Monday, July 31, 2017

Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) Lets Merchants Accept Both Online and Offline Payments

- Cashless payments continue growing

- Technology to handle debit and credit card payments

- Aptito restaurant management solution driving sales


The payment system has come a long way from the time when transactions were mainly settled in specie. In antiquity and during the medieval period, purses glittered with gold and silver coin. Then, paper money, used by the Chinese a thousand years before, began to appear in 17th century Europe. From the late Renaissance to the end of the 20th century, banknotes and, increasingly, checks were used to transfer funds and make payments. Now, with the internet girding the globe, these media are being replaced by electronic means, like those offered by innovative fintech, Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE). This global financial company provides merchants with the technology to accept funds electronically through an omni-channel environment that includes both online and offline payments.

A dollar paid may be a dollar received, but not all payments are processed in the same way. A typical debit card transaction can actually be processed in two ways, online and offline, which terms, misleadingly, differ from their colloquial meanings. In an online transaction, a consumer authorizes a payment by keying in her PIN at the point-of-sale after swiping a debit card through a magnetic card reader. The transaction is approved in real time, the customer’s account is adjusted immediately, and money is transferred to the merchant’s account in two to three business days.

However, at present, processing debit transactions “online” is only available in the brick-and-mortar world where the consumer is physically present. Typically, you cannot do a PIN transaction on the internet, although already, ecommerce PIN debit solutions are starting to make their appearance. In an offline transaction, on the other hand, no PIN is involved. Instead, the consumer will be required to sign a receipt. Offline debit transactions are processed through the networks operated by credit card providers, such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express.

Whether it be online or offline, Net Element can handle it. The solutions offered by the company enable merchants of all sizes to accept and process over 100 different payment options in more than 40 currencies, including credit, debit and prepaid payments. Net Element also provides merchants with value-added services and technologies including integrated payment technologies, point-of-sale solutions, security solutions, fraud management, information solutions and analytical tools.

The company has been reporting very strong results for its North America Transaction Solutions (NATS) and Online Payment Solutions (OPS) divisions. In 2016, NATS revenues reached $42.1 million, an increase of 54 percent over 2015. Sales to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were particularly good. The division’s product offerings include Aptito, a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) restaurant management solution. OPS also performed well. Revenues rose by 63 percent, in 2016, to reach $6.2 million. Total revenues for 2016 were $54.3 million, which represented a 35 percent year-over-year increase.

At its current stock price of $0.44, Net Element’s market cap is approximately $7.8 million, which is just 14 percent of 2016 revenues. SeeThruEquity, in an April 2017 report, set a target price of $2.45. In a world that is increasingly embracing cashless payments, Net Element is very likely to hit that target.

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

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Moleculin Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBRX) is “One to Watch”

- Oncology pipeline features significant safety/efficacy advantages

- Lead candidate poised for FDA acceleration due to significant unmet need in AML

- Broad-spectrum applicability of WP1066 & WP1122 portfolios of molecules


For preclinical oncology biopharma Moleculin Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBRX), the quest to deliver potentially revolutionary anti-cancer drugs to the market is enkindled by a close association with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. This institution’s stated mission is nothing less than to make “cancer history,” and eliminate cancer on a global scale. Truly an American success story to be proud of, MD Anderson is one of the largest cancer centers in the world, employs some 20,000 people in Houston and Central Texas, and is ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” when it comes to quality cancer treatment. The superbly integrated programs of patient care, research and prevention – for which MD Anderson is widely known – have massively helped to foster innovative thinking when it comes to wrangling some of the most ornery cancer types.

More Powerful, Novel, Safer, More Versatile Pipeline of OncoTech

Moleculin’s rapidly developing pipeline (some of which are based on license agreements with The University of Texas System on behalf of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) consists of the company’s lead drug candidate Annamycin, which targets relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML), as well as its extremely promising WP1066 and WP1122 portfolios of molecules. WP1066 is designed to defeat cancer by modulating cancer progression transcription factors (WP1066), while WP1122 has been shown to actively manipulating cancer’s metabolic envelope via a novel glucose decoy technology invented by the company’s scientific founder, Dr. Waldemar Priebe.

The broad-spectrum potential of the WP1122 portfolio was heavily underscored by the announcement in late Junethat MBRX had identified new properties of a modified WP1122 compound (known as WP1234) that could help stamp out pancreatic cancer. The global treatment market for this cancer was recently forecast to hit somewhere around $4.2 billion by 2025, rising sharply from just $1.7 billion in 2015 (there were nearly 412,000 deaths from pancreatic cancers that year) due to factors such as a growing geriatric population and increasing rates of obesity, smoking, and excessive alcohol consumption. Shares of MBRX rose to $3.28 on June 28 given the strength of the news, as well as the announcement of an agreement with a physician at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to enable additional research into WP1066 for a rare form of pediatric brain tumor.

WP1234 showed both improved drug characteristics over WP1122 and a 20-fold to 50-fold more powerful cancer cell line-killing ability than traditional glycolysis inhibitors in preclinical testing. Because tumors are so reliant on glycolysis for energy, WP1234 could become a breakaway indication for what is still largely considered an untreatable disease. Notably, this disease has an 80 percent or greater mortality rate and will see nearly 54,000 diagnoses this year alone in the U.S., according to ACA projections.

WP1234’s apparent efficacy in pancreatic cancers owes a great deal to the ongoing collaboration with MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the enhanced cellular uptake/retention characteristics associated with the blood brain barrier-crossing WP1122 platform technology. The platform technology was designed to enable 2-DG (the molecule uptaken by cellular glucose transporters) accumulation in the brain at significantly higher levels than normal and tackle a wide variety of solid tumors; even difficult-to-treat and often progressively resistant to treatment brain tumors, like glioblastomas. The Glioblastoma multiforme treatment market is on track to run around 10.9 percent CAGR through 2025 when it will reach over $1 billion in revenues for the first time in history, according to a recent report from Brisk Insights. With notable players like Merck’s (NYSE: MRK) Temodar® or Roche’s (OTCQX: RHHBY) Avastin® currently the standard of care, humble MBRX might appear to some investors as David taking on Goliath.

The company announced on July 25 that it would support acceleration of a physician-sponsored Investigational New Drug application to clinically study WP1066 in glioblastomas. Modeled after a natural compound with tumor-fighting properties, WP1066 appears to not only supercharge a patient’s natural ability to stave off tumor development through stimulation of the immune system, it also attacks tumors directly by inhibiting the master regulator of a wide range of tumors known as STAT3 (transcription factor). And it does so in a way which bypasses the multifactorial activation of STAT3, directly and independently from upstream effectors. This means it is possible that WP1066 could hit a variety of targets, irrespective of their upstream method of activation, delivering a powerful one-two punch of direct and indirect action against tumors.

Potential AML Blockbuster

This is pretty exciting stuff already, without even really talking about the company’s lead drug for AML. On that note, Annamycin is being geared up for clinical trials, with Moleculin recently signing a brand new license agreement with MD Anderson to clear the way for key patent applications and ensure that the collaboration has a bright future. According to the American Cancer Society’s 2017 estimates, AML will make up roughly 34.4 percent of all the 62,130 projected new leukemia cases, and will lead to around 10,590 deaths this year.

A roughly $1.85 billion market last year in just North America, leukemia treatments are expected to hit upwards of $2.83 billion by 2021, clocking in at around 8.9 percent CAGR. Globally, this will most likely become a $12 billion market by 2022. More specifically, the global AML segment of this market was recently forecast to hit $1.2 billion by the end of 2023, growing at a 5.3 percent CAGR, according to one study.

And Annamycin has several significant advantages that set MBRX up for either breakout success, or a buyout by a sector major. First of all we have the elephant in the room: cardiotoxicity (which damages heart muscle) associated with antiquated anthracycline induction therapies. These therapies have been yielding about the same success rate (20 percent) as they did when first developed back in the 70s, according to MBRX. Induction therapy always includes an anthracycline like doxorubicin, which, while an important discovery in its day and still useful, is also cardiotoxic. Not only is this factor the leading cause of having to limit the dose, tumor cells also have a tendency (via the phenomena known as multidrug resistance) to develop resistivity to first-line anthracyclines, which invalidates the therapy altogether.

A unique liposome formulated anthracycline, Annamycin is engineered to avoid triggering multidrug resistance mechanisms and has been shown to be non-cardiotixic in animal models when compared directly with doxorubicin. The global doxorubicin market was worth almost $810 million in 2015, according to a report out late last year from Grand View Research, and appears on-track to do 6.4 percent CAGR through 2024. Annamycin posted solid efficacy numbers in its Phase 1 and 1/2 patient studies, with around half the patients clearing their leukemic blasts to the point where they qualify for a bone marrow transplant, and it was shown to be more potent than the leading approved drug in lab studies on AML cell lines.

Annamycin is very exciting for AML patients who must first go through induction therapy in order to qualify for a life-saving bone marrow transplant. And because the drug may serve a serious unmet medical need, the FDA may approve accelerated status. If the conversations thus far with FDA are any indication, MBRX could be sitting on a winner. If Annamycin qualifies for Orphan Drug Status, MBRX could be looking at up to a decade of market exclusivity in the two biggest AML therapy markets on earth, the U.S. and EU. By deliberately targeting approval for Annamycin as a second-line therapy, in a market where there is currently no approved second-line therapy and where around 80 percent of AML patients fail first-line therapies, MBRX has set itself up for serious momentum.

Management Has “Eye of the Tiger”

And management is clearly aware of how much potential kinetic energy exists in the company’s anti-cancer drug pipeline. This was recently demonstrated once again by doubling down on their apparently strong oncology hand with the recent tapping of product commercialization and business development veteran John M. Climaco for the Board of Directors. Climaco brings years of frontline experience on the boards of noteworthy industry players like nuclear imaging device manufacturer Digirad (NASDAQ: DRAD), oncology infusion services provider InfuSystem (NASDAQ: INFU), and biopharma sector specialized commercial services provider PDI (NASDAQ: PDII).

With so many white-hot irons in the fire, targeting underserved/unserved markets where regulatory clearance can be accelerated, this company is looking more and more like a serious contender in the space.

For more information on this company, visit www.moleculin.com

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Friday, July 28, 2017

MissionIRNewsBreaks – Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Taking Part in Transformation of China’s Economy

Experts say China is at the precipice of a huge economic growth spurt as its economy continues transforming into a model that is more consumer-based. Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is helping to spur on this transformation with its creative and socially interactive online platforms and mobiles apps, which are bridging the gap between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail and helping connect Chinese consumers from online products views to retail purchases in physical store locations.

“The company’s ingenious and captivating online platforms and mobile applications, the Moxian+ User app and the Moxian+ Business app, allow businesses to interface with both new and existing customers. These online interactions provide each business the data to analyze consumer likes, dislikes and trends. Moxian’s platforms offer businesses the ability to create, manage and promote individualized customer loyalty programs, targeted advertising campaigns and special promotions. These interactions between users and Moxian’s merchant clients drive retail traffic into the brick and mortar locations and give merchant clients the ability to study consumer behavior and custom tailor offerings to consumers.”

To view the full article, visit http://dtn.fm/CxvW8

About Moxian, Inc.

Founded in 2013 in Shenzhen, China with branch offices in Beijing, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, Moxian, Inc. is an offline-to-online (O2O) integrated platform operator. The company’s “Moxian+” mobile App platform connects users to merchant clients through games, rewards, and social events that they enjoy and in return, users provide valuable information that merchant clients can use to effectively promote products and services offered at their brick and mortar stores. More information about the company can be found at www.moxian.com.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE) Seeks To Grow Revenue by Digitally Processing Payments in an Increasingly Cashless World

- IPSOS Survey for ING documents cashless payment trend growing worldwide as 78% of consumers who used cash less prior say they expect to use even less cash in the future

- North American Transaction Group, digital payment processor, drives Net Element’s revenues

- Zack’s Research projects Net Element will reach $74.6 million in revenue by 2018


Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) stands to benefit from a near cashless society as its North American Unified Payments group processes digital payments and drives sales for the company. A 2017 IPSOS survey for ING found that 54% of 12,585 respondents surveyed do not use cash in a restaurant. Instead, they pay by non-cash methods.

Net Element is a high technology financial group which digitally processes transactions in what is becoming a cashless society. It processes payments from both mobile devices and point-of-sale terminals. Leading the company is the North American Transaction Group. A Zack’s Research Report (http://dtn.fm/9Uwp1) projects that the company’s revenues will reach $63 million in 2017 and $74.6 million in 2018, respectively. Net Element’s North American Transaction Group generated 78% of total Net Element sales in 2016 and jumped 40% in 1Q2017.

The fifth annual ING International Survey of Mobile Banking, published in April 2017 on ING’s website eZonomics (http://dtn.fm/Ag8W1), found that 78% of those surveyed say they expect to keep using less and less cash in the future, and, good news for Net Element, only 34% of U.S. consumers say they generally carry cash. Another 38% of Americans surveyed by IPSOS would prefer to go completely cashless. A key factor in this trend is convenience, the survey said.

While 75% of U.S. consumers said they will never go completely cashless, the amount of purchases has a direct impact on whether global diners use cash or not. For instance, only 25% pay non-cash for a lunch/coffee/snack — yet, 54% go non-cash in a pricier restaurant setting.

“This year’s results tally with our mobile banking surveys in 2016, 2015 and 2014 which also found people are reducing reliance on physical cash. Increasingly they’re transacting via non-cash methods, including mobile payment apps. In fact a fraction of the population appears to have largely dispensed with cash,” the survey said. It added that many have indicated they are comfortable with new ways of paying.

The Zack’s Micro-Cap report said, “Net Element is a growth company in the payment industry that should benefit from the adoption of mobile and online payments in the US, Russia and the Middle East and ultimately globally.”

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

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MissionIRNewsBreaks – Net Element’s (NASDAQ: NETE) PayOnline Announces Support for iDEAL

Global financial technology and value-added solutions group Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE), through its PayOnline subsidiary, this morning announced that it has added support for iDEAL (https://www.ideal.nl/en/), a popular e-commerce payment system and market share leader in the Netherlands. Per a report by Thuiswinkel.org and the Ecommerce Foundation, the iDEAL payment system is currently the most widely used method of online payments in the Netherlands, accounting for roughly 54 percent of all Dutch online payments across over 220 million transactions as of 2015. This market presence is particularly noteworthy as online spending in the Netherlands continues to grow. In 2016, Dutch online spending was up by more than 23 percent to exceed 20 billion euros, and approximately 95 percent of the country’s age 15+ population shops online. For PayOnline, adding iDEAL support could be the first step toward extensive expansion throughout the European Union. The company intends to connect to similar European payment systems, such as SOFORT, in the near future in an effort to allow for greater customer flexibility while promoting sustainable revenue growth.

To view the full press release, visit http://dtn.fm/VD90j

About Net Element

Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) operates a payments-as-a-service transactional and value-added services platform for small to medium enterprise (“SME”) in the US and selected emerging markets. In the US it aims to grow transactional revenue by innovating SME productivity services such as its cloud based, restaurant and retail point-of-sale solution Aptito. Internationally, Net Element’s strategy is to leverage its omni-channel platform to deliver flexible offerings to emerging markets with diverse banking, regulatory and demographic conditions such as UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan where initiatives have been recently launched. Net Element was named in 2016 by South Florida Business Journal as one of the fastest growing technology companies. Further information is available at www.netelement.com.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Taking Aim at a Spectacular Trend that’s Transforming the World’s Second-Largest Economy

- China’s economy is the world’s second-largest

- Former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia says China is on the cusp of an incredible growth spurt

- Moxian contributes to and reaps rewards from China’s growth


China, the world’s second-largest economy, is on the cusp of an incredible growth spurt, says Stephen Roach, the former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia (http://dtn.fm/Y5iCU). In a recent CNBC interview, Roach stated, “The Chinese economy seems to be making remarkable progress in transforming itself into more of a consumer-based model… The wave of innovation in their private-based economy, anything from e-commerce to medical sciences, is really quite spectacular… [China’s] e-commerce share of total consumption is more than double ours [U.S.], and that gap is rising.”

Helping trigger this spectacular transformation and bridging e-commerce to brick and mortar retail is Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC). Moxian’s creative and socially interactive online platforms and mobile applications are moving the burgeoning Chinese consumer from online views to retail purchases at Moxian’s brick and mortar client locations. Moxian’s seductive social network integrates social media and business into a single platform that offers products, features and services that appeal to consumers, keeps them engaged and refers new customers.

The company’s ingenious and captivating online platforms and mobile applications, the Moxian+ User app and the Moxian+ Business app, allow businesses to interface with both new and existing customers. These online interactions provide each business the data to analyze consumer likes, dislikes and trends. Moxian’s platforms offer businesses the ability to create, manage and promote individualized customer loyalty programs, targeted advertising campaigns and special promotions. These interactions between users and Moxian’s merchant clients drive retail traffic into the brick and mortar locations and gives merchant clients the ability to study consumer behavior and custom tailor offerings to consumers.

Impressive by almost any standard, China’s GDP growth has hovered around seven percent the last several years. However, if, as the former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia predicts, a consumer driven “spectacular transformation” is under way in the Chinese economy, then China could easily see ten, 12, even 14 percent GDP growth as it did early this century. With the remarkable niche it has carved out, Moxian will no doubt contribute to and reap the rewards from this spectacular transformation.

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

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Monday, July 24, 2017

Impressive Growth Trajectory Continues for Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE)

- Proven player in the payments-as-a-service market

- Company’s business growth increased by 40% in 2017’s first quarter

- Projected to reach $75 million in revenues by 2018

Exciting developments continue for Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE), which has become a proven entity within the thriving payments-as-a-service market.

Net Element is a global financial technology and value-added solutions group engaged in supporting electronic payments acceptance in an omni-channel environment that spans point-of-sale, e-commerce and mobile devices. The company’s payments-as-a-service transactional and value-added services platform caters to small-to-medium enterprises (SME) in the United States and in selected emerging markets. Net Element was hailed as one of the fastest-growing technology companies by the South Florida Business Journal in 2016, and the company continues living up to that title.

On July 20, Net Element announced that its PayOnline subsidiary has expanded its payments module for electronic commerce and CMS to now include InSales, a popular omni-channel commerce and CMS platform for small-to-medium-sized businesses (http://dtn.fm/t7J3Y). The free PayOnline module for InSales enables merchants to accept payments via the most popular bankcards, such as Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro and MIR. Additionally, the PayOnline module supports more than 110 key world currencies, including U.S. dollars, euros, rubles, tenge, soms and shekels. All of the PayOnline module’s payment interfaces are available in English and Russian, and PayOnline has gained access to more than 4,000 new merchants in Russia and Kazakhstan with this latest addition, which means significant revenue potential for Net Element. The payment module is available on 23 of the most popular e-commerce and CMS platforms and counting.

In June, Net Element announced, through its PayOnline subsidiary, that its list of European integrations and partnerships had expanded via the addition of Payvision to the company’s network of partners. This provided PayOnline with an additional channel through which to route its payments in Europe and effectively broadened the scope of capabilities for its customers, simultaneously supporting higher conversion rates and improving access to more than 120 currencies throughout the world.

Also in June came the announcement that Net Element’s PayOnline subsidiary had initiated payment acceptance services for V-Tell, a premier international mobile network operator. V-Tell’s intention was to use various payment methods offered through the PayOnline platform for its website and mobile application, including recurring billing and one-click payment solutions.

Net Element’s business growth was up an impressive 40 percent in the first quarter of 2017, and a Zacks Research Report released in May (http://dtn.fm/fI97p) projected that the company’s revenues will reach $75 million by 2018.

Continuing its impressive growth trajectory, Net Element is successfully demonstrating its ability to grow internationally and is poised for even greater success in the near term.

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

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Friday, July 21, 2017

MissionIRNewsBreaks – Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Successfully Generates Revenue through Data Analytics, Paid Platforms and Proprietary Currency

Moxian (NASDAQ: MOXC) is a Shenzhen, China-based digital marketing company utilizing a unique strategy in China’s online-to-offline (O2O) market. The company first signs up merchants to its paid Moxian+ Business app and then uses a client’s consumer list to effectively glean valuable data analytics. On the consumer side, the company offers the Moxian+ User app, which has games, shopping and social loyalty programs, allowing customers to earn prizes that are paid for using Moxian’s proprietary Mo-Coins and Mo-Points.

“Moxian is a digital marketing company based in Shenzhen, China, which is converting its two apps to paid platforms. Its Moxian+ Business app, already serving some 31,600 small market enterprises (SMEs) in China, offers business merchants online transactions that are finalized at brick-and-mortar stores. Paid subscriptions have enhanced analytics of customers. The company also has 300,000 consumers on Moxian User. Mo-Talk, a Moxian proprietary voice-chat service, is a feature on both apps — designed to help customers and client merchants interact. The result is that merchant clients learn more through data analytics while driving the revenue of Moxian through OEM licensing fees, sale commissions, mobile digital advertising, and targeted marketing campaigns. Premium analysis of data for business clients details buying patterns of customers. In February, 2017, SeeThruEquity (http://dtn.fm/zUdR5) projected that Moxian will reach $24.1 million in sales by fiscal year 2018.”

To view the full article, visit http://dtn.fm/Cp3e8

About Moxian, Inc.

Founded in 2013 in Shenzhen, China with branch offices in Beijing, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, Moxian, Inc. is an offline-to-online (O2O) integrated platform operator. The Company’s “Moxian+” mobile App platform connects Users to Merchant Clients through games, rewards and social events that they enjoy and in return, Users provide valuable information that Merchant Clients can use to effectively promote products and services offered at their brick and mortar stores. More information about the Company can be found at www.moxian.com.

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SITO Mobile, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SITO) Appoints CEO, Solidifies Top Management

After a recent shakeup, New Jersey-based SITO Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SITO) has appointed a new CEO, COO, chairman of the board and board members to its management team, and it is back on track doing what the company does best, helping advertisers attract customers using mobile platforms.

SITO offers services in location-based advertising, a booming advertising sector that is growing faster than any other ad channel. The company’s technology allows advertisers to optimize their campaigns, better understand their audiences and increase ROI by utilizing always-on location, audience and behavior sciences (LABS) reporting. SITO Mobile offers real-time verified data to track ad campaign performance aimed at driving foot traffic to brick and mortar stores.

SITO announced in early June the election of Brent Rosenthal as chairman of the company’s board of directors. SITO Mobile is a technology-based mobile solutions provider increasing brand awareness, loyalty and sales through its mobile engagement platform.

Brent Rosenthal is the founder of Mountain Hawk Capital Partners, LLC, an investment fund focused on small and micro-cap equities in the technology media telecom (TMT) and food industries. Rosenthal also serves on the boards of directors of comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) and RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT) and is an adviser to the board of directors of Park City Group (NASDAQ: PCYG).

“I am honored to be in the position of serving as chairman of the board of the company, and will work tirelessly with my colleagues on the Board to continue to build value for all of the Company’s stakeholders, including our shareholders, employees and customers,” Rosenthal said in a statement to Globe Newswire (http://dtn.fm/JG4wo).

Rosenthal joins new board of directors members Michael Durden, Itzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala. On June 30, the company announced that Thomas J. Pallack and Mark Del Priore had been appointed as the company’s CEO and CFO, respectively. William Seagrave was named SITO Mobile’s COO.

“Tom, Bill and Mark are proven leaders with a broad range of experiences that are uniquely suited to the future of SITO’s business,” said Rosenthal. “We are thrilled to be working closely with them for the next phase of the company’s growth.”

Pallack has more than 30 years’ experience in sales, operations, finance and business development with global tech companies such as Oracle and Ariba. He co-founded SBV solutions, a software sales company, and has served as CEO and head of sales since 2005.

Seagrave previously directed sales, product and market strategies for global tech companies including Cisco, Oracle, Intel, and Baxter. He has extensive experience.

“The people and product offerings at SITO provide a strong foundation for growth and expansion,” Seagrave said in a press statement for Globe Newswire. “The business is well-positioned for its next stage of development in the technology landscape.”

For more information, visit www.SITOMobile.com

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

MissionIRNewsBreaks – SRAX (NASDAQ: SRAX) Launches People-Based Advertising Guide for Effective Consumer Connection

Advertising technology company SRAX (NASDAQ: SRAX) this morning introduced a new guide to help digital marketers and content owners best utilize customer and user data to reach people in the advertising ecosystem. “Connecting with each consumer individually, across devices, platforms and publishers is critically important in today’s digital advertising marketplace,” SRAX chairman and CEO Christopher Miglino stated in the news release. “Our People-Based Advertising guide is designed to inform and inspire brands and agencies to unlock the ultimate level of cross-device targeting precision.”

People-Based Advertising: How to Get Bigger Results by Targeting the Most Precise Audience, is available to download at: http://go.srax.com/people-ad-guide.

To view the full press release, visit: http://dtn.fm/sFAb2

ABOUT SRAX

SRAX (NASDAQ: SRAX) is an advertising technology company providing the tools to automate digital marketers and content owners’ campaigns across digital channels. SRAX’s tools amplify performance and maximize profits for brands in the healthcare, CPG, automotive, wellness and lifestyle verticals through an omnichannel approach that integrates all aspects of the marketing experience into one platform. The company’s machine-learning technology identifies brands’ core consumers and their characteristics discovering new and measurable opportunities to target, reach and monetize audiences driving online and offline sales lift. For more information on how SRAX delivers a digital competitive advantage to surpass today’s marketing challenges, visit www.srax.com.

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MissionIRNewsBreaks – Net Element’s (NASDAQ: NETE) PayOnline Adds InSales Support, Gains Access to Over 4,000 New Merchants

Global financial technology and value-added solutions group Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE), through its PayOnline subsidiary, this morning announced the expansion of its payment module for electronic commerce and Content Management System (“CMS”) to include InSales, a popular omni-channel commerce and CMS platform aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses. In addition to supporting payments from the world’s most popular bankcards, such as Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro and MIR, the free PayOnline module for InSales supports a wide array of global currencies, including U.S. dollars, euros, rubles, tenge, soms, shekels and over 110 other currencies. Per this morning’s update, Net Element anticipates that PayOnline will gain access to over 4,000 new merchants in Russia and Kazakhstan with this expansion, providing an opportunity to realize significant revenue growth. PayOnline’s payment module is now available on 23 of the most popular ecommerce and CMS platforms, and the list of supported platforms continues to grow.

To view the full press release, visit http://dtn.fm/5d4bN

About Net Element

Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) operates a payments-as-a-service transactional and value-added services platform for small to medium enterprise (“SME”) in the US and selected emerging markets. In the US it aims to grow transactional revenue by innovating SME productivity services such as its cloud based, restaurant and retail point-of-sale solution Aptito. Internationally, Net Element’s strategy is to leverage its omni-channel platform to deliver flexible offerings to emerging markets with diverse banking, regulatory and demographic conditions such as UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan where initiatives have been recently launched. Net Element was named in 2016 by South Florida Business Journal as one of the fastest growing technology companies. Further information is available at www.netelement.com.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Five trends to improve Grocery Retailers

Retail grocery listings are still reeling from Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to take over Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFM), but let’s face it, with grocers already running paper-thin profit margins, it is the recently announced U.S. expansion plans for German hyper-efficient supermarkets Aldi and Lidl that had the grocery retailers already on edge. After all, online shopping isn’t new, with WalMart’s (NYSE: WMT) Jet, Kroger’s (NYSE: KR) HomeShop, and Costco’s (NASDAQ: COST) Shipt being just some of the current home grocery delivery options.

Unlike most industries, where online shopping is the norm, grocery shopping has been slow to change. Thus, despite the rapid growth rate, home delivery accounts for slightly more than 1% of the industry’s more than $700 billion in annual sales. It makes sense, because, whereas most consumers trust the pizza shop to deliver a consistent product, most shoppers don’t trust their own family members to pick out their produce.

The industry’s challenge is to implement new technologies and models to improve efficiencies and the broader shopping experience, as well as improve the company’s street cred. For example, to lower costs and reduce its carbon footprint, Wal-Mart began experimenting with solar energy panels and Bloom Energy’s “Bloom boxes,” which efficiently incorporate a cleaner electrochemical process to convert natural gas into electricity.

With that in mind, we’re going to look at five must-have technologies/trends that grocery retailers should incorporate.

Refrigerant

Grocers use more energy than other retailers because of their refrigeration demands, which remains one of their largest fixed costs. Alltemp (OTCB: LTMP) recently created a new refrigerant that maximizes performance via saving energy and increasing equipment life while protecting the environment; after testing in several Fortune 500 facilities, the refrigerant is now ready for market.

Refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pumps account for about 10% of the global carbon emissions and energy consumption. Case studies confirm that Alltemp’s refrigerant significantly reduced the AMP draw to more than 40% from 10%. Alltemp’s test case at a McDonald’s restaurant location recorded a 23.7% kWh in refrigeration savings, while tests at 7Eleven, which more closely resembles the retail grocery model, reduced the refrigeration use by 38.16%.

Additionally, government regulations and rising R-22 prices were going to force millions of homeowners and business owners to replace their R-22-based air conditioners, creating a massive landfill nightmare and creating the financial burden of replacing decades’ worth of existing units. Plus, the energy savings are enough for some users to qualify for Energy Tax Credits.

Lighting

In many markets, daytime lighting costs can nearly be eliminated by incorporating solar lighting tubes, while LED lighting can go a long way to reducing lighting costs and improving the shopping experience.

Community hub

The general store at one point in time was the community hub of every American town; today’s grocers should embrace that important role and actively reinsert themselves as the historical community hub. Opportunities to do so range from offering cooking and nutrition classes to helping landlords attract complementary tenants so busy shoppers can order their nonperishable online, attend a workout class or other activity, and afterward spend a few minutes picking out their fruits and veggies.

Honest packaging

Grab a box of Cascadian Farms granola and I challenge you to squeeze it, wherever you want, without pressing against the contents. Unlike the traditional cereal offerings, which are in huge packages, but only half full, most consumers want quality ingredients in sustainable packaging.

Bio friendly packaging

Speaking of sustainable footprint, major improvements in packaging materials will be the next wave of consumer interest. Companies such as Coca-Cola have been introducing bioplastics into their production process for a few years, with the ultimate goal being a 100% bioplastic. Industry rival PepsiCo has also experimented with edible packaging options. The “plant” bottle should be a huge improvement by reduce its environmental impact and, hopefully, reduce the negative health effects of BPAs and other toxins related to common modern packaging.

Instead of food inflation through loss of quality, it’s time that the grocers get in line with today’s trends.

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Monday, July 17, 2017

Moxian (NASDAQ: MOXC) Generates Revenue with Data Analytics, Proprietary Currency, and Paid Platforms

- Paid subscriptions to Moxian+ Business app offer China’s small business enterprises (SMEs) premium detailed analysis of consumer buying trends

- Moxian is projected to reach revenues of $24.1 million by FY2018, per SeeThruEquity report

- China’s has world’s largest mobile phone market representing 1.3 billion people, per Ministry of Industry and Technology data


Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) employs a unique strategy in China’s online-to-offline (O2O) market. First, it signs up merchants to its paid Moxian+ Business app, then it uses the client’s list of consumers to effectively mine valuable data analytics. On the consumer side, it offers the Moxian+ User app. This platform has games, shopping, and social loyalty programs, enabling customers to earn prizes paid for with Moxian’s proprietary Mo-Coins and Mo-Points.

Moxian is a digital marketing company based in Shenzhen, China, which is converting its two apps to paid platforms. Its Moxian+ Business app, already serving some 31,600 small market enterprises (SMEs) in China, offers business merchants online transactions that are finalized at brick-and-mortar stores. Paid subscriptions have enhanced analytics of customers. The company also has 300,000 consumers on Moxian User. Mo-Talk, a Moxian proprietary voice-chat service, is a feature on both apps — designed to help customers and client merchants interact.

The result is that merchant clients learn more through data analytics while driving the revenue of Moxian through OEM licensing fees, sale commissions, mobile digital advertising, and targeted marketing campaigns. Premium analysis of data for business clients details buying patterns of customers. In February, 2017, SeeThruEquity (http://dtn.fm/1uxqL) projected that Moxian will reach $24.1 million in sales by fiscal year 2018.

According to the company’s SEC 10K annual report filing in December 2016 (http://dtn.fm/V5qta), when a business client purchases a Moxian + subscription, it is offered premium tools. These include detailed analytic reports and targeted messaging to consumers. To consumers, the company offers a game center that permits consumers to earn Mo-Points and a feature which enables subscribers to win vouchers and discounts.

All of this occurs in the largest mobile market in the world. China’s Ministry of Industry and Technology estimates that China has some 1.3 billion people on mobile phones, according to the SeeThruEquity report.

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

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Friday, July 14, 2017

MissionIRNewsBreaks – India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE: IGC) Reports Financial Results for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2017

India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IGC), a developer of cannabis-based therapies to treat a variety of life-altering conditions, this morning announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. “In fiscal 2017, our major accomplishments include the advancement of our phytocannabinoid patent filing portfolio to large market indications,” Ram Mukunda, CEO of IGC, noted in the news release. “And in order to keep this focus on the medical cannabis industry, we disposed of our low-margin iron ore and electronic trading businesses, and retired about 10% of our outstanding common stock; thus reducing revenue, PP&E, and stockholder’s equity. We firmly believe that this planned strategic move positions our Company for growth in one of the fastest growing industries in America.” Though revenues were down for the period due to the company’s transition away from its electronic trading business, IGC achieved a 30.6 percent year-over-year improvement to its selling, general and administrative expenses total.

To view the full press release, visit http://dtn.fm/a7SuO

About IGC

India Globalization Capital is engaged in the development of cannabis-based therapies to treat pain, PTSD, seizures, cachexia, chronic and terminal neurological and oncological diagnoses, and other life altering conditions. In support of this mission, IGC has assembled a portfolio of patent filings for its phytocannabinoid-based treatments. The company is based in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information visit www.igcinc.us

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Thursday, July 13, 2017

India Globalization Capital’s (NYSE: IGC) Cannabis Drug Development for Alzheimer’s Backed by Previous Studies

- In the U.S., more than 5.3 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and 46 million around the world have it

- Alzheimer’s disease cost the U.S. more than $236 billion in 2016, and the global costs topped $600 billion

- In 2017, IGC acquired exclusive rights to an Alzheimer’s treatment, based on THC, from the University of South Florida

- Huge valuation growth potential in light of other Alzheimer’s and cannabis-based companies


India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IGC) has been working on phytocannabinoid-based therapies for various medical conditions for some time. Its drug development pipeline consists of treatments for seizures, neuropathic pain, and eating disorders, but one gaining attention is an experimental cannabis-based drug for Alzheimer’s disease, IGC-AD1. A University of South Florida patent was issued in July 2015. However, the study of using cannabis to treat the disease began long before that. A Molecular Pharmaceutics report (http://dtn.fm/A48in) suggested that cannabinoids could be useful in treating patients, back in 2008; that was long before a scientific study made a breakthrough in 2014, claiming tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) had the potential to be a therapeutic agent for Alzheimer’s in a published report released by the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

In a recent Benzinga article (http://dtn.fm/GmO6t), the details of the study were highlighted. Scientists suggested that THC molecules, representing one of marijuana’s main chemical compounds, could bind to and break up amyloid-beta protein, which is associated with plaques that form around nerve cells. The effectiveness has not overruled any concerns regarding safety. Clinical trials, though, have found the side effects of THC to be mostly tolerable for patients, and proper doses have been correlated with positive results. Many Alzheimer’s patients have experienced reduced delusions or mood problems.

In the elderly, the disease is a leading cause of dementia. The number of cases is expected to increase and even triple within 50 years, adding to the hardship on the quality of life of individuals and the associated health care costs. Treatment options have aimed at slowing or halting the progression. With THC, studies have identified molecular mechanisms associated with how cannabinoid molecules have a direct effect on amyloid plaques in the brain and how the disease progresses.

The first pharmaceutical company listed on the NYSE to develop cannabis-based therapies for Alzheimer’s, IGC remains the only publicly-traded cannabis pharmaceutical stock to address the disease. Nonetheless, other studies have revealed therapeutic promise in this area. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem tried cannabis on old mice with decreases in memory. A long term, low-dose regiment of cannabis restored their memory performance to that of a two-month old mouse. The results were published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Also, genetic activity at the molecular level, and brain tissue, became more like that of younger animals. This included an increase in nerve cell links in the brain. The study preceded clinical trials on humans, which have since yielded promising results.

Finally, and perhaps even more important from an investment standpoint, is IGC’s potential for market valuation growth, given the company’s pipeline of Hyalolex for Alzheimer’s and other phytocannabinoid-based therapies. Other companies focused on Alzheimer’s, such as AVXL, AXON, ACIU, and BIIB, sport market valuations in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, while other cannabis-focused companies, such as CRBP and ZYNE, are already in the hundreds of millions.

To learn more about India Globalization Capital, its drug development pipeline, and its pursuit of cannabis-based therapies for Alzheimer’s patients, go to www.IGCInc.us

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MissionIRNewsBreaks – Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Poised to Profit from Forecast 21.5% 2017 Growth in Chinese Digital Advertising

Digital marketing company Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is prioritizing meeting its digital advertising revenue goals in light of recent research (http://dtn.fm/2AR7y) that shows digital ad spending in China is soaring to 57.2 percent of total Internet ad spending—up from a mere 19.4 percent just five years ago. A chief aspect of Moxian’s focus is the online-to-offline (O2O) market and helping brick-and-mortar merchants connect with more digitally-oriented customers. “Currently, Moxian is converting its Moxian+ business and user apps from free to paid. Key to Moxian’s revenue stream are fees, subscriptions, licenses and a percentage of all transactions. Vital to this is digital advertising. In the SeeThruEquity research report of February 28, 2017 (http://dtn.fm/5jfN6), mobile advertising is projected by Moxian to reach $3 million in 2017 before doubling to $6 million in 2018. That total would account for 24% of total company sales.”

To view the full article, visit http://dtn.fm/9URus

About Moxian, Inc.

Founded in 2013 in Shenzhen, China with branch offices in Beijing, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, Moxian, Inc. is an offline-to-online (O2O) integrated platform operator. The Company’s “Moxian+” mobile App platform connects Users to Merchant Clients through games, rewards and social events that they enjoy and in return, Users provide valuable information that Merchant Clients can use to effectively promote products and services offered at their brick and mortar stores. More information about the Company can be found at www.moxian.com.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

MissionIRNewsBreaks – Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) CEO Issues Letter to Shareholders

Global financial technology and value-added solutions group Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) this morning released an updated letter to shareholders from CEO Oleg Firer. In the update, he recaps the company’s achievements for the first half of the year before taking a look at recent corporate events that could contribute to Net Element’s future performance. “To date, our focus has been on growing our business and creating an efficient, well-functioning company by laying the foundation for a scalable business,” Firer noted in the shareholder letter. “I am pleased to say that we have been successful in the execution of these priorities and that we are growing our business both domestically and internationally. We have re-organized our international operations and expect to see cost reductions beginning in the third quarter of 2017.” Other topics addressed in the update include the company’s upcoming meeting with Nasdaq, scheduled for August 10, 2017, as well as its ongoing efforts to obtain funding, including the company’s recently-obtained $2.5 million credit line.

To view the full press release, visit http://dtn.fm/kpN6Q

About Net Element

Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) operates a payments-as-a-service transactional and value-added services platform for small to medium enterprise (“SME”) in the US and selected emerging markets. In the US it aims to grow transactional revenue by innovating SME productivity services such as its cloud based, restaurant and retail point-of-sale solution Aptito. Internationally, Net Element’s strategy is to leverage its omni-channel platform to deliver flexible offerings to emerging markets with diverse banking, regulatory and demographic conditions such as UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan where initiatives have been recently launched. Net Element was named in 2016 by South Florida Business Journal as one of the fastest growing technology companies. Further information is available at www.netelement.com.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) Electronic Payment Solutions Set to Depose Cash

- Fast-growing electronic payments business

- Non-cash payments continue to grow

- Flagship Aptito restaurant management solution


Cash may be king, but Miami, Florida-based fintech Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) seems set on deposing it. The innovative global technology company provides a range of non-cash payment solutions that are increasingly taking the place of cash as consumers expand their use of electronic means of payment. As global adoption of digital payments increases, the company expects its transaction processing business to continue growing at double-digit rates.

According to The Federal Reserve Payments Study 2016 (http://dtn.fm/T1SxD), non-cash payments in the U.S. in 2015, the last year for which data is available, amounted to about $178 trillion, taking the following forms and trillion-dollar amounts: debit cards ($2.56); credit cards ($3.16); checks ($26.83); ACH debits ($54.76) and ACH credits ($90.54). ACH (Automated Clearing House) transactions can be either debits, where someone authorizes a merchant, say, to withdraw funds from a bank account, or credits, where the holder of a bank account instructs his or her bank to transfer funds out of the account.

More details on the non-cash world come to light in the latest World Payments Report (http://dtn.fm/Pp19v), published by consultants Capgemini in collaboration with the French bank BNP Paribas, showing that cash may soon lose its crown. The report discovered that ‘global non-cash transaction volumes grew 11.2% during 2014-15, the highest growth of the past decade…’ For 2015, the last full year of data surveyed, ‘debit cards and credit transfers were the leading’ transaction instruments, with debit cards accounting for 46.7% and credit cards for 19.5% of global non-cash transactions. These are encouraging findings for NETE, since its transaction-solutions unit, which processes debit and credit cards, brings in the lion share of both revenues and income.

NETE’s North America Transaction Solutions unit, its major business division, provides a range of technology and services for retailers to accept cashless payments. These include both card-present (swipe) point-of-sale solutions and card-not-present alternatives, such as mail order or over the phone (MOTO) transactions, also called Merchant Acquiring transactions. The unit also offers mobile payment services, merchant performance analytical tools, merchant back office reporting, and the cloud-based Aptito point-of-sale platform.

Aptito is a unique restaurant point-of-sale product that aims to use mobility to give managers and staff greater control. The Aptito iOS cloud-based platform offers a comprehensive array of management and payment services specially designed for the food and beverage industry. It features digital menus (instead of traditional laminated paper stock ones), mobile point-of-sale (no running back and forth between tables and counter) and a Mobile Communicator that allows wait staff to send orders directly to the bar or kitchen. Aptito will reduce the time and energy wait staff expend going in person from diners to kitchen and back, undoubtedly improving customer service.

According to the latest SEC filing, the transaction-solutions business is doing extremely well. Revenues for the 12 months ended December 31, 2016, were up by 54 percent over same period 2015 revenues. As a result, the unit now contributes 78 percent of sales, up from the 68 percent one year ago.

In a recent update to investors, SeeThruEquity maintained the price target of $2.45 it had set earlier (http://dtn.fm/Vyr2U). Net Element stock, under the symbol NETE, currently trades at $0.50 on the NASDAQ Capital Market.

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

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Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Taps Growing Online-To-Offline Sector in China

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Taps Growing Online-To-Offline Sector in China

- China’s digital ad market is booming; Moxian is well-positioned to benefit

- China has 733 million internet users and 691 million smartphone subscribers

- Moxian targets China’s 75 million small- and medium-sized businesses, helping them connect to customers online


As it competes in the expanding sector of online-to-offline (O2O) marketing in China, Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is well-positioned to profit from the country’s booming economy.

Developed in China, Moxian provides social marketing and promotion platforms and helps merchants advertise through social media by integrating social media, entertainment, and business intelligence.

More than half of China’s 1.4 billion population use the internet, an estimated 733 million people, and the country boasts 691 million smartphone subscribers.

Moxian focuses on the online-to-offline market, helping offline merchants reach more digitally-oriented customers using promotions such as games, rewards, loyalty programs, and social events.

Targeting the more than 75 million small- and medium-sized businesses in China, Moxian helps companies grow their businesses using consumer behavior data compiled from the company’s database of consumer activities.

The company projects its mobile advertising revenue in China to reach $3 million in 2017 and $6 million in 2018 – which would account for 24% of total company sales.

Digital ad spending in China is expected to grow by 21.5% in 2017, and Moxian stands to benefit. Spending on digital advertising revenue in China has jumped to 57.2% of total ad dollars from just 19.4 percent five years ago.

MOXC is a development stage company currently converting its two O2O platforms from unpaid to paid. The company has two core products: Moxian User App and Moxian Business App.

Moxian+ is a business platform which is already serving, at no charge, some 30,000 small market enterprises (SMEs). It provides merchants with tools to convert customers to members and fans by issuing and redeeming loyalty points, responding to customer inquiries through instant messaging, conducting targeted marketing campaigns and providing listings in a lightweight online store.

Moxian User is a consumer app which already has some 300,000 users and offers social networking features, loyalty points, games, and universal coins for use with any merchant in the Moxian ecosystem.

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

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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE) Successfully Converts $2 Million Term Loan into $2.5 Million Revolving Loan

- Extends loan to May 20, 2021, can take monthly advances up to $1 million

- Proceeds to be used for retirement of debt, general working capital

- North American Transactions segment jumps 40% in leading the way for NETE’s $13.6 million revenues in 1Q17


Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) has successfully converted its $2 million term loan into a $2.5 million revolving loan, which enables NETE and its subsidiaries to take advances of up to $1 million every calendar month. The loan date was also extended to May 20, 2021, from the original date of May 20, 2019.

NETE is a global financial company that supports other firms with a cloud-based system of accepting electronic payments in an omni-channel environment. The company has three segments: North American Transaction Solutions, Mobile Payment Solutions and Online Payment Solutions. A growing percentage of its revenue comes from the North American segment, which generated 78% of total company sales in 2016 and $10,964,919 of NETE’s 1Q17 $13,561,941 revenues. This represented a 40% jump in sales for the North American segment from the prior year. The company attributed the increase to organic growth among its merchants.

In an SEC 8K filing (http://dtn.fm/C9nbd), NETE disclosed that the loan amendment was finalized June 27, 2017, with lender Priority Payment Systems LLC and NETE subsidiaries TOT Payments LLC, TOT New Edge LLC, Process Pink LLC and TOT FBS LLC.

As part of the agreement, NETE agreed to use the proceeds to meet its debt obligations from an acquisition, an ancillary agreement and for working capital. Its obligations under the agreement as of the amendment date totaled $1,925,967, according to the loan.

The company reported revenues of $54.3 million in 2016 and sales for the three months ended March 31, 2017, at $13,561,941, compared to $11,261,059 for the same period of the prior year.

NETE is seeking to generate more revenues in the future by launching a nationwide sales campaign for Aptito, its cloud-based point-of-sale system, with a special $1,200 incentive to agents and dealers per placement. Aptito is designed by NETE as a management tool to increase retention rates and sales productivity in the restaurant and retail industries. It also features a wide array of business management tools.

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

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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Stands to Benefit from Forecast 21.5% Growth in Chinese Digital Advertising for 2017

- Moxian sees its own digital advertising at $3 million in 2017, $6 million in 2018

- Digital advertising at Moxian projected to generate 24% of sales in 2018

- 731 million people in China, more than half of whom use the internet


Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is setting a high priority for meeting its revenue goals on digital advertising. According to an AdAge report (http://dtn.fm/K5bnT) quoting WPP’s GroupM research (http://dtn.fm/Vv1s9), such spending in China is skyrocketing to 57.2% of total ad spending on the internet. Five years ago, that number was just 19.4%, per the report. By comparison, only about 30.9% of total ad spending will be digital in the U.S. this year.

Moxian is a digital marketing company which connects online users and merchants with its focus on offline merchants desiring to reach more digitally-oriented customers. Games, rewards and social events are critical to reaching consumers. In return, these merchants can use valuable information learned to promote their products and services at their brick-and-mortar stores in this online-to-offline (O2O) market.

Currently, Moxian is converting its Moxian+ business and user apps from free to paid. Key to Moxian’s revenue stream are fees, subscriptions, licenses and a percentage of all transactions. Vital to this is digital advertising. In the SeeThruEquity research report of February 28, 2017 (http://dtn.fm/0ycOx), mobile advertising is projected by Moxian to reach $3 million in 2017 before doubling to $6 million in 2018. That total would account for 24% of total company sales, it said.

Digital ad spending in China is expected to grow by 21.5% in 2017 compared to its growth of 29.5% last year, albeit on a smaller base. The increase in digital advertising in China is slower, in part, because its sales base has become larger. However, the GroupM report cites “continuing urbanization and solid consumer confidence” as lending optimism for continued overall advertising increases. China had 731 million internet users last year, accounting for more than half the country. That number represents more than double the size of the entire U.S. population.

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

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MissionIRNewsBreaks – Monaker Group, Inc. (MKGI) Expands Inventory to Include Approximately 1.4 Million Instantly-Bookable Vacation Properties

Travel and technology company Monaker Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MKGI) this morning announced that it has expanded the total number of instantly-bookable vacation rental properties available through its Monaker Booking Engine (MBE) to approximately 1.4 million units. “The addition of these new properties demonstrates that our MBE represents one of the most diverse and accessible ALR instant booking platforms for the travel industry with inventory of approximately 1.4 million unique units,” Bill Kerby, CEO of Monaker, stated in the news release. “Since the introduction of our proprietary booking engine last year, we’ve received growing interest by both product suppliers and potential distribution partners. This interest has been buoyed by strengthening consumer demand for instantly-bookable ALRs.” The new properties are now available on Monaker’s NextTrip booking platform, which is the industry’s first travel service to offer all ALR properties as instantly bookable. Monaker’s position at the forefront of the alternative lodging rental (ALR) market comes as demand for the properties continues to expand. According to Technavio, the ALR industry is expected to achieve a CAGR of seven percent to $194 billion in 2021, making it one of the fastest growing sectors of the travel industry.

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Monaker Group is a technology-driven travel company focused on delivering innovation to alternative lodging rentals (ALR) market. The Monaker Booking Engine (MBE) delivers instant booking of more than 1.2 million vacation rental homes, villas, chalets, apartments, condos and castles. MBE offers travel distributors and agencies an industry-first: a customizable instant booking platform for ALR. Monaker’s NextTrip.com B2C website, also powered by MBE, is the first to offer significant instantly-bookable ALR products along with mainstream travel products and services all on a single site. NextTrip also features rich content, imagery and high-quality video to enhance a traveler’s booking experience and assist in the search, decision and buying process for both individuals and groups. For more information, visit www.monakergroup.com or www.nexttrip.com.

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