Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (OTC: LQMT) is the leading developer of amorphous alloys – unique materials capable of retaining a random structure when they solidify, in contrast to the crystalline atomic structure that forms in ordinary metals and alloys. As the first company to produce amorphous alloys in commercially viable bulk form, Liquidmetal has developed an explicit strategy for advancing the commercial adoption of its technologies. The basis for this strategy is a strong intellectual portfolio, valuable partnerships and a strong sales team.

More than double the strength of titanium, highly elastic, non-magnetic and resistant to corrosion, Liquidmetal alloys are a metallic glass that enable applications to achieve unprecedented performance and accuracy levels, making them ideal for medical, military, consumer, industrial and sporting goods products.

Liquidmetal has control of intellectual property rights for this technology with more than 70 U.S. patents – and the applications within this IP portfolio continue to expand. The company recently received an annual purchase order from CoNextions to produce a critical medical device component to be used for suture-based tendon repairs, and, in December, Liquidmetal began selling its Liquidmetal Hybrid Knife, which embodies a geometry that is impractical to produce with any other metal forming process.

“The ability of the Liquidmetal process technology to provide such a high level of part to part dimensional precision and repeatability is showcased by the precise fit of the knife blade and protector,” Paul Hauck, vice president of World-Wide Sales and Marketing, stated in a news release. “After more than 30 years of involvement with metal parts fabrication technologies, I have not witnessed anything like the precision of this molding technology…”

Liquidmetal manufactures its components through a network of Certified Liquidmetal Partners (CLP) comprised of leading alloy material suppliers, machine & mold manufacturers, government agencies, and commercial companies. This structure ensures that each CLP adheres to rigorous testing and certification requirements and means each customer who purchases Liquidmetal parts and services receives a consistently high quality.

The company also maintains the highest standards for itself and kicked off 2016 with news it has received its formal ISO 9001: 2008 certification, which the company says places it in a position to close the gap between early prototypes and high volume dual source to outsourced production.

Liquidmetal reported $42,000 in revenues for third-quarter 2015, down from $97,000 in the comparable quarter of 2014, but marking the fifth consecutive quarter with a significant sequential increase in the number of request for quotes (RFQs).

“In the third quarter of FY15 we again received over 100 RFQs and again achieved an all-time high. Just as significant about 25% of these RFQs came from Europe. RFQs are the lifeblood of our future and this significant quarter-over-quarter increase along with their ever-improving quality gives us substantial reason for optimism as we look towards 2016,” company CEO Tom Steipp stated in the third-quarter earnings call (source:www.seekingalpha.com).

As Liquidmetals prepares to ramp-up production and shipment revenues in the upcoming year, customer education and confidence will play a vital role in its success. For this, Liquidmetals has a strong sales and marketing team.

“During the past 18 months, we’ve worked hard to assemble an internal and external team of sales and marketing professionals … The total team at Liquidmetal is now processing more than 100 RFQs per quarter and more than 200 general technology inquiries … The increasing number and quality of RFQs is a clear reflection of their significant contribution to educating customers on the design principals and material property benefits that come from our technology…,” Hauck stated in the quarterly earnings call.

After hitting several key milestones in 2015, Steipp says the company has built a solid foundation for the beginning and increase of production revenue in the year ahead.

For more information, go to www.liquidmetal.com

The promise of nanotechnology and our growing ability to manufacture new products at the nanoscale continue to make their presence felt in the commercial environment, with innovative solutions cropping up across numerous industries as diverse as biomedicine and lighting. Whether we are talking about revolutionary developments such as nanoviricides that could be the virus-fighting smartweapons of the future, or more efficient and easier to place industrial/consumer grade lighting for our homes and workplaces, the sky is the limit when it comes to the emerging applications of nanoscale manufacturing.

One of the publicly-traded companies at the forefront of this space today is XLI Technologies (OTC: XLIT), which has exclusive licensing rights for the entertainment industry (as well as specific automotive applications) when it comes to distribution of the proprietary nanotech Printed LightSheets™ powered by Cru Global Innovations (http://dtn.fm/Ma0nQ) and manufactured by New Jersey-based Triton Solar (http://dtn.fm/Vj96R). Currently the only global supplier to offer high quality, highly efficient printed solar cells, lighting, and batteries, Triton Solar, with its specialized nanotechnology manufacturing capabilities, has opened a huge door for XLIT in the entertainment and automotive sectors, thanks to the unique characteristics of Printed LightSheets.

The nanotech manufacturing of these beauties allows them to bend, be folded, or even cut without disrupting their primary function, making the Printed LightSheets (which come with their own transformer to provide power) ideal for a variety of lighting roles that hitherto were essentially impossible. The primary focus for XLI Technologies thus far has been the movie business, where the company is providing cutting-edge solutions in advertising and promotions aimed at the theatres, such as backlit poster and display stand lighting, as well as the motion picture production end of the business, where it is offering studios, distribution companies, and advertisers similar options, using its full range of standard display sizes, such as mini billboard (48″ by 96″), backlit (27″ by 40″), versatile (24″ by 36″), placement (22″ by 28″), and spot (18″ by 24″).

Lighting up prominent display surfaces of all kinds and shapes that hitherto could not be used to draw the consumer’s eye with advertising, such as benches, garbage cans, or even the floor, is a potential brand presence goldmine, and XLIT is selling the picks and shovels. The idea of putting backlit movie posters on the walls is now a time-honored tradition in most theatres, but XLIT has given theatre operators a way to cheaply and easily put the same displays right on the floor (http://dtn.fm/sUY2r) via a simple, but robust setup, helping to illuminate walkways and also captivate audiences at the same time with a unique display that pedestrians will marvel at. This same powerful lighting technology can be used to more easily and efficiently provide illumination for traditional wall displays or to bring attention to display stands that feature film iconography.

This is a gigantic market, which pulled down a $10.8 billion 2015 domestic gross (according to Box Office Mojo), up 3.7 percent from the MPAA’s official 2014 figure of $10.4 billion. MPAA figures for 2014 put the global box office take at around $36.4 billion on a hearty increase from China, which was up 34 percent year-over-year to become the first international market to exceed $4 billion in box office draws. This should give investors a clear picture of the global market potential for such lighting solutions, and the North American market where XLI Technologies is currently focused is particularly notable due to the vast majority of screens being tied to just the top four sector operators – Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), Cinemark (NYSE: CNK), and Carmike Cinemas (NASDAQ: CKEC).

One need look no further than hot properties such as Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to understand the market potential for XLIT. This single film currently has a domestic gross of over $880 million (as of January 25) and has done another $1.06 billion in the international market, making it one of the highest grossing films of all time, with just under $2 billion in global box office receipts.

The company’s recent debut of a turnkey advertising revenue program for theatres using the 24″ by 36″ Printed LightSheet, where XLIT sets up advertising sales for every placement sold, is an enticing draw for theatre companies, and one which should bring in many new clients for the company, as it generates significant recurring revenue without additional costs, while also promoting additional advertising sales. This program makes it easy for the theatre companies to adopt Printed LightSheet technology by offsetting capital outlays on the hardware and leading to profitability within the first three weeks of rollout. The program is similarly beneficial to XLIT, of course, yielding commissions and margins from the ad positioning opportunities the company creates in the process.

The unique value proposition of Printed LightSheet technology represents a significant efficiency upgrade as well when compared to existing solutions, efficiency that was recently documented by an independent third party entertainment and event production company, which specializes in supplying state-of-the-art lighting technologies to the industry. The independent test findings were even better than initially expected by XLIT and confirmed that not only do the units output roughly 800 lumens for 0.0625 Watts per square foot, they offer 100 percent light coverage with color temperatures of 4000K and 5800K, making them ideal for a variety of uses, from indoor or outdoor advertising, to displays, and reading.

In additional movie business news, XLIT’s wholly-owned Bosch International subsidiary recently secured a key marketing rights agreement with in-theatre video advertising platform TrailerSpots, which produces 30-second “Directed Imagination“ spots (http://dtn.fm/b9Ajq) that can be run in any theatre and which play just after the commercials and before the theatrical trailers. Using all of the same in-theatre audio and video enhancements (including 3D) as the theatrical presentation, and presented in the same format and quality as the trailers, these highly engaging spots can be produced in-house by Bosch Technologies or utilize existing content. Since this timeslot is essentially universal across all theatres in North America and is typically used by the theatre company to plug their own brand or orient audiences to commonsense film-watching protocols, such as shutting off cell phones, there is a huge advertising opportunity here for XLIT. This is an opportunity which the studios’ marketing people should be clamoring for, as they won’t even have to pull the unique TrailerSpots when the film actually comes out.

Because Printed LightSheets can be cut and bent into almost any shape imaginable and are thus perfect for creating applied/embedded surface lighting in the automotive sector, XLIT is also emphasizing this sizable market moving forward. With offerings that range from exterior surface lighting like hood wraps and quarter-panel lighting, to customized advertisements and promotions like a company logo made out of Printed LightSheets, XLIT is in the pole position when it comes to making big waves in the automotive industry. These same products can be used for interior lighting as well, giving automotive manufacturers and aftermarket retailers the ability to create eye-popping illuminated headliners, as well as seats, floormats, interior door panels, and even custom displays.

Given the versatility of Printed LightSheets – which can be used in almost any configuration or shape, from 1” by 1” panels up to 800 square foot units, as well as their incredible durability in almost any weather condition thanks to the nanomanufacturing process – XLIT has another big opportunity in customized applications. From light-up benches in an industrial park or corporate compound, to backlit walls and interiors in the airline industry, there is a massive/untapped custom market for Printed LightSheets in addition to the core target markets of the film and automotive industries. A customized application market delimited only by the end-user’s imagination.

Take a closer look, visit http://xlitechnologies.com/

Being multifaceted and easily adaptable to a constantly changing business dynamic in the U.S. is essential for companies to stand the test of time. A diversified company that is taking advantage of the opportunities present in multiple industries with its business model is Cherubim Interests, Inc. (OTC: CHIT). The company targets alternative, commercial, single and multifamily dwellings for the purpose of investment purchase. Also, through its BudCube Cultivation Systems USA subsidiary, Cherubim Interests has developed a proprietary controlled environment cultivation technology aimed at helping cultivators of legal medical and recreational cannabis, as well as other plant species, meet rising market demand.

Coupled with the real estate development and property management business model of parent company Cherubim Interests, BudCube is able to offer prospective cultivators quick entry into the rapidly expanding cannabis cultivation market at a price point that is extremely attractive when compared to traditional construction solutions.

Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., and if the trend toward legalization spreads to all 50 states, marijuana could become larger than the organic food industry, according to a report obtained by The Huffington Post. Researchers from The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm based in Oakland, California, found that the U.S. market for legal cannabis grew 74 percent in 2014 to $2.7 billion, up from $1.5 billion in 2013, and it is projected to be $37 billion after full legalization.

BudCube’s business model is unparalleled in the cultivation industry. Cherubim Interests will own and develop each property, while BudCube will construct, deploy and lease turnkey cultivation systems to tenants. The company plans to offer both single tenant ‘macro’ solutions and multi-tenant ‘micro’ solutions to meet the unique needs of both established and upstart cultivation operations.

Also, Cherubim Interests recently announced its acquisition of Golden Eagle Roofing, LLC. This acquisition allows the company to immediately engage in the roofing and insurance restoration businesses in Rowlett and Garland, Texas, and the surrounding areas, where an EF-4 tornado destroyed and damaged more than 450 buildings in 2015.

For more information, visit www.cherubiminterests.com

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Earlier this week, Lingo Media Corporation (OTCQB: LMDCF) (TSX-V: LM), an EdTech company using innovative online and print-based technologies and solutions to change the way the world learns English, announced that it will be presenting at the upcoming World Outlook Financial Conference 2016, which will be held January 29-30 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver. The company will also host a booth at the conference in order to provide attendees with an opportunity to meet and speak with the Lingo management team.

The World Outlook Financial Conference is sponsored by MoneyTalks, a popular radio show hosted by Michael Campbell. For over three decades, MoneyTalks has been offering unique and valuable insight to Canadian investors, and the show currently boasts more than half a million weekly listeners. The conference is expected to be attended by hundreds of pre-qualified, high net worth investors and active market participants looking to meet with exhibitors. Lingo will have an additional opportunity to reach these investors as one of four top-performing companies invited to make presentations at the conference’s VIP Small-Cap Luncheon.

In recent quarters, Lingo has recorded strong financial growth on the back of an aggressive expansion campaign throughout Latin America. During the quarter ended September 30, 2015, the company achieved its fourth consecutive profitable quarter, along with a 441 percent year-over-year increase in total revenue. This growth is particularly noteworthy, because it was derived primarily from Lingo’s rapidly expanding digital-learning software division. The company’s legacy textbook publishing income, which stems from exclusive agreements with key government and industry partners in China’s expansive education market, is recorded seasonally, in Q2 and Q4, as royalty revenues.

Moving forward, Lingo plans to build on its recent progress by expanding its presence throughout Latin America while actively pursuing opportunities in other regions around the globe. This strategy is expected to play a key role in the company’s efforts to continue promoting sustainable returns in the months to come.

“While Latin America remains our initial market focus, demand is emerging from other regions,” Michael Kraft, president and chief executive officer of Lingo, stated in a news release. “The company is pursuing strategic partnerships for global distribution as part of its plan as the EdTech market for English language learning continues to grow worldwide.”

For more information on the company, visit www.lingomedia.com

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In a recent interview (http://dtn.fm/j0AJN) with Stock News Now, the CEO of Nutra Pharma Corporation (OTCQB: NPHC), Rik J. Deitsch, talked about his company’s potential and the value locked in its chest of intellectual property rights. He said that, first and foremost, Nutra Pharma is a bio-technology company, with 21 patents on treatments for myasthenia gravis (MG), juvenile multiple sclerosis (MS), adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and pain. Being a bio-tech company is the “blood… the genetics of the company,” he enthused. As he had explained (http://dtn.fm/hy6Oj) earlier, “Instead of looking at us as a biotech with, potentially, multibillion-dollar drugs in the pipeline, analysts are seeing us as a company that sells OTC homeopathic drugs. They’re tying valuation to sales and stock performance. I think they should look at us as a speculative biotech company. In fact, we had a higher market cap before we made a penny of revenue…”

The company has three key patents: one for autoimmune disease, one for pain, and one for antiviral therapeutics. These patents protect different ways of modifying biologics including native cobra venom. (A biologic is produced in a living organism and then extracted for use. A drug is manufactured by combining substances in a chemically-ordered process.) With regard to autoimmune diseases, typically there is one drug for a particular immune disease. However, since Nutra Pharma’s RPI-78M is a modulating agent rather than an immunosuppressive one that shuts off the immune system, it could, theoretically, work against any autoimmune disease. The company has explored RPI-78M’s use in pediatric or juvenile MS, but it believes the drug can also be used against MG, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and type 1 diabetes.

Nutra Pharma has already received orphan status for RPI-78M for the treatment of juvenile (under the age of 16) MS sufferers. It believes it can really improve the lives of MS sufferers by introducing an entirely new way of treating the condition. At present, MS is treated with immunosuppressive drugs that can only slow the progression of the disease. Based on clinical studies of RPI-78M, the company expects RPI-78M may have the potential to not only stop further development of the disease but reverse its symptoms. Deitsch has speculated, “If we can get the drug through Phase I and Phase II trials, we plan to license it to a large pharma partner. We expect it to change the way we treat autoimmune diseases.”

In addition, receiving orphan status for RPI-78M brings a number of bonuses for Nutra Pharma. Not only does orphan status give the company a fast track at the FDA, it gives it the ears of the FDA and rolling review. It gives it access to grants and collaborative research agreements, and, in a relatively recent change, once a company has an approved orphaned drug, it may be able to receive an orphan drug voucher, which allows it to get a second drug approved and still have the benefits of orphan status. That second drug doesn’t have to be for an orphan condition; a company can use it for any drug. Those vouchers are salable assets. According to a report (http://dtn.fm/WCgw9) on the website of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS), the first rare pediatric disease voucher was given to the pharmaceutical company BioMarin in February 2014 after its rare disease drug Vimizim was granted FDA approval. A few months later, Biomarin announced it had sold its voucher to Sanofi and Regeneron for $67.5 million. Deitsch has said (http://dtn.fm/mzX2T) that in August 2015, another voucher sold for more than $340 million.

Rik Deitsch is a biochemist. He was, at one time, head of product development for a division of Rexall Sundown, where he was involved in the launch of some 50 dietary supplements. He has worked in biochemistry for over 20 years and has written two books: Are You AgeWise: A Guide to Healthy Aging and Invisible Killers: The Truth About Environmental Genocide. From what we’ve heard in this interview, Deitsch is equally at home in the boardroom and in the lab.

For more information on the company, visit www.NutraPharma.com

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Owning a timeshare has many benefits. It is a great way to enjoy a relaxing vacation spot in a luxurious, fully furnished condo instead of an expensive, cookie-cutter hotel room or resort. Also, it is a much more affordable way of adding a second home, so to speak, to your book of assets. Family vacations and private getaways are essential for people to maintain their sanity by escaping to an exotic location for some much needed rest and relaxation. Of course, there is a caveat to this, and that is the money wasted should you not be able to use your allotted paid-for vacation time. Enter FlexWeek, Inc. (OTC: FXWK), a global peer-to-peer marketplace that allows timeshare owners to discover, book, and offer unused vacation time directly to the public and other timeshare owners.

This is a fantastic and well thought out addition to the timeshare dynamic, because it reduces unused timeshare inventory by utilizing the FlexWeek marketplace. The average timeshare is only booked 79 percent of the year, according to the American Resort Development Association’s 2012 research survey. Whether or not a privately owned timeshare unit is used, the owner still has to pay annual maintenance fees, and most owners end up losing thousands of dollars in wasted paid-for vacation time over their ownership period.

With FlexWeek, an owner of unused paid vacation time can now offer their specific booked week for rent directly to the FlexWeek marketplace to recoup costs or even make a profit on the rental. The glut of unused timeshare inventory allows a potential renter to stay in a very nice condo for a fraction of what they would pay in hotel fees, making it a win-win for both the owner and the renter of the vacation time.

Everyone hates fees, and, apparently, FlexWeek took this into consideration when devising its business model. The company is similar to the very popular $20 billion business model of AirBNB, but FlexWeek is the first and only peer-to-peer marketplace exclusive to fractional vacation ownerships. With FlexWeek, there is no need for costly trading platforms such as Interval International or RCI. Instead, booking fees are charged to the renter of the vacation time, eliminating the cost to the private timeshare owner.

For more information, visit www.flexweek.com

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While just about every investor has likely heard of globally-recognized companies and brands such as Lenovo’s Motorola Mobility (OTC: LNVGY), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Philips (NYSE: PHG) and Toshiba (OTC: TOSYY), or healthcare sector operators like Roche (OTCQX: RHHBY) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), many remain surprisingly unfamiliar with the increasingly vital carrying case and protective solutions provider which reinforces these heavy-hitters: Forward Industries (NASDAQ: FORD). West Palm Beach, Florida-headquartered Forward Industries conceptualizes, designs and delivers an extremely wide variety of tailored carrying case and usability solutions for gadgets produced by these globally-recognized brands. These solutions are either packaged with the branded product or sold in the retail aftermarket, and they significantly enhance the functionality, as well as brand presence, of the core product.

Whether we are talking about a carrying case for portable electronic healthcare devices, such as the blood glucose monitoring kits used by diabetics, handheld bar code scanners used in a warehouse, GPS devices for recreation and navigation, firearms, or even the average consumer’s smartphone/tablet – chances are that Forward Industries makes a carrying case, clip, stand or other accessory that the reader has used. With a highly skilled team of innovators that work hand-in-hand with the company’s OEM clients (or their contract manufacturing firms) to custom design the perfect carry, protective or usability accessory and over three decades of experience leveraging the premium manufacturing metrics available in China and the Far East, Forward Industries is one of the most sought-after accoutrement design shops on earth today.

After Forward Industries has worked with the OEM customer and its sizable supply chain in Asia, consisting of 800,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity, the company then ensures that gold-standard quality control procedures are utilized in order to make certain that the commercially approved production units meet with the exacting specifications that have been laid out. The company’s logistical and global warehousing capacity, as well as its comprehensive compliance structures, have won Forward Industries mounting favor among the roughly 81 OEMs around the world with which the company currently does business.

One of the largest companies that FORD has such a tight-knit relationship with is Germany-based multinational chemical and pharmaceutical developer, Bayer (OTC: BAYRY), with whom Forward Industries recently signed a sizable carry case extension deal. This extension deal adds to a relationship stretching back several years and has FORD supplying the customized carrying cases that go with Bayer’s diabetic products all the way through to the end of 2018. Such a deal speaks volumes about how Forward Industries has become one of only a handful of trusted go-to suppliers chosen by healthcare and tech sector majors to handle the accessories for their most important products.

The Bayer extension deal should also give investors a hint as to how important the company’s proven abilities to satisfy the complex compliance demands within this heavily regulated industry are, especially when it comes to differentiating FORD from its numerous competitors. Little wonder then that the company’s Q4 financials (ended September 30, 2015) showed a 2.3 percent increase in gross profit percentages when compared to Q4 FY14, or the company’s 128 percent jump in gross profits over the same interval. FORD’s Q4 FY15 EPS of $0.03 per share was quite a feat considering the turbulence experienced by the company due to an expensive (now resolved) proxy battle and paints a stark contrast with the loss of $(0.08) per share seen during the same quarter in the prior year.

The company’s ability to turn profitability around so sharply despite the proxy battle, and its ability to shore up its OEM-focused presence with the Bayer deal, is a positive signal to markets about where the company’s CEO, Terry Wise, is taking Forward Industries this year. Consistently delighted multinational customers, who continue to praise FORD for its quality and cost-effectiveness, will most likely see this case and accessory designer through to a profitable 2016 – following up nicely on its return to the black, with two back-to-back quarters of solid profitability.

Forward Industries is now fully committed to mustering sustained momentum via the hammering out of long-term sourcing agreements with new and existing customers, as well as a broadening of its product mix, which should help FORD secure access to an expanding customer base. Innovation has long been the watchword at FORD, and its in-house conceptualization and design capabilities are a force in this sector that has to be reckoned with. Given that the company has the ability to go from co-creation sessions with the customer, through traditional art approaches and on into 3D modelling quite rapidly, rounding out the design phase with both traditional mockup and 3D printing, FORD should be able to continue landing new customers across the board with ease this year.

Already serving industries ranging from tech, medical devices and video gaming to military, government and automotive, the sky is the limit for Forward Industries when it comes to design. With warehousing and production in Shenzhen and Dongguan, China, as well as operational footholds in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and Taipei, Taiwan, Forward Industries can offer unique scaling/sourcing benefits to its customers, and also has the global sales footprint to back it up. With sales offices in California and Indiana, as well as Switzerland – managed via the company’s wholly-owned Forward US and Forward Switzerland subsidiaries – FORD has the cost-effective manufacturing/supply capacity, as well as the key target market localized sales force strength, needed to really deliver in 2016 on its aspirations of continued profitability.

This is true whether we are talking about the $10 billion plus global glucose monitoring and diabetes management device market (Kalorama Information), or the smartphone market, which shipped around 1.44 billion units last year (IDC).

Take a closer look, visit http://www.forwardindustries.com/

Late last week, GTX Corp. (OTC: GTXO) announced that its patented wearable GPS tracking device, GPS SmartSole™, claimed a bronze award in the Wearable Technology category at the 2015 New Product & Technology Awards. The Mature Market Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for the senior market, presents this awards program in order to recognize innovative products and services that address the unique needs of older adults and their families. Entries were judged by a distinguished panel of mature market experts for overall excellence of design, content, creativity and relevance to the senior market.

“We were delighted to take part in the fifth annual New Product & Technology Awards program this year, and were honored to be selected as a winner,” Andrew Duncan, director of business development at GTX Corp., stated in a news release.

By claiming a bronze award at the New Product & Technology Awards, GTX Corp. continues to build upon an impressive résumé of awards and mentions by prestigious organizations. Last year, the company’s innovative GPS SmartSole was named alongside wearable tech offerings from companies such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) at the CTIA Hot for the Holidays Awards. The product was also listed on AARP’s 2015 Technology Gear Guide and showcased in Munich at the Telefonica Digital Innovation Day 2015.

Using the GPS SmartSole, caregivers and loved ones can easily monitor the whereabouts of individuals suffering from cognitive conditions that cause them to wander. According to the World Alzheimer’s report, more than 100 million people around the planet require oversight due to various forms of memory impairment, a figure that’s expected to top 277 million by 2050. Among those individuals, roughly 60 percent will become lost at least once, with 70 percent of those individuals becoming lost three or more times. In these cases, expeditious recovery is key to the individual’s wellbeing.

The GPS SmartSole features a miniaturized GPS tracking device that sends a signal to a central monitoring website and tracks the wearer’s exact location using a combination of satellite and cellular technologies. The result is dependable oversight without the stigma commonly associated with ‘lock-on’ bracelets or trackers, preserving the privacy and dignity of the wearer while offering caregivers much-needed peace of mind.

For more information, visit www.gtxcorp.com

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QualityStocks today announces the availability of a new audio interview with Joey Parsi, founder and chief executive officer of Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. (OTCQB: GIGL). The interview recapping the company’s achievements in 2015, outlook for 2016, and opportunity to invest in its growth, can be heard at http://www.qualitystocks.net/interview-gigl2.php.

Last year was a busy and productive season for Giggles N’ Hugs, and Parsi begins the QualityStocks interview by explaining the company’s success in streamlining operations, dramatically improving margins, and increasing year-over-year sales.

Building on its 2015 achievements and recent engagement of Chardan Capital Markets LLC, Giggles N’ Hugs is well-positioned to execute its 2016 growth initiatives.

“We recently engaged Chardan Capital as our investment bank to go out and raise some capital for us so that we can expand … to multiple locations throughout the United States … just as importantly, we’re also looking to finally launch our massive franchising program,” Parsi explains in the interview.

Giggles N’ Hugs has received hundreds of inquiries from interested parties looking to replicate the company’s concept and success in various locations around the world.

“We’re in a very enviable position in that in the restaurant world … they say there’s three reasons for success. And that’s location, location and location. For us, that seems to be the best part of our opportunity going forward,” says Parsi.

On the topic of location, Giggles N’ Hugs has also caught the eye of several of the nation’s largest mall landlords, including Westfield, which has made available its entire portfolio of malls for Giggles N’ Hugs to consider as future locations. Westfield in particular is also offering the company a tenant allowance to drastically cut opening and rent costs – all in the name of leveraging Giggles N’ Hugs tremendous ability to generate foot traffic at each location.

Moving forward, Giggles N’ Hugs aims to raise $5 million through a 506C offering, which will enable the company to fund its 2016 growth initiatives.

“We need capital; obviously that’s a primary need for any young company like Giggles N’ Hugs, which is on this massive growth spurt … if you’re interested in investing in Giggles N’ Hugs, please contact us at info@gigglesnhugs.com and we’ll be sure to send you all the investment information so that you can make a decision as to whether or not Giggles N’ Hugs represents a good opportunity,” concludes Parsi.

Learn more by visiting www.gigglesnhugs.com

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QualityStocks today announces the availability of a new audio interview with Daniel Terziev, CEO of Agora Holdings, Inc. (OTC: AGHI) subsidiary Geegle Media. The interview can be heard at http://www.QualityStocks.net/interview-aghi.php

Agora Holdings is a diversified family of entertainment media enterprises focused on TV on Demand, interactive media, business products and consumer platforms.

As Terziev explains in the interview, Agora Holdings collaborates with strategic media partners such as Geegle Media, which is primarily focused on developing software products for the media, social networks and the broader telecommunications industry. Geegle TV, established in 2010, is the company’s leading product and reflects the diversity and various applications of the company’s technology.

“In the beginning it was very well accepted by the public … we’ve continued developing that, but we’ve changed the way the information is presented for social areas … Geegle is actually a very diversified platform … it also works in different languages,” says Terziev.

Terziev then briefly discusses Geegle’s FRAME platform, which will combine social networks into a single platform to create a more simplified user experience, before explaining his extensive background as a telecommunications engineer and how this expertise benefits Geegle’s corporate direction.

After highlighting achievements and corporate announcements made in 2015, Terziev provides insight into what shareholders can expect from the company in 2016.

“In general the company will be focusing on delivering what we have already stated we will do … we’re looking forward to seeing how the public will react to those products, as we have many more to come. We own over 50 very popular domains that we’re looking to develop into certain tools and activities and games … all different areas of every day people’s lives,” he says.

For more information, visit www.agoraholdingsinc.com