Messaging International Share Discussion Threads

[mcbeanburger] 26/2/2012 14:24

puntland news flow continues with this piece from ZA Times

"Meanwhile the stakes have risen higher in troubled Puntland. With a concerns growing that Farole intends to secede from the fragile Somali federation, drilling has begun on two oil concessions in the territory held by Canadianmining company Africa Oil. With huge reserves already identified – and initial surveys indicating even more extensive offshore resources, Puntland is poised to become a major player in the horn of Africa."

[mcbeanburger] 26/2/2012 08:59

Gaurdian piece appearing in a number of news outlets - will it translate into buying? we'll see.

[mcbeanburger] 26/2/2012 01:52

weekly chart update above and daily below - its holding bull flag

[mcbeanburger] 26/2/2012 01:33

this part is of interest:

Yet it is the extent of oil deposits beneath the Indian Ocean that is most exciting Somali officials. One said the potential was comparable to that of Kuwait, which has more than 100bn barrels of proven oil reserves. If true, the deposits would eclipse Nigeria's reserves – 37.2bn barrels – and make Somalia the seventh largest oil-rich nation.

[43rick] 25/2/2012 12:58

and from the final results RNS 30th June 2011

"Overview

· Continued revenue growth - increased by 27.6% to £2,901,985 (2009: £2,274,080)

· First time profit for the year - £357,245 (2009: loss £33,096) with positive cash flow generated

· Strengthening offering and investing in new products to offer creative and user friendly messaging products and services to existing and new clients

· New Messaging Gateway gaining traction and being adopted by an increasing number of operators and enterprises

· Blue-chip client list - seven new telecom operator customers added during the year

· Healthy new business pipeline

[43rick] 25/2/2012 12:30

Extract from the September 11th 2011 RNS

"Messaging International Plc, the AIM traded provider of innovative messaging services, is pleased to announce that its 100% owned subsidiary, TeleMessage Ltd ('TeleMessage'), was ranked 21 in the prominent Deloitte Technology 2010 Israel Technology Fast 50, which highlights successful companies operating in the technology sector. This is the fifth consecutive year that TeleMessage has been recognised for its growth and innovation by the programme.

[mildred49] 25/2/2012 09:06

Anybody remember the following hot stocks all in the exciting growth market of mobile content (ringtones/games/gambling/porn etc) ...

Stream Group (SEA) "Mobile Dating, Payments and Gambling- will Stream become a torrent?"



or

Yoomedia (YOO) "YOOMEDIA DISCUSSION FORUM!!"



or

KIBI (KIBI) "Ki-Bi One to watch"

[mildred49] 24/2/2012 23:40

I think this Board will suffice to detail the decline of this awful little company.

[tomboyb] 24/2/2012 16:39

It needs a new board - i will be adding further next week on weakness -

A new board rebranded as "telemessage" - I don't have time to set one up otherwise i would do it myself -

[effortless cool] 24/2/2012 16:36

"Over this period TeleMessage has grown 261%".

And it's still absolutely tiny.

[mcbeanburger] 24/2/2012 15:42

18K short as of the 15th Feb. not surprised it was being managed during the PP.

[mcbeanburger] 24/2/2012 15:37

I got this off Redinvest AOI thread on investorshub.com

" Conoco Returning to Somalia


In March 2011, ConocoPhillips prepared the sales of $5-10 Billion in non-core assets in Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Vietnam, and war-ravaged Libya. In Nigeria and Libya alone the oil giant would be giving up a combined 66,000 barrels of oil per day, and it holds gas rights as well in those states and others.

Announced this week, on February 16, Conoco announced the sale of its Vietnam assets, totaling $1.29 Billion. Proceeds from asset sales now total $20.2 Billion, much higher than the $17 Billion figure estimated in 2011, and currently exceeding ConocoPhillips' target of $15-20 Billion for the year ending 2012 from the divestment initiative.


This huge divestment program can't be without reason, or at the very least it has to have signaled an opportunity to other parties. Just months after the March announcement of the asset plans, Somalia's Puntland semi-autonomous region acquired the services of lobbyist Toby Moffett through a letter dated June 7, 2011, directly from the president of Puntland State. Moffett is a former congressman of the Democratic Party representing the state of Connecticut, and founder of the Moffett Group based out of Washington, DC. He's been tasked with bringing back ConocoPhillips back to Somalia, in particular the Puntland semi-autonomous region. Moffett is said to be familiar with other congressmen who are said to be tied to ConocoPhillips, including former White House chief of staff under president Ronald Reagan, Ken Duberstein, who also heads up the Duberstein Group, a lobby outfit similar to Moffett's, as well as Iowa Democratic senator Tom Harkin's wife Ruth Harkin–both of whom serve on ConocoPhillips' board of directors.

The following was written in documents filed by the Moffett Group with the United States Department of Justice, citing that Puntland will be represented by Moffett and his team in front of the US president.

"It will work towards the goals of promoting peace, security and political stability in Puntland through socio-economic development and helping Puntland benefit from its own natural resources.
"
Somalia knows ConocoPhillips, and ConocoPhillips knows Somalia. At one point in the late 1980s, ConocoPhillips, formerly just Conoco, wanted to badly to explore a certain part of Somalia, if only to find out if the region was part of an already-productive basin in Yemen, that they went out and bought the best rig in the business – the Parker 195. Conoco waited until the rig became available sometime between 1989 and 1990 to finally drill, and they finally had gotten their elusive answer as to whether the productive Yemeni basin had a lost brother in Somalia – and the answer was a resounding Yes! Conoco received their answer with the magical Parker 195 just months before Somalia's civil war and was unable to ever begin real 'hardcore' exploration as some would put it, but their eagerness to return was quite obvious in many cables circulated throughout the war era – a chapter all its own.

[43rick] 22/2/2012 09:00

Perhaps useful to remind people of this extract from the September 11th 2011 RNS

"Messaging International Plc, the AIM traded provider of innovative messaging services, is pleased to announce that its 100% owned subsidiary, TeleMessage Ltd ('TeleMessage'), was ranked 21 in the prominent Deloitte Technology 2010 Israel Technology Fast 50, which highlights successful companies operating in the technology sector. This is the fifth consecutive year that TeleMessage has been recognised for its growth and innovation by the programme.



To determine the ranking, Deloitte reviewed revenues over five years and calculated the revenue growth percentage between 2006 and 2010 to compare the growth of Israeli companies operating in the technology sector. Over this period TeleMessage has grown 261%.



Messaging International CEO Guy Levit said, "We are delighted to have ranked in Deloitte's prestigious rating of the fastest growing technology companies for the fifth consecutive year and believe that this adds further credence to our innovative technological offering, the execution of our strategy and our strong blue-chip client base. This appraisal of our business demonstrates its continued position as a leading provider of converged messaging products, which is particularly significant within this fast growing and competitive sector."

By the way, MES website is www.telemesssage.com

[mcbeanburger] 21/2/2012 20:53

largest ever volume on horn today. crude over 105bucks... and the pres is in london......

fingers crossed for this to be the perfect storm.

[mcbeanburger] 21/2/2012 13:36

mes's PP closed. will it rocket again?

[dubois] 21/2/2012 13:25

tomboyb

You can get 100k for 1.104

[tomboyb] 21/2/2012 12:33

afternoon chaps - MMs closing shop i can buy 1000 shares online at 1.1p - a grand total of £23 - including dealing costs - NMS is 100k so clearly not reflective -

[mildred49] 20/2/2012 22:45

Anybody remember the following hot stocks all in the exciting growth market of mobile content (ringtones/games/gambling/porn etc) ...

Stream Group (SEA) "Mobile Dating, Payments and Gambling- will Stream become a torrent?"



or

Yoomedia (YOO) "YOOMEDIA DISCUSSION FORUM!!"



or

KIBI (KIBI) "Ki-Bi One to watch"

[mildred49] 20/2/2012 22:44

lol James Faulkner seems new to the concept of e-mail or is he just ramping stuff from the t1ts-up.com stable of Tommy Winnifroth ?

they've had a fair few disasters the t1ps lot recently

wasn't their fund the worst perfomer of last year ?

bet they don't advertise that too much

and comparing this with MOS which itself is a very poor company PMSL

[tomboyb] 20/2/2012 19:25

A recent article that perhaps can put MES into context - however when it was written MES had 235 mill shares in issue - now it has 155 mill -


Buy Messaging International (MES) at 0.8p

A little known tech stock, Messaging International (MES) reminds me a lot of Mobile Streams (MOS) back in 2010. The company specialises in converging content across platforms, a talent which is growing in demand due to the increased complexity and range of today's communication technology. Having posted consistent growth in revenues since 2006 (2005-2009 saw revenues grow by 334%), the firm recently broke into its first full year of profitability and was cash generative to boot. With a market cap of just £1.9 million, net cash of c.£0.3 million, and trading on a historic earnings multiple of just 5.3, the shares are completely overlooked by the wider market. Speculative buy, at 0.8p.

'Convergence' is one of the new watchwords in today's tech heavy world. With the proliferation of myriad new operating systems and hardware devices, combined with the increased complexity of today's applications, it is easy to get lost in the ether when it comes to making heads or tails of what is going on. In such an environment there is an opportunity available for those that can bridge the gap between formats, media and devices. And this is where Messaging International comes in...

Founded in 1999 and operating through its trading subsidiary TeleMessage, Messaging International offers converged messaging products and services for carriers and enterprises that deliver text, voice, video and multimedia messages to and from any communication device. Its solutions consist of three main product lines: SMS to Voice, PC to Mobile and the Messaging Gateway; the latter of which has particularly exciting potential. The first product line, SMS to Voice, is the most developed of the three and has been taken up by a number of telecom operators such as Sprint Nextel and Bell Canada. In the telecoms world it is all about increasing ARPU (average revenue per user), and TeleMessage's "SMS to Landline", "SMS as Voice" and "Voice SMS" are leading value added services which can help increase optionality and improve the end user experience.

In PC to Mobile, the company has developed an Internet Video Download application which gives users the ability to download, as well as stream videos to mobile phones. Users can browse and send content from any video website to their friends' mobile phones, with the video being received as either a video stream or a video download file. The application provides mobile subscribers with a simple way of sharing internet content through their mobile phone, providing an end-to-end platform for handling message delivery, real time adaptation, provisioning, billing and integration in web browsers. Such a technology such benefit from strong tailwinds in the form of the growth of mobile video data traffic, with Cisco predicting a 39-fold increase in mobile data traffic from 2009 to 2014, 66% of which will be accounted for by video traffic. Also included in the company's PC to Mobile suite is a File to Mobile application. This enables users to drag and drop any PC files, including text documents, presentations and spreadsheets, and send them to any phone in an easy and intuitive manner, making the mobile phone a portable disk for PC content.

The Messaging Gateway is perhaps the 'killer app' that will eventually kick-start the company's share price. By enabling the enterprise/user to send out messages (mainly SMS/MMS but also voice, fax and email) to customers and employees on multiple formats, Messaging Gateway removes the need to connect separately to each internal messaging system as well as to other supporting network systems and service enablers. This can yield many advantages for the operator through ensuring that messaging resources are used efficiently and according to the operator's policies, whilst also reducing integration costs and throwing up other opportunities such as mobile marketing. In the company's own words, the service "allows companies to overcome their com

[mostyn] 20/2/2012 18:19

mildred49,

I take it that you are not interested in a balanced view.

[mildred49] 20/2/2012 18:07

"It all sounds 'amazing' but dotcom veterans will take it all with a pinch of salt.

This is an Israeli company and many of the AIM listed Israeli companies have been disasters (They do have their own active capital markets in Israel so I do wonder why they need to promote themselves to UK AIM retail punters?)

From the looks of past statements the technology has always been 'amazing' and in a growth market but it gives the impression of being a case of over-promising and under-delivering.

Messaging/SMS etc may seem like a great technology growth area to some but it is actually a bit backward and outdated in the fast moving tech world and there are much better and newer messaging systems emerging, many of them being free and open-source rather than costly and proprietary. "

[mildred49] 20/2/2012 18:05

LOL never heard of more sophisticated technology like email ? IM ? Twitter ? etc etc

This stuff is so backwards no wonder this technology company has never achieved any decent growth and remains an also ran earning pitiful revenues which just about keeps their small R&D and the Management in employment

There are tons of businesses turning over more than them down your local high street.

"The product enables enterprises to send out messages (mainly SMS/MMS, but also voice, fax and email) to customers and employees on a wide scale"