QualityStocks Small-Cap and Micro-Cap Blogs: January 2015

Friday, January 30, 2015

Sibling Group Holdings, Inc. (SIBE) Shares Close Higher on Urban Planet Mobile™ Acquisition, New Chief Exec

Shares of Sibling Group closed the day 9% higher after the educational technology holding company said it has acquired Urban Planet Media & Entertainment Corp. (UPM) and named UPM founder and CEO Brian OliverSmith as the new Sibling Group chief executive.

UPM, a privately held mobile media company providing content and solutions in the education, healthcare and literacy markets, has won five global awards for mobile learning, including the 2011 GSMA Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Learning Innovation. The acquisition of UPM is expected to further strengthen Sibling Group’s position in the global digital education market.

“Joining Sibling Group positions the combined company for rapid growth in a global education market ripe for technology solutions that we believe we are uniquely positioned to deliver,” said OliverSmith. “We have a multi-faceted portfolio of products already used by millions of people around the world and combining Sibling’s Blended Schools Network content with that portfolio dramatically increases our sales potential. We are thrilled to be joining the Sibling Group family, and for the impact our combined solutions offer to people around the globe.”

OliverSmith, who will also be a member of the board and the largest shareholder of the combined company, succeeds Sibling Group CEO Maurine Findley who will serve as the company’s chairman of the board of directors.

“We could not be more pleased to formally begin our relationship with Urban Planet Mobile and its accomplished team and bring our Blended Schools Network programs to the international market,” said Findley. “UPM’s experience and reach in international markets and their ability to create and market high-quality learning solutions means they should drive value for Sibling Group from day one. We look forward to working with Urban Planet in the years ahead as we further establish ourselves as a global leader in education technology solutions.”

For more information visit www.siblinggroup.com

About QualityStocks

QualityStocks is committed to connecting subscribers with companies that have huge potential to succeed in the short and long-term future. We offer several ways for investors to find, evaluate, and learn more about investing in these companies.

Sign up for “The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter” at www.QualityStocks.net

The Quality Stocks Daily Blog http://blog.qualitystocks.net

The Quality Stocks Daily Videos http://videocharts.qualitystocks.net

The Quality Stocks “Ones to Watch” http://gotstocks.qualitystocks.net

Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: http://disclaimer.qualitystocks.net

How IFAN Financial, Inc. (IFAN) Fits into the Mobile Payments Puzzle

San Diego-based IFAN Financial, via wholly owned subsidiaries iPIN Technologies and Mobicash America, is developing technologies to move the mobile payments industry toward more safe, secure, and easy transactions. That said, the company’s solutions address several key payment challenges.

First up is theft and vulnerability; a common concern of consumers doing their shopping online, whether it’s by phone, PC, or tablet. In the online payments process the customer is exposed to identity theft, and the risk of unapproved transactions, when they provide their credit card/debit card and personal data to the merchant.

The IFAN solution lies in its portfolio of key patents, which enable the company to prevent exposure of personal customer data during business transactions. Small enough to fit in your pocket, the company’s iPIN technology attaches to any smartphone and converts the mobile device into a consumer PIN debit, same-as-cash payment solution. Transactions are processed through the private and secure iPIN Technologies Network and the consumer never has to enter their debit card data online.

The next feature tackles high payment processing costs, which come as a result of the higher risk of online payments. Ultimately, these processing costs can de-incentivize certain merchants from accepting credit cards and limit the ability of consumers to use them.

With its same-as-cash iPIN payment solution, IFAN offers an instantaneous method to process the transaction and eliminates extended processing time, dramatically reducing the processing cost.

Next, IFAN counters the high costs of traditional money remittance services such as MoneyGram and Western Union.

Mobicash America’s Quidme debit text payment technology utilizes the text messaging function of a mobile phone, allowing the technology to operate on almost any phone or network, with or without data service. The functionality of the Quidme platform allows users to pay bills, purchase goods and services, and to send money to friends and relatives located locally or internationally via simple text message.

The Quidme platform works without data coverage on any phone, enabling consumers to instantly transfer funds without having to expose their sensitive personal and financial data to the risk of identity theft. This is a game-changer for remittances (sending money back home), which have an average transfer fee of around 8%. Overall, Quidme allows cost savings of approximately 55% when compared to traditional money remittance services, allowing for cheaper, quicker, and more secure transactions.

IFAN continues to explore opportunities to expand its product portfolio to address security challenges and meet the growing demands for consumer/merchant convenience, speed, and security within the mobile commerce market. The company’s overarching mission is to produce technologies that combine the functionality of social media, e-commerce, and banking with the broader conveniences of the mobile environment.

For more information visit www.ifanfinancial.com

Boreal Water Collection, Inc. (BRWC) Wants to Be Your Water Company … and Yours … and Yours

Water bottling is not an easy process, and the task of finding just the right source for that water is an equally difficult endeavor. To add another degree of complexity, some corporate brands love to put their names and logos on bottles of water for advertising means; these brands typically require the very highest standards of quality. Now imagine that all those brands have different tastes, audiences, events and needs for bottled water.

The concept of customizing bottled water has generally been problematic and frankly not very profitable for some companies. No business wants to look “like” another company, even when it comes to bottled water. But this is where Boreal Water Collection comes into the marketplace. It is a company that recognizes that every company and event is individual, and to that extent has developed a scalable processing system that allows it to produce very individualized and specific orders according to quantity and the message to be sent with the bottling.

Boreal Water has an exclusive right to a pristine spring in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. That spring produces near-perfect water in terms of pH balance and taste as well as lack of minerals. Boreal Water can meet with each client or event planner and design an order based on quantity and bottle size, shape and type of bottle as well as type of water (purified, sparkling, enhanced, etc.) to create not just a customized top-tier bottle of water, but an individualized custom experience for branded water. The scalability can make volumes of Boreal water in the thousands for companies or the hundreds for corporate events, or dozens for a wedding, bar mitzvah or holiday party. Boreal Water has created its products private-label brands like Porsche, Saks Fifth Avenue and Ritz Carlton on its bottles, which signifies high-quality water with distinguished bottling and packaging to meet designer standards.

The bottled-water market is very competitive, but the high-end market is an opportunity for companies that can make private-label bottled water that meets customized needs at even the highest of demands. With this approach, Boreal Water positioned itself in this niche and is ripe for continued growth.

For more information, visit www.borealwater.com.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Falcon Crest Energy, Inc. (FCEN) Ready for Wyoming Oil Boom

There is little question that the Bakken oil shale play in North Dakota is making a large impact on world oil prices. Horizontal drilling and fracking efforts started several years ago have finally begun to bear fruit in adding significant amounts of oil to the global commodity market, which in the short-term is pinching the economies of several OPEC-member nations.

Energy independence is within reach, and the U.S. will move further toward achieving that goal as several plays in Wyoming begin producing oil supply through horizontal drilling and fracking techniques similar to those employed in North Dakota.

Falcon Crest Energy is a top development-stage oil and gas company perched in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, which analysts believe is a powderkeg of energy supply due to explode with the first extractions in 2015.

Falcon Crest has a 75-percent interest in about 600 acres in the Powder River Basin, which is expected to be drilled early in 2015 with the first supplies of oil heading to refineries by early 2016. As is a development-stage company, Falcon Crest is expected to lead the initial development of the Powder River Basin area, and the current timetable suggests that Falcon Crest is positioned to reap rewards from its 600-acre stake in the near future.

The Powder River Basin is not a new play – oil drilling and exploration in the area date back to the 1890s. The region has an oil-rich history, but the technology of the past rendered much of the oil unattainable. Technological advances over the last 30 to 40 years has changed that and have sparked renewed interest in the basin. Thanks to these new technologies, accessible oil reserves are expected to be much greater than first believed, which means Falcon Crest is positioned for tremendous financial growth.

For more information, visit www.FalconCrestEnergy.com.

Pan Global Corp.’s (PGLO) Renewables Expertise Seen as a Natural Fit for India’s Growing Energy Needs

The potential of India’s power sector is diverse, spattered with commercial power generation alternatives such as natural gas, coal, oil, hydro and nuclear, as well as sources of energy like solar, wind, bio-gas and agriculture. The demand for energy in India is rapidly growing and long ago outpaced supply. Despite years of growth in commercial power generation, the weighty demand for energy power frequently leads to energy shortages.

Efforts to close this supply-demand gap are ongoing by way of policy reforms, participation from private sector, and development of the Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP). Due to the huge size of the market, growth potential, and returns available on capital, India’s power sector offers tremendous opportunities for investing companies.

U.S.-based Pan Global is currently working on renewable energy projects in India to seize upon the aforementioned favorable market climate. While management is open minded about opportunities in other parts of the world, the company currently sees its niche in the tremendous opportunities of this bustling country.

Pan Global is focused on environmentally sustainable energy, infrastructure, and technologies with intentions of investing in green energy technology and infrastructure around the world. The company’s interests include mini-hydro, solar, wind and geothermal. What’s more, Pan Global is planning non-energy infrastructure technology investments that emphasize environmentally sustainable solutions in water distribution, building technology and agriculture. The company also seeks to provide consulting services related to energy efficiency, and has an online system designed to match up buyers and sellers of solar equipment and services.

Uncommon among similarly large countries, India anticipates high GDP growth that should extend for many years. Since 2005, India’s growth has been approximately 8% per year. It has a relatively young average population age and a growing unmet need for energy to go with it. The good news for opportunistic companies like Pan Global is that the Indian government is on record citing that development of renewables will play a major role in the country’s highly anticipated energy solution.

For more information on the company visit www.PanGlobalCorp.com/

Dominovas Energy Corp. (DNRG) Developing Game-Changing Clean Energy Solutions

Dominovas Energy is an Atlanta, Georgia-based company developing energy solutions ranging from the development of utility-sized fuel cell systems to the generation of electricity using alternative fuels.

The company recently partnered with Delphi Automotive PLC, which operates manufacturing sites, technical centers and customer support services in more than 30 countries as well as delivers technologies that make cars and trucks safer and more powerful, efficient and connected.

Together, Dominovas Energy and Delphi mean to develop new technology that will simplify the manufacturing, assembly, sale and use of electrical power generation equipment using Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology. Delphi’s manufacturing ability, which has been proven over time and across the globe, will enable Dominovas Energy to reach its goal of providing clean energy solutions and innovation for the real world. Ultimately, the deployment of the technology will occur in two phases and incorporate an initial successful field demonstration.

For Dominovas Energy, it is exciting to imagine the trailblazing opportunities that will arise as the company sets forth to deploy this impending technology on a commercial scale. The technology has widespread potential; it could change millions of lives and offer nations a state-of-the-art system for generating and delivering electricity. In such an instance, the technology’s social, economic and political influence will be substantial for the countries with which Dominovas Energy intends to engage.

For Delphi, the opportunity will allow the company to develop a fixed power application for its SOFC technology and to gain invaluable field experience collaborating with Dominovas Energy to support its goal of empowering emerging market communities with clean, reliable and affordable electricity.

As part of the Dominovas Energy-Delphi agreement, Dominovas Energy will take the lead on manufacturing and deploying the SOFC. The agreement also addresses the necessary requirements for evaluating and determining whether the adaptation and incorporation of Delphi’s SOFC stack fuel cell technology will be feasible.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dominovasenergy.com

Sibling Group Holdings, Inc. (SIBE) Aims to Make the Chalkboard Mobile and Digital

The concept of online learning has considerably grown during the last 10 years to become a viable way for students of all walks of life to improve their lives through access to more learning and education. Many universities now offer online courses in conjunction with their traditional classroom curricula, while others have developed entire degree programs that can be earned without setting foot in a classroom.

In traditional K-12 classrooms, online learning is used as supplemental material and content for students to edify what they are already learning. There is a push to eventually generate a comprehensive online educational experience for students and teachers though, as of yet, no one has covered the gamut. One firm, however, is aggressively pursuing that goal through various acquisitions and its own platform, and that firm is Sibling Group Holdings.

Sibling Group has diligently worked to create a suite of educational experiences and opportunities to provide students with lessons and educational content via their mobile device. This mobility enables students to learn and take assessment tests virtually anywhere rather than solely during school hours and on school grounds. Steps are being taken to develop diploma or certificate programs where students can earn an accredited certificate without being in a physical classroom.

The concept of supplemental online educational content for teachers, parents and students has been well-received in the last few years, and Sibling Group is working to be a leading partner with these various constituencies to improve the educational experience and boost the return on the educational investment in public and private institutions across the country.

For more information, visit www.siblinggroup.com.

Eyegate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (EYEG) Developing New Delivery System and Treatment for Ocular Conditions

Eyegate Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics and drug delivery systems for the treatment of diseases of the eye. Through its exclusive EyeGate® II Delivery System, Eyegate Pharma is currently developing its first and only drug candidate, EGP-437, which incorporates a reformulated topically active corticosteroid that is delivered directly into the ocular tissues of patients for the treatment of a variety of infections and diseases.

The company’s proprietary drug delivery system is designed to address two major issues in ophthalmic medicine, which include lack of patient compliance and safety. Featuring a compact, elegant and easy-to-use device, the EyeGate® II Delivery System is designed to deliver drugs non-invasively through the use of iontophoresis. The company’s specialized delivery system has been shown to accelerate the onset of action, dramatically reduce treatment frequency and sustain the therapeutic effects of treatments. The easy-to-use device has already been utilized to effectively administer more than 1,700 experimental treatments, including more than 1,000 treatments of the company’s EGP-437. With worldwide commercialization rights in hand, the company is aiming to fill a growing unmet medical need and provide physicians with a responsible solution to the treatment of increasingly common ophthalmic diseases.

The company’s leading candidate, EGP-437, is currently in Phase III trials for the treatment of anterior uveitis, which is a debilitating form of inflammation involving the middle layer of the eye. The initial data from the drug candidate’s trials revealed it as similarly effective to the currently available standard of care. The company expects the trials to be completed by the first half of 2016. In addition, Eyegate Pharma intends to expand the use of EGP-437 to other inflammatory eye conditions, such as dry eye and cataract surgery. Among other advantages, the company believes that patients may benefit from the potential elimination of demanding dosing schedules, rapid relief of symptoms, increased comfort and reduced side effects through the use of its drug candidate in combination with its specialized delivery system.

With the market for uveitis currently being dominated by branded and generic prednisolone eye drops that are ineffective in 50%-60% of patients, the potential for a new drug option in the sector is promising. With the company’s IPO of 1.4 million shares of common stock, Eyegate Pharma looks to raise capital while continuing towards the future commercialization of its leading drug candidate and non-invasive drug delivery system.

For more information, visit www.eyegatepharma.com

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Well Power, Inc. (WPWR) Primed to Bring Fracking, Environmentalists Together

Environmentalists and the fracking and oil production industry have never been the best of bedfellows. Several environmental groups and many activists have warned about the dangers of fracking. And to a certain extent, those warnings were appropriate, considering the large amounts of natural gas that have been burned off during oil production – an effect known as gas flaring.

Gas flaring has been a real problem, and even a hazard not just to the environment but also to workers on the drilling site. The EPA has recently implemented a new regulation curbing the amount of gas flaring that should occur on fracking sites. That EPA regulation may actually provide an opportunity for companies such as Well Power, Inc. (OTCQB: WPWR) to jump into the breach and help these oil companies continue to frack for oil and decrease American’s dependence on oil from foreign nations.

Well Power, Inc. has access to technology that captures the waste gas and converts it into usable natural gas fuel and by-products as an alternative to the gas flaring that wastes billions of cubic meters of gas every year. The mobile units are expected to be relatively affordable and will not only help fracking sites be safer from an environmental and public-health standpoint, but will also make the sites more efficient and productive by greatly reducing the amount of gas waste that is flared off and increasing the amount of usable natural gas that comes from a site. Increasing the volume of clean natural gas as well as the amount of oil that is produced continues to drive down costs to consumers, makes the sites more efficient and will ultimately save oil companies money in overhead and development costs. At the same time, the gas-capture is better for the environment and health of all workers while continuing to improve a country’s energy independence.

For more information, visit www.wellpowerinc.com

Pocket Games, Inc. (PKGM) is “One to Watch”

Pocket Games has been pursuing its mission to acquire and build brands around truly captivating IP for the PC and mobile gaming markets since their inception, and is focused squarely on engaging content and gameplay that has the ability to breathe new life into the experiences of gamers worldwide. With a considerable amount of expertise already amassed developing titles for third parties, Pocket Games is now confidently striding into the indie game arena with an innovative title that offers players a rich mix of “god game style” terraforming and divine retribution power usage, coupled with fast paced real-time strategy, and artificial life civilization building.

Assuming the role of the god of a tribe of good Furlings, players in Idol Hands must foster a thriving civilization by terraforming the landscape and creating new units, spending a mana pool that regenerates more quickly based on how large and advanced their civilization is. The same mana pool that is used to flatten land, and thus make room for more units to build their respective buildings and expand the city, is also used to unleash a variety of natural forces on the enemy population of evil Furlings. Wisely spending mana between expansion terraforming and tactical terraforming or acts of divine retribution sets a constant pace for the action and provides an increasing challenge as the game progresses.

The interface and essential gameplay mechanics are relatively simple to learn and extremely intuitive, with food (farmers) and lumber (lumberjacks) being the primary resources that need to be carefully balanced through measured unit creation. The player creates new units in a judicious fashion as resources become available and the specialized Furlings then automatically go out and expand the city border, building their appropriate building and setting about the task which defines their unit type. Ore (blacksmiths) must also be gathered to create soldiers to fight the enemy, which are directed using a simple totem that is dropped by the player in the world, or priests that increase the player’s mana regeneration rate further.

The ingenious removal of micromanagement aspects typical of other games in the genre allows the player to focus more on tactically terraforming the world, responding to enemy soldier attacks or enemy acts of god, enjoying the lush scenery, or otherwise mastering the subtle resource and unit creation balancing act necessary for success. The gameplay is reminiscent of the classic god game Populous, or more recent incarnations in the same vein like Spore and From Dust, with a noticeable undertone of Lemmings, giving the game an instant appeal factor that makes it a joy to play. Idol Hands is easy to learn and simple to play, yet difficult to master, making it a truly worthy successor to such legendary god gaming experiences as Populous.

Originally developed for distribution as an OEM title with Creative Labs’ (OTC: CREAF) Senz3D Motion Detecting Webcam, in partnership with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the game has been under continuous improvement since PKGM signed an acquisition contract early last year. This improvement process has stripped away the motion detection requirements and streamlined the game’s interaction system, leading to a completed PC build and finalized negotiations with a leading game publisher as of early November 2014. The completed PC build marks the outset of an initial foray for the company into the PC digital download space that is sure to capture the attention of both young and old gamers alike when the game debuts next month.

Idol Hands has all the makings of hit title for the company and Pocket Games is wasting no time preparing to position the title in front of an audience of millions via the biggest and best PC download sites in existence today, like private company Valve Corporation’s wildly popular and industry-leading game distribution, management, and social platform, Steam. Steam currently boasts a huge community of active gamers, with around 7.6M users logged in during peak hours and over 4.2 million users online during even the lowest intervals of activity. Moreover, Pocket Games has signed up with UK-based PC game distribution outfit, Green Man Gaming, as one of the first two studios to join the Green Man Loaded publishing label. This move to have Idol Hands be one of Green Man Loaded’s launch titles grants key prominence to the product, giving a relatively new studio like PKGM direct access to consumers on a platform where the title will not be so easily obscured by the glut of other games which exists on Steam.

Idol Hands publisher, Green Man Loaded, anticipates strong receptivity to the title and the partnership projects over $1 million in sales for this godly strategy game, based on careful observation of current trends within the industry. Pocket Games is indeed ramping into the market at an auspicious time, with acquisitions and IPOs in the gaming industry setting new all time highs last year of some $24 billion (Digi-Capital), amid high profile deals like the $2.5 billion Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) acquisition of Swedish indie developer, Mojang AB, which created the amazingly successful open world, procedurally generated sandbox game Minecraft. The iron is hot right now for indie games that can capture a wide audience via simple, addictive gameplay experiences and Pocket Games is ready to strike while the iron is hot with their fast-approaching February 18th worldwide general release date for Idol Hands.

As the potential user base for PC games continues to expand, with companies like private high-end hardware creator Razer recently releasing a $100 Android-based set-top microconsole for streaming PC games onto consumer’s televisions, titles like Idol Hands, with its gorgeous graphics, incredible style and whimsical Furlings, can find serious market share among wider home audiences. The company is doubling down on this growing potential market as well, firmly committed to delivering the best user experiences possible, and they have announced signing of a LOI to acquire an established game development and testing company in India. The company has already generated a solid relationship with this targeted acquisition, having used them on various projects during the preceding year.

CEO of Pocket Games, David Lovatt, will personally fly to India to oversee the acquisition of this established outfit, which has a solid team and thriving client portfolio, and the vast experience in game testing and development possessed by the target company is expected to benefit PKGM in a variety of ways. Not only will this acquisition be instrumental in reducing cost and further refining the product quality of future titles, it will provide increased revenues for the company via game testing contracts, and also give the company a leg up when it comes to penetrating the mobile gaming market.

For more information on Pocket Games, visit www.PocketGamesInc.com

WordLogic Corp. (WGLC) Looks to Increase Workplace Efficiency with Predictive Text Technology

WordLogic is working to improve employee efficiency in a variety of sectors with the help of its patented predictive text technology. According to reports from the McKinsey Global Institute, workers in a wide variety of professional sectors spend upwards of 13 hours per week, or 28 percent of total working time, reading and replying to emails. If an employee is in a more highly communication-dependent field, the amount of time spent typing and entering industry specific data could be even higher. With an increasing number of employers integrating mobile technological solutions as an important aspect of employee interaction, the ability to quickly access predictive text technology could present companies with massive savings potential.

While solutions for personal applications tend to subscribe to a more standardized dictionary, WordLogic’s business solutions allow companies to integrate a dictionary of industry and company-specific terms and phrases across a multitude of devices, including PC’s, mobile phones and tablets. WordLogic’s predictive text solutions for businesses allow for access to client-specific dictionaries with blazing fast entry speeds. The company’s proprietary Wordchunking™ technology opens the door for the prediction of entire phrases and sentences, which can massively improve user input speed without sacrificing accuracy.

WordLogic for Business has been effectively implemented across multiple industry sectors that have very specific requirements for input technology. By creating a custom, cloud-based dictionary specific to individual business needs, WordLogic is able to boost employee accuracy and productivity while saving companies time and money.

WordLogic’s business solutions are designed for easy implementation in order to avoid unnecessary slowdowns. Using the company’s simple SDK, clients can easily implement their customized dictionaries into their existing IT infrastructure to cut down on the initial costs. With amazing input solutions currently available for the healthcare, utilities, legal and consumer electronics industries, WordLogic has the technology needed to create a solution tailored to fit any company’s specific requirements. Streamlined for improved speed and accuracy, companies with WordLogic for Business are expected to see major boosts in productivity and savings.

For more information, visit www.wordlogic.com

Coastal Integrated Services Inc. (COLV) Environmentally Sustainable, Innovative Lids Keep Consumers Coming Back for More

Coastal Integrated Services, via their wholly-owned Simply Lids, Inc. subsidiary, is focused on creating a no spill/splash drink experience for the food services industry via their patented disposable beverage lids that are also environmentally friendly. Emphasizing sustainability and recyclability alongside maximum gratification consumer experience, COLV is intent on maximizing their market share in this surprisingly low competition sector, where most disposable lid products require the consumer to sip carefully from a miniscule hole.

The patented Simply Lid design makes use of the Simply Slider™ mechanism to open and close both a sizeable drinking slot and the accompanying air intake holes, replicating the functionality of costly travel cups for the foodservice disposables market and providing a true, straight-from-the-cup drinking experience. The improved customer experience available with the Simply Lid is a solid attractor for retailers who dispense beverages and it can help foster customer loyalty. After all, there isn’t much sense in offering the finest coffees or other drinks if the actual act of consumption is not pleasurable or ends up ruining an expensive piece of clothing. With the Simply Lid, a vertically configured hole set at the base of a liquid reservoir prevents spills and splashes, making the act of drinking seem very natural. This patented design makes it seem like the cup has no lid at all, providing fluid beverage flow and the easily closed slider lets consumers even shake the beverage to mix it up, while also helping to prevent loss of coldness or heat. At the same time, the company’s lids are recyclable and utilize a much lower volume of plastic than many other lids on the market today, allowing retail customers to feel good about their purchase, further instilling customer loyalty and keeping them coming back for more.

The broader global foodservice disposables market for cups and lids was forecast to grow at a CAGR of around 5% in late 2013 by a Freedonia study that estimated world demand would reach $26 billion by 2017, driven in large part by mounting growth in the primary target market, the quick service restaurant industry. More recent analysis from Freedonia in mid-2014 places the U.S. cups and lids market alone on an even steeper incline, with projections of around $10 billion by 2018, as food packing cups used for snack foods like single serve pudding continue to steal increased market share from the historically dominant foodservice segment. Freedonia anticipates the strongest overall demand growth will come from lids moving forward, whose growth will markedly outpace that of cups, as segments like carryout lids used by restaurants and retail chains (think coffee shops) create a sweet spot in the specialty lid market, with more and more consumers buying beverages to be drunk either at a location other than where they were purchased, or on the go in their cars. Simply Lids are an ideal solution to drinking hot coffee behind the wheel and COLV isn’t content to rest on their laurels either, with constantly improving designs and customization options in the works.

The recent nomination of the company by VP of Innovation at global business supply chain managed services and consulting solutions specialists, Havi Global Solutions, for the Edison Award, which recognizes and honors innovative excellence in developing, marketing and launching new products and/or services, speaks volumes about how far ahead of the game Simply Lids designs are. The company is running circles around tired old designs by the likes of Dart Container Corp., which acquired its major rival, Solo Cup, for around $1 billion back in 2012, as well as other legacy producers. And unlike many of the smaller innovation-minded companies in the same field today, which are almost all private, Coastal Integrated Services is highly accessible to investors.

To learn more about Coastal Integrated Services, visit www.coastalintegratedservices.com or www.simplylids.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

IFAN Financial, Inc. (IFAN) Fanning the Flames in Mobile Payment Space

The concept of mobile banking and mobile payments has been a burgeoning sector of the digital age in the last couple of years. With the evolution of things like PayPal, Google Wallet and Apple Pay, as well as many banks and credit unions offering online banking and bill-paying options, the mobile, wireless consumer is demanding even more freedom. And in this case, that means the freedom to do banking and make payments from anywhere without having to make appointments or scheduling a trip to the bank during banker’s hours.

IFAN Financial, Inc. (OTC: IFAN) is one of those up-and-comers in the mobile payment and online banking space, and as the calendar turned to 2015 the company has been active in preparing its Quidme mobile platform and making efforts to ramp up marketing and commercialization.

The new year started positively for IFAN Financial, Inc., as it announced just before the first trading session of the year that it had secured a private placement with an investor for $1 million, which the company said it would use to finish the development of its Quidme platform and move forward on efforts to commercialize the platform in the coming weeks and months.

The full private placement should be completed by early February. Under the agreement, the total value of the deal in stocks and warrants could be as much as $4.7 million.

Just a few short days after that announcement, IFAN Financial reached an agreement with Card Collaborative International to help with platform development. ICCI is slated to help IFAN’s platform procure banking compliance and ATM/POS network approvals, as well as establish bank-settlement accounts and finalize third-party processor agreements among other duties.

With these recent moves, IFAN Financial is on the road to bringing its mobile-payment platform from the world of theoreticals into the world of practical.

For more information, visit www.ifanfinancial.com

Cleartronic, Inc. (CLRI) Global Expansion Objectives in Unified Communications Spurred On By Key Board Appointments

Cleartronic continues to gain increased global market share as a provider of comprehensive unified communications (UC) solutions, delivered through a growing family of acquired operating subsidiaries that offer a broad spectrum of innovative products, integrated systems and services to everyone from consumers, to business enterprises, and government agencies. The recently announced appointment of CEO and founder of Collabria, LLC, Marc Moore, to the Cleartronic Board of Directors, extends the reach of the license agreement signed between the two companies, which conferred upon CLRI the right to add Collabria’s ReadyOp™ interoperability software suite to the portfolio of communications solutions the company markets, sells, and supports.

ReadyOp™ has been a solid addition to the menu for Cleartronic since they signed the deal and has significantly enhanced the company’s traction amongst government agencies, due in large part to the seamless integration capabilities of the platform, which make it an ideal multi-organization solution for first responders who want to tie together a complex network of disparate devices in real-time. A marvel of communications, planning and response capability enabling, the web-based ReadyOp platform is increasingly seen as a vital tool for first responders to have in their tool belts. The platform is able to dovetail alerts, email, file transfers, radio communications, text, and voice into a single, secure, overarching command and control environment that easily turns computers, laptops and even smartphones into command center coordination nodes.

Marc Moore, a former Air Force Fighter pilot with over two decades in the information technology, software development and UC game, brings a wealth of experience to the CLRI Board which will no doubt be instrumental in helping the company to further its goals of acquiring even more next-gen technology and software offerings, while continuing to expand their already sizeable client base. The addition of ReadyOp to CLRI’s portfolio of UC offerings integrates extremely well on the sell-side with the patented IP gateways and communication software solutions already available via the company’s wholly-owned VoiceInterop, Inc. subsidiary, which services over 200 client companies worldwide, including airport management, emergency service agencies, and colleges/universities. ReadyOp adds serious cachet value to CLRI’s already compelling portfolio of UC solutions, making the company something of a rising star in the industry, especially when it comes to clients like mission-critical providers of emergency response services.

In addition to the Moore appointment, the company has added emergency response management and logistics pro, Richard Lackey, to the Board. Lackey is the founder and chairman of the Global Food Exchange™, a world leader in strategic food reserve development, focused on bringing together a network of strategic partners, emergency food providers and buyers, in order to help achieve rapid response capability in emergency disaster relief situations around the globe. The Global Food Exchange goes beyond just their bedrock services of providing complete meals made up of highly nutritious ingredients to communities in need, offering necessary relief equipment like portable water systems and shelters as well. With a number of years doing real yeoman’s work in international emergency medical response missions, as well as with roughly three decades working as an active trader and fund manager across the U.S. and Latin America, having held eight different securities licenses, including ones in the equity, options and futures markets (as well as serving as the managing director for five, highly successful private funds), Lackey clearly has the skills to pay the bills and will likely be instrumental for CLRI in accelerating their global expansion objectives.

Marketed and sold direct to customers worldwide, as well as through a growing network of value-added resellers, the advanced interoperability-enabling solutions available through VoiceInterop’s UC allow for extremely cost-effective, easier to use, highly flexible, and reliably rock-solid communications platforms to be implemented by anyone. Distinct advantages of VoiceInterop solutions have continued to allow the company to gain ground in the rapidly expanding global UC market, estimated to be growing at an extremely health 15.7% CAGR over the next three years, as even SMEs and smaller local government agencies seek ways to work more intelligently on a budget, driving the overall market to $62 billion or more according to Transparency Market Research analysis.

Enterprise UC is a particularly hot market and the unique advantages of VoiceInterop’s solutions make the company a serious contender in this arena. Unique advantages which include an emphasis on cost savings-focused interoperability and open-standards software, as well as maximally flexible design that allows for the integration of legacy communication systems (extending their viable service life handsomely), and similarly flexible operating capabilities that make VoiceInterop’s secure solutions easily configurable on the fly. From SMEs to massive enterprises, the demand for secure, high performance and device agnostic UC solutions that can be executed on a budget, continues to increase at a record pace as more and more outfits switch over to a BYOD (bring your own device) paradigm amid smartphone proliferation that saw 1.3 billion units shipped in 2014 (mostly Android).

The key to survival in this dynamic world of modern enterprise is to have an elegant UC solution backbone tying together of all of the mission critical communications and working group efforts. Cleartronic aims to be one of the premier providers of choice in this industry among a growing clientele footprint, and the company is making all the rights moves to secure that objective.

To get a closer look at what Cleartronic has to offer, visit www.Cleartronic.com

Zenosense Inc. (ZENO) On the Heels of Early Cancer Detection Device Breakthrough

Any person diagnosed with cancer or any medical practitioner intimate with the study of this disease has learned that one of the most critical pieces of data for determining prognosis is the stage the cancer is in when first discovered. The more advanced the cancer stage at diagnosis, the lower the survival rate. The earlier the stage when discovered, the greater the chances of survival. To simply state, ‘the earlier the better,’ could easily be called as the understatement of the century. Our inquiring minds beg for answers to logical questions preceded with, ‘If only…’ or ‘What if there were a way…’

Zenosense Inc. (OTCQB: ZENO) is a company that not only asks, ‘What if,’ they are a company that devotes its time, attention and resources on producing an answer. Specifically, ZENO is committed to developing a non-invasive, cost-effective early detection screening method for detecting lung cancer. Long term, shareholder value intentions are believed to offer noticeable improvements in survival and mortality rates.

The company operates on the cutting edge of executing on the challenge of developing practical, cost-effective medical devices that will detect at the earliest of stages, deadly lung cancer bacteria and other cancers in a patient’s exhaled breath. And as would be expected, the promising news coming from company development efforts is generating positive activity and excitement.

In November of 2014, ZENO announced plans to manufacture a pre-market prototype device that would be evaluated during a lung cancer detection trial in a clinical setting. Zenon Biosystem, Zenosense’s development partner, assumed a leadership position in a project that would be responsible for manufacturing the prototype. In preparation for the planned trial and to meet the standards of the trial’s protocol design, Zenon planned to manufacture two pre-commercial devices of identical design to ensure that trial results could be duplicated. A month later, Zenon announced that it would be collaborating with a university and a large university hospital in Madrid, Spain on a nine month long lung cancer detection trial that will facilitate clinical tests on breath samples from 400 people.

Zenosense feels that a cost-effective, breath-analyzing lung cancer detector that is proven to meet or exceed the accuracy of low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) scanning will have broad appeal and demand. As a result, company development efforts have welcomed the news that a team of university research scientists and their hospital have recognized the potential for the technology. A positive outcome from the planned lung cancer detection trial will be a significant step toward a major healthcare breakthrough and quite possibly provide a much needed answer to the question, ‘What if…’

For more information on the company, visit www.zenosense.net

Pure Hospitality Solutions, Inc. (PNOW) Close to Travel Network Boost with Sabre Travel

Pure Hospitality Solutions has announced that it is close to an agreement with Sabre Travel Network which would potentially add 125,000 base hotels to the Oveedia platform. In addition to Pure’s Central American-Caribbean target market, Sabre’s association would mean access to an affiliate network of over 400 airlines, 16 cruise lines and more than 25 car rental choices.

Melvin Pereira, President of Pure Hospitality Solutions, Inc. commented, “Having previously worked with Sabre, I’m excited to align Oveedia with a complimentary platform; a company that has access to not only 125,000 hotel properties, but also hundreds of airlines, cruise lines and car rental agencies. There is no doubt that our niche is the Central American-Caribbean region, but to add a platform that has vendors across the world, will instantly expand our visibility and rapidly increase our potential projected growth.”

Pure management points out that Costa Rica’s Nayara Hotel, rated the second best hotel in the world according to recent studies by TripAdvisor, received some insights from Mr. Pereira. Having had the opportunity to meet with the management team at Nayara a few years ago, Mr. Pereira offered instruction on the proper use of internet optimization and social media. Today, “they are the second best rated hotel in the world,” Pereira added. “Although I would never dare take credit for the ultimate success they achieved, I am pleased to see that similarly with other hotels, rental agencies and vacation property management groups in Costa Rica, my advice to this executive team on the proper ways to optimize their internet presence, may have made some difference in their success. Nonetheless, I am quite confident in the future success of Oveedia.”

Management believes that its relationship with Sabre will aid Oveedia in establishing new relationships while expanding its service offerings to their database of properties in an expedient fashion. Mr. Pereira notes, “Oveedia, with the assistance of Sabre, will become the Central American-Caribbean hub, dominating the region’s OTA/GDS market. Judging by Nayara’s success, I have no doubt we’ll assist our hoteliers to achieve the same.”

PURE provides proprietary technology, marketing solutions and branding services to hotel operators and condominium owners. PURE’s intentions are to build competitive operations in the areas of online marketing and hotel internet booking engine services, hotel branding and own, operate and develop boutique hotels under the new, “by PURE” brand.

For more information, visit www.purenow.solutions

EFactor Group Corp. (EFCT) Equity Report Overview

EFactor Group Corp. is the owner of a group of entrepreneur-focused service companies, as well as EFactor.com, a niche social networking platform designed to provide content and resources for entrepreneurs. Through EFactor.com, EFCT allows entrepreneurs to interact with mentors, investors, peers and resources through the use of a proprietary algorithm created to help them connect with the right people. In addition, the company provides knowledge, facilitates funding preparation and reduces business costs through a mix of online social networking and offline domestic and international events. The company’s subsidiaries include EQMentor, MCC International, HT Skills, Member Digital, GroupCard BV, ELEQT Limited and Robson Dowry Ltd.

EFactor.com is currently at the core of EFCT’s business plan. The site is designed to provide end-to-end solutions for entrepreneurs with growing businesses through a unique interaction platform. In November 2014, SeeThruEquity declared the company a market leader in the niche for social networks for entrepreneurs whose members are business owners in a network dedicated to their requirements.

EFCT is currently pursuing an aggressive acquisition strategy. Following the purchase of two companies in 2013, EFCT targeted the acquisition of eight companies in 2014 with five completed as of November 2014. The company’s primary acquisition targets offer products and services for entrepreneurs and provide the potential for substantial revenue growth, a strong history of profitability and healthy product margins. SeeThruEquity predicts that the aggressive acquisition strategy will lead to significant increases in revenue and earnings over the next few years, as well as expansion and enhancement of current products and services.

With a relatively new and rapidly evolving niche market, EFCT has potentially enormous market potential. The number of entrepreneurs around the world is currently estimated to be near 470 million, which could lead to millions of new hires and newly-created jobs in the coming years. This expansion provides companies servicing entrepreneurial networks, such as EFCT, with enormous growth potential in the near future. With the advantage of having the first and only entrepreneurial network of its kind, EFCT is in prime position to capture a large share of the rapidly expanding sector.

EFCT currently generates revenue through a combination of membership fees, sponsorships, advisory services, public relations and advertising. The company’s recent acquisition of multiple profitable companies has certainly contributed to its top line, and continued growth is expected as a result of the strong synergy the new subsidiary companies share with EFCT’s primary business line, EFactor.com. Analysts expect continued growth as a result of the recent surge in the entrepreneurship market. With the company’s acquisitions providing increased tools and services serving the entire gamut of business needs, demand for EFCT’s services is expected to increase from 1.3 million subscribers at present to 5 million subscribers by the end of 2016.

Utilizing discounted cash flow analysis and peer group multiples, EFCT was given a fair market value of $1.85 per share as of November 2014. Relative to its current price of $0.11, this valuation represents an upside potential of 1600%. When evaluated on a peer group valuation, EFCT was given a fair value range of $0.68 to $0.80 per share. With the company’s recent acquisitions of profitable and related businesses, EFCT is expected to significantly ramp up its revenue throughout this year. SeeThruEquity has predicted significant improvement of the company’s valuation multiples over the coming months.

EFCT operates in a relatively new and unproven market, and, while the company may face headwinds in developing a scalable technology infrastructure that can effectively handle increased member usage, a lack of direct competition puts the company in a strong position in the rapidly expanding entrepreneurial services market. With a unique platform and aggressive expansion plans, EFCT is putting itself into a firm position to deliver high operating margins as its revenues increase in the coming years. With operating margins of 18% forecasted for this year and growth to 52% expected by 2019, EFCT is placing itself firmly at the top end of its market and positioning for a bright future.

For more information, visit www.efactorgroup.com

Monday, January 26, 2015

VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (VSTA) – Applying Stem Cell Technology toward Drug Rescue and New Generation Drug Toxicity Screening

Believing that better cells lead to better medicine, VistaGen Therapeutics has been applying pluripotent stem cell technology toward drug rescue, predictive toxicology and drug metabolism screening.

VistaGen’s activities are guided by the belief that the key to making better cells is strictly controlling the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, the building blocks of all cells in the human body. For more than 15 years, the company’s stem cell research and development teams and collaborators have developed proprietary methods for controlling the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells and the production and maturation of several specific types of adult human cells, particularly human heart and liver cells.

VistaGen’s drug rescue activities are focused on combining its stem cell technology and assay development expertise with modern medicinal chemistry to produce drug rescue variants – new, safer chemical variants of once-promising drug candidates that have positive data supporting their therapeutic and commercial potential, but that were halted in development by the pharmaceutical companies or university laboratories because of concerns about potential heart or liver toxicity or metabolism issues.

In the years since VistaGen was founded, the California-based biotechnology company has developed two customized bioassay systems designed to transform drug development by establishing clinically-predictive, human cell-based toxicology screening at the front end of the development process, long before animal or human studies:

• CardioSafe 3D™ – This customized human heart cell bioassay system for screening potential heart toxicity of new drug candidates uses mature, functional, adult human heart cells produced from pluripotent stem cells (VSTA-CMs™) to detect a far broader range of potential cardiac toxicities than the FDA-required hERG assay, and it provides proprietary cardiac toxicity and quantitative structure-function (QSAR) information to guide highly-efficient selection and development of proprietary drug rescue candidates for VistaGen’s pipeline.

• LiverSafe 3D™ – VistaGen is developing and validating this innovative, three-dimensional in-vitro bioassay system designed to evaluate liver toxicity and drug metabolism issues. LiverSafe 3D uses VSTA-heps™, VistaGen’s pluripotent stem cell-derived, mature adult human hepatocytes (liver cells). VSTA-heps have significantly more functionally useful life span in culture than primary (cadaver) hepatocytes and overcome the key problems related to use of primary hepatocytes for in vitro liver safety toxicity and drug metabolism screening, including: extreme variation in functional activity; limited supply; unknown health status of donor; and genetic differences.

VistaGen continues employ its world-class stem cell differentiation and bioassay development expertise to expand the scope of its drug rescue, drug discovery and strategic collaboration opportunities worldwide.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.vistagen.com

Sparta Commercial Services, Inc. (SRCO): Growing Variety of Businesses Turn to Cost-Effective Mobile Marketing Application iMobileApp

Sparta Commercial Services runs a highly successful municipal lease purchase financing program that helps local government agencies around the country (like police departments) acquire virtually any critical equipment they need, from motorcycles and police cruisers, to surveillance hardware, in addition to providing comprehensive used vehicle title history reports via the company’s Specialty Reports, Inc. subsidiary. But the most compelling aspect of Sparta Commercial Services is perhaps their continued success in the fast-growing world of mobile apps, which today accounts for the lion’s share of time (80% or more) that users spend on their smartphones.

The company’s mobile marketing application platform, iMobileApp (http://imobileapp.com/), is their newest and most prominent offering in the mobile app space, and continues to gain ground with a broad array of business types, thanks in large part to how easy and affordable this solution is for even small businesses to execute engaging user experiences that look great on nearly any mobile device. Moreover, the customized and easily maintained mobile apps created by the company’s development team, which does all the heavy lifting, are not like the typical “fast app” deployments that litter the internet today. Executions using the iMobileApp platform, while only costing a fraction of what clients would otherwise pay to secure a brand presence via traditional print or web marketing, are feature-rich and emphasize a professional brand presentation, in addition to providing top-notch user experience. User experience is mission critical when it comes to the success of an app and SRCO’s development team is serious about mobile app solutions that can gain and maintain traction with end users.

Each iMobileApp execution brings end users a mini-billboard (among other things), which keeps them easily updated with the latest news and promotional offers, as well as offering them the ability to quickly view store hours, make a purchase, schedule a reservation, or seek feedback assistance. Speaking of feedback, iMobileApp clients have access to real-time customer support if they do encounter any problems after the app is up and running, as the company offers superb phone and email contact options that are there every step of the way. Easy to maintain mobile apps with excellent customer support has led to widespread adoptance and customer satisfaction levels for SRCO, with over 450% growth (based on pain initial invoices) from December 2013 through the same month last year, driven in large part by expansion of the company’s extremely thorough sales and marketing team.

With global smartphone proliferation hitting a new high-water mark during Q2 2014, with shipments up 27.2% compared to 2013 (hitting 335 million units according to International Data Corporation vendor analysis), and some 1.3 billion units shipped during all of 2014, the importance of having a dynamic, attractive mobile app has become more important than ever when it comes to businesses connecting with their customers. The client variety obtained among Sparta Commercial Services’ most recent iMobileApp adoptions illustrates the power of the platform and the far-reaching appeal of iMobileApp’s unique fusion of highly customizable, feature-rich content, and low cost. From a full-service salon and spa in New York, to an agricultural dealership with three locations in Ohio, iMobileApp is proving to be a genuinely affordable means of not only generating brand awareness amongst targeted consumer demographics, but building a strong sense of user community as well, something which ultimately leads to increased customer loyalty and higher sales revenues.

The strong foothold the company has established in automotive services through their Specialty Mobile Apps product (http://www.specialtymobileapps.com/), which is designed specifically to give auto dealers a custom branded mobile app they can use to keep in touch with their customers, has no doubt been instrumental in securing recent iMobileApp deployments to a variety of dealerships, including two Harley-Davidson dealerships in Hawaii and West Virginia, and a Chevrolet/Buick dealership in Nebraska. Similarly, the iMobileApp execution for the New Jersey Motorsports Park, regarded by many as the premier motorsports entertainment complex in the whole of the Northeast, is a shining example of the company’s expertise in catering to the automotive world, as well as the company’s continued success landing new clients in this sector.

Projections by mobile and wireless sector analysts, CCS Insight, indicate that, despite relative maturation of the smartphone market in recent years due to massive proliferation that has seen device shipments surpass even the PC market, smartphone unit shipments will continue to climb steadily through 2018, when they will hit somewhere around the 1.9 billion mark. At the same time, the app market is on track to grow to around $63.5 billion by 2017 (Portio Research), up sharply from 2012 figures of around $12 billion (46 billion downloads). Other estimates are even higher, with the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently projecting over 268 billion downloads by 2017, with associated revenues of some $77 billion.

Sparta Commercial Services has established itself as a leading provider of customized, cheap, yet extremely professional mobile app executions through their iMobileApp product and stands to gain increasing ground in this area as more and more SMEs realize how vital it is to their bottom line that they have a smartphone-ready, and highly engaging web presence.

To get a closer look at Sparta Commercial Services, visit www.spartacommercial.com

QualityStocks’ Tiered Rating Service Exposes Risk and Rewards Transparency

QualityStocks has rated more than 3,000 fully reporting OTC companies as an extension of its commitment to protect investors. Taking this commitment a step further, QualityStocks has also used the information gained from tracking hundreds of online newsletter firms to measure their legitimacy.

The OTC companies and research firms are rated based on their investor relations and transparency practices. QualityStocks has placed these companies into one of five tiers based on their compliance with market regulations, available information, transparency to shareholders, trust within the investor community, and the value of their product and/or services: QSP (QualityStocks Partner); QSV (QualityStocks Verified); QSL (QualityStocks Limited Information); QSN (QualityStocks No Information); and Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware).

Trading OTC stocks poses a significant risk to any investor; those investors who are successfully managing an OTC portfolio know the importance of thorough due diligence. The QualityStocks rating service is a convenient and complementary tool designed to aid a trader’s individual research.

“Transparency is absolutely critical in this market. Our team has researched each company on our list to examine their fundamentals and apply an appropriate rating,” Michael McCarthy, Managing Director of QualityStocks stated when originally announcing the service. “The result is a valuable tool that investors can use to quickly separate more trustworthy companies from more risky investments.”

To see the list of rated newsletter firms, visit: http://www.qualitystocks.net/ratings.php

To see the list of rated companies, visit: http://www.qualitystocks.net/companies.php

Friday, January 23, 2015

Save The World Air, Inc. (ZERO) is “One to Watch”

Save The World Air provides the global energy industry with patent-protected industrial equipment designed to deliver measurable performance improvements to crude oil pipelines. Developed in partnership with leading crude oil production and transportation entities, STWA’s high-value solutions address the enormous capacity inadequacies of domestic and overseas pipeline infrastructures that were designed and constructed prior to the current worldwide surge in oil production.

In support of our clients’ commitment to the responsible sourcing of energy and environmental stewardship, STWA combines scientific research with inventive problem solving to provide energy efficiency ‘clean tech’ solutions to bring new efficiencies and lower operational costs to the upstream, midstream and gathering sectors. STWA’s flagship product, AOT (Applied Oil Technology) improves the economics of transporting crude oil by reducing the viscosity of oil in pipelines. Once deployed on pipeline pumping stations, production and transportation companies benefit from the safer, more cost-effective delivery of greater volumes of oil while reducing energy consumption at pumping stations and lowering CO2 emissions.

The AOT technology is the result of years of research conducted at Temple University (Philadelphia, Penn.) and is the world’s first ASME-certified industrial hardware to use the principles of electrorheology, the study of applying non-uniform electrical fields to change the mechanical behavior of fluids, to significantly reduce the viscosity of crude oil within pipelines during maximum flow conditions. Field tested by the U.S. Department of Energy, independent testing laboratories such as ATS RheoSystems and fabricated to exacting industry standards by STWA’s supply chain partners, the efficacy of AOT to increase flow rates, prevent bottlenecks, reduce pump station power consumption, enhance pipeline integrity and optimize flow assurance has been proven repeatedly in the lab and on a 300,000 barrel per day pipeline.

STWA is also commercializing STWA Joule Heat, an energy-efficient technology for heating crude oil in pipelines to improve flow. Unlike traditional trace heating systems which generate heat via a resistive trace heating element which transfers energy into the oil, the STWA solution applies an electrical field directly to oil, generating heat within the flow itself. The result is optimal heat conductivity and performance with less power and in a smaller form factor.

Guided by a dynamic management team led by Greggory Bigger, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a strong independent board of directors of energy industry veterans, STWA is a revenue generating company with a solid cash position, clean balance sheet and a proven ability to develop and deliver industrial-grade equipment that support the company’s mission and enhance shareholder value. As the exclusive licensee of oil viscosity reduction processes developed at Temple University and owner of 48 worldwide patents related to the use of electricity to change the mechanical behavior of oil and liquid natural gas, STWA is well-positioned to capitalize on the explosive growth opportunities in the global crude oil production and transportation sector.

More information is available at: www.stwa.com

QualityStocks Small-Cap and Micro-Cap Blogs