mobile applications area. The "TGFN" stock symbol (and stock information link) appears in the lower left corner of the website.....
http://www.sportscastapps.com/
Incubator/Investor...very interesting/puzzling development.....
NEW YORK and SHANGHAI, Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- SinoCubate, Inc. (OTCBB:SBAT.ob - News) ("SinoCubate" or the "Company"), today announced that the Company has ceased to be a shell company and commenced operations as an incubator of and investor in privately held companies, mainly in P.R. China.
Issue to Viking Twelve Million Five Hundred Sixty Nine Thousand Four Hundred Twenty (12,569,420) newly issued restricted shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 in consideration for Four Hundred Sixty Six Thousand Eight Hundred Thirteen (466,813) common stock of China Wood, Inc., (“China Wood”) to be transferred to SINOCUBATE’s wholly owned subsidiary, Viking Investments Group LLC, incorporated under the laws of Nevada.
Tom Simeo...Pitching Well interview.....
As I noted on another board, Viking Investments appears to be preparing for a significant influx of business/investments regarding its operations in China
SBAT...change in shell status.....
2.9M shares outstanding
870K market cap
On May 23, 2011, the Company commenced operations as an incubator of an Internet driven investment exchange with the purpose to become the global marketplace for investments. The Company is in the process of building a comprehensive global online community whereby investors, investees and practitioners meet. The Company intends to cater to various types of investors and investees and their advisers, such as bankers, investment banks, corporations, private equity firms, hedge funds, PIPE investors, family offices, and entrepreneurs. The Company believes it is filling a need for a mid-market online global market place allowing participants to identify opportunities world-wide on a cost efficient subscription basis. By providing a free listing service for investees and a basic service for investors for free, which can be upgraded to various levels, the Company believes it can attract a large amount of users and increase web traffic, which in turn will convert to additional paying subscribers and revenue for the Company.
By allowing investees to list its opportunities for free, to be provided only on a teaser level of disclosure to investors subscribing to the basic service, it is anticipated that professional investors and their constituent parties will increase their deal flow, thereby reducing the cost and complexity otherwise not easily revealed by current research methods. Matching is shown on each subscriber’s dashboard and takes place primarily around similar industry classifications. Full subscription allows investors access to a much more informative online level of disclosure designed to allowing the investors to make an informed decision and to contact investees.
VODG(.15)...new product catalog.....
VODG's new stem cell product catalog became available yesterday. This is the first time that VODG has offered its catalog in a downloadable PDF format. Very attractively done from a visual/content standpoint.
Interesting to note, from page one of the catalog.....
We are currently expanding our menu of MSC differentiation media and plan to announce availability of an endothelial differentiation medium for use in clinical applications of MSCs in treatment of cardiovascular disease in the near future.
DesertRat1...website translation.....
Thanks for the information and the link. I can't get my Google translation to work on it. Are you able to read it?
China website has been redesigned.....
The China website has been redesigned and started coming online in the last couple of days. The most prominent feature of the old site was a large flash image of a modern-looking headquarters/factory. A loop of three biotech/pharma types of images has replaced that.
I usually like to pay attention to any significant changes I see in the appearance/content on the Chinese websites of US-listed Chinese companies. Sometimes the Chinese websites contain interesting bits of information that never show up on the United States website, or at a minimum the changes might give you some reason to believe that "something" might be going to happen.
I think it was back in 2009/2010 that I recall seeing changes occurring to the flash introduction of the RHGP (now CBP) Chinese website. This was followed by changes to the main content of the website.
A lot of investors at that time were uninterested in the stock/company because it was deliquent with its filings and there was nothing on the English website of the company to suggest that things were going to significantly change anytime soon. Shortly after the changes started showing up on the Chinese website, the company regained compliance with its filing requirements, and eventually made the move to a higher exchange. I think I walked away from that investment with about a 2-3 bagger.
CDBH Chinese website......
http://www.dqsyjy.com/
stanley01...AHAG, 5%.....
Potse re: AHAG
I only hold 4.9% so there is no need for me to file a form 13-G with the SEC. However, considering you own 355,000 shares and are a 5% shareholder, aren't you required to file a form 13-G with the SEC?