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This Month's Tiny Gems - March 2010
Crowdgather, Inc. (OTCBB: CRWG)
New Energy Systems Group (OTCBB: NEWN)
SkyTerra Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: SKYT)
Crowdgather, Inc. (OTCBB: CRWG)
Crowdgather, Inc. (OTCBB: CRWG) is the leading network of community forums, reaching millions of users each and every month. The company currently operates in the following verticals: technology, gaming, entertainment, automotive and lifestyle.
An active forum member himself since 1998, founder and CEO Sanjay Sabnani recognized a unique opportunity to enrich the forum member’s experience as well as effectively monetize a network of sites. Beginning in 2002, he began steadily acquiring some of the world’s busiest online communities and aggregating them into key verticals.
Serving approximately 12 million page views and reaching 1.9 million unique users monthly, the Crowdgather Network has grown both organically and through acquisitions. Launched in 2008, CrowdGather is dedicated to bringing together and improving the world of online communities for end-users, forum owners, and marketers.
Crowdgather continues to provide the world's best user experience for forum communities and world class service offerings for forum owners. They believe that forums are the richest source of high value, user generated social media and that nothing will ever replace their position as the help desk of the Internet. Further growth is expected with the launch of their patent-pending, highly interactive and informational forum platform.
New Energy Systems Group (OTCBB: NEWN)
New Energy Systems Group (OTCBB: NEWN) is a leading manufacturer of components and accessories for batteries used in cell phones and other mobile devices. The company recently expanded its business lines to include battery assembly and finished battery distribution.
New Energy operates a factory in Shenzhen occupying 64,580 square feet, including 100 pieces of testing equipment and production machinery. The company also owns its own research and development arm, which has developed proprietary technology with distinct advantages, such as preventing air leaks from aluminum battery caps.
Shenzhen NewPower Technology Co., which was acquired earlier this year, brings extensive manufacturing expertise and capabilities to New Energy and is strategically important in enabling vertical integration of the business. New Energy now has a major presence in the Chinese electronics manufacturing market, with over 500 employees and worldwide market reach.
The company has set a goal to become one of the largest battery manufacturers and distributors in China. In a country with $4 billion of lithium ion battery sales per year, a growing affluent middle class and an exciting array of innovative mobile devices, New Energy is well positioned to grow through its quality product offerings, expanding distribution networks and accretive acquisitions.
SkyTerra Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: SKYT)
SkyTerra Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: SKYT) is a developer and supplier of mobile satellite communications services (MSS). Since 1996, the company has been providing reliable wireless voice, two-way radio and data services for a wide range of customers throughout North America, northern South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Hawaii via its two existing MSAT satellites.
The company has pioneered advanced technology supporting the most commercially competitive, "transparent" and integrated use of spectrum to provide higher data speeds, lower costs per bit and flexibility to support a range of custom IP applications and services. SkyTerra’s founders believed that a ubiquitous integrated network, leveraging the nationwide characteristics of its L-band mobile satellite service spectrum with an advanced all-IP open architecture, would provide significant advantages over existing networks.
The company is currently building two new satellites for its next generation network which will be among the largest and most powerful commercial satellites ever built. When commercially launched, the network is anticipated to transform communications in a variety of industries including public safety, homeland security, aviation, transportation and entertainment by providing interoperable, user-friendly and feature-rich voice and high-speed data services.
SkyTerra's next generation integrated network will be comprised of two multi-spot beam satellites and a United States and Canada-wide ensemble of terrestrial cell sites which will communicate with user equipment using a common set of L-band frequencies. Although not required by the FCC's February 2005 ATC order, an important element of SkyTerra's technology approach is the achievement of "transparency", meaning that devices will have the same form factor, aesthetics and cost, and will be able to communicate with both terrestrial and satellite networks with no external hardware required.