March 2013 - Page 9 of 17

MondayMar 18, 2013 9:28 am

Loans4Less.com, Inc. (LFLS) Launches New Marketing Initiative to Reach a Potential 1.7 Million

Loans4Less.com, an online mortgage loan brokerage firm focused on conforming loans, today announced the company is ramping up its brand exposure and market penetration by launching a targeted newspaper advertising campaign to a circulation of more than 1.7 million readers in California. "Newspaper advertising is a cost-effective way to reach a highly targeted demographic,” Steven M. Hershman, Chairman & President, stated. “The existence of Internet marketing doesn't mean print advertising initiatives should be abandoned, it means you get strategic. There are a great many regular newspaper readers out there and we aim to inform them about our highly competitive mortgage…

MondayMar 18, 2013 8:31 am

Astrotech Corp. (ASTC) Business Division Awarded Task Order Contract by NASA for SMAP Spacecraft Processing

Astrotech, a leading provider of commercial space services, recently announced that its subsidiary, Astrotech Space Operations (ASO), was awarded a NASA task order contract to provide payload processing services for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite at ASO's Vandenberg Air Force Base facility located in California. SMAP serves as the second mission awarded by NASA under the current Not-to-Exceed $16 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) task order contract that runs through December, 2017. Scheduled to launch in October, 2014, the Jet Propulsion Lab satellite will gather global measurements of soil and its freeze/thaw state from space. The applied science mission, scheduled…

MondayMar 18, 2013 8:26 am

Omni Bio Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OMBP) Reports Favorable Mouse Study Results of Fc-AAT Molecule

Omni Bio Pharmaceutical, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of novel uses of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT), today reported study results for the company’s recombinant molecule, Fc-AAT, suggesting its potential to treat refractory gout and other inflammatory conditions. Leo A. B. Joosten, PhD, of the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, detailed the findings of several of his studies in mouse models of gouty arthritis, which showed that Fc-AAT: • Suppressed pro-inflammatory responses • Exhibited a reduction of 85% in these parameters at a relatively low dose of 50 µg (2 mg/kg per mouse) that was at least as…

FridayMar 15, 2013 6:04 pm

VentriPoint Diagnostics Ltd. (VPTDF) is "One to Watch"

VentriPoint Diagnostics leverages knowledge-based techniques to make heart analysis more convenient and less expensive. Having already installed multiple VMS™ analysis systems for heart testing in leading cardiac centers in Europe, Canada and the United States, the company is currently focused on expanding the applications of its technology beyond congenital heart disease in adults and children. VMS™ is the first cost-effective and accurate diagnostic tool for measuring right ventricle heart function. The company designed its analysis system to be used for all major heart diseases, including pulmonary hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and heart failure. Canada and Europe (CE Mark) have granted approval…

FridayMar 15, 2013 4:30 pm

Cerus Corp. (CERS) Forges INTERCEPT Platelet Purchase Agreements with Key Blood Component Suppliers

Today, Cerus announced that Austrian blood component supplier TILAK, University Clinics, Regional Hospital Innsbruck (LKI) has signed a one-year purchase agreement for the company’s INTERCEPT Blood System for platelets, and Germany’s ZIT GmbH Hamburg has signed a four-year purchase agreement. One of the largest hospitals in Austria, LKI houses a Central Institute for Blood Transfusion that supplies around 6,000 platelet units each year to the federal state of Tyrol. LKI is Austria’s second facility to adopt INTERCEPT for platelets. Combined with the General Hospital of Vienna, this means that around 12,000 platelet units, or 30% of the Austrian platelet market,…

FridayMar 15, 2013 1:58 pm

Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc. (DAKP) JV’s Major Rail Capacity, Inbound Logistics, and Storage Upgrade at Williston Facility

Dakota Plains Holdings announced some major news today regarding expansion of their New Town, North Dakota oil transloading facility (current on-site tank car capacity of 160), in conjunction with JV partner and wholly-owned subsidiary of World Fuel Services Corp. (INT), Petroleum Transport Solutions, LLC., as construction of the new Pioneer Project kicks off. The Pioneer Project is on the company's sprawling 192-acre New Town site, which will eventually host the planned double loop track (8,300 feet each), containing an interior space of some 90 or more acres for facilities, including a ten-tank car load out building and two 90k bbl…

FridayMar 15, 2013 9:38 am

Scientific Reports Publishes International Stem Cell Corp. (ISCO) Technology for Deriving Neuronal Cell

International Stem Cell Corp., a biotechnology company focused on the therapeutic applications of human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSC), this morning told investors that its breakthrough method of deriving neuronal cells for the treatment of Parkinson's disease has been published in Scientific Reports, a primary research publication from the publishers of Nature Publishing Group. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder caused by a progressive loss of dopamine-producing neurons resulting in gradual dysfunction of the motor system. Pharmacological treatments are useful in the relatively early stage of the disease, but the continuous use of pro-dopaminergic medication eventually becomes ineffective and…

FridayMar 15, 2013 8:40 am

Denison Mines Corp. (DNN) Details Recent Exploration Work, New Mineralization Area Identified at Wheeler River

Denison Mines, a primarily uranium developer with interests in Canada, Mongolia, and Zimbabwe, including the world-class Phoenix deposits at Wheeler River (60%-owned), with over 1.31M acres in Saskatchewan's Eastern Athabasca Basin, reported yesterday that the company has intersected some choice mineralization just north of the Phoenix deposits at Wheeler, as well as high-grade mineralization in the infill drill holes. Also in the report is news about the 7,776 feet of drilling in thirteen holes at the Hatchet Lake property (50%-owned) up in the northeastern Athabasca. Originally only 11 holes were planned but they just had to get in two more…

FridayMar 15, 2013 8:24 am

GlobalWise Investments, Inc. (GWIV) Offers Flexible ECM Deployment

GlobalWise Investments, provider of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) systems to businesses and organizations through its subsidiary Intellinetics, is a pathfinder in the use of cloud related technologies. The company’s ECM solutions allow users to gain control over what has become for many a chaotic world of poorly organized stored documents, records that can be important but that can easily be lost in the volumes of paper that are processed every day. Using advanced software, which can be easily integrated with host business applications and copy/scanning procedures, documents become easily accessed and available for carefully secured access on a 24/7 basis…

FridayMar 15, 2013 8:13 am

Bergamo Acquisition Corp. (BGMO) Solar Pumping System Does Heavy Lifting

It wasn’t that many years ago when solar power was hard to consider as a serious mainstream energy source, with what were then low-efficiency solar collectors and crude support technologies. Today, even though continuing technological breakthroughs and large scale installations have turned that impression around, there is still a sense that small remotely based solar PV systems are only good for powering low-consumption electronics, and that such systems are not yet ready to do any “heavy lifting.” Bergamo Energy, a Florida-based subsidiary of international holding company Bergamo Acquisition Corp., is a good example of how remotely stationed solar capabilities have…

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