Avant Diagnostics, an innovator in molecular diagnostics, this morning announced the start of calibration testing in preparation for the company’s validation study of OvaDx®, which will be used to support a pre-submission package to the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). Avant expects to complete the calibration testing within 30 days.

OvaDx® is a sophisticated microarray-based test proposed for use in monitoring women previously diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Pre-clinical research studies with OvaDx® indicate high sensitivity and specificity for all types and stages of ovarian cancer.

Upon completion of the testing, Avant said it intends to test the previously purchased set of ovarian cancer specimens, including serial sets obtained from women previously diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which will serve as the validation study and form the basis of the pre-submission package that will be submitted to FDA for review and comment prior to the commencement of the OvaDx® 510(k) trial.

The validation study and 510(k) trial will be conducted in a double-blinded environment supervised by independent clinical research organization DOCRO, Inc. Validation study results are expected to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal within six months of test completion and data analysis.

“The entire Avant team has been working tirelessly over the past few months to reach this critical milestone. We look forward to communicating to our shareholders and the markets as we move through the FDA negotiations and review of our 510(k) submission,” Gregg Linn, Avant’s CEO and president stated in the news release.

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Two of the key facilitators of the burgeoning mcommerce space (which is on track to run at around a 25.72 percent CAGR through 2019 according to a report out in May from TechNavio), continue to be digital currencies and the proliferation of point-of-sale solutions that make it easier than ever to shop on the go. Driven by such rapidly evolving technologies as the cryptocurrency Bitcoin ($3.3 billion market cap) and other digital currencies, as well as near-field communication enabled point-of-sale software and devices, m-commerce is on pace to eclipse ecommerce’s growth rate of 13 percent, running as hot as 42 percent, according to a study published earlier this year by PayPal and global market research firm Ipsos.

That same study, spanning 22 countries, showed that 64 percent of users reportedly made purchases using apps, with mobile browsers representing only 52 percent of consumer purchases. This phenomena is driven by in-app and associated retailer conveniences, like instant payment confirmation and having in-app auto reminders for things such as coupons or discounts. Such underlying market dynamics are a major reason that enterprise accelerator, Alternet Systems (OTC: ALYI), moved in August to secure a strategic partnership between its wholly-owned Alternet Payment Solutions subsidiary, and Brazilian multichannel electronic point-of-sale solutions provider, MUXI. This move showcases ALYI’s aggressive launching of efforts across the e-commerce/m-commerce and legacy electronic point-of-sale landscapes, and how the company is constantly looking to supercharge innovative services and solutions that have true disruptive potential.

MUXI’s point-of-sale administration platform POSWEB® makes it easier than ever for the over 20 million merchants in the U.S. (who collectively represent the biggest point-of-sale market on earth, at 32 percent of the global $37 billion market in 2013) to implement mobile-friendly point-of-sale solutions, which allow total proprietor control over their assets and network. POSWEB is a patented, hardware agnostic, front-end transactional platform that was designed to be the ideal answer for building a robust, modern point-of-sale deployment. MUXI’s payment solution architecture also allows for seamless, remote software updating across all point-of-sale devices in the network, with applications in the platform that also allow tablets and smartphones to be used as part of a highly cost-effective mobile point-of-sale implementation. But these solutions from MUXI are also perfect for a much wider variety of operations as well, out beyond the primary growth markets of retail and hospitality targeted by ALYI, with everyone from acquirers, payment facilitators and issuers, to banking correspondents and value-added service providers benefiting from MUXI’s wide variety of payment solutions.

These are precisely the kinds of services and solutions needed to shake up the entrenched legacy point-of-sale payments infrastructure throughout North America, with its limited ability to manage mobile apps and cutting-edge payment systems, and bring about a paradigm shift towards a tighter feedback loop on the market segmentation end of things as well. After all, one of Alternet’s main focus points is big data analytics, mainly in marketing automation and micro-segmentation. Achieving pure micro-segmentation provides a much more granular, up-close view of customer demographic, psychographic and behavioral data. By looking at an ecosystem of payments, financial accounting and social media data, the huge market in advanced predictive analytics on both the finance/telecom side, and consumer mass market sides of the equation can be tapped for sizeable revenues, to be generated from high-quality customer segmentation analysis technologies and services. This information also helps identify and cater to new, unserved and underserved pockets of consumers, as well as providing the necessary payment processing momentum to provide solutions for the unbanked, or in global markets that need greater financial inclusion.

But Alternet Systems is not content to simply rest on the laurels of bringing transformative, big data-enabling point-of-sale solutions to the U.S. market. The company is also actively looking to execute a roll-up strategy in the digital currency exchange space. Looking to launch a global digital currency exchange presence via its wholly-owned subsidiary, OneMarket, ALYI has moved aggressively to acquire its New York State BitLicense, following Coinbase into the exchange game. The company has already invested considerable time and due diligence preparing to fully launch a global digital currency exchange subsequent to the BitLicense approval which, through OneMarket, would handle digital currencies, as well as foreign currencies, and commodities.

Digital currencies like Bitcoin have become an extremely attractive play amid a growing mobile wallet market set to hit $16 trillion by 2018 (Transparency Market Research, October 2014). Contenders like PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), as well as Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple Pay, Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google Wallet, and Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Payments, are all vying to capture big chunks of this much sought after space.

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The Aristocrat Group Corp. today reminded shareholders why its Ultra-Premium Handcrafted RWB Vodka has become one of the most awarded American-made vodkas. Even though the U.S. marketplace has become ever more crowded with various vodkas, ASCC’s focus on quality ingredients and premium distillation has outperformed the competition.

Created using only the highest quality Idaho russet potatoes and pure, mountain spring water, RWB is distilled in the American heartland using a unique four-column distillation process before being filtered five times to achieve a perfectly balanced vodka that has been subjected to the most exacting standards in the industry.

With its old-fashioned commitment to quality, RWB Vodka has become a hit with both consumers and critics alike. Since its launch approximately two years ago, RWB has received 18 tasting awards in competitions at home and abroad.

“Dumping a bunch of sugar in vodka and calling it ‘cotton candy flavor’ is not a recipe for a distilled spirit that will stand the test of time,” stated ASCC CEO Robert Federowicz. “The flavored vodka trend in the U.S. is dying out rapidly as consumers seek out traditional spirits made by experienced distillers for their craft cocktails.

“We set out to be a leader in this industry, not a follower—and our product speaks for itself,” he added.

Today RWB Vodka is available online and at nearly 300 locations. This ultra-premium vodka is the lynchpin of a growing portfolio of brands marketed and developed by the Aristocrat Group Corp. as the company works to capitalize on the rising commercial popularity of the domestic distilled spirits sector.

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Harvest Soul, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresh Promise Foods, Inc. (OTC: FPFI), today issued a press release to announce it has launched new organic GMO-free Harvest Soul Blended Juices, a line of 4 blended fruit and vegetable juices. The company also reported it has received the largest purchase order to date.

Harvest Soul Organic Blended Juices are a delicious line of fiber-rich blended juices chock-full of superfood vegetables and fruits, like spinach, pineapple, blueberries, kale and celery. Because this line of juices is never pressed, beneficial fiber is retained making these functional and organic juices supportive of a healthy lifestyle.

In the news release, Harvest Soul pointed out that research has also shown consumers who mostly rely on pressed juices to supply their daily nutrition miss out on the nutritive benefits that come from natural fiber and protein that is lost during the juicing process. Also, many cold-pressed juices contain a fair amount of sugar which, when consumed without fiber, can lead to a myriad of unhealthy results.

“We feel our Harvest Soul Organic Blended Juice line-up offers consumers a level of variety across our brand portfolio,” stated Kevin P. Quirk, Fresh Promise Foods CEO and Harvest Soul president. “We created this product line to co-exist with our Harvest Soul Chewable Juices, because while it retains high fiber content and is nutrient dense like the chewable line, the blended line will have broader appeal. By offering juices without the added seeds, nuts and berries at very competitive price-point, our new blended line will entice new consumers and open up new channels. This has clearly been demonstrated with a recent purchase order that surpasses any others we’ve received to date,” continued Quirk.

Harvest Soul Organic Blended Juices are being sold in 12 ounce bottles. All four flavors, Island Fruit, Sweet Green, Celery Beet and Sunrise Berry, are already available at Whole Foods Market locations and online at www.harvestsoul.com

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It looks like Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is picking up AT&T’s (NYSE:T) fumble of the Elephant Talk Communications (NYSE MKT: ETAK) ball after AT&T paid out ETAK $13.5 million to close down its contract with Mexican wireless company Iusacell (now AT&T Mexico). With software-defined network architecture and cybersecurity solutions provider ETAK now in the running to be the vendor for Verizon Partner Solutions, it’s clear that ETAK hasn’t missed a beat. A new Master Service Agreement with Verizon could be right around the corner for the company and the increasingly competitive nature of the telecom sector is brilliantly illustrated by Verizon scalping AT&T here, investing in a distributed architecture solution that can seamlessly provide users with bleeding-edge content delivery solutions.

The formation by ETAK of a special committee to explore JV, merger and strategic disposition alterations of its wholly-owned transaction cybersecurity solutions subsidiary, ValidSoft, speaks volumes here. Also, the news that ValidSoft has already quickly gone live with two UK banks, leveraging a device trust partnership with renowned consumer credit risk and analytics software company Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FICO) to deploy a solution using ValidSoft’s International Proximity Correlation capability, shows how attractive the company’s position is.

Application of the $13.5 million picked up on the Iusacell split has helped ETAK trim the fat too, allowing the company to eliminate debt overhang and giving it the procedural leeway to pull the trigger on corporate restructuring efforts that should reduce G&A costs by $5 million within this year alone. The share price has been climbing steadily since early this month and Friday’s spike to $0.63, a 75 percent jump, underscores the 50 percent gain since the start of the month so far. This is a fierce counter to the undervalued price point most analysts say the shares have seen since February. Notably, research firm Zacks just rated ETAK a short term strong buy and the company is making all the right moves to impress investors.

In fact, one big part of the company’s decision to get more aggressive with ValidSoft has been how poorly management believes the company’s share price accurately reflects the intrinsic value of the company and its ability to generate revenues on the strength of its mobile enabling solutions alone. Indeed, the global cybersecurity space was recently projected by Cybersecurity Ventures (Q3 2015) as being on track to grow by over 120 percent in the next five years, hitting upwards of $170 billion by 2020. This is a big opportunity for an innovator like ValidSoft and it stands to reason that ETAK’s tight synergy between the mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) and cybersecurity sides of its business will continue to give the company a decisive edge in the space.

The real success with ValidSoft of course comes from the ingenious balance struck between security and user experience that is achievable through the company’s voice authentication approach. Using a robust system which allows access, without the need for cumbersome and hard to remember passwords or hard tokens of some kind, is the brass ring of user authentication. Voice print capture keying is only as good as the biometrics engine behind it though and ValidSoft has gone to great lengths to ensure maximum security with the added benefits of a feature-rich environment, with the company’s solution allowing for configurability options like text-independent authentication, or the recital of a prompted phrase. Elephant Talk has been vital to ValidSoft’s ability to deliver its security software solutions via a true carrier-grade telecommunications platform, enabling ValidSoft the power to process transactions in real-time, and since its acquisition in 2010 by ETAK, the company’s MVNE and transaction cybersecurity units have rally gelled.

Take a look at the ongoing expansion of the mobile space, well-tracked by MobiLens® and Mobile Metrix® developer, comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), which recently indicated that the U.S. mobile market was at 76.6 penetration, as 186 million plus Americans now own smartphones. As subscriber bases swell to new heights, an MVNE like ETAK, with its ET Software DNA® 2.0 Platform, will continue to be a backbone solution for MVNO and mobile network operator (MNO) customers, who can experience as much as a 90 percent reduction in outlays while gaining the capacity to serve end users with a full set of mobile voice, SMS, and data services.

Mobile wallets are another key, fast-growing target in this area. With a report out in March from TechNavio forecasting a 36.8 percent CAGR through 2019, powered by the rapid proliferation of near-field communications (NFC) hardware and intense goading on by sector juggernauts like Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), and PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), mobile wallets are shaping up to be a defining driver of the success of an outfit like ETAK. You wouldn’t be wrong to suggest even that a kind of war is being waged between the biggest sector players, with the victor(s) deciding who will dominate this yet-emergent space. One thing is certain about how all of this will shake out at any rate: m-commerce is and will continue to represent a retail sea change. Allied Market Research’s projection of a $5.25 trillion global market for so-called ewallets, released back in late 2013, has now effectively ceased to shock savvy investors.

Consumers have been flocking to the amenities m-commerce has to offer, and everyone from brands to retailers on the sell side are already banking on the very bright future that the associated gold mine of big data from consumers will provide. Gathering the kind rigorous, actionable consumer intelligence that m-commerce solutions can now ubiquitously provide, while so substantially improving the user experience at the same time, was a reality merely dreamt of by brands and retailers only a decade ago.

The recent news out that EUTV® Brazil (Surf Telecom®) has tapped ETAK to handle the core virtualized software services platform implementation is another clear indicator of the company’s overall health. The company’s platform is the key element needed to fully realize Surf Telecom’s vision of capturing a huge chunk of the 280 million strong mobile subscriber base in Brazil, now that Surf Telecom has been officially granted a Tier 1 license by Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency, Anatel. ETAK will enable Surf Telecom to bring mobile services to a massive user base, as well as provide Surf Telecom with the capacity to offer MVNE and mobile virtual network aggregator (MVNA) capabilities to Brazilian MVNOs. This is bread and butter for ETAK’s ET Software DNA 2.0 Platform and will allow Surf Telecom to deliver a broad spectrum of powerful 4G solutions to the market at noticeably more competitive prices. This arrangement reflects Anatel’s commitment to stimulating healthy market forces, as well as the cost-effectiveness of ETAK’s comprehensive platform.

The ET Software DNA 2.0 Platform also greatly simplifies overall administrative requirements, with its highly intuitive and easy to use interface. The platform uses networked-embedded technology as well, which enhances internal systemic redundancy, resulting in an architecture that is substantially more robust, offers tighter security and usage efficiencies, and which simultaneously promotes the DNA 2.0 Platform’s inherent modularity and scalability. The fact that it’s cheaper to deploy and easier to manage spells music to the ears of MVNOs, and ETAK’s technology will allow Surf Telecom to bring forward some truly cutting edge MVNA/MVNE strategies, tailored specifically to the Brazilian MVNO market.

MVNOs have to move or die and are thus constantly looking to expand services provided while improving their existing offerings. The ability to use a single, highly modular telecom solution like the one provided by ETAK allows MVNOs to capture new revenue streams without the typically associated overhead risk.

Learn more about Elephant Talk by visiting the company’s website at www.elephanttalk.com

Galenfeha, Inc. is a Fort Worth-based engineering, product development, and manufacturing company focused on delivering innovative solutions for oil and natural gas production, as well as stored energy products through its stored energy and oil & gas divisions. The company also has manufacturing and distribution facilities in Shreveport, Louisiana

Demonstrating a strong commitment to transparency and communication, Galenfeha consistently issues news releases keeping shareholders and the broader investment community abreast of corporate progress in developing products that perform better than conventional solutions while reducing environmental impact.

Galenfeha most recently announced the introduction of its iWaV intelligent injection control system at the recent South Texas Oilfield show in San Antonio, Texas. The system is designed to revolutionize the oil and gas chemical injection marketplace.

Comprised of professionals well-familiar with industry challenges, Galenfeha knows that well location chemical maintenance is a costly, labor intensive, and often dangerous necessity. In response, the company’s iWaV system was designed to seamlessly interface with existing SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion) infrastructure to completely automate the process on both solar/electric as well as pneumatic driven systems. The new iWaV system allows the operator to regulate all aspects of chemical titration remotely, eliminating travel to well sites.

With state-of-the-art architecture, iWaV is capable of meeting the needs of any size operation. From remote, stand-alone sites, to the comprehensive optimization and management of production controls, the iWaV is fashioned for performance. iWaV is one of several products within Galenfeha’s oil and gas division, where the company offers chemical injection pumps that merge the perceived benefits of a hybrid, electric over pneumatic system. With precision, the company has combined the two parameter control systems to ensure efficiency, reliability, cost management, and profitability to individual well locations as well as entire production fields. The combined technologies have demonstrated increased chemical injection accuracy, reducing chemical contamination in the production process while controlling cost and waste.

Within the last several months, Galenfeha has also released news regarding its stored energy division, through which the company offers one of the most powerful, environmentally friendly battery systems in the market. The batteries have onboard computers, are inherently safe, internally temperature regulated, have optional GPS monitoring capabilities, offer significant weight reduction of up to 50%, and are engineered specifically for each type of application. Features include 100% “green” chemistry, RoHS compliancy, and active short circuit protection control.

In July, the company announced that its stored energy products will be offered through ABB Group, a global leader in power and automation technologies. The news followed Galenfeha’s June announcement that it was chosen as the OEM battery supplier for Louisiana-based Aviation Company SkyRunner, LLC. SkyRunner (www.flyskyrunner.com) tasked Galenfeha’s Shreveport engineering and production facility with developing a proof-of-concept battery to start and power critical onboard systems for use in a new aviation unit. Galenfeha produced prototypes that tested flawlessly, leading to a supplier agreement signed June 13, 2015.

Galenfeha continues to develop products that outperform conventional solutions while minimizing environmental impact. Guided by a management team supported with industry-relevant resources and relationships, Galenfeha has laid solid tracks to expand in both the stored energy and oil & gas industries.

For more information, visit www.galenfeha.com

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FastFunds Financial, operating in the cannabis industry through wholly owned subsidiaries Cannabis Angel, Inc., Cannabis Merchant Financial Solutions, Inc., and The 420 Development Corp., has relaunched its Tommy Chong Green Card website (www.TommyChongGreenCard.com) with enhanced features consistent with all of the company’s marketing materials.

As FastFunds Financial wraps up its final planning, the company said that in early October it will launch a social media integration program developed by media consultant Casa Giallo, Inc. Building on the relaunched Tommy Chong website, the new program will integrate various social media channels – through which Tommy Chong has a total of more than 4 million followers – to generate widespread awareness of the Tommy Chong Green Card.

The Tommy Chong Green Card functions as a pre-paid loyalty debit card with a turnkey customer rewards technology. In addition, the card functions as a reloadable stored value card that can be used to purchase merchandise at the participating dispensary. To achieve awareness initiatives, Casa Giallo will leverage its position as an industry leader in the cannabis space where it works with clients such as Snoop Dogg and Tommy Chong, among others.

“This relaunched website will be the focal point of renewed marketing efforts for the Tommy Chong Green Card and at this juncture we have already received preliminary interest from several dispensaries and distributors for the card,” Kurt Martig, president of Cannabis Merchant Financial Solutions. “We are excited about the new website and its enhancements as we work to turn this interest into card placements.”

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Combining entertainment with dining is a proven formula that’s been successfully utilized by some of the restaurant industry’s most recognizable brands for decades. Chuck E. Cheese has been a favorite amongst families looking for a more exciting dining experience since opening its first location in 1977, while Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLAY) has achieved strong financial growth in recent quarters by targeting adults with a soft spot for video games. Likewise, Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. (OTCQB: GIGL) has leveraged its own inventive take on the traditional family fun dining concept to achieve considerable growth in the category since opening its first location in 2009.

GIGL offers a first-of-its-kind, award-winning family restaurant and play space that combines exciting play elements for children with healthy, organic foods that are perfect for health conscious parents and families. In just over six years, GIGL has grown to include three locations in some of Los Angeles’s top malls, and its prospects for future growth are extremely promising. In a recent press release, Joey Parsi, the company’s founder and chief executive officer, detailed plans to open new locations in a collection of viable markets in the coming months. GIGL is already in active negotiations for this expansion with several of the largest mall owners in the country – including General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP) and Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG).

“[W]e’re moving forward on our plan to open new locations in markets like Seattle and San Francisco in the north and San Diego and Orange County in the south,” Parsi stated. “With the expected significant discounts from current market rents as well as attractive tenant allowances that have been offered, we should see great reductions in construction costs and rent for the new locations.”

The company is also reportedly receiving substantial interest from potential franchisees in both domestic and international markets. In addition to GIGL’s core company-owned expansion plans, franchising its innovative concept represents an immense opportunity for rapid growth at very attractive margins. The vast experience of the company’s management team – which includes John Kaufman, former president of Koo Koo Roo Chicken, and Philip Gay, former CEO of Wolfgang Puck Restaurants – is expected to play a key role in any future ventures into the franchising space.

Demand for GIGL’s innovative restaurant concept is at an all-time high, and the company is in a strategic position to translate this demand into sustainable growth moving forward. Look for GIGL to make noteworthy progress toward its goal of 12 company-owned locations by the end of 2017 while continuing to evaluate the tremendous upside of franchise opportunities in the months to come.

For more information, visit www.gigglesnhugs.com

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Growing demand for our nation’s police force to wear body cameras has triggered an industry race to develop and deploy the most efficient and wearable technologies possible. VOXX International Corp. subsidiary VOXX Electronics Corp. is among the more recognizable names working to carve a spot in this fast-growing industry.

VOXX Electronics’ most recent move was to sign a letter of intent with S4 Worldwide, LLC (S4W) for exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute the SENTRY BodyCam, a real-time HD/IR streaming wearable body camera designed for military, police and law enforcement officials.

S4W’s SENTRY BodyCam provides real-time HD video communications link for police and law enforcement officials for instant awareness and visibility from any location with an embedded GPS chip. The device is self-powered for up to 10 hours with portable lithium polymer battery supply, automatic video upload via Wi-Fi, automated notification of activity recorded, and extended onboard and remote archiving capabilities.

Of key importance here is the lithium polymer battery, which emphasizes the need for body-cameras to be lightweight and flexible without compromising durability and reliability. Developing a technology of this nature is first nature for NEAH Power Systems, Inc., also making an entrance into the body-cam industry and a vertical link to VOXX with a recently announced a key partnership with S4W.

Neah Power’s fuel cell business is divided into three product lines, each in various degrees of progression and potential commercial partnerships: the patented and award winning, silicon-based Powerchip® technology; BuzzBar™ and BuzzCell™ micro fuel cells, which use patent pending low cost, differentiated technology; and Formira™, a reformer platform for direct on-site generation of hydrogen gas.

With 14 patents and eight patents pending, NEAH Power has incorporated its award-winning and patented PowerChip® fuel cell architecture into the patent pending PowerChip® battery. To date, this new battery design has exhibited unprecedented performance characteristics.

The teaming agreement with S4W enables both parties to integrate NEAH Power’s power generation and energy storage technologies with S4W’s industry leading security and defense products, including cutting-edge body cameras currently marketed to police and security professionals around the world. The agreement also allows the two companies to cooperatively market each of the other’s products, thereby expanding the number of distribution and sales channels available, driving one another’s capabilities and growing customer bases with high capital efficiency.

NEAH Power will deliver commercial units of its patented formic acid reformer fuel cell (Formira HOD™) and engineering units of its PowerChip® fuel cell and silicon-chip based PowerChip® Battery. In addition, NEAH Power will provide S4W with engineering and technical support to ensure successful integration into S4W’s state-of-the-art body worn cameras.

In a news release announcing the agreement, Paul Sault, CEO of S4W noted, “Our engineering staff and consultants immediately recognized the transformative nature of NEAH Power’s Formira HOD™ and PowerChip® solutions, specifically, when incorporated in a highly disruptive product like our Smart Body Cam where continuous power is necessary for delivery of the ever-important personnel and public safety benefits they provide. Upon first being introduced to NEAH Power’s PowerChip® Battery, S4W was eager to become an early adopter. While interviewing countless numbers of public safety personnel about what features they wanted to see standard on a body camera, having the power necessary to make it through an entire shift without battery recharging or replacement, ranked very near the top.”

As NEAH Power moves closer to first commercial release of the PowerChip® Battery, the company appears to be in the right place, at the right time, with a potentially superior product that will cater to demand for small, light and powerful energy storage solutions for today’s police force.

For more information, visit www.neahpower.com

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Lingo Media Corp. (OTCQB: LMDCF) (TSX-V: LM) is on a mission to change the way the world learns English, and its unique combination of education and technology is helping it promote rapid growth in a variety of viable global markets. In recent weeks, the company, through wholly-owned subsidiary ELL Technologies Ltd., has secured contracts with a government agency in Colombia and the Peruvian Navy to provide its proprietary English language training products moving forward. These partnerships, in addition to the company’s established foothold in the Mexican educational market, are expected to play a key role in Lingo’s ongoing expansion efforts throughout Latin America.

“Our team continues to work diligently on developing, refining and expanding our digital content library, program applications and learning tools,” Gali Bar-Ziv, president and chief executive officer of ELL Technologies, stated in a news release. “Securing another government contract adds further recognition to our brand and our products as we continue to build our sales pipeline… across Latin America.”

In the second quarter of 2015, Lingo capitalized on its growing brand recognition by recording strong financial results. The company’s total revenue for the period was just shy of $1.8 million, marking a year-over-year increase of more than 100 percent. As a result, Lingo realized a net profit of more than $979,000, up from $217,633 during the previous year. This performance was attributable to the company’s ongoing shift from print-based programs to digital learning tools. Leveraging a growth strategy similar to that of educational technology giant Rosetta Stone, Inc. (NYSE: RST), Lingo is in a favorable position to continue promoting strong growth in Latin America and around the globe.

Last week, Lingo set the stage for future growth through the release of its pre-school program Winnie’s World. The inaugural title of its Kids program, Winnie’s World was created for pre-readers, as it doesn’t require any prior knowledge of the English language. By providing an interactive, cross-platform program with which students can practice and perfect their English without a native instructor, Lingo is addressing a seriously underserved area of the greater electronic learning industry.

“We recognize the lack of competition in this expansive marketplace for proven pedagogically sound English software for preschoolers and are now positioned to aggressively market and sell Winnie’s World to the early childcare market,” Michael Kraft, president and chief executive officer of Lingo, stated.

For prospective shareholders, Lingo’s comprehensive product line – which fulfills the needs of the entire student life cycle – will serve as a formidable platform upon which to continue expanding its share of the global English learning market. Look for the company to build upon its recent progress in Latin America as it continues to promote sustainable financial growth.

For more information, visit www.lingomedia.com