Today, On the Move Systems issued a press release highlighting the “spending binge” our nation’s trucking and logistics industry is currently on. With no signs of slowing down, the company believes this binge could mean a favorable market debut for its upcoming “Uber-for-Trucking” platform that is now under development.

Multiple annual surveys indicate trucking firms believe technology is the best way for them to keep doing well, as the industry is currently enjoying record revenues. As a result, companies large and small are pouring money into new technologies designed to help them maximize profits, reduce costs, optimize pricing, plan routes, track shipments, schedule maintenance and find new drivers to meet surging demand.

In 2014 alone, trucking companies invested nearly $100 million in new technologies to improve their businesses.

“We’re not talking nickels and dimes; truckers are spending serious money in order to gain a competitive advantage and OMVS is going after its share of that,” stated CEO Robert Wilson. “We have a tool now under development that can meet the industry’s demand for a way to cut costs, maximize revenues and increase operational efficiency. With technology spending booming, we expect truckers will have a definite interest in our innovative solution.”

As trucking’s technology spending and investments continue to grow, analysts are predicting the industry will soon undergo a radical operational transformation, with shared economy platforms, like OMVS’s innovative app, becoming as much indispensible as mileage logs.

For more information, visit www.onthemovesystems.com

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NEAH Power Systems, Inc., an innovator and supplier of cutting-edge power products for the military, transportation and portable electronics industries, and Black-I Robotics, Inc. (“Black-I”), a leader in robotic technology-based solutions, today announced that they are teaming up to deliver NEAH Power’s patented power generation and energy storage technologies to the robotics market.

Both companies share a vision to develop power systems for robotic mobile platforms that can provide unprecedented increases in levels of performance and vastly improved deployment times, as well as deliver robotic solutions that better meet the needs of Black-I’s commercial, industrial and defense customers.

Black-I and NEAH Power have agreed to collaborate on product development and system integration of NEAH Power’s patented formic acid reformer fuel cell (Formira HOD™), PowerChip® Fuel Cell and PowerChip® Battery with Black-I’s advanced remote robotic vehicles. In addition, Black-I will serve as an engineering and sales consultant, working with NEAH Power to develop power products that can be integrated and licensed for use by other manufacturers of professional robots used for defense, ground-based and underwater transport, healthcare, logistics, and construction, as well as for use by manufacturers of personal robots for entertainment and other household applications.

The service segment of the global robotics market is expected to reach USD$16 billion by 2020. Growing investments supporting the development of service robotics in countries such as Japan, Korea, China and the United States is expected to favorably impact market growth. Increasing government spending initiatives in defense and military applications, coupled with high demand in these segments, is expected to further drive this growth.

“NEAH Power is excited to work with Black-I Robotics, a company with proven technologies and robotic platforms that can deliver advanced robotic solutions for defense, industrial and commercial applications,” stated NEAH Power CEO Chris D’Couto. “Together, we will work to expand the markets for our products by offering power solutions that can markedly increase the amount of reliable, efficient and safe power available to these systems, which in effect will drive growth for the benefit of shareholders.”

“We very much look forward to teaming with NEAH Power, a true innovator in portable power,” added Brian Hart, president and CEO of Black-I Robotics. “This agreement allows us to explore ways to meet the critical demand for lighter, more compact and highly efficient power systems for the robotics market. By consolidating our expertise, capabilities and resources, we expect to revolutionize the delivery of mobile power and truly untether robots, regardless of their power requirements, so they can better execute their mission.”

For more information, visit www.neahpower.com

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The notion of ‘affordable luxury’ has become a driving force in the alcohol industry in recent years, as a willingness to spend a bit extra on life’s simple pleasures has led consumers away from value-priced spirits in favor of higher-end offerings. According to a report by Beverage World, the high-end and super-premium spirit categories experienced significant growth in 2014, rising 5.8 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively, over the previous year. The value category, on the other hand, actually declined by 1.3 percent, illustrating the ongoing shift in consumer preference toward higher quality goods that don’t break the bank. Aristocrat Group Corp. (OTCQB: ASCC) is capitalizing on this market trend by expanding upon the availability of its award-winning RWB Ultra-Premium Handcrafted Vodka.

“RWB Vodka is one of the most highly decorated American spirits in the marketplace,” Robert Federowicz, chief executive officer of ASCC, stated in a news release. “Our sales and distribution will keep growing as word of mouth continues to spread about RWB’s premium flavor and smooth finish.”

In addition to word of mouth, ASCC is currently utilizing an aggressive marketing campaign designed to rapidly expand upon the brand recognition of RWB Vodka. Along with its presence in the world of motorsports attained by sponsoring an extremely competitive race team, the company is building a following in the entertainment industry through its sponsorship of rising country music superstar Curtis Braly. RWB Vodka is currently available online to U.S. consumers and at more than 60 retail locations and 250 clubs, bars and restaurants across the country.

Last month, ASCC announced plans to launch its popular handcrafted vodka internationally through its joint venture partner in Canada. The company plans to utilize a similar marketing strategy in the Canadian market in order to repeat the success it’s had since its U.S. launch of RWB Vodka in 2013. After aligning itself with distribution partners, ASCC will look to increase its visibility through potential sponsorships with local artists and sporting events.

“Canada is an important market for us, so we plan to invest heavily in RWB’s success in British Columbia in order to establish a foothold,” Federowicz continued. “Thanks to our experience in the U.S. market, we know which promotions are most effective. We’ll be putting that knowledge to good use in Canada.”

As it continues to progress toward building a portfolio of successful brands to compete alongside industry giants such as Diageo PLC (NYSE: DEO) and Brown-Forman Corp. (NYSE: BF-B), ASCC is in a favorable position to promote sustainable financial growth moving forward. Look for the company to continue expanding upon the marketability of RWB Vodka as it inches toward the highly-anticipated launch of its innovative new product, Big Box Vodka, in the coming weeks.

For more information, visit www.aristocratgroupcorp.com/investors or www.rwbvodka.com

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NEAH Power Systems is a leading innovator of unique energy solutions. The company develops products that address specific power requirements for clients in a wide range of markets – including military, government and corporate applications. At the heart of many of NEAH Power’s products is its patented, award-winning PowerChip® technology, which enables the development of solutions with higher power densities and compact form factors that meet exacting specifications. Through this portfolio, the company is strategically positioned to increase its market share by challenging established industry leaders.

In recent months, NEAH Power had made considerable progress toward the commercialization of its Formira Hydrogen on Demand system. While major players in the stored power industry, such as FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL), continue to highlight hydrogen generation as a major area of interest moving forward, NEAH Power is currently preparing to demonstrate its functioning system to the Australian Army in the coming weeks. The company has already initiated work on preliminary design details for units of various sizes to meet off-grid power needs, and discussions are underway with parties in China related to licensing and manufacture of the technology.

NEAH Power differentiates itself from larger fuel cell developers – including Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) and Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) – by expertly addressing the rapidly expanding market for portable electronic devices. Through its BuzzBar Suite™, the company enables off-grid, on-the-go charging capabilities for a full range of mobile devices. With the option to use a variety of energy sources – including wall outlets, solar power, fuel cells and disposable batteries, the BuzzBar is the perfect power solution for nearly any scenario. Pending the completion of a satisfactory capital raise, NEAH Power plans to commence shipment of its third generation BuzzBar later this year.

By targeting diversified industries with its award-winning technology, NEAH Power is in a favorable position to expand upon its current market share and promote sustainable financial growth.

For more information, visit www.neahpower.com

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A report out by TechSci Research in April indicates that the U.S. organic food market is on track to break the $45 billion mark this year, on the strength of rising per capita spending, increased health awareness among consumers, and a rapidly spreading culture that is acutely aware of the tremendous benefits that eating a chemical-free, organic diet can produce. At the same time, growing retail availability of organic products, once limited to traditional sources, has been greatly improved, with over 20,000 natural food stores across the country, and three out of four grocery stores now carrying at least a limited selection of organic options. And the same is true across the pond, where, according to the Soil Association’s 2015 report on the UK organic market, sales of organic products saw four percent growth last year, even as food prices declined by 1.9 percent, and food spending also declined by 1.1 percent.

Little surprise that western markets are rapidly gravitating away from chemical farming products either, with CDC estimates from two years back alone showing some 1.1 billion pounds of pesticides and active ingredients are being used annually. Globally the organic market in 2013 was already at $72 billion and if the official FiBL-IFOAM data and TechSci are right, the U.S. organic market has seen a 41.5 percent jump in just the last two years. Such growth seems well within reason at any rate, especially given a recent survey report by leading consumer products and services review publication, Consumer Reports, showing that 84 percent of Americans now routinely purchase organic food.

The explosive growth of the organic space however has produced two glaringly obvious issues. On the one hand, despite some 106 million plus acres being dedicated to organic as of the end of 2013 worldwide, supply shortages continue to be one of the greatest challenges facing the industry. On the other hand, given that it is still a largely nascent market, the product mix has not evolved sufficiently, and along the lines envisioned by die-hard, early adopting organic consumers. Hence the growing significance of up-and-comer sector innovators such as health and wellness solutions developer, Fresh Promise Foods, Inc. (OTC: FPFI), whose wholly-owned Harvest Soul subsidiary continues to deliver cutting-edge USDA Certified Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified beverage and food products which speak directly to soul of this market’s most ardent consumers.

The Harvest Soul brand has quickly risen to prominence among diehard health-conscious consumers, thanks to its having addressed the core problem in the juicing world head-on, brilliantly resolving the lack of fiber and proteins taken out during juice pressing via a product line that is the sector’s first real USDA Certified Organic chewable juice. Harvest Soul Chewable Juices are 12 ounce juices with a mega concentrated blend of veggies and fruits that are then mixed with berries, nuts and seeds at just the right size needed to encourage chewing. Chewing actively triggers the digestion process and releases enzymes that enhance nutrient absorption, and these beverages are perfect as a snack or as an entire meal. The product line speaks to consumer demand for much-needed fiber to be put back into juice, as well as demand that such product contain only 100 percent organic, non-GMO blends of nutritious leafy greens and fruits or vegetables that are delicious, but which are also rich in anti-oxidants.

Already successful in the South Region through Whole Foods Markets with the company’s Green Fusion superfood blend using 21 vegetables and fruits, as well as its Tropical Fusion energizing blend of 15 fruits and veggies, FPFI expanded to the naturally receptive West Coast and Pacific Northwest markets back in June, simultaneously introducing two new products in the lineup, Berry Banana Fusion and Veggie Beet Fusion. A major driver of consumer receptivity to the brand, beyond having so perfectly addressed unmet demands in the organic juice space, has been how the company’s proprietary High Pressure Processing (HPP) solution captures the farm-fresh flavor, brilliant colors and natural enzymes, minerals, and vitamins contained in the product’s ingredients. The company has trademarked HPP Fressurized™ to indicate to consumers that this ingenious, environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional heat pasteurization has been used in the manufacture of the product they are consuming. This extremely high pressure technique destroys unhealthy bacteria and other microorganisms, while drastically improving the overall healthiness and content of the final product, allowing the high nutrient content of the product’s organic sources to reach the consumer as never before.

Georgia-based FPFI proudly goes out of its way to source from locally-grown produce and other ingredients, helping to grow the local organic production industry, and the company even supports the Georgia Grown economic development program, designed to stimulate and encourage the development of the state’s agribusiness sector. This is the portrait of a company striking at the heart of the organic food industry’s two biggest hurdles, economies of scale on the agribusiness side, and product innovation on the retail end. Harvest Soul has even come out with a new organic, non-GMO blended juice line, Harvest Soul Organic Blended Juices, which, while still rich in fiber, will appeal more directly to the less die-hard organic consumers.

Get a closer look at the company by visiting www.freshpromisefoods.com

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OurPet’s Company designs, produces and markets a broad line of innovative pet products and accessories under the OurPets and Pet Zone brands, sold in leading pet specialty retailers, food, drug and mass merchandisers, direct-mail catalog and Internet retailers. The company’s extensive product line is built on its intellectual property portfolio of more than 160 patents in either issued or pending status.

Coinciding with corporate growth among its target markets, OurPet’s yesterday announced a new strategy to more efficiently utilize corporate resources. Moving forward, OurPet’s says it will no longer conduct quarterly earnings teleconferences, and instead is ramping up its online communications and social media strategies to ensure that shareholders have ongoing access to the company’s most recent news, financial reports and progress.

“We have hosted consistent quarterly earnings calls for the 18 months, and have not seen participation meet our targets. In light of this, we feel that we can allocate our funds toward more worthy causes, and have identified more far-reaching and cost-effect routes to disseminate company news and financial reports,” OurPet’s CFO Scott Mendes stated in the news release. “This decision further emphasizes our commitment to increasing shareholder value, transparency and communication. We look forward to providing our shareholders and potential investors with more readily available, up-to-date corporate information.”

As part of its new communications strategy, OurPet’s recently engaged DreamTeamNetwork to boost its social media, presence, disseminate news releases, achieve targeted marketing and establish a mobile version of the OurPet’s website.

For more information visit www.ourpets.com and www.petzonebrand.com

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In 2004, the Latin American nation of Colombia took a significant step forward in its efforts to promote improved English proficiency through the creation of the Foreign Languages Competencies Development Program. The goal of this initiative is to leverage the country’s human capital in order to achieve targeted levels of language learning, effectively promoting a transformation into a bilingual country by 2019. Today, roughly 11.5 million people in Colombia – just over a quarter of the population – are studying English via public and private formal education or English language training courses, according to the British Council.

Lingo Media Corp., through subsidiary ELL Technologies Ltd., recently increased its footprint in this pivotal market by partnering with eDistribution SAS to secure a multi-million dollar language learning software development contract. Through this agreement, the company will provide a full suite of digital education resources to the National Training Service (SENA), a Colombian national public institution under the Ministry of Labor. These resources are expected to play a considerable role in increasing learning and professional opportunities for as million as seven million citizens across the country.

“SENA has taken a most progressive and innovative approach to learning English and other languages by structuring their program to fit the many different learning environments and requirements to further establish Colombia as a truly bilingual nation,” Gali Bar-Ziv, president and chief executive officer of ELL Technologies, stated in a news release. “We are very excited to deliver the digital learning content and user experience to Latin America’s leading educational institute, positively impacting language education and employment opportunities in Colombia and throughout Latin America.”

Learning English isn’t just a hobby for Colombians, it is a necessity. The British Council reports that 69 percent of all managers deemed English a ‘must-have’ skill in order to adequately perform their duties, and an overwhelming 81 percent of employers rated English as a seven or above on a one-to-ten scale ranking its importance. Despite these statistics, barriers remain that can severely limit Colombians’ access to English-learning solutions. In a poll of 500 non-English speakers, more than 35 percent stated that limited access to government-funded programs was hampering their efforts to learn English. Lingo Media is now in a strong position to help SENA better address this figure.

Through its subsidiary, Lingo Media is currently developing lessons, learning objects and digital resources which SENA will implement into its learning management system. By affording educators an opportunity to pick, choose and adapt its learning programs and their components, Lingo Media is empowering educators with an opportunity to supplement, complement and enhance their coursework while simultaneously developing a sustainable foothold in one of the world’s most rapidly-expanding EdTech markets.

For more information, visit www.lingomedia.com

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In August, Oakridge Global Energy Solutions took a significant step toward expanding its market share in the competitive stored energy industry by securing coverage in ‘New to the Street’, a leading provider of business profiles and corporate special programming with a nationwide reach of more than 95 million homes. The program’s content is aired as paid-programming on popular television stations – including The History Channel and A&E – and its social media platform provides the means to market to specific demographics on social networking giant Twitter (NYSE: TWTR). Using these tools, ‘New to the Street’ is able to distribute its video interviews and profile pieces to an expansive audience through multiple channels.

“We plan to continue to work with Twitter for all of our clients… as well as our upcoming series featuring Oakridge Global Energy Solutions, Inc.,” Vince Caruso, president of ‘New to the Street’, stated in a news release. “I feel our videos are stand-alone unique video interviews which engage the public.”

Expanding awareness of its recent corporate restructuring efforts is expected to play an instrumental role in fueling Oakridge’s future growth on both domestic and international fronts. The company’s integrated, ‘made in the USA’ energy storage solutions address a variety of key markets – including stationary and grid storage; motive applications, such as electric and hybrid electric fleet vehicles; government applications, including military, aerospace, marine, civil and municipal; and special applications, such as medical and telecom.

In an effort to meet this heightened market demand, Oakridge recently commenced full-scale operations at two manufacturing plants in Melbourne, Florida, which will focus primarily on production of its cutting-edge large format Pro Series golf car batteries, as well as its small format Patriot Series RC batteries. The company is also progressing toward a global launch of a range of new battery products in collaboration with recently-formed subsidiary Oakridge Global Energy Solutions Limited, Hong Kong.

For more information, visit www.oakg.net

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With the word out that early this week that famed cryptocurrency VCs the Winklevoss twins have successfully launched Gemini, their own Bitcoin (BTC) exchange, after BitLicense approval was finally secured from New York’s financial regulatory body (the NYDFS), disruptive payment technologies enabled by digital currencies like Bitcoin may finally be coming into their own. The move by New York to lead the charge and validate the alternative currency space with foundational legislation that allows BitLicensed players to operate with unimpeachable legitimacy, combined with the hardfork that is Bitcoin XT (an adaptation that will allow for a massive leap in the transaction processing bandwidth at the heart of the BTC network), have really taken Bitcoin and digital payments to a whole new level.

When it comes to disruptive new payment technology enablers like Bitcoin, the real money to be made is not so much in the currency itself, as it is in the payments processing end of the market. As Bitcoin continues to become a global digital currency, the rapid proliferation of smartphones, mobile wallet solutions and the rise of mcommerce, collectively mean that the sky is the limit for what is effectively a completely new commerce-empowering ecosystem of payment technologies. Borderless digital currencies like Bitcoin, as well as the requisite exchanges, payment processing technologies, and end-user software needed to transform commerce, have all cropped up extremely fast too. Springing seemingly Athena-like, fully armored from the forehead of Zeus (a legacy electronic payments infrastructure that is ripe for disruption), this new ecosystem of digital payment technologies and virtual currencies has evolved so quickly that only a handful of companies today are really ready to both participate, and genuinely thrive.

One such company is Alternet Systems. Structured as an enterprise accelerator, ALYI has been focused for some time now on the two core areas that are of the utmost significance to investors in this rapidly growing ecosystem: the digital currencies and exchanges, as well as the payment processing solutions needed to truly reshape the face of an antiquated payments infrastructure. Moreover, Alternet Systems is taking the long view of the market’s true potential, focusing in on the big data aspect of digital commerce, as well as the bounteous field of associated predictive data analytics made accessible thereby. Sure, moving to be one of the first players alongside the Winklevoss twins to wade into the exchange game via New York State BitLicense acquisition – as part of a global exchange roll-up strategy executed through the company’s wholly-owned OneMarket (www.onemarket.net) subsidiary – is going to be the backbone of the data acquisition architecture, but it is the payment processing end of things that will generate the really high-value data that players like advertisers and retailers salivate over.

Big data-driven retail analytics is a marketing crystal ball and in many respects, a solid, truly 21st century implementation thereof is seen as a sort of brass ring by the sector which has long been sought after by the biggest names in retail and advertising. Mcommerce, combined with digital currencies and the associated payment technologies, offers a symbiotic, software-driven mechanism for not only understanding user spending habits as never before, but doing so in a very lightweight fashion that is practically invisible to the consumer. This light touch, combined with extremely rigorous data accumulation and the penetrating analytics to go along with it, is something which is already beginning to transform the retail space. A crowning example of what is possible here might be Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) anticipatory shipping solution, with its patented algorithm-based predictive analytics that can basically see the future, getting packages ready to ship before the consumer even clicks the “Add to Cart” button.

Alternet Systems has taken major steps to ensure that the company is able to maximize shareholder return on investment when it comes to exploiting the company’s early adopter advantage in the cryptocurrency and ecommerce/mcommerce space. Items such as the appointment of Fabio Alvino to the CEO position at the company’s wholly-owned digital currency and payment ecosystems subsidiary, Alternet Payment Solutions, speaks volumes about how serious ALYI is in this regard. Alvino is the guy who founded one of the top mobile financial services operators on earth, UTIBA Americas, which was later acquired by mobile financial services pioneer Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), the company which famously launched the very first digital wallet solution in existence back in 2004, known as Globe GCash. Needless to say, Alvino punches well above his weight in the game and will be instrumental in bringing ALYI’s digital currency ecosystem and exchange roll-up strategies to fruition.

Alternet Systems has taken the landmark $75 million funding injection in January 2015 at top digital currency industry wallet service Coinbase, which included funding from the New York Stock Exchange, as a clear indicator that the high-growth digital currency and ecommerce/mcommerce markets are about to go supernova. Just so investors realize where we are: San Francisco-based Coinbase was the first licensed U.S. based Bitcoin exchange approved to operate in 24 states, and the $75 million VC raise at the start of 2015 was the biggest single VC fundraising by a BTC-related startup in history.

We are at a fork in the road when it comes to how payments are made and early adopters who can execute properly in this phase of the game will become some of tomorrow’s biggest sector companies. Alternet Systems has the vision, as well as the technical know-how, needed to deliver on its exchange roll-up ambitions and Alvino made it very clear in a recent interview with small-cap/micro-cap media maven QualityStocks (http://www.qualitystocks.net/interview-alyi.php) that the company is squarely focused on creating a true omnichannel pipeline solution for modernizing legacy point-of-sale infrastructure. Including the development of the kinds of robust tools needed at the payment processor level, as well as a full suite of data analytics aimed at markets in the U.S. and Latin America.

Take a closer look at Alternet Systems by visiting www.alternetsystems.com

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Avant Diagnostics, an innovative in vitro diagnostics company, today told investors that the previously purchased specimens have been approved and are available for use in the upcoming validation study to be used to support a pre-Submission package to the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”).

Avant anticipates that the FDA validation study will start shortly after the ongoing calibration testing is completed. Upon completion, Avant intends to test the previously purchased set of ovarian cancer specimens, including serial sets obtained from women diagnosed previously with ovarian cancer, which will serve as the validation study and form the basis of the pre-Submission package that will be submitted to FDA for review and comment prior to the commencement of the OvaDx® 510(k) trial.

The OvaDx® microarray test is designed to be used as an aid in monitoring women diagnosed previously with ovarian cancer. The validation study and 510(k) trial will be conducted in a double-blinded environment supervised by DOCRO, Inc., an independent clinical research organization. The results from the validation study are expected to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal within six months of test completion and data analysis; however there can be no assurance that such publication will be completed within this time frame.

Gregg Linn, Avant’s Chief Executive Officer and President, stated, “Avant continues to make steady progress towards its goal of obtaining FDA 510(k) clearance for OvaDx®. We intend to periodically communicate with our shareholders and markets as we progress through the FDA negotiations and through FDA’s review of our 510(k) submission.”

For more information, visit www.avantdiagnostics.com

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