ChinaNet Online Holdings Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement With MediaFun

BEIJING, Dec. 22, 2014 -- ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. (CNET) ("ChinaNet" or the "Company"), a leading B2B (business to business) Internet technology company providing online-to-offline (O2O) sales channel expansion services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurial management and networking services for entrepreneurs in the People's Republic of China, announced today that the Company has signed a long-term strategic partnership agreement with MediaFun Creative Co. (MediaFun), a total solution service platform for cloud print services company based in Taiwan.

MediaFun's creative printing services platform allows non-professional users to complete the professional design process in a few minutes, and independently modify and print work by customers. The Company's main products include school graduation memento books, photobooks and personalized photo gifts such as photo albums, cards and other merchandise.

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Sprylogics Develops Innovative Mobile Application to Address the Explosive Sports Information Market

  • Utilizing its proprietary semantic technology "Breaking Sports" aims to offer the fastest news delivery to sports fans around the world.

TORONTO, Nov. 5, 2014Sprylogics International Corp. ("Sprylogics" or the "Company") (TSXV:SPY.V ), a technology provider of local mobile search, semantic search and messaging solutions for consumers and businesses is pleased to announce that it has developed a new app, "Breaking Sports."

Breaking Sports tracks social media in real-time for significant sports information and events and distributes summarized information through real-time push notifications to consumers. By utilizing advanced artificial intelligence techniques, Breaking Sports can detect events as they happen and as they are announced in social media, determine nature of the events, attribute events to participants, summarize source articles, index the underlying information, provide search of events and articles and send alerts to fantasy players, sport fans and enthusiasts.

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LiveDeal Inc. CEO to Purchase Up to 250,000 Shares of Company's Common Stock in Open-Market Transactions

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2014 -- Jon Isaac, CEO of LiveDeal Inc. (LIVE) (the "Company" or "LiveDeal"), a publicly traded company that operates livedeal.com, a geo-location based mobile marketing platform that enables restaurants to publish "real-time" and "instant offers" to nearby consumers, may purchase up to 250,000 shares of the Company's common stock in open-market transactions. The purchases may commence as early as Thursday, October 23 and may continue thereafter for an indeterminate period of time. Once complete, Mr. Isaac may consider the purchase of additional shares in subsequent open-market transactions.

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Slyce Acquires Pounce: Single Swipe Payment Company

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Sep 16, 2014) - Editors Note: There is a photo and a video associated with this press release.

Visual product search platform Slyce Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SLC) today announced the acquisition of mobile commerce company BuyCode, Inc, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company that developed the Pounce image recognition-based shopping app - for a total consideration of US$5 million in shares, cash and earn-out incentives.

The Pounce app is available both directly to consumers and as a private label solution to retailers. As well as bolstering the suite of mobile shopping services Slyce is able provide to its retail customers, by acquiring a fully functioning consumer app and integrating its own advanced image recognition platform, Slyce will save significant development time and investment and fast track their B2C strategy. Slyce plans to roll out their consumer facing mobile shopping app - capable of recognizing real-world items and facilitating one click purchases - in Q4, 2014.

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Alliance Data to Acquire Ad Tech Leader Conversant For Approximately $2.3 Billion

EXPANDS DATA-DRIVEN MARKETING FOOTPRINT IN DIGITAL---- EXPECTED TO BE IMMEDIATELY ACCRETIVE TO EARNINGS ($0.50 CORE EPS IN YEAR 1, $0.75 IN YEAR 2)

DALLAS and WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Sept. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS), a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions, and Conversant, Inc. (CNVR), a leading digital marketing company, today announced the execution of a definitive agreement whereby Alliance Data will purchase Conversant. Under the terms of the agreement, Alliance Data will acquire all outstanding shares of Conversant for a combination of cash and stock valued at approximately $2.3 billion, or $35 per Conversant share.  The purchase price, structured to be paid with approximately 48 percent cash and 52 percent ADS shares, represents 10x Conversant's expected forward adjusted EBITDA of $230 million for 2015. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, and is expected to close by year end.  The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of the two companies.

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