Dallas, TX 11/22/2007 1:14:11 AM
OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for November 21st VSUR, BSGC, ICAD, DLAV
Our Stocks to Watch today include Vsurance, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUR), BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC), Signature Devices, Inc. (OTC: SDVI), iCAD, Inc. (NASD: ICAD), DealerAdvance, Inc. (OTCBB: DLAV)
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VSURANCE INC (OTCBB: VSUR)
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Vsurance is a leading provider of pet health insurance and other pet health-related services in the United States. Programs include its Get HIP™ Pet Health Insurance for Pets program, the most comprehensive full-coverage pet health insurance plan in the industry. Vsurance provides pet and horse resource centers through the Internet including VetpetMD™, Spot the Pet™, and Purrfect Pet Club™. Programs include life, liability, and health insurance for pets, horses, and other companion animals.
VSUR News:
November 21 - Vsurance, Inc. Commercial Debuts Nationally on Fox Business News Network
Commercial Broadcast to More Than 30 Million Households
Vsurance, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUR), a leading provider of pet health insurance, announced that the Company’s 30 second commercial launched Nationally on Fox Business News Network on November 19, 2007.
Vsurance’s 30-second commercial, highlighting the Company’s investment potential and the rapidly increasing market for its pet health insurance products, will run twice per hour Monday – Friday during peak morning and afternoon hours throughout the holiday season. The Company’s commercial airs during the following popular Fox Business Network programs:
Fox Business Morning
Money for Breakfast
Happy Hour
Your World with Neil Cavuto
America's Nightly Scoreboard
The Dave Ramsey Show
“We are very pleased to introduce our company to the viewers of the Fox Business Network,” stated Russell Smith, CEO of Vsurance, Inc. “We believe that this kind of continued exposure will help to generate nationwide interest in Vsurance from both customers and investors alike.”
Fox Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. FBN is owned and operated by media giant News Corporation (NYSE: NWS). News Corporation is a diversified international media and entertainment company with operations in television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers; book publishing; etc.
BIGSTRING CORPORATION (OTCBB: BSGC)
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BigString Corporation, through its subsidiary, BigString Interactive, Inc., provides email services. It offers BigString, which is a Web-based, POP3 server email service solution that allows the user to edit, recall, cancel, and erase the email, as well as insert or delete attachments, even after the email has been sent out and opened. The company also provides BigString Beta 2.0 that offers erasable, recallable, and self destroying applications, non-printable and non-forwardable emails, set time or number of views, and masquerading to protect the sender's privacy and security. BigString Beta 2.0 also provides spam filters, virus protection, and large-storage web-based email accounts. The company's products include BigString Free, which provides the features of BigString Beta 2.0, and includes 1GB of storage and permits the user to send unlimited emails per month; BigString Premium, which offers the features of the BigString Free account, plus vanity domains, POP3 access using any email client, 2GB of storage, and 30 minute video email; and BigString Business that offers the features of the BigString Premium account, plus 10 email accounts, 20GB of storage, global filter notification, and email management. BigString Corporation also offers BigString Marketer Pro, which provides an enterprise marketing software application which allows for the sending of interactive video email commercials that can be programmed to self-destruct at a set time; and BigString Marketer SMB, a hosted video email marketing platform for small and medium size businesses. The company was founded in 2003. It was formerly known as Recall Mail Corporation and changed its name to BigString Corporation in 2005. Bigstring Corporation is based in Red Bank, New Jersey.
BSGC News:
November 19 - BigString Corporation Introduces 'Private Label' Partnership Program
BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC) announced that it is introducing a "private label" partnership program that allows websites in the social networking, online dating, search and video-content markets to offer BigString's recallable, erasable, self-destructing and video email system to its user base.
"Opening up our private label partnership program to consumer-focused websites creates new traffic and revenue opportunities for both our partners and Bigstring," stated Darin Myman, President and CEO of BigString Corporation. "Our email system brings additional value-added services, especially to websites focused on social networking, online dating or user-generated content where protecting a user's privacy and digital-rights management is a concern."
ICAD INCORPORATED (NASD: ICAD)
"Up 9.78% in morning trading"
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iCAD, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions in the United States and internationally. Its CAD solutions enable radiologists and other healthcare professionals to serve patients by identifying pathologies and detecting cancer earlier. The company offers digitizing systems and scanners that convert printed, photographic, and other hard copy images to digital form for use in the graphic arts, photo finishing, and medical industries. It markets and sells various CAD products for mammography, including SecondLook Digital for digital mammography, and SecondLook 300 and SecondLook 200 for film-based mammography. The company is also developing a CAD product to support detection of colonic polyps in conjunction with computed tomography colonography. It sells its products through various distributors, resellers, and systems integrators. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire.
ICAD News:
November 21 - GE Healthcare and iCAD enter into Developmental Agreement
Partnership to Create Enhanced, Customized Computer-Aided Detection Technology for GE Senographe Systems
iCAD®, Inc. (NASD: ICAD), an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions and GE Healthcare, a division of GE (NYSE: GE), a manufacturer of Senographe® Full-Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) systems, today announced an agreement to develop a customized version of iCAD's SecondLook® Digital specific to GE's Senographe and Seno Advantage family of systems.
This next generation CAD system is designed to enhance the overall clinical performance with Senographe and Seno Advantage systems, specifically improving sensitivity to breast cancer imaging, enhancing usability and workflow as well as providing diagnostic support tools.
"In an effort to provide leading solutions for our customers, GE has selected iCAD as our development partner for digital mammography CAD solutions," said David Caumartin, general manager of global mammography for GE Healthcare. "iCAD's currently available revision of SecondLook Digital works well with GE's complete line of Senographe FFDM systems and Seno Advantage Review Work Stations and will continue to be a key aspect to the company's platform in an effort to provide the best technology with outstanding clinical value to our customers."
SecondLook Digital offers radiologists CAD technology that is designed to distinguish cancers from other anomalies in the breast. In addition to workflow advantages, SecondLook Digital detects up to 72% of actionable missed cancers an average of 15 months earlier and integrates seamlessly with DICOM systems.
"We are very pleased to expand our partnership with GE Healthcare to optimize SecondLook Digital with Senographe and Seno Advantage," said Ken Ferry, president and CEO of iCAD. "By customizing iCAD's technology for GE's systems, currently used in leading radiology centers worldwide, we believe that we will increase the many benefits of this system for radiologists, and ultimately provide an even higher level of detection for women."
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE - News). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit www.gehealthcare.com.
DEALERADVANCE (OTCBB: DLAV)
"Up 38.46% in morning trading"
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DealerAdvance, Inc. engages in the sale, marketing, and installation of a Web-based application software and database systems that manages the auto dealer-client relationship. The company offers WebDA that allows automobile dealers to capture a customer's contact and vehicle information, purchasing requirements, and gives dealership personnel the ability to search inventory in their DMS inventory systems. This search feature can be used to search inventory at multiple locations, and enables dealership personnel to locate an appropriate vehicle in stock and print out the necessary forms to complete the purchase or lease deal. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Addison, Texas.
DLAV News:
November 19 - DealerAdvance Announces WebDA(R) Interface with Nokia(R)
Projected Revenue to Exceed $15 Million
DealerAdvance™, Inc. (OTCBB: DLAV), announced that the Company has developed its new WebDA product to interface with the new Nokia 770 Tablet hand-held device. Steven Humphries, CEO, made the announcement today to investors with great excitement and anticipation. He commented, “The hand-held technology is what set DealerAdvance apart from all of the other CRM providers over the past several years, but was limited due to the server based technology and the inherit problems with wireless networks. Now with the new Nokia technology utilized in the 770 Tablet PC, dealers and their sales people will now be able to access WebDA from anywhere, anytime.” According to Humphries, the new technology will be debuted at the NADA Convention & Expo February 9-12th, 2008 in San Francisco.
Chief Information Officer Raj Sharma commented, “This new technology will make WebDA the most desirable CRM product on the market today.”
VP of Sales Dave Scaturro commented, “With the debut of this new product, we easily anticipate an additional three to five hundred new dealers to sign up for the product over the next twelve to eighteen months, representing $10-$18 million in revenue for the Company.”
WebDA™ is the next generation of DLAV’s “CRM” application. The system is web based and is available at a fraction of the cost of the original Dealer Advance system. According to Humphries dealers that have utilized the original DealerAdvance™ system it has shown a 90% increase in captured customer data and a 30% increase in appointment setting.
For additional information and a demo contact company VP of Sales Dave Scaturro at 214-866-0606 Ext. 103.
DealerAdvance, Inc. (www.dealeradvance.com) is an innovator in applying technology and the Internet along with process improvement methods to increase business efficiency and sales. The Company has developed an integrated technology called WebDA™ which, among many features, allows automobile dealers to capture a customer's purchasing requirements, customers and dealerships personnel to search inventory at multiple locations, locate an appropriate vehicle in stock and print out the necessary forms. Through an integrated CRM (Customer Relationship Management) application, the system sends detailed tasks for prospect and customer follow-up and produces management reports to measure compliance. DealerAdvance™ allows sales professionals to increase sales, improve customer follow-up, and reduce administrative costs.
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