• CapitalCube.com performs billions of computations and delivers comprehensive analysis on more than 50,000 globally-listed stocks and ETFs every day
• Sophisticated, proprietary AI technology applicable to any data-driven industry
• Technology has vast applications across multiple industries

Data is nothing but drivel unless it’s collected, collated, analyzed, interpreted, managed and coerced into useful information. With the rise of computers, it sometimes seems as if we’re swimming in oceans of data, and making sense of it is beyond human ability. Machines may have created this mess, but now machines are poised to finally make sense out of all the bits and bytes. Machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence (AI), has evolved to mimic human cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving.

AnalytixInsight Inc. (TSX.V: ALY) (OTCQB: ATIXF) has developed and deployed a sophisticated, proprietary, artificial intelligence machine learning platform that turns big data into useful information. Data is transformed into insightful narratives, and workflow schedules are robotically analyzed for maximum performance. AnalytixInsight’s artificial intelligence technology can find meaning in numbers and data, transform the disparate information into plain English and deliver it as actionable insights. The technology is scalable and applicable to virtually any data-driven industry, such as finance, communications, health care, insurance or government. The company has already achieved strategic inroads in fintech, and it is developing workflow analytics solutions.

The company’s flagship product, CapitalCube.com, is a breakthrough artificial intelligence financial portal that provides comprehensive analysis by performing billions of computations and comprehensive analysis on worldwide stocks every day. AnalytixInsight’s cutting-edge financial portal provides on-demand fundamental research, portfolio evaluation and screening tools on over 50,000 global equities and North American ETFs. CapitalCube.com provides individual investors with the power of algorithms and analytics previously only enjoyed by Wall Street institutions. CapitalCube.com puts powerful information at the fingertips of individual investors, delivering accounting and earnings reports, in-depth analysis, peer-to-peer performance evaluations, dividend strength, and AI-derived information about potential corporate actions like dividend changes or acquisitions. These real time tools give individual investors the newfound ability to make highly informed financial decisions.

CapitalCube.com offers free access for basic financial information for users that sign on, and expanded access and detailed, shareable reports on companies for reasonable monthly or annual fees. The portal also publishes 3,000 articles daily and has content partners such as The Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, and Yahoo Finance.

By turning vast amounts of raw data into actionable intelligence, AnalytixInsight is delivering the power of real time information to the fingertips of individual investors. With broad-ranging applications, AnalytixInsight’s technology could also reverberate far beyond individual investors.

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

• Company announces change in top leadership as it prepares to begin production this year
• North American, Asian Pacific asphalt consumption forecast anticipates expansion
• Petroteq Energy’s extraction lease in Utah expected to generate 87 million barrels of bitumen-rich oil

Utah’s northeastern desert wilderness features a variety of colorful geographic names, such as Whiterocks, Green River, Rainbow, Bluebell, Red Canyon and Flaming Gorge. In the midst of them sits the less-aesthetic-sounding Asphalt Ridge, which nonetheless has served for decades as a critical natural resource for surrounding communities that relied on its bituminous pitch to supply the local county with materials for asphalt road repairs. Now, companies such as Petroteq Energy Inc. (TSX.V: PQE) (OTCQX: PQEFF) are exploring its potential for supplying that bitumen to a larger world market in a pioneering, land-friendly way.

Petroteq Energy recently announced the appointment of David Sealock as the company’s new CEO (http://ibn.fm/iTYKd) to direct Petroteq’s efforts to capitalize on its two patents for extracting the bitumen from oil sands, using solvents in a way that avoids producing waste materials while utilizing energy in a highly efficient manner. On January 10, the Canadian company announced that it had been granted a Notice of Allowance by the U.S. Patent Office for its ‘Oil from Oil Sands Extraction Process’ patent (http://ibn.fm/bcoPh) and it had similarly received a Notice of Allowance from Canada’s Intellectual Property Office for an extraction process patent there. Petroteq has applied for patent protection in all countries with significant heavy oil assets, including Russia.

“As a company focused on the development and implementation of proprietary technologies for the environmentally safe extraction of heavy oils, we understand the importance of developing new technologies … to help companies in our industry to get competitive advantage and cost efficiency,” former Petroteq CEO Alex Blyumkin stated in a November news release (http://ibn.fm/aumuR).

The company’s extraction process uses no water, high temperatures or high pressures and produces no greenhouse gases. Up to 99 percent of all bitumen, heavy oil and lighter hydrocarbons are extracted, and up to 99 percent of the benign extraction solvents are recycled so that they can be sold or returned to the extraction point, according to the company (http://ibn.fm/dEfLF). Even before the patents were granted, Petroteq had tested its technical abilities at a separate Utah facility where it produced 10,000 barrels of oil in 2015.

The company is building a facility at its Asphalt Ridge lease site that it expects to increase its capacity by some 400 percent. A detailed study of the region’s mineral resources (http://ibn.fm/pchua) coinciding with plans by the federal government to turn management of the land over to the state of Utah in 1964 found that an estimated 697 million barrels of oil were located on about 5,200 acres with about 350 million barrels of recoverable surface reserves, and the study’s author noted that additional concealed saturated sand may be found by drilling in the region, and “inclusion of these lenses might double the total reserve figure given above.”

Petroteq estimates that its leased resources contain 87 million barrels that it will extract over the next two to three decades. The company is expected to begin commercial production this year, with a goal of 5,000 barrels of oil per day by 2019.

A forecast by the Freedonia Group researchers issued in 2015 anticipated that world consumption of asphalt bitumen would expand through 2019, particularly as strong growth in China and India continues to drive the Asia-Pacific region to levels exceeding those of the United States (http://ibn.fm/r3mp0). An expected rebound in the North American consumer market coinciding with the need to maintain the massive network of roads and highways crisscrossing the United States and its neighbors is expected to drive fresh demand, with an estimated three percent yearly increase through 2021, according to a similar report issued by the group last year (http://ibn.fm/b203m).

“We are on the verge of beginning our production phase at Asphalt Ridge,” Blyumkin stated in early March (http://ibn.fm/Xfzl4). “We completed reassembly and testing of the major process systems successfully and are in the final stages of pre-production testing of the utility system, bringing us one step closer to commercial launch at a time when demand for our products is on the rise.”

Blyumkin will continue to serve as the chairman of Petroteq’s board of directors as David Sealock assumes leadership of the company, according to the company’s March 27 announcement (http://ibn.fm/Kfs2d).

“We believe David’s aptitude and capabilities will allow us to take Petroteq to the next level as we make significant progress in our Utah facilities and also move forward on building our PetroBloq (logistics blockchain) consortium. He is a well-rounded leader that has been known for initiating innovative technologies for cost efficiencies. … He is an executive that understands the depths of corporate governance and the regulatory policies and procedures in running a publicly traded company,” Blyumkin stated.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Petroteq.energy

• Investments in European real estate record 22 percent increase during 2017
• American-Swiss Capital building portfolio of undervalued, high-rate-of-return properties
• Tivat, Montenegro, opportunities centered at Adriatic Sea’s Monaco-like coastline

Miami-based American-Swiss Capital, Inc. is preparing to take public its vision of an investment corridor to high-rate-of-return European properties, with the company’s recent registration statement seeking admission to the OTCQB tier of the OTC Markets Group, Inc. Marketplace. The stock quote request was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with an April 4 prospectus that identified a bid to offer a minimum of 1.25 million shares at $1 per share, with a maximum potential offering of five million shares.

American-Swiss Capital is built on the belief that the new venture’s knowledgeable team can identify profitable real estate investment opportunities designed to generate a high rate of return due to the properties’ distressed and undervalued qualities. The company’s current focus is on the European market – specifically properties in Tivat, Montenegro, where American-Swiss Capital has negotiated an agreement for a set of beachfront apartments, as well as land on the Tivat bay, where it aims to build villas in a gated community development that overlooks the Adriatic Sea.

Travel site Lonely Planet describes Tivat as an “erstwhile-mediocre seaside town” where visitors “could be forgiven for wondering if they’re in Monaco or Montenegro” because of the proliferation of super yachts in the bay, a posh promenade and rows of elegant buildings, thanks in large part to the redevelopment of the city’s old naval base into a first-class marina (http://ibn.fm/blO9n) – demonstrating the potential of the location’s Mediterranean climate (dry summers and mild, rainy winters), as it is already attracting “the uber-wealthy” and “less-loaded rubberneckers.”

The old-world charms of the vicinity include seafood restaurants and quiet mountainous hikes past picturesque stone homes, crumbling ruins, olive groves with man-powered mills and churches dating back to the ninth and 14th centuries, while nearby Kotar delivers more of the bauble associated with tourism hubs.

Montenegro presents an attractive business opportunity for foreign investors, and the country’s Montenegrin Investment Promotion Agency (“MIPA”) expresses its commitment to economic development by welcoming foreign investors.

American-Swiss Capital has negotiated a significant restructuring of the debt on the beachfront apartments with the mortgage holder. The 18 units at the heart of the coastline’s burgeoning tourism industry were built in 2012 but were never occupied. They range in size from 60 to 160 square meters, about 646 to 1,700 square feet, and the property has a private beach with a fixed pontoon boat berth. The separate gated community project is located on four acres where American-Swiss Capital anticipates building 30 villas of 360 square meters (about 3,875 square feet) on the Bay of Kotor. The proceeds from the direct public offering would be applied first to acquiring the land for the gated community, and then to building a prototype villa and retiring the apartments debt as proceeds become available (http://ibn.fm/K2Ft1). An April 10 Twitter post noted that the company is also scouting land for its next project, which it stated would be “HUGE!”

Real estate transaction volumes rose 10 percent worldwide year-over-year during the fourth quarter of 2017, amounting to full-year volumes of $698 billion for 2017, according to global market analyst JLL (http://ibn.fm/Gz8KB). The agency reported that, despite political uncertainties, investors have remained confident in the performance of the real estate sector – particularly in Europe, where all regions registered growth during the year. The United Kingdom led the continent’s performance overall with a 37 percent rise in annual volumes, but investor appetite for European real estate across the entire area still showed a healthy 22 percent increase for the year.

American-Swiss Capital is led by CEO John Karatzaferis, who served for 25 years as a consultant for several major organizations, including PeopleCo., AGWS, and NAB Bank in Melbourne, Australia. He is accompanied by Robert Sultani, a recently appointed director who is also a managing director of RCS Global Services, an international firm providing advisory, audit and training services with respect to the sourcing of natural resources. He has worked in the Middle East region since 1985 with companies in the telecommunications, information technology, petroleum, finance, software and petrochemical industries.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AS-Capital.com

• Clients now have the ability to sign up for REFG’s services through the company’s Take.Green website
• High demand for efficient, cannabis-focused banking solutions
• Simplifying the process of medical cannabis purchases for customers and merchants

Medical Cannabis Payment Solutions (OTC: REFG) offers one-of-a-kind comprehensive card processing operations through its Take.Green website, which serves the state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry, and now the company provides the opportunity for merchants to sign up for its services online. Previously, REFG was only working with targeted establishments, but it now offers its services to the entire state-sanctioned medical cannabis industry.

The interest and activity generated by its new online application process has greatly exceeded REFG’s expectations. The dramatic increase in web traffic reveals the market demand for this efficient, cannabis-focused banking solution. Merchants sign up directly on the Take.Green website (http://ibn.fm/J8Dd9) through a quick and easy process, allowing customers and patients to link directly to a checking account at any U.S. bank. Customers are able to purchase medical cannabis with electronic funds, eliminating many of the problems previously faced in this industry related to being a fully cash business. Vendors are able to use Green for virtual banking, managing funds, tracking sales, taxes, payroll and bill paying, as well as other business transactions.

To open an account online, merchants only need a few minutes, an email address, a business address and proof of licensure in the client’s respective state. Once the client has activated payment features, they can start collecting payments using Green, move funds without compliance problems, transfer from one bank to another or spend directly from the Green account.  The merchant’s customers are able to use their Green Cards to make their purchases. These cards, while able to be used at any dispensary, can be branded with a specific dispensary’s logo.

The tech is compatible with most point-of-sale systems, and customers can set up accounts in seconds to make their purchases. Funds are securely and electronically transmitted from the customer’s account directly to the merchant account, and they are available to the merchant within 24 hours. Green makes sure that the process complies with federal guidelines in real time, keeping the dispensary compliant. This inexpensive, easy-to-use system aims to eliminate the payment headaches common to this industry.

For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.Take.green

• Novel drug delivery system scientifically proven to increase absorption, bioavailability and efficacy
• New U.S. patents awarded, strengthening company’s IP portfolio
• Wide variety of patent families with ranging applications

Building off DehydraTECH™, its patented lipophilic drug delivery platform, Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTCQX: LXRP) has received another new Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that protects the company’s processes for making specific compositions of matter for enhanced cannabinoid delivery (http://ibn.fm/P1Q5a). This latest announcement comes on the heels of Lexaria’s March 22, 2018, press release that announced its receipt of a Notice of Allowance for the compositions of matter that protect the specific combination of substances which enable improved taste and bioabsorption properties of its DehydraTECH™ technology for the delivery of cannabinoids (http://ibn.fm/IDFEn). With over 35 patents pending worldwide, it’s expected that these recent notices will lead to Lexaria’s third and fourth granted United States patents.

These patents will protect processes for making specific compositions of matter and methods of manufacture and use for Lexaria’s cost-effective lipophilic delivery technology, DehydraTECH™. Lexaria’s innovative technology has been laboratory and market proven to enhance the performance of beneficial compounds in ingestible products. The gastrointestinal tract doesn’t absorb cannabinoids easily, causing wide deviation in onset times and effectiveness. Lexaria’s lipophilic enhancement technology increases the bio-absorption of cannabinoids by between five and 10 times that of traditional edibles. The onset times are also reduced by about 75 percent due to rapid bio-absorption and suspected liver bypass. Already scientifically proven to enhance absorption of orally ingested cannabinoids, Lexaria’s novel drug delivery platform is applicable across a wide range of different vitamins, drug types and cannabinoids, dramatically impacting bio-absorption and bioavailability, as well as taste, smell and speed of action.

Lexaria’s DehydraTECH™ intellectual property portfolio now consists of a wide variety of patent families covering a broad range of lipophilic active substances in foods, beverages and nutritional supplements, as well as in topical preparations and pharmaceutical dosage forms.

Lexaria’s novel drug delivery technology is a potential game changer for the delivery methodologies of many commonly used active pharmaceutical substances. With proven efficacy in the delivery of all cannabinoids, Lexaria’s complementary technology could prove immensely important for cannabinoid biopharmaceutical companies, as well as an array of other pharma and food companies. The technology provides an additional layer of effectiveness designed to harmonize with the intellectual properties of manufacturers, and it can be used with both patented and generic pharmaceutical substances.

Already out-licensing its technology, Lexaria’s is well on its way to fully implementing its long-term strategy of partnering with leading pharmaceutical, biopharma, nutraceutical, vitamin and food companies to make payload delivery predictable, safer and more effective. With the broad applications of Lexaria’s disruptive drug delivery platform and the ever-increasing portfolio of valuable patents, Lexaria appears to have the potential to dramatically alter the delivery mechanisms of a wide range orally administered bioactive molecules, including cannabinoids, vitamins, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), nicotine and other molecules. The ramifications of such a transformation in drug delivery could bode exceptionally well for current and future shareholders.

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

• Company shares rose by more than 45 percent in Thursday trading on volume in excess of 14.7 million
• Fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 conference call scheduled for April 17

DPW Holdings Inc. (NYSE American: DPW), a diversified holding company, saw its shares record a huge surge during Thursday trading. Approaching market close, the company’s PPS hovered near $1.21, up 46.29 percent on the day. This performance comes as DPW Holdings prepares to host a conference call announcing its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 financial results. The call, currently scheduled for Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at 3:30 PM PST, will be hosted by company chairman and CEO Milton ‘Todd’ Ault III and CFO William Horne.

Established in 1969, DPW Holdings has implemented a growth strategy focused on the acquisition of undervalued assets, disruptive technologies, sustainable solutions and impactful ventures for incubation and development. The company invests in a variety of industries within the commercial, defense/aerospace, industrial, telecom, medical, crypto mining, hospitality, textile and investment/corporate lending markets. Through these investments, DPW Holdings has established itself as a leading supplier of innovative technologies and services, with a list of customers that includes some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

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

• Focusing on the initial vision of financial consulting to the Chinese-speaking community
• Recent developments in CIIX’s cryptocurrency media and educational services, cryptocurrency ATMs and cryptocurrency mining shared at MicroCap Conference
• Committed to continued real-time education regarding use of cryptocurrency

ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX) provides real-time market commentary, analysis and education-related services to the Chinese-speaking community. “The company endeavors to be on the cutting edge of blockchain technology and to stay ahead of the curve in an effort to continue to build shareholder value and increase revenues this year,” CEO Warren Wang stated in a news release (http://ibn.fm/G6SZO). As the company spins off its hemp assets into a private company, it is refocusing on its initial vision of financial consulting. The company seeks to explore new ways of expansion within its core financial services. This move allows CIIX to focus on brand building, financial marketing and a recent move into the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry.

This past week, Wang presented at the MicroCap Conference in New York City. Micro- and small-cap attendees were presented information into CIIX’s developments in cryptocurrency business. Recent developments within the company were shared, including its developing cryptocurrency business focusing on cryptocurrency media and educational services, cryptocurrency ATMs and cryptocurrency mining.

The focus on educating CIIX’s global Chinese-speaking audience is evident on its crypto news website, www.NewCoins168.com, and through its daily video broadcast, ‘Bitcoin MultiMillionaire’, reporting on cryptocurrency news from the floor of the NYSE. These platforms only strengthen the company’s focus on being a leader in financial information. The company continues to be on the cutting edge of technology, with the use of a Bitcoin ATM in the lobby of its San Gabriel, California, headquarters providing instruction in both Chinese and English.

CIIX is also investigating ventures into cryptocurrency mining following its recent purchase of application specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) machines that mine for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and Litecoin. Initial reports suggest this will be a successful venture, and CIIX is considering the purchase of 500 or more additional ASIC units plus other equipment for blockchain mining.

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

• International digital P2P remittances via mobile and online platforms expected to exceed $300 billion by 2021
• IEGH explores $32 billion Philippines remittance market
• Digital financial services enable people working abroad to remit or send money home

Consumer loan provider IEG Holdings Corp. (OTCQB: IEGH) recently announced plans to explore entering the remittance services market through the launch of a cryptocurrency by Investment Evolution Coin Ltd. (“IEC Ltd.”), a Singapore-incorporated public unlisted company managed by IEG Holdings CEO Paul Mathieson (http://ibn.fm/4YQZj). IEGH recently provided an opportunity for its shareholders to obtain shares in IEC Ltd. (http://ibn.fm/yKHWe), allowing them to be involved in the crypto industry with less risk.

Remittance is a vital financial transfer tool used by immigrants working abroad as they send money back home to support family members. A study by Juniper Research states that migrant workers are expected to remit or transfer more than $300 billion by 2021, up from an estimated $225 billion in 2018 (http://ibn.fm/QdhIi). The research also predicts that digital-only money transfer operators will increase their share of the market as blockchain technology evolves and begins to play a bigger role in secure transaction settlements.

IEC Ltd. is exploring the launch of a new cryptocurrency called Investment Evolution Coin that will simplify and lessen the expense of financial transfers to the Philippines from nationals who work in other countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Singapore (http://ibn.fm/gkDny). Lowering fees for remittance payments through the use of a secure, blockchain-based cryptocurrency is expected to disrupt traditional money transfer competitors.

In the Philippines, international remittances are a key part of the economy. Over 10 million Filipinos work abroad, and, like millions of other expats, they send part of their wages back to family members. The World Bank estimates that Filipinos remitted nearly $33 billion to their home country in 2017 and paid 7.2 percent of the amount sent (on average) to transfer the funds (http://ibn.fm/QyJFe).

“We believe potentially combining the exciting new blockchain technology with a leading sophisticated online consumer finance system, individual US state lending licenses and exposure to the Philippines $28 billion OFW (overseas foreign worker) remittance sector is a very exciting proposition,” Mathieson said in a news release.

IEG Holdings is already a global leader in consumer finance, offering unsecured, personal loans of $5,000 and $10,000 in 20 states via a state-licensed operating subsidiary, Investment Evolution Corporation, under the consumer brand ‘Mr. Amazing Loans’. Expanding its reach in the consumer lending market continues to be a primary focus of IEG Holdings. The company, which boasts an 80 percent repeat customer business rate, is working with additional states to expand consumer access to its loans through its Mr. Amazing Loans online portal, www.MrAmazingLoans.com.

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

• Demand for cobalt predicted to surge as electric vehicle market revs up
• Cobalt is an essential element in the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in EV market and mobile devices
• Global battery market projected to reach $17.26 billion by 2021
• Building the world’s largest pure-play cobalt exploration company with interests in historic Canadian Cobalt Camp

Fueling renewable batteries requires cobalt, a coveted, rare metal that is projected to fall into short supply by 2025 (http://ibn.fm/g81zP). Canadian-headquartered First Cobalt Corp. (TSX.V: FCC) (OTCQB: FTSSF) is the largest landowner in Ontario’s Cobalt Camp, with control of over 10,000 hectares (nearly 25,000 acres) of prospective land and 50 historic cobalt/silver mines. The company’s assets include a mill and the only permitted cobalt extraction refinery in North America capable of producing battery material, providing an integrated solution for cobalt projects (http://ibn.fm/MFh2B).

World governments are quickly moving to ban gas and diesel engines in an effort to slash carbon emissions, turning instead to electric powered vehicles. The global battery market that powers this surging sector is expected to reach $17.26 billion by 2021, according to a report by MarketsandMarkets (http://ibn.fm/1bCIT). First Cobalt’s exploratory drilling efforts continue to show promising potential, with the latest signs of cobalt mineralization appearing in drill results from the Woods Extension Zone of Cobalt South in the Canadian Cobalt Camp, as noted in a recent news release by First Cobalt president and CEO Trent Mell.

“We remain encouraged by the cobalt potential of the Woods Extension Zone,” Mell said in a news release (http://ibn.fm/lIyJW). “Broad breccia areas have not been seen previously at either the Frontier or Keeley Mines and new fault zones continue to be found. We have confirmed cobalt occurs in two different structures at relatively shallow depths that may extend to surface. The key objective of the 2018 exploration program is to identify potential targets in the Cobalt Camp that could be amenable to open pit mining.”

In addition, positive assay results taken from two drill holes near the Kerr Mine in the Cobalt North area of the Cobalt Camp (http://ibn.fm/skxdA) show both cobalt and silver, indicating a potential network of mineralization across more than 100 meters. Three additional holes have been drilled and logged, with assays now pending. Preliminary results have so far shown significant copper, lead and zinc intersecting the mineralized zone, indicating a more easily targeted follow-up drilling area than individual veins would offer, Mell said.

More than half of the world’s cobalt supply is mined in the politically unstable Democratic Republic of the Congo, where rising concerns over documented cases of child labor in the mines is driving a significant flurry of interest into alternative, conflict-free cobalt sources – including First Cobalt’s historic mining region.

“Anybody who has cobalt outside the DRC is in a better situation because carmakers are very worried about their supply chains,” Roger Bell, director of mining research at Hannam & Parters in London, stated in a Bloomberg report (http://ibn.fm/CQwes). Bell believes that the amount of cobalt being used in electric cars could easily double in the next eight to 15 years. “Even in the most conservative assumptions, you’re looking at maybe a 20 percent gap between supply and demand for cobalt by 2025,” he added.

First Cobalt’s approach to ethical, responsible mining and refining of cobalt resources includes a transparent tracing of how the company conducts its exploration programs. First Cobalt adopted the Responsible Cobalt Initiative in 2017, which calls on member companies to identify and address potential adverse impacts arising from their business activities and relationships. Tracking how cobalt is extracted, transported, manufactured and sold is part of the initiative’s framework (http://ibn.fm/vVybm).

First Cobalt’s recent agreement to acquire Idaho-based US Cobalt Inc. (TSX.V: USCO) (OTCQB: USCFF) enhances the company’s position as a pure-play North American cobalt company, as Mell detailed in a news release (http://ibn.fm/qaGdP).

“We foresee a shortage of cobalt over the next five years yet there are few companies doing significant work to identify new sources of supply,” Mell said in announcing the deal. “This transaction creates a larger platform to discover and develop cobalt projects for the growing electric vehicle market by combining high quality North American assets in two of the best cobalt jurisdictions outside the DRC. US Cobalt’s Idaho project complements our Canadian Cobalt Camp properties, offering upside potential for shareholders of both companies.”

For more information, visit the company’s website at http://ibn.fm/FTSSF

• Developing technology that can deliver and manage complex, digitally secure transactions while serving a broad range of vertical markets in the fintech space
• Set to release 359’s first sports predictive analytics product dedicated to the popular global sport of cricket in the second quarter of 2018
• Leveraging industry expertise in the mobile app market, including the online and mobile gaming industry

Consorteum Holdings, Inc. (OTC: CSRH) is a software development and mobile platform company focused on delivering compliant complex mobile-based transactions. 359 Mobile Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CSRH, is developing end-to-end fintech solutions for various markets. Over the last eight years, 359 has developed the Universal Mobile Interface™ (UMI). This technology can deliver and manage complex, digitally secure transactions servicing a broad range of vertical markets in the fintech space. The UMI is unique and flexible for each individual client.

A joint business agreement between 359 and DevLex Ltd. is set to facilitate the release of 359’s first mobile sports predictive analytics platform (DV-PA). The first launch will be focused on the estimated 2.5 billion global cricket fans. The Cricket DV-PA is expected to be available on Google Play and the App Store for both Android and iOS devices in the second quarter of 2018. The Cricket DV-PA is a unique app offering predictive analysis built upon historical data and relevant updated cricket team and player statistics.

CSRH is developing its software and mobile publishing resources, and it is working to build partnerships and licensing agreements for a variety of mobile offerings – including those within the online and mobile gaming industry. With an estimated 164 million people worldwide using mobile devices for online gambling, there is a great need for secure connectivity and content. With worldwide consumer commitment to mobile app stores predicted to exceed $110 billion by the end of 2018 (http://ibn.fm/eAqvZ), CSRH is working to leverage its expertise across this growing market.

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