If the fun and fare offered up at Giggle N’ Hugs (OTCQB: GIGL) is good enough for the children of Adele, Drew Barrymore and Tori Spelling, you might just say it would be good enough for your kids, too. The upward trending restaurant, designed with the needs of children in mind, is capturing the attention of their mall going parents for its healthy menu, fun-filled themed parties and overall unique concept, which is unlike any other.

GIGL delivers a play castle, a life-size pirate ship and a variety of toys and attractions that everyone’s children can enjoy. In addition, children have the opportunity to practice sharing, taking turns and making new friends. Every thirty minutes Giggles N’ Hugs delivers a host of fun activities such as dance parties, karaoke, face painting, arts and crafts, scavenger hunts and much more, and one of the biggest value propositions about a visit to Giggles N’ Hugs is one the children never get to see or hear – their parents enjoying an anxiety-free shopping experience knowing their children are being well attended to – in body, mind and soul!

In addition to a ‘who’s who’ roster of celebrity families visiting GIGL at any one of its three Los Angeles area mall locations, several well-known publications have either written about or voted the concept a winner. GIGL was voted the #1 birthday party place and “Best Pizza in Los Angeles” by Nickelodeon. It was also voted Best Indoor Playspace by Red Tricycle and listed best family & kid-friendly restaurants by CitySearch & GoCityKids.

Your children can ‘be the star’ at GIGL’s one-of-a-kind birthday parties, which are filled with excitement and exercise inside of a 6,000 square foot family restaurant. When you throw a party at Giggles N’ Hugs, the company handles every little detail, so mom and dad can enjoy their day with the peace of mind that comes from knowing that an award-winning, professional staff is handling setup, cleanup, and everything in between.

Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. owns and operates kid-friendly restaurants with play areas for children who are 10 and under. The company owns and operates a restaurant in the Westfield Mall in Century City, a restaurant in the Westfield Topanga shopping center in Woodland Hills, and a restaurant in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, California. Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and was founded in 2010.

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FlexWeek, Inc.’s (OTC: FXWK) innovative online platform for timeshare rentals is set to boost the secondary market for timeshares, and that’s great news for timeshare owners and investors. A functioning secondary market in timeshares will play the same important roles as does the secondary market in securities. One of these roles is the provision of liquidity. When one buys stocks, the funds are tied up indefinitely, but suppose the proverbial rainy day comes along and you need to cash in your investment. What can be done? It used to be that your only option was finding a willing buyer by advertising or some other means. Now, some companies like Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL), and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) offer Direct Stock Purchase Plans (DSPPs) and Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs), and these plans may provide a way for a shareholder to sell shares back to the plan. But such options may be unpalatable since the purpose of these plans is to encourage long-term stock ownership.

A secondary market, such as the one administered by the NYSE in which shares are traded, allows you to find a willing buyer much easier and so makes the securities you own more liquid. Another important function of securities markets is pricing and valuation. A secondary market allows the price of one company’s shares to be compared to the prices of all other traded companies’ shares and so compares the value of one investment against another. For timeshares this is especially important.

Without a secondary market in timeshares, the only price for a timeshare would be the one set by the developer. The value of timeshares would essentially be determined by developers, but, if there is a secondary market in which timeshares are resold, the value of timeshares would be set by the market the way that securities’ prices are set in the secondary market. No company could issue shares at $100 when they are trading in the secondary market at $70, but this is exactly what is happening in the timeshare market.

Evidence of the huge pricing gap between the primary and secondary markets for timeshares is given by RedWeek, which reports (http://dtn.fm/1d2tE) on its website that ‘Timeshare re-sales… are typically priced 30-50% below the original developer or resort price’. This assertion is supported by a story (http://dtn.fm/h6hAc) in Kiplinger that states, “With brand-name developments, such as Disney (NYSE: DIS), Marriott (NASDAQ: MAR) and Wyndham (NYSE: WYN), you typically pay 30% to 50% less than the developer’s price.”

FlexWeek is contributing to the development of the timeshare secondary market with its unique peer-to-peer (P2P) platform, which is focused on timeshare rentals. Timeshare rentals can provide the same two market functions that timeshare re-sales do. A vibrant rental market will allow timeshare owners to recoup the costs for timeshare weeks they could not utilize in much the same way a re-sale would have done. In fact, it’s a superior option, since he still owns the asset. He didn’t have to sell to mitigate losses. Rentals will also, undoubtedly, influence pricing and valuations. They will, at the very least, establish a floor for valuations. Valuation of timeshares is a complex issue since a timeshare owner enters the contract expecting to pay a cash sum for an intangible benefit. Unlike owning a financial asset, there is no expectation of future positive cash flows.

A survey in 2012 conducted by the American Resort Development Association found that about 20 percent of timeshares usually enter the re-sale market, and the recent State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry: United States Study 2015 Edition reports that timeshare revenues in 2014 amounted to $7.9 billion. This would put the size of the re-sale market at approximately $1.6 billion. With an opportunity like that, FlexWeek could be the AirBnB of the timeshare industry.

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Earlier today, Oakridge Global Energy Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: OGES) announced the promising results from Maritime Tactical Systems, Inc.’s (MARTAC) recently conducted field trials of its Man-Portable Tactical Autonomous Systems (MANTAS). According to the release, the trials, which were held on January 25-28 in the Indian River in Palm Bay, Florida, were a major success, utilizing several different sizes of MARTAC’s versatile high speed maritime vessels and leaving all participants exceptionally pleased. This result is particularly favorable for Oakridge, as the company designed and produced custom batteries to fit the specific requirements of the MANTAS platforms as they are implemented in a wide variety of critical applications – including naval fleet protection, mine warfare, port and harbor security protocol, anti-piracy, and search and rescue.

“The custom battery design for MARTAC was quite challenging while at the same time exciting for our team,” Steve Barber, executive chairman and chief executive officer of Oakridge, stated in the news release. “We are pleased to have been a part of this huge success for the MARTAC team and look forward to working with them as we both move forward.”

Oakridge previously announced its supplier agreement with MARTAC in early January, just two days after entering into the full-scale production phase of its corporate restructuring efforts. After reviewing the applications and specifications of MARTAC’s innovative vehicle, the company’s engineering team immediately started development efforts for a customized stored energy solution that strengthened the marketability and performance of the MANTAS platforms.

“We were ecstatic with the custom Oakridge Energy Units designed for and utilized on the MANTAS platforms,” Bruce Hanson, president and chief executive officer of MARTAC, added. “Oakridge stepped up to the plate and knocked it out of the park. They have greatly expanded the effective range of the MANTAS while at the same time providing us a much safer vessel that can be utilized in many environments where present energy technology is not allowed due to safety concerns.”

Following this demonstration of the quality and effectiveness of Oakridge’s lithium ion technologies, the company is in a favorable position to achieve the rapid growth forecast by its management team earlier this year. By exceeding the expectations of clients in key niche market segments, Oakridge aims to quickly realize its goal of ushering in “a new era in battery manufacturing” by offering a high quality, domestically-manufactured alternative to inferior lithium ion chemistries and stored energy solutions produced throughout Asia.

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The Renaissance is a paradoxical period in history. It gave us Michelangelo and da Vinci, but it also gave us the Borgias and their own distinctive brand of terrorism. By all accounts, the Borgias even concocted their own poison, the cantarella. Today, we have our own Borgias in the food processing industry. Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), has revived the old profession of food taster with its innovative range of apps.

Kris Finstad, CEO of Content Checked, has been featured by numerous media outlets, including a recent interview with BusinessRockstars (http://dtn.fm/H3zm3). Finstad founded the company in July 2013 to create a revolutionary marketplace for people with dietary restrictions and the organizations who cater to them. Content Checked has introduced, so far, three cutting-edge apps that provide comprehensive and accurate content information and in-depth allergen and migraine definitions for most U.S. food products, the reception to which has been tremendously positive. The company is already generating revenue. Its latest 10-Q filing reveals revenues of $657,850 for the 6-month period ending September 30, 2015.

Before founding Content Checked, Finstad was chairman of a UK-based offshore fund. He has also co-founded and funded several startups in the technology, real estate and bio-tech fields and holds several board member positions with various organizations. Founding Content Checked grew out of his frustration as a father, not knowing what foods to buy to avoid triggering his daughter’s allergies and intolerances. The first app launched by the company, ContentChecked, tackled the problem of food allergies and intolerances.

ContentChecked, like later apps released by the company, can be downloaded on a smartphone and allows a shopper to scan a product’s bar code and determine if it is safe for consumption. The app provides access to an expansive menu and recipe database with directions and ideas on food preparation for avoiding allergic reactions, depending on a user’s allergy settings. The ContentChecked app’s database includes over 400,000 products in the U.S. and is continuously being expanded and updated. The database not only lists allergens and food ingredients, but indicates any links between the two. The ContentChecked app is also useful for food manufacturers and distributors, since they are able to market to their target consumers from a platform at the point-of-sale.

ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked are a trio of easy-to-use apps for the modern, tech-savvy and health-conscious shopper. It is estimated that over 38 million Americans suffer from migraine and chronic headaches. As a result, it is no surprise that together, ContentChecked, MigraineChecked and SugarChecked, have had over 2 million downloads and 66 percent of users are active at least 5 times a week. With SugarChecked, you can scan the barcodes of grocery store products and determine the kind of sugars contained within. The app identifies four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid, including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols. SugarChecked is an easy shopping tool that allows consumers to decipher often-misleading food labels and receive recommendations for healthier alternative products as they shop in real time.

CEO, Kris Finstad, has ‘skin in the game’. In a recent letter to shareholders, he said, “As a measure of my confidence in Content Checked as a company and as a brand, in September 2015, I converted approximately US$1.1 million of my funds advanced to the Company into shares of the Company’s common stock, at a conversion price set at US$0.96 per share.”

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A report, Global SOFC Market 2016-2020, this month from market research firm ReportsnReports predicts that the global solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.78 percent over the five-year period from 2016 to 2020. That’s twice the 4.96 percent rate of the S&P 500 from 2001 to 2015. The reporting analysts expect the main driver of this growth to be technological advances that will allow SOFC technology to be employed as an alternative to lithium-based batteries. Another study, by MarketsandMarkets, entitled Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Market, projects the SOFC market will grow from an estimated $2.19 billion in 2013 to $3.32 billion by 2018. Dominovas Energy Corporation (OTCQB: DNRG) is positioned to benefit from this market expansion. It has signaled its intention to acquire Grupo Trébol Holding, a private global energy solutions company with operations and strategic partnerships throughout Central and South America that is based in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Dominovas Energy has developed the innovative RUBICON™ solid oxide fuel cell. The RUBICON™ is a modular SOFC system that operates at high temperatures (up to 800°C) and has a number of advantages. First, it is constructed of all solid components. Second, its accelerated electrochemical kinetics allow it to proceed without the need for expensive noble metals such as platinum. In some fuel cell applications, noble metals are used to catalyze the chemical reaction. Third, internal fuel reforming is possible and carbon monoxide may be used as a fuel. Fourth, it is more tolerant of fuel contaminants, such as sulfur, since these components dissipate before being deposited on the fuel cell components. And fifth, the RUBICON™ is capable of reforming multiple fuels such as diesel, natural gas, propane, ethanol, syngas (a mixture of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen), methanol and bio-fuels. Additionally, SOFC systems are virtually silent, just like a battery.

In some ways, fuel cells are very similar to batteries in that electricity is produced by a chemical reaction. Fuel cells are usually grouped together to form a fuel cell stack. Each individual cell contains an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte layer. When a hydrogen-rich fuel such as clean natural gas or renewable biogas enters the fuel cell stack, it reacts electrochemically with oxygen from the air to produce an electric current, heat and water. While a typical battery has a fixed supply of energy, fuel cells continuously generate electricity as long as fuel is supplied.

Dominovas Energy Corporation has identified marketing and sales opportunities for fuel cells in frontier market countries, where electricity supply is frequently unreliable, antiquated, and expensive, as compared to the cost of electricity and its production in the United States. Dominovas Energy works with host nations’ governments. Initial project sizes range from three to 200 megawatts (MW), with eventual project sizes of up to 3,000 MW. Project cost projections range from $25 million and beyond. Dominovas Energy will provide power to the local utilities under power provider agreements (PPAs), and, prior to deployment, it will require specific guarantees, bonding or other credit support, as necessary, where the local contracting entities do not enjoy strong credit ratings.

In the surfing world, you’ll always hear ‘you should have been here yesterday’. That’s definitely something that won’t be said of Dominovas Energy Corporation.

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On Thursday, Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (NYSE MKT: ETAK) took a major step forward in its ongoing corporate restructuring efforts when it announced the execution of a binding agreement to divest its interest in ValidSoft, a leading provider of personal authentication and device assurance services.

According to the terms of the agreement, Elephant Talk will receive a total consideration of $12.5 million from Cross River Initiatives LLC in the form of a wire transfer of $8 million and a $4 million short-term secured note, due no later than March 21, 2016, in addition to a $500,000 advance that was paid last month. Effective February 1, 2016, Cross River has also agreed to assume all actual working capital and general business expenses associated with the ongoing operation of ValidSoft, with all payments being non-refundable in the event that the transaction fails due to breach of the agreement by Cross River.

As part of this transaction, Elephant Talk, ValidSoft and Cross River have also agreed to negotiate a perpetual, royalty-free license to ValidSoft’s Device Trust™ and User Authentication™ solutions, including the right to incorporate these technologies into Elephant Talk’s mobile telecommunications-cloud platform and other technologies. This agreement will also give Elephant Talk the right to resell these technologies through its platform moving forward.

The sale of ValidSoft marks the latest in a number of recent actions designed to bring Elephant Talk’s operations in line with its current revenues. In particular, the company has significantly reduced its staff, reorganized its management team and appointed new board members. Following completion of this restructuring, Elephant Talk’s management team expects the company to be in a strong position to achieve favorable financial results in the months to come.

“The closing of this transaction will significantly strengthen our balance sheet and provide working capital to complete our restructuring and pursue key growth opportunities,” Hal Turner, executive chairman of the board of Elephant Talk, noted in the news release. “[W]e are pleased with the overall restructuring and we can see a clear path towards sustainability and future profitable growth.”

Elephant Talk is a provider of cloud-based mobile network solutions with a proven track record in the software and telecom industries. The company deployed its first virtual network platform for a major mobile carrier in 2008, and its turnkey mobile services platform is capable of supporting millions of subscribers. With the assembly of a new executive management team, Elephant Talk boasts a wealth of experience in the telecom, software and technology sectors, as well as an extensive history of achieving rapid financial and commercial growth.

For more information, visit www.ElephantTalk.com

After a disastrous night out with their children, Joey and Dorsa Parsi decided it was time to create a kid-friendly restaurant that also delivers fresh, healthy food. Since its founding in 2008, Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. (OTCQB: GIGL) has opened three locations in some of Southern California’s premier malls. The company’s innovative restaurant concept includes a huge play area where children can safely play while parents watch in the surrounding restaurant. Within this exciting play area, children can mingle and socialize with other children and parents while practicing important development skills.

According to eXtension.org, social skills learned in childhood prepare people for adulthood. Skills learned earlier make up the foundation of future relationships with family members, friends, co-workers, etc. These skills are then honed and developed over time. The interaction with other children and adults in a safe and well-structured environment allows children to strengthen their social abilities in a healthy way.

With its life-size pirate ship, play castle, climbable green dragon, and various toys and play kitchens, children have the opportunity to practice sharing and taking turns at Giggles N’ Hugs. Children can also learn how to make new friends and be a part of a team. The restaurant offers fun activities every 30 minutes, such as kids’ karaoke, dance parties, arts and crafts, face painting, scavenger hunts and more, which help kids learn to respect non-parent figures while strengthening their communication skills. Just by having fun with others while parents enjoy their delicious meals, children at Giggles N’ Hugs address separation anxiety while developing some independence.

Though Giggles N’ Hugs is a successful pioneer in combining play with healthy food, the overall social, mental, and emotional opportunities it presents for childhood development are apparent. Not only will the restaurant continue to offer a safe place for children and parents to eat, but it will also help children learn valuable life skills through interaction and activity.

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Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) specializes in precision marketing, a marketing technique that executes on the basis that successful marketing is to retain, cross-sell and upsell existing customers. MOXC emphasizes relevance as part of its precision marketing technique, and, in order to achieve relevance, precision marketers solicit personal preferences directly from recipients. Since 2010, the company has been focusing on helping business owners engage in high-level, targeted marketing by combining a customer relations management tool with data analysis to deliver highly sought-after solutions via online-to-offline platform-integrating social media for small- and medium-sized companies predominantly based in China.

The company delivers social customer relationship management, event hosting, marketing, vouchers and product listings services. By allowing merchant clients to study consumer behavior, Moxian’s products and services have also been generating repeated interactions between users and merchant clients. When customers initiate MOXC’s User App, they gain access to a social media platform that comes with a comprehensive service package which includes a news center; a game center that enables users to play games and earn Moxian-sponsored MO-Points; and MO-Shake, a service that allows users to shake their phone to win merchant-sponsored vouchers, as well as coupons, discounts, or admission to other events hosted by merchant clients and much more.

The Moxian+ User App encourages consumers to use the platform, consisting of proprietary virtual currency (MO-Coin and MO-Points), social networking, a redemption center and game center. Users can earn MO-Coins by playing games, and then use those coins to redeem prizes sponsored by Moxian and client merchants. This model not only drives registered consumers to both Moxian and its merchant customers, but also provides merchants the opportunity to advertise, run marketing campaigns, and learn about their customers through the platform.

Moxian also has an app that allows merchants to oversee their presence within the platform. From this app, the merchant can open an e-commerce shop, manage payments, receive analytics, plan a marketing campaign, interact with customers and offer rewards and discounts.

The company was formerly known as Moxian China, Inc. and changed its name to Moxian, Inc. in July 2015. Moxian, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Shenzhen, China.

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

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Dominovas Energy Corp. (OTCQB: DNRG) builds shareholder value by pursuing opportunity around advancing “NextGen” clean energy – an efficient, solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Referenced within the energy industry as the RUBICON™, this trademark is designed by world-renowned scientist and engineer Shamiul Islam, PhD, along with engineers from AVL List GmbH.

Today’s market sees consumers spending their money on “Green Technology,” and for good reason. By “greening” residential communities, corporate offices, recreational parks, retail sites, industrial complexes, and distribution centers, governments and companies are demonstrating their commitment to their customers, employees, and local communities to reduce atmospheric pollutants. Fuel cells are front and center to this conversation – leading the charge into this new era of “Green Technology.”

The transition to fuel cell systems is in full swing among companies worldwide. In the 2008 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, it was stated that “Green” companies are retaining old customers and attracting new ones. It has also been widely reported that fuel cells have an unmistakably positive impact on our environment.

Global concerns about climate change, energy security, and air pollution are driving demand for fuel cell technology. It has been reported that over 630 companies and laboratories in the United States are investing over $1 billion a year in fuel cells or fuel cell component technologies, according to Fuel Cells 2000. Major grocery chains, hotels, distributors, telecom companies, manufacturers, and many others that implement fuel cell systems are finding them to be exceptionally efficient and cost effective.

Dominovas Energy Corporation has designed the first of its kind “mega-watt true” fuel cell system and will manufacture, market, and deploy multi-megawatt power plants driving the production of ‘green technologies.’ Today, the company offers the RUBICON™ fuel cell system, a modular SOFC system that operates at high temperatures and offers its products to the fuel cell and sustainable/alternative energy industry. Dominovas Energy Corporation is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Earlier today, Avant Diagnostics, Inc. (OTCQB: AVDX) announced that it will present at the SeeThruEquity & The Brewer Group 2nd Annual Innovations Investor Conference, which will take place at The Ritz-Carlton in Miami on South Beach on February 22, 2016. As a presenter, Avant will be provided with a 30-minute time slot with which to present to an audience of investors and industry professionals. The company’s management team is also expected to be available for one-on-one meetings with institutional investors attending the event.

To view a complete list of presenting companies, visit http://steconference.com/presenting-companies

This announcement follows last month’s news that Avant has entered into a letter of intent to merge with Amarantus Diagnostics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: AMBS). The proposed merger is expected to create opportunities for the combined company to progress the development of highly valuable diagnostic assets – including Avant’s OvaDx® large panel biomarker test for use in monitoring women at a heightened risk for ovarian cancer, as well as Amarantus Diagnostics’ MSPrecise® diagnostic assay for multiple sclerosis and LymPro Test® flow cytometry assay for Alzheimer’s disease.

“After exploring numerous avenues for implementing Avant’s OvaDx® development and commercialization strategy, it is clear that combining Avant’s and Amarantus’ diagnostic assets and core competencies forms a platform that provides maximum value to our collective shareholders,” Gregg Linn, president and chief executive officer of Avant, stated in a recent news release. “The collective diagnostic assets will create a truly unique opportunity to implement our respective missions of saving and enhancing lives through early detection of disease in oncology and neurology.”

SeeThruEquity, a leading independent equity research and corporate access firm, released a report studying the potential effects of the Avant merger last month. Among the highlights, the SeeThruEquity report inferred that, when completed, the proposed merger “will allow them to progress at a much faster pace and to develop valuable diagnostic assets in areas of oncology and neurology.” The report went on to note that the combined assets of Avant and Amarantus Diagnostics “have the potential to improve the practice of medicine by providing new proprietary diagnosis and monitoring tools for oncologists and neurologists.”

If approved for commercialization, OvaDX, in particular, is expected to offer a clear improvement to the current diagnostic standard by substantially improving the accuracy of diagnosis and allowing for a more effective therapeutic triaging and intervention strategy. It’s estimated that the market opportunity for OvaDx is $50 million annually as a diagnostic test for ovarian cancer, and this opportunity would expand to over $2 billion annually if it were to be approved as a generalized screening and/or monitoring tool.

For more information, visit the company website at www.avantdiagnostics.com

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