CUI Global, Inc. (CUI) Closes $10 million Equity Raise

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CUI Global announced today that it has closed on its $10 million equity raise with the aid of its U.S. investment banker, Merriman Capital, Inc., and its London advisor, Prosdocimi Ltd. Proceeds of the raise will be used for working capital and to pay down and retire certain corporate debt, as well as to bring the company’s new Vergence, Novum, and Solus Technologies to the market.This capital infusion and its associated up-list to the Nasdaq Capital Market are momentous events for CUI Global, assuring the company’s plans to move forward with its technology strategy, commercialize its product lines, further broaden its audience, and bring increased value to the company’s shareholders.CUI Global is a platform company specializing in maximizing shareholder value through acquiring and developing innovative companies and technologies. CUI Global touches many markets through its diversified portfolio of industry-leading technologies – from the energy sector to the networking and telecom industries. For additional Continued...

Alvarion Ltd. (ALVR) Unveils New 3G and LTE Mobile Data Offloading Solution

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Today, Alvarion announced a new solution for Wi-Fi mobile data offloading in 3G and LTE networks that will enable a high level of service, fast connectivity, and secured Internet access. The company’s carrier-grade Wi-Fi, based on two-way Beamforming Wi-Fi technology, will provide an all-inclusive solution for the scalability, reliability, and security needs of operators with large-scale Wi-Fi networks for mobile data offloading and hot zones.Operators can now benefit from increased network capacity and high traffic area coverage – where data congestion currently overloads 3G and LTE networks – thanks to Alvarion’s Mobile Data Offloading solution. The solution is Hot Spot and 802.11u ready, which permits a cellular-like experience via the Wi-Fi network with zero-configuration from the user. Operators can utilize the Wi-Fi network for more cost-effective user data connectivity – still providing the same level of service – and expand their network coverage and capacity, returning the original capacity to their Continued...

AxoGen, Inc. (AXGN) is “One to Watch”

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AxoGen, Inc., parent company of wholly-owned operating subsidiary AxoGen Corp., is the Alachua, FL, headquartered developer of an impressive portfolio of proprietary technologies in the peripheral nerve reconstruction/regeneration space, which, through advancements like the Avance® Nerve Graft, is revolutionizing peripheral nerve restoration methods. AxoGen is a bold pioneer on the forefront of nerve repair science with thousands of surgical implants of the company’s products performed across the U.S., including in military hospitals, offering patients an alternative to costly, risky autografts (taking nerve tissue from another part of the body).The sensitive nerve tissues often damaged during traumatic injury (700k plus people in the U.S. each year alone, a roughly $1B potential domestic market), or as a result of surgical intervention procedures, repetitive stress injuries, and chronic compression injuries, can cause serious impairment, including loss of muscle function, sensitivity, neuroma (a growth or Continued...

Ur-Energy Inc. (URG) Completes Acquisition of Interests to Adjacent, Contiguous Acreage in Wyoming at Lost Creek Uranium Property

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Today, Ur-Energy, considered by many to be North America’s premier junior uranium mining company, reported that wholly-owned subsidiary NFU Wyoming, LLC successfully completed an important asset exchange agreement with Uranium One Americas, Inc. covering certain federal unpatented mining claims, as well as State of Wyoming Mineral Leases adjacent to the Company’s Lost Creek Property (licensed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and permitted with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality).This agreement provides for the transfer of the property interests, which extend to the N, SE, and SW of the Lost Creek acreage. Post-transaction this agreement will bring the total URG footprint up to a contiguous 39k acres. Tacking on the two Wyoming State Mineral Leases and 175 federal mining claims covered in the agreement adds considerable weight to the already winning strategy employed by URG in Wyoming. An emphasis on the roll front style uranium projects that have abundant in-situ recovery potential has Continued...

Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (ASTM) to Present at the ROTH Capital Partners 24th Annual Conference

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Aastrom Biosciences is a biotech company engaged in developing autologous cell therapies for the treatment of severe and chronic cardiovascular diseases. The company’s clinical development programs include CLI program, which is in phase IIb clinical development for the treatment of serious and advanced stage of peripheral arterial diseases; and its DCM development program, which is in phase II for the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The company also has two ongoing U.S. phase II trials to investigate surgical and catheter-based delivery for its product in the treatment of DCM. For more information visit the company’s Web site at www.aastrom.comROTH Capital Partners is a relationship-driven investment bank that primarily focuses on connecting small-cap publicly traded companies with institutional investors. This year’s annual ROTH conference will take place at The Ritz Carlton located in Dana Point, CA, on March 11-14. Bringing together executives from more than 400 growth companies, the 24th Annual Continued...

Acacia Research Corp. (ACTG) to Present at the ROTH Capital Partners 24th Annual Conference

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Acacia Research operates through its subsidiaries to partner with inventors and patent owners, license the patents to corporate users, and share the revenue. Acacia’s subsidiaries control more than 200 patent portfolios spanning technologies used in a wide variety of industries. For more information visit the company’s Web site at www.acaciaresearch.comROTH Capital Partners is a relationship-driven investment bank that primarily focuses on connecting small-cap publicly traded companies with institutional investors. This year’s annual ROTH conference will take place at The Ritz Carlton located in Dana Point, CA, on March 11-14. Bringing together executives from more than 400 growth companies, the 24th Annual ROTH Conference is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. For more information on ROTH Capital Partners, visit www.roth.comAbout MissionIRMissionIR is committed to connecting the investment community with companies that have great potential and a strong dedication to building shareholder value. We know Continued...

GlobalWise Investments, Inc. (GWIV) Tells of Intellinetics’ Evolution from ECM Industry Pioneer to Leading-Edge Cloud Technology Company GlobalWise Investments, Inc. (GWIV) Tells of Intellinetics’ Evolution from ECM Industry Pioneer to Leading-Edge Cloud

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GlobalWise Investments, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., a leading-edge technology company focused on the design, implementation and management of cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (“ECM”) systems in both the public and private sectors, today provided an overview of Intellinetics’ history and current position in the ECM industry.The Intellinetics’ flagship ECM platform, Intellivue™, represents a new industry benchmark in making the promise of ECM a simple to attain, affordable reality by combining the power of the Cloud with on-demand solution templates and user-focused design. Intellivue™ provides clients with the ability to access and manage every piece of content they produce or receive, including but not limited to paper documents, digital content, database print streams and e-mail. The data is accessible from virtually any PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone from anywhere in the world.Through its cloud-based Intellivue™ product line and unique Channel / OEM distribution Continued...

Delcath Systems, Inc. (DCTH) Announces First Use of CHEMOSAT® Delivery System

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Yesterday, Delcath Systems announced that the Delcath Hepatic CHEMOSAT® Delivery System has been used on first patients at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital in Germany. The cases were treated as part of the initial launch and training agreement between Delcath and the hospital.“Delcath’s partnership with J.W. Goethe reinforces the potential of CHEMOSAT,” said Eamonn P. Hobbs, president and CEO of Delcath. “We recently treated our first patients in Milan and are eager to continue our expansion across Europe. Opening another CHEMOSAT treatment center and treating patients in the continent’s largest market is another step forward in the commercialization of this technology.”Two patients were treated for inoperable, liver-dominant metastases; one from cutaneous melanoma and one from breast cancer. The treating physicians reported that both patients were treated successfully without procedure-related complications. Delcath is a pharmaceutical and medical device company that specializes in oncology. Continued...

SoundBite Communications, Inc. (SDBT) Acquires 2ergo Americas

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SoundBite Communications recently announced the acquisition of mobile marketing company 2ergo Americas, a subsidiary of 2ergo Group plc. Obtaining 2ergo broadens SoundBite’s base of clients and the mobile marketing services the company offers.SoundBite provides cloud-based marketing communications focused on two markets: hosted contact centers and mobile marketing, with existing clients including Global 500 and Fortune 500 companies, while facilitating 2 billion customer interactions annually. 2ergo’s marketing clients include Fox News, Fox Sports, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Aviva, and Fidelity, among others.With 2ergo, SoundBite will receive the ability to provide services such as SMS, mobile coupons, QR code, and mobile web platforms, as well as carrier-grade scalability and Latin American connectivity. SoundBite will also become an authorized reseller of podfi, 2ergo’s contactless redemption and in-store location service. Furthermore, 2ergo Group will become a reseller Continued...

AdCare Health Systems, Inc. (ADK) Announces Upcoming Presentation at the ROTH Capital Partners 24th Annual Conference

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AdCare Health Systems, Inc., a nursing home and assisted living company, today told investors that it will be presenting at the ROTH Capital Partners 24th Annual Conference. The conference will be held at The Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California, on March 12-14, 2012.AdCare CEO Boyd Gentry and Chief Acquisition Officer Chris Brogdon are scheduled to present on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific time, and will have one-on-one meetings throughout the day. They will talk about the emerging opportunities in the highly fragmented health care segments of senior assisted living and elderly nursing care.Mr. Gentry and Mr. Brogdon will also discuss the progress of AdCare’s M&A program designed to build upon its strong reputation for operational efficiency and high-quality living environments. With the recent acquisition of a skilled nursing and assisted living community in Ohio, plus 25 additional skilled nursing centers AdCare has signed and expects to acquire in the first half of 2012, the company’s Continued...

AxoGen, Inc. (AXGN) Sees Success with Nerve Regeneration

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In January, Dr. Darrell Brooks, a plastic surgeon with The Buncke Clinic in San Francisco, commented on a study, just released at that time, in which he was the principal investigator. The study indicated that Avance® Nerve Graft, a product of AxoGen, achieved meaningful recovery in 87% of patients with peripheral nerve injuries. Why is this significant? According to Dr. Brooks:“It is commonly accepted among surgeons who do peripheral nerve repair that success of surgery depends on the type of injury, length of nerve discontinuity, the patient’s age and the type of nerve. Our study findings show that with processed nerve allograft, patients can have meaningful recovery regardless of these factors. Based on our findings, the information I use to counsel my patients prior to surgery will change — this is a paradigm shift.”It’s a good example of the potential of AxoGen technologies. The company is an emerging regenerative medicine company focused on the commercialization of proprietary products and technologies Continued...

Stamps.com, Inc. (STMP) is “One to Watch”

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Stamps.com is a name which has become synonymous with USPS® printable postage to many businesses and consumers. The Web site is widely known for providing the simple, affordable, and extremely convenient PC Postage service that lets users generate precise letter, package, and parcel post labels using an ordinary inkjet/laser printer. Granting customers unprecedented service, STMP has built an impressive reputation in just over a decade and a half.Since its inception in 1996, Stamps.com has continued to pioneer and innovate within the digital postage space, offering new features and services to make the entire process easier, and gaining market share all the while. Brilliant offerings like the PhotoStamps™ product that lets users turn their digital photos, designs, or corporate logos into functional US postage, helps companies deliver more effective overall branding (and lets users add a familiar touch to correspondence).The obvious benefits of cost for the majority of users, not to mention the time and effort Continued...

BofI Holding, Inc. (BOFI) Gets “Buy” Rating from Sidoti

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In January, BofI Holding, parent company of Bank of Internet USA, announced that CFO Andrew Micheletti was going to present at the Sidoti & Company, LLC, Semiannual New York Micro-Cap Conference held on January 10. It was a good time to present, given BofI’s earlier release of second quarter financial results, showing net income growth of just over 35% from the same quarter of the previous year.BofI is known as a “branchless bank”, operating via state-of-the-art online banking technology versus traditional brick-and-mortar branches, allowing BofI customers to bank using mobile applications as well as standard browsers. Headquartered in San Diego, California, but serving personal, commercial, and industrial customers throughout the country, they now carry $2 billion in assets. The company aims to become “the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to our competitors, branch-based or otherwise.” BofI specializes in income property lending, providing Continued...

Limelight Networks, Inc. (LLNW) Helps Wayfair.com Optimize Site and Drive Online Conversions

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Located in Tempe, Arizona, Limelight Networks provides solutions that enable business and technology decision makers to profit from the shift of content and advertising to the online world. Today, Limelight announced the completion of Limelight Accelerate on Wayfair.com and Allmodern.com.Limelight has garnered attention by proactively optimizing Web sites for most of the retailers attending eTail Palm Springs. The front-end optimization solution (FEO) improves Time to Action – the time it takes visitors to first engage with content on online sites. The solution has been shown in comprehensive testing to boost performance on most Web sites twofold to fivefold.Leading the team at Wayfair LLC, formerly CSN Store, is Steven Conine whom is the Co-Founder and Chairman. In reference to this press release, Conine stated, “Online shoppers don’t want to wait–they want to engage and interact with sites instantly. We knew that our sites could have a stronger impact if we delivered the most important and desired content Continued...

VistaGen Therapeutics (VSTA): A Hidden Stem Cell Opportunity

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When it comes to modern medicine, stem cells are seen as playing a role unmatched by anything else. Used in a growing number of cell therapies for certain cancers, various diseases related to the immune system, and other treatment applications, in addition to cell research, stem cell technology is opening an increasing number of doors for medical researchers and practitioners. Today it’s a market rapidly closing in on $1 billion, and, in spite of controversy surrounding some aspects of stem cell use, the funding for stem cell research continues to grow.Stem cells, including pluripotent stem cells (non-embryonic adult cells that are artificially reprogrammed to mimic embryonic stem cells), are unique in their ability to differentiate into specialized cells, such as heart or muscle or nerve cells. As a result, they provide an important tool for medical research, treatment, and drug development.For example, stem cells can play a substantial role in the discovery of new medicines that are more effective and safer Continued...

Access Plans, Inc. (APNC) to be Acquired by Aon Affinity for $70M

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Access Plans, a leading membership benefits marketing company with customers in the United States and Canada, today announced it will be acquired by Aon Affinity, a unit of global risk management business, Aon Corporation.Per the agreement, Aon Affinity will acquire all Access Plans outstanding shares and options to acquire the company’s common stock for cash consideration of approximately $70.1 million, subject to adjustment for various necessary and closing expenses; assuming a net cash amount of $15.0 million, the per share cash consideration is approximately $3.30.Access Plans is a membership plan provider in the specialty rent-to-own market space. The company bundles a wide range of non-insurance, commonly used products and services, from medical, dental, and pharmacy benefits, to groceries, and hotel rooms. The company sells these plans to consumers primarily in retail and rent-to-own businesses established in more than 10,000 stores in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.Access Plans CEO and Chairman Continued...

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (GSB) Bundles New Highly-Intuitive Mobile Capability from TappIn Acquisition into Secure File Access Platform

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Today, GlobalSCAPE®, well-established provider of a host of secure information exchange platforms and SaaS solutions (which first made a name for itself back in 1996 with the popular CuteFTP® product), implemented a new feature for their proven Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) Server™ platform that allows easy, secure access to business files from any popular smartphone/mobile device.The Secure Mobile Access™ module, combined with EFT Server, represents a powerful incorporation of technology developed by TappIn™, Inc. and acquired by GSB during the 2011 acquisition of the Seattle-based mobile file sharing innovator.A solution now exists for businesses/IT departments to easily enable employees to simply use their own mobile device. The implications are obvious and the potential benefits to a business are immediate. Allowing employees to stay connected to the business, accessing and sharing files in a secure environment via their own mobile, is a silver-bullet to problems emerging in the constantly evolving, Continued...

GBS Enterprises, Inc. (GBSX) Provides Shareholder Update, Q3 and Nine Months Financial Results

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GBS Enterprises is a 50 percent parent company of GROUP Business Software AG (GBS), a global software and services company specializing in application modernization and cloud automation. GBS Enterprises today provided a shareholder update and financial results for the three and nine months ended Dec. 31, 2011.Joerg Ott, CEO of GBS Enterprises, said the company grew year-over-year revenue by 53.5 percent during the 2011 third quarter, reflecting revenue generated through its core software and services business. Despite this growth, Ott said the company is focusing on the “much larger” opportunity with its Transformer technology and Cloud Automation capabilities, which he said will position the company for strong growth going forward.“Transformer is already demonstrating a significant impact helping companies to gain insight into their business applications and enabling them to formulate and execute a strategy to modernize those applications,” Ott stated in the press release. “We have already completed pilot Continued...

The FluoroPharma Medical, Inc. (FPMI) Edge

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The positive report just released by Zacks Small-Cap Research on FluoroPharma Medical, developer of advanced medical diagnostic imaging tracer products for use with positron emission tomography (PET), highlights the principal advantages of FluoroPharma in the healthcare market. Although healthcare itself is a steadily rising sea, with aging baby boomers continuing to feed the market, the distinctive advantages of FluoroPharma give the company a unique edge.FluoroPharma is developing specialized tracer chemicals that are able to integrate themselves into subtle bodily processes, allowing sophisticated PET technology to detect biological events at the cellular and molecular level, long before the manifestation of disease symptoms. As such, PET technology represents an internal detection resolution unmatched by other diagnostic imaging approaches, and FluoroPharma’s focus on PET provides the company’s first key advantage in the healthcare marketplace.In addition, FluoroPharma’s main radiopharmaceutical products Continued...

MELA Sciences, Inc. (MELA) Device Shown to Improve Melanoma Detection

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MelaFind, a non-invasive, multispectral computer vision system developed by MELA Sciences, has been shown to improve melanoma detection in a recent study. The study, involving 179 dermatologists, was published online on Feb. 20 in the Archives of Dermatology.Before obtaining the MelaFind output, the average sensitivity – or ability to detect disease – of the dermatologists in the study was 69 percent; after obtaining the MelaFind output, the dermatologists’ average sensitivity increased to 94 percent. The percentage of dermatologists detecting all of the present melanomas during the study rose from 13 percent to 70 percent with the aid of MelaFind. Specificity, or the ability to correctly rule out disease when it isn’t present, also increased on MelaFind negative lesions during the study, resulting in a 17 percent reduction of biopsies of the histologically benign lesions.MelaFind recently received approval from the FDA. The device uses light from visible to near-infrared wavelengths to evaluate skin lesions Continued...