The acquisition of ShareRails was completed by Grey Cloak Tech, Inc. (OTC: GRCK) in March 2017 and is already developing new relationships and creating new online-to-offline business opportunities in southeast China. Excel Management Systems, an IT management firm, had valued the acquisition at over $6.4 million. ShareRails is now enhancing the visibility of brick-and-mortar stores to millions of online shoppers thanks to its ShareRails Online to Offline Platform (O2O), which transforms inventory data into digital content that can be indexed by Google and various other search engines. The platform also seamlessly integrates internet marketing, email marketing, and social media to bridge the gap between traditional and e-commerce stores.

Funding by Tomorrow Ventures (a private equity fund operated by Google) has helped ShareRails reach its goals. In fact, ShareRails founder Joseph Nejman previously led seed investments as Entrepreneur in Residence for the venture capital firm and held various roles at Google. In a recent interview, Nejman said of the basis for the ShareRails O2O platform: “Local retailers are missing out on millions of shopping searches each month because their product inventory and other key information is not accessible online and therefore they do not appear in relevant search results nor can consumers see what products are in stock without visiting the store.”

The acquisition promises to have repercussions throughout the retail and e-commerce industries. Serving the trillion-dollar retail sector, ShareRails can draw the attention of online shoppers to local retailers, even if their inventory isn’t available online. Local merchants’ products can be seen through basic online searches. The ShareRails platform makes in-stock products and promotions instantly searchable; it creates a digital product catalog allowing people to find products locally and even on social media. In addition to product details, one will also see directions to the store, hours of operation, and other relevant details.

Once data are imported, stored in the cloud, and published, the ShareRails O2O platform lets people search an online mall. This drives digital campaigns and social media initiatives while enabling a resource for product reviews and recommendations. End users can also take advantage of an outfit builder, wishlist app, and other shopping tools such as the Dress.li recommendation and reward platform. Shoppers can easily connect with fashion experts, stylists, and bloggers. At the same time, merchants have insightful analytics to track customer behavior, trends, and more.

Grey Cloak Tech provides industry-leading click-fraud protection solutions in addition to the retail solutions offered by ShareRails. It is now positioned to address the O2O market and online security (via its proprietary Fraudlytic software for digital advertising fraud protection), giving investors a path to benefit from business ventures serving a vast and diverse market. In the U.S. alone, there are over 10 million product searches per month, even as mall traffic was cut in half between 2010 and 2013, according to a recent company press release.

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

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Monaker Group (OTCQB: MKGI) has an advantage in the alternative lodging rental (ALR) market. A research report from CBRE Hotels (formerly PF Hospitality) finds that ALR now accounts for 9% of total lodging units in the 10 largest markets in the U.S. and is a threat to the growth and pricing of traditional hotels (http://dtn.fm/OZw8o). In the ALR war, Monaker Group has the advantage of instant online booking for both alternative and traditional lodging.

Monaker Group is using artificial intelligence (AI) as it develops its website, NextTrip.com. It will offer travel agents and consumers a single all-in-one instant confirmation booking site where a user can book ALR, traditional hotels and airfare — everything for a vacation, business trip or a combination of the two. It is a high-technology company focused on the ALR market with its instant confirmation advantage available across non-traditional and traditional travel.

The total inventory of Monaker Group will reach 1.5 million vacation rentals by June 2017, per the company. Earlier this year, it offered one million accept/request properties, its worldwide inventory of resort properties and even “make an offer” bidding solution options. eMarketer research projects that the digital travel market will reach $817.54 billion by 2020 (http://dtn.fm/0Uhh8). Monaker Group will offer ALR digitally plus traditional hotels on its single site. Bill Kerby, founder, chairman and CEO of Monaker Group, said that its site will be an intuitive and fully comprehensive booking platform.

The CBRE Hotels report shows that major ALR player Airbnb is adding more units at a faster clip than traditional hotels, showing the power of the ALR market. For example, in New York, out of a total of 140,000 lodging units, Airbnb accounts for almost 23,000 units, or 16%, as of September 2016. In Los Angeles, ALR accounted for 12% of the lodging units. The numbers were 11% in San Francisco and 9.2% in Miami, the report showed. The available lodging rental units also translated into total hotel-generated room revenue, with ALR accounting for 6% in Los Angles and about 5% in New York, San Francisco and Oakland. In total, CBRE found that more than 55% of Airbnb’s revenues from October 2014 to September 2015 came from five U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Boston. “I take my hat off to them. They saw an opportunity that the rest of us missed,” Choice Hotels CEO Steve Joyce noted in a news release. CBRE projected that, as Airbnb grows, its impact will reduce new hotel construction and keep traditional hotel room rates down.

Meanwhile, Monaker Group has a major advantage with its all-in-one instant booking platform. It gives something in the online marketplace that users want but haven’t had before: instant ALR confirmation plus full integration with traditional travel options. Monaker Group said in its investor presentation that it has a mobile app under development that offers users access to its proprietary ALR inventory, real-time booking, an extensive library of videos showing resorts, and even access to online travel agents. Its booking platform is comprehensive for travelers seeking ALR.

For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com

Owning shares of a holding company often times can provide unique opportunities to profit from non-traditional markets with great upside potential. SinglePoint, Inc. (OTC: SING), a publicly traded holding company, offers just such non-traditional upside opportunity with its foray into the burgeoning cannabis market.

Traditionally, SinglePoint has focused on mobile technology and mobile marketing by offering client-based solutions for business transactions, donations and targeted communications. The company connects client companies to target markets by providing innovative mobile technology at reasonable rates. However, SinglePoint recognized the strength and profit potential in acquiring interest in undervalued, high-growth entities in disparate markets to create a diversified holding base.

With some annual growth estimates exceeding 20 percent, SinglePoint settled on the cannabis industry as an excellent avenue of diversification and has pursued strategic opportunities to exploit this market and enhance shareholder value. SinglePoint’s innovative entry in the cannabis market came through its SingleSeed subsidiary. SingleSeed seeks to offer solutions for a perplexing problem encountered by legal marijuana businesses. These businesses, blessed by individual states as legal, still operate outside the boundaries of federal law and have limited access to the banking system. This economic zombie zone places legitimate cannabis businesses in precarious situations. The contradictory laws force all-cash transactions with customers, leading to large amounts of cash on site. SingleSeed aims to offer non-cash payment solutions to marijuana businesses that are easy to use and safer for both the companies and the customers.

Focused on innovation, SinglePoint is expanding its portfolio in the cannabis markets with the strategic acquisition of companies that profit from the cannabis industry but don’t touch the plant itself. There’s little doubt that the marijuana market in the United States will continue to flourish and is poised for explosive upside growth. SinglePoint’s strategy positions the company to maximize profit from the marijuana markets yet virtually eliminate any downside risk exposure. The company’s recent acquisition of a stake in Convectium, an innovative company with a proprietary machine that fills and packages vape cartridges and disposable vape pens at a rate of 100 per 30 seconds, is yet another step in SinglePoint’s expansion of its cannabis-related holdings strategy.

In reference to the Convectium acquisition, Greg Lambrecht, CEO of SinglePoint, stated “We have evaluated numerous investment prospects in the cannabis space, and found there is nothing that compares to this opportunity we have with Convectium. With this transaction, we will acquire a stake in a cannabis business that never touches a marijuana plant. This is the strategy we will use as we move forward to hedge us against changing federal and state laws.”

SinglePoint’s unique strategy positions the company to reap the benefits of the explosive marijuana markets while limiting the downside risk.

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

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Serving the massive online-to-offline (O2O) market in China with a popular app for businesses and consumers, Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) announced that adoption of its platform is accelerating in both Android and iPhone segments. The news comes after the company’s launch of the Moxian+ paid platform in March 2017, which represents a transition from its beta technology that has been offered at no charge. Moxian, an innovative technology company serving the estimated $48 billion O2O market in China, enables consumers to order products online and pay brick and mortar businesses (with an online presence) via traditional offline methods.

The Moxian+ Business App has already enabled small- and medium-sized businesses to capture and analyze data, maintain customer relationships, and target marketing initiatives, as well as to have access to China’s 1.3 billion-user mobile telephone market (the largest in the world). Over 31,000 businesses used the free Moxian platform, and the company hopes to convert them to its paid, improved system.

The Moxian+ User app, reaching over 300,000 consumers with its free version, provides a system for collecting loyalty points, winning universal MO-Coins, and engaging in social networking with friends and interest groups. Consumers can set up a personalized multimedia profile. Providing the means to pay for purchases by mobile device, the app fully supports online payments and contactless cards. People can also search for local merchants via the program’s geo-location feature, communicate with friends via a media messenger, and win gifts by playing exciting games.

Expanding functionality available through Moxian’s (now paid) apps is reaching a large and fast-growing market. Accessibility to Android and iPhone users is allowing the company to hit new milestones, as it strives to reach the country’s smartphone users, who, according to CNBC, account for about 30 percent of the global smartphone market. According to a 2016 Statista.com report (http://nnw.fm/04Xt9), China became the largest mobile phone user market in 2012. Mobile phone subscriptions in the country have surged since 2011, and, now, 89 percent of its population uses a mobile phone. Monthly sales of the top 10 mobile phone brands had reached 800,000 units by Q2 2013.

The surge in app adoption is also proving beneficial to investors. In a recent press release (http://nnw.fm/1wxMB), Moxian announced an aggregate initial offering price of $50 million, with the filing of form S-3 with the SEC. Its revenue streams comprise subscription services, mobile advertising, distribution license fees, and small transaction payments. Moxian’s NASDAQ listing opened in November 2016, and future offerings are expected to include common shares, senior debt, debt securities, warrants, and, potentially, various other securities.

Now that its paid platforms can reach iPhone and Android mobile users in business and consumer markets across China, Moxian anticipates continued growth and expansion. The company can now reach a consumer base of 1.3 billion users and growing. In addition, the Shenzhen-based organization has expanded to Beijing and is expected to have over 100 commissioned executive sales personnel by year’s end.

For more information, visit www.Moxian.com

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), through its eXp Realty subsidiary, is not just adding new real estate agents; it is attracting high-volume agent/brokers including two from The Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 List, according to Glenn Sanford, chairman, CEO and founder of the company. Presenting at the MicroCap Conference in New York earlier this month, Sanford said that a number of large real estate markets remain open to the agent-owned and cloud-based online real estate agency — such as New York and Connecticut. The company can grow more than geographically, because it projects possible areas of expansion such as mortgage origination, title and escrow services, and homeowners insurance, he said.

eXp World Holdings is the holding company for eXp Realty LLC and eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. It is an agent-owned, cloud-based brokerage that is unique in that it offers its agents a chance to earn company stock through performance, as well as to receive a percentage of gross commissions earned by other agents that they bring into EXPI. It has surpassed 3,000 agents and projects having 5,500-6,500 agents by the end of this year. The company’s features are designed to not only attract agents but also retain them. Three-year 100% equity vesting is an important retention tool, Sanford said.

The company maintains a non-traditional model of low costs due to its cloud-based campus versus brick-and-mortar offices. In addition to agent incentives in the form of company stock for performance plus shared commission payments, the company also offers special online educational classes as part of its immersive cloud-based platform campus. The combination of lower costs, high technology, stock incentives, and a percentage of recruited agent commissions, is highly desirous for agents, Sanford told investors.

The largest state EXPI currently serves in the U.S. is Texas — with some 800 eXp agents. However, in the tri-state market of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, the company still has much room to grow. That market remains a large opportunity for the company, and the high-dollar residential real estate markets of Connecticut, Manhattan, and Brooklyn are still largely open.

The firm sees a further doubling of its agent count by the end of this year, to between 5,500 and 6,500, Sanford said. EXPI is attracting younger and, in some cases, higher volume agents. He added that its three-year vesting program appeals to agents and has also proven important in retaining them. Few would want to leave the company before fully vesting and losing that equity, he noted.

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

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An increasing market value and lucrative assets are making Bollente Companies, Inc. (OTCQB: BOLC) appealing to potential investors. The shares bought over the past couple of years show that investors are taking notice of Bollente as it continues to partner with entrepreneurs and take on opportunities to grow its business and market presence.

Over the past several years, the company has worked to successfully develop an advanced consumer product with worldwide potential – a next-generation technology tankless electric water heater with major advances over other tankless systems, gas or electric, on the market. A diverse portfolio of companies has already opted for Bollente’s trutankless® system, including Cullum Homes, which has recently added the smart electric tankless water heaters in its properties – The Village at Mountain Shadows in Paradise Valley, Arizona, along with The Village at Silverleaf, located in North Scottsdale, Arizona. After extensive research and engineering, Bollente Companies officially launched the water heater line in 2014 and has been granted 32 patent claims on the technology, with several new ones on the way. The company’s trutankless® line is now the subject of demand among builders and remodelers.

The company’s recent press release regarding Cullum Homes (http://dtn.fm/ImM08) included awards its advanced tankless water heater system has already received. The system has been honored by Arizona Forward’s Environmental Excellence Awards with the Governor’s Award of Merit for Energy and Technology Innovation. It was also named a Hot Product in Green Builder Magazine, and it received a silver award in the Appliance Design Excellence in Design contest. Earlier, it had been named “Best Home Technology Product” at the 2014 IBS show.

Developing product sales aren’t the only thing going for Bollente and its investors. A customized marketing program launched in 2015 (aimed at trutankless® installation partners) has boosted sales and introduced a proprietary app that notifies installers of sales opportunities via text message. The program includes training opportunities and a partnership with bluemedia, a signage provider, enabling installers to order branded vehicle wraps for their service fleets.

A recent report (http://dtn.fm/Jww5N) announced hundreds of electric tankless water heaters will be installed in senior living townhomes at Friendship Village in Tempe, Arizona, by 2018. The product is supporting the community’s continuing expansion. Another appeal to investors is the product’s energy efficiency, as these water heaters produce hot water at consistent temperatures, despite variations in incoming water temperature, to within one degree. They also provide the advantages of home automation, remote control, freeze protection, dry-fire defense, leak detection, and smart grid capabilities.

Globally, tankless water heater sales generated an estimated revenue of nearly $17 billion, according to Persistence Market Research (http://dtn.fm/wPaw5), and they are projected to exceed well over $25 billion by 2024. This market segment represents just a small part of the global green building sector, which is currently outpacing overall U.S. construction growth and continues to double in size every three years. Smart appliances, including IoT devices in the home, represent a market valued at nearly $47 billion in 2015 that’s expected to grow to almost $122 billion by 2022 (per a MarketandMarkets forecast, http://dtn.fm/rtV6e). The growth in the number of senior living communities over the next 10 years represents a market opportunity for tankless water heaters as well – as baby-boomers look to healthy living and energy saving solutions. Therefore, investors focused on growth, market value, and energy efficiency can find Bollente a company worth considering.

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

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India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IGC) intends to become a “first-mover” in developing cannabis-based combination therapies for large market conditions such as pain, eating disorders, refractory epilepsy, and seizures. In addition, IGC has filed two patents, IGC-502 and IGC-505, for combination therapies for the treatment of seizures in dogs and cats, which in it itself is a surprisingly large market.

It is believed that abnormal brain activity is the cause of most seizures in dogs and cats. These seizures can be either violent or subtle. Some seizures may occur just once, but others can be repeated and require treatment before affecting larger parts of the brain.

The pet market is large and growing. According to research by the American Pet Products Association (http://dtn.fm/iiO30), the market in 2017 is expected to reach $16.62 billion for veterinary care and $14.93 billion for supplies and over-the-counter medicine. By far, dogs and cats are the most popular pets. In a 2017 survey by National Pet Owners, 60.2 million American households owned a dog and 47.1 million households owned a cat.

While some of this research may also be beneficial for treating humans, it reflects IGC’s targeting of the larger veterinary market. In dogs, primary epilepsy — or idiopathic epilepsy — occurs in about 5% of the canine population (http://dtn.fm/pRtJ3), most often in dogs between the ages of six months and six years. In cats, seizures are much less common, occurring in only 0.5-1.0% of the population. Most are intracranial, stemming from the brain, and are epileptic in nature.

Hemp-based products for dogs, especially for older and pain-ridden dogs, are in a gray market. However, the market potential is great (http://dtn.fm/b1DMo), because it sits at the current intersection of medical pharmaceutical marijuana and pet care. Veterinarians acknowledge that legal restrictions currently impede distribution of these products in the U.S., but advances in legalization of medical marijuana may be helpful in changing the environment. For now, IGC is researching the potential of cannabis-based treatments in the pet market and developing products as this potentially represents a significant future opportunity.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.IGCinc.us

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The global wound care market recently reached revenues of more than $20 billion (http://dtn.fm/W1wjB) at the end of 2016, based on sales at the manufacturer’s level. Specifically, the burn care market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.8% from $1.68 billion in 2016 to more than $2.33 billion by the end of 2021 (http://dtn.fm/I6abR). The growth in these markets has been largely attributed to factors such as the rising number of burn accidents, an aging population, and the rise in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, and other diseases that can cause skin-related problems.

Currently, wound care ranges from anti-infectives, ulcer wound management, moist dressings, and negative pressure wound therapy to wound closure and even conventional skin grafts. These treatments can be extremely painful, slow-to-heal, and are more likely to face complications along the way. Today, more is being done to help patients suffering from skin problems, some of which include a rise in health care expenditure, more government initiatives, an increase in the number of emergency centers and burn units, and a growing understanding of the various treatment options.

In addition, more innovative forms of treatment are slowly being introduced. RenovaCare, Inc. (OTCQB: RCAR), a development stage biotechnology company focused on acquiring, researching, developing, and commercializing first-of-their-kind self-donated stem cell therapies for the regeneration of human organs, is in the process of developing a product that targets issues relating to the human body’s largest organ, the skin.

The company’s CellMist™ system uses a patient’s own stem cells and is applied onto wounds and burns using its SkinGun™. The technology is able to regrow the skin across wounds by spreading numerous regenerative islands over the affected area, rather than the wound healing from the outside in. Although still part of an experimental setting, the system has been tested on patients such as Matt Uram, a victim of a fire-related accident during a July fourth celebration, who, within three days witnessed incredible results, with burns almost completely healed and no risk of infection or scarring (http://dtn.fm/uXAR5).

RenovaCare believes the SkinGun™ could replace today’s standards of care, decreasing the need for patients to go through the process of having complicated skin grafts, mesh skin grafts, and other forms of painful treatment.

The company is aiming to get the SkinGun™ FDA-approved in the near future, and research is already underway at RenovaCare to enable the treatment of third degree burns, which are more complex in nature and often come with damage to the muscles and tissue below the skin.

For more information, visit www.RenovaCareInc.com

In the first few months of 2017, MGX Minerals, Inc. (OTC: MGXMF) announced a cheaper lithium extraction process (http://dtn.fm/5xqMc) that yielded 1600mg/L of lithium and also recovered potentially saleable by-products of magnesium, boron and potassium.

The market for lithium-ion batteries is expected to grow in value to $46.21 billion annually within the next five years thanks to growing demand from electric car manufacturers such as Tesla, Nissan and BAIC Motor.

Thanks to its unique characteristics, lithium provides the most energy per weight or volume, so batteries can be made smaller and more efficient. The demand is growing rapidly, and Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) and Macquarie Research predict growth rates between 60 and 250 percent in the next few years alone.

Electric cars and consumer products utilizing lithium-ion batteries are not the only reason for lithium’s explosive growth prospects. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are also becoming increasingly reliant on lithium-ion battery storage. Without the ability to store clean energy for on-demand delivery to the grid, renewable sources will remain unable to compete with fossil fuel sources.

The increasing demand suggests increased pressure on suppliers, who have been slow to respond with opening up new supply chains. According to a Bloomberg press release (http://dtn.fm/3GtkQ) that quoted the world’s largest lithium producer, Albemarle Corp. (NYSE: ALB), lithium carbonate prices spiked in China from $4,000 in 2014 to over $20,000 per metric ton in 2016.

A lithium mining boom is currently underway. Many companies exploring for lithium have set their sights on Clayton Valley, Nevada, which is home to the only lithium-producing mine in North America. Clayton Valley is attractive, because lithium can be extracted from brine aquifers, rather than high cost hard rock mining. The brine is evaporated in large settling ponds in a process that can take 18-24 months. The low grades at Clayton Valley are offset by large quantities and low costs of the evaporation technique.

MGX, however, has banked on decreasing the evaporation timeline to less than one day. Its patent-pending PetroLithium™ methodology separates valuable minerals from salt water (brine) that accompanies oil and gas production. Until now, petroleum brine has been discarded as a waste product, but MGX is working to develop technology that will extract lithium and other valuable minerals in less than one day while also cleaning the wastewater brine and making it safe for the environment.

In early March, MGX reported that it had concentrated 20 times more lithium than was concentrated through earlier extraction methods (http://dtn.fm/gY6tB), while contaminants were removed using less energy. The company has expanded its mining operations from Alberta into the Lisbon Valley oil and gas field located in the Paradox basin, near Moab, Utah. MGX has also signed an agreement to earn a 50 percent interest in the Paradox Basin Lithium Brine Property, thanks to a recently announce joint-venture with Scientific Metals Corp.

In total, MGX has built a lithium portfolio spanning over 175 million acres, or 2,400 square miles, throughout North America. At current prices, it’s estimated that there could be $18 billion worth of lithium to be mined. The pace appears to be picking up for MGX and lithium mining in general.

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

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Recent studies undertaken by PWC (http://dtn.fm/dD48p) show that excellent training and development programs are key factors that make an attractive employer, next to opportunities for career progression and financial incentives. The economic landscape in the U.S. is changing, and people are putting more thought into the skills and training they need to succeed in their workplaces.

A Pew Research Center survey (http://dtn.fm/w6J2m) showed that the majority of employees see ongoing training as a very important factor for a successful career. This belief has, in some ways, been confirmed, as a Pew Research Center analysis of government jobs data showed that employment has been rising in professions where more training, education, and experience are required.

The research center also highlighted that “The number of workers in occupations requiring average to above-average education, training and experience increased from 49 million in 1980 to 83 million in 2015, or by 68%. This was more than double the 31% increase over the same period in employment, from 50 million to 65 million, in jobs requiring below-average education, training and experience.”

An article from ERC (http://dtn.fm/k5jMW) highlights the top 7 trends in employee training and development for 2016, two of which were the continued growth of employee training and the fact that companies that perform better also spend more on training their teams. ProBility Media Corp. (OTCQB: PBYA) recognizes the gap in the training and certification market and is disrupting it by building the first full-service training and career advancement brand specifically for the skilled trades.

ProBility Media Corp. is a provider of training and education content to customers in the skilled trades industries. Historically, high quality training has only been available to enterprise-level companies, however, PBYA offers them to everyone, from trades people to small businesses and enterprise level corporations. PBYA offers consistent, high-quality online training to individuals, from high school graduation to career placement, and it is preparing the workforce for excellence.

ProBility Media offers its services through multiple divisions, including Brown Technical Media Corp., Brown Technical Publications Inc., 1 Exam Prep LLC, Brown Book Shop, and National Electrical Wholesale. Currently, ProBility is working under a disruptive strategy, acquiring other companies that fit into its sector in order to create synergies that will organically grow its revenue and allow it to provide the best set of educational and training content to all of its clients.

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

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