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LVWD FB/Twitter moderation play put out an earnings PR for the first time in forever! And I see why. Big #'s across the board, from the +.01 EPS, to the nice revenue increase, to the large bookings increase.
They also mentioned that Twitter is helping to increase their revenues. All systems go, and the stock is only .15
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/liveworld-reports-56-revenue-growth-120000803.html
LiveWorld Reports 56% Revenue Growth and Profitable 1st Quarter
Leading Social Media Management & Moderation Company sees Revenue Growth from Existing and New Clients on Facebook, Twitter and across Social Media Channels
LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets:LVWD.PK), today announced the financial results for first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Total revenues were $2.6 million for the first quarter of 2012 as compared to the $1.7 million in total revenues reported for the first quarter of 2011.
The Company reported net income for the first quarter of 2012 of $272,000, or 11% of total revenues. This result was an improvement of $510,000 when compared to the net loss of $238,000, or 14% of total revenues, reported for the first quarter of 2011.
Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2012 was $305,000, which was a significant improvement from the $169,000 loss for the first quarter of 2011. LiveWorld defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income or loss with an add-back for depreciation and amortization, non-cash stock-based compensation expense, interest income net, and income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA is not a term defined by GAAP and as a result LiveWorld’s measure of Adjusted EBITDA might not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
The company ended the quarter with $895,000 in cash and cash equivalents. The Company reported a positive working capital balance of approximately $1.3 million for the first quarter of 2012 as compared to the $1 million it had at the end of the fourth quarter of 2011. Additionally, the Company had approximately $8.3 million in bookings at the end of the first quarter 2012, as compared to the $4.1 million it had at the end of the first quarter of 2011.
“We have been focused on developing and delivering world class technology and services which enables our clients to scale their social media programs,” said David Houston, Chief Financial Officer of LiveWorld. “Overall we are pleased with our execution and the strength of our business which resulted in the 56% revenue growth while maintaining our profitability.”
Detailed quarterly financial information may be downloaded at www.liveworld.com (financials page) or at www.otcmarkets.com
LiveWorld Solutions
LiveWorld provides a combination of technology and human services to scale social media programs for large brands through moderation, insight and community programming. LiveWorld clients use these solutions for marketing, support and insight.
Content Review System platform: Directly integrated with the Facebook Wall, other Facebook native applications, custom applications built for Facebook as well as other social networks and community platforms such as Jive.
Moderation: To protect the brand (reviewing up to 1,000 posts/hr./moderator and integration of 1 or thousands of Facebook pages into a common, consistent workflow, and coverage from a few hours/day to 24×7 to thousands of hours/day).
Actionable Insight: Including tagging of all posts to Facebook, and analysis reports based on LiveWorld’s culture-tone-engagement framework. Enables brands to know what their customers actually think and what to do about it.
Community Programming: To engage and support customers, including social media strategy with a focus on community cultural models, community programming plans, day to day community engagement and social media crisis management.
Ask & Answer: Customer support application integrated across Facebook and a brand’s central community site.
Global: Solutions available in up to 70 country-language combinations.
About LiveWorld
LiveWorld is a leading social media management and moderation company. We scale social media programs for global brands with a combination of technology and human services for moderation, insight and community programming. Our Fortune 500 clients, including the number one retail, CPG, pharmaceutical and financial services companies use these services for marketing, support, and insight. With 28 years of unmatched experience in online community and social media and having delivered over 1.7 million moderation hours, LiveWorld provides a unique Tech-Powered Human Touch model to ensure quality, scale, and rich user dialogue and relationship experiences. For more information, go to www.liveworld.com (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK). LiveWorld is headquartered in California, with offices in San Jose, CA and New York City.
WUHN reports +.04 vs -.04 EPS (cont ops). Nice turnaround, and getting some action here around .20. no PR yet
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842694/000114420412030814/v312971_10q.htm
RCON posts a nice turnaround in earnings
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recon-reports-third-quarter-2012-143800194.html
RCON - China fracking continues to make the news almost every day. RCON seems to be the only microcap play on this. Good buying pressure today with solid bids (for once). Earnings would seem to have a good chance of being good, considering last year's comp pretty low, and the contracts announced in their fracking PR (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recon-technology-introduces-baker-hughes-120000549.html)
Today's China shale/fracking news:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/05/01/China-posed-for-more-investment-in-shale/UPI-93471335871715/#ixzz1tcwxi5y5
RCON - china fracking theme at its infancy; should play out nicely for the benefit of RCON.
From RCON's fracking PR: "Sinopec plans to introduce the fracturing technology to 1,100 of its wells each year over at least the next 3 years. Based on an estimated average investment of RMB 3 million per well, it is a tremendous market of RMB 3.3 billion per year. We will seek to participate in this initiative to the greatest extent possible and improve our service experience, in order to promote this technology and increase our market share in Zhongyuan and other oilfields across China"
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recon-technology-introduces-baker-hughes-120000549.html
EDS - the #'s blow me away, and they're audited. ~$5/share cash? share buyback?
I'm impressed. I need JoeNatural to snap me back to reality :^)
interesting email from CEO posted on LVWD Facebook page...quite bullish.
Happy Birthday LiveWorld! Our CEO shared the following email with the team today, so I wanted to share:
Hi Everyone,
16 years ago today we formally founded LiveWorld.
I say formally because it really got going in March so we could launch our first product, Talk City, on the night of March 31, just before our eWorld service at Apple was closed. On April 10, 1996, we signed the papers that made LiveWorld an actual company and enabled us to trademark the names LiveWorld and Talk City. Quite a bit has happened since the day in March at the Peppermill restaurant in Cupertino (where BJ's is now) when Jenna and I decided we'd just go for it. Go for it we did and going for it we are. Remarkably some of us have been with the company all the way back to April, 1996 and some with us even before that at Apple, and some since the earliest years of the company. Some have gone. Some have come and gone and come back again. Others have joined us in the past few years or even just the past few months.
It's quite something to have a team that stretches from then to now this way, yet still holds to a core set of values, passion for what we are doing, respect and care for each other as we do it. Without any question we are now at the best point in the company's history. Focused, sharp execution, growing, cash positive and with that independent, with more opportunity coming our way than has passed before.
I'm so very delighted that we are here together and going for it.
Happy Birthday everyone,
Peter
KNDI - patent donation news being overlooked. Should be great for KNDI long-term, to be able to protect their designs with the patents.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kandi-technologies-chairman-donates-personal-130000478.html
BSPM - nice contract news on a day when China news is getting rewarded by the likes of DHRM.
"All" seems like a good thing.
XIANYANG, China, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: BSPM) ("Biostar" or "the Company"), a PRC-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement products in China for a variety of diseases and conditions, today announced that its Shaanxi Weinan subsidiary, acquired in October 2011, won a bid and has been selected as the exclusive supplier of Huangyangning Tablets, a prescription drug used for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, to all hospitals based in the provinces of Liaoning, Hebei and Shandong for up to three years. Biostar will supply Huangyangning Tablets to these hospitals based on patient needs in each hospital.
Ronghua Wang, Biostar's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer noted, "Bidding on and winning this contract are very important milestones for Biostar. After the acquisition of Shaanxi Weinan, we expanded our product portfolio with seven prescription drugs, bringing our total number of prescription drugs to nine. Following the completion of the acquisition, we focused marketing efforts for prescription drugs on expanding sales to hospitals which entails contract bidding. Of note, historically we have sold our products to local pharmacies and pharmaceutical distributors, but with this win we have penetrated the hospital prescription drug market. This win will provide us with guaranteed sales for Huangyangning Tablets, a drug used to treat cardiovascular symptoms such as chest pain and arrhythmia embolism. The product is widely used by cardiovascular patients all over China."
Mr. Wang added, "The cardiovascular disease drug market in China has been increasing by 18% annually, reaching over RMB 135 billion in 2011, and is the largest segment of pharmaceutical market in China. According to research conducted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, patients with cardiovascular disease have one of the highest mortality rates. Recent studies show that one person suffers a stroke or myocardial infarction every 12 seconds; deaths from cardiovascular diseases account for approximately 40% of total deaths in China."
Mr. Wang concluded, "We have submitted bids and plan to submit more to sell Huangyangning Tablets in other provinces and we plan to do the same for our other prescription drugs. These types of hospital contracts will provide Biostar with a good foundation for continued growth in sales and profits for the years to come. Our focus has always been to increase shareholder value and we are pleased that the acquisition of Shaanxi Weinan in late 2011 is proving to be a good investment for Biostar."
About Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary and controlled affiliate in China, develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical and health supplement products for a variety of diseases and conditions. The Company's most popular product is its Xin Aoxing Oleanolic Acid Capsule, an over-the-counter ("OTC") medicine for chronic hepatitis B, a disease affecting approximately 10% of the Chinese population. For more information please visit: http://www.biostarpharmaceuticals.com.
LVWD Profitable Facebook content moderator/curator, today had what appears to be substantive news with Facebook...not an easy thing to do!
The company doesn't dilute, and I believe is worth .50+
Not quite a 10-bagger from yesterday's closing price of .08, but it's so thin it could get there!
Here are their financials:
http://www.liveworld.com/news/financials/
Here's the news:
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK www.LiveWorld.com) today announces its acceptance into the Facebook ® Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program in the Pages category. Facebook created the new program to better represent the various technologies in the Facebook ecosystem and to recognize companies that develop holistic solutions. The program’s mission is to help developers build products that make social marketing easier and more effective.
PMD companies have proven expertise in the social mechanics and technical possibilities of the Facebook platform. They’ve built Facebook integrations and offer solutions ranging across page tools, ads tools, custom integrations, and insights tools.
Following are the criteria for acceptance:
Policy compliant
Professional experience (easily understandable flows, fast load times)
Interesting/engaging features
Works across all major browsers
Large Implementation size/reach (Facebook focuses on impact and wants to see management of big pieces of the ecosystem.)
Socially designed
Involves friends in experience
Maximizes use of Facebook's APIs and Platform
Integrates Facebook plug-ins and tools without technical issues or errors
New and inventive implementations
Demonstrated scalable or highly successful niche solutions
What does it mean for LiveWorld clients?
“As a Facebook PMD, LiveWorld looks forward to improving the level and range of solutions we can offer our clients as we help them with their Facebook initiatives,” said Peter Friedman, Chairman and CEO, LiveWorld (@PeterFriedman). “An increased level of access to Facebook development assistance helps us to optimize our applications, toolsets, and platforms designed for conversation and relationships among and with a brand’s customers.”
LiveWorld Solutions
LiveWorld provides a combination of technology and human services to scale social media programs for large brands through moderation, insight and community programming. LiveWorld clients use these solutions for marketing, support and insight.
Content Review System platform: Directly integrated with the Facebook Wall, other Facebook native applications, custom applications built for Facebook as well as other social networks and platforms.
Moderation: To protect the brand (reviewing up to 1,000 posts/hr./moderator and integration of 1 or thousands of Facebook pages into a common, consistent workflow, and coverage from a few hours/day to 24x7 to thousands of hours/day).
Actionable insight: Including tagging of all posts to Facebook, and analysis reports based on LiveWorld's culture-tone-engagement framework. Enables brands to know what their customers actually think and what to do about it.
Community Programming: To engage and support customers, including social media strategy with a focus on community cultural models, community programming plans, day to day community engagement and social crisis management.
Ask & Answer: Customer support application integrated across Facebook and a brand's central community site.
Global: Solutions available in up to 70 country-language combinations.
About LiveWorld
LiveWorld scales social media programs for global brands with a combination of technology and human services for moderation, insight and community programming. Our Fortune 500 clients, including the number one retail, CPG, pharmaceutical and financial services companies use these services for marketing, support, and insight. With 28 years of unmatched experience in online community and social media and having delivered over 1.7 million moderation hours, LiveWorld provides a unique Tech-Powered Human Touch model to ensure quality, scale, and rich user dialogue and relationship experiences. For more information, go to www.liveworld.com (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK). LiveWorld is headquartered in California, with offices in San Jose, CA and New York City.
LVWD +50% on Facebook news
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK www.LiveWorld.com) today announces its acceptance into the Facebook ® Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program in the Pages category. Facebook created the new program to better represent the various technologies in the Facebook ecosystem and to recognize companies that develop holistic solutions. The program’s mission is to help developers build products that make social marketing easier and more effective.
PMD companies have proven expertise in the social mechanics and technical possibilities of the Facebook platform. They’ve built Facebook integrations and offer solutions ranging across page tools, ads tools, custom integrations, and insights tools.
Following are the criteria for acceptance:
Policy compliant
Professional experience (easily understandable flows, fast load times)
Interesting/engaging features
Works across all major browsers
Large Implementation size/reach (Facebook focuses on impact and wants to see management of big pieces of the ecosystem.)
Socially designed
Involves friends in experience
Maximizes use of Facebook's APIs and Platform
Integrates Facebook plug-ins and tools without technical issues or errors
New and inventive implementations
Demonstrated scalable or highly successful niche solutions
What does it mean for LiveWorld clients?
“As a Facebook PMD, LiveWorld looks forward to improving the level and range of solutions we can offer our clients as we help them with their Facebook initiatives,” said Peter Friedman, Chairman and CEO, LiveWorld (@PeterFriedman). “An increased level of access to Facebook development assistance helps us to optimize our applications, toolsets, and platforms designed for conversation and relationships among and with a brand’s customers.”
LiveWorld Solutions
LiveWorld provides a combination of technology and human services to scale social media programs for large brands through moderation, insight and community programming. LiveWorld clients use these solutions for marketing, support and insight.
Content Review System platform: Directly integrated with the Facebook Wall, other Facebook native applications, custom applications built for Facebook as well as other social networks and platforms.
Moderation: To protect the brand (reviewing up to 1,000 posts/hr./moderator and integration of 1 or thousands of Facebook pages into a common, consistent workflow, and coverage from a few hours/day to 24x7 to thousands of hours/day).
Actionable insight: Including tagging of all posts to Facebook, and analysis reports based on LiveWorld's culture-tone-engagement framework. Enables brands to know what their customers actually think and what to do about it.
Community Programming: To engage and support customers, including social media strategy with a focus on community cultural models, community programming plans, day to day community engagement and social crisis management.
Ask & Answer: Customer support application integrated across Facebook and a brand's central community site.
Global: Solutions available in up to 70 country-language combinations.
About LiveWorld
LiveWorld scales social media programs for global brands with a combination of technology and human services for moderation, insight and community programming. Our Fortune 500 clients, including the number one retail, CPG, pharmaceutical and financial services companies use these services for marketing, support, and insight. With 28 years of unmatched experience in online community and social media and having delivered over 1.7 million moderation hours, LiveWorld provides a unique Tech-Powered Human Touch model to ensure quality, scale, and rich user dialogue and relationship experiences. For more information, go to www.liveworld.com (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK). LiveWorld is headquartered in California, with offices in San Jose, CA and New York City.
LVWD +66% on Facebook news
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK www.LiveWorld.com) today announces its acceptance into the Facebook ® Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program in the Pages category. Facebook created the new program to better represent the various technologies in the Facebook ecosystem and to recognize companies that develop holistic solutions. The program’s mission is to help developers build products that make social marketing easier and more effective.
PMD companies have proven expertise in the social mechanics and technical possibilities of the Facebook platform. They’ve built Facebook integrations and offer solutions ranging across page tools, ads tools, custom integrations, and insights tools.
Following are the criteria for acceptance:
Policy compliant
Professional experience (easily understandable flows, fast load times)
Interesting/engaging features
Works across all major browsers
Large Implementation size/reach (Facebook focuses on impact and wants to see management of big pieces of the ecosystem.)
Socially designed
Involves friends in experience
Maximizes use of Facebook's APIs and Platform
Integrates Facebook plug-ins and tools without technical issues or errors
New and inventive implementations
Demonstrated scalable or highly successful niche solutions
What does it mean for LiveWorld clients?
“As a Facebook PMD, LiveWorld looks forward to improving the level and range of solutions we can offer our clients as we help them with their Facebook initiatives,” said Peter Friedman, Chairman and CEO, LiveWorld (@PeterFriedman). “An increased level of access to Facebook development assistance helps us to optimize our applications, toolsets, and platforms designed for conversation and relationships among and with a brand’s customers.”
LiveWorld Solutions
LiveWorld provides a combination of technology and human services to scale social media programs for large brands through moderation, insight and community programming. LiveWorld clients use these solutions for marketing, support and insight.
Content Review System platform: Directly integrated with the Facebook Wall, other Facebook native applications, custom applications built for Facebook as well as other social networks and platforms.
Moderation: To protect the brand (reviewing up to 1,000 posts/hr./moderator and integration of 1 or thousands of Facebook pages into a common, consistent workflow, and coverage from a few hours/day to 24x7 to thousands of hours/day).
Actionable insight: Including tagging of all posts to Facebook, and analysis reports based on LiveWorld's culture-tone-engagement framework. Enables brands to know what their customers actually think and what to do about it.
Community Programming: To engage and support customers, including social media strategy with a focus on community cultural models, community programming plans, day to day community engagement and social crisis management.
Ask & Answer: Customer support application integrated across Facebook and a brand's central community site.
Global: Solutions available in up to 70 country-language combinations.
About LiveWorld
LiveWorld scales social media programs for global brands with a combination of technology and human services for moderation, insight and community programming. Our Fortune 500 clients, including the number one retail, CPG, pharmaceutical and financial services companies use these services for marketing, support, and insight. With 28 years of unmatched experience in online community and social media and having delivered over 1.7 million moderation hours, LiveWorld provides a unique Tech-Powered Human Touch model to ensure quality, scale, and rich user dialogue and relationship experiences. For more information, go to www.liveworld.com (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK). LiveWorld is headquartered in California, with offices in San Jose, CA and New York City.
Massive news for LVWD. They only PR something once a year, and this year it's a Facebook PR. Amazing.
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK www.LiveWorld.com) today announces its acceptance into the Facebook ® Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program in the Pages category. Facebook created the new program to better represent the various technologies in the Facebook ecosystem and to recognize companies that develop holistic solutions. The program’s mission is to help developers build products that make social marketing easier and more effective.
PMD companies have proven expertise in the social mechanics and technical possibilities of the Facebook platform. They’ve built Facebook integrations and offer solutions ranging across page tools, ads tools, custom integrations, and insights tools.
Following are the criteria for acceptance:
Policy compliant
Professional experience (easily understandable flows, fast load times)
Interesting/engaging features
Works across all major browsers
Large Implementation size/reach (Facebook focuses on impact and wants to see management of big pieces of the ecosystem.)
Socially designed
Involves friends in experience
Maximizes use of Facebook's APIs and Platform
Integrates Facebook plug-ins and tools without technical issues or errors
New and inventive implementations
Demonstrated scalable or highly successful niche solutions
What does it mean for LiveWorld clients?
“As a Facebook PMD, LiveWorld looks forward to improving the level and range of solutions we can offer our clients as we help them with their Facebook initiatives,” said Peter Friedman, Chairman and CEO, LiveWorld (@PeterFriedman). “An increased level of access to Facebook development assistance helps us to optimize our applications, toolsets, and platforms designed for conversation and relationships among and with a brand’s customers.”
LiveWorld Solutions
LiveWorld provides a combination of technology and human services to scale social media programs for large brands through moderation, insight and community programming. LiveWorld clients use these solutions for marketing, support and insight.
Content Review System platform: Directly integrated with the Facebook Wall, other Facebook native applications, custom applications built for Facebook as well as other social networks and platforms.
Moderation: To protect the brand (reviewing up to 1,000 posts/hr./moderator and integration of 1 or thousands of Facebook pages into a common, consistent workflow, and coverage from a few hours/day to 24x7 to thousands of hours/day).
Actionable insight: Including tagging of all posts to Facebook, and analysis reports based on LiveWorld's culture-tone-engagement framework. Enables brands to know what their customers actually think and what to do about it.
Community Programming: To engage and support customers, including social media strategy with a focus on community cultural models, community programming plans, day to day community engagement and social crisis management.
Ask & Answer: Customer support application integrated across Facebook and a brand's central community site.
Global: Solutions available in up to 70 country-language combinations.
About LiveWorld
LiveWorld scales social media programs for global brands with a combination of technology and human services for moderation, insight and community programming. Our Fortune 500 clients, including the number one retail, CPG, pharmaceutical and financial services companies use these services for marketing, support, and insight. With 28 years of unmatched experience in online community and social media and having delivered over 1.7 million moderation hours, LiveWorld provides a unique Tech-Powered Human Touch model to ensure quality, scale, and rich user dialogue and relationship experiences. For more information, go to www.liveworld.com (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK). LiveWorld is headquartered in California, with offices in San Jose, CA and New York City.
LVWD Facebook news!
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK www.LiveWorld.com) today announces its acceptance into the Facebook ® Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program in the Pages category. Facebook created the new program to better represent the various technologies in the Facebook ecosystem and to recognize companies that develop holistic solutions. The program’s mission is to help developers build products that make social marketing easier and more effective.
PMD companies have proven expertise in the social mechanics and technical possibilities of the Facebook platform. They’ve built Facebook integrations and offer solutions ranging across page tools, ads tools, custom integrations, and insights tools.
Following are the criteria for acceptance:
Policy compliant
Professional experience (easily understandable flows, fast load times)
Interesting/engaging features
Works across all major browsers
Large Implementation size/reach (Facebook focuses on impact and wants to see management of big pieces of the ecosystem.)
Socially designed
Involves friends in experience
Maximizes use of Facebook's APIs and Platform
Integrates Facebook plug-ins and tools without technical issues or errors
New and inventive implementations
Demonstrated scalable or highly successful niche solutions
What does it mean for LiveWorld clients?
“As a Facebook PMD, LiveWorld looks forward to improving the level and range of solutions we can offer our clients as we help them with their Facebook initiatives,” said Peter Friedman, Chairman and CEO, LiveWorld (@PeterFriedman). “An increased level of access to Facebook development assistance helps us to optimize our applications, toolsets, and platforms designed for conversation and relationships among and with a brand’s customers.”
LiveWorld Solutions
LiveWorld provides a combination of technology and human services to scale social media programs for large brands through moderation, insight and community programming. LiveWorld clients use these solutions for marketing, support and insight.
Content Review System platform: Directly integrated with the Facebook Wall, other Facebook native applications, custom applications built for Facebook as well as other social networks and platforms.
Moderation: To protect the brand (reviewing up to 1,000 posts/hr./moderator and integration of 1 or thousands of Facebook pages into a common, consistent workflow, and coverage from a few hours/day to 24x7 to thousands of hours/day).
Actionable insight: Including tagging of all posts to Facebook, and analysis reports based on LiveWorld's culture-tone-engagement framework. Enables brands to know what their customers actually think and what to do about it.
Community Programming: To engage and support customers, including social media strategy with a focus on community cultural models, community programming plans, day to day community engagement and social crisis management.
Ask & Answer: Customer support application integrated across Facebook and a brand's central community site.
Global: Solutions available in up to 70 country-language combinations.
About LiveWorld
LiveWorld scales social media programs for global brands with a combination of technology and human services for moderation, insight and community programming. Our Fortune 500 clients, including the number one retail, CPG, pharmaceutical and financial services companies use these services for marketing, support, and insight. With 28 years of unmatched experience in online community and social media and having delivered over 1.7 million moderation hours, LiveWorld provides a unique Tech-Powered Human Touch model to ensure quality, scale, and rich user dialogue and relationship experiences. For more information, go to www.liveworld.com (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK). LiveWorld is headquartered in California, with offices in San Jose, CA and New York City.
Gotta wonder how long it'll be before this one starts participating in Facebook mania. Getting some attention today at the .12 area
Love the re-done website; lots more info, and it's clear how integrated with Facebook LVWD really is.
http://www.liveworld.com/solutions/technology/
so which China stocks get the massive runs tomorrow? one by one, they are creating major trading opportunities.
KUN certainly has the price point and the float for a big run. Not as profitable as most, but it does have a history of good runs.
CBP has killer earnings, has turned down go-private offers, but can't seem to get any sustained buying. price-point is good at under a buck; fairly liquid too, so getting size is not an issue.
WUHN is the cheapest and the most puzzling. trading at a tiny fraction of book value, not that that's a good valuation measure for a China stock...but still.
PLPE picked by smae group that picked LEXG, NSRS, AMWI
"Our next Explosive stock is $PLPE We see incredible upside to this Social Media stock in the coming weeks due to its relations with FacebooK"
CBP WUHN KUN China cheapies yet to run. Great call on SGOC
CO - receives $65M investment from KKR; it's a validation for CO
China Cord Blood Corporation (“CCBC”) (NYSE:CO - News) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, "KKR") announced that they have entered into agreements under which KKR China Growth Fund L.P., a China focused investment fund managed by KKR, is expected to invest $65 million into CCBC, the largest cord blood banking operator in China, to support its further business expansion and to capitalize on China’s fast growing healthcare services industry.
Cord blood contains large quantities of stem cells that, if stored properly, can later be used to treat life-threatening diseases. The applications of cord blood stem cells continue to expand, and can now be used to treat over 80 types of diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, thalassemia and inherited immune system disorders. This progress in medical research and clinical applications continues to raise public awareness of the benefits of storing cord blood.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2009, CCBC was the first licensed cord blood banking operator in China, providing collection, testing, processing, and storage services. CCBC runs the largest cord blood banking network in China in terms of geographical coverage, with exclusive licenses to service the city of Beijing, Guangdong Province and Zhejiang Province. This area covers more than 180 million people and has 1.9 million new births annually.
Ting Zheng, Chairperson and CEO of CCBC stated, “CCBC provides an important service to families across China who want to safeguard the lives and health of their newborns. We are delighted to have KKR as our partner. Our senior management team is most impressed by KKR’s global franchise and its strong local track record in China. KKR’s investment is undoubtedly a strong vote of confidence in our company, our management team and our vision for the future.”
“CCBC runs an impressive operation that meets stringent quality standards and provides a critical medical service to its customers. As we continue to build our China portfolio, we are excited to support a company that is dedicated to improving healthcare services and making a positive impact on lives in China,” said David Liu, Member of KKR and CEO of KKR Greater China.
“CCBC has an effective platform and its services will increase in value as its application expands,” said Julian Wolhardt, Member of KKR. “In addition, CCBC has an outstanding and dedicated management team who has worked together for almost a decade. We are very delighted to partner with them to build CCBC into a market leader in its field.”
Citigroup Global Markets Asia Ltd. acted as financial advisor to KKR.
For details of the transaction, please refer to CCBC’s 6-K filings.
ABOUT CHINA CORD BLOOD CORPORATION
China Cord Blood Corporation is the first and largest umbilical cord blood banking operator in China in terms of geographical coverage and is the only cord blood banking operator with multiple licenses. Under current PRC government regulations, only one licensed cord blood banking operator is permitted to operate in each licensed region. China Cord Blood Corporation provides cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://www.chinacordbloodcorp.com.
ABOUT KKR
Founded in 1976 and led by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, KKR is a leading global investment firm with $59.0 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2011. With offices around the world, including Beijing, KKR manages assets through a variety of investment funds and accounts covering multiple asset classes. KKR seeks to create value by bringing operational expertise to its portfolio companies and through active oversight and monitoring of its investments. KKR complements its investment expertise and strengthens interactions with investors through its client relationships and capital markets platform. KKR is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: KKR - News). For additional information, please visit KKR's website at www.kkr.com.
PLPE.OB just released their version of the Social news w/ Hertz
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hertz-fans-share-facebook-153500669.html
re: KUN - they had going concern noted in 2010 10K as well, and 2011 turned out to be pretty good for them. i mean, there's a reason that they're trading where they are, but it shouldn't be surprising to see a going-concern note.
Looks like CBP may be next. Incredibly cheap here if you believe the numbers.
ya no kidding pmony. i know that you live for weeks like this, as do i. wondering if it'll carry into next week, but i kinda doubt it.
WUHN CNAM KUN are ones i'm in right now. SCEI has a chance too, but a little more expensive
KUN - if they run this one, then i think we can officially declare mania lol. Kidding aside, i bot some, and it has a history of big runs. EPS not as good as the others, but not sure that matters.
WUHN - loading the boat on this cheap one. Should participate in the mania as well
CREG - should have an outstanding day. Would be disappointed if it didn't break 2
KiK, just about all the china lowfloaters are in play today thanks to BEST, CLNT, etc.
CREG lagging the others but has the #'s to participate. Maybe tomorrow.
Highlights for the Full Year 2011
Interest income on sales-type leases increased by 46 percent to $22.10 million as compared to $15.14 million in the year ended December 31, 2010.
Net income grew 34 percent to $21.45 million as compared to $16.03 million recorded in the year ended December 31, 2010.
Fully diluted earnings per share ("EPS") of $0.39 increased 16 percent from fully diluted EPS of $0.33 in the year ended December 31, 2010.
CREG CLNT HEAT THTI --> the china energy savings space is heatin up!
LLEN starting to make a move. Why stay short when the biggest argument FOR it has been rendered invalid?
r59, re: WKBT - i tend to agree with you. why would they need private placements if they have so much cash on-hand? hmm
of course, the stock could still trade higher, but it would be on hope rather than value.
Net cash provided by financing activities was $2.02 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 compared to $4.35 million cash inflow for the comparable period of 2010. The cash inflow in financing activities during the year of 2011 mainly consisted of proceeds of $2.02 million from common stock and warrants issued in a series of private placements. The net cash inflow in financing activities during the year of 2010 mainly consisted of proceeds of $4.32 million from common stock and warrants issued in another private placement.
CHBU fantastic call burpy
coo2002coo - did LLEN ever PR that?
r59, re: EVK - reminds me of a Chinese LULU. I started a position today. Outstanding results and good outlook.
CHBU - i took some .17-.19; like the risk/return, though it's odd that there's such a seller.
CXDC - loaded some as well. Impressed by 2011 results and solid outlook.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-xd-plastics-announces-fourth-120500304.html
LVWD Excellent earnings for this Facebook/Social moderation and content play.
Q4 2011 Revenues = $2.5M vs. $1.7M
Q4 2011 EPS = +.01 vs. -.01 (ex-item)
Margins have improved, they have a strong backlog, and a bullish outlook for 2012
Cash is up to almost .04/share
With the coming FB IPO in 2 months, and Facebook mentioned so many times in LVWD's 10K due to heavy involvement, one has to think that there's a reasonable chance that LVWD gets targeted as a strong FB play. FB should just buy them and take the moderation in-house, but i digress...
Here's the 10K: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/12123451
CBP Earnings look good; outlook good. Book value over $3; cash over .50/share
I guess the results aren't trusted, because the stock is trading at .80
I'm trying some for a swing. Seems like a perfect candidate for a go-private transaction ala TBET.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-botanic-reports-first-quarter-110000506.html