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| Vividas | VDS | London | Ordinary Share |
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Posted at 19/11/2008 17:49 by deltagirl Sorry to see this happen to any company and its shareholders but VDS was doomed from the start - conceived in Australia and listed in the UK by their former chairman who has a track record of taking companies public too early in stock markets in which they have little, if any operations. The MO is then to exit the company and leave the management team pedaling to meet the public investors expectations - TPS is a similar example where the company started in England and was listed in Canada first, then dual listed on the LSE before coming to AIM. The other problem they faced is that the bigger players didn't take too long to deliver equivalent or better features and their window of opportunity closed pretty quickly. They really didn't have much of a unique offering and this one should never have been IPO'd in my humble opinion, but it wasn't the first and won't be the last to fall into this category. Would have fared better back in the late 90's but not today. The economic downturn has little impact on companies where they have a me too solution and meagre revenues. |
Posted at 29/7/2008 12:40 by chairman2 and get us some Aussie investors too?? |
Posted at 28/3/2008 10:41 by chairman2 Monty As another stuck investor I can only watch in horror at the financial situation - dont know where or how sales revenues are going to grow ten fold from £0.5 m to the £5 m needed to start seeing a decent return for shareholders. I'll hang on in but this is written down to zero in my mind in which case it will be a huge pleasure if it manages to resurect itself. |
Posted at 12/11/2007 20:03 by bachman additional comment from lemminginvestorClearly, the slide in Vividas is overdone, though; illiquid stocks in very poor market conditions tend to have this effect. From the brief communication with CEO Paul Neville, it's also clear he has been bombed with many enquiries, some of which appear nonsensical. In my brief update on the 7 November that VDS I suggested the company struggled to raise these funds and could only do so at such a discount. Neville told me this was in fact due to market conditions and small continual sellers especially from the original shareholder base in Australia , the price has continued to fall despite the good announcements VDS have made. Therefore the difficult market has really impacted the company and it has been very difficult to raise the money through capital markets. Paul said VDS are still looking for trade investor's longer term. Investors need to be mindful VDS has actually made significant strategic progress during the last 8 months. Sales have been encouraging and the company has actually met market expectations. Once the company has got over the fixed costs of being a plc and having significant R&D expenditure, VDS can move forward apace. VDS have a very encouraging pipeline. ''We have closed around 20% of the deals that we said but the financial impact of these comes through in H2 as we are moving forward with getting content encoded before sites can be launched when we get a PPV revenue share.'' Paul pointed out the ABC trial contract in Australia which has been a success and we expect to move forward commercially. We have also announced commercial trial with Thomson Financial. ''We continue to invest in R&D and have new developments coming out in the next 3 to 6 months. We are still ahead of the game.'' |
Posted at 07/11/2007 13:20 by chairman2 I feel the company has not made sufficientattempt to maximise shareholder value and the timing and pricing of this placing are less than competent. There is no compelling case that justifies this cavlier attitude and I fo one will be voting against at the EGM. Clearly with such large institutional backing the company can and have ignored PI and other investors. But the degree to which they have allowed the share price to be walked down and shorted in the pre-announcment underwriting discussions is pretty disgraceful. To Call Paul Neville "Naive" would be too kind. The brokers/backers have stuffed him and stuffed us. as you say like a turkey for Christmas. |
Posted at 15/10/2007 11:39 by thinktank Closed a short here earlier, think this has now fallen enough. Now it seems to me VDS are getting things in place to become profitable by the end of the year.Have had a great time opening shorting Lemming Investor (non) tips over the year. Of course we know they don't do 'tips', but still, when they said about VDS and the share shot up to 63p very quickly whilst they all came onto this thread and ramped, I couldn't resist. They have been very quiet lately. Nothing for them to talk about? Had a great time shorting SOLA after Lemming's 'non-tip' earlier in the year too. I think that was about 597p, or something. Closed that one at a nice round 250p. |
Posted at 06/7/2007 17:05 by licom Hi thinktank,At the risk of upsetting VDS investors, I will keep this brief and to the point. "2005 featured companies include: Average gains of 34% ~Average loss of 5.8%." = NET share price growth of 34% over all featured companies featured during 2005 after deducting 5.8% loss of three companies that did not show a net gain in their share price As for 2006, we simply did not update the statistic page, for no other reason than neglect due to keeping abreast of outperformers like CCH, SOLA, EEL, JKX, DGO, TMC IXE and IFL, etc. Having said that, to be honest, 2006 was not our best year to date in terms of overall success if measured by overall growth in market of the companies featured. 2007 looks set to be a record year already. Only one of the 13 featured companies is actually down by c7%, the remainder are double digit percentage gains. Hop through the following blog (free) you may get a better feel for our service. We don't hide our dogs, they do bark from time to time. We experiencing technical issues with one our e-mail accounts, thus suggest further queries be sent to elric@lemminginvesto Kind regards, Elric PS. Please remember percentage statistics are intended as a barometer of our ability to find the next growth company, not percentage gains per tip. We are not tipsters. PPS. The offer for our latest reports on VDS (free x 3)still stand, just e-mail me at elric@lemminginvesto Your details will not be passed on to 3rd parties, or sold to 3rd parties. |
Posted at 27/6/2007 07:47 by scrutable bachmanLots of very experienced investors are doing well from lemming research. Facts should never be a liablity in investment decisions... But I have always been sorry for investors' losses from PlaneStation. I lost a large six figure sum myself. Even with the clarity of hindsight, I have never been able to change my opinion of Oliver Iny who was inspired, and is STILL a brilliant entrepreneur. He is behind VSH. This month will test the business model at Alton Towers - another prospective multi bagger with say 80% of the value at risk. Oliver Iny lost £5m or so of his own money, and was brought down by an extreme of corporate envy, malice and stupidity in the Pru who, with only 18% of the vote, did a Machievelli, manoeuvered him out of his own brilliant creation, and displaced him with an accountant. After throwing Iny out they went on to demolish the business and with it £20m or so of pensioners money. The story fits into the history of risk. PlaneStation should have made a billion. Sometimes there is an unexpected flaw that never re-occurs . You cannot exclude some risks which are unpredictable. The same acceptance of risk made a x16 bagger out of ASOS, and three baggers out of the likes of CSR, SOLA, NLR,and soon Toledo Mining . My defence is that one sixteen bagger pays for 16 risks that go wrong, and even a 3-bagger pays for three PlaneStations. You are surely comfortable with risk, and on balance must have done very well from taking it. |
Posted at 07/6/2007 19:26 by stegrego Sort of related news i feel....Limelight Shares May Rise in Initial Trading as Web Video Grows By Tim Mullaney June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of Limelight Networks Inc. may rise in initial trading tomorrow as investors bet on the company's technology for delivering movies and video games over the Web. Limelight, based in Tempe, Arizona, is planning to sell 14.4 million shares at $12 to $14 each, up from $10 to $12 previously, to raise about $187 million, the company said in a regulatory filing yesterday. The sale of the 18 percent stake today may value Limelight at more than $1 billion. Investors will push the shares up if they value Limelight as they do larger competitor Akamai Technologies Inc., said Paul Bard, an analyst at Renaissance Capital. A post-offering jump would also signal investors are looking past Limelight's loss of business from MySpace.com, which brought in 21 percent of 2006 sales, in the weeks before the company filed for the share sale. ``This is a hot deal,'' said Bard, who follows initial public offerings for Greenwich, Connecticut-based Renaissance. ``The company has a good shot at growing the top line 50 percent a year for several years,'' Shares of Limelight, the second-largest supplier of video technology to Web sites, are priced at about 15 times next year's projected profit of $65 million before taxes and non-cash costs, Bard said. Akamai trades at about 20 times 2008 profit on that basis, setting the stage for Limelight to rise if the stock is valued similarly. Limelight and Akamai control about 90 percent of the market for delivering content on the Internet, which researcher Gartner Inc. says will grow 33 percent a year through 2011. Studio Interest ``In 2006, the big TV and movie studios started a lot of online pilot projects that were a lot more successful than people predicted,'' said Lydia Leong, an Arlington, Virginia-based research director for Gartner. ``So now they are accelerating their time frames for adding more video.'' Akamai, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a market value of $7.21 billion and reported 2006 profit of $57.4 million on sales of $428.7 million. Limelight had a net loss of $3.71 million on sales that tripled to $64.3 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ``This has explosive top-line growth and there are barriers to entry,'' said Francis Gaskins, president of Gaskins IPODesktop.com in Los Angeles. Limelight is selling 11.4 million shares and investors are selling 3 million in an offering led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs funds own 45 percent of the company, filings show. The bankers may purchase 2.16 million more shares, increasing the total to 16.6 million. Media Migration Both Limelight and Akamai store movies, TV shows and video clips on their networks for customers to be delivered to Web users. The largest Web companies, such as Google Inc., do this in house. Limelight declined to comment, said outside spokeswoman Melanie Sanders. Akamai has a more diverse product lineup, delivering software and helping run e-commerce sites. The company is expected to boost profit before some costs by 43 percent this year to $1.26 a share on 45 percent higher sales of $614.9 million, the average of 19 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. ``Limelight is targeted at media, and Akamai has a dozen services on top of that,'' said Brent Bracelin, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities Inc. in Portland, Oregon. He rates Akamai ``outperform'' and doesn't own it. Limelight's Niche Limelight competes in markets that contribute about 40 percent of Akamai's sales, Akamai Chief Financial Officer J.D. Sherman said. Demand for both companies' services took off last year as penetration of high-speed Internet access topped 50 percent of U.S. households for the first time, Sherman said. Limelight, founded in 2001, had a first-quarter net loss of $4.44 million, more than doubling sales to $22.9 million even after losing most of its MySpace business, the filing said. Both vie for well-known clients. Akamai was hired by CBS Corp. for the Webcast of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament, and delivers songs and video for Apple Inc.'s iTunes. Two Limelight customers, Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft Corp., each contributed more than 10 percent of sales last quarter, filings show. The two companies are also fighting in court, as Akamai contends Limelight has infringed its patents. Limelight denies those claims. Gaskins said Limelight should trade at a discount to Akamai until the lawsuit is resolved. Investors face the risk that Web video won't take off as fast as forecast, that clients will build their own networks, or that prices will fall, Rob Sanderson, an analyst at American Technology Research in San Francisco, wrote in a June 6 report. In the short run, the market is betting sales will growth for both companies. ``It's not like Akamai and Limelight are fighting over crumbs,'' Bracelin said. ``A massive tsunami is about to hit.'' To contact the reporter on this story: Tim Mullaney in New York at tmullaney1@bloomberg Last Updated: June 7, 2007 09:54 EDT |
Posted at 15/4/2007 15:12 by littleredrooster Written by Liz GannesPosted Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 1:00 AM PT Move Networks Makes Web TV Watchable Move Networks, which has developed some interesting streaming video technology over the last two-and-a-half years, is finally starting to talk about itself. The company helps TV networks get their shows online using its techniques for high-quality in-browser streaming. We had previously written about Move when word got out it had closed $11 million in funding. American Fork, Utah-based Move signed some impressive customers while flying under the radar: Fox Network, the CW, Televisa, and E! Online. You can check out examples on MySpace and the CW website As of the last month, Move works on Macs as well. So we can say from personal experience, the quality is most excellent. Really - web TV from the networks that's actually watchable! Move's trick, as described to me today by Jim Ericson, VP of marketing, is to deliver video as a standard web object, cached in small bits. This borrows some aspects of peer-to-peer, but is friendlier to ISPs. Move doesn't use special media servers, and adjusts the video quality based on available bandwidth. The streaming is made possible using a small applet that users must download to the browser. Benefits to the viewer: no buffering, no stalling, and backwards and forwards navigation within a live stream, high-quality video. Benefits to the content owner: cheaper, detailed reporting, high-quality video. Ericson said Move sees about 35 minutes average viewing time per user, making advertising and sponsorship revenue models more viable than on sites with shorter engagement. He said Move charges based on streams delivered rather than revenue-share, and supports subscription, purchase, and advertising models. I asked Ericson whether Move would get involved in supporting user uploads and showing them on site players in addition to showing its customers' libraries. He said that was something the company is "very interested in doing" but would not comment further, seemingly implying such deals are in the works. Move was founded by Drew Major, best known for creating Novell's flagship NetWare software. Most recently Major co-founded video networking startup Arroyo. It formally incorporated last summer during the fund-raising process - which amounted to $11.3 million from Steamboat Ventures and Hummer Winblad, closed in December. The company now has 35 employees. Move Networks Closes $11.3 Million In First Round VC Funding Hummer Winblad, Steamboat Ventures see Move Networks as the future of online video distribution; As Do Customers Such as Fox Networks, E! Online, CW and Televisa Salt Lake City, UT - February 7, 2007 Move Networks (www.movenetworks.co "Until now, there has been no way to scale quality long form video distribution over the Internet for millions of users at once - this has prevented major networks from building large, viable revenue streams online," said Doug Hickey, Partner at Hummer Winblad. "Move's traction in this space is a direct result of technology that is completely changing the way people consume, and producers deliver, long form video content over the Internet." Move Networks provides services that transform both the process of making video available online as well as the experience of watching videos. Move Adaptive Stream - Innovative Video Delivery The process of encoding video for multiple bandwidths and target platforms is managed through a single process called "Simulcoding." This revolutionary process leverages hardware clustering and software pipelining to prepare video for on-demand or "live" distribution. Once available, the video can be delivered as an adaptive stream that "upshifts" and "downshifts" to match the current constraints of the computer's environment without pausing or buffering. The Move Media transmission system can scale to millions of users because of the efficient use of existing Internet caches and related technologies. Move also provides its own Digital Right Management system; and complete editing and publishing control for maximum viral effect. Move Publish Scheduling, Editing, and Playout Control Move Publish includes a suite of publishing tools for purposing and publishing content online. Live videos can quickly be placed by the publisher in on-demand libraries without any modification or physical editing of the media. The same is true with creating clips or re-sequencing video. Broadcast shows can even be pre-empted and replaced by alternative programming. Move Media Player - Viewer Controls for Video Through Move Media Player, video publishers provide their viewers with DVD player-like controls, and "TiVo" style navigation. Video is higher quality than the video delivered through traditional video delivery platform and doesn't stall or buffer. Those viewing the content control an immersive video experience. Move Monetize - Detailed Viewing Statistics for Business Decisions Content publishers can view detailed statistics including geographic distribution of viewers, when viewing occurs, and the nature of the viewing experience. For the first time, advertisers and publishers can receive detailed statistics that go far beyond how many times their shows and commercials are viewed and by how many individuals. Some of these statistics include how much content is viewed, at which bit rates viewing occurs, how often the viewers navigate within the streamed content, the geographic location of viewers, and viewing by time of day. Move Networks asserts that their technology turns online video from an interesting marketing experiment to a solid business platform and revenue center. "We have the right team in place developing this game-changing technology," said John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks. "With our new partners, Move Networks is primed to become the de-facto publishing partner for long form continuous play video distributed on the Internet. Our goal is to usher in a new era where long-form, high quality content combines prime time broadcast CPMs and Internet per click, per stream analytics." About Hummer Winblad Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we've had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. We've helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service. Our earliest portfolio companies started shipping software on floppy disks and today we're investors in pioneering companies in on-demand computing. We've seen everything from shrink-wrap licenses to enterprise-wide "big deals" to subscription pricing; from direct sales to highly-leveraged channel strategies. In other words, because software is all we do, we bring tremendous value to highly talented people who want to build great software companies. We hope our website tells you a lot about us, but please feel free to contact any of us directly. About Steamboat Our mission at Steamboat Ventures is to help young companies successfully face the challenges of becoming leaders in their markets. We invest in early to mid-stage, technology-focused companies that are pursuing opportunities in emerging media and entertainment markets. Although the fund is primarily focused on technology investments, we also consider venture investments in other areas of broad strategic importance to the Walt Disney Company. About Move Networks Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of video services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to deliver live and on-demand programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies. Backed by key investors, including Walt Disney Corporation's Steamboat Ventures, LLC (NYSE: DIS) and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Move Networks, Inc. is a private company. |
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