Before the opening bell, Agora Holdings, Inc. (OTC: AGHI), parent company of Geegle Media, offered prospective shareholders an update on its current and future endeavors, including the recent launch of its FRAME social media management application, anticipated future developments related to the FRAME platform and additional projects that are currently underway. Notably, the company announced the availability of FRAME to the general public, building on its limited launch of the platform earlier this month. The app is currently available for download at Frame.ms and on the Android app marketplace, Google Play. Agora expects to release FRAME for iOS devices sometime next week.

“Thus far, 2016 has been a year of exponential growth and realization of core technologies,” Dan Terziev, chief executive officer of Geegle Media, stated in this morning’s news release. “With FRAME now available on the market, we will continue to develop the application, as well as other products in our pipeline, to cater to the growing consumer trend toward hyper-connectivity spurred by innovations in digital communication.”

As a social media management tool, FRAME allows users to streamline the process of posting and viewing content across multiple social media platforms from a single, secure application. FRAME is available for free for non-commercial users and currently features integration with Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). Agora has already outlined plans to introduce additional social media platforms to FRAME moving forward, such as Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOG; GOOGL) Google+. Other updates currently in the works include enhanced image management, advanced filters, reporting options and unique marketing campaign models.

Agora is also continuing to advance development on a number of other projects. As part of one such project, the company intends to integrate FRAME with its TECH workflow management tool, effectively creating a full business management solution that helps automotive and telecommunications providers better leverage their existing resources in order to target the right customers with the right campaigns.

Other projects in Agora’s pipeline include its GeegLe.TV, 1000Salads.com and LobbyTV.ca consumer portals. These web-based platforms will offer content and information regarding various topics to consumers, giving merchants an additional channel through which to reach potential customers. With 1000Salads.com, for example, Agora aims to offer nutritional information to a community of health and fitness conscious individuals. Users of this platform are expected to have access to expert nutritional advice and healthy recipes. Agora has also alluded to plans regarding an ecommerce market for health and fitness on the 1000Salads.com site.

For more information, visit www.agoraholdingsinc.com

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Monaker Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MKGI) is committed to building innovative, travel-focused companies that bring unique products and services to the marketplace. As parent company to a group of diverse and exciting brands and divisions, Monaker’s travel solutions are used by varied demographics. Plus, with key partnerships and established travel brands as its cornerstones, the company continues to pursue its mission of expanding its offerings to become the “one stop” vacation center.

Monaker is a leader within the world of travel. With more than six decades of experience and operation in leisure travel, the Florida-based company continues to offer technologically-driven travel solutions across borders. Within the industry, Monaker is well known for developing the first comprehensive platform to feature real-time alternative lodging booking functionality.

Monaker’s flagship platform, NextTrip.com, delivers this functionality and more. With NextTrip.com, consumers have access to a real-time booking engine that features alternative lodging (vacation home rentals, resort residences and unused timeshares) and a wide array of flights, hotels, cruises, rental cars, tours and concierge services, all of which are unified under one platform that gives customers the power to choose as they see fit when booking their vacations.

In the summer of 2016, Monaker stepped up its list of offerings by introducing a premium service that will allow it to tap into the fast-growing alternative lodging market even further. Earlier this year, a Research and Markets report estimated that the international vacation rental market will reach $170 billion by 2019, and Monaker is taking steps to pursue a portion of this market with its new service. Monaker’s premium service is designed to give property owners a chance to increase their booking revenue by close to 50% while reducing how much time they need to manage their properties by about 10 hours per week. Lots of property owners around the world are constantly seeking a more practical, more convenient way to post their vacation rental properties as alternative lodgings, and Monaker is now offering them that option. At the same time, the new premium service should bring more property listings to Monaker’s alternative lodging portfolio.

For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com

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Before the opening bell, Laguna Blends, Inc. (CSE: LAG) (OTC: LAGBF) (Frankfurt: LB6A.F) announced its inclusion on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) Composite index. Criteria for inclusion on the CSE Composite index include active listing on the CSE, a market capitalization of at least $5 million and a seasoning requirement. At each quarterly rebalance, companies included in the index are assessed to ensure a minimum market capitalization of at least $4 million, with companies that fail to meet this criteria being subject to index deletion. The market cap of Laguna Blends was listed at $6.34 million as of September 19, 2016.

“Inclusion in the CSE Composite index is another indicator Laguna continues to deliver shareholder value through its strategic growth strategy,” Bryan Loree, chief financial officer of Laguna, stated in this morning’s news release. “Laguna has positioned itself to be a dominant player in the distribution and marketing of unique hemp and CBD related products around the world.”

Laguna Blends leverages a growing network of independent affiliates to generate retail sales of multiple products in the United States and Canada. The company’s initial products to market are Caffe, an instant hot coffee beverage infused with whey and hemp protein, and Pro369, a single serving hemp protein powder available in four delicious flavors. In June, Laguna highlighted the marketability of these offerings when it announced the generation of $105,000 in unaudited sales in the first 11 weeks following commencement of operations. With the geometric growth opportunities presented by the company’s network marketing strategy, this strong start put Laguna “on track with its long term sales growth strategy,” according to President Ray Grimm Jr.

In recent weeks, Laguna has turned much of its attention toward its entry into the $121 billion global skin care market. The company entered into an exclusive agreement to distribute Swiss-made Cannaceuticals (“Canna”) cannabidiol (CBD) skin care products in the United States and, upon regulatory approval, Canada, Asia, Europe and Mexico. In a recent clinical study evaluating the efficacy of these products, Canna’s CBD facial serum produced an overall improvement to the appearance of skin in 100 percent of test subjects in just two weeks. On September 13, Laguna announced the VIP launch of the Canna CBD skin care products to its existing affiliates in the U.S., marking a significant step in its efforts to become a major player within the skin care industry.

For more information, visit www.lagunablends.com

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EnteroMedics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETRM) aims to make America leaner and fitter. The company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, provides safe, reliable and effective products and therapies to treat obesity and metabolic disorders. Its signature technology, the vBloc® vagal blocking therapy delivered via the Maestro® Rechargeable System, is gaining increasing acceptance both domestically and abroad. vBloc® offers the overweight and the obese relief from those extra pounds that, all too often, trigger a variety of problematic medical conditions.

Overweight and obesity are global problems, but America appears to have taken the cake. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has published statistics that are quite alarming. ‘More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese’ and ‘more than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese’.

Overweight is excess body weight due to too much muscle, bone, fat or water. Obesity is an excess amount of body fat. One measure of overweight and obesity is the Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her height (in meters). Your weight is considered normal if the BMI is under 25. Anyone with a BMI over 25 and under 30 is considered overweight. If your BMI is 30 or over, you are obese.

Extra weight means extra stress for the vital organs. The liver, heart, kidneys and pancreas are all adversely affected by visceral fat, the internal fatty tissue that develops to enfold them. Unlike the benign deposits of fat that lie just beneath the skin, which shape our figures, visceral fat is highly toxic. ‘Visceral fat has been linked to metabolic disturbances and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In women, it is also associated with breast cancer and the need for gallbladder surgery’, according to this (http://dtn.fm/tR3tv) Harvard Medical School publication. The NIDDK lists the health risks of overweight and obesity as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, nonalcoholic fatty liver disorders, osteoarthritis, stroke and cancers of the breast, colon, uterine lining and kidney.

Chronic cases of overweight and obesity are treated by surgery. American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) figures, as reported by News Medical (http://dtn.fm/mM8vM), relate that ‘about 193,000 people had bariatric surgery in 2014… sleeve gastrectomy was… found to be the most common procedure, accounting for 51.7 percent of weight-loss operations, followed by gastric bypass (26.8%), gastric band (9.5%), and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (0.4%).’ These are all intensely intrusive procedures with many risks that may be hard to stomach. Sleeve gastrectomy, for example, is a procedure in which up to 80 percent of the stomach can be removed.

The vBloc® vagal blocking therapy from EnteroMedics, Inc. is, on the other hand, minimally invasive. It is implanted under the skin just outside the ribcage and involves limited scarring. Recovery time from surgery is short. Some patients reported having the surgery on Friday and going out to work the following Monday.

The vBloc® Therapy works to control sensations of hunger using a pacemaker-like device. A Briefing Document (http://dtn.fm/gY7a9) on the FDA website indicates that when the therapy is used for 12 hours per day as prescribed, patients experienced an average excess weight loss of 28 percent over one year. This was 50 percent more weight loss than patients who did not receive vBloc®.

In June 2016, EnteroMedics announced a series of successful vBloc procedures at the Beltline Bariatric and Surgical Group in Atlanta, Georgia. And this week, it was disclosed that the European Patent Office had issued a Notice of Intention to Grant a European Patent covering safety features of the Company’s vBloc® Neurometabolic Therapy System. EnteroMedics, with its vBloc® Therapy, is beginning to look like a heavy hitter.

For more information, please visit www.vbloc.com

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Horizon Pharma (NASDAQ: HZNP) is a biopharmaceutical company whose aim is to improve lives with the recognition, development, acquisition, and commercialization of accessible medicines to meet a variety of patient medical needs. Horizon Pharma now markets nine key products through its orphan, rheumatology, and primary care business units.

Products include ACTIMMUNE®, Buphenyl®, Duexis®, KRYSTEXXA®, Migergot®, PENNSAID® 2%, Ravicti®, Rayos®, and Vimovo®. These products are used to reduce the frequency and severity of serious infections, treat patients with urea cycle disorders, relieve signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, decrease the risk of developing upper gastrointestinal ulcers, and treat patients with chronic gout, among other symptoms and diseases.

In October 2014, HZNP acquired PENNSAID® 2%, followed by Hyperion Therapeutics in May 2015. At the beginning of this year, the company completed the acquisition of Crealta Holdings LLC, which allowed it to expand its orphan business with KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase), a biologic medicine for chronic, refractory gout.

In addition, Horizon Pharma recently entered into a definitive agreement with Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ: RPTP), through which HZNP will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of RPTP common stock for a cash payment of $9.00 per share. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2016 and is estimated to be worth $800 million.

Horizon Pharma has approximately 890 global employees and operates across Ireland, Europe, and the United States. As of August 9, 2016, Horizon Pharma had a market capitalization of $3.60 billion. The company has seen steady growth in net sales and adjusted EBITDA. With net sales up from $74 million in 2013 to over $1 billion in 2015, HZNP expects to strengthen its focus on rare diseases while expanding further into Europe and other international markets.

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

Yesterday, Dominovas Energy Corporation (OTCQB: DNRG) announced its entry into formal negotiations with key officials at the University of Johannesburg to become the exclusive supplier of electricity for the South African school’s Johannesburg campuses. The Company, which has been working closely with University of Johannesburg officials in recent months ahead of the impending delivery of its RUBICON™ showcase unit, recently submitted its Energy Solutions Technical Survey to the University’s facilities managers in order to determine the overall electrical needs of the campuses. When the survey is complete, Dominovas Energy officials will look to conduct a complete and thorough analysis of the school’s current electrical systems, highlighting inefficiencies and potential savings that could be realized by implementing the company’s proprietary RUBICON™ Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology.

“As the ‘right’ individuals have become more educated on the prowess and efficiency of Dominovas Energy’s RUBICON™ system, the inquiries became more specific as to what the Company could do for the University at large to deliver a cleaner, more efficient use of resources for the generation of electricity,” Michael Watkins, COO of Dominovas Energy and president of its fuel cell division, stated in this morning’s news release. “The key was to first determine the energy need of the University and those steps are underway as we speak.”

When complete, Dominovas Energy anticipates that its Energy Solutions Technical Survey will set the stage for the execution of a formal power provider agreement (PPA) between the two parties. The PPA is expected to encompass a minimum of 12MW, serving as a “long-term play for Dominovas Energy to provide utility-scale electrification to Africa,” according to Watkins. Notably, the company’s showcase unit, which was announced in a previous news release, is on-track to be delivered in the near future. Dominovas Energy is currently awaiting access to a reliable natural gas source at the University of Johannesburg site. When available, the Company “will be ready to fire up the ‘Showcase’ and show its capabilities to the public at large.”

In recent weeks, Dominovas Energy has made considerable progress toward the launch of its power solutions technology on the African continent. In addition to reporting two site visits to the University of Johannesburg regarding its RUBICON™ showcase, the Company has also turned its sights toward neighboring countries in the region. On September 9, Dominovas Energy announced the appointment of Dr. Emma Rasolovoahangy as Ambassador for Renewable Energy Projects and Special Advisor for the Republic of Madagascar. Through this appointment, the Company is strategically positioned to build on its recent progress through its new hydropower division, Currentergy. According to Vassilis Koutras, managing director for Francophone countries with Dominovas Energy, Madagascar has a hydro potential of roughly 7,000MW, making the country one of Dominovas Energy’s “top priorities for development and operation of multiple power projects” in the future.

For more information, visit www.dominovasenergy.com

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iGambit, Inc. (OTCQB: IGMB) is a diversified holding company focused primarily on the acquisition of early-stage technology firms with strong growth potential that’s easily recognized in the public arena. Leveraging the considerable industry experience of its board of directors and management team, iGambit offers talented entrepreneurs an opportunity to focus their time and energy on building a business instead of searching out investors or raising capital. Following acquisition, iGambit provides the capital and management expertise required to help its partner firms flourish with the intention of ‘spinning off’ the acquisition to the benefit of both the newly independent business and iGambit shareholders.

One of iGambit’s most recent acquisitions occurred in November 2015, when the company added ArcMail to its portfolio. Founded to help clients boost email server performance and satisfy associated regulatory requirements, ArcMail is a leading provider of simple, secure and cost-effective email and enterprise archiving and management solutions. In April 2016, the marketability of ArcMail’s technology was highlighted when the firm was selected as a ‘Top 20 Enterprise Security Company of 2016’ by leading IT publication CIOReview.

At the core of iGambit’s business model is its experienced leadership team. John Salerno, chairman of iGambit, is a seasoned executive with more than four decades of experience in the technology industry. In addition to providing consulting services to a wide range of clients, Salerno founded a startup that later became a multi-million dollar business servicing the New York real estate market. In 1996, he cofounded bigVAULT, Inc., an online backup and file-sharing company that later became iGambit following an asset purchase sale with Verizon and Cablevision.

In June 2016, iGambit appointed Rory Welch as its chief executive officer. Welch originally joined the iGambit team through the ArcMail acquisition, bringing more than 20 years of senior management experience spanning multiple industries and global geographies to the company. Prior to serving as ArcMail’s president and CEO, Welch managed his own consulting firm, which attracted clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to mid-market players across a number of industry verticals. Welch also held leadership positions at Movado Group, Inc., as well as Arrow Electronics, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of product management for the tech firm’s $1 billion Asia-Pacific division.

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

A recent feature in Fortune magazine titled ‘How mobile payments will grow in 2016’ (http://dtn.fm/23Dlm) shows the rosy future that lies before SinglePoint, Inc. (OTC: SING). The Fortune piece reports that ‘eMarketer (is) forecasting 210% growth in the total value of mobile payment transactions in 2016—up to $27.05 billion from $8.71 billion’. This is a market that is still in its infancy, and SinglePoint’s Pay-by-Text™ technology is precisely the sort of cutting edge innovation that can establish a niche in it.

Despite the promise of easier use and convenience, the Fortune piece reveals that ‘while 52% of North Americans are “extremely aware” of mobile payments, only 18% use them on a regular basis’, citing a recent Accenture survey. This is obviously an industry ripe for development. Millennials and higher income households are leading the way. The Accenture survey discovered that 23 percent of Millennials and 38 percent of higher-income households use ‘contactless payments at least once a week’.

Contactless payments are so called because they can be made without physical contact to the payments terminal. Most contactless payments systems use near field communication (NFC), which enables wireless communication between two devices, such as a mobile phone and a point-of-sale terminal, when they are very close together, typically just a few inches. NFC employs a technology that has been around for decades called radio-frequency identification (RFID), which allows the credentials of a device to be established by radio waves. RFID technology is commonly used to scan grocery items at checkout, on baggage tags and for tagging cattle.

However, Singlepoint’s platform differs from this mainstream approach, being based on short message service (SMS) technology. CEO Greg Lambrecht explains:

“We started in 2006 with a mobile messaging platform where we can send a text message to any phone in the U.S. and Canada. We have overlaid on top of that a way for people to use their credit card and their mobile phone to do a transaction or a donation but… we have married the text messaging and mobile transaction together, so when you get that text, there’s a link that you can hit and that will take you to a mobile landing page that you can do the transaction or donation.”

Singlepoint is differentiating itself from the competition in the mobile payments sector that mostly employs NFC technologies by providing a solution that links ubiquitous SMS to cash payments.

“That makes us different from some other ways of doing mobile transactions or other mobile companies where maybe you have to go find their app which as you know is not easy. With what we’re doing with text messaging, we’re making it very streamlined and simple. When they get that text, which everybody reads within the first five minutes, that link is there, so if they want to hit the link, they can donate or do a transaction right away. So it’s really a seamless process,” continued Lambrecht.

The Singlepoint Pay-by-Text™ combo of SMS and payments seems set for success. The Pew Research Center (http://dtn.fm/Uud8m) found that ‘some 83% of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73%) send and receive text messages’. That was five years ago. The numbers are likely to be larger now.

Singlepoint’s Pay-by-Text™ solution allows merchants to offer a simplified mobile payment option to their customers’ mobile phones, letting customers pay at any time and from anywhere. SinglePoint can receive a monthly fee ranging from $10 – $100 depending on the merchant, and 1% of each transaction. The company recently integrated Pay-by-Text™ with the payment processor RedFynn Technologies, enabling Singlepoint to provide all forms of credit card processing.

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

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eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI) serves as the holding company for multiple companies, including eXp Realty. Through eXp Realty, the corporation is using innovation to better develop real estate prospects and is effectively changing how real estate dealings are conducted.

Recent strides in the tech and e-commerce fields have had a substantial effect on how numerous industries (real estate included) operate. Buyers and sellers have more on-the-spot data at their fingertips via the Internet, yet the home buying and selling process remains a complex and often emotional activity.

This is where eXp Realty comes in, as a tried-and-tested organization with a team of professionals who can explain the complexities and implications of real estate buying and selling decisions. In today’s changing world, the company leverages a unique set of advanced communication technologies to differentiate its services, leaving a lasting impression on clients. It strives to meet the needs of the modern and often mobile consumer, who, although equipped with residential dreams and an abundance of information, still requires a high level of close personal service.

eXp Realty provides cloud-based real estate brokerage services for the American and Canadian residential markets. Known as the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage, eXp Realty is a full-service real estate brokerage firm offering round-the-clock access to collaborative tools, training, and socialization for brokers and agents via a fully-immersive, 3-D cloud-office environment. Along the way, eXp Realty has become recognized as a national leader that provides brokerage services at value, successfully lowering its agents’ operating costs while raising their profits.

eXp Realty also delivers high-level service to buyers and sellers. Through access to a network of professional, consumer-centric agents and brokers, it aids buyers in finding their perfect homes by allowing them to search millions of real-time property listings. It also aids sellers in selling their homes by listing their properties through its website. The firm’s agents have access to cutting-edge technology, and are equipped to personally help guide the search process, share their insights about properties, and offer an experienced perspective. They present local market expertise and, perhaps most importantly, help advocate and negotiate on the buyer’s or seller’s behalf.

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

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Fundamental Research Corp. (FRC), a company in the business of providing quality equity research coverage since 2003, recently released its second report on Laguna Blends, Inc. (CSE: LAG) (OTC: LAGBF) (LB6A.F), a rapidly growing multi-level marketing (MLM) company focused on the sale of functional, hemp-based beverages. FRC released its first report on May 5, 2016, giving Laguna a BUY rating and fair value estimate of $0.45 per share. According to the original report, the company’s shares were expected to range from $0.30 to $1.06, depending on the number of affiliates LAGBF generates by 2020.

Since this initial coverage, Laguna’s share price is up by 83% and its market capitalization is up by 155% to $6.22 million. Not only this, reported revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 (quarter ended March 31, 2016) were approximately $17K, a number that rose to approximately $47K in the company’s first quarter of fiscal 2016 (quarter ended June 30, 2016). Laguna Blends has raised approximately $0.7 million through two private placements, leaving FRC to nearly double the company’s fair value estimate from its initial $0.45 per share to $0.80 per share.

The company has also entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Cannaceuticals (“Canna”). LAGBF will be distributing Canna’s seven Swiss-made cannabidiol skincare products by the end of this month in the U.S. and in Canada by the end of the year. The agreement was signed after the results of the clinical trials on these products showed that all 21 female test subjects noticed an overall improvement of their skin’s appearance.

Personal care products were shown to be the number one category in direct sales in 2015. Therefore, it is only fitting that Laguna positions itself within the skin care industry. Niche products such as cannabidiol skin care products normally do well in direct sales, and although these only equate to less than 1% of retail sales in the U.S., wellness product sales and personal care products make up 46.7% of these.

LAGBF has bought all of the current inventory of the seven Cannaceuticals products for $0.23 million, to be paid over the next six months. In addition to this, LAGBF paid a licensing fee in common shares worth $0.10 million. Laguna will place a minimum order of $1.5 million giving the company the rights to sell all seven products in the U.S. and Canada. Once regulatory approvals are received, Laguna will have the rights to sell Canna’s products in Asia, Europe, and Mexico. The agreement fits in with Laguna’s strategy to build a diversified portfolio of products, similar to other MLM companies. Laguna announced the VIP launch of Cannaceuticals CBD skin care products on September 13, 2016, making them available for sale on September 15, 2016.

For more information, visit www.lagunablends.com

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