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Lingo Media Corp. (LMDCF) Promoting Financial Growth by Expanding Presence in Booming Latin American Language Learning Market

Lingo Media Corp. (OTCQB: LMDCF) is a leader in the development and marketing of English language learning products and services to support learners of English throughout various stages of life. The company operates through two distinct business units – including ELL Technologies and Lingo Learning – to deliver both online and print-based technologies and solutions around the globe. In addition to its strong presence in China’s education market, which includes access to more than 300 million students, Lingo is currently working to expand its global reach into Mexico and other Latin American markets.

With an established presence in the language learning software market, Lingo is in a formidable position to capitalize on the industry’s forecast growth in the coming years. According to a comprehensive report by Ambient Insight, global sales of English language learning products are expected to record a compound annual growth rate of 11.1 percent from 2013 to 2018, accounting for an estimated $3.8 billion in the final year of the period. The report also indicates that Asia and Latin America are two of the three regions expected to achieve the highest growth rate over the five year period, with China maintaining its presence atop the list of top buying countries.

In the first quarter of 2015, Lingo successfully leveraged this market performance to record strong financial growth. The company realized a 176 percent year-over-year boost in revenue, as well as a recording significantly improved profitability. In the future, Lingo expects to build on these results by capitalizing on favorable sales growth opportunities in Latin America.

In recent weeks, the company has placed emphasis on developing a presence in Mexico. Last month, Lingo announced a partnership with the University of Guadalajara, the second largest academic institution in Mexico, which will provide accreditation to its online English courses. Through this agreement, the company will add assessments of students’ written and speaking skills by university professionals to the benefits of its innovative learning system. Lingo also entered into a marketing agreement with ISA Corporativo for advertising services in metro stations throughout Mexico. This deal is expected to greatly increase the company’s brand awareness throughout the crucial market.

“This advertising will provide significant exposure for our brand in Mexico to not just students, teachers, governments and corporations, but to the public at large,” Michael Kraft, president and chief executive officer of Lingo, stated in a news release. “We look forward to becoming a market leader in Mexico and advancing our strategy throughout Latin America to secure additional new contracts.”

Through its continued global expansion, Lingo is living up to its motto by “Changing the way the world learns English.” For prospective shareholders, this progress, as well as the company’s recent financial performance, demonstrates the immense market potential of Lingo in the coming months. Look for Lingo to continue making efforts directed at increasing its market share in both Asian and Latin American markets moving forward, developing channels in which to promote sustainable returns for the foreseeable future.

For more information, visit www.lingomedia.com

Wisdom Homes of America (WOFA) Proving the Market for Manufactured Homes is Heating Up

Manufactured homes have had a bad rap over the last few decades, but thanks to significant improvements in quality and forward-thinking companies like Wisdom Homes of America, the tide has turned.

Wisdom Homes of America is a Tyler, Texas-based owner and operator of manufactured home retail centers. Forget your prior stigma of mobile/manufactured homes – WOFA’s manufactured homes are systematically engineered and designed with cutting-edge, computerized technology to deliver exceptional high-quality and structured homes that meet strict HUD standards.

Aside from durability, today’s manufactured homes are aesthetically appealing. While homebuyers can choose from many of WOFA’s pre-existing floor plans, the homes are highly customizable to fit the homebuyer’s individual lifestyle and budget. Ranging from 1,800-2,500 square feet, they offer more than 1,00 models and variations with numerous additional features like wrap-around porches, vaulted ceilings, wood floors, rock fireplaces and state-of-the-art appliances.

Adding another measure of hardy construction, the homes are permanently affixed to land, a characteristic that leads to WOFA’s entrance into land/home packages. The company sees an adjacent market opportunity of approximately $10 billion annually in real estate acquisition, site preparations, ancillary services, and lending and lease communities for the manufactured housing industry that requires financing capital.

Much of this market opportunity stems from broader increases in manufactured home sales. In 2014, the sales of new manufactured homes in the U.S. exceeded $4.1 billion, up from $3.8 billion in 2013, and is expected to reach $4.5 billion in 2015. The industry growth is driven by demand for quality, affordable housing.

Despite all their structural, foundational and aesthetic perks, manufactured homes are often less expensive than conventional housing. According to WOFA, purchasers of manufactured homes realize cost savings of up to 60% less per square foot compared to conventional site-built homes.

More proof of the re-invention of manufactured homes can be found in WOFA’s books. The company’s total revenue for the second quarter topped $1.2 million, and management projects revenues of at least $4 million by the end of 2015 – WOFA’s first full year owning and operating its home retail centers.

WOFA’s revenue-generating growth model calls for expansion in the retail sector through the addition of related services and the opening of new retail centers in Texas, which sells 3x more manufactured homes than any other state.

Banking on rising recognition of today’s modern manufactured homes, its strong revenue model and strategic location in the hot Texas housing market, WOFA has set a five-year goal of opening 30 additional retail center locations.

For more information visit www.wisdomhomesofamerica.com

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Well Power, Inc. (WPWR) MRU Tech for Processing Otherwise Flared Natural Gas at the Wellhead Could Help Satisfy National Demand

Back when oil was at $100 a barrel and the Obama administration first started showing signs that they were coming after oil and gas producers with new methane regulations, it was a hard sell to get the industry to take a real look at the potential of emerging wellhead capture and conversion technology. But now that West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil is trading around $46 a barrel and the EPA’s Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program draft framework is out – putting handles on the still-voluntary curbing of natural gas flaring, a national framework expected by many in the industry to drive already taxing state-based regulatory fees and fines on flaring to higher and higher levels – even companies who decided to bite the state fees bullet on not having access to natural gas pipeline tie-ins and simply flare, are turning their attention to such technology. With significantly tighter margins on the horizon for the foreseeable future, as energy producers adjust to the new normal of lower prices, squeezing every last drop of revenue out of producing assets has quickly become the industry’s new watchword.

Upon closer examination of the regulatory landscape, we see that many states are already leading the charge on the issue of gas flaring, backed up by federal as well as global initiatives designed to satisfy environmental, as well as economic concerns. Early last month a team of four New Mexico Democrats, led by Udall and Heinrich, pushed the Obama administration to level strong rulings on methane emissions from oil and gas producers ahead of the EPA draft framework. This is a move clearly understood by operators across the spectrum in the oil and gas industry to be a signal flare for what is likely to come, with state regulators picking up the federal initiatives for voluntary self-regulation and turning them into even stricter fee-based protocols, with or without mandatory federal targets. For a state like New Mexico, which delivered over 12.7 million bbls of crude and some 117 MMcf of gas in March 2015 from over 48,000 currently producing wells, which has some of the most concentrated levels of methane nationwide and is one of the top country’s top producers from federal lands, this move calling for amped-up methane regulations is an unmistakably clear shot across the bow of the industry, signaling the inevitability of much tighter controls on the practice of gas flaring. In North Dakota, the rules implemented a year ago requiring that oil companies capture 90 percent of natural gas by 2020 were recently highlighted by the state’s top regulator as being in jeopardy due to slumping energy prices, in large part as a direct result of key natural gas infrastructure projects being put on hold.

The idea of avoiding regulatory fees and fines on flaring, and even generating revenue from otherwise flared, excess natural gas that cannot be tied-in to pipelines due to insufficient national infrastructure, or due to the slow pace of new pipeline rollouts in the country’s major production regions, is now an exceptionally attractive proposition to operators. The simple truth is that, even with an estimated $54 billion spent since 2009 on new natural gas pipeline capacity in the U.S. and another $104 billion spend on the table for more networking by 2018, many operators will not have access to pipelines and will be forced to either flare and eat the associated costs, or get serious about wellhead capture/conversion technology.

One of the few publicly trading companies at the forefront of this nascent industry is Well Power, Inc. (OTCQB: WPWR), which is continuing to work towards commercialization of a robust, exclusively licensed Micro-Refinery Unit (MRU) technology that can be deployed near the wellhead and used to process high-volume raw natural gas outputs into clean power and Engineered Fuels™, such as no-sulfur diesel, diluents, and pipeline-quality synthetic crude. In order to prepare for the advent of inevitable industry changes worldwide, such highly economical, mobile and scalable solutions must be developed, and the economies of scale must be sufficiently advanced to the point where smaller operators also have access to ubiquitous capture/conversion systems.

With looming data points on the global scene like the U.N. and World Bank Group’s joint Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative, which is already endorsed by nine countries and major sector players like Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A and RDS.B) and Statoil (NYSE: STO), the true demand for such capture/conversion technology as Well Power’s MRU is becoming increasingly apparent. In countries like Nigeria, which lost $868 million last year due to flaring according to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, operators like Midwestern Oil and Gas have already pledged to completely end the practice, and to do so well ahead of the Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 target. The humble little MRU systems currently being ramped towards commercialization by WPWR in the state of Texas could be the key to helping countries like Nigeria realize their methane emission objectives, especially since the technology’s potential for rapid deployment addresses the fundamental problem facing countries like Nigeria, and many, many others. Namely, the lack of a robust pipeline networks or sufficient CNG/LNG infrastructure, a problem we generally faced by countries all across the globe, and even here in the United States where we enjoy one of the most comprehensive natural gas distribution networks on the planet.

How will small countries without sufficiently advanced pipeline infrastructures ever meet the rapidly coalescing global regulatory targets for methane emissions without robust, mobile, scalable and above all affordable wellhead capture/conversion technology? The short answer is that they won’t. The oil and gas production industries in such countries, in an environment of lower energy prices, will eventually end up crippled by regulatory costs in ways that make the challenges faced by domestic wildcats here in the U.S. seem like a walk in the park. Well Power is dedicated to helping oil and gas operators of any size not only meet the increasingly strict obligations of regulatory oversight, but actually generate vital revenue streams as well. Revenue streams which capitalize on globally apparent lack of CNG/LNG or refinery capacity, empowering operators to not only generate immediately usable electricity at the well site, but ready-for-market Engineered Fuels that can be shipped off to local or global energy-hungry consumers.

To dig deeper, check out the MRU technology by visiting www.wellpowerinc.com

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How Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Remains an Industry Beacon

Since its founding in 1964, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust has unwaveringly held to its initial mission to provide full support to smaller and mid-sized emerging and growth company. The recipe for this vision also remains the same: superior client responsiveness and uniquely tailored business solutions.

Continental is an independent, privately held, family-owned corporation staffed with some of the industry’s most experienced experts – all the makings that contribute to its rank as the fourth largest agent in the United States.

While large transfer agents work on larger companies with hundreds of thousands of shareholders, Continental focuses on companies with 50,000 or fewer shareholders. The result is hands-on, immediate access. In fact, Continental offers 24/7 access to its senior-level experts.

Core functions of a typical stock transfer agent include management of stock and/or bond certificates, acting as an intermediary for publicly traded companies, and handling lost, destroyed or stolen certificates. When that transfer agent goes beyond the fundamentals to provide personal attention and numerous offerings via innovative technology and an exceptional execution strategy- as does Continental – the result is a lengthy tenure solidified by sound reputation.

In addition to transfer agent essentials, Continentals’ extended offerings include employee plan administration, IPO and SPAC services, annual meeting and proxy services, corporate actions and escrow services, EDGAR/XBRL filing, stock plan administration, dividend reinvestment plan and direct purchase plan administration, and dividend disbursement services.

Through 50 years of experience and leadership, Continental has maintained its core vision and commitment, strengthening the agent’s stellar track record of superior customer satisfaction.

For more information, visit www.continentalstock.com

Net Element, Inc. (NETE) Posts PayOnline Historical Financial Results, Recent Achievements

Net Element, a provider of global mobile payment technology solutions and value-added transactional services, today presented historical financial results for PayOnline for periods prior to Net Element’s ownership of the online payment processing company.

PayOnline processes online payments for over 10 million active consumers and thousands of merchants in the Russian Federation, Europe and Asia. In the first quarter of 2015, PayOnline recorded net income of $74,474 on revenues of $1.2 million. For full-year 2014, the company recorded net income of $428,520 on revenues of $6.7 million.

Net Element also highlighted several of PayOnline’s recent achievements, including the July 2015 release of its Pay-Travel product; the signing of a three-year contract with certain international dating networks to provide a minimum processing commitment of $300 million and minimum net revenues to PayOnline of $1.2 million; and the launch of payment processing in Kazakhstan.

In May 2015, Net Element entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PayOnline for up to $8.4 million to create “a unique platform for further consolidation and positions [Net Element] to lead in the fragmented and growing emerging market payments industry.”

Providing insight to the market potential for PayOnline, the 2014 McKinsey Global Payments Map released October 2014 pegs Russia as the world’s sixth largest payments market, accounting for $50 billion in payments with a rapidly growing online population. The report also states that card issuance is growing at 30% per year.

Net Element plans to integrate PayOnline’s payments platform into its existing global payments-as-a-service network to expand its transaction processing offerings. Upon full integration, Net Element global merchants will have access to a broad array of value-added services including card2card transfer, payment split and the highest level of data security (Validated Level 1 PCI DSS Compliance).

Net Element assumed operational and financial control of PayOnline and its subsidiaries as of May 20, 2015, and will consolidate PayOnline results in the second quarter from May 20, 2015, to June 30, 2015.

For more information visit www.netelement.com

Aristocrat Group Corp. (ASCC) Positioned to Capitalize on Consumer Premium Spirit Popularity

Bolstering the Aristocrat Group’s focus on expanding distribution of its RWB Ultra-Premium Handcrafted Vodka, the company reports that an industry leader recently confirmed an encouraging trend: Americans are increasingly opting for premium spirits.

CEO Ivan Menezes of Diageo, the maker of top brands such as Smirnoff and Ciroc, last week told CNBC that American consumers are “drinking better” and trending toward top-shelf premium spirits in the current age of craft cocktails – confirming ASCC’s research that premium spirits are taking an industry lead.

ASCC CEO Robert Federowicz says that RWB Vodka strongly positions the company to capitalize on the wave of interest in top-quality spirits.

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

ASCC’s handcrafted, American-made RWB Ultra-Premium Handcrafted Vodka is made with the highest-quality Idaho potatoes and pure mountain spring water and then refined by a five-stage filtration system that produces gluten-free, high-class vodka. It is available online to U.S. consumers and at many retail locations, clubs, bars and restaurants.

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

On the Move Systems, Inc. (OMVS): Shared Economy Services Drive Job Creation, Growth

On the Move Systems, currently exploring new online tools to reduce costs and increase convenience in the tourism and travel industry and exploring new opportunities in trucking, in recent weeks has issued a number of news releases publicizing market potential for the company’s proposed online, on-demand courier service.

The company this morning pointed out that the shared economy, similar to the business model used at Uber, is beneficial for people looking for “steady, flexible employment or extra income” as a means to profit from the increasingly popular business model. As such, OMVS says it is considering workforce potential as it continues to scout possible locations for courier service.

“We are looking for a location that has an ample workforce, and one that is open to a flexible arrangement,” OMVS CEO Robert Wilson stated in the news release. “An online, on-demand courier service is not a typical 9-5 job. It requires not only rapid mobility, but quick adaptability as well, as the business needs are constantly changing. Right now, urban areas with young populations, particularly college students or recent graduates, appear quite promising, as people in this group always need extra income, can be highly flexible in terms of time and are open to new ways of doing business.”

OMVS also notes research showing that the Millennial generation considers the shared economy to be “hip and cool” – this generation is quickly adapting not only to using shared economy services, but increasingly becoming an active participant in them.

“Younger consumers and workers embrace technology and are willing to share – key components for success in any shared economy venture,” states the company.

A recent survey revealed nearly three out of four Americans might utilize such a service within the next two years.

For more information, visit www.onthemovesystems.com

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B. Riley Financial, Inc. (RILY) Builds on Recent Financial Performance by Uplisting to the NASDAQ Capital Market

B. Riley Financial recently took another step toward increasing shareholder value by uplisting to the NASDAQ Capital Market. Beginning at the opening of trading on July 16, the financial and business advisory services company officially commenced trading on the national market, establishing a platform upon which to expand its market presence in the months to come.

“Our listing on the NASDAQ exchange is another important milestone for our company,” Bryant Riley, chairman and chief executive officer of RILY, stated in a news release. “We believe that the listing of our shares on NASDAQ will help expand our shareholder base, improve liquidity, and ultimately, increase shareholder value.”

Headquartered in Los Angeles, RILY is a diversified financial services company taking a collaborative approach to the capital raising and financial advisory needs of public and private businesses and high-net-worth individuals. The company, along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, consists of more than 200 professionals whose cross-platform expertise allows RILY to offer a myriad of financial solutions. Among the company’s subsidiaries are leading investment bank and FINRA-licensed broker dealer, B. Riley & Co. LLC, as well as Great American Group, LLC, a leading provider of advisory and valuation services, asset disposition and auction solutions.

In the first quarter of 2015, RILY gave prospective shareholders a preview of its tremendous growth potential by realizing a 20 percent year-over-year increase in total revenues, recording $26 million for the period. Among this revenue, approximately $9.2 million was attributable to the company’s operational synergies following its June 2014 acquisition of B. Riley & Co. LLC. In total, RILY leveraged its improved status within its target markets to record a net income of $2.7 million for the quarter.

“Our Q1 results reflected our ability to capture synergies from the B. Riley and Great American combination, further diversify our revenue base, and capitalize on attractive opportunities in our capital markets and liquidation businesses,” continued Riley. “[W]e are increasingly confident in our ability to leverage our diversified and expanding financial services platform to generate recurring revenue along with strong profitability.”

In recent weeks, RILY has built upon its first quarter results, establishing strong momentum ahead of its transition to the NASDAQ exchange. Last month, the company successfully closed a $25 million term loan to RadioShack, announced auction proceedings for the assets and intellectual property of three Saleen (SLNN) supercars and acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Hoffman Southwest Corporation in its sale to Sterling Partners. In addition to demonstrating the formidable market performance of RILY, these transactions also highlight the highly diverse and viable revenue base of the company moving forward.

For more information, visit www.brileyfin.com

International Stem Cell Corp. (ISCO) Parkinson’s Treatment Just the Tip of the Iceberg for Stem Cell Technology Platform

The fact that novel stem cell therapy developer, International Stem Cell (OTCQB: ISCO), is now rapidly advancing from highly successful preclinical studies in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) using human parthenogenetic neural stem cells (hpNSC) derived from its proprietary stem cell technology platform toward a landmark phase 1/2a clinical study clinical study in Australia, has sparked renewed interest in the investment community regarding the company’s technology. After the publication of data on two proof of concept PD studies, demonstrating the safety and functional efficacy of the company’s human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs) – an entirely new class of stem cells created using unfertilized eggs which substantially addresses the problem of cell transplant immune-rejection – the fundamental viability of ISCO’s hpSC approach and the potential for the upcoming clinical trial in PD have caused many in the investment community to dig deeper into ISCO’s dynamic platform.

Given the recent projection by research and consulting firm GlobalData that the PD treatment market alone will continue to grow alongside an ageing global population, running a CAGR of around four percent over the next several years, before hitting around $5.3 billion in 2022, the development of a viable treatment option by ISCO could be a major victory for the company and for patients; a victory which would also broadly legitimize the company’s existing clinical pipeline, while adding fuel to the fire of its existing commercialization. It is important to note that when it comes to PD, leading dopamine agonists like pramipexole and ropinirole, or Neupro/Leganto (rotigotine), work by merely imitating dopamine, stimulating the brain in a similar fashion and thus making up for the dopamine-producing cells that have died due to the onset of PD.

Dopamine agonist regimens do not represent a real treatment and merely mask the underlying disease. While such PD regimens return some percentage of motor and cognitive control to the patient, they are a far cry from the demonstrated ability of ISCO’s transplanted hpNSCs to both actively differentiate into new dopamine-producing neurons and simultaneously act as a neuroprotectant, addressing both the patient’s current symptoms and helping to stop further deterioration. ISCO’s approach is closer to that of regenerative medicine company Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE: CUR), whose initial therapeutic product, derived from spinal cord neural stem cell lines, has received FDA orphan status for application in ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

In ISCO’s case, the derivation and implementation methodologies are of particular interest, especially given the immune-matching aspects of the technology and its scalability potential, both in terms of producing large quantities of stem cells for transplant and with regards to addressing therapeutic avenues beyond the scope of the company’s current clinical pipeline. As the company moves out of the preclinical stage in its work on PD using hpNSCs, which have also shown significant promise as a legitimate treatment option for actually reversing the functional deficits associated with a stroke, when administered even weeks after the actual event, it makes sense to take a look at ISCO’s already functional commercial operations based on its stem cell platform technology. This is especially true given the company’s ongoing work with hpSC-derived human retinal epithelium (RPE) cells for treating retinal and corneal blindness, as well as its stem cell-derived liver cell (CytoHep) program, which is focused on developing metabolic liver disease therapies.

A solid five percent sales uptick for Q1 this year compared to 2014 reported by the company’s Lifeline Skin Care subsidiary – which leverages the same ethically-derived stem cell platform technology to create an extract for use in skin care products that have demonstrably shown an ability to improve elasticity, firmness, tone and other sought-after qualities – is a solid indicator of the company’s existing ability to generate revenue from its technology, even before commercialization of the clinical pipeline has been realized. With the global facial skin care market on track to hit somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 billion by 2019 (Transparency Market Research), driven in part by the fact that more and more men are beginning to show an increased awareness of and concern for their skin’s health, ISCO’s capacity to bring revolutionary products to market based on far more potent non-embryonic stem cells than the adult stem cells used by many other entrants to this burgeoning segment of the skin care market, has already placed the company in a class all its own.

A full lineup of facial skin care products, including an antioxidant polisher, brightening cleanser and exfoliating preparation, roundly back up Lifeline Skin Care’s eye firming complex and revitalizing moisture serum products, which are made possible by a nanotech encapsulation of the stem cell extract’s key proteins. This unique encapsulation of the proteins in an oily two-layer sphere, allows Lifeline products to penetrate deep into the middle layer of the skin, the dermis, where collagen and elastin (the main structural and elastic peptides that give the skin its youthful qualities) are produced.

Lifeline Skin Care customers rave about the results, expressing most often how much lighter and brighter their skin looks and feels. Given the continued success of the company’s clinical pipeline and the demonstrable efficacy of hpSCs in treating notoriously difficult CNS conditions like PD, it is not hard to understand why Lifeline Skin Care products have become so beloved by consumers. The idea of actually replacing skin proteins with high-potency, nanotech encapsulated, small-molecule and therefore readily absorbed proteins is a significant technological leap beyond what other stem cell-based skin care companies have been doing. Clinical laboratory studies showing a 46 percent increase in elastin, and a 48.5 percent on average increase for the two primary types of collagen when using Lifeline stem cell products, adds readily quantifiable weight to the documented expressions by consumers about how their skin feels brighter, more luminous, and healthier after using the products.

Operating income for ISCO from both aforementioned cosmeceutical commercialization and the company’s ongoing biomedical commercialization, which is executed under the company’s Lifeline Cell Technology subsidiary, was up some 76 percent in Q1 this year compared to 2014. Lifeline Cell Technology has quickly become an industry leader in supplying purified primary human cells and optimized cell culture reagents, and while this market is not as immediately lucrative as skin care, the long-term revenue generation potential as the stem cell industry evolves is considerable in its own right. With the best Q1 financial performance owing to the company’s cosmeceutical division, investors should take note of ISCO’s ability to generate revenues well before its clinical pipeline achieves commercialization, a feat which very few young biotechs can boast of.

Cancer is another huge area where we could see such technology revolutionize the way therapy is handled. Stem-cell transplantation following high-dose chemotherapy for instance, has emerged as an established treatment modality for a variety of hematologic malignancies, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. The company’s capacity to produce large volumes of immune-matched stem cells using its proprietary parthenogenetic derivation technology, at its GMP facility in Oceanside, California, is a key strategic and logistical advantage here as well. Even such innovators like clinical-stage biopharma BioLineRx (NASDAQ: BLRX) – which recently announced robust stem-cell mobilization capability with its lead oncology candidate, allowing for harvesting of enough cells needed to transplant from healthy volunteers into patients with hematological malignancies – are notably handicapped by comparison when it comes to cell source logistics.

Learn more about the company by visiting www.internationalstemcell.com

ENGlobal Corp. (ENG) Enabling Seamless Communications between Topside and Subsea Equipment with Universal Master Control Station

ENGlobal Corp. is a leading provider of energy engineering and related services, and the company has been building upon this reputation through its Subsea Controls & Integration (SCI) group. Providing advanced process automation design, engineering services and equipment for the effective integration of communication protocols between topside production facilities and subsea devices, the group’s primary objective has been the development of a long-term vision and commercialization plan for its groundbreaking Universal Master Control Station (UMCS), which enables communications between virtually any subsea equipment, regardless of supplier.

Utilizing patented technology, ENGlobal’s UMCS provides dramatic cost savings by allowing for quick integration of a rich set of topside and subsea devices into a pre-engineered, standardized system. By enabling a simple ‘drag-and-drop’ control scheme, the company’s device greatly decreases the effect of human error on device programming, while effectively shortening overall delivery times.

The company’s innovative system allows operators to decrease dependence on a single vendor by opening the door for full integration of a host of industry-leading brands. As a fully reusable and upgradable investment, the UMCS serves as the communication link to the distributed control system, hydraulic power unit and electrical power unit, and, since the technology is not based on proprietary communication interfaces or custom hardware, it can be used to control equipment from a collection of suppliers.

The UMCS addresses many of the limitation of historic customized subsea control systems. Taking significantly less time to build and interface with topside components, ENGlobal’s innovative technology is a standardized approach to project-specific configuration requirements. As the core of an intelligent subsea control system, the company’s UMCS combines industry proven, fault-tolerant control hardware with the extensive experience of ENGlobal to create the most robust control station currently available.

Despite the recent downturn in energy commodity prices, the diversity of ENGlobal’s product and services portfolio has allowed the company to maintain a strong cash position, providing a platform for future growth. Look for the company to build upon its established industry presence moving forward as it continues to promote sustainable returns in the months to come.

For more information, visit www.englobal.com

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D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) Secures $400 Million in Equity Offering, Eyes Acquisitions and Expansion

July 18, 2025

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, has completed sales of $400 million in gross proceeds of its common stock in an at-the-market equity (“ATM”) offering, a move that strengthens its financial position as the company looks to scale operations and pursue strategic acquisitions. The raise, conducted […]

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