$LKCO $5.0 Million Registered Direct PlacementLuokung Announces Partnership Between EMG and Leading Electric Vehicle Manufacturer BAIC BJEV to Jointly Develop Mapping Services for Autonomous Driving
EMG recently worked with BAIC BJEV to provide HD map services in autonomous valet parking ("AVP") for BAIC New Energy vehicles. The two parties will cooperate in depth on L3 (conditional driving automation) to L4 (high driving automation) autonomous driving related projects.
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Luokung Technology Corp. Announces $5.0 Million Registered Direct Placement
today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors for a registered direct offering of $5.0 million of ordinary shares at a price of $0.52 per share. The Company will issue a total of 9,615,387 ordinary shares to the institutional investors. As part of the transaction, the Company will also issue to the investors warrants ("Warrants") for the purchase of up to 4,807,694 ordinary shares at an exercise price of $0.68 per share, which Warrants will have a term of three years from the date of issuance.
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$OLB Announces Plan to Offer Cryptocurrency Payment OptionsOLB Group Announces Plan to Offer Cryptocurrency Payment Options via Blockchain Technology on its OMNICOMMERCE Platform and SecurePay TM Gateway
OLB’s SecurePay TM Payment Gateway to Enable Merchants to Seamlessly Offer Cryptocurrency Payments
$OLB upgraded its SecurePay payment gateway system to support Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC and DAI across all merchant platforms.
SercurePay is compatible with mobile, tablet-based and cloud infrastructure and will be integrated into the merchants current payment ecosystem, in order to enable the acceptance of Cryptocurrency payments.
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$AUVI Announces Acquisition of the Airocide Technology PlatformApplied UV Announces Acquisition of the Airocide(R) Technology Platform for Airborne Pathogen Reduction
Developed with NASA as a patented pathogen killing technology
Proprietary photocatalytic oxidation process thoroughly destroys viruses, bacteria, spores, and fungi as well as other carbon-based molecules
Airocide® air disinfection technology compliments and expands the SteriLumen platform, together providing a more comprehensive solution for air and surface
Accelerates the strategy to grow revenues through complimentary acquisitions
Enhances scale in the fast-growing disinfection device market
Akida's revenue for the full calendar year 2020 is estimated to be $4.7 million with EBITDA of approximately $921,000.
Airocide technology is widely accepted and currently used by nationally recognized brands such as Hard Rock Café, the US Army, Stag's Leap vineyards and many more.
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$JG Partners with Kuaishou to Improve Monetization EfficiencyAurora Mobile $JG Partners with Kuaishou to Improve Monetization Efficiency
$JG today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Kuaishou Technology (01024.HK) (“Kuaishou”), China’s leading short video content community and social platform, to improve advertising monetization efficiency.
By leveraging its powerful artificial intelligence (“AI”) and advanced analysis technologies, Aurora Mobile's advertisement SaaS services will enable Kuaishou to help brands and performance-based advertisers to accurately target potential customers, enhance advertising conversion rate, reduce operational costs, and promote a mutually beneficial relationship between Kuaishou and advertisers on its platform.
The short-form video market continues to experience huge growth. Short-form video advertising that features high traffic and conversion rates has become a preferred marketing approach for many brands and performance-based advertisers.
According to the cooperation agreement, Aurora Mobile will benefit from a revenue share agreement based on advertising revenues allocated to Kuaishou if the labels provided by Aurora Mobile are used by advertisers on the platform.
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$AREC Announces Filing of SPAC Registration Statement$AREC American Resources Corporation Announces Filing of SPAC Registration Statement
$AREC Company's SPAC is targeting acquisitions in the land holding and resource industry, and will focus on advancing land and resource assets towards a modern-day business model of clean energy, recycling and redevelopment, and social impact.
$AREC today announced that American Acquisition Opportunity Inc., a special purpose acquisition company (the "SPAC" or "AAOI"), in which the Company has an indirect investment, filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 4, 2021 in connection with a proposed initial public offering of its units.
The proposed public offering is expected to have a base offering size of $100 million, or up to $115 million if the underwriters' over-allotment option is exercised in full.
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Sabra Capital Partners places a $7 target on SupercomSeeking alpha: Sabra Capital Partners places a $7 target on Supercom. Explosive Potential, Limited Downside: We view the base level value of the Company to be $7.00 per share based on a multi-year estimate that revenues will rebound back to $35mm. High conviction.
While none of its coronavirus tracking pilots have materialized into a formal, large scale contract, news is gaining momentum in the Company’s backyard, Israel.
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Purchase Order for HybridTech Armor© Panels for Aircraft CarrierCPS Technologies Corporation receives Purchase Order for HybridTech Armor© Panels for Aircraft Carrier
CPSH today announced receipt of a purchase order for HybridTech Armor© Panels to be installed as the strike face of advanced ballistic shields to support U.S. Navy CVN class ships.
The purchase order covers panels to equip all crew-served weapons stations on one aircraft carrier.
We have received a $28.7 million IDIQ contract from the Navy to address the aircraft carrier fleet, with an initial delivery order for the first aircraft carrier.”
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Acquires Exclusive Rights to Rare Earth Element InnovationsAmerican Resources Corporation Acquires Exclusive Rights to Purdue University's Rare Earth Element Innovations, Critical for Clean Energy Technologies.
An environmentally safer method of rare earth and other critical material separation and purification using ligand-assisted chromatography for coal, coal byproducts, recycled permanent magnets and Lithium Ion batteries.
Announced that, with the addition of Hasler Ventures LLC, the Company has licensed ligand assisted displacement ("LAD") chromatography patents and knowhow to further expanded its capability in environmentally friendly separation and purification of rare earth elements.
These exclusive patents and technologies, developed at Purdue University, are specific to the processing of separated and pure rare earth metals and critical elements from coal byproducts, recycled permanent magnets and lithium-ion batteries.
Rare earth elements (REEs) include the 15 elements in the lanthanide series plus scandium (Sc) and yttrium (Y). They are essential ingredients for magnets, metal alloys, polishing powders, catalysts, ceramics, and phosphors, which are important for high-technology and clean energy applications. The global REE market is estimated at approximately $4 billion dollars and growing at 8% per year.
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Space launch company Astra to go public via merger with SPAC HOLastra-to-become-the-first-publicly-traded-space-launch-company-on-nasdaq-via-merger-with-holicity
BlackRock-managed funds and accounts lead investment in Astra to launch a new generation of space services to improve life on Earth.
The transaction reflects an implied pro-forma enterprise value for Astra of approximately $2.1 billion. Upon closing, the transaction is expected to provide up to $500 million in cash proceeds, including up to $300 million of cash held in the trust account of Holicity and an upsized $200 million PIPE led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
In December 2020, Astra joined a small, elite group of companies that have made it to space. With over 50 launches in manifest across more than 10 private and public customers, including NASA and DOD, Astra has booked over $150 million of contracted launch revenue. Astra will begin delivering customer payloads this summer and begin monthly launches by the end of this year.
The proposed transaction, which is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2021.
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Sunlight Financial LLC to List on NYSE Through Merger With SPRQSunlight Financial LLC, a Premier Residential Solar Financing Platform, to List on NYSE Through Merger With Apollo-Affiliated Spartan Acquisition Corp. II
Sunlight and Apollo-Affiliated Spartan Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: SPRQ) Enter Into Business Combination Agreement
Institutional Investors Led By Chamath Palihapitiya, Coatue, Funds and Accounts Managed by BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Neuberger Berman Commit to Invest $250 Million at Closing in Common Stock PIPE at $10.00 per Share
Pro Forma Implied Equity Value of the Combined Company is Approximately $1.3 Billion
Sunlight has arranged financing for more than an estimated 100,000 residential solar systems, which will produce over 500 megawatts of solar-generated electricity and avoid more than 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Leading POS platform through which over $3.5 billion of loans have been originated in the rapidly growing residential solar market
Upon the closing of the transaction, existing Sunlight equityholders are expected to own approximately 50% of the combined company, Spartan stockholders are expected to own approximately 26%, and PIPE participants are expected to own approximately 19%.
The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021.
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Closing of $103.5 Million Upsized Initial Public OfferingLMF Acquisition Opportunities, Inc. Announces Closing of $103.5 Million Upsized Initial Public Offering, Including Full Exercise of the Overallotment Option
the closing of its upsized initial public offering of 10,350,000 units, which included the full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option, at a price of $10.00 per unit.
Each unit consisted of one share of Class A common stock and one redeemable warrant, each warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share.
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Reddit army buying heavily shorted REV stockShares of REV were jumping again as a massive short squeeze on consumer stocks continued into its third day.
The squeeze instigated by a group of traders on Gamestop has now spread to other heavily shorted stocks
There was no news out on any of these three stocks today, and certainly nothing of the kind that would generate this kind of movement for fundamental reasons.
Instead, traders on platforms like Reddit have figured out that they can take advantage of heavily shorted small-cap stocks if enough of them start buying them, and that's what's happened with REV stock.
When a stock is shorted and starts to go up, short-sellers eventually have to buy back the shares or risk further losses, including a margin call forcing the repurchase.
At Revlon, 31% of the stock's float was sold short as of the end of December.
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A massive short squeeze on PETSShares of PETS were jumping again as a massive short squeeze on consumer stocks continued into its third day.
The squeeze instigated by a group of traders on Gamestop has now spread to other heavily shorted stocks,
There was no news out on any of these three stocks today, and certainly nothing of the kind that would generate this kind of movement for fundamental reasons.
Instead, traders on platforms like Reddit have figured out that they can take advantage of heavily shorted small-cap stocks if enough of them start buying them, and that's what's happened with all three of these stocks. When a stock is shorted and starts to go up, short-sellers eventually have to buy back the shares or risk further losses, including a margin call forcing the repurchase.
Though only about 15% of the float is sold short, traders were aggressive to pump up the stock as daily trading volume rose as high as 358 million shares on Monday, up from around 3 million normally. As of midday today, volume had already topped 200 million.
PetMed Express, an online pet pharmacy, entered the new year with 41% of it stock sold short.
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Why GSX stock soared? Short-sellers are getting squeezed.......The coronavirus is getting worse in China, and it's possible that investors believe that's a good thing for GSX.
GSX is a remote-education company in China, and its business grew substantially in 2020. And if COVID-19 gets worse in that country, it's possible 2021 will be another good year for this business.
According to The Associated Press, new coronavirus cases are causing the Chinese government to lock down two hospitals in Shanghai.
it appears investors might expect GSX Techedu's services will be in greater demand if the pandemic worsens in China.
This is further complicated by short interest in this stock. According to Yahoo! Finance, around half of the stock's float was sold short up until recently. If investors are buying shares over the last few days because of the news coming out of China, it could be causing a short squeeze, as short-sellers are forced to cover their bearish positions.
Over 22% of GSX stock is sold short, giving it a short interest ratio of almost 14 days (anything over seven days is considered a lot). While that indicates short-sellers are getting squeezed, or being forced to cover their positions at ever-higher prices, it's more just a phenomenon flooding the market at the moment.
the company is under fire from many popular short-sellers, who claim GSX Techedu is a fraud.
And the company has indeed admitted that it is under investigation from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While that investigation is ongoing and it may turn out that everything is above board, this has caused a lot of people to actively bet against this stock.
The company faces the possibility of being delisted from major U.S. exchanges if the SEC finds wrongdoing. Therefore, it's important to approach a GSX Techedu investment fully aware of this risk.
Investors shouldn't be swayed by these price swings, and investors would be smart to sit on the sidelines until GSX Techedu sorts out the battle taking place between short-sellers and those long on its stock.
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Equity Investment and Strategic Business CooperationBaozun and iClick Announce Equity Investment and Strategic Business Cooperation
As a result of the agreement, Baozun will own 4% of iClick's shares outstanding and control 10% of its voting power.
The companies said they entered into a "strategic cooperation framework agreement" and will collaborate on a closed-loop e-commerce service model, focusing on areas like digital marketing, customer service, and fulfillment. That complements Baozun's core business of providing e-commerce services such as marketing, fulfillment, and IT for multinational companies like Microsoft and Nike. Also key in the deal is that both companies will develop a private domain traffic platform for Tencent, the tech giant and owner of the super-app WeChat.
A short squeeze may have also helped drive the shares higher.
Baozun is subject to a 180-day lock-up period on the above shares subscribed from iClick or purchased from the existing shareholder.
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Pfizer forming a double bottom to continue moving up?Another update on PFE. Price has stalled for some time now around the internal support. We have a divergence with RSI and the price and RSI is starting to move above 50. MACD is making a bullish crossing and the histogram is going positive as well. Volumes are showing buying activity and we have a potential setup for a double bottom. Keep an eye on PFE.
Bank of America in risk of a trend reversalMy bearish view for Bank of America is almost confirmed. All is left is a move below $30.59 zone. RSI and MACD are flashing red and point for a continuation of the selling. Volumes are descending as activity is slowing down resent days.
Since the bad earnings, the bank is under pressure from investors, but still the downtrend is not entirely confirmed. Given the broader market and perpetual stimulus, BAC may have a second chance to continue its uptrend.
PBI jumps on positive pitch from Seeking Alpha contributorPitney Bowes jumps on positive pitch from Seeking Alpha contributor
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) gains 40% after a Seeking Alpha contributor writes that the stock is "significantly" undervalued vs competitors and a break up or sale of company would unlock value.
Expects PBI's global e-commerce business to be profitable for first time ever when earnings are released on Feb. 2.
Highlights that Legendary investor Bill Miller owns PBI and believes e-commerce segment on a standalone basis is worth $12/share, citing 3Q Miller investor letter.
PBI short interest "nearly" 20% of float
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operating income increase of 527%The company reported revenues of $191.7 million, net income of $10.9 million, and basic EPS (earnings per share) of $6.40. The company also reported operating income of $20.4 million, representing an increase of 527% over the same period last year. During the 2020 fiscal year, the company repurchased 236,908 shares of its common stock at an average price of $7.01 per share.
At September 30, 2020, the company reported total assets of $197.2 million and total liabilities of $153.5 million. Stockholders’ equity stood at $43.9 million, or $25.75 per basic common share1. At September 30, 2020, the company had cash and availability under its various lines of credit $37.7 million.
The Company completed two significant acquisitions in 2020, Lonesome Oak in January and Precision Marshall in July.
OSS as exclusive EPC for North American Solar ProjectsOrbital Energy Group's Subsidiary, Orbital Solar Services, Partners with Black Sunrise Half Century Fund and Akon Lighting America as exclusive EPC for North American Solar Projects.
OEG), today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Orbital Solar Services ("OSS"), a leader in utility-scale solar power generation facilities, has been named the engineering, procurement, and construction ("EPC") company "of choice" for the newly-formed Black Sunrise Half Century Fund.
As announced by Akon last Wednesday at President Biden's "Clean Energy for America" Inaugural Ball (Clean Energy Ball), OSS is partnering with Akon, Akon Lighting America (Akon Lighting), and the Black Sunrise Half Century Fund to decommission coal-fired power plants throughout the United States and convert them into utility-scale solar energy farms.
OSS is responsible for providing full EPC services for these solar facilities, beginning in the second quarter of 2021.
In selecting OSS and Orbital Energy Group as its EPC company of choice, BSF considered OSS's technical, innovation and support capabilities. This includes OSS's proven track record of success in executing over 40 solar projects in excess of 600 megawatts, with more than 50 years combined experience in the delivery and management of both commercial and renewable energy construction projects.
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Aemetis “Carbon Zero” Supported by $16.8 MillionAemetis “Carbon Zero” Solar Energy and Energy Efficiency Upgrades Supported by $16.8 Million of California CEC and Utility Grants
Estimated $18 Million Per Year of Increased Net Income ($0.75 Earnings Per Share)
AMTX) announced that its “Carbon Zero” biofuels production process has received a total of $16.8 million of solar energy and other energy efficiency grants to fund upgrades of the Keyes, California plant to support the production of zero carbon renewable fuel.
The award of a combined $16.8 million of California Energy Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric energy efficiency programs to fund the ‘Carbon Zero 1’ biofuels plant reflects government and utility industry support for our mission to reduce greenhouse gases
These Carbon Zero plant upgrades at the Keyes plant are an integrated part of producing below zero carbon biofuels from agricultural waste wood.
The Carbon Zero 1 plant renewable energy and energy efficiency upgrades include funding and other support from the California Energy Commission, the USDA, the US Forest Service, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and PG&E.
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Successful field testing of prototype lines of the oilseedYield10 Bioscience Announces Achievement of Proof-of-Concept Milestone for Producing PHA Bioplastic in Field Grown Camelina Plants
today announced successful field testing of prototype lines of the oilseed Camelina sativa that have been programed to produce PHA bioplastics directly in seed.
PHA are natural polymers, prevalent in nature and fully biodegradable in the environment.
PHA bioplastics could ultimately be used to manufacture a wide range of fully biodegradable consumer products.
The prototype plants tested in these studies were programed with microbial genes based on a recent patent filed for new technology developed by Yield10 researchers to produce Camelina seed containing high levels of PHA bioplastic suitable for field production.
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