Content Checked Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: CNCK), the parent company behind the family of nutrition expert and tailored database-driven dietary apps, continues to see its products resonate with consumers, and subsequently draw attention from responsive local media. In late April (http://dtn.fm/xU27C), the MORE Show on Las Vegas Fox Network affiliate KVVU, showcased Content Checked’s SugarChecked app on its 9am spot.

Apparently, FOX5 Las Vegas is trouncing the competition in the mornings, with a large portion of the roughly 2 million plus people who live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, focused on the innovative work done by Content Checked. The SugarChecked app was designed to help diabetics and/or anyone looking to curb their sugar intake, with researched breakdowns of packaged products available on grocery store shelves made available at their fingertips at the point-of-purchase.

Powered by a rich and constantly updated database of product information obtained directly from food manufacturers themselves, the Company’s fast, reliable and efficient mobile apps represent the cutting-edge in personally-targeted data technology. Users simply configure one of the apps, such as SugarChecked, around their specific needs and the app conveniently guides their purchasing, so users are able to maintain a clean and healthy diet without spending hours deciphering food labels. With a database spanning more than 70 percent of all conventional U.S. products, Content Checked has effectively engineered a series of novel and useful tools generating a buzz. FOX5’s showcase of SugarChecked’s unique features and how it can empower users to shop for groceries that meet their dietary requirements, helps spread the word to CNCK’s demographic.

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If, like Robert Frost, you want to take the road less traveled, then visit Monaker Group, Inc.’s (OTCQB: MKGI) website at www.monakergroup.com. There, you’ll find the path to a luxury escorted vacation in some of the most exotic locales through Maupintour Extraordinary Vacations. Maupintour, a portal for vacationers, is owned by Monaker Group and is just one of the ways that the company is setting out to make life easier for travelers. Travelers can use its comprehensive online platforms to make informed decisions about vacations.

Maupintour was founded in 1951 by Tom Maupin and, according to the Maupintour website (http://dtn.fm/Cr4Rd), was the first travel company ‘to send tourists into the Soviet Union after World War II’. These tours garnered extensive media coverage at the time, which helped to establish Maupintour as an adventurous company willing to travel off the beaten track, a reputation it retains to this day. ‘Maupintour travelers have the highest repeat rate in the industry, with some taking as many as 60 vacations with Maupintour’.

Since one picture is worth a thousand words, a key element in Monaker Group’s online offerings are images of vacation destinations. A visitor to the NextTrip.com portal is invited to embark on a Voyage to Vietnam, an Ecuadorian Adventure, a trip to Amsterdam or, perhaps, to enjoy Eternally Italy. One of Monaker’s digital assets is an extensive media library. The company has discovered that would-be travelers are increasingly using video content to make decisions about vacations.

The company’s travel platforms offer a variety of features, including enhanced video, language conversion, and dynamic booking capabilities, all working together to assist the excited adventurer as he or she plans that next trip. Monaker’s platforms are ‘a combination of proprietary and licensed technology, connecting and searching both large travel suppliers and alternative lodging inventories for the benefit of travelers’.

NextTrip.com provides access to travel video and support from full service travel divisions, as well as key partnerships with multiple cruise and tour groups within the United States. NextTrip uses network original programs with travel footage to create valuable and relevant content for its viewers. Later this year, a mobile app for the platform is expected to be launched.

Travelers on the road to success include founder, chairman and CEO of Monaker Group, William Kerby. Kerby has over 26 years’ experience in the travel and media industries, which was preceded by 10 years in the financial services industry. He founded one of the largest video creation companies focused on the North American real estate industry. He also started the R&R Television Network, now viewed by 34 million households, and founded TravelByUs, a NASDAQ small cap company that completed a number of accretive acquisitions, including seven international tour operations and 24 travel agencies. Kerby is also the founder of Leisure Canada, which operated 210 agencies and international tour operations in Great Britain, France, South Africa and the South Pacific.

Chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Monaker Group is Omar Jimenez. Jimenez is an executive with over 33 years of travel and multi-industry experience in building, strengthening and leading national and multinational, public and private companies in various degrees of corporate maturity, including start-up, stable, high growth and turnaround status.

James Marmorstone is acting president. His background is in the hospitality and real estate industries. Curtis Krauskopf is chief technology officer. Jim Nieters is director of engineering & IT. Jeff Idso, with a decade of Alternative Lodging experience, is VP business development. Other directors are Pat LaVecchia, formerly group head of global private corporate equity placements at Credit Suisse First Boston; Doug Checkeris, formerly CEO of Mediacom North America; and Don Monaco, a former Accenture Partner and principal owner of Monaco Air Duluth, an aviation services business.

For more information, visit www.monakergroup.com

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As boards place greater pressure on C-levels to produce value by transforming what they know into action, the right data and analytics operating model is vital to success and growth. After all, if you’re going to compete in a digital economy, you’d better arm yourself with the tools of the trade and produce like never before – or at least just a bit better, faster and more efficiently than the closest competitor. Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTC: ALYI) knows this first-hand, and, in so doing, builds shareholder value by investing in creative ways to manage digital commerce and the information and payments therein.

Alternet focuses on vertical markets in today’s digital commerce environment and transforms today’s pervasively outdated electronic payments infrastructure to create advanced predictive data analytics applications for the consumer, telecommunications and financial market sectors. Within these markets, Alternet is boosting the speed with which the future of money affects the demand for these services worldwide.

A recent Google study claims that the world currently generates more information in three days than it did from the dawn of civilization to 2003! If this doesn’t send chills up the spines of CIOs and CDOs, they’re either sound asleep or working on ways to both structure and use this information to their companies’ advantages in efficient and sustainable ways. Alternet Systems’ partnerships are advancing these endeavors worldwide and outlining paths for growth for its shareholders, as well as the businesses Alternet is engaging.

ALYI’s payment technology solutions deliver products to financial organizations that need solutions for managing a wide range of payments channels. Alternet delivers products and applications development engines that extend beyond the capabilities of processing across all capture devices (e.g. mobile phones, tablets) for delivering channel-specific abilities.

The company’s financial technology solutions provide digital currency payment solutions, banking solutions and digital payment services, while its data analytics offerings change how leading organizations use their data within their marketing research operations. The company looks to introduce a digital currency bank with government regulations and foreign exchange capabilities and provide micro payment services to the retail industry’s emerging markets.

For more information, visit www.alternetsystems.com

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Laguna Blends, Inc. (OTC: LAGBF), a network marketing company, focuses its efforts on the valuable properties of hemp. With the rise in consumer interests leaning toward healthy living, the company offers products that provide wellness benefits, including Caffe, a hemp-infused coffee beverage, and Pro369, a hemp protein powder. Not only does Laguna Blends emphasize the healthy plant, it also provides an opportunity for others to participate in this growing market.

Since the wellness industry is a $3.4 trillion market, Laguna Blends has created a chance for affiliates to take part and sell the company’s hemp products. This allows affiliates to work from home or anywhere in the world while selling clean and healthy goods. Laguna Blends even gives these entrepreneurs access to innovative technology that trains and prepares them for a life of success. For example, affiliates can participate in Laguna’s 3D training platform, Laguna World, which guides and educates with the purpose of driving sales and even recruitment. The company strongly believes that this technology is a “game changer in the Direct Selling/Network Marketing industry.” Users get the best advice from corporate executives while being fully immersed in an interactive platform. Laguna Blends gives entrepreneurs the tools needed to create a strong, successful business with confidence and knowledge.

Having a solid foundation and launching ground before starting a business is key. Entrepreneurs who enter the business world should know their industry and how it works. Laguna Blends makes people comfortable selling healthy products by knowing they are properly trained, all while establishing their own businesses. Furthermore, these members build their own revenue stream while contributing to Laguna Blends as a whole. Knowing how to drive sales and recruit more affiliates creates the potential for major growth overall.

Laguna Blends CEO and founder Stuart Gray recently stated that the company has seen tremendous growth while continuing to attract interested people from all over Canada and the United States. He maintained that Laguna Blends’ innovative technology is “what makes [the company] unique” throughout the network marketing industry, and he looks forward to seeing its accelerated success.

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There is scant doubt that International Stem Cell Corporation’s (OTCQB: ISCO) attention and energy have been focused on creating advances in the field of regenerative medicine. On the contrary, ISCO continues to break new ground in settings where cells are being considered for use or are already being used in research and therapy. ISCO’s development and application of parthenogenesis, an impressive new stem cell technology, is a clear case in point.

Parthenogenesis is a stem cell development process that tackles the problem of immune-rejection. The process uses unfertilized human eggs to create a new class of specialized, pluripotent human stem cells better known as human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs). ISCO’s research and development team has been using these stem cells to make important breakthroughs in the treatment of several diseases, especially in instances where cellular replacement has been shown to be clinically effective but there are no practical sources of safe, ethical cells with which to treat patients. HpSCs are ideal in such situations, because they have been designed so that they can be immune-matched to millions of people. They also have many of the advantages typically linked to embryonic stem cells without most of the ethical issues. Furthermore, a small fraction of hpSC lines can provide more than enough immune-matched cells for a large fraction of the world’s population.

ISCO’s scientists have been assessing the use of hpSCs for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other therapeutic indications, based on the company’s stem cell technology platform. For instance, they are striving to bring a stroke program into clinical trial using ISC-hpNSC and also developing a therapy for osteoarthritis that uses the applicable patient’s own cells. All of these initiatives are multi-year research and development efforts.

To garner income now, ISCO operates two successful business units, Lifeline Cell Technology and Lifeline Skin Care. For years, ISCO has been developing these wholly-owned subsidiaries so that they, in turn, can develop therapeutic products from its own intellectual property. Through Lifeline Skin Care and Lifeline Cell Technology, ISCO has been generating income from the sale of products that were designed using the company’s scientific discoveries. These products embody practical, short-term applications of ISCO’s larger human cell research capabilities.

At its cosmeceutical business, Lifeline Skin Care, ISCO’s employees have been developing, manufacturing and marketing cosmetic skin care products using a proprietary extract derived from the company’s pluripotent stem cells. At its research products business, Lifeline Cell Technology, the team has been creating, manufacturing and marketing human cell culture products, including frozen human “primary” cells and the reagents needed to grow, maintain and differentiate them.

In an effort to maintain its forward momentum, ISCO has been using its scientific discoveries to achieve both immediate and future goals. On the one hand, the company has used its discoveries to create products currently being sold by its two successful, revenue-generating subsidiaries. On the other hand, ISCO also intends to use its discoveries to develop breakthrough treatments for a number of worrisome health conditions and diseases.

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Earlier this month, Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. (OTCQB: GIGL) filed its Annual Report (10-K) for the financial year ended December 27, 2015 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the report shows that the company is bringing home the bacon. Annual revenue was $3,451,772, which exceeded net sales for 2014 ($3,340,941) by $110,831, or three percent. That’s better than the industry as a whole. A report for the National Restaurant Association (NRA) prepared by Duff & Phelps, titled ‘2015 Restaurant Industry Forecast’ (http://dtn.fm/tuqV5), estimated that ‘in inflation-adjusted terms, industry sales are projected to increase 1.5 percent in 2015.’ However, that expansion in business is not the only relish that Giggles N’ Hugs is serving.

Giggles N’ Hugs is a unique, upscale fast casual with a carte du jour created from only the finest gluten-free organic ingredients. The beef comes from grass-fed cows that haven’t been ‘beefed-up’ with hormones. Naturally, there are always vegetarian options. Breads and pastries are made fresh daily by local artisan bakeries. Only trans-fat free canola oil and extra virgin oil are used, and the company will trick or treat all year round with its very own ‘Mom’s Tricky Treat Sauce’, which hides pureed vegetables in kids’ favorite meals, such as pizza, pastas and macaroni and cheese.

Giggles N’ Hugs owns and operates fine dining establishments with staff on hand to free parents from the fuss of first hand supervision. There are play areas for children 10 years and younger that feature kid-size castles, giant climbers, pirate ships, walk-on dragons, tricycles, swings, bouncies, and an abundant selection of toys. There’s also daily live entertainment and performances that include magic shows, concerts, puppet shows, face painting and arts and crafts.

The company’s founder and CEO, Joey Parsi, started the company in 2007 after he and his wife realized there were no eating places that catered to the special needs of parents with young children. Now, its restaurants are located in the best locations in Los Angeles. There’s one at Westfield Mall in Century City on Santa Monica Boulevard; another at Westfield Topanga Shopping Center in Woodland Hills, Canoga Park; and a third at the Glendale Galleria.

The company has been highly rated by Nickelodeon and by City Search, an online site that allows diners to blog about their experiences and rate restaurants. It has been featured on the TV Guide Channel, Fox Channel 11, Extra TV, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, and in Businessweek, People Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Family, West-Side Today, US Magazine, OK Magazine, and Life and Style Magazine.

A typical Giggles N’ Hugs restaurant is around 6,000 square feet with 2,000 square feet allocated for the play area, 2,500 square feet for the dining area, and 1,500 square feet for the kitchen. The company estimates the build-out cost for a new restaurant at between $700,000 and $900,000. That figure takes into account pre-opening expenses and improvement allowances from landlords.

In the coming months, contingent on available financing, the company will undertake an aggressive multi-pronged marketing campaign. The spearhead of this promotional activity will directly engage local preschools, kindergartens, and elementary schools. Giggles N’ Hugs also plans to advertise on television channels such as Disney and Nickelodeon, as well as in additional print publications, radio, and satellite radio. With so much on its plate, Giggles N’ Hugs could prove to be a meal ticket for investors.

Learn more by visiting www.gigglesnhugs.com

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Momentous Entertainment Group, Inc. is a diversified media company that creates, produces and distributes quality content across various media channels, including feature film, television, radio, the Internet, and various forms of digital media for use in the home or on mobile devices. The company is divided into three divisions: direct marketing, film and recordings.

Within these divisions, MMEG operates through several synergistic channels: Film & Television, which produces unique content ranging from feature films and documentaries to reality television; subsidiary Financial Equity Film Partners, Inc., which utilizes strategic partnerships to facilitate film finance and distribution; subsidiary Music One Corp., formed for live events; Momentous Music, a division leveraging worldwide distribution channels to produce and distribute adult contemporary and faith musical talents; and Direct Marketing & Retail, a division focused on direct response TV to promote consumer merchandise and MMEG’s film and music products.

Acquisitions and mergers are an important strategy as MMEG expands its capabilities and customer base to improve profit-generating revenue. The company’s roll-up strategy includes plans to acquire small cable systems, radio and television stations, and technologies to be used in the development of a portal that will stream MMEG’s radio and television holdings, as well as allow the sale and download of music, video and other IP owned and marketed by the company.

Each of MMEG’s corporate officers brings a unique blend of leadership, vision, experience and creative energy necessary to fulfill these strategies. With more than a century of combined experience in entertainment and marketing, this team has set MMEG on track to achieve its goals and make major contributions to the global entertainment industry.

For more information, visit www.momentousent.com

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Cryoport, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYRX) has developed one of the most comprehensive solution platforms available today in the life sciences-focused cryogenic logistics space, with a suite of proprietary technologies such as its signature Cryoport Express® (http://dtn.fm/jGrs5) dry vapor dewars for materials that need to be kept at frozen temperatures, as well as its Cryoportal™ logistics management platform and SmartPak II™ continuous, geo-sensing monitoring system (http://dtn.fm/53nP7). Reinforced by a rock-solid commitment to 24/7 customer support and cold chain logistics consulting spanning risk assessment, lane qualification and process flow – the company’s portfolio of industry-leading technologies has propelled CYRX to the forefront of the sector, allowing the company to secure such sweetheart deals as the recent strategic partnership with $2.4 billion market cap, diversified metals manufacturing giant, Worthington Industries (NYSE: WOR).

This latest deal will see Worthington’s CryoScience by Taylor Wharton Division, one of the most influential and competent manufacturers in the space today, designing and manufacturing biostorage and logistics hardware for CYRX’s life sciences solutions. It’s the kind of cozy deal that will open big doors for the company, granting its already much sought after cold chain logistics solutions the ability to satisfy a much broader client mix, and enabling the company to dynamically scale support for proliferating client commercialization efforts.

Cryoport is no stranger to marching into the gap like this, as news of the Worthington partnership came just days after the company’s announcement on April 11 regarding the launch of its new Temperature Controlled Logistics Consulting Division, which was organized to answer feverish demand from a global and burgeoning cellular-based therapies market. The deluge of cell-based immunotherapy technologies currently in the soon-to-be $2.45 trillion-plus personalized medicine pipeline (http://dtn.fm/rm0Kj) has created a perfect storm for storage and transportation logistics players and only a tiny handful of key players, such as CYRX, are positioned to capitalize on runaway demand for the kind of planning and strategies needed to help effectively develop and deploy temperature sensitive/personalized therapies.

The broader global cryogenic equipment market is on-track to hit upwards of $25 billion by 2022 (http://dtn.fm/VwY57), with the Asia-Pacific region seen as the strongest segment at around $7.83 billion projected by 2019 (http://dtn.fm/sa9FD). This is a target-rich environment for a company like Cryoport, which is actively working in regenerative medicine in support of some 64 different clinical trials, including Perseus PCI’s Phase II2b melanoma and ovarian cancer clinical trial, as well as ImmunoCellular Therapeutics’ (NYSE: IMUC) registrational Phase III clinical trial of ICT-107 immunotherapy in aggressive brain cancer, which spans 400-plus newly-diagnosed glioblastoma patients at 120 sites throughout North America and Europe.

Any questions as to just how capable Cryoport is when it comes to securing additional traction within the space, should be quickly put to rest by one look at the company’s earlier deal in March of 2016 with one of the planet’s undisputed leaders in logistics, UPS (NYSE: UPS). UPS launching its biotech, pharma and medical device industry-tailored Temperature True® Cryo solution in Europe, which allows customers to keep products at -150°C for 10 days using Cryoport Express containers’ dry vapor liquid nitrogen technology, gives CYRX access to the global network of 51 UPS healthcare-dedicated facilities, and sets the company up for continued success alongside UPS, which serves more than 220 countries and territories worldwide.

For more information, visit www.cryoport.com

Earlier today, eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), the company behind the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™, announced that its real estate division, eXp Realty, has recently launched operations in Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Idaho and the District of Columbia. This expansion continues to build on what has been a period of rapid growth for the company, which has now commenced operations in a total of eight new states and Washington, D.C. since last November. In total, EXPI’s full-service, cloud-based real estate brokerage is now open in more than 35 U.S. states, as well as two Canadian provinces.

“Our launch in these new markets reflects our continuing ability to attract and/or develop highly-credible leaders within the industry who understand the impact of Agent-Ownership on culture and collaboration and who see very clearly the opportunities made possible by innovative uses of technology both for industry professionals and for the consumers they serve,” Jason Gesing, president of EXPI, stated in today’s news release.

As part of this expansion, EXPI also announced the hiring of managing brokers for each of its new markets. Tameka Bryant, a national trainer for the largest trade association in the country, the National Association of REALTORS®, will join EXPI as managing broker in Missouri and Kansas. Tara Houston, the company’s current managing broker in the State of Maryland, will take on the same role in the District of Columbia. Robert Bass, an experienced broker and winner of the coveted Realtor of the Year award in 1996, will serve as managing broker in Idaho. Finally, Jeffrey Hagel, who has more than a decade of industry experience working with RE/MAX and Keller Williams Realty, will serve as the company’s managing broker in Minnesota.

In recent months, EXPI has made tremendous progress toward introducing its innovative, cloud-based brokerage to some of the top real estate professionals in North America. Since launching its aggressive revenue sharing program in October 2009, the company has amassed a network of more than 1,000 real estate professionals, positioning it among the top 50 real estate brokerages in the United States, according to data furnished by RISMEDIA.

Since launching its services in major markets across Texas, Louisiana and Georgia within the past 12 months, EXPI has established a position as one of the fastest growing real estate brokerages in these markets, helping the company attract the best and brightest in the real estate profession to its brokerage. With today’s announcement of the launch of eXp Realty in four new states and the District of Columbia, EXPI will look to build on this progress, developing a sizable and sustainable foothold in these markets in the months to come.

For more information, visit the company’s website at http://investors.exprealty.com

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Star Mountain Resources, Inc. (OTC: SMRS), a micro-cap mining company, focuses its efforts on acquiring potentially high output mineral properties. The company specifically looks for low-cost acquisitions that are rich in base and precious metals. So far, these investments include the Balmat zinc mine in New York and the Chopar Project in Utah. Star Mountain Resources prides itself on making a “positive difference in the lives of those we serve: our shareholders, our employees, our customers, and our communities.” The company believes in strengthening community ties while upholding its core values, especially its environmental responsibility.

Mining processes have the potential of deeply impacting the surrounding environment. Realizing this, Star Mountain Resources investigates current and potential challenges that might negatively affect the environment. Some of these risks include water pollution, erosion, biodiversity, and soil contamination. Fortunately, Federal and State governments enforce strict laws to combat these risks, such as the Clean Air Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

Star Mountain Resources itself takes strong initiatives toward maintaining a healthy ecosystem at each project location. The company meets and exceeds Federal and State laws by treating its water against mercury, arsenic, and sulfuric acid contamination while setting up sewage systems that reduce its environmental footprint. Star Mountain Resources also tracks its monthly energy usage and pays special attention to costs and consumption with the goal of minimizing usage each year. The company even signed a long-term power agreement that assures the reduction of power costs by 40%. Recycling programs and dust-suppression techniques also help each site to be eco-friendly.

Overall, Star Mountain Resources makes it a priority to maintain the environment while building sturdy community ties. The company knows the importance of community and its ecosystem, making its green efforts that much more significant. Ensuring its mines have minimal environmental impact equates to a healthier production of mineral properties in favorable areas.

For more information, visit www.starmountainresources.com

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