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TuesdayMar 28, 2017 12:13 pm

India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE: IGC) Aims to Become a Leading Provider of Cannabis-Based Combination Therapies

India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IGC) has set a long-term goal for itself in the U.S. of becoming a leading provider of cannabis-based pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. This is a transition away from its earlier short-term strategy, including the sale of electronics and development of a hotel site in Malaysia. To this end, the company has jettisoned its electronics business. IGC is now fully focused on building a portfolio of patents and starting clinical and pre-clinical trials for a series of pain-reducing and other cannabis-based therapies. These therapies are designed to treat neuropathic pain, seizures, Parkinson’s, anorexia/cachexia, Alzheimer’s, and…

TuesdayMar 28, 2017 8:30 am

Lithium Market Soaring, Driven by Battery-Powered Electronics, Automotive Industries

Lithium remains a key commodity for the future due primarily to a rising worldwide demand for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Used to power many consumer electronics and electric vehicles, the market for lithium-ion batteries is rapidly growing, on pace to reach $46.21 billion in the next five years. To meet this rising demand, leading lithium mining companies such as MGX Minerals, Inc. (CSE: XMG OTC: MGXMF) (MGX Minerals Profile), Albemarle Corp. (ALB), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM), FMC Corp. (FMC) and Galaxy Resources Limited (GALXF) are tirelessly working to find new, cost-effective ways to successfully extract this valuable…

MondayMar 27, 2017 3:20 pm

Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE) is at the Vanguard of Mobile Point-of-Sale Boom

Using mobile devices to make purchases is becoming commonplace. An estimated $37 billion in mobile transactions occurred in 2015, and that total is expected to explode to over $800 billion by 2019. User payments with mobile devices are expected to exceed 70 percent this year. Like the mobile phones and devices themselves, mobile transactions and payments will soon be ubiquitous. First conceptualized in the 1990s, paying for transactions with mobile devices has now taken off as a convenient and beneficial option for both consumers and merchants. Consumers find it easier to ditch credit cards all together and rely solely on their…

MondayMar 27, 2017 9:13 am

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Sales Projected To Reach $62 Million in FY 2020 by SeeThruEquity Report

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is poised to generate sales of greater than $62 million and a gross profit of more than $39 million in FY 2020, according to the SeeThruEquity research report on the company (http://nnw.fm/T6Aj4). Moxian is a China-based high-technology marketing company which has offered a beta no-charge platform in China’s large online-to-offline (O2O) market, a marketplace anticipated to grow to $48 billion in 1H2017, according to Moxian investor materials. In the O2O market, online consumers are attracted to brick and mortar stores through various incentives. Moxian is expected to launch its paid Moxian+ platform this year. To the…

FridayMar 24, 2017 1:06 pm

Heat Biologics (NASDAQ: HTBX) at the Vanguard of a Paradigm Shift in Cancer Treatment

The human body is elegantly designed to heal itself, utilizing the immune system as its defense against various pathogens. Triggered by immune response signals, the immune system attacks and kills organisms and substances that invade body systems and cause disease. However, the immune system sometimes needs help in identifying and killing some invaders. Cancer presents a complex and perplexing problem for effective immune system response, because it finds ways to hide from the immune system or block the immune system’s ability to battle against the disease. An important part of the immune system is its ability to differentiate between normal…

FridayMar 24, 2017 9:15 am

CytoDyn Inc. (CYDY) Contributing to the Evolution of HIV Treatments

HIV, a virus that attacks the immune system to the point of destroying it if not treated correctly, remains a global epidemic. According to Healthline (http://nnw.fm/i9ptS), more than 34 million people have died from the disease since it was first discovered in 1981. Currently, there is no confirmed cure for HIV, but getting treated is extremely important for those wanting to live a normal life once diagnosed. Although anyone infected with the virus should begin antiretroviral treatment as soon as possible, no matter what ethnicity, age, or gender, the fact is that more than half of those infected with HIV…

ThursdayMar 23, 2017 3:37 pm

ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (CIIX) Set to Open California Retail Store, Launches XiBiDi Biotechnology in China

ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX) is planning to open a retail store in San Gabriel, California, the same city in which the company is headquartered. The company also recently announced its new online cannabidiol (CBD) oil retail store would be operated by its newly-launched XiBiDi Biotechnology Co., Ltd subsidiary, which is headquartered in the Pudong Free-Trade Area of Shanghai, China. XiBiDi Biotechnology will focus on the online and offline sales of health products, including a range of hemp-derived food and beverages. In a news release, Warren Wang, founder and CEO of CIIX, said he was delighted with the registration and establishment…

ThursdayMar 23, 2017 11:53 am

ProBility Media Corp. (PBYA) is Bringing Back American Jobs with Technical Training

Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that the unemployment rate (http://nnw.fm/oBN8x) in February 2017 was 4.7%, around the lowest it has been since the financial crisis. The Bureau is also projecting a benign environment in the coming years for the skilled trades, but those blue-collar jobs of the future won’t be quite the same as the ones held by our fathers and uncles. To get and keep them will require training, the kind offered by Houston, Texas-based educational technology company ProBility Media Corp. (OTCQB: PBYA), which is out to develop the first full service training and…

ThursdayMar 23, 2017 9:13 am

Singlepoint, Inc. (SING) CEO Greg Lambrecht Reveals High Points of Convectium Acquisition

Singlepoint, Inc. (OTC: SING), specializing in small- to mid-sized company acquisitions, recently began funding Convectium, an organization that sells equipment in the cannabis industry. There should be “more funding on the way,” according to Singlepoint CEO Greg Lambrecht, who discussed the acquisition in a recent episode of MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon. Convectium sells machines that fill vials with oil, and it created a unique system for filling/packaging vape cartridges and disposable vape pens. These systems, and point of sale equipment, are sold at various trade shows, according to Lambrecht. In the phone interview, Lambrecht also revealed that Singlepoint is looking…

ThursdayMar 23, 2017 8:52 am

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Helping Merchants Better Engage With Customers through Geo-Targeting

Applications have transformed the mobile phone into a sort of remote control, allowing consumers to research and shop for products and services whenever they want. This, coupled with the fact that they can also pay for these products and services digitally, has created the mobile market. In China, the mobile market has become a significant channel for retailers, and blurring these lines between the physical and virtual worlds has been a great way for Chinese merchants to reach customers. The mobile market based upon messaging has been especially important in China. Since email arrived only late in China, mobile messaging…

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