The global payments landscape has changed significantly over the past decade. The ongoing digital and technological revolution and the entry of a variety of payment solution companies, both banking and nonbanking, combined with customers who simply expect more, has led to issues with many currently available online payment solutions.

Despite the excitement of new payment technologies, there are still a number of unique challenges the industry faces, leading to substantial negative impacts on world businesses. Some of the most prominent, ongoing, and online-specific payment challenges out there include fraud, a higher demand for more payment features, the need for further international online payments, systems integration, and an increase in compliance issues, among others.

Fortunately, businesses are increasingly being given the chance to work with payment solution companies that specialize in online payments specifically, and who have incorporated technological solutions that directly tackle the above issues. This is where Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) comes in. NETE is a technology-driven group that specializes in mobile payments and value-added transactional services, including online payment solutions.

Through subsidiary PayOnline, the company is able to offer reliable payment solutions for e-commerce businesses around the world while also ensuring that these platforms can be integrated with existing technologies, are customized for both website and mobile applications, and are safe. The company’s online payment solution systems allow enterprises to minimize risks for all types of fraud typically associated with e-commerce.

Aside from its ability to keep its clients safe, Net Element, Inc. has been at the forefront of innovation within the online payment solutions industry, allowing customers to make payments through MasterPass for the first time. To offer the best service it can, NETE’s PayOnline teams stay current with changing compliance regulations by attending regular professional certification programs.

The company’s key corporate values are quality and innovation, a customer-centric way of operating, a high level of responsibility for the results they provide, plus respectful and positive relationships throughout teams and with customers. The company’s software-as-a-service solutions and payment processing platform comply with all Level 1 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.

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

Despite many real estate firms having environmental policies, sustainability targets, and clear commitments and strategies to lower their carbon emissions, the real estate sector still uses more energy than any other sector. This is according to the ‘Environmental sustainability Principles for the Real Estate Industry’ report published by World Economic Forum (http://dtn.fm/Rb5J2), which views real estate as the operational life of the final buildings and not just what’s involved in their initial construction. In other words, how “green” are our buildings?

According to the report, not only are buildings the source of the most energy consumption, they are, understandably, also a growing contributor to CO2 emissions. In fact, real estate consumes over 40% of global energy every year. In addition, 20% of greenhouse gas emissions originate from buildings, a number that’s expected to increase 56% by the year 2030. The report continues to explain that, by 2030, buildings are expected to use up to 12% of the world’s fresh water.

However, although a large proportion of the world’s real estate already existed before eco-friendly policies were put in place, progress is being made toward “greener” real estate. The number of “green” commercial builds increased to between 40% and 48% in 2016, up from only 2% in 2005. Additionally, regulations are now in place to ensure that businesses work toward sustainability performance.

In support of these efforts, companies such as eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI) are completely changing the way the real estate industry itself functions. Gone are the days during which agents and brokers were expected to work in a brick and mortar office. EXPI has not only cut unnecessary expenses and built an agent-owned, cloud-based real estate brokerage that operates without the need for offices, utility bills, insurance, furnishings, and redundant staffing costs, the company has correspondingly cut its direct CO2 emissions.

Aside from the financial benefits of operating in the cloud, EXPI provides an extremely sound template for a more sustainable way of operating a real estate brokerage on all levels. The company works on the basis that its most valuable asset is the group of agents and brokers who are part of it. And, with no physical constrictions, eXp World Holdings, Inc. can focus its efforts on these assets while providing smart solutions to the climate concerns that the world is now facing, further championing sustainability across the entire real estate industry.

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The recent nomination of U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as attorney general has the marijuana industry worried, as Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana and has talked about enforcing federal laws to crack down on the marijuana market, even in states where the substance is legal. The Republican Senator has repeatedly spoken out against marijuana and has been a staunch opponent of it for decades. At a Senate hearing last year, he was even quoted as saying, “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.”

There are fears that, if Sessions takes office, he will come down hard on the business by enforcing federal laws that still qualify marijuana as an illegal Schedule I drug, despite the fact that a total of 28 states currently allow medical marijuana use and eight of them also permit recreational adult use. It remains to be seen if Sessions will be given a green-light to pursue his anti-marijuana agenda or if President-elect Donald Trump, who is generally in favor of maintaining states’ rights and has spoken in favor of the marijuana industry before, will be able to convince the new Attorney General to his way of thinking.

Many in the industry are pinning their hopes on Trump, expecting the new administration to make good on its promise that it would respect states’ rights. Singlepoint, Inc. (OTC: SING), a leading provider of mobile technology and payment solutions serving various industries, including the marijuana industry via subsidiary SingleSeed, is hoping the Trump administration will support the legal cannabis industry, as the president-elect has vowed to do during his campaign for office. Presidential backing would come at a crucial moment for the industry, among a congressional push for banking reform to allow legal marijuana businesses and related businesses access to financial services.

The proposal was made by a group of 10 prominent lawmakers, in an open letter to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, asking the institution to issue clear guidance on this situation that would make it easier for the industry to access banking services. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s latest guidelines on the matter were issues in 2014, and, since then, less than three percent of the almost 12,000 federally-regulated credit unions and banks have offered their services to the marijuana industry. In the absence of federal banking support, it is up to private companies such as SingleSeed to provide financial services and payment processing options to the market. This means, however, that the industry is currently forced to largely work with cash only, which leads to an increased safety risk to the businesses and their customers, the letter notes. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said it would review the letter but made no other comments on the issue.

Industry vendors and service providers such as SingleSeed are optimistic about the initiative, as well as the president-elect’s support, given the significant revenue that marijuana could bring to states’ budgets by being properly regulated and taxed. In many states where the substance is legal, a great portion of tax revenue is used to finance schools and substance addition programs. If the new administration does decide to crack down on the regulated marijuana industry, this will take away millions of dollars from such programs; shut down hundreds of small businesses ranging from cultivators and processors to manufacturers, testers and vendors; and will, ultimately, destroy tens of thousands of jobs, industry supporters say.

One of the first merchant service providers in the marijuana industry, Singlepoint’s subsidiary SingleSeed recently awoke from a quiet period, prompted by the unprecedented growth of the industry. The company’s main goal is to help legitimize the industry by assisting retail or medical cannabis providers grow their businesses safely and securely via state-of-the-art non-cash payment solutions and mobile marketing tools.

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Construction and demolition (C&D) debris occupies a significant portion of the entire waste stream in the United States, and improper disposal or failure to reuse or recycle this type of waste can have a major impact on the environment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (http://dtn.fm/7kyMX), C&D waste amounted to more than 530 million tons in 2014, which was twice as much as the amount of solid municipal waste generated nationwide. Most of this debris (over 90 percent) came from demolition works, while the rest came from construction projects. The largest sector that generated C&D waste was non-residential demolition, followed by residential renovation, the EPA figures show.

Typically consisting of bulky, heavy materials such as wood products, steel, drywall, plaster, bricks and clay tiles, concrete and asphalt and even building components, C&D waste is more difficult to handle, so proper disposal and/or recycling often requires an extra effort on behalf of the contractor or beneficiary of the construction project. Most C&D debris ends up in a landfill, and that is considered the end of its lifecycle. However, due to the EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management approach, a growing volume of construction and demolition waste is now being recovered and recycled, thus reducing the need to mine for virgin materials.

Florida-based National Waste Management Holdings, Inc. (OTC: NWMH), a professional waste management operator offering a comprehensive suite of relevant services, is committed to recycling as much C&D waste as possible from all of its services, primarily from its 54-acre landfill located in Hernando, Florida. The landfill is authorized by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and disposes of roughly 240,000 cubic yards of C&D waste every year.

With a strong dedication to Department of Environmental Protection standards and to the Sustainable Materials Management approach, National Waste Management Holdings focuses on reducing the volume of excessive waste by recycling several C&D materials. For this purpose, it has transformed its entire line of services to focus on recycling and has plans to set up a portable waste sorting line at its landfill this year, so as to increase recyclable rates. The company receives a wide range of approved C&D waste at its landfill, including asphalt; brick; drywall and plaster; lumber and wood; pallets; dirt, sand and uncontaminated soil; roofing materials; glass; metal materials; non-asbestos insulation; electrical wiring and components; and more.

In its efforts to further reduce the environmental impact of C&D debris, National Waste Management Holdings has already found a great use for the wood debris collected through its landfill and transfer stations: it manufactures and sells its own line of proprietary mulch, a high-quality product already used to help beautify homes and commercial properties throughout west and central Florida. The mulch is made entirely of recycled wood and is available either in natural color or red dyed.

According to the EPA, reducing the amount of C&D debris disposed of in landfills can have significant economic and environmental benefits, such as preserving landfill space; having fewer disposal facilities, which can lower methane gas emissions and other associated environmental issues; reducing the negative environmental impact associated with the extraction and production of virgin construction materials; adding new economic and employment opportunities in the recycling industry; and creating additional business opportunities for local communities.

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

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Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) has purchased complete ownership of its European subsidiary from Dansk Industri Invest A/S for what it termed a “nominal value”. The subsidiary is now named Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S.

With that name change, the subsidiary will now use the Ballard brand, such as visual identity and logo, and will play an expanded role in supporting all of Ballard’s activities in Europe. The transaction will enable the company to not only acquire all the shares of the company, but also cancel the debt owed by the parent company to Dansk Industri. Prior to this, Ballard held 57% of the shares of the subsidiary, while Dansk Industri held the other 43%.

Ballard is a clean power company that specializes in fuel cell stack development (proton exchange membrane), fuel processing and systems integration. Ballard is considered one of the key vendors in the global fuel cell market. The company has announced that its fuel cells, branded as FCveloCity®, are in engines used in 80 buses internationally in Europe, China, the United States, Brazil, and India. Ballard is currently focused on expanding within the countries in which it is already operating, as well as adding to the list of countries using its fuel cell engines. Other transportation systems also use the technology, such as light rail.

The acquisition of the subsidiary closed on January 5, 2017. In a news release, Tony Guglielmin, CFO of Ballard Power Systems and chairman of Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S, said the company began the takeover process two years ago. “Europe is a critically important market for Ballard and we have taken important steps to strengthen our sales, engineering and service capabilities to support expected market growth,” he noted. About 50 employees work at the European subsidiary based in Hobro, Denmark. Ballard’s headquarters are located in Burnaby, British Columbia, in Canada.

Randy MacEwen, Ballard president and CEO, also said that the company achieved 10 million cumulative kilometers (6.2 million miles) worldwide with vehicles powered by its fuel cell motors. “We are moving beyond technical validation into commercial scaling at a time where market demand is at a breakthrough inflection point,” he said. “The cumulative learning by Ballard during our unparalleled field experience serves as a major competitive differentiator.” The company said it is seeing increased market demand for its fuel cell engines.

Ballard Power recently reported its third quarter results, with revenues for the three-month period ended September 30, 2016, totaling $20.6 million, compared to $16.0 million for the same period of the prior year. For the nine months ended September 30, 2016, revenues were $54.6 million, versus $36.5 million the prior year. Shares of Ballard were trading at $1.91 on the Nasdaq Global Market as of January 17, 2017.

Last month, Ballard announced that its stock ticker symbol on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) had been changed to BLDP. The result is that the company now has the same ticker symbol on both the Nasdaq and TSX.

Ballard was named one of the nation’s Top 20 innovative public technology companies by the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX).

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Leading health care information technology company Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP) this morning issued a news release recapping its corporate accomplishments for 2016, as well as its objectives for the coming months. Among last year’s highlights, MTBC continued to employ a tactical acquisition-based growth strategy, added important new clients in major markets across the country, recorded strong financial results and earned numerous prestigious accolades for its innovative health care information technology solutions.

In an effort to rapidly expand its client base, MTBC completed four vital acquisitions in 2016, including the purchase of Texas-based medical billing company MediGain, LLC. Completed in October, the MediGain acquisition marked MTBC’s largest acquisition to date. The company’s management team forecasts that incremental profits from this transaction will significantly exceed the cost of capital, with the MediGain transaction expected to be accretive to MTBC shareholders during fiscal 2017.

MTBC’s 2016 growth strategy wasn’t limited to acquisitions, however. The company also recorded strong organic growth, adding an impressive 76 new clients over the course of the year, including 35 new clients in the fourth quarter alone. When fully deployed, MTBC’s fourth quarter client additions are expected to generate more than $1 million of annual revenue, which would mark a record quarter in terms of sales activity for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Notably, MTBC also made efforts to reward its most loyal customers through the introduction of a unique Client Loyalty Program. Through this first-of-its-kind program, the company aims to recognize all the physicians, practices and health organizations who contribute to MTBC’s sustained success.

“We greatly value our clients and their support of our corporate endeavors to facilitate affordable, quality healthcare,” Stephen Snyder, president of MTBC, added in this morning’s update. “We are the first healthcare IT company to offer a loyalty program of this nature, and the positive feedback we have received thus far validates client confidence in our model, services and company.”

These initiatives, in addition to the introduction of a number of new products to the market and strategic efforts to reduce overall general and administrative expenditures, helped MTBC build on its recent fiscal performance throughout 2016. The company reported four consecutive quarters of positive Adjusted EBITDA from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the third quarter of 2016, and Chief Financial Officer Bill Korn notes that MTBC is strategically positioned to “continue this growth trend” in 2017.

Looking forward, MTBC has set a number of objectives for the coming months designed to build on its momentum from 2016. These include the launch of inventive, disruptive products that will help its clients navigate the ever-changing federal health care requirements. A few of the products that are already set for launch in the first quarter include “a comprehensive Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) analytics platform; a reinvented new Electronic Health Record platform; and a solution to efficiently and effectively manage and maintain enrollments for carriers, benefit administrators and groups.”

“We had several impactful and defining achievements in 2016, and we expect to maintain this pace in the upcoming year,” concluded Snyder. “We will continue investing in new product developments that are expected to be accretive to shareholders in 2017 and years to come, and our company looks forward to building on the success we have created.”

For more information, visit www.MTBC.com

Although 28 states have already legalized marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to label marijuana a Schedule 1 substance, along with heroin and LSD, making it illegal on a federal level. As a result, the banking industry has been slow to provide services to marijuana businesses, forcing many of these companies to operate on a cash-only basis. A “bankable” marijuana industry, however, would have widespread implications, including for companies like Singlepoint, Inc. (OTC: SING), Terra Tech Corp. (OTCQX: TRTC), OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. (OTCQB: OWCP), ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX).

Cash transaction businesses are a tempting target for thieves, and the lack of oversight at times leads to lost tax revenue. It’s a situation that Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, is anxious to change. As the Associated Press initially reported, Warren and nine other senators have called upon the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to issue new and stronger guidance allowing banks to provide services to marijuana shop vendors. The moves are a significant encouragement to payment processors supporting the cannabis industry, as well as other industry players.

One of the supporters is Singlepoint, Inc. (OTC: SING), a mobile technology and payments provider, which, through its “SingleSeed” Payments subsidiary, provides payment solutions for the cannabis industry. Its mobile marketing and payment solutions include cashless ATM, Pay-by-Text™ and text message marketing. The company is strongly encouraged by the efforts of Senator Warren and others on Capitol Hill, and the significant positive changes they could bring.

Another company that stands to gain with this new market opportunity is ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (CIIX). ChineseInvestors.com, a company that provides investor information to the global Chinese community, and also offers a unique link to this community for growing businesses. The company recently announced plans to launch the “world’s first Cannabidiol (CBD) health products online store in the Chinese language,” through an agreement with a “well-known” CBD health brand.

Other cannabis-related companies in line to benefit from mounting support of a bankable marijuana industry include Terra Tech Corp. (TRTC). Through its subsidiaries, Terra Tech provides a range of hydroponic equipment for indoor cultivation of cannabis products. In addition, the company sells hydroponic cannabis produce and associated products. Another is OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. (OWCP), an Israeli company that develops cannabis products for the treatment of diseases, also offering consulting services in the industry.

Previous guidance efforts by the U.S. Department of the Treasury gave banks only limited permission to work with legal marijuana businesses. Along with the DEA’s Schedule 1 listing, it has created a significant gap between state and federal treatment of marijuana. Even though the number of financial institutions willing to provide services to marijuana businesses has grown significantly in recent years, only a small percentage currently serve the industry. It’s still an area dominated by small state-chartered banks and credit unions.

Supporters however see an inevitable day, through efforts such as those now being led by Senator Warren, when large national banks like Wells Fargo offer comprehensive services to the cannabis industry, further spurring already rapid industry growth.

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HIV/AIDS may not be as much in the news as it was back in the 1980s, but the disease has not gone away. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://nnw.fm/7yEVU), it still affects ‘more than 1.2 million people in the US… and 1 in 8 of them don’t know it’.

Although, perennially lumped together, HIV and AIDS are not synonymous. Not all those infected with HIV (HIV positive) have AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), which is the final stage of HIV infection. The goal of antiretroviral therapy or ART has been to stop that progression. And that is what PRO 140 from CytoDyn Inc. (OTCQB: CYDY) hopes to do. By minimizing the HIV viral load, PRO 140 could prevent HIV from turning into AIDS.

Viral load (VL), the number of virus (HIV) particles per milliliter of blood, is an important biomarker in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The lower the viral load, the less chance there is that an HIV-infected person will develop AIDS. And although, a viral load of less than 200 copies per milliliter of blood is considered a low level of viral suppression, the therapeutic goal is an ‘undetectable’ VL of 50 or less.

Viral load also affects HIV transmission. The greater the viral load, the greater the risk of transmitting the virus. However, effective antiretroviral therapy can reduce viral load (VL) considerably and thus the transmission of HIV by more than 96 percent. A VL of less than 40 copies per milliliter of blood reduces the transmission rate practically to zero.

For some of those who, like Charlie Sheen, are participating in the current Phase III clinical trials for PRO 140, this level of viral load has already been achieved. A December story in the U.K. Daily Mail (http://nnw.fm/l0Kn9) quoted the actor as saying he had been able to achieve an undetectable viral load by taking PRO 140.

Sheen, who disclosed in late 2015 that he had tested HIV positive some four years earlier, has been part of the PRO 140 trials for about nine months.

He waxed eloquently on an ABC News (http://nnw.fm/rSx4d) interview about the hope brought into his life by using PRO 140: “I can feel the future with this thing and it’s much bigger and more important than I am”. The 51-year-old actor says he feels like he is carrying the torch for fellow sufferers of HIV/AIDS. Adding, “We are very close to being approved”.

Last Wednesday, CytoDyn announced (http://nnw.fm/ETlo9) it had filed a request with the FDA for Breakthrough Therapy Designation for PRO 140 as a treatment for HIV-1 infection in treatment-experienced patients with virologic failure. The company believes PRO 140 will be useful in caring for ‘heavily treatment-experienced HIV patients’ who have developed drug resistance to their current treatments. In contrast to the current highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which is typically a ‘cocktail’ of drugs, PRO 140 works alone.

The ongoing clinical trials have yielded promising results. For approximately 24 months, enrolled patients showed no drug resistance and viral load suppression was maintained for the same period. There was no impact on the immune function nor were there any serious adverse events. Additionally, to date, there have been no serious side effects in the over 200 patients.

CytoDyn management is, understandably, excited at the progress. Dr. Nader Pourhassan, CytoDyn’s President and CEO, has said,

“We believe PRO 140 has demonstrated its value as a combination therapy and as a single agent in patients with the R5 strain of HIV and are hopeful that receiving Breakthrough Therapy Designation will speed our BLA (biologic license application) process to get this product to the market.”

The U.S. market size for HIV therapies is estimated at around $15 billion.

For more information, visit www.Cytodyn.com

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is positioning itself as a leader in China’s O2O services market as the sector enjoys a 20% surge in year-over-year growth. iResearch Consulting Group, in its ‘2015 China Online-to-Offline (O2O) Services Model Research Report’ published in January 2016 (www.iresearchchina.com), stated that the Chinese O2O market was on course to grow from $53.78 billion in 2015, to $68.71 billion in 2016. The report also forecast growth of 20% year-over-year through 2018 to more than $90 billion (http://nnw.fm/Jyj1C).

The reason for the quick growth is a high level of usage of the online services sector. Tencent Penguin Intelligence’s ‘2015-2016 Report on the Year’s Internet Trends in China’ noted that online-to-offline services were purchased by more than three-quarters of Chinese internet users between 20-40 years of age. Women were responsible for more than half of the O2O purchases, such as food delivery services and travel bookings. The report also found that higher educated consumers used the services more often, with more than 80% of respondents who made an O2O purchase having a bachelor’s degree.

The growth of O2O in China might also be attributed to relatively low levels of auto ownership, as compared to the U.S. As a result, delivery services to the home are particularly attractive. The O2O sector represents a click-and-collect market of services that can be ordered online, then paid for at point-of-service, eMarketer reports.

According to an April 2016 report on Chinese digital consumers from McKinsey (http://nnw.fm/XhMG3), half of the digital consumers surveyed use social media to view products or get recommendations, and 31% of the WeChat consumers it surveyed actually made a purchase on that platform — double the figure from the year before. Impulse purchases are driven by social media, particularly in categories such as personal care and apparel. McKinsey also reported that O2O’s convenience and discount expectations were stimulating greater online spending in China.

In its survey of 3,100 online users in China, titled ‘How Savvy, Social Shoppers Are Transforming Chinese E-Commerce’, McKinsey found that the future of commerce and O2O service has tremendous potential. Future growth, it states, will be near term. Mobile devices are used to access the internet across China. McKinsey found that, after buying travel services from O2O vendors, 77% of consumers surveyed said their total spending on travel increased. Furthermore, 65% of consumers spent more after using other O2O services. They spent it on dining and increased mobility, the report stated. “This suggests that O2O services offering a unique value proposition could power additional growth in China’s online market over the years to come,” McKinsey analysts noted.

Finally, the report observed that vendors serving the rapidly expanding O2O markets have attracted huge sums of capital from investors as the next big thing in digital China. Moxian, Inc., did just that when it raised $10 million in new capital in 2016 through a public offering of its common stock. Moxian traded at $3.25 per share as of January 17, 2017.

The company’s headquarters are in Shenzhen, China, and it also has an office in Beijing. In addition, it reported to the SEC in its 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016, that it is expanding, with offices planned for Shanghai and Guangzhou. What Moxian says makes it unique is that it signs up merchants initially, then builds its user base from their customers.

For more information, visit www.Moxian.com

At one time there was a feeling that, in an age where virtually everything is connected and platforms such as Skype and Facetime make video conferencing easily accessible, traveling for business would no longer be necessary. However, according to Globetouch (http://dtn.fm/rsN9l), the Asia-Pacific region doubled its business travel output between 2005 and 2015, with these numbers expected to grow further during the coming years.

This has been attributed, in part, to the fact that more people are learning how to combine business travel with leisure, encouraging many to look upon business travel as a positive. According to ‘Predictions: The 8 Hot Travel Trends In 2017’ (http://dtn.fm/6Igkt), a WIT article, “30% of travelers said they would accept a lower paid job if it meant they could travel more for work.” It also states that “Of the 40% of global travelers who journeyed for business this year, 46% would travel even more for business in 2017.”

Businessmen and women are realizing that it is possible to combine work and pleasure, and opting to travel more for work makes the leisure opportunities more affordable. With many business travelers today being millennials, they expect a seamless travel experience, where they can see to their business affairs while incorporating some rest and relaxation into their trips. With the help of technology, this has been made possible.

Monaker Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MKGI), a technology driven travel company with a number of divisions and brands boasting more than 60 years of combined experience in the travel and leisure industry, provides an all-in-one platform through its flagship NextTrip.com planner, which makes planning work and leisure combination travel easy.

The NextTrip.com travel planner works with a range of mobile devices, and it allows those traveling for both business and pleasure to organize and plan a trip from start to finish. Including rental homes, hotels, timeshare resorts, airlines, tours, and car rentals, the travel planner makes the multitude of options clear to the user on one screen. In addition to the above, the planner gives users the chance to import all bookings onto one device; find attractions, restaurants, and bars in their desired locations; and maintain a level of financial organization, all for free.

For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com