Serving the massive online-to-offline (O2O) market in China with a popular app for businesses and consumers, Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) announced that adoption of its platform is accelerating in both Android and iPhone segments. The news comes after the company’s launch of the Moxian+ paid platform in March 2017, which represents a transition from its beta technology that has been offered at no charge. Moxian, an innovative technology company serving the estimated $48 billion O2O market in China, enables consumers to order products online and pay brick and mortar businesses (with an online presence) via traditional offline methods.

The Moxian+ Business App has already enabled small- and medium-sized businesses to capture and analyze data, maintain customer relationships, and target marketing initiatives, as well as to have access to China’s 1.3 billion-user mobile telephone market (the largest in the world). Over 31,000 businesses used the free Moxian platform, and the company hopes to convert them to its paid, improved system.

The Moxian+ User app, reaching over 300,000 consumers with its free version, provides a system for collecting loyalty points, winning universal MO-Coins, and engaging in social networking with friends and interest groups. Consumers can set up a personalized multimedia profile. Providing the means to pay for purchases by mobile device, the app fully supports online payments and contactless cards. People can also search for local merchants via the program’s geo-location feature, communicate with friends via a media messenger, and win gifts by playing exciting games.

Expanding functionality available through Moxian’s (now paid) apps is reaching a large and fast-growing market. Accessibility to Android and iPhone users is allowing the company to hit new milestones, as it strives to reach the country’s smartphone users, who, according to CNBC, account for about 30 percent of the global smartphone market. According to a 2016 Statista.com report (http://nnw.fm/04Xt9), China became the largest mobile phone user market in 2012. Mobile phone subscriptions in the country have surged since 2011, and, now, 89 percent of its population uses a mobile phone. Monthly sales of the top 10 mobile phone brands had reached 800,000 units by Q2 2013.

The surge in app adoption is also proving beneficial to investors. In a recent press release (http://nnw.fm/1wxMB), Moxian announced an aggregate initial offering price of $50 million, with the filing of form S-3 with the SEC. Its revenue streams comprise subscription services, mobile advertising, distribution license fees, and small transaction payments. Moxian’s NASDAQ listing opened in November 2016, and future offerings are expected to include common shares, senior debt, debt securities, warrants, and, potentially, various other securities.

Now that its paid platforms can reach iPhone and Android mobile users in business and consumer markets across China, Moxian anticipates continued growth and expansion. The company can now reach a consumer base of 1.3 billion users and growing. In addition, the Shenzhen-based organization has expanded to Beijing and is expected to have over 100 commissioned executive sales personnel by year’s end.

For more information, visit www.Moxian.com

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through its eXp Realty subsidiary, is not just adding new real estate agents; it is attracting high-volume agent/brokers including two from The Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 List, according to Glenn Sanford, chairman, CEO and founder of the company. Presenting at the MicroCap Conference in New York earlier this month, Sanford said that a number of large real estate markets remain open to the agent-owned and cloud-based online real estate agency — such as New York and Connecticut. The company can grow more than geographically, because it projects possible areas of expansion such as mortgage origination, title and escrow services, and homeowners insurance, he said.

eXp World Holdings is the holding company for eXp Realty LLC and eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. It is an agent-owned, cloud-based brokerage that is unique in that it offers its agents a chance to earn company stock through performance, as well as to receive a percentage of gross commissions earned by other agents that they bring into EXPI. It has surpassed 3,000 agents and projects having 5,500-6,500 agents by the end of this year. The company’s features are designed to not only attract agents but also retain them. Three-year 100% equity vesting is an important retention tool, Sanford said.

The company maintains a non-traditional model of low costs due to its cloud-based campus versus brick-and-mortar offices. In addition to agent incentives in the form of company stock for performance plus shared commission payments, the company also offers special online educational classes as part of its immersive cloud-based platform campus. The combination of lower costs, high technology, stock incentives, and a percentage of recruited agent commissions, is highly desirous for agents, Sanford told investors.

The largest state EXPI currently serves in the U.S. is Texas — with some 800 eXp agents. However, in the tri-state market of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, the company still has much room to grow. That market remains a large opportunity for the company, and the high-dollar residential real estate markets of Connecticut, Manhattan, and Brooklyn are still largely open.

The firm sees a further doubling of its agent count by the end of this year, to between 5,500 and 6,500, Sanford said. EXPI is attracting younger and, in some cases, higher volume agents. He added that its three-year vesting program appeals to agents and has also proven important in retaining them. Few would want to leave the company before fully vesting and losing that equity, he noted.

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

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An increasing market value and lucrative assets are making Bollente Companies, Inc. (OTCQB: BOLC) appealing to potential investors. The shares bought over the past couple of years show that investors are taking notice of Bollente as it continues to partner with entrepreneurs and take on opportunities to grow its business and market presence.

Over the past several years, the company has worked to successfully develop an advanced consumer product with worldwide potential – a next-generation technology tankless electric water heater with major advances over other tankless systems, gas or electric, on the market. A diverse portfolio of companies has already opted for Bollente’s trutankless® system, including Cullum Homes, which has recently added the smart electric tankless water heaters in its properties – The Village at Mountain Shadows in Paradise Valley, Arizona, along with The Village at Silverleaf, located in North Scottsdale, Arizona. After extensive research and engineering, Bollente Companies officially launched the water heater line in 2014 and has been granted 32 patent claims on the technology, with several new ones on the way. The company’s trutankless® line is now the subject of demand among builders and remodelers.

The company’s recent press release regarding Cullum Homes (http://dtn.fm/ImM08) included awards its advanced tankless water heater system has already received. The system has been honored by Arizona Forward’s Environmental Excellence Awards with the Governor’s Award of Merit for Energy and Technology Innovation. It was also named a Hot Product in Green Builder Magazine, and it received a silver award in the Appliance Design Excellence in Design contest. Earlier, it had been named “Best Home Technology Product” at the 2014 IBS show.

Developing product sales aren’t the only thing going for Bollente and its investors. A customized marketing program launched in 2015 (aimed at trutankless® installation partners) has boosted sales and introduced a proprietary app that notifies installers of sales opportunities via text message. The program includes training opportunities and a partnership with bluemedia, a signage provider, enabling installers to order branded vehicle wraps for their service fleets.

A recent report (http://dtn.fm/Jww5N) announced hundreds of electric tankless water heaters will be installed in senior living townhomes at Friendship Village in Tempe, Arizona, by 2018. The product is supporting the community’s continuing expansion. Another appeal to investors is the product’s energy efficiency, as these water heaters produce hot water at consistent temperatures, despite variations in incoming water temperature, to within one degree. They also provide the advantages of home automation, remote control, freeze protection, dry-fire defense, leak detection, and smart grid capabilities.

Globally, tankless water heater sales generated an estimated revenue of nearly $17 billion, according to Persistence Market Research (http://dtn.fm/wPaw5), and they are projected to exceed well over $25 billion by 2024. This market segment represents just a small part of the global green building sector, which is currently outpacing overall U.S. construction growth and continues to double in size every three years. Smart appliances, including IoT devices in the home, represent a market valued at nearly $47 billion in 2015 that’s expected to grow to almost $122 billion by 2022 (per a MarketandMarkets forecast, http://dtn.fm/rtV6e). The growth in the number of senior living communities over the next 10 years represents a market opportunity for tankless water heaters as well – as baby-boomers look to healthy living and energy saving solutions. Therefore, investors focused on growth, market value, and energy efficiency can find Bollente a company worth considering.

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

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India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IGC) intends to become a “first-mover” in developing cannabis-based combination therapies for large market conditions such as pain, eating disorders, refractory epilepsy, and seizures. In addition, IGC has filed two patents, IGC-502 and IGC-505, for combination therapies for the treatment of seizures in dogs and cats, which in it itself is a surprisingly large market.

It is believed that abnormal brain activity is the cause of most seizures in dogs and cats. These seizures can be either violent or subtle. Some seizures may occur just once, but others can be repeated and require treatment before affecting larger parts of the brain.

The pet market is large and growing. According to research by the American Pet Products Association (http://dtn.fm/iiO30), the market in 2017 is expected to reach $16.62 billion for veterinary care and $14.93 billion for supplies and over-the-counter medicine. By far, dogs and cats are the most popular pets. In a 2017 survey by National Pet Owners, 60.2 million American households owned a dog and 47.1 million households owned a cat.

While some of this research may also be beneficial for treating humans, it reflects IGC’s targeting of the larger veterinary market. In dogs, primary epilepsy — or idiopathic epilepsy — occurs in about 5% of the canine population (http://dtn.fm/pRtJ3), most often in dogs between the ages of six months and six years. In cats, seizures are much less common, occurring in only 0.5-1.0% of the population. Most are intracranial, stemming from the brain, and are epileptic in nature.

Hemp-based products for dogs, especially for older and pain-ridden dogs, are in a gray market. However, the market potential is great (http://dtn.fm/b1DMo), because it sits at the current intersection of medical pharmaceutical marijuana and pet care. Veterinarians acknowledge that legal restrictions currently impede distribution of these products in the U.S., but advances in legalization of medical marijuana may be helpful in changing the environment. For now, IGC is researching the potential of cannabis-based treatments in the pet market and developing products as this potentially represents a significant future opportunity.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.IGCinc.us

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The global wound care market recently reached revenues of more than $20 billion (http://dtn.fm/W1wjB) at the end of 2016, based on sales at the manufacturer’s level. Specifically, the burn care market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.8% from $1.68 billion in 2016 to more than $2.33 billion by the end of 2021 (http://dtn.fm/I6abR). The growth in these markets has been largely attributed to factors such as the rising number of burn accidents, an aging population, and the rise in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, and other diseases that can cause skin-related problems.

Currently, wound care ranges from anti-infectives, ulcer wound management, moist dressings, and negative pressure wound therapy to wound closure and even conventional skin grafts. These treatments can be extremely painful, slow-to-heal, and are more likely to face complications along the way. Today, more is being done to help patients suffering from skin problems, some of which include a rise in health care expenditure, more government initiatives, an increase in the number of emergency centers and burn units, and a growing understanding of the various treatment options.

In addition, more innovative forms of treatment are slowly being introduced. RenovaCare, Inc. (OTCQB: RCAR), a development stage biotechnology company focused on acquiring, researching, developing, and commercializing first-of-their-kind self-donated stem cell therapies for the regeneration of human organs, is in the process of developing a product that targets issues relating to the human body’s largest organ, the skin.

The company’s CellMist™ system uses a patient’s own stem cells and is applied onto wounds and burns using its SkinGun™. The technology is able to regrow the skin across wounds by spreading numerous regenerative islands over the affected area, rather than the wound healing from the outside in. Although still part of an experimental setting, the system has been tested on patients such as Matt Uram, a victim of a fire-related accident during a July fourth celebration, who, within three days witnessed incredible results, with burns almost completely healed and no risk of infection or scarring (http://dtn.fm/uXAR5).

RenovaCare believes the SkinGun™ could replace today’s standards of care, decreasing the need for patients to go through the process of having complicated skin grafts, mesh skin grafts, and other forms of painful treatment.

The company is aiming to get the SkinGun™ FDA-approved in the near future, and research is already underway at RenovaCare to enable the treatment of third degree burns, which are more complex in nature and often come with damage to the muscles and tissue below the skin.

For more information, visit www.RenovaCareInc.com

In the first few months of 2017, MGX Minerals, Inc. (OTC: MGXMF) announced a cheaper lithium extraction process (http://dtn.fm/5xqMc) that yielded 1600mg/L of lithium and also recovered potentially saleable by-products of magnesium, boron and potassium.

The market for lithium-ion batteries is expected to grow in value to $46.21 billion annually within the next five years thanks to growing demand from electric car manufacturers such as Tesla, Nissan and BAIC Motor.

Thanks to its unique characteristics, lithium provides the most energy per weight or volume, so batteries can be made smaller and more efficient. The demand is growing rapidly, and Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) and Macquarie Research predict growth rates between 60 and 250 percent in the next few years alone.

Electric cars and consumer products utilizing lithium-ion batteries are not the only reason for lithium’s explosive growth prospects. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are also becoming increasingly reliant on lithium-ion battery storage. Without the ability to store clean energy for on-demand delivery to the grid, renewable sources will remain unable to compete with fossil fuel sources.

The increasing demand suggests increased pressure on suppliers, who have been slow to respond with opening up new supply chains. According to a Bloomberg press release (http://dtn.fm/3GtkQ) that quoted the world’s largest lithium producer, Albemarle Corp. (NYSE: ALB), lithium carbonate prices spiked in China from $4,000 in 2014 to over $20,000 per metric ton in 2016.

A lithium mining boom is currently underway. Many companies exploring for lithium have set their sights on Clayton Valley, Nevada, which is home to the only lithium-producing mine in North America. Clayton Valley is attractive, because lithium can be extracted from brine aquifers, rather than high cost hard rock mining. The brine is evaporated in large settling ponds in a process that can take 18-24 months. The low grades at Clayton Valley are offset by large quantities and low costs of the evaporation technique.

MGX, however, has banked on decreasing the evaporation timeline to less than one day. Its patent-pending PetroLithium™ methodology separates valuable minerals from salt water (brine) that accompanies oil and gas production. Until now, petroleum brine has been discarded as a waste product, but MGX is working to develop technology that will extract lithium and other valuable minerals in less than one day while also cleaning the wastewater brine and making it safe for the environment.

In early March, MGX reported that it had concentrated 20 times more lithium than was concentrated through earlier extraction methods (http://dtn.fm/gY6tB), while contaminants were removed using less energy. The company has expanded its mining operations from Alberta into the Lisbon Valley oil and gas field located in the Paradox basin, near Moab, Utah. MGX has also signed an agreement to earn a 50 percent interest in the Paradox Basin Lithium Brine Property, thanks to a recently announce joint-venture with Scientific Metals Corp.

In total, MGX has built a lithium portfolio spanning over 175 million acres, or 2,400 square miles, throughout North America. At current prices, it’s estimated that there could be $18 billion worth of lithium to be mined. The pace appears to be picking up for MGX and lithium mining in general.

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

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Recent studies undertaken by PWC (http://dtn.fm/dD48p) show that excellent training and development programs are key factors that make an attractive employer, next to opportunities for career progression and financial incentives. The economic landscape in the U.S. is changing, and people are putting more thought into the skills and training they need to succeed in their workplaces.

A Pew Research Center survey (http://dtn.fm/w6J2m) showed that the majority of employees see ongoing training as a very important factor for a successful career. This belief has, in some ways, been confirmed, as a Pew Research Center analysis of government jobs data showed that employment has been rising in professions where more training, education, and experience are required.

The research center also highlighted that “The number of workers in occupations requiring average to above-average education, training and experience increased from 49 million in 1980 to 83 million in 2015, or by 68%. This was more than double the 31% increase over the same period in employment, from 50 million to 65 million, in jobs requiring below-average education, training and experience.”

An article from ERC (http://dtn.fm/k5jMW) highlights the top 7 trends in employee training and development for 2016, two of which were the continued growth of employee training and the fact that companies that perform better also spend more on training their teams. ProBility Media Corp. (OTCQB: PBYA) recognizes the gap in the training and certification market and is disrupting it by building the first full-service training and career advancement brand specifically for the skilled trades.

ProBility Media Corp. is a provider of training and education content to customers in the skilled trades industries. Historically, high quality training has only been available to enterprise-level companies, however, PBYA offers them to everyone, from trades people to small businesses and enterprise level corporations. PBYA offers consistent, high-quality online training to individuals, from high school graduation to career placement, and it is preparing the workforce for excellence.

ProBility Media offers its services through multiple divisions, including Brown Technical Media Corp., Brown Technical Publications Inc., 1 Exam Prep LLC, Brown Book Shop, and National Electrical Wholesale. Currently, ProBility is working under a disruptive strategy, acquiring other companies that fit into its sector in order to create synergies that will organically grow its revenue and allow it to provide the best set of educational and training content to all of its clients.

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

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ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX) attended the ‘Invest 2017’ exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany, on April 7-8, 2017, anticipating that the conference would be an opportunity for CIIX to introduce its hemp companies and products to German investors, but CIIX is not alone in seeing the growth opportunities for medical cannabis in that market. CIIX operates a website for Chinese-speaking investors. It has also opened, in the Shanghai Free Trade Area, a store that distributes CBD health oil products to the global Chinese-speaking population.

Germany permits the use of medical marijuana, and it recently further loosened its regulations. Earlier this year, the country legalized medical cannabis, but it has tightly limited its prescriptions to individuals with illnesses such as chronic pain, nausea related to cancer treatments, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy.

Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) has established a special marijuana agency to control the distribution of medical marijuana. The agency will oversee the cultivation and distribution of marijuana in that country. Berlin plans to have its own program by 2019 to grow cannabis at home, and the German government will solicit bids from EU countries to operate the cultivation process. Germany says it will work to ensure that only pharmaceutical grade hemp should reach patients, as noted by Lutz Stroppe, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health.

CIIX sees an opportunity to participate in the German market, and it is also targeting expansion within China and throughout North America and Asia. The ‘Invest 2017’ conference was a chance to showcase the company’s hemp-based product line to the German financial community.

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

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MGX Minerals, Inc. (OTC: MGXMF) (CSE: XMG) (FRA: 1MG) may not be spinning straw into gold the way Rumpelstiltskin did, but it’s coming close with a novel technology that promises to produce ‘white gold’, or lithium from petroleum production brine. Its PetroLithium™ technology extracts lithium carbonate from the salt water that accompanies crude oil as it is pumped to the surface. Lithium carbonate represents a major source of lithium used extensively in batteries for electronic devices, and demand for the mineral is set to expand as sales of electric cars increase.

MGX has acquired working interests in over 1.7 million acres of lithium-bearing brine formations throughout North America. This includes massive land positions throughout the Province of Alberta, as well as the Paradox Basin in Utah. In Utah, the company has acquired a dominate land position in the Paradox Basin, where historic wells reported lithium values as high as 730ppm lithium. The company just announced plans to consolidate oil and gas rights within its Lisbon Valley project and permit the petrolithium #1 borehole well.

Lithium first came into use as a medicinal aid in the middle of the nineteenth century. Lithium carbonate was prescribed to dissolve stones in the bladder, while other lithium salts were recommended for use against gout, rheumatism and depression. Lithium carbonate has been used extensively to treat mania associated with bipolar disorder. However, in 1991, after Sony commercialized the lithium-ion battery, the future of lithium was redefined.

Now, the metal has become so lucrative that it’s being touted as ‘white gold’. Lithium carbonate, from which it is isolated, is a white crystalline powder. Its rising value is buoyed by rapidly growing global demand for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used to power mobile electronic devices and, increasingly, electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S. All told, the global lithium-ion battery market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 10.8% and reach $46.21 billion by 2022, according to Allied Market Research (http://dtn.fm/Jjl8r).

At present, though, as a supplier of lithium, the U.S. looks likely to be left out. Global production of lithium comes mainly from Australia (36%) and Chile (36%), with supplies from China (14%), Argentina (8%), Zimbabwe (3%), Portugal (2%) and Brazil (1%) making up the balance, according to data provided by Australian mining company Dakota Minerals (http://dtn.fm/M4djJ). Notably, the U.S. is absent from that list. The only viable U.S. lithium operation is the Silver Peak mine owned by chemical giant Albemarle in Clayton Valley, Nevada. The dearth of domestic lithium mining operations, consequently, presents a great opportunity for MGX.

MGX’s patent-pending PetroLithium™ technology, being developed in collaboration with PurLucid Treatment Solutions (http://dtn.fm/B83d8), extracts lithium carbonate from the brine associated with petroleum deposits while also treating the resulting wastewater for reuse as clean water.

Much of the petroleum and natural gas found in the U.S. was created in the Earth’s crust at the site of ancient seas by the decay of sea life. As a result, these shale, petroleum and gas deposits often occur in aquifers containing brine (salt water).

The company recently reported a major advancement in the development of its filtration and extraction technology (http://dtn.fm/YZlI9) after PurLucid successfully upgraded petrolithium brine from one of the company’s largest assets – the Sturgeon Lake Petro Lithium Project in Alberta, Canada (http://dtn.fm/nT6Tv). By using a new design process that concentrates lithium while removing contaminants, PurLucid was able to upgrade brine from a concentration of 67mg/L Li to 1600mg/L Li during the filtration and pre-treatment stage of the extraction process.

Extracting lithium from petroleum brine is also faster and less costly than conventional methods, like the solar evaporation used at Silver Peak by Albemarle. In the recovery process specifically designed for the highly-mineralized brine associated with petroleum, lithium brine evaporation times are expected to fall to less than one day, while traditional solar evaporation techniques take up to 18 months. This is technology that could revolutionize the energy sector.

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

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Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC), on March 17, 2017, filed a form S-3 with the SEC (http://nnw.fm/wgv8G), using a ‘shelf’ registration process, for its securities, with an aggregate initial offering price of up to $50 million. These future offerings could be made from time to time, in one or more offerings. Moxian is in the O2O business in China, providing an online platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with brick-and-mortar stores to compete online, interact with existing customers, and obtain new customers. At the same time, it offers an app to consumer users.

Moxian is a high technology firm which is transitioning away from non-paid beta platforms to paid Moxian+ for its 31,600 SME clients. It will offer them a comprehensive suite of paid online services. The company will also offer its 300,000+ consumer base the Moxian+ User app. Moxian’s revenue streams come from premium subscription services, 3-5% payments on transactions through its platform, mobile advertising and distribution license fees. The company is based in Shenzhen, China, and it is expanding into Shanghai and Guangzhou.

In November 2016, the company was uplisted to NASDAQ after raising $8.5 million net in a public equity offering. Future offerings described in the SEC S-3 filing can involve any combination of securities, including Moxian common shares, senior debt, subordinated debt, warrants, debt securities, or other securities. No new offering is effective yet.

Moxian intends to use the proceeds from these future offerings for general corporate purposes. The precise use would be determined at a future date, based upon funding requirements and the cost of capital, and they would be detailed in a future prospectus supplement for a specific offering, the company said.

For more information, visit www.Moxian.com