“While the overall steel industry has recently experienced a period of excess supply, there is an increasing shortage in China of the high-end, high- value thin steel sheets and galvanized steel products that we produce,” said Mr. Mingwang Lu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We were able to continue to leverage our position as [...]

This is a pretty unique marketing strategy from ZAGG via short humorous films:

[VIEW ALL NINE AstroShark Short Films HERE]

Poken (www.poken.com) is a fast growing global start-up with offices in San Francisco, Switzerland and soon New York and sales in over 25 countries. Poken is “your social business card”, a USB device that allows you to share your contact details and social networking profiles like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in real life. Poken also [...]

CHOP reported stellar Q3 numbers of $59 million in revenues and $.29 EPS, so through 9 months of 2009 they earned $0.82, with expectations of $1.02 – $1.07 EPS for FY 2009.  Gross margin increased 440 basis points to 30.6%.  AND THE STOCK IS DOWN.  The company did state that Q4 Revenue/EPS would be $40-50 [...]

I bought a position today in Golden Green Enterprise Limited (sym: CHOP) at around a $5.35 average price.  CHOP recently up-listed to the Nasdaq Global Market while also completing a secondary at $5.00.  Presently, I project their net income run rate to be around 42 to 45 million or $1.10/share on a fully diluted basis. [...]

“As for the precious metals, we remain bullish of gold in Sterling terms, in EUR terms, in terms of the Yen and in terms of the US dollar. We are that way for we wish firstly to hedge out the short dollar aspect of the long gold position that seems incumbent in that position given [...]

Expect Significant Growth in 2010 – Raising Price Target to $8.25
ZAGG Incorporated’s financial results for the third quarter of calendar 2009 included a fifth consecutive quarter of record revenues as total revenues climbed to $9.7 million – right in line with our estimates. Revenues increased 42% year-over-year and roughly 7% sequentially driven by continued strong [...]

China’s lottery could topple those of the United States and become the world’s first hundred billion dollar lottery, according to China Center for Lottery Studies at Peking University.

Last year, China’s lottery amassed revenues of just $15.6 billion (105.1 billion yuan), compared to an estimated $45 billion (300 billion yuan) spent on illegal lotteries and around [...]

I took these pictures at the Merriman Curhan Ford Conference.   New products shown ZAGGfoama, ZAGGsparq, ZAGGskins and next generation zbuds.