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It's still there - in the About.php - i'm looking at it right now --->
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<!--The company has been exporting cut diamonds for over 17 years, strictly on the wholesale level to major distributors around the world. Wholesale sales figures have averaged over 300 million USD for numerous years. Global Diamond has served the needs of clients around the world by providing diamonds of exquisite quality and workmanship. Russian diamond cutters are considered the most skilled craftsman in the world.
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You might also want to talk to their Investor Relations guy:
Contact:
Alex Livak
347-813-4664
Email: alivak@fortuneir.com
The information is still up in the source for the About Us page - this should be considered public information since it's easily obtainable by anyone with a browser... so he should have no problem confirming it.
great demo - and up goes the generator!!
loving it, glta :)
LOL.. man they sure love to talk over there at RB.
All i can say to that is.. back in April when those claims were made, NNBP didn't even flex.
So, whatever. There's real interest in this stock, not just pennyboard day-by-nighters.
Should be an interesting week, been waiting 2 years for this puppy to have its day.
the sgi website has all the answers - sgic, currently trading at $19.50 a share.
personally, i'll be waiting a while before investing.
added 300k this morning at 15 & under
let's rock :)
lol so their revenues went from $100 to $360 for the christmas campaign?
makes sense that they picked the same crew that does Altair. i don't think this is about "hype", more about using a PR firm tied into the right market to get their story out. sounds to me like nanobac are gearing up for a big 2007.
Movielink is owned by some of the biggest names in the biz (paramount for example) so they were flush with content... took them 2 years from inception to rollout.
maybe the time when they throw these shares away and release new common stock is approaching fast.. they said it would happen when they emerge from Chapter 11, & that happens this month..
Haha, yeah that was a little funny - then again, NNBP doesn't do the usual pumpydumpy shennanegans associated with pennystocks.
Unless they had something to say that was new (which i doubt, they usually communicate everything pretty clearly to well respected forums like Scientific American, Nature, and targeted trade pubs) then i can see why they didn't bother the wire.
Most REAL companies only bug the wire when they have something meaty to share - something that is really uncommon in pennyland.
I'm surprised they went there, normally they associate themselves with quality publications. It's not as though MN1 is a place where serious investors go to find a stock to invest in... MN1 probably bugged them enough that they gave in hehe.
Looking forward to seeing the results of the new collaboration with Mayo! I've added a little more today, the MMs printed my buys as sells lol!
BM
Well not sure about the production costs but I will say that whenever we go driving around PanYu (which is a smaller town in between Guangzhou and Macao) I see a LOT of shops that make machining equipment.. and, spawned from those, literally hundreds of factories where you can get ANYthing manufactured out of any material.
No doubt with labor costs being what they are here, Panda will be able to make them at higher quality for the same price, or the same quality for less.
Average wages here for skilled workers is somewhere between 1/4 and 1/8 of those in the states. Engineers you can buy for $1000/month if they're good.
Either way, Panda must see the writing (and the $$) on the wall hehe.. I just asked my wife if she knows of Panda, and she responded with an enthusiastic "yes!".
Nothing like having a household name on the books!!
BM
just saw that.. great stuff! i can only imagine this would be a monster in china - i've been here in Guangzhou for the past 3 months, and have to say if you're going to do anything right, you gotta do it with the blessing of the government.
go go go !!
holding 1M shares here, still got my 003s!
lol long term. $10 would suit me fine :)
i'm in for 100k shares averaged at .09 - good to see that video!
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc. Signs Agreement with American Health Associates Clinical Laboratories to Provide Calcifying Nanoparticle Tests in the United States
Business Wire - October 04, 2006 10:18 AM ET
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:NNBP) ("Nanobac" or "the Company") and American Health Associates Clinical Laboratories (AHA) have reached an agreement for AHA to serve as the exclusive U.S. provider of Nanobac proprietary blood tests that can detect blood levels of Calcifying Nanoparticles (CNPs), which are found in coronary artery calcification, kidney stones, and other stone forming diseases. CNPs have been found in preliminary studies to be markers of arterial calcification, which in turn is a reliable marker of heart disease risk. AHA is a well-established certified laboratory headquartered in Miramar, Florida, and accepts blood samples from across the U.S.
"Nanobac has partnered with AHA for this important test so that our company can focus on its core R&D while continuing to make available and expanding the availability of these tests for research purposes," explained Nanobac Co-Chairman Dr. Benedict Maniscalco. "For the first time ever we now have a qualified laboratory in the U.S. where physicians can send blood samples for testing, along with authorized stations where patients can go to have blood drawn and know that the samples will be properly handled," Dr. Maniscalco added.
The tests can detect CNP antigens and antibodies. Analysis is done by Nanobac's own laboratories in Kuopio Finland; the only lab in the world capable of such analysis. Nanobac has performed thousands of such tests worldwide since the year 2000.
(a) (Note to editors: the term "Calcifying Nanoparticle (CNP)" has been adopted in recently published literature to help distinguish these particles from bacteria.)
About Nanobac Pharmaceuticals: Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a life sciences company dedicated to the discovery and development of products and services to improve people's health through the detection and treatment of Calcifying Nanoparticles (CNPs), otherwise known as "nanobacteria." The company's pioneering research is establishing the pathogenic role of CNPs in soft tissue calcification, particularly in coronary artery, prostate and vascular disease.
Nanobac's drug discovery and development is focused on new and existing compounds that effectively inhibit, destroy or neutralize CNPs. Nanobac manufactures In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) kits and reagents for detecting calcifying nanoparticles. IVD products include a line of assays, proprietary antibodies and reagents for uniquely recognizing CNPs. Nanobac's BioAnalytical Services works with biopharmaceutical partners to develop and apply methods for avoiding, detecting, and inactivating or eliminating CNPs from raw materials.
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc. is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. For more information, visit our website at: http://www.nanobac.com.
Investors are cautioned that certain statements in this document, some statements in periodic press releases and some oral statements of Nanobac Pharmaceuticals, Inc. officials are "Forward-Looking Statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act"). Forward-Looking statements include statements which are predictive in nature, which depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, which include words such as "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "expects," and similar expressions. In addition, any statements concerning future financial performance (including future revenues, earnings or growth rates), ongoing business strategies or prospects, and possible future Nanobac Pharmaceuticals, Inc. actions, which may be provided by management, are also forward-looking statements as defined by the Act. Forward-Looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and to vary significantly from reporting period to reporting period. Although management believes that the assumptions will, in fact, prove to be correct or that actual future results will not be different from the expectations expressed in this report. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and Nanobac Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has no specific intention to update these statements.
SOURCE: Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals, Tampa
Benedict Maniscalco, 813-264-2241
or
American Health Associates Clinical Laboratories
Debbie Martin, 305-984-5023
or
Redwood Consultants
Jens Dalsgaard, 415-884-0348
"Just maybe all of the people who bought at below .03 are gone now."
nah... i've got em at .003... 008... 012... 013... 015... and recently at 027...
and i know for sho there are more of us...
Think Global... Act Local ;)
hopefully Reeltime will have an answer.
i like how netflix does it.. "unlimited rentals" but you can only have a certain number of DVDs at one time.. likewise, if reeltime had a similar program "up to 3 streams at one time" would that be a bad thing? or they could have scaling services.. a "family plan" and a regular account...
imagine trying to coordinate between a group of friend who got to watch what movies when.. ugh, just pay the membership. people who want to share memberships probably have no qualms about copying DVDs in the first place.
the FBI recently busted a guy across the road from a friend of mine in Portland... he had pirated over 200 movies, now has to find $250K or go to jail. never thought i'd see the day when someone who was just copying films would cop it like that - i thought they were mainly after those who copied and re-sold them... but there you go.
Nice find :) Maybe they have a limit on how many streams you can have at once - I can imagine a family having a membership, kids want to watch a movie in their rooms, parents want to watch another...
But certainly raise the issue with them! Haha be careful what you ask for ;)
cheers!
BM
SO.. has ANYONE followed that Patent Application link in the IBox recently?
lol
The Moviebeam box price was a misprint - it will be $100.
Kaleidescape is just dumb :) Damn, $27,000!? AND you have to load all your dvds onto it? Oh yeah, they have the new one out.. only 10K! lol, some people..
All this activity is interesting.. consumers will have a lot to choose from, and those companies that have high value-for-money in the customer's eyes will win. It's all about getting the message right, and "better technology" won't win that war necessarily. Look at Betamax, got trumped by VHS on the marketing but it was much better quality.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Reeltime delivers a box at a pricepoint most people are willing to pay, and I imagine it'll handle all the content downloading we need... I'm not entirely sure 3rd-party boxes are the right move for the industry, but those that are wanting to take some real market share will have to be open enough to allow distributors to run their executables.
If I were in Biz Dev for RLTR, I'd be getting Powergrid running on that Xbox360 as well... captive audience, and the thing is already hooked up to yer TV. Then again, Microsoft is Microsoft and they'll want to use their own streaming technology...
PS3.. well, anyone seen that PSX that was put out in Japan? Looks like a precursor to what we can expect from them in terms of media support. A linux version of Powergrid would probably be easy to port...
Hope you're having a great weekend out there!
BM
Xybernaut Files Ch 11 Reorganization Plan
Dow Jones Newswires - September 14, 2006 2:44 PM ET
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By Carol McCleary
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A U.S. trustee's efforts to convert Xybernaut Corp.'s (XYBRQ) Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation, or dismiss the case entirely, have prompted the company to at last file a reorganization plan.
The plan, outlined in a disclosure statement filed Monday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Alexandria, Va., would allow East River Capital LLC to exchange $952,748 of its $4 million debtor-in-possession, or DIP, funding claim for a 100% of the reorganized company's stock. The balance of the lender's claim would be paid over time by the reorganized company from any litigation awards.
As part of the deal, East River would provide $850,000 of new funding for the company's business operations, distributions to general unsecured creditors, professional fees incurred since May 15, and other administrative claims.
The plan, however, leaves the door open for alternative funding proposals.
Under bidding rules proposed by the company, competing bids for the new equity must be at least $1 million, and provide about $5.21 million in funding to make payments under the plan, including repaying the DIP claim in full.
Xybernaut, a maker of wearable computing and communications devices, wants the court to allow it to hold an auction - if one or more alternative bids are received - two business days before a confirmation hearing on the plan.
The court will at an Oct. 10 hearing consider approval of the bidding rules, as well as the company's disclosure statement.
Bankruptcy laws require that a debtor company file a disclosure statement outlining how creditors will be paid and providing other information relevant to creditors in their decision to vote for or against the company's proposed plan.
Once the court signs off on the disclosure statement, the company will be able to send the plan out to creditors for their vote.
General unsecured creditors, with about $2 million in claims, would share in a distribution fund composed of: $175,000 funded by East River's new loan; a portion of any litigation awards; and a $1 million, five-year subordinated note.
The reorganized company would pick up where Xybernaut left off in its failed attempt to find a buyer for its intellectual property assets.
In light of the plan, the court continued to Oct. 10 the hearing that was set for this past Tuesday on the U.S. trustee's bid to either convert the case to Chapter 7 or dismiss it entirely.
As reported, Trustee W. Clarkson McDow Jr. said that the company's continuing operating losses and failure to file a Chapter 11 plan warranted conversion or dismissal of the case.
The company reported a year-to-date net loss of about $7.27 million in its June monthly operating report.
Xybernaut, of Fairfax, Va., filed for Chapter 11 protection on July 29, 2005.
-By Carol McCleary, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-7100; carol.mccleary@dowjones.com
> Dow Jones Newswires
09-14-06 1444ET
Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
lol ok, i appreciate what you're saying.. www.google.ru
if you have the language pack installed, you can see everything with the correct symbols. if you can read/write russian, this be the place for you to get your DD on!
Have a Happy Weekend all, got a good feeling about next week!
peace,
BM
agreed! i was wondering if they had another name too.. but then i discovered that Global Diamond in cyrillic is...
Гловальный Обмен Диаманта
lol next is to try that search string...
EDIT: AWWWWWWW IT DIDN'T COPY ACROSS!!! i can see it in Firefox in cyrillic.. LOL! Matt!!!
Something to note though.. at the Diamond Chamber there are companies with names that work in English, so Global may well have just registered with a different association... we'll get it sorted soon enough.
yea! :) talk about easy growth year-over-year.. guaranteed 15% hehe from before the switch hehe.
I believe the number for exporting rough stones is 15% of your polished stone output/export.. another stipulation for export is that the diamonds must have been placed on the market in RU first for at least 10 days.
that info is easy to find, so pls double check it as i'm quoting from memory and have read a lot these last few weeks.
this piece of data refutes the idea that there are only 2 companies with rights to sell diamonds from russia.
it's all good news for Global, but i find the previous conclusions a bit surprising in the light of the info at the Diamond Chamber site.
One thing that was VERY surprising is that Global, 17 years in the biz, is not a member of the Diamond Chamber - I suspect they may be a member of ADMR or the Jeweller's Guild.
I emailed them (the Diamond Chamber) a couple of days ago to find out what the deal with that is, hoping there's an english-speaker at the other end of the email.
good dd SL - seriously, great work :)
the net is a wonderful tool - surprising how many people don't use it to the fullest!
spot on, SL! alrosa won't be the only poster-child for the ruskies!
too right :) they've already publicly said it could happen.. usually not a statement lightly made by such a giant!
http://www.globaldiamondex.com/
under construction.
Great board! Have been in NNBP for a while and see that as a retirement play ;) Been thinking about Solomon over the past couple of weeks..
Have you looked at RLTR? Video On Demand based on more of a BitTorrent Streaming Model so serverside costs are removed (for all intensive purposes) - plenty of competition that has failed (due to downloading vs streaming), and high interest in seeing the market finally take more than baby steps (ppl have been talking about VOD since the early 90s, no-one has done it right).
Might be worthy of a look.
GLTA,
BM
they'd be crazy to let these go in the 02s!
then again, ppl are crazy.
agreed - alrosa is the big dawg! FortuneIR really needs to step up to the plate and provide a solid prospectus, looks like there's plenty of good data to work with.
this is all good stuff - the level of DD i imagine anyone putting real cash into a stock would do! can't wait to see this depth of information about Global Diamond... let's hope they're as serious about their work as Alrosa.
So after Alrosa and DeBeers, how much of the pie do you think is left to split amongst the rest? Look like a couple of hundred million in revenues? Not including projected growth, of course.
I imagine the only way for Russian producers is up at this point.
DD
According to the Russian Customs Committee, for the year 2005, a total of 23 million carats were exported from Russia worlwide, for a value of $1.66 billion; the average carat value was $72.08.
The Antwerp market in Belgium led the export destinations with 10.3 million carats, 45% of the Russian export market, with an average carat value of $61.30.
Trailing Antwerp in volume, but of with 24% higher carat value, were Russian exports to the UK (De Beers’ Diamond Trading Company). A total of 8.8 million carats was shipped, for $669 million; average carat value, $75.90. Israel ranked third as an export destination for Russian rough. In 2005, according to the customs data, it received 2.4 million carats for $233 million; average carat value was the highest of all export destinations, $97.08.
ALROSA (a company) is the largest Russian exporter of Diamonds.
Alrosa gives the following explanation, confirming the shift of Russian rough exports away from De Beers:
“The fundamental direction of export of rough is Antwerp. The difference in the price of the exported goods to Britain, Antwerp and Israel is connected first of all to the fact that to Antwerp goods for the various companies specializing in a wide assortment of rough is delivered, and the biggest share is taken by the Indian firms. To Israel, only a small share of Indian-type goods is delivered. Besides, Israeli firms actively participate in the purchase of rough diamonds at international auctions where the average price for orders exceeds the general export price of deliveries of rough diamonds from the Russian Federation.”
Alrosa also said that the legal channel allowing Russian diamond cutters to export 15% of the rough they receive in a year, when the stones are too small to cut profitably, is little used. The volume of rough exports from this source, Alrosa said, is “insignificant”.
Ararat Evoyan, executive director of the Russian Association of Diamond Manufacturers, played down the significance of the carat value figure. “It doesn't show anything. These [destination countries] are the staging posts through which enterprises gets access to US, Japan and other markets.”
This data source date: June 30, 2006.
That's very true.. add to that the fact that Russia is now stepping up even further into the world market (diamonds in the past from Russia have been under the wing of a monopoly) it's not surprising that they have no online presence (yet).
I did see on another stocks board that someone had posted info about the other offices worldwide.. not sure who but at the time it was a name i recognized, major player from iHub.
What does surprise me though is that, in the introductory PR bringing Global into the spotlight, they didn't talk at all about the value of the company. It's not hard to work out roughly where they must sit (start with DeBeers revenues and work back through all the top wholesalers worldwide) but it'll be interesting to see what they report.
GLTA
BM
from the largest Russian mine? Must have missed this in my DD, can you provide proof? I know the mine of which you speak (that's the one that's so large the airspace directly above it is restricted due to the vortex yeah?) but hadn't seen any official link between it and Global! Good news!
tia!
BM