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Very cool, thanks.
Thanks for the update,
I'm interested in GPDB. Here's my two cents on the website, if you agree maybe pass it along.
I am a fan of non-gmo healthy natural products, so when I saw the site the first thing I wanted to check was the selection. So I start on the left hand side and check the first few categories, nothing in any of them, nothing in the first 9 categories. For people who make snap judgments like me I could think they don't have anything and move on. Snap judgments are very important to marketing a site like this and when you're involved as much as the managers here are I think their knowledge of the offering can cloud what they believe to be others first impression of the site.
There are a lot of categories that have no products yet that just say "There are no products matching the selection". I think a short message saying "more coming here soon" and maybe that they only supply the best tasting and quality products could be helpful. That information is on other parts of the site but most don't dig that far, this empty space could be used to educate the new visitor on the companies plans for expansion and growth. I also think a "vote here to add your favorite product" could go a long way. Shows they're expanding and listening. They have probably already thought of this, and may have good reasons to have what they already have there.
Looking forward to your article. And I agree that the membership level tracker is a great idea not only for investors but for potential new members who visit, so they can see that thousands are already using the site on a regular basis, that it is growing and providing value to customers. Great idea, great business model overall.
Nice find, this may have been why it was rescheduled twice.
Link:
http://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/home/judges/judge-sara-lioi/
Yeah, that is the new date for the status conference that was canceled here.
Notice [non-document]: The status conference scheduled for Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM in Chambers 526 before Judge Sara Lioi is canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date. (P,J) (Entered: 02/19/2014)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/zecotek-maintaining-outperform-rating-180000375.html
Q2 MD and A here:
http://www.zecotek.com/media/Zecotek%20Quarterly%20MDA%202014.pdf
Of note:
-CERN and Fermi Lab have subcontracted ZIS to complete the development of a new version of ZIS’s MAPD with specific parameters for their main new particle detection programs. (pg 4)
-Zecotek and Hamamatsu are also working closely with CERN on the adoption of the LFS crystal as a strong candidate to replace the old material. The LFS’s high radiation hardness is a prime and essential feature in the design considerations for the next high energy levels required in the Large Hadron Collider experiments (pg 10)
-ZLS has a joint laboratory with Inversion Fiber/Novolaser for the integration of tuneable fiber lasers in the
visible spectrum. The tuneable visible fiber laser technology platform is now complete and lasers based on the
platform have a large area of application in medicine, fundamental research, inspection and other industries.
Zecotek is revising this division’s technology portfolio and is re-structuring its business activities.
Management is opting for ready technologies geared to cater for the ever expanding security market demands. (pg 5)
No update on the lawsuit:
-The date of the Court’s decision following the Markman hearing was not specified.
Other important stuff:
When Hamamatsu and Zecotek announced their joint agreement, they specifically stated their intent to
"collaborate on the upgrade and manufacture of photo detectors"
Which, as I mentioned, is a market that Hamamatsu owns 70 to 80% of, and represents $800 million of last years sales. Also as I mentioned, Hamamatsu supplies CERN with it's photodetectors, with whom they have a "close and long term relationship" with.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/zecotek-and-hamamatsu-photonics-japan-sign-joint-collaboration-and-commercialization-agreement-2013-07-16-4183300
Hamamatsu is taking over the marketing and manufacturing of Zecoteks products,
"Hamamatsu will take over the manufacturing and marketing of most of Zecotek's proprietary imaging technologies, including the commercialization of LFS crystals, solid-state MAPD photo detectors and any other photo-detector variants innovated by Zecotek. Hamamatsu becomes the exclusive sales channel for Zecotek' patented protected LFS scintillation crystal and future generations of the scintillation material. Hamamatsu will take the lead on the technological enhancement, large-scale manufacturing and marketing of all Zecotek's imaging technologies"
Given their relationship with CERN,it's not surprising that Hamamatsu would market Zecoteks lfs crystals, which both companies seem to believe are superior, along side the new and improved photodetecors they are working on.
From Hamamatsu's General Managing Director:
"We are very pleased to join forces and provide added value to Zecotek's imaging technologies," said Mr. Koei Yamamoto General Managing Director, Hamamatsu Photonics. "We will use our well established R&D, technological and manufacturing expertise to strengthen Zecotek's existing technological results and products. We believe this to be a powerful and symbiotic relationship"
Hamamatsu, Zecoteks new partner, already supplies CERN,
"The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, using the CERN Large Hadon Collider, observed on July 4, 2012, what they believe was, and as what was predicted, the elusive Higgs boson particle. The photodetectors used in that experiment were made by Hamamatsu Photonics"
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/technology/AJ201309150012
Zecotek recently obtained a patent for a new type of photo detector
"The US patent allowance for our MAPD solid-state photo-detector is important to our strategic alliance with Hamamatsu Photonics and our relationship with the prestigious science institution CERN"
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/zecotek-receives-united-states-patent-allowance-for-its-mapd-solid-state-photo-detector-2014-02-19
Hamamatsu did 1 billion in sales last year,
http://www.hamamatsu.com/resources/pdf/ir/anu2013.pdf
80 percent of that was photodetectors, a global market that they have a 70 to 80 percent share of
"Accounting for nearly 80 percent of the company's sales are photodetectors, which include more than just the latest equipment used for scanning the heavens. Their technology is also used in medical instruments.
Hamamatsu Photonics has a 70 to 80 percent share of the global market in photodetectors used to capture images with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT)"
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/technology/AJ201309150012
Photodetectors aside, not only are Zecoteks crystals more sensitive and longer lasting, they're cheaper
" Zecotek's manufacturing process permits the growth of large-diameter boules with uniform properties and without cracking (a problem with many competing scintillation materials), resulting in high element output and lower unit costs"
Which may make them more attractive to potential customers, which hopefully Hamamatsu can introduce them to
"Hamamatsu is actively marketing Zecotek's patented LFS scintillation crystals," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, Chairman, President, and CEO of Zecotek Photonics Inc. "PET manufacturers are recognizing the cost/performance/IP advantages of using the LFS scintillation crystal. I am very pleased with the efforts of our strategic partner Hamamatsu. The LFS technology was well covered at the recent Nuclear Science Symposium and IEEE conference in Seoul, Korea and in front of thousands of Hamamatsu's customers at the November Photon fair in Japan. Our joint imaging projects are well on their way."
Note the last line about joint imaging projects.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zecotek-receives-us15-million-order-for-its-patented-lfs-scintillation-crystals-through-hamamatsu-photonics-partnership-232488341.html
As far as CERN goes guys remember that they were "working closely with Zecotek's scientists to optimize the size configurations of their LFS"
http://www.zecotek.com/EN/426/2442
That according to Professor Valentin Kozlov, Senior Researcher and Group Leader at the Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow and CERN.
Another quote from him:
"Amongst all materials tested to meet the new challenges of CERN experiments, Zecotek’s LFS scintillation crystals have all the combined properties necessary to take us to higher and more exciting energy levels,”
Not a sure thing by any means but, I think, a step ahead of just being a typical bid.
I've done a little dd here and it looks like mativisien is trying to make the group attractive to the sunlogics shareholders so that they agree to merge.
I'm wondering what the forward looking events and opinions are here. Has the recent news has been impressive enough for some big groups to start buying? Do we have enough right now to beat the shorts? I bought in before finishing my dd, but .38 seemed pretty good.
Tia for any opinion.
19's getting hit, I think we can close 21.
Yeah dude it's totally the same thing. No differences at all.
MDCE runner of the week. 500 mil os 10 mil in financing .002
MDCE about to leave.
MDCE .0014 500 mil os 10 mil financing going to go big.
Thanks I'll take that as a good sign, you too.
Is there a reason to believe anything has changed? Aren't they still on track?
There's no way you are or he wouldn't have invested as much as he did given you're obvious opinion that we are headed to the trips.
No I want to make sure he's not. He claimed to bring him in.
What about Mark, are you "his guy"? He has 50 k in this. What did you tell him?
No I'm saying you obviously have a low opinion of the company but you've "brought Dave and Mark and 20 other people into this". Did you tell them how horrible the management was and how misleading and incompetent they were or did you mislead them?
Why would how many shares you've bought and sold intimidate you unless you had something to hide? Why would anyone threaten you to buy shares unless something shady happened between you and them?
Haha, it's probably about time someone said that.
Yeah, we all know that.
Barring any setbacks we will have a new company here soon. Mark, you still feel good about our prospects and think we will be happy with the details?
I think most appreciate it every time you post. Thanks.
Haha. Whatever I think you should be, before all this happened you had a one way ticket to 0002 and now you have a legitimate company with high hopes and big names involved coming in. It's not just Linda anymore it's all these news guy who have been successful in the past.
It reads "in negotiations". The new dilution isn't great but it's nothing compared to the toxic stuff that they did stop. That is a big deal and has lead to the sp, even after all this, to being double what it was before the pr.
Seriously what would have happened had they not stopped the toxic dilution?
As long as it's you picking them up and not someone else.
Which is part of the reason they ordered the nobo in my opinion, I'm glad their doing it right and considering everything. We know about the 50 mil. I don't like when we re-hash things over and over on the board just because we're mad, it doesn't help anything. Especially when we are close to hearing everything we've been waiting to hear. I'd rather not see a bunch of panic selling based on posts on this board, I'd eliminate it completely if I could.
The dilution doesn't explain it, they could have sold 30 mil into the 60 mil news day and 20 in to the other and that would have been it. So what is it you're trying to say?
Do you think their plan is to dilute this into the ground or do they have another plan? Maybe like a merger and a share purchase followed by some long term funding.
And I think they will. MOMO I'm wondering, why would they order the nobo unless they planned on conducting business on the open market? They said it was essential to the details of the merger to know how the stock was trading.
That's what I've been saying about hb&m for weeks. It was an obvious scam to dilute, people even hanging on after the pulled the big news being delayed to respect the holidays thing. Traders down here don't care about dd they respect buying and price movement, they trust it even when the stock has obvious red flags like hb%m.
It's in the filings.
I disagree. 1.5 mil a day is nothing, and I don't think that's the way it happened either. I think we probably had dilution into the news, which means almost no dilution on non news days.
Who's ready for some more aderra tweets?
Edward Donnelly ? @aderra Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
New JV and new partnership in the works.
Question for everyone, what other reason would they need to know how the stock trades for the details of the merger unless they were going to be conducting business on the open market? As in a share purchase up to a certain price like 3flight and I believe David have mentioned the possibility of?
Oh ok, just wanted to see what you thought since you sold all your shares this morning.
I agree and I'm glad we got this pr today.
Luca, what is your personal opinion on what this NOBO will uncover? I know you've stated before that at one time you owned 40 mil shares. What do you think?
No I'm not sure exactly what to expect, but I do like what I've heard. Penny stocks aren't usually viable companies they are companies with promise or scams.
These guys we are getting involved with aren't scam artists, check them out, check out their law firm, they aren't coming into this to scam anyone.
Think about aderra's clients. The guy running our US operations has worked for aderra in the past and has those connections as well, and many others. Imagine if even one of those clients signs up with our marketing firm. Their aim is cutting edge and the guys at Aderra were impressed by the software and technology we can offer and so was brand Entertain and Steve B who knows what musicians need as much as anyone.
Now consider the rumors flying around about big names being involved and all of the vertical integration. I'm not at all sure what will happen but you at least have reason to be optimistic. This is much better than what the company had to offer before and the sp has yet to reflect that. The warning you posted reflecting risk could be posted on any sub penny. No one should invest without understanding the risk.
I'm just tired of all the gloom and doom here, this is a quarter of a penny stock.