TransAtlantic Capital Inc. (TACI)

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This is a pure speculation play that I am guessing will be either a 70% loss or a 700% gain over the next year but after investigating, I personally like what I am finding. I found it by accident when searching for information on another stock. The product immediately caught my attention but I have been burned by "story" stocks before (they sound good but never make money), so I searched several message boards for stock hype but I did not find any with activity. I have been impressed so far with the company and the people involved. It is still an OTC penny stock so you must also consider the risk of stock manipulation no matter how good the company is.

The stock just did a private placement of $1.5 million with an off-shore company but according to the press release it was for a fixed amount @ $.75 cents per share with incentive warrants @$1.25 per share available in the future (so no convertible debenture to worry about). The CEO and a Director also agreed not to sell any of their shares until May 1st, 2008.

Now here is my personal quick assessment: ACRO inc Ticker ACRI (OTC:BB) is very thinly traded (not much daily volume) but the largest shareholder Ehud Keinan (see short bio below) who owns 30%, appears to be a straight shooter with good connections on his advisory board (like General (ret.) Ehud arak, former IDF Chief of Staff and former Primer Minister of Israel) and the product has recently tested well and appears to be in the right place at the right time to do very well if they can market it properly with the right price point and produce a quality product that customers are pleased with. Searching for company news can be tricky because they were listed in the oil services sector until 2006 (under the ticker MDIN) when the company made a complete change in direction and a new Board of Directors but they are still listed in the oil sector on most stock quotes plus many stock websites include news info for a different company called Acacia (which apparently used ACRI or ACRO a couple years ago).

Yahoo is one of the few quote services that seem to have the news and quote info correct:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ACRI.OB

Please do your own research and consider the high risks before investing.

Monty

(Below are some informational excerpts I found that will get you started on your research.)
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About Acro Inc. http://www.acrosec.com
Acro Inc. is involved in the development of explosives detection technologies. The company developed a
unique patented technology for identifying peroxide based explosives, such as TATP.
Acro's Advisory Board includes General (ret.) Ehud Barak, former IDF Chief of Staff and former Primer
Minister of Israel, Prof. K. Barry Sharpless, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Prof. Richard
A. Lerner, President & CEO of The Scripps Research Institute, which is considered one of the most influential
scientific institutes worldwide.
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Acro Reports on Independent Testing of Peroxide Explosive
Tester - P.E.T. By Rafael
Israel's National Defense Research and Development Defense Laboratory to Provide Third Party Verification
of Proprietary Technology
TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 29, 2007 Acro Inc. (OTC BB:ACRI) today announced that
Rafael, Israel's Armament Development Authority, and a world leader in the development and production of
advanced interdisciplinary weapon systems for naval, air and ground forces, is testing the Company's
proprietary Peroxide Explosive Tester - the ACRO-P.E.T.
Internationally renowned Rafael has been contracted to independently establish the product parameters in few
specific areas: selectivity tests to eliminate "false-positive" detections, performance in the presence of
"camouflaging materials", determination of threshold levels of detection and the mechanical reliability of the
product.

Initial tests on 600 units of the device have demonstrated that the ACRO-P.E.T can detect less than 50
micrograms (0.00005 gram) of TATP. Furthermore, 23 different commonly used and commercially purchased
materials were tested to verify that they do not provide false-positive results. The results were better than
pre-test expectations and have been published in a report. This invaluable report will be made available to
potential customers to clearly demonstrate the efficacy of the ACRO-P.E.T.
Acro intends to deliver the device to several international security agencies for further evaluation tests. The
receiving agencies are all governmental, national security agencies, such as the US Department of Homeland
Security. Several national police forces have also requested to receive evaluation units.
"Independent verification of the ACRO-P.E.T. product and its potential to address the threat of improvised
explosives by Rafael is of great assistance in propelling the Company from development to full-fledged
marketing. Acro is the only company using this technology which addresses the multitude of threats arising
from peroxide based explosives, which may appear in variety of shapes and form, including liquid explosives,"
stated Gadi Aner, Chairman of the Board.

TEL AVIV, Israel, November 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Acro Inc. (OTCBB: ACRI) announces that it
has completed the first production of its patented, Peroxide based explosives tester, the ACRO-P.E.T. This
device is one of the few products in the market that is able to identify the Peroxide based explosives, such as
the TATP, and is the only one using Acro's proprietary technology.
Acro intends to deliver these products to several international security agencies for evaluation tests. The
receiving agencies are all governmental, national security agencies, such as the US Department of Homeland
Security. Several national police forces have also requested to receive evaluation units.
Prof. Ehud Keinan, the inventor, a director and scientific advisor to Acro stated that "Acro's goal is to
ensure that its product meets all the standards and function as intended thus allowing us to finally be able to
provide a viable method of combating the terrible threat of terror with improvised explosives. Such explosives,
which can appear in many different forms and shapes, including liquids, are very difficult to detect.
ACRO-P.E.T. is the only product available using this technology for identifying peroxide based explosives."
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ARCO INC
Product
Our first product called the Peroxide Explosives Tester (ACRO-P.E.T). ACRO-P.E.T is a small disposable
pen like probe which detects the presence of peroxide-based explosives using three chemical solutions and
relies on direct contact with the suspicious substance. ACRO-P.E.T has been designed for rapid, on-site
detection of peroxide-based explosives. Its main advantages are high sensitivity, high selectivity, fast response,
simple operation, small size and cost effectiveness. In November 2006, we completed the first production of
the ACRO-P.E.T for evaluation by potential customers. We intend to deliver these products to several
international security agencies for evaluation tests. To date, the data supporting our development programs is
derived solely from laboratory and limited early stage trials that were not all designed to be statistically
significant or proof-of-concept trial, some of which are exploratory in nature. We cannot assure you that our
ACRO-P.E.T will gain commercial acceptance in the marketplace.
We plan to follow ACRO-P.E.T with additional future products utilizing our proprietary technologies and
public domain methods for detecting other explosives.
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(Formerly known as Medina International Corp OTCBB: MDIN until 2006)
Acro Inc (OTC: ACRI)

Industry: Oil Equipment & Services (older info from Answers.com)
Acro Inc. was incorporated in the State of Nevada on May 22, 2002. Since the Company's inception, its
business has been to provide professional consulting services for the technical and economic evaluation of
petroleum and natural gas resources. The primary services that the Company offered was conducting due
diligence on petroleum and natural gas projects, identifying potential petroleum and natural gas projects
available for acquisition by clients and the provision of professional services to petroleum and natural gas
clients primarily in the technical areas of geology, geophysics and petroleum engineering. Acro was not
successful in fully implementing its initial business plan for the consulting services and have decided to no
longer offer consulting services to oil and gas Companies. To better protect stockholder interests and provide
future appreciation, management have conducted an in-depth analysis of its business and decided to find a
product that the Company would be able to develop and license or sell. The product that it has found is a
method of detecting peroxide based explosives. When the Company completes its acquisition of U.S. Patent
No. 6,767,717 and the related intellectual property for its potential explosive detection device products,
the Company would be competing with other developers and manufacturers of explosive detection device. Several
corporate announcements have recently appeared in the media about efforts to develop devices that detect
Triacetone Triperoxide. Most of these devices are based on air-sampling followed by spectral analysis using
various methods. These instruments, which are quite heavy and expensive, are designed primarily for
checkpoint stations, such as airports. Nevertheless, none of them can compete with the Company's potential
peroxide based explosive detection device, which is a small, disposable device, portable, easy to operate for
quick analysis by anybody at any location. The Company plans to introduce its potential products to the
addressable markets such as the law enforcement agencies, military, airport security personnel and others
employed in security checkpoints at other locations vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Acro Inc. does not
currently have any employees.
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Professor Ehud Keinan (before joining ACRO inc)
Benno Gitter and Ilana Ben Ami Chair in Biotechnology
Born in Israel 1947
B.Sc. 1971 Tel Aviv Univ., M.Sc. 1972 Ben Gurion Univ., Ph.D. 1977 The
Weizmann Institute of Science
On Technion faculty since 1987
Adjunct Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Skaggs Institute
of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.
Dean, Department of Chemistry (2004-2005)