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OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for Monday, August 4th NXPC, SMTK, MMPI, NTRZ

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Our Stocks to Watch today include NeXplore Corp. (OTC: NXPC), Simtek Corp. (Nasdaq: SMTK), Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc. (Nasdaq: MMPI), NutraCea (OTCBB: NTRZ)

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NEXPLORE CORPORATION (OTC: NXPC)

Detailed Quote: www.otcpicks.com/quotes/NXPC.php

Company Profile: www.otcpicks.com/nexplore/nexplore.htm

NeXplore Technologies is developing a Web 2.0 search engine and an assortment of social networking portals and tools that will enable users to personalize their Web experience and tailor it to their unique needs, interests, and online pursuits. The Company’s social computing platform, MyCircle.com, offers an enhanced, user-friendly graphical interface search engine, combined with innovative backend technology, which enables users to improve the way they connect with information and other people on the Worldwide Web. MyCircle’s Web 2.0 interface provides users with an online tool for sharing their Blogs, Voice-Over IP, photos and documents, podcasts and videocasts, classified advertising, instant messages, SMS text messages, Chat and personal profiles.

SIMTEK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: SMTK)

"Up 44.89% in morning trading"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/SMTK.php

Simtek Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, designs and markets high-speed, re-programmable, and nonvolatile semiconductor memory products. It offers 16, 64, and 256-kilobit and 1-megabit nonvolatile static random access memory products, which consist of nonvolatile memories that combine static random access memory and nonvolatile elements within memory cell on a single silicon chip. The company's products are used in various systems, including RAID servers, industrial automation, GPS navigational systems, robotics, medical instrumentation, and networking and telecommunications equipment. Simtek Corporation sells its products primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

MERUELO MADDUX PROPERTIES INCORPORATED (NASDAQ: MMPI)

"Up 24.35% in morning trading"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/MMPI.php

Meruelo Maddux Properties is a self-managed, full-service real estate company that develops, redevelops and owns commercial and residential properties in downtown Los Angeles and other densely populated urban areas in California that are undergoing demographic or economic changes. Meruelo Maddux Properties is committed to socially responsible investment. Through its predecessor business, Meruelo Maddux Properties has been investing in urban real estate since 1972.

NUTRACEA CORPORATION (OTCBB: NTRZ)

"Up 35.48% in morning trade"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/NTRZ.php

NutraCea, a health-science company, develops and distributes stabilized rice bran and proprietary rice bran formulations. Its products include food supplements and medical foods that provide health benefits for humans and animals based on stabilized rice bran, rice bran derivatives, and the rice bran oils. The company's customers include consumer nutrition and healthcare companies, domestic and international food companies, and companion animal feed manufacturers. NutraCea was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

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