Laguna Blends Inc. (OTC: LAGBF) is a relatively new multi-level marketing (MLM) company that focuses on generating sales of functional, hemp-based beverage products. LAGBF was formed in 2014 and has seen tremendous growth since then. Stuart Gray, CEO of Laguna Blends, owns 18.5 percent of the outstanding shares. The company currently offers two hemp-based functional beverages: Caffe and Pro369. Although the market is relatively young, Laguna Blends chose the hemp market because it offers multiple health benefits to its users. Hemp, a member of the cannabis family, is receiving focus because of its potential use in health foods and functional foods. The plant is a great source of protein, fatty acids, magnesium, zinc, and many other vital nutrients. LAGBF operates using white label independent sellers to distribute its products. It launched its sales on March 2016 with 135 affiliates, and its network has grown to include more than 700 independent sellers today.

Fundamental Research Corp. (FRC) has recently initiated coverage on LAGBF. FRC has been providing quality equity research coverage since 2003. The firm’s research has covered more than 250 small and micro-cap public companies, and it has helped some of the largest institutional investors in the world choose the direction of commodity prices and top stock picks. The report on LAGBF was released on May 5, 2016, and gives Laguna Blends a BUY rating and a fair value estimate of $0.45 per share. The report on Laguna Blends includes an overview of LAGBF as it stands today, information on MLM, the hemp industry, the functional food and beverage industry, and Laguna’s current position within these on a financial level. The report also provides predictions for Laguna on what is to come, giving investors an educated insight into what the company has to offer moving forward.

FRC’s study gives Laguna Blends a BUY rating, as the company is expected to start reporting sales figures in the near future. Fundamental Research Corp. also believes that value proposition and market absorption will play a key role in attracting affiliates. The research firm believes LABGF’s long-term success is directly linked to the company’s ability to attract new affiliates. LABGF’s forecast for 2020 is based on the assumption it will have 24,000 affiliates, granted it keeps introducing new products. The expected return for the vitamins and nutritional supplements industry is a healthy 10.2 percent.

According to FRC’s report, the cost of the company’s shares will range from $0.30 to $1.06, depending on the number of affiliates Laguna Blends has by 2020 (ranging from 12,000 to 100,000). Although the Risk Rating Laguna Blends received is a four (meaning the company may be a start-up or in a turn-around situation), it still received FRC’s highest Equity Rating (BUY) and is expected to have a return of 12 percent or more.

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Excitement surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) has been building for nearly a decade, but the time has come for a more connected world to truly take shape. According to a report by Adobe, the amount of Internet-connected things will reach 50 billion by 2020, offering profits and cost savings to the tune of $19 trillion (http://dtn.fm/7tNTM). Among this growth, smart devices within the home, such as thermostats and kitchen appliances, are expected to contribute about $490 billion by 2019, led by established names in the tech sector such as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), which bought smart thermostat maker Nest in 2014 (http://dtn.fm/2B2lu), and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), which acquired connected home company SmartThings (http://dtn.fm/4HDe2) later that same year.

Despite the strong performance of IoT in the consumer space, the primary destinations for smart devices are healthcare and manufacturing. By 2025, Adobe estimates that the value of IoT technology in the healthcare industry could exceed $2.5 trillion. While this is big news for players in the healthcare space, it also presents an opportunity for companies with innovative ideas operating in other sectors. One such company is OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO), a leading designer, producer and marketer of innovative pet products in the U.S. and overseas. Taking its cue from the success of IoT in the healthcare industry, OurPet’s recently introduced a new line of pet products that leverages Bluetooth and wireless connectivity to monitor various activities that can be interpreted as indicators of pet health.

OPCO’s Intelligent Pet Care™ product line includes three products designed to bring pet ownership into the 21st century, including the SmartScoop® – Intelligent Litter Box, the SmartLink™ Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl and the SmartLink™ Waterer – Intelligent Water Fountain. With these products, pet owners can monitor pets’ drinking, feeding and elimination behavior directly from their smartphones and other mobile devices. This feedback is critical, because irregularities regarding any of these behaviors can, in some cases, be a sign of potential health issues. In the case of excessive drinking, for example, dogs may be reacting to an accumulation of harmful substances in the body, which can be the result of infections, diabetes or kidney failure (http://dtn.fm/8Aj1F).

The benefits of IoT technology in the healthcare space have been clearly demonstrated by its widespread adoption in recent years. OPCO’s new Intelligent Pet Care™ product line opens the door for the roughly 65 percent of U.S. households that own a pet (http://dtn.fm/PER2o) to follow the healthcare industry’s lead while promoting the enhanced health and wellness of their furry family members.

“The pet industry is continually evolving and it’s our goal to introduce new products every year that improve the health, safety, comfort and enjoyment of pets, which in turn strengthens the bond between pet and pet parent,” Dr. Steven Tsengas, chairman and chief executive officer of OPCO, stated in a news release. “These [Intelligent Pet Care™] products enhance the convenience of pet ownership and the connectivity between pets and pet owners by monitoring various activities that can be interpreted as indicators of pet health, such as drinking, feeding and elimination behavior.”

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

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The proliferation of the internet over the past decade has had an undeniable effect on the global travel industry. In 2007, total online travel sales were estimated at just $93.8 billion, according to data from Statistic Brain (http://dtn.fm/G8uxx), but just five years later, the industry had grown to roughly $162.4 billion in sales. Today, approximately 148 million travel bookings are made on the internet each year, accounting for about 57 percent of all travel reservations. While air ticketing and packaged tours account for a healthy percentage of this revenue, the lion’s share is attributed to hotel and accommodation reservations. Led by industry giants such as Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) and Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), this rapid growth has shown little signs of slowing down.

As with any rapidly growing market sector, the online travel agency space has seen its fair share of consolidation over the years. Way back in July 2005, Priceline acquired European hotel booking site Booking.com before expanding its profits from $10 million to about $1.1 billion in less than a decade (http://dtn.fm/j1idK). In 2012, the company attempted to catch lightning in a bottle again when it purchased Kayak Software Corp. in an effort to fend off growing competitors and increase its customer base (http://dtn.fm/S7ljX). Last year, Expedia followed suit, acquiring both Orbitz and Travelocity over the course of a few weeks (http://dtn.fm/2OppD).

While the referenced consolidation examples point to a common theme of established players acquiring rivals with expansive and valuable user bases, recent market action has suggested that there’s more to an online travel platform than its market share. Just last month, TripAdvisor (NASDAQ: TRIP) made headlines when it acquired London-based vacation rental service HouseTrip for an undisclosed amount (http://dtn.fm/YO3g9). Unlike the acquisitions mentioned above, HouseTrip’s financial position and user base were both fairly underwhelming. Since its launch in 2009, the site generated only eight million bookings, while primary competitor Airbnb is on pace to help host an estimated 129 million guests this year alone.

With HouseTrip’s small market share, its acquisition by TripAdvisor may seem puzzling, at least until viewed from the angle of inventory. As travel industry leaders attempt to replicate the success of Airbnb’s sharing economy business model, companies boasting sizable property inventories are becoming prime acquisition candidates. Through the acquisition of HouseTrip, TripAdvisor added an estimated 130,000 properties to its family of booking platforms (http://dtn.fm/Beji6), bringing the company’s total listings to nearly 800,000 unique properties in high-demand markets around the globe.

The success of Airbnb has many in the travel industry playing catch-up, but one company has its sights set on the next big thing in vacation accommodation. Monaker Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MKGI), a technology driven travel company with multiple divisions and brands, recently announced the launch of its proprietary timeshare booking engine, NextTrip Resorts. Through this groundbreaking platform, Monaker is targeting a largely untapped market with inventory of about 19 million rooms, of which roughly 25 percent go unused. To date, the company has added over 250,000 units of alternative lodging inventory to its flagship NextTrip.com booking platform, and it reports approximately one million total alternative lodging units currently under contract.

With the travel industry’s recent track record of rapid consolidation, Monaker’s sizable property inventory and growing user base position it as a potentially high-value candidate for industry leaders in search of the next big thing. Look for the company to leverage this momentum as it continues to expand upon its position at the forefront of the alternative lodging space. With one of the largest inventories of alternative lodging properties in the industry (http://dtn.fm/WAef5) and innovative new features such as real-time booking solutions, Monaker is a company that’s worthy of serious consideration from prospective shareholders in the months to come.

For more information, visit www.monakergroup.com

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Before the opening bell, Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK) announced a new strategic partnership with ATLETO, a social sports app that connects everyday athletes. Through this agreement, the two companies will engage in a cross-promotional marketing campaign designed to highlight their apps as platforms for helping users accomplish their health and fitness goals. Moving forward, Content Checked will leverage its social media presence to promote and endorse ATLETO while encouraging downloads and driving brand awareness. Similarly, ATLETO will support Content Checked with promotional posts across all of its social channels, effectively increasing the visibility of Content Checked’s innovative suite of mobile apps amongst everyday athletes.

“Partnering with ATLETO is a natural fit since its platform aligns with our philosophy of fostering a community of like-minded individuals who commit to bettering their lives,” Kris Finstad, co-founder and CEO of Content Checked, stated in this morning’s news release. “We want to educate our audience and introduce them to platforms developed to help users make healthier choices easily, and we happily promote everything ATLETO stands for.”

The ATLETO app is designed to help athletes connect with other users based on location, skill level and frequency in order to improve their athletic experiences. Available on Apple’s App Store, ATLETO is capable of matching users with new and existing friends who are interested in similar sports, including popular sports such as basketball, golf, soccer, tennis and volleyball, as well as fitness and workout activities like cycling, running and yoga. ATLETO is currently in the midst of a marketing campaign focused on developing a user base in Los Angeles, Miami and New York City. By partnering with the social sports app, Content Checked stands to benefit from these efforts.

“Content Checked’s technology has significantly improved the health of individuals and we aim to provide such a significant impact to our own community of athletes,” Peter Dalgas, co-founder and CMO of ATLETO, stated in this morning’s news release. “Our complementary visions create a symbiotic relationship and we’re eager to share with our community the benefits of Content Checked’s family of apps.”

In recent weeks, Content Checked has turned to strategic partnerships with like-minded organizations as a way to increase its brand recognition. In February, the company teamed with Kitchology, Inc., a mobile platform that provides tailored recipes to consumers with special dietary needs, and gained access to its database of recipes modified to meet the needs of consumers with dietary restrictions or allergies. Last month, Content Checked teamed with Leaner Creamer, the only all-natural powdered coffee creamer that promotes weight loss and appetite suppression, for a cross-promotional marketing campaign aimed at elevating both parties among health-conscious audiences.

For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com

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Laguna Blends, Inc. (OTC: LAGBF), a network marketing company focused on generating sales of its hemp-based functional beverages through independent affiliates, today announced that it has engaged the Corporate Communications Services of QualityStocks. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, QualityStocks has assisted more than 300 public companies with their efforts to broaden influence, attract growth capital and improve shareholder value over the past 10 years.

“With the commercialization of our unique, hemp-based beverage products, Laguna Blends is strategically positioned to capture market share in two high-demand markets,” says Laguna Blends CEO Stuart Gray. “As we expand this product line and grow our team of independent sales affiliates, it’s vitally important that we keep shareholders in the loop of our achievements. Working with QualityStocks enables us to continue this growth pattern while fine-tuning our communications strategies.”

QualityStocks will strategically leverage its network of partners, daily and weekly newsletters, social media channels, blog and other outreach tools to enhance Laguna Blends’ transparency and brand visibility with the investment community.

“Our objective is to enable Laguna Blends to strengthen its communication initiatives without slowing its pace in terms of growing its sales network, expanding its product line, and building corporate value,” says QualityStocks Managing Director Michael McCarthy. “The QualityStocks team will work closely with Laguna Blends to make sure its corporate message is strong, consistent and visible to both existing and potential shareholders.”

For more information, visit www.lagunablends.com

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Momentous Entertainment Group (OTC: MMEG) charts its course as an entertainment and direct response marketing company with a focus on developing, producing, and distributing content. The company sells entertainment and consumer products through a distribution channel and uses direct response media marketing – the art of evoking an immediate response and driving prospective customers to take some type of specific action, such as adding one’s self to an email distribution list or making a phone call.

As the company develops its sales and distribution channels, Momentous plans to build out its music division along with its feature film, television production, and finance divisions. Boasting a combined total of over 100 years of entertainment and marketing experience, the company plans to make contributions by delivering content and products on a global scale. MMEG is in the process of developing a portfolio of family entertainment and unique merchandise to distribute worldwide.

MMEG is energized with its progress through differentiation within the direct response industry. This upward trending and masterfully effective approach is made up of direct response television, radio marketing, home shopping channels, catalogs, direct mail, advertising and internet marketing. In addition, outbound telemarketing weighs in as a vital piece of one of the fastest growing segments of the retailing industry. Advertising in the consumer product marketplace has long achieved great success with infomercials and intriguing cross-selling and up-selling strategies.

The Direct Marketing Association has reported that total sales from direct response television (DRTV) trended toward nearly $400 billion in 2014 while demonstrating signals of sustainable growth with repeatable success rates. Using this data as a basis for growth expectations, the company could be able to gain a notable slice of market share using its unique marketing concepts put in place by team of direct marketers loaded with years of expertise.

The company’s entertainment division develops and produces quality life and faith oriented reality TV shows, documentaries, dramas, and feature films, with positive images and spirited stories with moral value messages. MMEG mirrors people’s experiences and uses them as the centerpieces of their stories to portray realistic ways to celebrate the significance and virtue of a faith-based life and existence.

For more information, visit www.momentousent.com

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On March 7, 2016, International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB: ISCO) announced that the Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) had approved its application to initiate phase I clinical trials of ISC-hpNSC® (human parthenogenetic neural stem cells) for the treatment of moderate to severe Parkinson’s disease. With that approval, ISCO has begun enrolling patients for those phase I clinical trials in what marks a major milestone for the company.

International Stem Cell Corporation is researching new ways to increase the quality and length of human life spans through regenerative technologies that augment or replace organ transplants, developments made possible by the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 by American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick. DNA was first identified (http://dtn.fm/Elyc9) by the Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher in 1869. The knowledge that the DNA molecule exists in the form of a three-dimensional double helix has been hailed as one of the ‘two radical developments over the past sixty years’ in medicine in What Happened to the Future (http://dtn.fm/FqxA9), a lament on the slow pace of present technological development.

The What Happened to the Future jeremiad penned by the venture capitalist Bruce Gibney while at Founders Fund tells how it used to be. ‘Less than twenty-five years after Watson and Crick published the structure of DNA, venture capitalist Robert Swanson and biochemist Herbert Boyer founded Genentech, now a subsidiary of Roche (OTCQX: RHHBY), which went on to synthesize insulin far faster and more cheaply than almost anyone believed possible. And in a great revolution in the FDA approval process in the 1980s following pressure from the AIDS lobby, the agency acted almost nimbly to approve a huge number of important new drugs for many maladies.’

However, since then the drug development process has become notoriously tortuous and costly. It starts with drug discovery, when new insights into how a disease progresses allow researchers to design a product to stop or reverse its effects. Alternatively, a number of molecular compounds may be tested to determine what effect, if any, they may have against a range of medical conditions. Sometimes, good fortune may come of the ubiquitous side effects. A drug prescribed for one condition may be found to have benefits in other areas. And then, of course, there are the new technologies like ISCO’s human parthenogenetic stem cell (hpSC) technology.

After a particular compound has been identified, it must be subjected to pre-clinical trials. Pre-clinical trials, or, as they are sometimes called, non-clinical testing, may be pharmacodynamic (examining what the drug does to the body); pharmacokinetic (examining what the body does to the drug); may examine how the compound is absorbed, distributed, metabolized and excreted by the body; or may attempt to determine its toxicity. In some instances, animals may be employed in pre-clinical trials.

It is only after greater knowledge of the compound has been obtained through pre-clinical testing that it will be administered to humans in clinical trials. Clinical trials typically may have four phases, each of which is designed to answer a research question. In phase I, researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects. This is the point that ISCO has reached with its human parthenogenetic stem cell ISC-hpNSC® technology.

In phase II clinical trials, the compound is given to a larger group of people to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety. In phase III studies, the drug is administered to an even larger group of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely. Phase IV testing is conducted after the drug has been marketed to gather information on the drug’s effect in various populations and any side effects associated with long-term use.

Before a drug can be marketed, it will be reviewed by the FDA when the sponsoring company submits a new drug application (NDA). And for many years to come, the FDA will continue its post-market safety monitoring. It’s quite a journey for a drug discovery company to take, but mindful of Gibney’s complaint, International Stem Cell Corporation is forging ahead with the phase I trials, which will be performed at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia.

For more information, visit www.internationalstemcell.com

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With the $59 billion merger of Dell and information/virtual infrastructure developer EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) hanging in the air (arguably the biggest takeover in the sector’s history), it is wise to look back at what CEO of the eponymous company, Michael Dell, said late last year about the rapidly evolving data economy being tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity (http://dtn.fm/t4kZo). The EMC move has been seen by many to be a play by Dell (which will be known as Dell Technologies after the merger) for exploiting the growing analytical and computational power coming from cloud architectures, as it relates to data-intensive IoT (internet of things) applications thereof, and big data analytics.

Indeed, this merger is just the tip of the iceberg in an environment where the biggest tech players are clamoring for big data-enabling IoT and the cloud muscle to make it all wieldy, questing desirously after the transformative marketing power obtainable thereby. With International Data Corporation projections for the big data technology and services market indicating a roughly 23 percent CAGR through 2019, when annual spending will reach upwards of $48.6 billion, and big data analytics in the healthcare sector alone projected to hit over $34 billion by 2022 according to a recent report by Research and Markets – that data economy Dell was talking about continues to show every sign of becoming as large, or larger than predicted.

Strategy Analytics even foresees the big data analytics software space as generating around $81 billion in global revenues by 2022, crushing the roughly $36 billion generated last year, as IoT-driven smart living solutions continue to proliferate. A recent article (http://dtn.fm/R2gUu) in Mobile Payments Today, did a good job of illustrating how sector majors like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), with its Apple Watch wearable, and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG; GOOGL), whose subsidiary Nest develops self-learning, sensor-driven home automation technology, are both driving hard into the IoT arena, intent on unlocking the marketing power of big data. Even a novel entrant like the personalized coffee experience platform developed by Nestle’s (OTC: NSRGY) Nespresso operating unit, called Prodigio, the first connected espresso machine from the company, with its mobile app that handles everything from operations to one-touch reordering, should strike a resounding chord with investors about where this overall space is headed.

In this increasingly connected world, the days of mass-marketing are going the way of the dodo bird. Marketing is migrating ever more toward highly personalized and hyper-localized microsegmentation, and the key role that big data analytics has to play here in unlocking the potential of transaction data has historically been something only the biggest players at the table could really understand and make use of. This is where a company like Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTC: ALYI) really shines, with its device-spanning payment technologies, digital currency and banking solutions, and extremely robust big data analytics and automated marketing research capabilities. Fully integrated analytics backing up the company’s innovative financial services industry-focused software solutions allows Alternet clients to have a proprietary market view that spans multiple, diverse data sources.

This kind of powerful lensing system allows companies to identify crucial audience and location microsegments, adapting on-the-fly to changing conditions in the market through a highly localized and agile approach, which means optimum price and promotion investment can be dialed in with substantial accuracy across an entire array of products. The capacity to do automated profit and loss yield tuning at the micro level like this is the kind of capability hitherto reserved only for the big boys, who could afford to shell out top dollar for off-the-shelf solutions or hire the team and develop their own integrated solutions in-house. But ALYI is changing the game for SMEs in particular, with its steadily advancing portfolio of digital commerce technologies, and the company had its ‘accumulate’ recommendation from Caprock Research recently reaffirmed by the news that it has layered up considerable momentum – attracting new clients and nurturing important new partnerships to expand its service offering since the launch of its Data Analytics Division in January.

Caprock Research’s $0.05 PPS near-term and $0.17 PPS long-term targets should be revisited via a newly updated report sometime shortly after the release of ALYI’s 2015 financials, so investors should keep an ear to the ground in coming weeks for word from the company.

For more information, visit www.alternetsystems.com

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Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) and one of Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) earliest investors, in lamenting the dearth of technological innovation, has famously adopted the shibboleth, “We were promised flying cars, and instead what we got was 140 characters.” Thiel, no doubt exasperated at the uninformed chatter that tumbles through cyberspace, seems to be suggesting that improvements in the way we get around are superior to platforms that facilitate communication. However, social media, even if diminished by roguishness, is becoming a potent channel in online marketing, and Agora Holdings (OTC: AGHI), parent company of Geegle Media, has developed just the tool, called FRAME, to exploit the potentialities of Facebook, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) and the many other social media platforms that now abound. Wikipedia lists (http://dtn.fm/vSF1b) over 200 social media platforms. Now one post from FRAME can be sent to all your social media accounts.

A Pew Research Center (PRC) study titled ‘15 striking findings from 2015’ (http://dtn.fm/Ah3Qr) shows how FRAME could make a difference. Millennials, those born between 1982 and 2004 (http://dtn.fm/EpS81), now number more than Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964. There are now an estimated 75.3 million Millennials compared with 74.9 million Baby Boomers. Millennials, whom the PRC describes as ‘racially diverse, economically stressed and politically liberal’, also comprise the largest share of the U.S. labor force. They hold the most jobs. They are the target market of the future. Millennials now outnumber Gen X (born between 1965 and 1981) workers.

The PRC report adds ‘For news about politics and government, social media may be for the millennial generation what local TV is for the Baby Boomer generation.’ 61 percent of Millennials who use the internet regularly get their political news through Facebook; 37 percent get their political news from TV. This pattern of use is a mirror image of the one for Baby Boomers, 60 percent of whom still rely a great deal on TV for their political updates. Just 39 percent go online to stay abreast of politics. The way in which the latest generation is getting its news is, in part, due to its greater familiarity with digital technology and, in part, a reflection that media houses are now employing online channels in addition to their traditional broadcast modes.

As expected, teens tend to be active on more social media platforms than their time-constrained older brethren. They are present on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat in large numbers, according to ‘Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015’ (http://dtn.fm/x3T3k) by the PRC. The PRC study provides estimates for teen (ages 13 – 17) use of social media sites: 71 percent are on Facebook; 52 percent use Instagram; 41 percent Snapchat; 33 percent tweet; another 33 percent can be found on Google+; 24 percent use Vine; 14 percent are on Tumblr; and 11 percent are on sites other than those listed above.

Notwithstanding Thiel’s jibe, some 645 million people worldwide use Twitter. By those metrics alone, it must be regarded as an innovation. Mark Shaeffer writing (http://dtn.fm/nBad9) on the Dell Power More news site opines ‘Twitter stands alone in its ability to create a huge, relevant audience quickly’. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al are usurping the positions once taken by print media, radio and TV. To stay in touch with customers, businesses must acknowledge and adapt to the changes in social behavior. With FRAME by Agora Holdings, they can do that and more.

FRAME is an organization tool for the management of social media and subscription-based accounts. It is designed to meet the needs of consumers who use multiple social media websites and platforms on a daily basis by providing a dashboard from which they are all accessible. The company will offer free access to FRAME for non-commercial users with the expectation of building a user base very quickly. Commercial users to be targeted include investor relations firms, public relations firms and other marketing and promotional agencies that employ social media.

As reported (http://dtn.fm/EAs3x) on Marketwired, ‘FRAME also features several advanced functions such as engagement and customer care tools; measurement of campaign success via social media performance; and comprehensive reporting, which provides insight into how many times content is re-posted and monitors social media mentions and brand-related conversations.

Currently, FRAME is integrated with leading social networks Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and it operates on Android, iOS and desktop. Agora Holdings is exploring development to also integrate the platform with LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube and Tumblr.

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The skilled and seasoned mining executives that make up the board of directors and senior management of Star Mountain Resources (OTC: SMRS) are steering the company to success by pursuing high-grade mining assets. In the same spirit that humans have been mining since prehistoric times, Star Mountain Resources is taking advantage of ‘golden’ mining opportunities and exploring for base and precious metals such as gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, silica and zircon across North America.

A junior mining and exploration company, Star Mountain Resources acquires and consolidates mining claims, mineral leases, producing mines and historic mines in the United States. The Arizona-based company also identifies claims, leases and mines with excellent potential for production and growth.

Within the world of mining, companies fall into one of two groupings. They are either major or junior mining companies. Junior mining companies like Star Mountain Resources typically take the lead on exploring and providing major companies with new sites to mine. They are the ‘hunters’ of the industry and work to secure its future, and, while their revenues rarely surpass $50 million, it is junior companies like this one that propel industry growth. The major mining companies, on the other hand, are the “producers.” With their abundance of resources (they are often publicly-held, transnational firms with revenues of $500 million or more), they have the ability to take on this role, manage the ongoing mining operations needed to take out target minerals from the ground and handle the closing of mines and the reclamation of the land, once a site stops producing.

Since December of 2014, Star Mountain Resources has been better reflecting its focus on its holdings in the Star mining district of southern Utah. This Star Mountain/Chopar mine project (in Beaver County, Utah) comprises of 116 lode-mining claims and four metalliferous mineral lease sections located on 3,730 acres. To date, its exploration activities there include geological analysis and a limited reverse circulation and core drilling program. Star Mountain Resources also has mineral resources in West Ogden, Utah, where it means to focus on initiating, producing and expanding these resources to turn them into producing assets. The company is also restarting its mining activities in the Balmat mining district in upstate New York.

For more information, visit www.starmountainresources.com

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