Major Move on IMTL (Image Protect) As IPTrack, IPShare Pioneer Emerges into Block Chain Space
IMTL (Image Protect) is making an explosive move up the charts in recent months out of triple zero land to recent highs well into pennyland. IMTL has seen a massive surge of volume in recent days and is beginning to move northbound as the stock quickly..
IMTL (Image Protect) is making an explosive move up the charts in recent months out of triple zero land to recent highs well into pennyland. IMTL has seen a massive surge of volume in recent days and is beginning to move northbound as the stock quickly gets noticed by investors who have been heavily accumulating in recent days. Trading has been heavy in recent days easily topping $12 million in dollar volume on Friday alone. IMTL has quickly attracted legions of new shareholders who are heavily accumulating at current price levels; this is a new era of penny stock speculators fueled by robinhood and its 100 million new trading accounts take on the bulletin boards. These are different times than just a few short years ago; now penny stocks such as TSNP can achieve a $6 billion plus market valuation and trade $375 million in dollar volume in a day on the bulletin boards. And TSNP has no stronger fundamentals than IMTL has.
IMTL has been getting noticed by investors as management works hard behind the scenes bringing the Company to “pink current” just filing the attorney letter on March 18. The Company’s CEO Lawrance Adams who Adams increased his holdings in IMTL significantly in 2019 and most recently has been active on twitter regarding upcoming IMTL initiatives is focused on planning and execution of the company’s emergence into the block chain space. According to IMTL investor deck the Company is in negotiations with funded Silicon Valley blockchain company, is in contract stages with 4 key industry advisors and has signed NDA’s for acquisition of two news and content websites. Total of over 30m+ monthly impressions combined. IMTL digital image marketplace and in-image advertising platform, Fotofy was launched in 2019 and according to this (outdated) investor deck has already signed up 45+ agencies and over 350k photographers, Ingested 11M+ images for infringement service, achieved almost $1M in revenue in Year 2, Developed Fotofy embeddable image format, Achieved 40,000+ image shares in beta, Partner with publishers (Yahoo, Huffington Post, etc.), and Partner with image communities (Snapwire, 500px). Several years ago, and before the pandemic but apparently still very much in play IMTL announced a partnership with KodakOne that is expected to generate over $5 million dollars in infringement claims. The collaboration will result in 5000+ additional cases, 75+ new clients and expected infringement claims of 5M+ dollars over the next 24 months. The collaboration also puts IMTL in business with Cameron Chell, a well-known and very successful blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneur.
IMTL (Image Protect) Operating out of San Clamente, California, protects and monetizes creative works. By uniting technology with a team of copyright experts, IMTL ensures that content providers preserve the value of their digital assets. The Company’s web application monitors the global Internet to seek and collect evidence for illegally used visual content. IMTL legal partners across North America, Europe, and Asia ensure its clients receive appropriate compensation for work used without valid license. IMTL has simplified the application process with the US Copyright Office and helps clients through the registration process by completing all of the correct forms with the correct information and submitting the completed forms with images for registration.
IMTL digital image marketplace and in-image advertising platform, Fotofy was launched in 2019 and according to this (outdated) investor deck has already signed up 45+ agencies and over 350k photographers, Ingested 11M+ images for infringement service, achieved almost $1M in revenue in Year 2, Developed Fotofy embeddable image format, Achieved 40,000+ image shares in beta, Partner with publishers (Yahoo, Huffington Post, etc.), and Partner with image communities (Snapwire, 500px).
Several years ago and before the pandemic but apparently still very much in play IMTL announced a partnership with KodakOne that is expected to generate over $5 million dollars in infringement claims. According to the initial announcement: The partnership will integrate Image Protect’s License Recovery Unit with RYDE Holding’s KODAKOne platform which will add thousands of new copyright infringement cases and numerous of new digital rights holder clients to the KODAKOne platform. Additionally, this integration will generate millions of dollars in incremental revenues starting within the next 2 months. The collaboration will result in 5000+ additional cases, 75+ new clients and expected infringement claims of 5M+ dollars over the next 24 months. The collaboration also puts IMTL in business with Cameron Chell, a well-known and very successful blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneur.
The Company is led by CEO Lawrence Adams a high-level executive who worked for many years in IPO’s, reverse mergers, general corporate advisory at all levels with Public Co.s with Seaside Advisors LLC. As CEO of IMTL Mr. Adams is focused on planning and execution of new company business model along with the launch of the company’s emergence into the block chain space. Mr. Adams increased his holdings in IMTL significantly in 2019 and most recently has been active on twitterregarding upcoming IMTL initiatives. Mr. Adams has spent millions acquiring IMTL stockover the past few years.
Simplified Copyright Registration with the US Copyright Office – Image Protect has simplified the application process with the US Copyright Office. We help administer the registration by completing all of the correct forms with the correct information and submitting the completed forms with images for registration. Once this process is completed, Image Protect notifies the rights owner by email that their registration has been submitted and received by the U.S. Copyright Office. This date becomes the registration date for their work. Once the registration has been approved, the US Copyright Office will physically mail the Certificate of Registration directly to them at the address they provide.
IMTL offering include: IPTrack Global Internet Image Monitoring – Image Protect has built a sophisticated image recognition and web crawler, which quickly and accurately searches by image and metadata to find where that image appears online. We are experts in computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. After uploading an image, our crawler automatically and continually crawls the Internet. The software then filters, categorizes, and gathers all relevant evidence from all websites found using client’s images. Clients mark the new findings as licensed, unauthorized or can exclude domains from further searches.
Standard DMCA Takedowns – Any owner of content has the right to process a takedown notice against a website owner and/or an Online Service Provider (e.g. ISP, hosting company etc.) if the content owner’s property is found online without their permission. For non-commercial infringements, Image Protect has developed an automated system to send DMCA takedown notices directly to Online Service Providers. Once the unauthorized content has been removed the case is closed and they will receive no further notices.
The way $IMTL is going, I want .10+ . They have a lot going on for them plus CEO tweet yesterday put it at the right place and time
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IPShare Image Replacement – As an option to the Standard DMCA Takedown notice, Image Protect has developed an interactive online image format with in-image advertising, hot links, social sharing and dynamic messaging – IPShare. This new model allows us to sell in-image advertising, which we share a portion of the proceeds to the creator. The model works similar to the DMCA Takedown notice, but instead of requesting a removal of the content, we ask to replace the image with our proprietary embed code image. It is a win-win for all parties, the creator enjoys revenue from converted from CPM and CPC models, and the website/blog owner enjoys the use of the image without fees or penalties.
Post Usage Licensing – When an image is matched by our software and verified to be unlicensed by the website owner, a post usage license is created. This gives the infringer the opportunity to purchase a proper license, rather than facing a federal copyright lawsuit. Post usage licensing fees are typically 2x the original license fee, or an average of $1000. If the infringer does not accept the post-licensing fee, the case is transferred to an attorney in the country of the infringement to pursue a settlement within the courts.
Real-time Image Analytics – Using Big Data processing of millions of IP objects with hundreds of different attributes, we provide full-scale analysis for our registered users. We also track IPShare impressions, click-through traffic, social media shares, and related geographic and demographic data.
The market for IMTL services such as IPTrack Global Internet Image Monitoring, Standard DMCA Takedowns, IPShare Image Replacement, Post Usage Licensing, and Real-time Image Analytics address a rapidly growing and enormous industry. Last year, Google received just over 75 million takedown requests related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the month of March alone. That represented a new record for such requests, as content owners sought to keep pirate websites out of search results related to leaked album downloads, movies, and other media. The rate at which such requests have grown over time is truly staggering. At present, Google is asked to remove an average of 100k ‘Pirate Links’ per hour in any given 24-hour period. According to a report from MarketsandMarkets, the global image recognition market size is forecasted to grow from USD 26.2 billion in 2020 to USD 53.0 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.1 % from 2020 to 2025.
IMTL (Image Protect) is making an explosive move up the charts in recent months out of triple zero land to recent highs well into pennyland. IMTL has seen a massive surge of volume in recent days and is beginning to move northbound as the stock quickly gets noticed by investors who have been heavily accumulating in recent days. Trading has been heavy in recent days easily topping $12 million in dollar volume on Friday alone. IMTL has quickly attracted legions of new shareholders who are heavily accumulating at current price levels; this is a new era of penny stock speculators fueled by robinhood and its 100 million new trading accounts take on the bulletin boards. These are different times than just a few short years ago; now penny stocks such as TSNP can achieve a $6 billion plus market valuation and trade $375 million in dollar volume in a day on the bulletin boards. And TSNP has no stronger fundamentals than IMTL has. IMTL has been getting noticed by investors as management works hard behind the scenes bringing the Company to “pink current” just filing the attorney letter on March 18. The Company’s CEO Lawrance Adams who Adams increased his holdings in IMTL significantly in 2019 and most recently has been active on twitter regarding upcoming IMTL initiatives is focused on planning and execution of the company’s emergence into the block chain space. According to IMTL investor deck the Company is in negotiations with funded Silicon Valley blockchain company, is in contract stages with 4 key industry advisors and has signed NDA’s for acquisition of two news and content websites. Total of over 30m+ monthly impressions combined. IMTL digital image marketplace and in-image advertising platform, Fotofy was launched in 2019 and according to this (outdated) investor deck has already signed up 45+ agencies and over 350k photographers, Ingested 11M+ images for infringement service, achieved almost $1M in revenue in Year 2, Developed Fotofy embeddable image format, Achieved 40,000+ image shares in beta, Partner with publishers (Yahoo, Huffington Post, etc.), and Partner with image communities (Snapwire, 500px). Several years ago, and before the pandemic but apparently still very much in play IMTL announced a partnership with KodakOne that is expected to generate over $5 million dollars in infringement claims. The collaboration will result in 5000+ additional cases, 75+ new clients and expected infringement claims of 5M+ dollars over the next 24 months. The collaboration also puts IMTL in business with Cameron Chell, a well-known and very successful blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneur.We will be updating on IMTL when more details emerge so make sure you are subscribed to Microcapdaily so you know what’s going on with IMTL.
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It was Jan. 11, 2024 when software giant Microsoft (MSFT) briefly passed Apple (AAPL) as the most valuable company in the world.
Microsoft's stock closed 0.5% higher, giving it a market valuation of $2.859 trillion.
It rose as much as 2% during the session and the company was briefly worth $2.903 trillion. Apple closed 0.3% lower, giving the company a market capitalization of $2.886 trillion.
"It was inevitable that Microsoft would overtake Apple since Microsoft is growing faster and has more to benefit from the generative AI revolution," D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria said at the time, according to Reuters.
The two tech titans have jostled for top spot over the years and Microsoft was ahead at last check, with a market cap of $3.085 trillion, compared with Apple's value of $2.684 trillion.
Analysts noted that Apple had been dealing with weakening demand, including for the iPhone, the company’s main source of revenue.
Demand in China, a major market, has slumped as the country's economy makes a slow recovery from the pandemic and competition from Huawei.
Sales in China of Apple's iPhone fell by 24% in the first six weeks of 2024 compared with a year earlier, according to research firm Counterpoint, as the company contended with stiff competition from a resurgent Huawei "while getting squeezed in the middle on aggressive pricing from the likes of OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi," said senior Analyst Mengmeng Zhang.
“Although the iPhone 15 is a great device, it has no significant upgrades from the previous version, so consumers feel fine holding on to the older-generation iPhones for now," he said.
A man scrolling through Netflix on an Apple iPad Pro. Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images.
Counterpoint said that the first six weeks of 2023 saw abnormally high numbers with significant unit sales being deferred from December 2022 due to production issues.
Apple is planning to open its eighth store in Shanghai – and its 47th across China – on March 21.
The company also plans to expand its research centre in Shanghai to support all of its product lines and open a new lab in southern tech hub Shenzhen later this year, according to the South China Morning Post.
Meanwhile, over in Europe, Apple announced changes to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which went into effect last week, Reuters reported on March 12.
Beginning this spring, software developers operating in Europe will be able to distribute apps to EU customers directly from their own websites instead of through the App Store.
"To reflect the DMA’s changes, users in the EU can install apps from alternative app marketplaces in iOS 17.4 and later," Apple said on its website, referring to the software platform that runs iPhones and iPads.
"Users will be able to download an alternative marketplace app from the marketplace developer’s website," the company said.
Apple has also said it will appeal a $2 billion EU antitrust fine for thwarting competition from Spotify (SPOT) and other music streaming rivals via restrictions on the App Store.
The company's shares have suffered amid all this upheaval, but some analysts still see good things in Apple's future.
Bank of America Securities confirmed its positive stance on Apple, maintaining a buy rating with a steady price target of $225, according to Investing.com.
The firm's analysis highlighted Apple's pricing strategy evolution since the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007, with initial prices set at $499 for the 4GB model and $599 for the 8GB model.
BofA said that Apple has consistently launched new iPhone models, including the Pro/Pro Max versions, to target the premium market.
Analyst says Apple selloff 'overdone'
Concurrently, prices for previous models are typically reduced by about $100 with each new release.
This strategy, coupled with installment plans from Apple and carriers, has contributed to the iPhone's installed base reaching a record 1.2 billion in 2023, the firm said.
Apple has effectively shifted its sales mix toward higher-value units despite experiencing slower unit sales, BofA said.
This trend is expected to persist and could help mitigate potential unit sales weaknesses, particularly in China.
BofA also noted Apple's dominance in the high-end market, maintaining a market share of over 90% in the $1,000 and above price band for the past three years.
The firm also cited the anticipation of a multi-year iPhone cycle propelled by next-generation AI technology, robust services growth, and the potential for margin expansion.
On Monday, Evercore ISI analysts said they believed that the sell-off in the iPhone maker’s shares may be “overdone.”
The firm said that investors' growing preference for AI-focused stocks like Nvidia (NVDA) has led to a reallocation of funds away from Apple.
In addition, Evercore said concerns over weakening demand in China, where Apple may be losing market share in the smartphone segment, have affected investor sentiment.
And then ongoing regulatory issues continue to have an impact on investor confidence in the world's second-biggest company.
“We think the sell-off is rather overdone, while we suspect there is strong valuation support at current levels to down 10%, there are three distinct drivers that could unlock upside on the stock from here – a) Cap allocation, b) AI inferencing, and c) Risk-off/defensive shift," the firm said in a research note.
Major typhoid fever surveillance study in sub-Saharan Africa indicates need for the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines in endemic countries
There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published today in The Lancet Global Health. This high…
There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published today in The Lancet Global Health. This high burden combined with the threat of typhoid strains resistant to antibiotic treatment calls for stronger prevention strategies, including the use and implementation of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) in endemic settings along with improvements in access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Credit: IVI
There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published today in The Lancet Global Health. This high burden combined with the threat of typhoid strains resistant to antibiotic treatment calls for stronger prevention strategies, including the use and implementation of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) in endemic settings along with improvements in access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.
The findings from this 4-year study, the Severe Typhoid in Africa (SETA) program, offers new typhoid fever burden estimates from six countries: Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, and Nigeria, with four countries recording more than 100 cases for every 100,000 person-years of observation, which is considered a high burden. The highest incidence of typhoid was found in DRC with 315 cases per 100,000 people while children between 2-14 years of age were shown to be at highest risk across all 25 study sites.
There are an estimated 12.5 to 16.3 million cases of typhoid every year with 140,000 deaths. However, with generic symptoms such as fever, fatigue, and abdominal pain, and the need for blood culture sampling to make a definitive diagnosis, it is difficult for governments to capture the true burden of typhoid in their countries.
“Our goal through SETA was to address these gaps in typhoid disease burden data,” said lead author Dr. Florian Marks, Deputy Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI). “Our estimates indicate that introduction of TCV in endemic settings would go to lengths in protecting communities, especially school-aged children, against this potentially deadly—but preventable—disease.”
In addition to disease incidence, this study also showed that the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, has led to more reliance beyond the traditional first line of antibiotic treatment. If left untreated, severe cases of the disease can lead to intestinal perforation and even death. This suggests that prevention through vaccination may play a critical role in not only protecting against typhoid fever but reducing the spread of drug-resistant strains of the bacteria.
There are two TCVs prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and available through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In February 2024, IVI and SK bioscience announced that a third TCV, SKYTyphoid™, also achieved WHO PQ, paving the way for public procurement and increasing the global supply.
Alongside the SETA disease burden study, IVI has been working with colleagues in three African countries to show the real-world impact of TCV vaccination. These studies include a cluster-randomized trial in Agogo, Ghana and two effectiveness studies following mass vaccination in Kisantu, DRC and Imerintsiatosika, Madagascar.
Dr. Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Associate Director General at IVI and Head of the Real-World Evidence Department, explains, “Through these vaccine effectiveness studies, we aim to show the full public health value of TCV in settings that are directly impacted by a high burden of typhoid fever.” He adds, “Our final objective of course is to eliminate typhoid or to at least reduce the burden to low incidence levels, and that’s what we are attempting in Fiji with an island-wide vaccination campaign.”
As more countries in typhoid endemic countries, namely in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, consider TCV in national immunization programs, these data will help inform evidence-based policy decisions around typhoid prevention and control.
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About the International Vaccine Institute (IVI)
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is a non-profit international organization established in 1997 at the initiative of the United Nations Development Programme with a mission to discover, develop, and deliver safe, effective, and affordable vaccines for global health.
IVI’s current portfolio includes vaccines at all stages of pre-clinical and clinical development for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries, such as cholera, typhoid, chikungunya, shigella, salmonella, schistosomiasis, hepatitis E, HPV, COVID-19, and more. IVI developed the world’s first low-cost oral cholera vaccine, pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and developed a new-generation typhoid conjugate vaccine that is recently pre-qualified by WHO.
IVI is headquartered in Seoul, Republic of Korea with a Europe Regional Office in Sweden, a Country Office in Austria, and Collaborating Centers in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Madagascar. 39 countries and the WHO are members of IVI, and the governments of the Republic of Korea, Sweden, India, Finland, and Thailand provide state funding. For more information, please visit https://www.ivi.int.
Incidence of typhoid fever in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, and Nigeria (the Severe Typhoid in Africa programme): a population-based study
We’ve added 60% to national debt since 2018. Germany - a country with major economic woes - added ‘just’ 32%.
Maybe it will never matter. Maybe MMT is real. Maybe we just cancel or inflate it out. Maybe career real estate borrowers or career politicians aren’t the answer.
I have no idea. Only time will tell. But it’s going to be fascinating to watch it play out.
He is right: it will be fascinating, and the latest budget deficit data simply confirmed that the day of reckoning will come very soon, certainly sooner than the two years that One River's Eric Peters predicted this weekend for the coming "US debt sustainability crisis."
According to the US Treasury, in February, the US collected $271 billion in various tax receipts, and spent $567 billion, more than double what it collected.
The two charts below show the divergence in US tax receipts which have flatlined (on a trailing 6M basis) since the covid pandemic in 2020 (with occasional stimmy-driven surges)...
... and spending which is about 50% higher compared to where it was in 2020.
The end result is that in February, the budget deficit rose to $296.3 billion, up 12.9% from a year prior, and the second highest February deficit on record.
And the punchline: on a cumulative basis, the budget deficit in fiscal 2024 which began on October 1, 2023 is now $828 billion, the second largest cumulative deficit through February on record, surpassed only by the peak covid year of 2021.
But wait there's more: because in a world where the US is spending more than twice what it is collecting, the endgame is clear: debt collapse, and while it won't be tomorrow, or the week after, it is coming... and it's also why the US is now selling $1 trillion in debt every 100 days just to keep operating (and absorbing all those millions of illegal immigrants who will keep voting democrat to preserve the socialist system of the US, so beloved by the Soros clan).
... having already surpassed total US defense spending and soon to surpass total health spending and, finally all social security spending, the largest spending category of all, which means that US debt will now rise exponentially higher until the inevitable moment when the US dollar loses its reserve status and it all comes crashing down.
We conclude with another observation by CNBC's Brian Sullivan, who quotes an email by a DC strategist...
.. which lays out the proposed Biden budget as follows:
The budget deficit will growth another $16 TRILLION over next 10 years. Thats *with* the proposed massive tax hikes.
Without them the deficit will grow $19 trillion.
That's why you will hear the "deficit is being reduced by $3 trillion" over the decade.
No family budget or business could exist with this kind of math.
Of course, in the long run, neither can the US... and since neither party will ever cut the spending which everyone by now is so addicted to, the best anyone can do is start planning for the endgame.
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