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[lauders] 14/9/2017 08:54

It was looking so hopeful at the end of the day yesterday. Shame the share price is declining again when GVC who have dealings with Leap Gaming are reacting to their results in a much more positive way! Par the course with FFWD unfortunately.

[jonesyboy 27] 14/9/2017 07:54

On moonactive website now advertising for 16 new jobs. They are all new checked the website last week.

[lauders] 14/9/2017 02:04

Thanks for the Moon Active link and the HP one as well bdog51. Nice rise at the end of the day. Hopefully FFWD will take advantage of this interest and release some really positive news to keep the momentum going. It would of course not surprise me if absolutely nothing happens and we reverse. Let's see if 7.00 am UK time brings anything worth reading ;-)

PS. Re: Moon Active-

If you’re alive and are not literally blind or deaf, you’ve definitely heard of this mobile game that somehow shot itself up to become the top app on the App Store.

Yeah. We’re talking about Coin Master.

That was from July 2017.

The few reviews here (go to the bottom) also look more positive than negative and this piece was from earlier this year too.

If you move to the right and see the other Moon Active games and click on them you see comments from users on them too. On the whole more positive than negative. Perhaps there is something to the positive rumours coming out of MA after all if this is any guide?

[bdog51] 13/9/2017 21:11

Vemo Education Raises $7.4 Million in Seed Funding to Tackle College Affordability and Help End the Student Debt Trap



Vemo Education, the first company to help postsecondary institutions develop, launch, and implement income share agreements (ISAs), announced today that it has recently closed $7.4 million in seed funding.

EDIT::: Sorry this was already posted by Lauders recently, just spotted that! (It's been a long day...)

[bdog51] 13/9/2017 21:03

From following the #ffwd tag on Twitter -

1. Moon Active revenue for the month of August was $1.8M - this company seems to be growing surprisingly fast.

2. The news article below is currently being cited as 'very big news' for ffwd (..I'll leave that to your judgement), presumably due to the tie-up with the Lingo Media deal -

[jonesyboy 27] 13/9/2017 18:31

Picking up strongly this week. News must be very close beginning to feel very excited about this one.
Chart is looking primed for an explosive breakout.

[lauders] 13/9/2017 03:05

Factom related pieces:



In a recent episode of the Crypto Show, Paul Snow, the founder of the blockchain-based data management solution Factom, offered some suggestions. He also talked about the potential benefits of holding onto BCH a little while longer.




Factom (FCT) has been running up the charts in recent months with the factoid token commanding as much as $30 and currently still trading well over $20 a token or around 0.00575071 BTC.

Factoids (FCT) the native cryptocurrency token for the Factom platform initially traded as low as $0.08 shortly after their launch in early 2015 trading only several thousand dollars a day in trading volume. A far cry from the $20 plus price of today and $1 to $20 million in daily trading volume.




Also joining the Board is Piotr Piasecki, Core developer from one of the leading cryptocurrency projects Factom. Piotr wrote his master thesis on Bitcoin security in Technical University of Lodz, in Poland.

[lauders] 12/9/2017 02:10

More Vemo related news. Nothing particularly new, but good to see some figures:

Assisting Purdue with the running of the program is Vemo Education, a company set up to provide universities and other education providers, like bootcamps, in the U.S. with technology to run their own ISA programs. Launched in 2015, Oakton, Va.-based Vemo says it facilitated $23 million worth of ISAs in the 2016-2017 academic year, and expects that to grow this year.



jonesyboy 27 - You are correct. I did omit the results where we were told: As the market is aware, the long term strategy is to take Leap Gaming public. This is taking longer than anticipated but I remain confident that is will occur within the next year. So more waiting and vague as usual. "Within the next year". Translation anyone?

[roofer2] 11/9/2017 21:46

It's for the company to update its share holders, that's called earning their wages, saying we should research everyday looking for news is a cop out, getting an RNS in the morning adds to excitement which in turn we research from that, well that's how I work it! Gla

R2

Ps Lauders/ All, I do appreciate all efforts to get news.

[jonesyboy 27] 11/9/2017 16:52

Lauders they gave a c,ear update in July and have also given leap Schoold and Nuuvera updates since.
If it's in the public domain then no need for a company update. We always get company news posted here by someone like yourself regularly as well.

[lauders] 11/9/2017 16:14

They don't give a #^*! Roofer2. Already contacted the BOD last week and asked them for a market update quoting them their own RNS text in the process of 1st half of the year. Thought I made quite a convincing case for them needing to update their shareholders. Not a peep! See TW has once again trashed Jim his "good friend".

[roofer2] 11/9/2017 16:08

I still hold here at a small lose, I gave up when news updates on Leap Gaming stopped, ffwd hold over 40% and they don't seem to know what's going on, if I held 40% of a company id demand to know what's going on but then again is Lorne really that bothered as he gets paid either way, I feel he doesn't give a T IMO

R2

[lauders] 11/9/2017 15:45

Perhaps ticking up, after ticking down earlier, on this Vemo news highlighted on the LSE BB:

VIENNA, Va., Sept. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Vemo Education, the first company to help postsecondary institutions develop, launch, and implement income share agreements (ISAs), announced today that it has recently closed $7.4 million in seed funding. Led by University Ventures and NextGen Venture Partners, with participation from Route 66 Ventures, Third Kind Venture Capital, Haystack Partners, and Task Force X Capital, the funding will allow Vemo Education to hire for growth, accelerate investment in their technology platform, and expand market development.

Still nothing dazzling or company making, but every bit helps I suppose. Still waiting for some decent news around here!

[lauders] 08/9/2017 01:49

At least we have a whole new set of newsroom releases from Factom:

Would be nice if they updated the website on the dates shown rather than saving them all up and adding way past the issue date. Last website update prior to this one was in June. So the July and August news was added in September. Oh well, at least they have updated now.

There is also a new blog from Factom:

Those who care about Factoids will no doubt be pleased.

No press releases since April.

EDIT - Also see that Aphria's share price has been hit over regulation concerns. Some text here about the potential of the Nuuvera deal.

Both companies have the potential to provide monster returns for investors heading into recreational legalization — Aurora, with its production ambitions and current capacity, and Aphria, with its strong financials and top-flight leadership that has been making fantastic deals. These are both strong long-term buys, but as we head into the fall of 2017, I like Aurora Cannabis.

[lauders] 07/9/2017 07:11

No surprise to see no news again today. I have asked the BOD for an update on the Leap Gaming IPO but as usual with their shareholder interaction they have decided not to comment or update the market.

In the meantime we have some game related news from a company (FDEV) that has rocketed away so far this year. A far cry from anything to do with FFWD.


THE GAMES MARKET

We operate in an exciting industry. The games market is now the premier form of entertainment worth over $100bn per year, in the wider $300bn entertainment industry. That's larger than each of the film, TV or music industries, with the games sector overtaking film in 2017. The games sector is growing fast, increasing at 8% per year, with TV experiencing a decline of 8%.

Today the games market is split into three roughly comparable sectors by revenue: PC, console and mobile. However, the characteristics of each sector are quite different. Frontier has chosen to prioritise the PC and console sectors where audiences value high quality games, and that quality is a key determinant of success. In contrast the mobile sector is overcrowded, so success can be a lot more hit-and-miss.

The whole market is moving rapidly to digital downloads. Mobile and PC are now almost 100% digital, and consoles are at approximately 50% but are quickly moving to digital downloads, as focus moves from older consoles to the new generation, and older business models are gradually replaced.

There are already some very large and well established companies in the games market; for example EA and Activision Blizzard both based in the US, who have a combined value of over $80 billion. The nature of our industry is change and evolution, and it is interesting to see the rapid development of companies like Valve Inc (with their Steam platform) in the US and Tencent in China, based on their focus on the opportunities that digital distribution presents. It is also clear that the model Frontier has already adopted - supporting our games continually with community and regular updates: essentially 'games as a service' - is working very well, and has meant that the two franchises already released have continued to perform.

[lauders] 03/9/2017 08:40

Not FFWD specific but gaming related so worth a link:

Hope it works. Not used to posting links from my mobile.

[888icb] 01/9/2017 16:01

Slightly higher volume today and a little tick up.

[888icb] 31/8/2017 07:42

I agree News is rather slow but August tends to be a very quiet month with so many people taking holidays. Let's hope when everyone is back to work in September we start to get some value adding news. The trading volumes have been low for some time and the share price has drifted down. Some decent news and increased volume can soon reverse this trend.

[lauders] 31/8/2017 01:53

Thanks for the link to the Lingo press release bdog51.

The finances don't look great do they though? Going the wrong way. Profit is decreasing and not increasing, so we will have to hope something of a turnaround comes with this merger. Not one I am too excited about in the grand scheme of things!

Net profit 47,067 682,013
Total comprehensive income $ 46,119 $ 736,107
Earnings per share $ 0.00 $ 0.02

6 months figures for 2017 on the left and for 2016 on the right.

Now where is the news from Factom, Yooya, Leap and Moon Active? Pretty quiet from all of them, especially the first two. Quite amazing that with so many investee companies the news from them is rather on the "limited" side. Yooya is media related too, so quite unbelievable. I can understand Intensity being on the quieter side as their work understandably takes time and I am fully appreciative of that fact, yet the others should be producing news on their websites and they aren't as regularly as they probably should be.

[bdog51] 30/8/2017 21:04

From the Lingo Q2 Results RNS -

"We are excited about the merger transaction with Schoold and embarking on a $550 billion new category in the US higher education industry for Lingo Media. We have identified significant opportunities to cross-sell our respective products and services. With the collaboration between the management of Lingo and Schoold, we are confident we can deliver revenue and costs synergies and deliver value for our shareholders. We look forward to closing the merger," said Michael Kraft, President & CEO of Lingo Media.

[bdog51] 30/8/2017 21:01

Based on the statement below, Lingo Media trading should resume soon (ie 25th August plus 2 weeks = 8th September). When this happens of course, we'll find out the revised value of FFWD's Schoold holding.

Lingo Media Q2 Results 25 Aug 2017 -


The Company's shares were halt traded on August 9th for regulatory review of the merger transaction. The shares will remain halted until the Company receives conditional approval from the TSX Venture Exchange which is expected within the next two weeks.

[3rd eye] 30/8/2017 13:37

17p yes i remember and sold out at 10p..............ohhhhh you are a dummy. You also said at 17p or was it 20p these would double within 6 months. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.

Ive always said you were a loser and a C Lister.

Look out BLU holders.

[lauders] 30/8/2017 12:56

jonesyboy 27 - He doesn't need to run it down. It is doing just fine by itself. Still soon be time for those with ultra-long term horizons to top-up again by the looks of it. The 15p fundraising participants must be extremely happy about progress here since they invested their money, especially when the likes of ZOO, FEDV, BOO, PTSG, TSTL to name some have done exceptionally well in contrast. Never mind eh?

[jonesyboy 27] 30/8/2017 10:46

Sorry Leeb100, but this has been covered previously when you have brought up running costs. You seem keen to run this down. What's your motive?