Search Results for "patent"

Commerce Planet (CPNE.OB) is worth the risks

Last February, a reader suggested I take a look at Commerce Planet: CPNE.OB, a profitable little ecommerce company that had rallied over 500% to top $2.75. Since then, it has pulled back to $1.07, and I decided the potential upside warranted taking a position.
Commerce Planet sells ecommerce software as a service, but it is [...]

Not interested in Voyant Int’l (VOYT.OB)

A few readers have asked me to take a look at Voyant Int’l: VOYT.OB (formerly known as Zeros & Ones, trading under the symbol ZROS). While I certainly wish I was invested in Voyant during the first half of 2007 when it ramped from under 10 cents per share to over $1.50, the [...]

Local.com (LOCM): Operations, not patents, are key

Location-based internet search provider Local.com: LOCM shot up as much as 200% on Friday and Monday, after announcing that it had been granted two patents.
Patent No. 7,231,405 covers a method for location-based indexing, ranking and searching.

Patent No. 7,200,413 covers a method of utilizing advertising in connection with enhanced 411 services.
One commentator has suggested that these [...]

Answering reader questions about Eternal Technologies (ETLT.OB)

The last ten years have taught us that any stock may be a scam. Companies that were thought immune from scandal — Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia — flamed out entirely, while hundreds of other blue chips became mired in scandal.
Frauds are even more rampant in the microcap arena. I assume that even if I have [...]