Pure Hospitality Solutions, Inc. (OTC: PNOW) announced that it had teamed with Costa Rica-based Jaco Tour Company, allowing the company’s upcoming OTA, the Oveedia Travel Network, to officially add excursions to its growing database of reservation options.

“Today marks another major milestone for PURE, Oveedia and our reputation within the Central American-Caribbean region,” stated Melvin Pereira, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pure. “After a number of conversations and meetings, Oveedia has its first independent tour company, on-top of Sabre’s extensive database.”

Through the deal, Pure has agreed to feature the Jaco Tour Company on Oveedia’s homepage, providing travelers with access to exclusive pricing on fishing charters, transportation, local tours and day trips throughout all of Costa Rica. Moving forward, these independent offers will allow Pure to differentiate Oveedia from worldwide OTAs, further demonstrating the market for region-specific solutions in the Central American-Caribbean travel market and, potentially, increasing the end value of the Oveedia platform.

“While being a part of Sabre’s $7 Billion Travel Network family is absolutely crucial, it’s the independent hotels and companies, such as the Tango Mar and now the Jaco Tour Company, which makes Oveedia completely unique and extremely valuable,” continued Pereira. “Oveedia will have an entire region of properties and travel companies represented on its platform that are not readily listed on larger, globally known OTA’s. This, in and of itself, makes the platform extremely valuable as an acquisition target.”

Earlier this week, Pure took a major step towards the launch of its groundbreaking OTA platform by submitting the Oveedia architecture to the Sabre Travel Network. Through its partnership with Sabre, the company added more than 125,000 hotels, 400 airlines, 16 cruise lines and 25 car rental selections to its reservation database, but the importance of independent deals to the overall success of Oveedia can’t be overstated. With the early stages of the company’s three phase rollout of the network scheduled to begin in the upcoming weeks, Pure is continuing to amplify the OTAs massive potential through these region-specific partnerships.

According to a report by eMarketer, the Latin American region has led the world in terms of online travel sales growth for the better part of a decade. From 2010 to 2013, the region recorded annual growth topping 30 percent, and this rapid expansion is expected to continue in the years to come. Through the development of the Oveedia platform, Pure is positioning itself to translate this growth into sustainable returns moving forward. Look for the company to make waves in the OTA industry as it continues to expand its database of booking options, establishing Oveedia as a potentially lucrative acquisition target in the near future.

For more information on Pure Hospitality Solutions, visit www.purenow.solutions

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Los Angeles-based MIT Holding has an established working arrangement with one of the approximately 400 compounding licensed pharmacies remaining in the United States. Currently, many big name pharmaceutical companies are buying up these compounding pharmacies to eliminate competition. However, MIT Holding has a contractual arrangement with a well-respected and highly qualified compounding pharmacy that enables it to fulfill its own infusion and other specialty prescriptions. This capability provides MIT Holding with a distinct advantage over local “mom-and-pop” infusion centers in the rapidly growing $11 billion a year U.S. infusion therapy market.

The two most recognized names in the infusion sector are CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG). Both of which have established footprints into the home infusion market through a series of strategic acquisitions that highlight the growing demand for home infusion services.

CVS earlier this year completed its acquisition of Coram LLC, the specialty infusion services and enteral nutrition business unit of Apria Healthcare Group Inc., and in May entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Omnicare (NYSE: OCR). The acquisition of Omnicare is expected to greatly expand CVS’s specialty pharmacy business and increase its ability to dispense prescriptions in assisted living and long-term care facilities.

MIT Holding is also uniquely positioned to opportunities in the prescription dispensary and in-home infusion services markets. That is because MIT Holding’s business model is built around the company’s full suite of in-home recovery services, which begins when MIT Holding sends a company representative to a patient’s hospital bed on the day of discharge to establish a blueprint for successful home recovery.

Following the initial contact, MIT Holding will send a registered nurse (RN) directly to the patient’s home to provide infusion therapies and consultation. The typical four-hour infusion procedure allows the RN to establish a personal working rapport and customized recovery regimen for the patient, while cross-marketing MIT Holding’s complete suite of services. The RN offers a thorough analysis of the patient’s needs, from medications, durable medical equipment, doctor appointments, therapy sessions, insurance billing, insurance inquires, and a financial overview of the expected expenses of the remaining recovery period.

With current MIT Holding patients, this cross marketing approach is effective by including all other household members. MIT Holding benefits with an immediate expansion of its patient base by offering its services to meet the medical needs of these family members. Results have shown that families and patients often realize valuable savings on their medications, including the original infusion therapies.

MIT Holding’s new approach establishes a digital databank of information on the patient’s recovery regimen, which was created at the bedside of the patient at the point of discharge. This creates a new revenue stream of vital records necessary for doctors and hospitals to comply with new mandatory federal requirements, documenting their patient’s recovery.

Through its innovative and comprehensive in-home recovery services, which include specialty drugs, infusion services, compounding pharmaceuticals, direct insurance inquiries, insurance billing, and cross marketing efforts, MIT Holdings is in prime position to take advantage of multi-billion dollar markets. Based on IMS Health data, the specialty pharmaceuticals market is valued at $77.5 billion, constituting roughly a quarter of the overall market and growing at more than double (8.8%) the rate. Combined with the $11 billion home infusion market, these sectors are rapidly approaching the $100 billion mark.

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InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN) is the world’s leading provider of intelligent sensor system on chip (SoC) for Motion and Sound solutions in consumer electronic devices – including smartphones, tablets, wearables, gaming devices, optical image stabilization and remote controls for Smart TVs. The company’s patented InvenSense Fabrication Platform and patent-pending MotionFusion™ technology address the emerging needs of many mass-market consumer applications via improved performance, accuracy, and intuitive motion-, gesture- and sound-based interfaces.

Beginning with the world’s first dual-axis MEMS gyroscopes for the digital still camera market in 2006, InvenSense has developed a reputation for innovation within the industry by consistently delivering game changing solutions. In 2009, the company released the first integrated 3-axis motion processing solution for smartphones, and, in 2010, it unveiled the world’s first single-chip integrated 6-axis MotionTracking™ device. Among the company’s latest solutions is the ICM-20728, which was recognized as the world’s first integrated 7-axis single-chip platform solution with onboard Digital Motion Processor (DMP™) upon its release in 2014. By remaining on the cutting-edge of the industry, InvenSense is in a formidable position to realize continued growth moving forward.

In March, the company continued to expand its industry presence through the announced availability of its InvenSense Positioning Library (IPL) software, which is designed to provide sensor assisted positioning in places where GPS accuracy isn’t adequate. This announcement further demonstrated the potentially massive reach of the company’s expansive product line.

“With more consumers using their smartphones for turn-by-turn navigation on foot or in vehicle, one of the most frustrating user experience issues is losing your GPS signal in an unfamiliar location or being re-routed erroneously due to multipath errors,” stated Ali Foughi, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InvenSense. “With IPL technology, high accuracy location guidance is always available and provides Smartphone OEMs with a differentiated user experience and consumers with a more reliable navigation solution.”

Through continued innovation and the release of a number of new products, InvenSense realized dramatic financial growth in recent months. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, InvenSense recorded a 68 percent increase in year-over-year net revenue, securing a 47 percent boost in annual net revenue, as compared to fiscal year 2014.

“Fiscal 2015 was a significant year for InvenSense,” stated Behrooz Abdi, President and Chief Executive Officer of InvenSense. “We achieved the highest revenue in company history, driven by strong market share gains and several high-volume customer wins… Our success in mobile in fiscal 2015 laid important groundwork for our continued achievement in the coming year.”

In the months to come, look for InvenSense to continue to build on its established industry presence through a dedication to unrelenting innovation and strategic growth into potentially lucrative new verticals. For prospective investors, the company’s strong financial results could clear the way for sustainable returns into the future.

For more information, visit www.invensense.com

When Stacey McBride-Irby, creator of The Prettie Girls! recently commented, “A happy, inspired childhood creates happy, inspired and powerful women,” she was putting her passion for One World Holdings, Inc. (OTC: OWOO) mission front and center on the national toy market stage. And when your company’s Chief Product Development Officer is that ‘out front’ with their feelings about the task at hand, shareholders can rest assured they have the right person for the job.

Before McBride-Irby’s tenure as the Chief Product Development Officer at OWOO, she established her talent credentials in the toy industry during her 15 years as a Project Designer for Mattel™. Since then, she has helped put The One World Doll Project on the map through her diverse collection of doll designs.

Evidence of the company’s drive to meet the needs of a diverse doll market demographic, the company announced an initial order from Amazon, adding to a burgeoning retail network that includes industry giants such as Toys ‘R’ Us and Sears. In a recent conference call, the agreement was characterized as just the first step of One World’s upcoming expansion plans. Timing could not be better as the company aims to boost its retail presence in preparation for the 2015 holiday shopping season.

Trey Waldhauser, Vice President of Business Development at One World, noted, “As we continue to see a significant increase in product sales, this new business relationship with Amazon.com represents another component of our 2015 growth plan. It’s extremely motivating to see the world’s largest online retailer take an interest in our products.”

The company’s momentum into the retail space is providing OWOO a stable foundation for generating and expanding its revenue base. At the beginning of the current quarter, the company announced a 532 percent increase in year-over-year revenue for 2014 while its national expansion puts One World in a strategically desirable position to build on this growth going forward.

Toy Association research indicates the domestic toy market has been expanding in recent years with 4% increase in market value in 2014. Last year, dolls accounted for $2.32 billion in the United States, and market indicators point to continued growth for 2015.

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In the U.S. alone each year, roughly 150k people develop some form of the seizure spectrum disorder known as epilepsy, which is the fourth most common neurological disorder known to man and which is characterized by not only unpredictable seizures, but other health problems as well, like increased risk of heart disease and stroke. With some 50 million people currently afflicted with epilepsy worldwide and the current standards of care producing a variety of side effects in up to 90 percent of patients, as many as 25 percent of all patients discontinue treatment due to experiencing adverse side effects (many others simply try to cope). Side effects which range from mood changes, abrupt stoppage-related seizure frequency increases and liver toxicity, to decreased bone marrow function, and even birth defects. A staggering one out of every twenty six people will develop epilepsy at some point in their lives, but the highest incident rates are among the elderly and the very young, with over 466k children diagnosed here in the U.S., and over 765k in Europe, according to AAP data published in Pediatrics back in 2012.

Severe seizures lasting longer than five minutes (status epilepticus), SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, which accounts for 34 percent of deaths in children with epilepsy) and the often-associated social and developmental problems which tragically lead to an inordinately high incident rate of suicides among epilepsy sufferers mean that patients with epilepsy have a statistically increased risk of death compared to the general population, which ranges from 1.6 times higher (low end of SE/SUDEP), up to as much as 6 times higher (high end of suicide rate). Thankfully, the emerging clinical understanding of the key role that the human endogenous cannabinoid system (endocannabinoids) plays in regulating a wide variety of physiological processes has led to paradigm-shattering advances in recent years that may soon do away with the current generation of epilepsy drugs like carbamazepine, phenytoin, valproate (the one most clearly linked to birth defects), and the barbiturate known as phenobarbital.

One of the companies at the forefront of cannabinoid science today, which specializes in pioneering the kind of cutting-edge research that leads not only to new clinical data on the pharmacokinetics of plant-based cannabinoids (phytocannabinoids) like CBD (the non-psychoactive component of the cannabis sativa plant, known as cannabidiol) and THC (the psychoactive component, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), but powerful new IP for the creation of market-defining therapies, is London-based GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH) (LSE: GWP). The company’s growing understanding of the importance of the human body’s currently identified (there may be more) cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2, respectively found in neurological tissues, as well as glands (CB1), and in immune system tissues (CB2), has led to an impressive product pipeline that has managed to not only garner significant attention from the medical community, but also seriously impress industry regulators like the FDA.

The ability of CBD and THC to act as neuroprotectant antioxidants, helping to secure vital brain function in the face of degenerative diseases, as well as severe injuries and stroke, is paramount when it comes to understanding the neuromodulatory potential of cannabinoid therapies. And the more recent evidence that cannabinoids have broad-spectrum potential in anti-inflammatory, pain relief and immunomodulatory applications should give investors the kind of over-the-horizon radar needed to understand the upper limits for a company like GWPH, whose proprietary cannabinoid development platform is really just getting warmed up.

The company’s lead candidate Epidiolex® has seen barriers for its application in Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes, two cripplingly severe forms of epilepsy, melt away in recent years. With FDA Fast Track granted to Epidiolex in Dravet syndrome and pivotal Phase 3 studies now engaged in for both Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut, broader application in general epilepsy (currently in Phase 2) looks solid. The entry into Phase 2 clinical trials of cannabidivarin (CBDV) in adult patients with epilepsy last month shows how far-reaching the company’s next-gen epilepsy therapy platform really is. If the pre-clinical safety and efficacy data is any indication, with CBDV having been well tolerated at even maximum dosages, with no side effects or withdrawals, CBDV could soon be stealing even Epidiolex’s thunder.

Hence the recent move of the company’s CEO, Justin Gover, to the U.S., as well as the appointment of Julian Gangolli, whose distinguished career at specialty pharma giant Allergan speaks for itself, to the role of President of the company’s North America operations. The company is now eagerly setting up shop in SoCal and looks forward to the possible commercial launch of Epidiolex, for which the most recent physician reports out in April, referring to its use in children and young adults with treatment-resistant forms of epilepsy, look extremely promising. GWPH is banking on big things in North America for the future of their pipeline, and has struck hard and fast ahead of the curve in order to establish a firm commercial infrastructure footprint here well before they clear Phase 3, in order to maximize profitability when the time comes.

With median seizure reduction after a 12-week run of around 54 percent in reported from the company’s expanded access program and a clear ability to maintain clinical effect all the way in at the 24 week mark, as well as a 90 percent patient retention, in whom Epidiolex was found to be well tolerated, GW Pharmaceuticals is now confidently gearing up to aggress further pediatric epilepsy targets like TSC (Tuberous Sclerosis Complex). Having kicked off Phase 3 clinical trials in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) last month, subsequent to the reception of Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA, GW Pharmaceuticals is roaring towards an NDA as early as 2016 for Epidiolex in LGS, which continues to be one of the most drug-resistant and difficult to treat forms of epilepsy, and usually starts before the age of four in afflicted children.

The importance of a safe, well-tolerated therapy derived from plants, like the purified and formulated CBD indication Epidiolex, is absolutely essential for treating children who are diagnosed as being at risk for epilepsy, as no parent wants to start their young child out on a lifelong commitment to taking potentially dangerous synthetic pharmaceuticals like those mentioned earlier. The ability to make a comfortable decision with something like Epidiolex, secure in the knowledge that the seizures can be treated without causing the kinds of long-term side effects like those seen with other epilepsy drugs, is a factor that could make Epidiolex far more than a massive revenue generation engine for GWPH – it could make Epidiolex into a meaningfully capable new standard of care.

Moreover, unlike the company’s other top cannabis-based candidate, the oral spray Sativex® – which is approved in Europe for multiple sclerosis-related spasticity and which is being worked up as a cancer pain indication with applicability in other types of pain – Epidiolex is not licensed to majors like Bayer, Novartis, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical. This key fact puts GWPH in the pole position when it comes to capitalizing on the commercialization of Epidiolex, and it should be of particular note to savvy investors.

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The MaryJane Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MJMJ), the innovative company behind Colorado’s popular Bud+Breakfast™ lodges, debuted the latest addition to its collection of cannabis-centric hospitality destinations on Tuesday, and it’s like nothing else in the industry. CannaCamp combines recreational marijuana use and education with a traditional ranch experience to create the country’s first and only cannabis resort. Located on a 172-acre dude ranch near Durango, Colorado, CannaCamp provides guests with a near limitless supply of outdoor entertainment and a personal cannabis concierge to ensure that they’ve always got the perfect strain to pair with specific activities and meals.

“There is truly no place like this in the entire world,” stated Joel Schneider, Chief Executive Officer of The MaryJane Group. “We’re bringing an element of luxury to that adventurous, exploratory vibe of childhood summer camp – in a beautiful setting where visitors can enjoy marijuana in a safe, comfortable, social environment.”

Moving forward, CannaCamp will join The MaryJane Group’s two existing Bud+Breakfast™ lodges, providing the company with ample opportunity to realize significant returns in the months to come. In April, the company announced that it had already booked over $300,000 in new reservations for its two original properties, putting it on pace to achieve one of the highest occupancy rates in the entire state of Colorado, and The MaryJane Group is in a strong position to build on this progress as it begins accepting reservations for CannaCamp’s inaugural summer season.

Since being legalized for recreational use in 2014, the Colorado cannabis industry has exceeded expectations in terms of overall sales. In 2014, combined sales of recreational and medical marijuana accounted for $699 million throughout the state, outpacing early estimates by the Legislative Council of the Colorado General Assembly by more than 20 percent. These results demonstrated the overall marketability of both recreational cannabis and its related verticals.

For The MaryJane Group, the announcement of another groundbreaking property puts the company in a great position to continue building brand recognition throughout both the state and the country. Expanding on the early successes of its inventive hospitality platform, the company should be in a formidable position to continue to thrive as the preeminent hospitality group in the marijuana industry through a healthy balance of innovation and strategic growth.

For more information, visit www.themaryjanegrp.com

Kaya Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: KAYS) owns and operates the Kaya Shack™, which was the first legal marijuana dispensary operated by a publicly traded company in the United States. The company creates and establishes its own brands that produce, distribute and sell premium cannabis products – including flower, concentrates and cannabis-infused baked goods and candies. Building upon the success of its retail location, Kaya recently confirmed that it had filed an application to clear the way for a second Kaya Shack™ in the state of Oregon. This move should allow the company to continue enhancing its financial results while establishing a strong early-mover advantage as the state’s legislature prepares to begin allowing recreational sales as early as this fall.

“Targeted to be open in 90 days or less to take advantage of potential early recreational sales currently under consideration by the Oregon Legislature, this location is to be launched as a Kaya Shack™ Marijuana Superstore,” stated Craig Frank, Chief Executive Officer of Kaya. “This next location is part of our announced growth plan and highlights our commitment to execute our business plan in a disciplined and calculated manner. We are building the first truly vertically integrated legal marijuana enterprise in the United States.”

In April, Kaya took a significant step towards sustainability through the announcement of its own medical marijuana grow operations. This allows the company to precisely regulate the quality and stability of its supply while maintaining control of the margins of its growing brand of products. By continuing to ramp up production levels nearing the launch of its second retail location, Kaya is in a formidable position to capitalize on the expected growth of both the medical and recreational cannabis industries moving forward.

As Oregon’s Measure 91 begins to go into effect, industry experts expect the state’s cannabis industry to follow a similar path to that of Colorado. From January to October 2014, Colorado’s recreational marijuana sales accounted for over $246 million, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue, and, when combined with the medical marijuana market, produced total industry revenues of more than $573 million in just ten months. Among these sales, consumers purchased more than 4.8 million edible marijuana products, according to Time, further highlighting the potential benefits of Kaya’s formidable position in the developing Oregon cannabis market.

“Our entry into the legal marijuana space has been careful and deliberate,” continued Frank. “[W]e have developed the processes, procedures and requisite infrastructure to operate a multi-location marijuana enterprise, and begin to more actively assume a more visible profile.”

In the years to come, there’s little doubt about the huge upside that Kaya could offer to prospective investors.

For more information, visit www.kayaholdings.com

Social Reality, Inc. (OTCQB: SCRI) is connecting the social and digital spheres to offer brands, agencies and publishers new and measurable opportunities to target, reach and monetize their audiences. Through its proprietary technology platform, the company has unlocked a collection of new revenue streams for publishers by providing the tools needed to automate the digital advertising market.

The company’s collection of products includes three revolutionary services – SRAX, SR Innovation and Groupad – designed to improve performance for brands and publishers across all digital mediums. SRAX is an all-in-one platform that connects online publishers with advertisers and demand-side partners through real-time bidding (RTB) management in order to maximize the profitability of buying and selling ads. SR Innovation builds cutting-edge solutions designed to connect, engage and reward publishers’ core audiences. Groupad allows users to launch and manage social applications with one easy tool, providing a complete management solution for social and digital media campaigns.

In June, SCRI’s groundbreaking platform was recognized on Pixalate’s Top 10 industry rankings in three vital categories – automotive, food, and health and fitness. In particular, the company’s reputation for high-quality, clean inventory allowed SCRI’s offerings to rise above the competition.

“Along with quality, we’ve built our technology to enable both direct demand and supply integrations into our SRAX platform,” stated Kris Nelson, Chief Operating Officer of SCRI. “Quality will always be front and center for Social Reality and we appreciate the recognition from Pixalate for our efforts in this area.”

This persistent dedication to quality and innovation has allowed SCRI to rapidly grow its presence within the advertising industry in recent years. During the first quarter of 2015, the company recorded a 626 percent year-over-year increase in revenue, marking the third consecutive quarter that the company had recorded quarter-over-quarter growth.

“Our revenue for the first quarter almost surpasses our entire 2014 yearly revenue and by the end of the second quarter we expect to almost double last year’s revenue,” stated Christopher Miglino, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SCRI. “We are experiencing significant growth this year, and Social Reality is well-positioned to participate in the explosive growth in digital ad spending.”

The continued industry shift towards RTB is expected to place SCRI in a strong position to continue experiencing rapid growth in the coming years. According to a report by eMarketer, RTB digital display ad spending in the United States accounted for $3.34 billion, or nearly one-fifth of total display spending, in 2013, and this figure is expected to grow to over $8.6 billion by 2017.

For more information, visit www.socialreality.com

Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE), operator of a payments-as-a-service transactional and value-added services platform for small to medium enterprise in the US, Russian Federation and other international markets, has launched a new version of its cloud-based Aptito point-of-sale system for the restaurant industry.

Aptito v. 2.9 provides universal payment acceptance and numerous restaurant productivity upgrades at a flexible pricing structure that allows easier access for merchants with diverse needs and resources.

Aptito is a mobile iPad and iPhone restaurant productivity and omni-channel payment processing solution that improves restaurant efficiency, lowers costs and enhances customer experience.

The newest version rounds out the technology’s payment acceptance options with the integration of EMV chip technology and Apple, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple Pay™ into its transactional processing platform.

Direct Aptito integration with payments processor Total System Services (TSYS) allows merchants to bypass third-party gateway fees.

Aptito v. 2.9 product features also include:

• WiFi enabled interactive kitchen display
• Multiple happy hour pricing management
• Bluetooth printer integration
• Improved employee management including automated time card and shift reports

“These upgrades provide a competitive edge to the product and should facilitate Aptito sales efforts and increase transactional revenue,” Oleg Firer, Net Element CEO, stated in the news release. “By delivering these tools our goal is to help grow the business of our customers and assure greater transactional volume for Net Element.”

For more information visit www.netelement.com

According to comScore’s MobiLens® and Mobile Metrix® data, smartphone penetration in the U.S. is now over 75 percent as of early this year, with some 184 million Americans owning typically either an Android (53.2 percent) or Apple (41.3 percent) based platform. On top of this, the industry saw over 1.3 billion devices shipped globally last year and estimates run upwards of 1.45 billion units to be shipped this year. With more and more Americans buying in as unit prices continues to drop, after having already declined by around 25 percent over the last four years, the market for content delivery solutions is set to explode even further, as prices are set to fall further, to around $424 on average by 2017, according to recent data compiled by Citibank.

International Data Corporation numbers for Q1 this year show over 334 million smartphones have shipped worldwide, a 16 percent jump from the same interval last year. The Pew Research Center recently noted that, as of this year, for the almost two-thirds of Americans who now own smartphones, these devices are vital for them when it comes to getting online. In fact, 10 percent of those surveyed indicated that, while they own a smartphone, they have no broadband at home. An even wider margin of 15 percent said they had limited options for going online other than their cell phone.

Consider in addition to these broader smartphone usage metrics that the U.S casino and “racino” gaming market’s revenues did a combined $8.5 billion last year, according to data from public policy research institute, the Rockefeller Institute of Government. As well as analysis from professional consulting firm RubinBrown out earlier this year, indicating that the nation’s gaming industry on the whole generated a record high of over $68 billion from all sources combined, and you have the outline of a perfect storm for mobile compliance gaming, a sector where Consorteum Holdings (OTC: CSRH) is already way out ahead of the trend. CSRH is focused on bringing to market an updated version of the world’s first regulatory-compliant mobile content delivery platform, which was designed to deliver any digital content, across any cellular network type, to any mobile device or smartphone.

The RubinBrown report, pooled from over 1k gaming operators across 39 states, which harnesses information from all four segments of the gaming industry, also noted how online gaming has been and continues to be a major growth driver of the industry’s record performance. Morgan Stanley has even forecast an upper limit of around $5.2 billion for the online gambling industry within the next five years, citing the over $11.2 million combined monthly revenues from the first three states to legalize, New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware. California is seen by many analysts as the next logical state to jump in, with the legalization of online poker potentially occurring this year and bill AB 431 currently keeping the issue alive, as a major lobbying effort is put forth by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, in conjunction with the largest online poker cardroom in the world, the 50 million subscribers plus and growing, PokerStars.com. Poker has become more and more popularized in the U.S. in recent years, with shows like High Stakes Poker on Game Show Network and the World Series of Poker being broadcast on ESPN having primed the pump for more widespread approval.

Needless to say, when the rush finally hits, you are going to see huge numbers of companies clamoring to catch up and execute attractive solutions that can hit as many mobile devices as possible, and the cost and complexity issues they will face spells big business for Consorteum Holdings. The company’s Universal Mobile Interface (UMI) platform is more than just a way to develop once and deploy anywhere, enabling content developers to bypass the updating and versioning costs typically associated with a mobile app that wants to land on as many devices as possible and yet stay fresh with new, periodically-released content updates. The UMI is a fully vetted geo-location and geo-fencing enabled solution that ensures end-users can only authenticate a session from within a jurisdiction approved by regulators, because it is based on the CAPSA platform licensed from NYG Holdings, which has already successfully run the extremely meticulous Nevada Gaming Board gauntlet.

The UMI platform elegantly identifies the user’s device, delivering content via cloud technology in the proper resolution and display format, irrespective of particular device type. This is a solution that frees developers from the cost and difficulties of having to push patches and build/update different versions of their apps for different devices. CSRH’s solution also satisfies all relevant regulatory, licensing and policy compliance issues, and even provides a high level of fully compliant security capabilities. Indeed, UMI could be just the Apollo program this yet-nascent industry needs to go off-world, providing the delivery system required for developers to be able to access real creative freedom and bridge the gap in areas like poker, where there has historically been a major divide between live versus online. Given that the industry is still so small, that only about one quarter of Americans still find gambling taboo and that currently Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are all considering legalizing online gambling, Morgan Stanley’s projections (which assume some 20 states will legalize online gambling by 2020) seem well within reason.

There is a great deal of room for CSRH to grow here and the company is prepping to capture substantial market share in the mobile sports betting and casino gaming verticals moving forward, confident that numerous states will see the swollen coffers from the associated taxes as a sure thing that is well worth betting on. Recent analysis indicates that online poker alone would create some 10k high-tech jobs nationwide and generate over $2 billion a year in tax revenues for state and federal governments. American Gaming Association data about the global online gaming market indicates that roughly $35 billion in bets are currently placed each year across 85 countries that have legalized the industry’s practices, clearly showing how big the potential market is that states are currently missing out on collecting taxes from.

Consorteum Holdings’ UMI platform is a superb target for developers to choose here as the regulatory environment changes. With a sophisticated suite of layered, inter-dependent player and device controls that cover everything from the aforementioned geo-location verification capabilities that can’t be spoofed by jailbroken devices, to real-time mobile or Wi-Fi data bearer controls and comprehensive auditing/reporting, the UMI is a platform that will satisfy developers, regulators, and gamers alike. Designed from the ground up as the ultimate in cost-effect mobile compliance gaming delivery engines, UMI stands poised to revolutionize developer workflows, bringing feature-rich, gorgeous gaming content to millions of mobile users.

For more information, visit www.consorteum.com

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