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May 2013
Get Real USA is currently the subject of an email spam campaign. Investors should be wary of these emails, as they are completely anonymous and violate the CAN-SPAM Act established by the FTC. As of this time, the company has not provided a public comment on the issue.
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April 2013
Yesterday it was announced that Frontier Communications has
selected Francis Abraham Buffalo as the star of its newest ad campaign. An
American Buffalo affectionately known as Frank beat out all others at
auditions. The charismatic animal currently stands at 6 feet tall, measures 8
feet long, and weighs 2,000 pounds.
Cory Jones, Vice President of Marketing for Frontier, stated, “We wanted a spokesperson that could connect with customers and make them smile, and an iconic American Buffalo with a touch of attitude stole the show. We are confident that consumers will like Frank and enjoy his observations about life, technology and Frontier’s products and services. For example, our $19.99 broadband offer is an affordable, no-contract product with simple, clear terms. We wanted someone plain-spoken and truth-telling to talk about it and our other offerings. Frank fits the bill. He has no tolerance for surprises, bull or BS – the last defined in dictionary.com as `nonsense, lies or exaggeration’ – and we’re delighted he’s with Frontier.”
Frank will be showcased in Frontier Communication’s first all-new ad campaign. The campaign has excitingly been several years in the making. He will begin his debut by appearing in various promotions, including both digital and print media.
One of America’s largest corporations, Frontier Communications is apart of the FORTUNE 500 list, offering services that include broadband, voice, satellite video, and wireless Internet services.
To learn more, please visit www.frontier.com
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May 2013
Galena Biopharma is a company developing innovative, targeted oncology treatments that address major unmet medical needs in the advancement of cancer care. The NeuVax drug is enrolling its Phase III trial currently and its Abstral drug is proceeding into commercialization this year.
The company reported today the addition of William L. Ashton to its Board of Directors. He is a senior executive with more than 28 years’ experience in biotechnology and pharmaceutical leadership and management. Most recently, at Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN), he served as vice-president of corporate and government affairs as well as vice-president of sales. Ashton was directly responsible for product launches and dealing with government agencies such as Medicare and Medicaid.
After leaving Amgen, Ashton joined the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia where he serves as Associate Provost and senior vice-president of strategic business development, Founding Dean, Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy, and Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business. He is also on the boards of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Friends of the National Library of Medicine and Sucampo Pharmaceuticals. Ashton is also a commissioner for the Medical Representatives National Certificate Commission.
Galena Biopharma is excited to have him aboard. The company’s president and CEO, Mark J. Ahn, Ph.D., said, “Bill brings an enormous wealth of commercial experience and expertise in pharmaceutical sales, leadership and corporate affairs. . .we look forward to his contributions and guidance in establishing Abstral as the best in class leader in breakthrough cancer pain, as well as preparing for NeuVax commercialization.”
For further information about Galena Biopharma and its drug candidates, please visit www.galenabiopharma.com
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April 2013
Scout Exploration is currently the subject of an email spam campaign. Investors should be wary of these emails, as they are completely anonymous and violate the CAN-SPAM Act established by the FTC. As of this time, the company has not provided a public comment on the issue.
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May 2013
The wine industry relies heavily on wine investment advisors. Their experience and knowledge about wine provides valuable information to both consumers and investors alike. The London fine wine market has benefited from the services of wine investment advisors, many of whom have been established for quite a few years now. Getting into a fine wine investment has many benefits. On top of that, it’s a tax-free investment.
The fine wine market
The market potential for fine wine is wide, so the demand for this commodity has evolved from areas such as the Far East, Russia, and India as well as the usual markets in Europe and America. There is a growing demand for wine, and sometimes the supply cannot meet this demand. Bordeaux Clarets are considered to be some of the top wines and are directly controlled by French laws. However, the supply for these wines is way below the demand, and this often results in a hike in the price of the wine. The price of fine wine, however, is not usually affected by fluctuations in interest rates, fluctuations in the stock market, general elections, or recessions in any specific country.
Additional information about the fine wine market
Here are a few more useful points about the fine wine market and how it works:
· Tax-free returns
· Supply is limited and governed by law
· Consumption increases rarity
· Quality of product increases as wine matures
· Demand increasing on the global market
· Solid and consumable
· Stored in the best conditions and is completely insured to market value continuously
· Interesting and stress-free
There has been solid evidence of strong returns of the investment on premium Bordeaux wines over the years. Wine continues to be a highly sought-after commodity and is certainly one of the best investment opportunities on the market.
Fine wine investment services
The International Vintners Exchange in London is the leading market for fine wine trading. The exchange is the only platform used by the industry where professionals and merchants can trade in wine. Private investors do not benefit from this privilege, and so they cannot buy or sell wine through the exchange.
The sole wine company that enjoys the privilege of directly linking its clients’ portfolios in the wine industry so that the clients can trade on the exchange is Aston Lovell. This enables clients to benefit significantly as they often pay less than the usual selling price. The exchange uses the most up-to-date technology and efficient services. Wine companies all have to undergo a rigorous inspection process to get approval to become members of the London International Vintners Exchange.
The wine investment industry will continue to thrive as more companies become fully licensed and can offer the best services to their clients. With a reliable advisor and the right amount of research, investing in fine wine may be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Norstra Energy, the Montana/Texas-focused oil and gas developer currently occupied with their heavily under-exploited territory in the southern Bakken-Alberta Fairway, reported some great news today out of their South Sun River Bakken Project, as the USGS has officially doubled the reserve estimate for the Bakken-Three Forks formation located in Montana and the Dakotas.
With the latest estimates coming in at a whopping 7.4B bbls of “undiscovered, technically recoverable oil,” we have a solid doubling of the previous value issued in 2008 and a firm confirmation from USGS that the formation is the largest continuous oil formation in the continental U.S. This is superb news for the company’s lease holdings targeting the formation and NORX’s management was eager to have investors take a look at the USGS publication to compare regional coverage.
President and CEO of NORX, Glen Landry, emphasized the recommendations offered by head of geosciences for the University of Houston, Dr. Don Van Nieuwenhuise, and those of associate director for research with the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota, John Harju, who both see the latest USGS numbers as still being quite conservative. Dr. Nieuwenhuise pointed to the overwhelming fact that the report only looked at “sweet spots” in the formation and, given that the probability of finding more such similarly sweet spots in this massive area is relatively high, the good doctor emphasized that these latest figures should be taken only as a baseline indicator.
Dr. Nieuwenhuise boldly affirmed that every drop cited in the USGS report was there, saying that he was pretty sure developers would get all of the 7.4B bbls, at the very least. A view roundly reinforced by the biggest leaseholder in the region, Continental Resources, which called the figures quite modest and underscored how the USGS is notorious for erring on the side of caution in their estimates. Chairman and CEO of Continental, Harold Hamm, even ventured some figures of his own, offering the best estimates of Continental’s combined knowledge in a May 1st interview with reputed online publication, the Oklahoman-powered (most trusted news in the state) NewsOk, where he projected some 24B bbls of recoverable oil on some 577B bbls in place.
That isn’t just soft talk coming from the biggest player in the region either, as Continental upped their 2012 estimate by as much as 56%, to an astonishing 903B bbls. Harju over at the University of North Dakota seemed to confirm this extrinsically when he called the USGS figure the Williston Basin’s lower limit and urged interested parties to see the projection as a mile marker in the rear-view mirror, since recovery advancements coming down the pipe in the near future will likely shatter the estimate’s ceiling.
Landry reminded investors that a true resource play is always oil in place, as evinced by high resistivity on their Krone and Steinback wells, cited during the May 7 update offered to the Fairfield Sun Times on the company’s South Sun River Bakken Project. Significant gas spikes on the mudlogs reinforce this analysis and the company looks to have a low risk blanket target in the Bakken on their hands, while still having that deeper wildcat potential in the sub-Bakken range drilled by majors like Arco and Exxon back in the 80′s.
In fact, the target zone is likely overpressure according to Landry, a geologist with a great deal of experience in the region/formation. Landry explained that when you get oil migration and flushing through a naturally fractured play, as opposed to sealed oil in place, as appears to be the case here (target trapped between thrust sheets), the risk is much greater and the returns less sustained. Landry further indicated that a successful horizontal Bakken should have no such fractures and that NORX would be doing their own middle-member fracturing down the road here.
For more info, please visit www.NorstraEnergy.com
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The Aristocrat Group Corp. is pushing hard to finalize its launch strategy as it waits for final federal approval on the label and bottle design of its new ultra-premium vodka. Luxuria Brands—the company’s brand management division—is currently in talks with clubs and venues in Las Vegas and Los Angeles about hosting official premiere events celebrating the release of Luxuria’s debut vodka.
“We’re targeting party hotspots in L.A. and Vegas because they’re destinations on the cutting edge of celebrity culture and nightlife,” stated ASCC CEO Robert Federowicz. “Our executive leadership has cultivated relationships with club owners and hospitality managers that can help us put on top-flight premiere events to spread the word about our new liquor products across the country.”
According to today’s press release, ASCC is in active talks with venues suitable for large roll-out events featuring popular DJs and bottle service; exactly the kind of events that attract cultural tastemakers. The company sees the successful debut of its American-made ultra-premium vodka as the foundation of its growing brand management business. U.S. sales of super-premium vodkas, which typically retail around $30 a bottle, have risen 32 percent in the last two years to $1.2 billion, according to industry trade group the Distilled Spirits Council (DISCUS).
For more information, visit www.aristocratgroupcorp.com
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Turnaround efforts continue for the electronics retail
giant, Best Buy. CEO Hubert Joly’s attempts to stop the company’s slow decline
have yielded some results but the questionable future remains. With newly
implemented policy changes, market cuts and strategic partnerships, Best Buy won’t
be going down without a fight.
Attempts to Hold On:
Best Buy recently changed their return policy, cutting the allotted time to return an item from 30 days to 15 days. Michael McCarthy, the managing director of QualityStocks, found this out by surprise when he tried to return a faulty cable modem 17 days after the purchase date. The customer service representative allowed an exception, but this was clearly a red flag; especially considering that employees aren’t informing customers of the new policy during the checkout process.
The return policy change has caused uproar among consumers and certainly seems to be a step backwards at a time when the retailer is struggling. Knowing there must be something going on internally as none of the other retailers have made dramatic adjustments to their return policies, we did some digging through SEC filings and found that the company’s cash position is down significantly. In just eight months, the company’s cash and cash equivalents dropped from $1.2 billion to $309 million. It’s clear to us that the return policy was changed to help conserve cash.
In another company-wide change, Best Buy recently turned its Price Matching Guarantee holiday program into a permanent policy in hopes for costumer retention. The positive move is an attempt to address the problem of showrooming, the practice of using storefronts to browse through and test products before going home and purchasing online at a cheaper price. Abram Brown, a Forbes markets reporter, stated that, “the price-match guarantee may have come too late to save the company. But, there also may be signs of hope as sales recently increased for the first time since 2010.”
Partnering with Samsung, Best Buy will also soon set up “Samsung Experience” shops staffed with trained Samsung employees. The Samsung shops will be installed inside around 1,400 Best Buy stores. A number of these convenient in-house stores are currently already in existence.
Helpful Numbers:
Last month Best Buy sold its 50% holding stake in Best Buy Europe, a joint venture with Carphone Warehouse Group (CPW), Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer. The deal will mark the end of Best Buy’s presence in Europe. Best Buy Europe in the ongoing fiscal year was expected to be in the range of $5.5 to $5.6 billion. Therefore with a 50% holding stake, the deal will help fund turnaround efforts for the giant, although still at a loss on investment given that Best Buy sold its 50% interest in Carphone Warehouse back to them for about $775 million. The original buy-in almost five years ago was $2.15 billion.
In 2011, Best Buy’s stock lost 40% of its value. Fast-forward to 2013 and Best Buy reported a 0.9% Fourth Quarter Domestic Comparable Store Sales Increase for the 13-week fourth quarter. In its March earnings report Best Buy managed to post sales of $16.71 billion to squeeze a weak gain above the $16.67 posted a year ago.
Ending Thoughts:
Critics claim Best Buy stores are nothing but showrooms for online retailers like Amazon.com. With a need for a strong digital presence, Best Buy is currently planning to invest around $750 million on company improvements, including a digital facelift. Best Buy will also cut more than $400 million in overall costs. There may be life left in this sleepy retail giant but the future looks uncertain. Best Buy may still be generating signs of life, but the e-commerce versus brick-and-mortar battle continues onward.
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InVivo Therapeutics Holdings announced that the company has
been named one of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts by The Boston
Business Journal, as part of the magazine’s yearly awards. InVivo was one of
400 companies considered for the award, the result of employee surveys taken in
March and April of this year.
Founded in 2005, InVivo is a Cambridge, MA-based company focused on developing technology using polymers to assist patients who are paralyzed from spinal cord injury. InVivo was founded by Robert S. Langer, ScD. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D., who is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The company won the 2011 David F. Apple Award for its outstanding contribution to spinal cord injury medicine.
The award was given to InVivo to recognize the company’s excellence in both attracting and retaining employees, maintaining a positive work environment, working conditions, and company culture. Results were culled from more than 18,000 employee satisfaction surveys. InVivo and the other winning companies, in three size categories, will be honored at an event on June 13 at the CitiCenter/Wang Theater.
Frank Reynolds, InVivo CEO, said, “For years, my biggest concern has been managing rapid growth without experiencing a bottleneck in human resources. In early 2012, we had approximately ten employees, and already we knew that we would be going through intense hiring periods, possibly adding as many as two hundred employees in a quarter. At that point, we partnered with the architects and designers at Kling Stubbins to build a new headquarters in Kendall Square and become the world’s most advanced neurotrauma research center. We now have more than fifty staff members, and are still going strong. We hit a grand slam with the new headquarters and created an innovative, exciting, and collaborative corporate culture that has already resulted in the addition of six more products to our pipeline.”
Reynolds continued, “Fostering employee development is at the core of our mission. My employees know that the Company will do just about anything to support their success, and I’m very proud of everyone at InVivo; they’re the reason we’ve been recognized by the Boston Business Journal.”
“Our Best Places to Work event will again recognize the importance of cultivating a great workplace culture as a competitive advantage,” said Chris McIntosh, publisher of The Boston Business Journal. “Companies on our list can be justifiably proud of creating a high level of workplace satisfaction during an economy where traditional rewards like big raises and bonuses aren’t as easy to give. In good times and in bad, our results validate how the creation of the right corporate culture can create powerful business advantages. Employees are proud to work for companies that are about more than just business.”
For more information, visit www.invivotherapeutics.com
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Snap Interactive, developer, owner, and operator of a social dating application designed for social networking Web sites and mobile platforms, has launched the AYI native Android® application and the integration of the Friends of Friends feature on AYI’s mobile-Web and iPhone® application.
Since the recent roll-out of AYI’s first native Android application, the company reports a 30 percent increase in the number of subscription transactions by new subscribers compared to the daily average in the first quarter of 2013. Though Android generally represents a small fraction of Snap Interactive’s business, the company says that based on the increase, it plans on expanding its focus to attract users for the Android platform.
The native Android application features a new, streamlined interface; improved layout for keyboard devices; better layout support for tablets; and more. Among future developments and enhancements is the full integration of its Friends of Friends feature; device notifications of matches and messages.
AYI’s new Friends of Friends feature was introduced in early March and has already resulted in 2 million connections of friends and more than 72,000 users messaging their friends directly to learn about a potential date. The company plans to continue to build and enhance the mobile offering.
For more information, visit www.snap-interactive.com
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