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MondayOct 17, 2016 2:52 pm

Stealth Technologies (STTH) Products Highly Effective against RFID Skimming, Personal Data Theft

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is on the rise, having multiple applications in various industries ranging from healthcare and storage to transport, animal and human identification, as well as for RFID-empowered credit cards. The technology allows for a much simpler card payment process by enabling the user to simply brush his or her card against a special RFID reader to process a payment, but it has also given rise to serious privacy concerns and fears that personal information is easier to steal by anyone with the right type of RFID reading equipment. As a consequence, tighter security requirements were enforced for…

MondayOct 17, 2016 10:53 am

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Adds Brent Gove Team to Growing Brokerage Division

Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through subsidiary eXp Realty, announced the addition of the Brent Gove team, a leading real estate team operating in California, to its family of agents and brokers. Gove brings nearly two decades of industry experience to the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™. During this time, he earned a spot as one of the 11 most successful agents in the global RE/MAX (NYSE: RMAX) network, completing 429 transactions accounting for about $169 million in sales volume in 2005 alone. Gove then moved to Keller Williams Realty, where he served as CEO and team leader of…

MondayOct 17, 2016 9:49 am

Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Offers Shareholders Additional Details Regarding MediGain Acquisition

Before the opening bell, Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP) issued a news release giving prospective shareholders additional insight into the company’s acquisition of MediGain, LLC. In the update, Mahmud Haq, chief executive officer of MTBC, highlighted the importance of the acquisition to the company’s growth strategy. “As announced last week, we are very pleased to have acquired MediGain, which marks an important corporate milestone as our largest acquisition to date, and demonstrates the highly strategic nature of our successful, acquisition-based growth strategy,” Haq stated. In the news release announcing the acquisition, MTBC CFO Bill Korn stated that the…

FridayOct 14, 2016 12:44 pm

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Welcomes Top-Ranked Real Estate Agent to eXp Realty, Shares Surge

Shares of eXp World Holdings (OTCQB: EXPI) climbed 12% in Friday’s mid-day trade after the company announced the addition of Miguel Herrera, the top-rated international luxury agent in South Texas, as the newest member of its eXp Realty, LLC real estate brokerage division in San Antonio, Texas. The company’s stock may also be moving on momentum from yesterday’s news that it has grown its family of agents and brokers to more than 1,900 across 41 markets in North America, up from 864 agents at the start of the year. With nearly 30 years of previous business experience behind him, Herrera…

FridayOct 14, 2016 12:06 pm

Monaker Group’s (MKGI) Maupintour, an Active Presence on Fast-Growing Luxury Travel Market

The luxury travel market has been growing faster than overall travel in recent years, fueled by global consumers’ increasing tendencies to spend their income on life experiences rather than material goods. The trend is likely to continue over the next decade, with new business opportunities and challenges for leading providers of luxury tours such as Monaker Group, Inc.’s (OTCQB: MKGI) Maupintour. Luxury travel had a compound annual growth rate of 4.5% between 2011 and 2015, and this growth is likely to continue at an even faster rate over the next decade. It is expected that luxury trips (http://nnw.fm/0aIP9) will grow…

FridayOct 14, 2016 9:11 am

Net Element, Inc. (NETE) Growing With Mobile Payment Trends

According to Mobile Payment Today (http://nnw.fm/38sbQ), mobile payments are expected to reach $3 trillion by 2021, up 5% from 2016. Thanks to the increased use of mobile devices, the market for mobile payments continues to expand worldwide. Although Asia Pacific, specifically China, still dominates the market, the U.S. and U.K. are not far behind. Digital research conducted by Euromonitor International shows that by 2020 both countries will emerge alongside China with more people making payments from their mobile devices. In the U.S., mobile payments are expected to grow at the fastest rate. By 2020, mobile payments are expected to increase…

ThursdayOct 13, 2016 3:11 pm

OurPet’s Company (OPCO) Teaches Old Dogs (and Cats) New Tricks with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ Product Line

OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) is proving the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” wrong with its OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ line of products. According to the April 2016 issue of industry journal Pet Age, “OurPet’s Company showcased what is perhaps the most complete line of technology-integrated products, Intelligent Pet Care,” at the Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Florida from March 16-18. “Pets are smarter than you may think, but it’s often difficult for them to clearly communicate their needs,” says Dr. Steve Tsengas, founder and CEO of OurPet’s Company. In other words, for cats and dogs, dumb…

ThursdayOct 13, 2016 1:17 pm

Singlepoint, Inc. (SING) Mobile Payment Technology Focusing on Key Vertical-Market Opportunities

Mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, since consumers tend to remain loyal to traditional payment methods and many merchants are still skeptical about accepting this kind of payments. However, this is expected to change as more consumers start relying on their mobile wallets and the overall number of mobile phone users grows to reach an estimated 4.8 billion people by the end of the year. According to a recent Business Insider Intelligence report (http://nnw.fm/ZDrk0), in-store mobile payments in the U.S. alone are expected to reach $75 billion in 2016 and…

ThursdayOct 13, 2016 9:36 am

Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Set for Growing Healthcare IT Market

According to the report “Healthcare IT Market by Product (EHR, RIS, PACS, VNA, CPOE, mHealth, Telehealth, Healthcare analytics, Supply Chain Management, Revenue Cycle Management, CRM, Claims Management, Fraud Management) by End User (Provider, Payer) – Global Forecast to 2020” (http://nnw.fm/I1CWn), the Global Healthcare IT Market is expected to grow to $228.8 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4%. Much of this expected growth has been put down to the fact that healthcare providers are starting to add more healthcare IT solutions in order to meet and stay up-to-date with regulatory and legal requirements put in…

WednesdayOct 12, 2016 1:00 pm

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) Teams with New Story to Aid Relief Efforts in Haiti

Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through wholly-owned subsidiary eXp Realty, announced a partnership with New Story, a charitable organization focused on constructing homes in Haiti and other impoverished areas. Originally highlighted last Friday as part of the company’s third annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, the partnership entailed a challenge for eXp Realty’s agents and brokers to raise $18,000 in order to fund three new homes in Haiti and aid in the ongoing relief of damage caused by both the 2010 earthquake, which claimed nearly 300,000 lives, and Hurricane Matthew, which struck the island nation just last…

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