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ThursdayOct 20, 2016 9:23 am

Monaker Group (MKGI) Helping Consumers Seeking a Rapid and Personalized Travel Planning Experience

According to PSFK’s founder and editor-in-chief, Piers Fawkes (http://nnw.fm/qj8Zo), “Travelers today are looking for an intuitive, rapid and personalized experience. They understand the trail of contextual data that surrounds them and they expect the smartest travel brands to leverage those data to serve them appropriately.” This is made more obvious by the fact that smaller companies are struggling to fully capitalize on the increasingly connected world we live in. With Americans spending approximately $814 billion on domestic travel in 2015, according to the U.S. Travel Association (http://nnw.fm/odGt8), it is no wonder they are also investing a lot of time in…

WednesdayOct 19, 2016 3:25 pm

Pay-by-Text™ from Singlepoint, Inc. (SING) Makes Smartphone Payments as Simple as Texting

Short Message Service (SMS) or text messaging has come a long way since Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert first proposed the concept in 1984. Now, according to the Pew Research Center (PRC), texting is the most widely and frequently employed application on a smartphone, with 97 percent of Americans using it at least once a day. Some 23 billion messages per day, or almost 16 million messages per minute, crisscross the globe, about 26 percent, or 6 billion, of which are in the U.S. Singlepoint, Inc. (OTC: SING) is gearing up to capitalize on that ubiquity with its Pay-by-Text™ technology.…

WednesdayOct 19, 2016 1:28 pm

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (EXPI) First in Line to Adapt to Changing Perspectives Among Consumers and Real Estate Industry

Much has changed in the real estate industry over the past decade, with companies modifying everything from their offices and operations to the tools they use and their overall culture. Real estate companies have also changed the way they brand themselves in order to better target younger consumers looking for a more personalized buying or renting experience. Traditionally, real estate companies have focused their branding on promoting awards and titles, such as being number one or becoming a top producer. Now, with generation X and Y part of the real estate market, things have changed. These younger markets don’t care…

WednesdayOct 19, 2016 11:52 am

Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (MTBC) Receives Updated Coverage from SeeThruEquity following MediGain Acquisition

Earlier this week, SeeThruEquity, a leading independent equity research and corporate access firm, issued an update on Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP). In the report, SeeThruEquity took a closer look at MTBC’s recently completed acquisition of medical billing firm MediGain, LLC, as well as its affiliate, New Jersey-based Millennium Practice Management, LLC. The transaction was characterized as MTBC’s largest acquisition to date, as well as its fourth deal so far this year and its tenth since 2014. With a total purchase price of $7 million, SeeThruEquity expects MTBC to deploy some of its cash on hand, which was…

WednesdayOct 19, 2016 9:21 am

iGambit, Inc. (IGMB) – A Portfolio of Partner Companies On The Rise

iGambit (OTCQB: IGMB) is creating a portfolio of partner companies by acquiring, developing, and investing in small to medium-sized technology companies. A diversified holding company based in Smithtown, New York, iGambit’s goal is to push SMEs with a focus on licensing and/or services toward smart growth and to spin these tech ventures into public companies. While iGambit has been in operation (developing software, servicing customers and licensing technology) since the mid-1990s, the company’s management team only turned its focus toward turning iGambit into a holding company in the late 2000s. Since then, iGambit’s founders and management have had practical experience…

TuesdayOct 18, 2016 12:29 pm

OurPet’s Company (OPCO) CFO Scott Mendes Presenting at the MicroCap Conference

Earlier today, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) announced that Scott Mendes, the company’s chief financial officer, will be presenting alongside executives from 60 other companies at this year’s MicroCap Conference, which is set to take place October 24-25 at the Hotel Monaco in Philadelphia. Mendes is scheduled to make his presentation on October 25 at 5:00 p.m. Planned topics of discussion include OurPet’s Company’s innovative, trend-setting pet products and accessories, including the cutting-edge OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ (http://nnw.fm/X9nzT) product line, which leverages Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to foster a stronger connection between pets and their owners. For more information on the…

TuesdayOct 18, 2016 9:17 am

Moxian, Inc. (MOXC) Enhancing Relationships between Users and Merchants with Consumer Behavior Data

Consumer behavior is the study of why users buy or do not buy a product or service. This data also includes the why, what, when, where, and how. Consumer behavior attempts to understand the buyer’s decision-making process. It studies individual consumer habits while taking into account things like demographics, age group, religion, and more in order to understand what people want from their shopping experience. There are, of course, a wide range of factors that can influence customer behavior. Some of these include: the environment, social variables, cultural variables, pricing, promotions, product quality, and customer service. Also, as mentioned above,…

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…

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