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Chinese govt. has allowed its people to own gold and silver.
PMs at very good BUY point, compared to Chinese stock market and their real estate.
Mere inflation demand of new worldwide consumers will work to maintain PMs prices. Its not USA that is buying PMs . . . it is
folks all over the world . . . as its the only 'bank' they have trust in.
The more robots and drones replace humans . . . the more PMs goes into their circuits. Same for solar cells and automation in new factories and control systems.
Do you see HL, etc. laying off workers?
Nope. Just opened a new mine. Their shipping overseas and selling to the USA government mint.
PMs do not rot and can be stored in number of ways.
'Flash crashes', cyber-attacks, and bank 'holidays';) do not lessen PM utility. That's why governments and banks do not really want you and I to have certified public money form of PMs.
Silver bars and coins can even be used to purify a water container of germs (Settlers did it coming out west). Silver oxide ointment is major killer of new forms of viruses, etc. Forget the 'new' R&D costs for super-bug meds . . . that may or may not work? Good luck with that.
Silver batteries are recyclable easily, give very good wattage, very long operating life, and can represent 'storage value' money for a power user. Lithium batts are toxic and can explore if moisture or air gets directly into them. Also a major form of poison for life forms.
We have the best government that bad money can buy.
But they are not stupid enough not to trade in PMs, as every one
knows the stuff I cataloged above. Note that China and Iran have beat the embargo by trading these commodities . . . one for the other. You think the USA Navy would dare to pull over a Chinese ship and seize its cargo, either way. Nope.
Bottom line . . . is you can't make profits if PMs and oil were
not to continuously trade up and down. The Shill Media predictions are involved in someone's game plan.
Also, you shut sub-surface mines down and it takes time and money to bring them back. You need experienced and willing miners.
Desperate unemployed can't immediately fill that job slot profile profitably and safely.
Something business schools fail to understand.
I BOT a little Monday afternoon.
Thanks from board for your post, enjoyed the comments from the 'practical-ists'.
The 'robotic arm' could rather easily be designed to be lighter weight. I can think of several improvements that I will not mention.
Just robotic arms are not a good idea in my way of looking at it.
Medically, you are forcing the shoulder and joints area to take the repetitive motion strains. You really need a full robotic suit to accomplish safe and useful activity ranges.
Design teams need medial imput and plain common sense from potential users (not just MBAs). If your going for Sky-Net, don't ask bean-counters how to do it.
Your artl. just reinforces my feelings that the line-and-strike solider of the future will be robotized. EKSO presently offers a very nice solution to this evolution. If Con-gress would get off-and-on, and push through some contracts and quit with the smileys and 1950s attitudes, we might start seeing this stock price rise. We survive together active, or die separately?
Someone in DOD research . . . make a trip to Goggle, etc. and get them to throw some funding. Capitalism needs to step into the new Century and forget off-shoring to crete imaginary cost svings that gut our domestic society.
Terminator Genesis reached *$190 Mil total worldwide sales (BO-MoJo info). Looking like if GLUU wants any VG software mobile sale plays---it better have placed an ad on the coming DVD sales?
Aug 4 next earnings call @!:30PM. The stock chart looking lacking upscale 'kicker'.
Is GLUU advertising on Facebook and @appl. stores?
Wonder why Arnold did not front the GLUU VG advertise at the end of his paid TV ads for the movie? Or, GLUU should have fronted some $$s for a 2-4 second 'flash' ad right behind Arnold's paid TV ads?
Either we get super earnings call of +.08 . . . or GLUU gets oh-hum earnings and we drop towards $6 or lower? Our $8-10 stock price is still up for back-to-school and holiday season VG plays.
We shall see if the GLUU has 'dried'.
Has everyone gone on Vac?
Love the TV ad where young man geek-er in basement playing VGs calls to his mom 'I am hungry!' <---wonderful comment on New World Order Economy and Society in the Matrix-ized USA.
I would think it will as time passes.
CIBR has roughly the same stocks in it, but they are in different
%s of invested monies (called 'weighted' ETF investment choices emphasis).
What we must watch now as investors, is how INTC, Cisco, and other large corporations in data storage security and client servers (example IBM) enter the cyber security business.
Windows 10 is prime example of this: cloud-based super computer storage of personal and business data. The question is now will we all 'take' to MSFT pushing us into cloud data storage? Would DOD move to Win 10?
Roughly 20% of world of data is still using XP software.
this incudes DOD, banks, and hospitals. Geepers . . . wonder how hackers got our data!
Looking much like heavy investing by the large folk in new forms of cyber protection, is coming to a computer near you and me. Which ever political entity gains the election victory, huge man power and equipment and SW investing is on the way. Those 90K DOD lay-offs may be countered by cyber-troops in both public and private employment. The Fat Lady hasn't sung yet.
Just my concept: but what would be wrong with bringing a new form of the Military Draft into existence that drafts our young men and women into alternative service in tech firms, with their college degrees and pays them equivalent to military tech grade personnel, pay scale? We can grow a cyber-army that can kick butt, reduce unemployment, get tax revenues up, re-shore USA business, upgrade infrastructure concurrently as new capital is sited, and pay down student debt.
And, of course, HACK ETF would ride this wave, and increase in stock price value.
Add Wed 3 'problems' to your post.
Seems O-bomb has declared no terror attack apparent.
Another view: we just tested a mock-up attack on USA stock exchanges.
Yet another viewpoint: NYSE level 3 trading access noted DOW heading below 300 points value . . . and everyone decided to 'can' the feed to prevent panic selling.
The Asian Effect could continue down pressures on all markets.
China just shot itself in the foot . . . as suitable contender
for acceptance for place to trust and invest in.
Problem now becomes . . . where to buy in, for both foreigners and domestic small fries.
Probably can indeed safely be assumed Chinese hackers would not have attacked their own market, nor USA and other Asian markets.
Private and Public News TV channels had segments today on cyber security. HACK needs to call and explain to media who they are, etc.
Box office mojo says T-Genesis is in 3rd place USA weekly highest USA domestic movie gross position. T has also present dominate USA number of movie houses showing a particular film.
T domestic revenues = * $44Mil
foreign " = * $85Mil
T is nearing its cost to make (roughly $140 Mil area
Coming other film competition rest of this month is predominantly in less than 500 movie houses compared to the present big 3 movies in thousands. Other major 2 of top 3 weekly grossing movies are losing movie house showing numbers.
Mission Impossible Tom Cruise end of July release date.
Hopefully, GLUU T-Genesis VG play is going to build slowly, as movie goers discover the mobile VG is offered. We only can hope GLUU VG is advertised in coming DVD release. Would GLUU have been smart enough to hand out ads to movie goers, and put ads in local counter-culture papers and in national magazines? Na . . .
what a dumb idea!
Thinking of investing in UHN . . . initially not much info on ETF portfl. assets (apparently all oil futures bulk storage}. I suspect some (or all) is in off-shore storage tankers fleet.
No dividend yield to retail investors?
My investment goal will be to try and roughly time the low of UHN stock price and sell @ its rough high point. <---same basic strategy as big folks like funds. Any profit gained will be used to off-set my home heating oil bill. Should be able to beat the banks offered saving account interest, as well as dividends offered by energy ETF funds that hold oil and gas company stocks.
The reason I suspect this will work for me, is Federal government (USA} and domestic energy companies are working together to keep price of oil low, to stimulate the USA out of recession.
The coming 2015 Nov elections are up for grabs by either party at present. Wild choices face major economic sector supporters of either party. Mandatory Health Care cost structure 'inflation' is bleeding away the small surplus spending monies many have left. This 'surplus in-the-consumer-pocket money' was supposed to go into gas tanks, vacations, and fall school educational expenses. But . . . retail consumers are instead saving cash and paying down their outstanding credit . . . as possible. They are frightened of Greek B-Grade movie coming soon to USA.
Some are saying the Chinese 2008 stock crash happened just before the then USA Crash. They have noted the present *30% hair-cut in the current China stock decline.
Greece is off to Israel for a visit, wonder what they will come up with. Few know the two have joint military exercises together and energy deals on.
If Russia and China step in before any Jewish offers . . . the energy equation can change.
Lots of fun thinks going into present and future prices of heating oil. When UHN glides along its 52 week low range . . . is this the time to buy? The great ponder is if economy and energy price will slide further, before inevitable climb into winter heating season.
Good luck to you also.
Ah . . . my thinking about company is 'irrational' and non-professional. Yet you who are also in VNTH have no time to tell board what your 'plan' is, or anything positive or negative about the company?
I surely must stand corrected by your illuminating discussion of issues.
Stock price keeps going down and what might happen . . . R/S?
Interested and informative comments.
You are . . . perhaps . . . an extreme conservative investor to be in VNTH. Sure.
I do place very small positions in some OTCs and pinks, as long shots.
With your great scientific wisdom do enlighten us all on your judgment of VNTH possible success?
Or, was the weekly stock price fall just 'The 4th effect' and we can expect soon important developments?
I will say this . . . if no 'go' by end of 2016 . . . and company funds depleted . . . and competitors activity in the breath readers continuing to mature . . . what are options for VNTH?
Rather simply, to take a small sized chance on this company technology, which I foresee as possessing a high probability of success in the health care market place.
That said, I could not refrain from being amazed that mmgt. had chosen a company name that so apparently conflicted with common sense legality and business skill. VNTH hardly would be capable of defending itself against a larger, well-established company with a very remarkably similar corporate name trademarked.
There still exists a good possibility that a MJ pot mobile BT breather, rapid readout device can be marketed also. Any number
of other breath ample-exhaled toxic bio-chemical sensors can be developed, to serve various defense, medical, and commercial applications. Using this rationale, VNTH patents and R&D efforts might be partnered with or bot out.
Bluntly, the retail stock price is 'screw-driver-ed' for now . . . as I see it. <---this comment is based on my just considering the potential legal issue and its ramifications for additional costs, that could delay VNTH limited funds and staffing emphasis on its CTs and production. No one has seemed also to have spoken to marketing costing.
New investor in VNTH.
This was a kind of dumb pile of legal advise from VNTH attys in trademark area. It was comparable to using CMSFT as your trademark and not expecting legal challenge. Now . . . VNTH pays out legal fees as minimum damage from cease-and-desist refusal, public stupidity joke image in business circles, its retail investor and possible future funding issues in the public market, and probable lose of its stock ticket symbol? And . . . costs to re-incorporate under new company name and trademark.
Good job management . . . one can't buy this kind of negative PR.
This is no First Amendment challenge . . . its trouble bubbling.
Great way to sink the ship . . . internal illogic.
VNTH may have set itself up for demise . . . just when it looked like it had a viable business plan.
Lets wonder how this comes out butter-side-up.
This is going to boost the stock price, sure it will.
I guess everyone is in holding pattern on GLUU, until T-Movie results come in this coming Sunday after 4th of July.
Waiting for PR effect on stock price.
Did everyone see the news MSFT may be settling up to buy AMD (Chip Maker for SONy, etc. game machines). This will be epic battle with Android and Win 10 MSFT for tablets and cellphones and online gambling and gaming platforms? Could it mean VG software companies are next on MSFT/SONY 'alliance'? <---this is my speculation only . . . no hard facts . . . anyone care to comment? If Win 10 turns into 'clouded only VG play status' provider in coming years, what can that mean for GLUU, etc. VG companies . . . do we have to chose sides?
Mick, looks like the 'Greek-exit' and maybe Puerto Rica BK dilemma + Iran Nuke Treaty deadline effects. Of course, July 4 weekend does not help either.
Instit. Funds have not dropped us yet.
I am thinking they are waiting to see if T-Movie results buoy and settling of some of the above mentioned 'drags' on the general market tenor settle out.
Could go down to 5.50 price area, or below . . . if general market forces turn negative. Arnold never asked for this.
But Asians and international market retail investors may console themselves by playing our T-video game . . . to take their minds off the jumpy stock markets environment. Probably lots of them will go see the movie and expand GLUU T-VG play.
How's the above for 'Hop-ium'?
Obviously . . . the !% march to some distaff drum beat . . . let them eat cake and all that?
Those in the towers of Gotham . . . ner look down on the cold and windy streets
As the electronic vibs play their illusive light
If this is revolutionary tech . . . why no FCEL, etc. offers to buy?
Even MSFT and Goggle would be stepping forward?
Not against DNRG (have no stock in it either way), just curious to see how it turns out for you all (and good profits . . . someone in this retail investor certainly deserves that).
I will not post anymore on DNRG, just sit and watch.
I will check out Delphi to see what their site says.
Personally . . . yes I make mistakes on stocks . . . I have been stung on several of these small 'revolutionary solid state' FC companies in the past. I would have entered DNRG just for fun, but I do not chase rising penny stock promos.
Hope you are right and I just wrong.
Can you show us the actual developed FCs prototypes and the production lines? Just asking. I did not find them.
May you all become rich in profits on this development stage company.
Agree with much of what you say.
Just watching, and will not join the shorts either.
This type of solid-state oxide fuel cell has had various small companies attempt to harness it. To date . . . they have not.
The projection for development as a product, it seems, is always 'down-the-road' in coming decade. Note also the company has nothing but a drawing of its components, no profits except (retail investors purchases of 'dream' stock), a mere listing on Energy Africa initiative says not much, patents granted (not even in Africa or South America?). Lets wonder how the company would be able to 'defend' itself in court ($$s sources and legal talent) from copycats.
Goggle the company real estate site, and street view?
So everyone is assuming Administration energy Secty. put his signature to this company? Oh . . . I did not see that anywhere.
USA government grants . . . like DOD or DOE?
Note also other large FC companies, have not chosen this tech?
They are NOW selling FCs of their design and manufacture . . . but this development stage company (DNRG)is going to steal their customers?
And, where are the Chinese (with all their $Trillions and Smog and remote site energy and military desires)? The Africans have beat them to the 'revolutionary FC tech'?
I will continue to watch and actually hope all retail purchasers make $$$$s of profit.
You do realize this is a development stage company (unlike FCEL), it has no installed FCs and they are just basically got themselves listed as an advisor to an African Energy Development Initiative with no firm $$s contract in hand?
Watch what happens now to its stock price rest of week . . . probably going to be shorted soon.
I noticed that also.
In effect, who loaned us the $2mil has re-financed TAPM debt, and virtually controls TAPM. We had best be hoping next quarter is increasing TAPM revenues.
Wonder how Social Casino is doing since may, 2015 launch?
I assume the 'possible new acquisitions' will be Indie developers games. I am currently hanging on to TAPM to see how social casino effort develops, TAPM's answer to GLUU personality VGs like KK:H, educational VG inclusive lines potential, and TPM to consider and do something like Space X-prize VG and something for Apple, etc. wrist watch VGs. TAPM might consider a VG on launching your own cube-sats or operating an astro-garden to generally awaken 'Farm-Ville' fans to new prospers.
TAPM go talk to Mr. Musk and do an astro-mining VG?
Space-X might just throw you some development $$s.
Or . . . VG about making and flying your own Virtual Drone.
Alright TAPM . . . above is in your court.
I bot @ .87 area . . . reasons below.
1. Company is worth at least $1.00 based on installed FCs and its capital manufacturing , patent, and trained staff and manufacturing plant assests (USA) in place.
2. Its FCs can use various forms of energy and petro liquid equivalents (exhaust heats and chemicals), to propel its energy output. This means FC can operate and charge battery bank, etc. off-normal daylight cycle and in various forms of weather conditions. Something wind and solar cannot do without sun and wind. Excellent source of emergency situation uses and various military situations uses.
3. USA government would be highly illogical (at this geo-political point) to allow failure and break-up of FCEL in BK situation. May even have new DOD-DOE contracts to give to FCEL, to keep it in active productive defense inventory status.
Example, Star Wars Tech weapons systems, use FCs to power high-energy beam weapons. I doubt West Point and politico folk want to caught in should have-could have-would have situations in current elections and Middle East and Asian developments situations.
Let the Quants and head-gies attack the small day-traders and shorts . . . I will place my bet on the longer term outlook also. Higher Probability FCEL makes it, to me.
Trevor11 what happens now, as result of these newly issued shares?
Are they restricted or closed to sale for X amount of time?
This means, ZNGA stock price goes now down or we just keep bouncing around 3$?
And, what price were they issued at . . . professional SEC-speak
always seems to confuse the poor retail stock investor. Hoping they (new issued shares) are not @ less than current ZNGA stock price.
Nice punch of
$$s for legality fess?
We got in the wrong profession.
We have to learn a 'foreign' $$s-speak language.
Reporters ask a famous bank robber why he robbed 'banks' . . . 'because that is where the money is'.
The law firm is now siting in the sweet spot . . . the stock goes up and/or ZNGA gets bot out.
Wondering if the Greek-exit 'effect' on general stock market level, will effect ZNGA? Stay tuned.
This is excellent news, and bodes well for future of ZNGA in mobile gaming and pay-to-play VG-ing.
Mobile and home-based paly-for-cash-and prizes, is akin to the dawn of radio-based music and how it took over much of in-person attendance presentations by traveling bands, or the switch from propeller airplane travel to jet propulsion air travel.
As societies grow in size and complexity, 'stay-cation' becomes necessary and economical as crowding, technology and human pleasure seeking evolve. The wagon wheel gave way to rubber tire.
Now electronic transmission is wireless, and so is the growing customer demand for it. Bricks-and-Mortar gaming and casinos will not die out . . . but note that Atlanta and New Jersey and NV and Calif., are fighting different battles for entertainment dollars.
A business enterprise always wants a monopoly on how its product and service gets into the hands of the customer. Eventually, complexity and mathematical chaos and saturation of traditional marketing leads to evolving enterprise and profit opportunities. Look at religion for example, live media has replaced the physical visit to the church and one has the option to send money via electronic transfer.
ZNGA is moving into a form of gaming play (mobile for cash bets) that rides the new wave of mobility by electronic customer service. Note also that banking and ordering relationships and even learning is becoming remotely transmitted directly to the customer at home and on the go. And . . . as the population ages and the effects of growing forms of environmental pollution register their effect on travel and employment . . . electronic realities (e.g. VR) will become the new norm.
Also, even warfare and sports is moving to cyber-space.
Blowing up things becomes much more rationale as 'entertainment' rather than having to constantly endure social physical destruction and re-built costs for the world economy and the individual.
Lets see who is the first to develop an astro-mining and human colony space travel VG, that gets customers to pay-to-play. Movies and travel possibilities will begin to morif (sp) into VR VG-ing. Such forms of VR gaming, offer the greatest hope of schooling the individual, as they group play and have to up-spike their knowledge base to be able to play effectively within the VG environment.
ZNGA . . . start reading your boards . . . and ASAP your VG content as your future revenue sources.
I firmly believe the caring and active individual (true free enterprise) is the how of getting the American Future to happen positively and most efficiently. We are ourselves.
I am thinking ZNGA will be acquiring some more Indie VG producing contractors, and maybe some new partner relationships. When individual states like say Calif. realizes what I have discussed above . . . they will want active partners in creating content for their own governmental $s share of virtual casino play.
ZNGA make the call . . . be proactive and assembly a media presentation for each specific state administration, and get a show-and-tell dialogue going? What do you (and us investors) have to lose . . . but $$s? Opportunity is made.
Agreed . . . Terminator Genesis movie effect play off of coming movie July release? Arnold the T has big international fan base, including martial arts and weight-lifters. Space and sci-fi geeks love the T. and AI future scenario.
Very nice interpretation of chart.
It is looking like investors are sitting and waiting for some
game hits play data confirmation.
My just gues-imate is if next 2 quarters show no positive revenues and hits in the coming and current ZNGA games, new lay-offs and maybe some more acquisitions coming for ZNGA.
I still hold my initial opinion the goat-block jumping VG is early youth oriented. <---it does not look mind-challenging for more mature players. I am not saying I am any kind of 'VG expert' . . . just making my opinion comment. ZNGA can do better than this stuff? Lets see how it registers in the app-annie top games sheet, as time progresses. I could be totally wrong and it will become popular and productive.
OT: Terminator Genesis PR ads are getting good coverage on the likes of NCIS and entertainment Hollywood shows. Also, late nite interviews of Arnold and other in-movie actors. And . . .
magazines. Looking like to involve hit VG play stats . . . smart to bring VG out roughly a month before the movie release, to build up younger T-fan awareness.
And, ZNGA does a goat mountain block jumping VG . . . sure we can compete. Although . . . ZNGA may get some Terminator Gensesis VG carry-over effect on its stock price in July . . . as $$ Revs green sea rises all VG company ships on its tide.
Little VG company TAPM did the reality VG on the guy that tight-rope walked between big city skyscrapers. This was very innovative game design that tended to compete with the KK:H VG social format.
ZNGA needs social casino mobile VG success.
Just image if they adopted their game genre to include in-game live event by famous gambling table players, etc. and instant coupon and cash awards. The mobile VG player gets to gamble/play
live in a game hand side-bet against the real players table bets.
States like NV and big casino owners could take a percentage of the mobile winners bets. <---this type of revenue source might help to alleviate their political 'resistance' to real online mobile gambling for cash (outside bricks-and-mortar casino venues)?
Just looking at it . . . I assume it is for 4-year old age old players.
I doubt this is going to be a cash cow for ZNGA.
I am wondering how you found it . . . more precisely how would a VG player be made aware of its existence?
How will ZNGA generate revenue $$s from the game?
I hope ZNGA did not spend more than $50K to develop this game.
Let us hope they have a universal game engine software . . . they can just punch in the game genre (goat) and it environ (mountain climbing on blocks), and then go to lunch and come back and we what the AI robot computer program has wrought.
Trevor11 do you have any thoughts on where ZNGA is going with this kind of game? They lost me. Do you think one of the staff's kids gave them the idea, and they thought it would 'fly' big?
maybe ZNGA could have included a random number generator to provide lighting strikes, to liven up the game play. My feeling is this kind of VG stuff, is 'mysterious' in purpose and content.
I do hope I am proven wrong and its a super content hit for ZNGA.
Why not have included the mountain jump blocks as letters and numbers to stimulate an educational value with it? <---one would get game points by say jumping 1+1 blocks =2 and asking the goat for the answer (and get a goat language response). Also build a path up the mountain with right choices.
One developing problem that may have affect on case settlement:
is anyone supplying new guard-rails for ones that are now involved in traffic mishaps? Federal and State governments can't have open 'empty' spaces in their highway safety road structures.
Feds and States can then find they will be sued by accident parties lawyers for not providing safety to current road system structures? You can hardly sue TRN, if government has not developed new guard rail sourcing installs. Pressure will now be on successfully 'test' replacement guard-rails scenario?
What do states expect they will do . . . get a safety and legality 'pass', if they just put a sign on the roadway with the at issue guardrails replacements conflicts? What about foreign 'visitors' that do not understand English and need money?
Government is in the hot seat now . . . especially if TRN refuses new guard-rails business, and just fold out of that business venture. I doubt 'Lunch-Meat Man' is in any shape to start supplying his version of a safe guard-rail . . . and who else would want the guard rail business . . . China $1 store dinnerware silver provider?
The next 2-3 quarters will set the stage . . . by March 2016 area . . . we should know if ZNGA design teams and management has the right stuff?
I doubt USA will conduct counter intelligence missions against the likes of China. They do not probably do anything about cyber-security attacks from lessor groups and national powers. Note that tax-payers are now being billed as the payer of last resort.
We become both the payee and the payer.
For sure USA has made itself look like fool boys in other countries eyes. Even ISIS calls us out, and tells us they will be attacking us and Israel and EU and Jordan + Saudis soon.
Attack is apparently now still on-going and administration has no policy to stop it. Only way is to right now take USA government websites off-line and shut down certain government systems servers, to traffic. The great threat is that there are still silent (dark) SW viruses within our governmental data centers memory banks; pre-placed by those who illegally accessed our data systems.
Very serious information has been stolen, about data of individuals in government employment, around the world. This comes down to warfare attack and no one seems able to comprehend how to response (except in kind). This represents a worse situation than MAD nuclear balance strategy, Soviet Union and USA developed to prevent first strike nuclear attacks like Pearl harbor in 1941.
Expect DC to fund tens of $Billions of new cyber-security buys, to counter this method of silent warfare.
If China is involved (and nothing happens there without Com Party permission), this could have serious effect of commerce and agreements between China and USA.
Hack stock should be steadily rising in price, due to retail and hedge funds purchases (we are now over $1 Billion in total assets in HACK ETF stock ownership). I suspect more retail investors in HACK.
There exists a dramatic effect potential on USA economic activity IF this current cyber-security threat continues . . . it could also contribute to a slowing of economy activity worldwide.
For example, currency exchange functions are basically electronic transfers. Any disruption of this system, could lead to who knows where. All nations would be harmed.
Say your prayers and pass the anti-virus software?
At a minimum . . . we will soon see finger print ID verification
and dedicated random number generator each time usage chips . . . installed on our computers and payment terminals. Have a nice day in the electronic Black Rain!
I agree.
Potential good for partners, buy-outs and some more acquisitions by ZNGA. With W10 opting for cloud storage of game play . . . with Chinese VG company Ten Cent already buying in one of these companies and has place on BOD. In coming months and years, consolidation is in the works for smaller VG companies. One is going to have to pay-to-play after certain level in VG and maybe even after you have played free for a certain length of time.
Asia has the $$s and players numbers mobile, follow the money?
A recent IPO of Chinese company listing on USA stock exchange got $70 Billion from USA investors . . . what does that say? <---dumb-and dumber III movie scenario coming in real time to your mobile device. USA companies will have to move fast or there will not be much left.
Social casino and celebrity VG tie-ins are now the future play markets.
What EKSO needs is a major contract (of volume of units), to bring both recognition of its exo-assist suits in the pursue of increasing worker and military offensive capability (while lowing per suit cost). We re currently around *$50K/suit cost and need to get down to $5K/sit cost base.
Goggle, or someone like the Navy will need to step forward and spend. Neat individual use stories are not going to propel this stock's price.
I am thinking EKSO should be already involved in a 'hidden' military contract for an initial order of say 50 exo-suits. One would need that many to do a proper study of its qualities. An aircraft carrier usage of the exo-suits would be a very good test regime environment for ordinance assistive loading, and supply and storage demo. There would be space and lodging for EKSO test team to monitor its test trials. Also concurrently, a special mobile strike team could practice test mission training and performance trials, on near real time combat conditions.
The EKSO exo-suit could be also developed for under-water use. Propellers could be devised for propulsion assist. Test use in the outer space environment is another scenario.
DOD and LMT need to step forward and fund some studies that pertain to mass production line for the suits. Goggle should be willing to also help fund that type of planning, or it will never get to use the exo-sits for its own uses.
We investors must be patient with EKSO, as it will be part of the coming cyborg robotic military. This is already apparent due to the continuing DOD contract we are receiving. Someone will get smart and buy us or become our major lead partner. Think GE is not looking us over, and wants in to a future growth product area? Early response disaster teams are another area of use.
Economic Warfare is now transitioning into electronic cyber-warfare. Snowden did us all a favorite by showing how defense-less ever nation, business, and individual is now and vulnerable to loss.
Insurance companies will have to start learning how to write cyber-security policies. The curse of 'progress' is chaos. Thus evolution happens.
HACK ETF is (right now), the best way to play cyber-security long-term.
Interesting.
Great for Face Book IF it can up its revenues thus (and take away revenue business from Goggle and Apple). <---though not maybe so great for ZNGA getting on those two super giants good-side?
Battle of internet content giants is shaping up . . . and how does ZNGA come out within that?
MSFT and Windows 10 (clouding all our data and VG play and software and internet hits) as alike online storage mobile rentals from MSFT via yearly user fee), will be another shaper for ZNGA to have to fold into somehow.
I still think software is the way to play the electronics future . . . info devices (e.g. mobile social casino growth to come on tablets and cellphones) . . . , and chip manufacturers have huge legacy costs for failed designs not accepted by customer users. The likes of ZNGA, GLUU, and EA might just be best way to play the continuous innovation game the wisest for us little retail investors?
Just as an OT: thought (kind of) BJK (market vector gaming ETF) might be the easiest method for me to 'option substitute' and still remain in the SW field and also to include *50 worldwide casino and gaming stocks, under my-thumb (so to speak); as a balancer to my singular VG company investments. I will have to study it more and see how it is doing $ profit-wise as to appreciation. I shall also look into seeing if any VG company ETFs exist. I bot HACK cyber-security ETF as I do not have time or tech ability to pick the winning cyber-security individual stocks.
I also will be watching to see how ZNGA handles its advertising of its VGs (so far it is seemingly focused on internet to accomplish this}. GLUU, for example, is depending on celebrity follower boards to stir up VG hit try's for its games. But ZNGA does not have any celebs to 'hit' off of. GLUU has adapted the VG intro to a new and novel regime with its celeb face booking clubs, and everyone in the 'game' business best take note.
And further, ZNGA presently has no popular characters to use as celebs alike, in its games. Same goes for KING. ZNGA needs to create VG characters in game that can evolve player followings. Sonic Hedge Hog and Guitar Hero alike. ZNGA needs real humans as integral components in its VG plot, to create those follower message board connections. Call it role-modeling or whatever. Significant % of contemporary VG players want something more to gain in their pursue: they want real contacts that are popular and interesting within their play environment. VG players are now very open to finding a different and dreamy-reality consciousness context, that bridges over into their actual color-less life. If you can game yourself say within a real on-going lifestyle rocking job situation, it draws in more players seeking to escape the alienation they are feeling in 'modern times'.
And, that is my feeling of what all VG companies must now face up to . . . the customer player has to be satisfied in a deeper emotive way, or they won't play your games. Bye-bye revenue pie, if you can't.
Face Booking in player ZNGA VG forums, might help drive some player extra buys in-game, but the 'game' better start doing something much deeper to connect itself with the players life needs?
ZNGA was asked if it was doing anything VG content for Apple Watch . . . ZNGA replied 'no comment'. I think they are.
Maybe be mentioned in upcoming Jun 11 SH Meeting?
E3 Jun 16-18 found no mention on booth for ZNGA . . . going to just be there as 'walk-and-talk' teams?
Another thought . . . would TAPM VGs be able to be rather quickly tailored to Apple Watch venue of play? Developers are having to gut or trim down their VGs for the Apple Watch memory level of play, and TAPM might have some advantage herein; as its VGs are low memory dominating.
HACK might as well include Russian, Chinese, etc. state cyber-security companies in its portfolio, they seem to take cyber-security seriously?
Next, Congress will get hacked . . . just to show our repress that they know about their personal dark data?
Never seen the USA fall apart like this . . . cyber-security must be on their distant back burner.
IF cyber-security is the new technological challenge field . . . its looking like 1957 Sputnik Debacle all over again.
Expect big emergency catch-up budget additions in government and private business (tax credit rebates for cyber-security spending).
Got HACK ETF?
This industry approach sounds very 'wait-and-see' about acidents potential and innovations.
RR cars are vital to national defense and our economy flow of materials and goods.
What about air-bag technology for tank cars, etc.?
Or Nitrol memory wire electrically operated screen meshs that activate when a RR car leaves the track?
Or, a loop of support legs around tank cars that help mediate damage?
Or spray ecology hardening and absorb pools that deploy a protective shield around a ruptured ank car?
Are capital owners and governments so illogical that they still profess safety procedures and standards that act like 1800s and early 1900s mentalities?
Silicon Valley girls had more techno innovative ideas that profit-mongering blockheads of rail commerce.
What kind of governing alliance which includes political contributors sets itself up for major insurance and lawq-suits scenarios?
Enterprise without morals leads to national and enterprise doom?
Shame on our companies that cannot use common sense to prevent or lessen disasters. they push off the liability in such cases to us tax payers via tax write-offs. That's some innovation oriented example of management by off-loading liabilities on to the general federal budget and the folks that live along the rail lines.
What 'higher exchange up listing' would TAPM be after?
What 'merger and acquisition activity'? <---'we got incoming re-fin' . . . on its way? Sounds like new private placement coming?
TAPM is in no way cashed up for external acquisitions of merit.
My hope (at present) is we partner up or get bot out.
I would like to see a 'social casino' mobile VG launched by TAPM.
Will TAPM have a 'presence' at E3 coming up show?
Maybe TAPM can do a VR VG for the upcoming Goggle CARDBOARD VR
head set, that holds up to 6 inch screen width cellphones inside its mobile ideo headset device with viewer looking through two eye glass lens, held up to your forehead.
With Go Pro cams so in use . . . the possibilities for real-time special event viewing remotely as form of VG feed-in, gets doable for TAPM VG players.
There might be some possible that TRN just settles out of court, and one the conditions that TRN offers the opposing side and government is: ' here it is . . . we just give the guard rail business free and clear . . . to you and wash our hands of it'.
After all, why incur legal expenses that could become over the 3% that guard rail business provides to TRN revenues?
Then, just focus on its tank car replacement revenue possibilities. Its looking like no one {in USA} would want rebuilt present variant tank cars. Let the government mandate expensive improvements, that will force rail tank car per unit costs much higher (who really cares it seems, electronic money grows on 'trees'). <---parts to the tank car accidents is having to run freight and tanks on the same track-age as Amtrak. Another might well be the state of those dual rail usage loads on that same track and its bridges. Parish the thought, RR companies would need dual operators in each train engine cab. Why self-driving trains are just around the corner! And, they can 'park' themselves correctly too. Artificially programed electronics are so much more efficient and do not need medical plans or play games on their cellphones. Just ask the FED . . . they know all about such things.
I have not yet been dissuaded that TRN is not an investment opportunity, that has high prob of getting back to double its stock price in 2-3 years. After all, besides trucks . . . who and what can transport water to various needy communities along rail routes? We might just expand the TRN buy argument by claiming TRN is a dualistic method to invest in drought relief AND USA energy independence, while keeping an eye out for the vaunted coming of USA economic recovery! <---my guess is we do not se ANY major form of USA economic recovery until 2018 at the earliest . . . I mean is difficult to sign all those papers into law. Give those old big pocket lawyers a chance.
I am very glad another poster gets what I have presented, as something we all here can hope for from a VG design company.
Yes, the VG medium of content can make a difference for our country (and others), if we step up and enter the "?Good Work' directed purpose type of VG content.
I firmly believe lots of folks of all ages have really good ideas on how to practically solve our nation's problems and needs.
We live in an electronic assisted culture, and I doubt we ever will look back to just things like paper voting. The real true is we all vote by how we live and the consumer choices we make.
A number of VG companies have tried to make educational VGs, and fallen flat-on-their-face. <---they were not socially relevant in purpose and content. VGs llke' cooking mama' did not, for example, include a means for game players to communicate with each other nor a way to get into a real classroom learning situation (like lets plan and order what we want for good tasting, but Cal conscious meals tomorrow). Each student could have been measuring their own weight change and the school nurse and nutritionist could have come into the VG to explain concepts.
Most kids love to cook up something they will eat, with parents and others. Such type of games could include real prizes (a cooking success pin AND exchange coupons with local and national brands of clothing, etc.).
Why should not ZNGA, for example, develop a California online play-for-cash ticket ( or a particular educational VG oriented stratch ticket), that adults and can play and win monies for both themselves AND their local school)?
Online paid gambling is going to become a big business in coming years. ZNGA should be making some bold innovative moves, into this arena of revenue. VG playing is going to increasingly merge into 'paid play' for everyone (you will get to chose what type of winning reward you want --- coupons, points, or E-cash).
I am not saying we will all become gambling freaks, but I do hope VGers have the right to cash rewards for winning if they so chose.
There is a Silicon Valley Game Designer and entrepeur, who in a book he wrote recently, proclaimed 'tapping-for-cash' should become a new wave job in the electronic economy. His premise centered around the notion we will never find jobs for very one in the future. Thus, we should create 'tap-for-cash food stamps'. Every time anyone taps on a device . . . they earn cash points, as a real life income job. He felt it was wrong for businesses online to take and sell our subject clicks, and we don't get anything for them (the businesses) selling our tap info. data.
What do you folks think of what I posted?
GLUU is breaking new ground and earning novel revenues . . . why can't ZNGA do some of that too?
Trevor11, what is your take on Farmville, as viable VG platform for ZNGA? Would you consider the new Match-3 puzzle version, just a normal kind of continuing upgrade strategy (or some kind of new 'breakout' of VGing)?
Surely its an attempt to keep a VG long-in-the-tooth as a revenue producer, current.
I doubt ZNGA spent much $$s proportionally (compared to its coming new game line-up funds infusion), in development costs. And, to go a little further, it seems ZNGA should be putting more emphasis on advertisement funding in all media forms? ZNGA seemingly is playing its cards close to its chest, and husbanding funds by media presence rather tilled towards mobile gamers in hopes of catching new play hits.
I do not see much effort towards some kind of educational 'Farm Ville' type of game. For example, California is home base for ZNGA, and western USA (for sure) is experiencing water shortages.
Why not a VG where one has to present their own unique creative approach to solving domestic economic problems like water and food shortages?
This VG might include things like how to design a solar-powered sea water distiller plant, Vertical automated Farming Greenhouses that can produce revolution in urban food sourcing (while creating real new small business possibilities---and hirers), or developing 'water tank RR cars,, to haul water to where it is needed? We citizens and street people need to get focus, and to force change in the Americas at the local and state level.
Forget the slug DC process of progress . . . lets make it happen ourselves with OUR brains and taps. Then, mobile and gamers and desk-toppers can draw together and show the way forward.
All levels and types of schools could use this as class content, and get the students forming work groups around common needs in the wider community.
The type of VG I have envisioned above does not come off as an alienated exercise in tap . . . but a producer of creativity for use in bettering the common, we all live in.
I sure hope ZNGA employees are on this good board and that ZNGA has the sense to monitor our talk also.
I am a firm believer in free enterprise and in that process retail shareholders are not just fish-in-a-barrel, we are citizens of the web economy. Our talk is a form of voting.
E3 coming in June I think . . . anyone down that way . . . could you give us your impressions of ZNGA booth, etc.? Many thanks in advance.
IRS had revealed to congress committee that professional criminal organizations are using individual face book account info tweets, as a way to help in obtaining personal individual data to be used in applying for next years tax refunds. They seem to be using personal tweet content, that can be matched to security questions that the individual might use. You can't fix dumb?
Thus I say . . . buy HACK ETF . . . it can serve a dual purpose . . . and operate as a back-up personal theft policy as its stock price increases, due to cyber-security attacks. Who would have thought? <---what this means is one can sell the appreciated profit in the stock quite quickly for emergency accessible cash (as your personal insurance claims, usually take some time to process}.
Our HACK ETF profiting potential might just be better set-up than buying junk food company stock. Who would have thought?
Have a nice day in the electronic black rain