Construction and demolition (C&D) debris occupies a significant portion of the entire waste stream in the United States, and improper disposal or failure to reuse or recycle this type of waste can have a major impact on the environment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (http://dtn.fm/7kyMX), C&D waste amounted to more than 530 million […]

Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) has purchased complete ownership of its European subsidiary from Dansk Industri Invest A/S for what it termed a “nominal value”. The subsidiary is now named Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S. With that name change, the subsidiary will now use the Ballard brand, such as visual identity and logo, […]

Leading health care information technology company Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP) this morning issued a news release recapping its corporate accomplishments for 2016, as well as its objectives for the coming months. Among last year’s highlights, MTBC continued to employ a tactical acquisition-based growth strategy, added important new clients in major markets across […]

Although 28 states have already legalized marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to label marijuana a Schedule 1 substance, along with heroin and LSD, making it illegal on a federal level. As a result, the banking industry has been slow to provide services to marijuana businesses, forcing many […]

HIV/AIDS may not be as much in the news as it was back in the 1980s, but the disease has not gone away. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://nnw.fm/7yEVU), it still affects ‘more than 1.2 million people in the US… and 1 in 8 of them don’t know it’. Although, […]

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is positioning itself as a leader in China’s O2O services market as the sector enjoys a 20% surge in year-over-year growth. iResearch Consulting Group, in its ‘2015 China Online-to-Offline (O2O) Services Model Research Report’ published in January 2016 (www.iresearchchina.com), stated that the Chinese O2O market was on course to grow from […]

At one time there was a feeling that, in an age where virtually everything is connected and platforms such as Skype and Facetime make video conferencing easily accessible, traveling for business would no longer be necessary. However, according to Globetouch (http://dtn.fm/rsN9l), the Asia-Pacific region doubled its business travel output between 2005 and 2015, with these […]

Once New York-based Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXSM) was founded in 2012, its team set out to establish a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical business that would develop therapies to treat and manage central nervous system (CNS) disorders. Now in 2017, the Axsome team is setting off on another exciting leg on this journey. For years, Axsome has […]

National Waste Management Holdings, Inc. (OTC: NWMH) has turned the old aphorism ‘garbage in – garbage out’ on its head. It’s now ‘garbage in, revenues up’. In its last 10-Q filing, for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016, the company reported quarterly revenues of $1.8 million, which represented a 269 percent increase over 2015 […]

Lomiko Metals (OTCQB: LMRMD) (OTC: LMRMF) has positioned itself on top of an extremely positive supply-demand curve, with a unique opportunity for low-cost production of a key mineral that underpins much of the growing green economy. Lomiko’s core focus is on the exploration and development of minerals such as lithium and graphite, the latter of […]