Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) is in the information business. The company uses big data to help business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers know their businesses, consumers and competitors so that they can enact smart, stable and sustainable growth measures. A pioneer of novel social marketing and promotion platforms, Moxian is a decidedly unique information partner for B2C marketers. Using the best interactive marketing solutions of the mobile Internet era, Moxian collects consumer data that businesses can use for win-win solutions.

While consumers are using the Moxian+ (User) App to play games, collect loyalty points from issuing merchants and redeem these points with merchants in the Moxian eco-system, the company is collecting information. While consumers are engaging with the social networking features on the app – setting up personalized multimedia profiles; looking for friends, interest groups, clans and topics; and sharing and chatting with their social circles, Moxian is collecting information. Ultimately, all of this big data collection has allowed the company to amass a fountain of information about its users, from their location, which is pinpointed with geo-tags when they search for merchants in their nearby vicinity, and beyond.

When businesses connect with the Moxian+ (Business) App, however, they access a mobile app that uses intelligent data analytics, business tools, loyalty programs and advertising media to help them grow their business. With its automated data capturing, learning and analytical features, the app helps businesses know their customers, hold onto them and push periodical messages and marketing prompts to them.

It’s precise and predictive marketing at its finest. The app helps businesses edge out the competition with tools like its loyalty programs, which allow marketers to target the right audiences, and its advertising media, which allows them to create promotional campaigns directly on the Moxian platform.

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

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Contemporary Nielsen data indicates that the trend of people watching online versus traditional channels will continue, with 18 to 24 year olds, in particular, adhering to this trend, as one can see a clear 34 percent drop in traditional TV viewing from 2011 to 2015 (http://dtn.fm/JS3Mx) among this demographic. So-called millennials aren’t the only one’s watching online, of course, and binge-streaming an entire series on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime has now become a popular way of consuming one’s favorite content. However, the social media envelope has yet to really be pushed by the big streaming services, and the migration of how people consume TV content to online sources merely serves as an indicator for how we live our lives online these days. In the world of marketing, you have to go where the people are.

The ongoing growth of Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) as a marketing platform is a good way to understand the real story here, given that, for millions of people, constantly interacting with Twitter, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and other feeds has become a kind of seamless, interactive, reality TV show. This is especially true when you consider how the online ecosystem is evolving, with various entities all tying together to create a cohesive multimedia experience, as social media entities like Twitter and Facebook continue to become active content timelines where images and video define the experience and act as jumping off points into further content. This traction space is massively appealing to any sort of business, from small mom and pop shops to multinational corporations, and enablers who can successfully harness these underlying forces stand to become the next hot tech stocks.

This is where a company like Agora Holdings, Inc. (OTC: AGHI) comes into focus as an investor-accessible way to tap into the raw power of the underlying equation. Agora is the parent company of wholly-owned Geegle Media, which, in addition to its web platforms, such as its on demand GeegleTV, RealtyTV, LobbyTV and 1000Salads, has developed an internet dashboard solution known as FRAME and subsequently enhanced it to provide businesses and PR/IR firms with an end-run social media management engine. Logging in to one platform that lets you post to your entire online footprint is the wave of the future when it comes to marketing, but few, if any, companies have engineered truly compelling solutions in the space that are easy to use but still have the reach and backend analytics needed.

Engineered as a sole-source front-end solution for daily-use websites, with the emphasis decidedly on social media sites and subscription-based accounts, FRAME is an innovative dashboarding platform whose advent is long overdue as far as many in the industry are concerned. Let’s face it, the sheer number of social media sites that the average person interacts with now on a daily basis is enormous, whether it is constant-use social media juggernauts like Twitter and Facebook; Facebook’s Instagram (all three of which are currently integrated with FRAME); the increasingly social, professional networking titan LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD); or even the fast-rising star (incubated by social commerce code shop Cold Brew Labs) that we’ve all come to know as an image-driven “catalog of ideas,” called Pinterest. FRAME is currently being developed toward encompassing Google+ and YouTube, as well as LinkedIn and Tumblr, and with a build footprint already spanning Android, iOS and desktop computers, FRAME’s unique technological capabilities are rapidly emerging as the ideal means of publishing brand-relevant content that can hit every possible vector, across an entire organization’s social media presence.

Social media presence is indisputably essential to success these days, but managing a huge social media footprint can be extremely challenging, and the constant need to present a consistent presence across the entire social media spectrum is a problem that demands precisely such a solution as FRAME. Moreover, it becomes an ease-of-use issue at a certain point, especially for SMEs that are trying to maximize their end user traction through broad-spectrum social media engagement. FRAME was engineered from the ground up to be able to hand customers exactly the kind of robust engagement and customer care tools they need to really assess the efficacy of all-too-costly campaigns, as well as performance across social media, with reporting based on granular metrics such as reposts, mentions, and brand-related conversations.

FRAME being redeployed in an enhanced version that allows businesses (and particularly public relations/investor relations agencies) to easily wrangle their increasingly complex social media presence via a sole-source dashboard that is truly user-friendly gives the platform a real chance to shine through its built-in analytics system. Not that this concept is wholly-new, mind you, with competing solutions existing that can schedule posts which go out to the entire footprint, but the ease-of-use and overall design of FRAME hurdles the major sticking points with existing solutions, which range from usability to target site integration issues.

For more information, visit www.agoraholdingsinc.com

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LD Micro and Marcum, LLP have announced their partnership for their upcoming investor conferences, which means that for the second consecutive year, qualified attendees from LD Micro can attend the Marcum Conference at no charge.

The Marcum Micro-Cap Conference will be June 1-2 at the Grand Hyatt in New York, where executives for about 150 companies will make corporate presentations and participate in one-on-one meetings with high net worth investors, fund managers and other attendees. This year’s two-day event will also feature panel discussions and a keynote address by Harvey Pitt, former chairman of the SEC, as well Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

View the list of companies presenting at the 2016 Marcum Micro-Cap Conference here: http://www.marcumllp.com/MicroCap/presenting-companies

The following week, Marcum will be one of two main sponsors for the 2016 Invitational and Main Event June 7-9, in Bel Air, California. The conference will feature three days of corporate presentations from hundreds of small-cap companies across a wide range of industries, panels and more.

For more information visit www.Marcumllp.com or www.LDMicro.com

The average American owns multiple devices powered by lithium-ion batteries, and this should come as no surprise. Everything from smartphones and laptops to power tools and electric vehicles take advantage of the lightweight, high energy density power sources, creating a sizable and rapidly expanding global market. According to a report by Taiyou Research (http://dtn.fm/Wvn3T), the global market for lithium-ion batteries is expected to exceed $30 billion by 2020, capitalizing on continued advancements in key performance characteristics and increased market penetration. With all this in mind, it would be easy to think that companies across the country would be jumping into the stored energy space at a breakneck pace, but that’s simply not the case. In fact, up until recently, there were no lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities in the United States, but one company had the foresight to correct this surprising omission.

In March, Oakridge Global Energy Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: OGES) announced the start of operations at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Palm Bay, Florida. The major milestone marked the completion of the company’s near two-year transition from a primarily research and development company into a full-fledged battery manufacturing company. Following commencement of manufacturing, Oakridge hit the ground running, racking up an existing pipeline of orders totaling $24 million and exceeding its revenue guidance for the first quarter of 2016.

“This is a very exciting time to be part of Oakridge,” Steve Barber, executive chairman and chief executive officer of Oakridge, stated in a recent news release. “We have, for the first time in company history (which dates back to the 1980’s), generated significant commercial revenues in Q1, 2016, and in doing so have exceeded our guidance of $250,000 in expected Q1 revenues.”

To date, Oakridge has been successful in attracting clients from a number of market sectors, focusing primarily on military, civilian and medical applications. In January, the company designed a high performance custom battery for Maritime Tactical Systems, Inc., which designs and produces the Man-Portable Tactical Autonomous Systems (MANTAS) for use in naval fleet protection, mine warfare and a number of other challenging applications. In a field trial for a major defense contractor, Oakridge’s lithium-ion battery exceeded expectations by expanding the effective range of the MANTAS and eliminating a number of safety concerns. Oakridge also announced plans to supply its stored energy solutions to Minnesota-based Freedom Trucking to power its fully electric interstate truck propulsion system.

Despite the many advantages of lithium-ion batteries over traditional lead acid batteries, lackluster quality control and inadequate research and development has played a role in slowing the adoption of the technology. This issue was highlighted in April of this year, when the UN aviation agency banned cargo shipments of lithium-ion batteries due to fire risk. This move could have a positive impact for Oakridge moving forward, as the company continues to pursue additional market share in the U.S., which represents over 35 percent of global demand for lithium-ion batteries, according to Barber.

With a balance sheet featuring no short or long term debt, a healthy and growing stream of customer orders and a superior product that boasts up to a 30 percent increase in battery life cycle through its proprietary chemistry and technology, Oakridge is strategically positioned to experience significant and sustainable top-line growth throughout the remainder of 2016 and beyond.

For more information, visit www.oakridgeglobalenergy.com

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Earlier today, Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) announced its adoption of a number of Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE: ORCL) high-performance database solutions to serve as the foundation for its latest payment and transaction platform, as well as its big data analytics system. Leveraging Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Database, Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle ZFS Storage solutions, Moxian aims to develop a more clear-cut picture of its target customers while allowing its merchant clients to achieve true precision marketing.

“Moxian is committed to providing high quality services to end-users and the company’s merchant clients,” James Tan, chief executive officer of Moxian, stated in this morning’s news release. “Oracle’s solutions meet Moxian’s needs with their rich features and best-in-class performance, scalability, stability and reliability.”

Since its founding in 2013 in Shenzhen, China, Moxian has grown into a leading online-to-offline (O2O) integrated platform operator, offering social media platform solutions specially designed to suit the needs of small and midsized businesses by integrating entertainment, commerce, shopping and customer loyalty rewards programs. Recent growth has increased demand for a stable, powerful and scalable IT system, such as the one Moxian is currently implementing with Oracle solutions, in order to eliminate the performance bottleneck that can go hand-in-hand with the management of massive data.

“Oracle is excited to partner with Moxian to build up its latest payment and transaction platform based on a solid IT architecture,” Calvin Dang, general manager of Oracle China’s south region, stated in this morning’s news release. “Moxian has demonstrated its full trust in Oracle by adopting a variety of our solutions, and we look forward to our future cooperation with the company.”

Moxian’s operations target both the domestic and international markets, particularly those of China and Singapore. In China, the company is now using Oracle Exadata Database Machine in a private cloud environment in its data center to enable more flexible database computing and maximize database performance on the cloud platform. In Singapore, Moxian’s data center is leveraging the Oracle Database Appliance to improve data performance and reduce overall investment costs. In both cases, implementation of Oracle’s cutting-edge technology offers Moxian significant performance advantages while opening the door for ultra-large table queries of billions of records in as little as one minute.

In addition to product and technology support, Oracle’s professional team and partners also offered on-site support service in order to maximize the performance of Moxian’s infrastructure moving forward. The tech giant also provided Moxian with comprehensive planning and training, which allowed the company’s team to quickly become familiarized with the system knowledge, skills and tools necessary to maintain and build upon its new IT architecture.

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

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Before the opening bell, Agora Holdings, Inc. (OTC: AGHI) offered an update to shareholders regarding the upcoming release of its FRAME social media management software, as well as the completion of its accounting audit. According to the update, the company’s developers are currently addressing minor issues discovered in FRAME’s beta release. When completed, FRAME will enable businesses to greatly improve the efficiency with which they use social media networks by combining multiple platforms into a single, centralized dashboard. Agora plans to market its social media management software to businesses, public relations firms and investor relations agencies in search of a more effective way to engage customers and measure the success of social media campaigns.

“We’re anxious to introduce our game-changing FRAME technology to the market upon final polish of the product,” Daniel Terziev, chief executive officer of Agora subsidiary Geegle Media, stated in this morning’s news release. “As we prepare for this corporate milestone, we are building on strong momentum triggered by the development of a product that will revolutionize the way brands interact via social media, and one that provides long-term value for our shareholders.”

Originally announced in February, FRAME could make a major splash in the relatively new social media management market following its release. Although competitor software has already been well-received by consumers, a quick look at existing industry reviews highlights considerable room for improvement in both performance and usability. Agora aims to address this performance gap through the ongoing refinement of FRAME’s intuitive dashboard, which allows users to log into and post content across multiple social networking sites from an integrated interface.

“Imagine FRAME as a single door that leads to many rooms. Each room represents a website that we log into several times each day,” explained Terziev. “Rather than signing in several times, logging once into FRAME is sufficient to bring together all your social media accounts, making a far more organized and engaging social media experience.”

In addition to its update on the impending release of FRAME, Agora also announced that it is rapidly approaching the completion of its accounting audit, with reports expected to be filed in as little as one week. This audit, which is being completed by independent accounting firm BF Borgers, marks a major milestone in Agora’s efforts to become a fully reporting entity. The company’s management team expects these efforts to have a positive impact on Agora’s operations and decision-making capabilities moving forward.

For more information, visit www.agoraholdingsinc.com

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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.

To view the Company’s full financials, visit the following link: http://dtn.fm/sIJ7M

For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com

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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.

For more information, visit www.lagunablends.com

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