Ip Share Discussion Threads

[anley] 30/10/2013 11:35

If they get the Applied Graphene off to a good start then IPO should go as well and look for 170p or more.........that is what the chart combined with news is telling me.

[anley] 29/10/2013 14:57

Welcome to the BB........

[canalet3] 29/10/2013 12:29

Hi new here , asked my broker about Applied graphene ipo and was told discretionary investors only (big money ? ) anyway I thought the best way for a toe in the door was here with IPO, as it looks like AG is going to be well worthwhile and these should profit from their association with them .Any comment ?

[anley] 25/10/2013 13:56

There is some solid buying going on so PEAEFF I hope you did not do the wrong deal!!

I live in Cambridge and the talk is positive.

[peaeff] 24/10/2013 13:17

The trading of these shares is totally eratic and the spreads confusing. I took the opportunity yeaterday to sell, at a small profit, having been in for almost 18 months. I will await developments and may buy back in on any significant fall.

[anley] 24/10/2013 12:26

What an interesting company and one chartist said there is a 10% raise to come in the short term. We will see.........

[peaeff] 23/10/2013 12:34

At last something is happening that will have impact on share price

[fireball xl5] 04/7/2013 16:36

Thats more like it!

[fireball xl5] 13/6/2013 11:34

U.S., British gene sequencing firms split

Melissa Sue Gerrits, Associated Press

Illumina's Sharon Bachman (second from right) trains researchers on the San Diego firm's new tool for genetic sequencing at Avera in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Andrea Gerlin

June 12, 2013

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the British company racing to develop a portable gene sequencer, and U.S. competitor Illumina will end their partnership in 2016, according to Oxford Nanopore's annual report.

The companies agreed in April to resolve an arbitration demand that Illumina filed in New York state, settling a dispute that arose in 2011, according to the documents posted this week on the website of Companies House in London.


They will also amend an agreement that gave Illumina the right to sell any products that its closely held rival developed using an approach called exonuclease sequencing.

Illumina, which owns 14.7 percent of Oxford Nanopore, also had the right to negotiate a commercialization agreement for products using a strand-sequencing approach if the company sought another partner and an option to complete a transaction for those products on the same terms and conditions as any other suitor.

The rights and the option will cease to exist by Dec. 31, 2016, according to the documents.

"It's incrementally good news" for Oxford Nanopore, said Charles Weston, an analyst at Numis Securities in London. "It adds clarity and it limits the relationship as well. The fact that they are progressing on the strand side and the rights on the strand side are much clearer, that seems a good thing."

Tiny hole

The MinION and GridION systems that Oxford Nanopore is developing use a novel technique known as strand sequencing, in which an entire string of DNA is guided by an enzyme and passes intact through a tiny hole in a cell membrane one-billionth of a meter wide, like a child sucking spaghetti through his mouth.

"Oxford Nanopore has no current intention to commercialize its strand-sequencing technology through a relationship with an entity that is not an affiliate of Oxford Nanopore nor to sell or exclusively license to a third party all of its assets related to strand sequencing technology," it said in the documents.

The company declined to comment further, spokeswoman Zoe McDougall said.

Illumina, located in San Diego, invested $19 million in Oxford Nanopore in January 2009, according to the documents.

Other shareholders include IP Group, which owns about 20 percent, hedge-fund manager Lansdowne Partners and Invesco Perpetual, a British group of mutual funds.

Illumina has had a partnership with Oxford Nanopore since 2009 for products using exonuclease sequencing, in which the DNA building blocks are separated by an enzyme and pass individually through a nanopore.

The companies agreed that Oxford Nanopore isn't obligated to make further efforts to develop such sequencing.

Shares of IP Group rose 0.5 percent to 138.70 pence at 2:02 p.m. in London after gaining as much as 2.8 percent. Weston recommends holding the stock.

Cheaper instruments

Illumina and Life Technologies of Carlsbad (San Diego County) are in a race with Oxford Nanopore to develop faster and cheaper instruments for analyzing sequences of genes.

Oxford Nanopore Chief Executive Officer Gordon Sanghera said more than a year ago that the company planned to begin selling its devices by the end of last year. Oxford Nanopore has since faced technical delays as it has had to redesign components in a custom sensor that weren't performing satisfactorily.

Andrea Gerlin is a Bloomberg writer. E-mail: [e-mail]

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[fireball xl5] 24/5/2013 08:48

Time to resume the ascent.

[the crypt] 22/5/2013 11:25

Get out - get munching on yer cheese

[bamboo2] 17/5/2013 19:11

I hold TRX, a constituent of IPO.
There has been a steady drip drip selling pressure with little buying until lately, so our share price not helping you much. Last time TRX reached these levels though, there was a bounce. cheers

[peaeff] 17/5/2013 18:50

I think it true to say that this would be a major player among the portfolio, but to suggest it's a 'one trick pony' would be a bit shortsighted.

I am constantly trying to come to terms with the way the spreads are manipulated by the mm's. It seems that every morning it is marked down and spends all day playing catch up. On at least 3 occasions recently the price has been dropped significantly at the end of the day for seemingly no reason and we are now a good deal lower than we were a week ago. WHY?

regards

[backwoodsman] 17/5/2013 14:06

Isn't a large part of the share price represented by the Oxford Nanopore investment and there seems not to be much news on this?

[peaeff] 16/5/2013 10:27

I thought the IMS was very positive and expected a rise on the back of it, but it doesn't appear to have had a lot of effect so far. I think it is going to take some rel positive movement in one or more of the companies in the portfolio to get it moving again. 150p ish seems to be where the market wants it at present.

[fireball xl5] 03/5/2013 12:26

Graphene paint could power homes of the future
Houses could be painted with a new super-material that generates electricity from sunlight and can even change colour on request, following new research.

Photo: The University of Manchester
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent7:00AM BST 03 May 20139 Comments
Scientists at the University of Manchester used wafers of graphene, the discovery of which won researchers a Nobel Prize, with thin layers of other materials to produce solar powered surfaces.
The resulting surfaces, which were paper thin and flexible, were able to absorb sunlight to produce electricity at a level that would rival existing solar panels.
These could be used to create a kind of "coat" on the outside of buildings to generate power needed to run appliances inside while also carrying other functions too, such as being able to change colour.
The researchers are now hoping to develop the technology further by producing a paint that can be put onto the outside of buildings.

But the scientists also say the new material could also allow a new generation of super-thin hand-held devices like mobile phones that can be powered by sunlight.
Professor Kostya Novoselov, one of the Nobel Laureates who discovered graphene, a type of carbon that forms sheets just one atom thick, said: "We have been trying to go beyond graphene by combining it with other one atom thick materials.
"What we have been doing is putting different layers of these materials one on top of the other and what you get is a new type of material with a unique set of properties.
"It is like a book – one page contains some information but together the book is so much more.
"We have demonstrated that we can produce a very efficient photovoltaic device. The fact it is flexible will hopefully make it easier to use.
"We are working on paints using this material as our next work but that is further down the line."
Graphene was first discovered in 2004. Andrew Geim and Professor Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating its remarkable properties – that it was harder than diamond, transparent and could conduct electricity while only being one atom thick.
Professor Novoselov and colleagues at the University of Singapore found that if they combined layers of graphene with single one atom thick layers of a material known as transition metal dichalcogenides, which react to light, they could generate electricity.
Their findings are published in the journal Science.
Professor Novoselov added: "We are taking about a new paradigm of material science.
"We can make sandwiches of materials and produce any kind of functionality so we can put transistors and photovoltaics to produce power for them.
"The implementations would go much further than simple solar powered cells."

[peaeff] 16/4/2013 12:20

That's a hell of a share out I wonder if they need a cleaner.

[pleaty1] 11/4/2013 19:39

Today at one point on my spread bet the spread was 144-153p. Massive gap. Very difficult to get news on ipo but the recent portfolio news looks encourageing for tr testing 160

[peaeff] 11/4/2013 19:29

It's bewildering to me the way this share performs on a daily basis.

[pleaty1] 10/4/2013 20:37

Nice 300k buy today

[pleaty1] 10/4/2013 09:35

the portfolio seems to be in a better position than the last attempt at breaking 160p.

[fireball xl5] 10/4/2013 08:53

Oxford Cat, nice contract :)

[pleaty1] 09/4/2013 17:30

A couple of positive portfolio updates on website.