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EARLY ALERT - FWIW
VCTY
Take a look at www.appsolutemedia.com andwww.appolicious.com/omg/apps/258217-celebrity-dead-or-alive-appsolute-media-llc . In addition, company has additional at least 10 games in development, all with users and revenues potentials from advertisers. This game is most advanced and has most users and impressions some of the games are developed in Company's IT outsource center in Belgrade. (Note we maintain a call centre in Belgrade and this is not related in any way whatsoever) On VCTY we are acting on behalf of the preferred shareholder and the accredited investor who financed VCTY several years ago. A resolution is being worked out with China operating subsidiary however VCTY is in the merger mode. No reverse split contemplated! Just because it's at 0.0001 that's temporary and last call.
Anytime....hoping she has one more run in her!
Early Alerts - General Update
May 8, 2012-FWIW
VCTY
Saw a nice profit from the spinoff of India Company. Yes the Indian company was in VCTY acquired for the purpose of a flip. Company courting a FL based XXXX XXXXXX (telecom Company). Revenues of over 2mill and assets the same for the merger.
STW Resources' Water Reclamation Systems Exceed Re-use Specifications for the Oil & Gas Industry
STW Resources Holding Corp. (OTC QB: STWS), a water reclamation services company, which has been operating a pilot program since March 19th, 2012 in the Permian Basin for eleven oil and gas producers, today announced that the results have met or exceeded the requirements of these producers for reclaiming twenty varying types of oilfield-produced and brackish water for use and re-use in oil and gas drilling and fracking operations. Through the knowledge gained during the pilot demonstration, STW and its engineering firm are now designing systems capable of processing any type of oilfield water on an economically feasible basis.
Input water was taken from eighteen separate Spraberry, Wolfcamp, Avalon, and Ellenburger sources, and from two separate brackish aquifer sites. After reclamation, the tested waters had no detectable levels of H2S (hydrogen sulfide) and acceptable levels of sulfates, iron and other contaminants required to make the reclaimed water meet the rigid specifications for drilling and fracking purposes.
STW Resources is now working with its engineering firm, Bob J. Johnson & Associates, Houston, to customize water processing systems designed for each type of oilfield wastewater supplied by producers. Proposals for each producer are comprised of specially designed and engineered systems. STW expects be deploying and operating systems in the 4th quarter of this year.
"It's not a 'one size fits all' situation; there is no single system that will be economically feasible for all different types of oilfield waters, as chemistry differs greatly from source to source." explains Stanley Weiner, CEO of STW Resources.
"Reclamation of oilfield water is economically feasible when the systems are properly designed for specific water chemistries, as STW's pilot program demonstrated," he said. "Producers save money by cleaning oilfield and brackish water and then re-using it in drilling and fracking operations, while also reducing the industry's overall fresh water requirements. It's a win-win situation for all" he added.
The Company stated that revenues from these projects are based on a per-barrel processing fee that can be competitive or significantly less than an operator's total cost of water, including raw water costs, disposal fees, and water transfer and/or transportation costs. STW water processing systems will be located where drilling operations are taking place, thus reducing the water transfer and disposal costs. There is no up-front capital cost for the producer. The producer pays for water only when it has been cleaned to the producer's specifications.
About STW Resources Holding Corp.
STW Resources Holding Corp. ("STW Resources"), Midland, Texas, provides customized water reclamation services. STW Resources' core expertise is an understanding of water chemistry and its application to the analysis and remediation of complex oil and gas water reclamation projects. STW Resources provides a complete solution throughout all phases of a water reclamation project, including analysis, design, evaluation, implementation and operations. For more information, go to: www.stwresources.com.
About Bob J. Johnson and Associates
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in West Texas, Central Texas and North Texas, Bob Johnson & Associates is a full-service water treatment company with 36 years of experience in water treatment systems with a full range of capabilities, from equipment to chemical solutions to treat water & wastewater. Services include complete system design, engineering, fabrication and system construction, on-site installation and service after the sale, including maintenance contracts and extended warranties. The company serves municipal, industrial, commercial, and residential markets in Texas, throughout the United States and around the World. From research to design, from fabrication to commissioning, from sales to service, the Bob Johnson name has come to be synonymous with reliable water treatment systems. For more information, visit: http://www.bjja.com/
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements about our business, or financial condition and prospects that reflect our assumptions and beliefs based on information currently available. Risks include the company's ability to secure contractual arrangements with oil and gas lease operators included in pilot programs, and other potential customers negotiating with STW Resources. We can give no assurance that the expectations indicated by such forward-looking statements will be realized. There may be other risks and circumstances that we are unable to predict. When used in this news release, words such as "believes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "estimates" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although there may be certain forward-looking statements not accompanied by such expressions. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including risks discussed in the company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors other than as required under the securities laws. The Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
SOURCE STW Resources Holding Corp.
FYIW-FRIDAY TIPS
The "LONG SHOTS AND STARTING TO BUZZ" are companies deemed "dead" by their shareholders because of no news or updates for a long period of time. These LS companies are usually quoted in a 00001 range and have a tendency to spike anywhere from 500- 2200% or higher over a few week period. Examples such as AGIJ, MSEZ and KING to name a few (although KING is bestowed and burdened by ex management and ex employees, turned bashers that won't let it breathe)
VCTY
Talks of a merger with an IT company and spin off of China company with share reduction (Shares issued to China about 2 years ago, some 2 Billion shares)
Both of these two have the potential to be run a ways to into the 000 territory!!
Agreed
I agree truethat...wait until they come out with a PR about the completion of the mergers and revenue projections. That imo is when we start to move up...way up from current levels.
And up some more!
Here is what I was able to dig up on who was the first manufacturer of LED's in the US
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Led
Until 1968, visible and infrared LEDs were extremely costly, on the order of US $200 per unit, and so had little practical use.[2] The Monsanto Company was the first organization to mass-produce visible LEDs, using gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) in 1968 to produce red LEDs suitable for indicators.[2] Hewlett Packard (HP) introduced LEDs in 1968, initially using GaAsP supplied by Monsanto. The technology proved to have major uses for alphanumeric displays and was integrated into HP's early handheld calculators. In the 1970s commercially successful LED devices at less than five cents each were produced by Fairchild Optoelectronics. These devices employed compound semiconductor chips fabricated with the planar process invented by Dr. Jean Hoerni at Fairchild Semiconductor.[18] The combination of planar processing for chip fabrication and innovative packaging methods enabled the team at Fairchild led by optoelectronics pioneer Thomas Brandt to achieve the needed cost reductions. These methods continue to be used by LED producers.[19]
So it could be any one of the three:
1. The Monsanto Company-I would rule out as they are now primarily engaged in the agricultural pesticide business. http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/pages/monsanto-history.aspx
2. Hewlett Packard- I think we are all familiar with their history.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/index.html
3. Fairchild Semiconductor-is a leader in the design and production of optoelectronics products
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/products/opto/
Viper Networks Expects To Start JV Manufacturing Project Prior To LED Acquisition Candidate
Viper Networks, Inc. (Pink Sheets: VPER), announces that the Company expects to enter into a joint venture (JV) project next week as part of their final due diligence process with a profitable LED manufacturing company that they have been in acquisition talks with since January.
As previously announced, the Company has been in merger talks with several U.S.-based firms since early 2012; one of which is located in the northeastern part of the United States and specifically provides LED manufacturing capabilities.
The Company’s joint venture manufacturing project, which is expected to commence within days, also promises to expand Viper Networks’ potential from their multiple agreements and major alliance with LEDs America, Inc., which includes broad manufacturing rights among other key agreements, including; sales and marketing, global exporting, along with multiple foreign country territorial exclusivity rights.
Since the Company is also involved in other due diligence matters with multiple acquisition candidates, Viper Networks may well release any expected closing date on another company prior to releasing such on the one featured in this announcement.
For additional information, please visit www.vipernetworks.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted and reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance.
SOURCE: Viper Networks, Inc.
Heritage First Capital
Scott Gibson, 407-444-5959
Especially if news drops this afternoon after market closes or premarket Monday!
A wise decesion Frank
Hopefully we can look forward to that once they complete the field trial in April.
Looks like the testing has been successfully completed!
Looking forward to hearing from them. I think their technology holds a ton of promise especially with all the fracking for natural gas that is taking place in states like Texas and Pennsylvania.
redak any more news coming out of STWS lately?
Could someone post a L2 screenshot please?
TIA
GO VPER!!
Could someone post a L2 please?
TIA
Could someone post L2 please?
TIA
L2 please
TIA
when did that happen I just checked my etrade account and it still show the number of share I own.
rj
Thanks guys for the L2...looking pretty good!
L2 Please!
Tell you what moves pretty eaisly with very little buying pressure.
Looking forward to seing that 10Q Penny!!
Some news from the company would be helpful right about now!
Hence my statement:
UNDERSTANDING IBM’S MAINFRAME MONOPOLY from The Computer & Communications Industry Association
http://www.ccianet.org/CCIA/files/ccLibraryFiles/Filename/000000000187/UnderstandIBM.pdf
An older article from 2009 but still worth a read.
UNDERSTANDING IBM’S MAINFRAME MONOPOLY
WHY POLICY MAKERS SHOULD CARE
• Over 80% of the world’s corporate and government data resides on mainframes.
• Over $5 trillion worth of corporate application and data assets rely on IBM mainframes today.
• Almost 95% of Fortune 1000 companies use IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most
critical data management needs.
• More than 50 billion transactions—including financial ATM sessions, healthcare record access, tax accounts
and other critical information—are running through IMS databases on a daily basis.
• More commercial transactions are processed on the mainframe than any other platform, and yet, this market is
under the exclusive control of IBM.
IBM - A HISTORY OF DOMINATION
• IBM pioneered vendor lock-in as a business strategy in the computing industry, first with punch cards in the
1950s, then with the mainframe.
• The installed base of approximately 10,000 mainframes used by IBM’s biggest customers drives large volume
hardware, software and consulting sales.
• With over 49,000 patents, IBM is the largest patent holder in the world.
o Compare to Microsoft (8,000+) and Oracle (approximately 1,000).
• IBM uses its patent portfolio as a means of forcing smaller companies that threaten its
mainframe monopoly out of business; larger companies are compelled to pay lucrative settlements
to avoid protracted litigation.
• Current problems with our out-of-date patent system as it applies to the software/IT industry amplify the
power of IBM’s patent portfolio.
o IBM can foreclose competition in many IT markets just by refusing to license its patents on reasonable
and nondiscriminatory terms.
• The first wave of mainframe competitors were systematically eliminated in the mid 20th century (Burroughs,
UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, GE, RCA). A second wave of mainframe competitors exited the
market in the late 20th century (Amdahl, Fujitsu, Hitachi).
UNDERSTANDING IBM’S MAINFRAME MONOPOLY
The Computer & Communications Industry Association
www.ccianet.org
IBM’S ONGOING ANTICOMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR
• In direct contravention of its previous licensing practices while it was still under the government consent
decree, IBM refuses to allow third parties to supply mainframe computers.
o Specifically, IBM refuses to license its mainframe system software for use on other companies’
mainframe computers.
o IBM refuses to provide third parties with adequate information and licenses to ensure that their
mainframe computers interoperate fully with IBM’s architecture.
• IBM has repeatedly threatened and taken action against third party solution providers who offer competitive
solutions or products that assist customers with migration away from the mainframe.
• As a result, IBM owns over 99% of the installed base for IBM-compatible mainframes (IDC Research).
IBM LEVERAGES ITS MONOPOLY
• Legacy data and applications that reside on mainframes are prohibitively expensive and technically challenging
to move onto more modern computing platforms – causing customer lock-in.
• IBM has repeatedly resorted to tying their mainframe hardware to their mainframe operating system (OS) and
preventing other solution providers from offering competitive compatible systems.
• IBM service agreements often stipulate that they will not support mainframe systems with non-IBM
components attached.
• IBM has raised prices for mainframe solutions 10-15% annually over the last few years.
• Prices for mainframes, software and consulting services from IBM have remained higher than costs for other
open platforms based on UNIX, Linux or Windows, which have fallen over the years. For example, the price
for 1GB of mainframe memory is approximately $6,000 while the price for 1GB of memory for Intel or AMDbased
servers running Linux or Windows is less than $100.
TIME FOR ACTION
• Without real choice and no cost effective way to move off of the mainframe, IBM’s customers are denied the
ability to choose the most appropriate computing technologies for their data processing requirements.
• Given the strategic nature of mainframe computing and mainframe data, action must be taken to give
customers choices beyond IBM for hardware, software and consulting services.
o Interfaces should be published and made freely available by IBM for developers looking to interact with
IBM mainframe applications and data.
o IBM should be bound by standard rules that govern monopolies and be required to license software
and protocols to third parties under reasonable terms.
o IBM’s anti-competitive actions should be reviewed by antitrust regulators.
A TIMELINE OF RECENT EVENTS
• In 2001 the US Department of Justice dissolved a 49-year-old consent decree IBM had signed which kept tabs
on its business practices as a result of prior anticompetitive actions. However, the Department made it clear
that if IBM engaged in further “anticompetitive activity” they would be “immediately liable to suit.”
• IBM has since aggressively sought to protect its hold over the mainframe by buying or striking deals with
small competitors who raise antitrust concerns.
o In 2004, a small company called Compuware extracted a $400 million settlement from IBM after
alleging that IBM abused its mainframe monopoly to block competition in an adjacent market for
mainframe tools.
o In 2007, QSGI—a company who refurbished used IBM mainframe computers and sold them to
customers for significantly less than the cost of a new IBM mainframe computer—announced during
an earnings call that it experienced a sharp decline in refurbished IBM mainframe sales because IBM
had terminated its pre-existing policy of providing QSGI with the necessary tools to refurbish and
resell IBM mainframes. QSGI informed investors that because of IBM’s anti-competitive practices,
QSGI had no choice but to exit the business of providing refurbished mainframe computers that
competed with IBM. QSGI’s CEO also told investors that its attorneys advised QSGI that IBM’s
conduct ran afoul of established antitrust laws.
• Before QSGI could file an antitrust suit, IBM entered into a “partnership” with QSGI for
providing mainframe services. Under the new partnership, IBM agreed to refer its existing
mainframe customers to QSGI for auditing and data erasure services, while keeping QSGI
out of the mainframe market.
• Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI) developed a competitive mainframe platform that used lower cost, Intel-based
servers. Although a small company, PSI’s technology threatened to break IBM’s lock on the mainframe.
o In response to reports that Hewlett-Packard was in discussions to purchase PSI and inject real
competition into the low-to-mid range mainframe market, IBM ceased licensing PSI the patents
needed for interoperability and filed a patent infringement suit against PSI in December 2006 seeking
to eliminate PSI before they became too much of a threat. PSI responded to IBM by strongly denying
IBM’s claims, and PSI alleged antitrust violations, unfair competition and business torts claims of its
own.
o In November 2007, another small mainframe manufacturer, T3 Technologies, signed onto PSI’s lawsuit
against IBM and added its own antitrust allegation.
• Despite IBM’s purchase of PSI and the subsequent withdrawal of its antitrust complaint, European officials
announced that they would continue to investigate IBM’s actions in the mainframe marketplace.
• In early July 2008 after it was reported that T3 was preparing to file an antitrust complaint of their own in
Europe, IBM acquired PSI who then agreed to terminate its legal proceeding against IBM.
• In January 2009 T3 Technologies filed a formal antitrust complaint against IBM in Europe.
I love your optimizism Amazz!!
GO VCTY!!
Looking forward to a big week here muscle!!!
GO SATM!!
My condolences Hokie...life is truly too short.
Still holding strong muscle...it will take more than what happend the past couple days to shake me loose and besides I'm still in the green!! GLTU
GO SATM!!
Board Marked and all strapped in my friend!
Looking very promising here muscle...glad to be in at this price level!!
Looks like they have dropped the "E"