Survey: Teens’ Enthusiasm for Facebook is Waning

The following is an excerpt from Brandon Griggs | May 22, 2013 | CNN.com |
(CNN) — There’s fresh evidence that American teenagers may be growing weary of Facebook.
They don’t like the fact that their parents, grandparents and other adults are also there, diluting Facebook’s “cool” factor. They complain about their…

Twitter Adding Extra Login Security Measures

Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users’ accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.
Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For those who sign up, Twitter will send a six-digit code using a text message each time they sign in to Twitter.com. Besides their username a…

Apple and the Idiocy of Taxing Profits

The following is an excerpt from Matthew Yglesias | May 21, 2013 | Slate.com |
How does a company earn almost $30 billion over four years with no employees and no physical office? That’s the miraculous tale of Apple Operations International, an Ireland-based shell company established by Apple for the purpose of making profits disappear from the prying ey…

What Makes a Risk-Taker

The following is an excerpt from SUE SHELLENBARGER | May 22, 2013 | WSJ.com |
Paul Cusma manages his clients’ money cautiously, so the retirees among them “don’t have to go back to work,” says the Tampa, Fla., financial adviser. In the investment realm, “I’m always planning for a rainy day,” he says.
But off the…

IRS Scandal: Republicans’ New Road To Repeal Obamacare, But Will It Work?

The following is an excerpt from Laura Matthews | May 20, 2013 | ibtimes.com |
The IRS scandal may not be bigger than Watergate, as some conservative commentators have suggested. But it’s certainly going to keep the attention of the White House for some more time. Another round of congressional hearings in both the Senate and the House is sure to keep th…

Mayor Bloomberg’s Advice to Students: Become Plumbers

The following is an excerpt from rt.com | May 20, 2013 |
A college education won’t necessarily fatten your pockets, but the billionaire mayor of New York City has a suggestion he wants students to consider before they sign any costly tuition checks: what about becoming a plumber?
Yes, that’s career advice courtesy of New York’s Michael Bloomberg: the…

Yahoo! Media Event: ‘Making Flickr Awesome Again’ with 1TB Storage

The following is an excerpt from Tiernan Ray | May 20, 2013 | Barrons.com |
Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer is holding court at 2 Times Square in New York, where the topic is “How we can make Flickr awesome again,” referring to the company’s photo-sharing service.
Mayer offered some brief remarks about the morning’s announcement of its intended $1.1…

Teen’s Invention Could Charge Your Phone in 20 Seconds

The following is an excerpt from John Roach | May 18, 2013 | msnbc.com |
Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.
The fas…

Opportunist Magazine Feature Story – Lady Gaga

Orlando, Florida—May 9, 2011 – Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is an American pop singer-songwriter with a net worth of $110 million, according to Celebrity Networth.com. According to paywizard.org she will earn an additional $62 Million this year from record, merchandise and concert ticket sales. If she had become a publi…

OpportunistMagazine.com Teams up with eMedia Plex to Provide Full Suite of Marketing Communications Services

Orlando, Florida—March 25, 2011 OpportunistMagazine; an online financial publication filled with informative content on public companies, financial news, investor tips, and more; announced today that it has partnered with eMedia Plex to heighten awareness of the Opportunist Magazine brand, as well as its profiled companies. eMedia Plex is a lead…

Opportunist Magazine to Feature Interview with Erin Burnett, Host of CNBC’s “Street Signs” and Co-Anchor of “Squawk on the Street”

Orlando, Florida—March 23, 2011—“Never, on a deep level, had I truly appreciated the civil liberties we have in this country,” explains famed anchor Erin Burnett when asked about her recent trip to Egypt in the newest online edition of Opportunist Magazine (issue online at www.OpportunistMagazine.com). “It was an invigorating moment…to…

OpportunistMagazine.com Enters into Cross-Marketing Relationship with SmallCapVoice.com to Offer Companies A Wider Array of Investor Relations Services

Orlando, Florida–February 28, 2011–www.OpportunistMagazine.com; an online financial publication filled with informative content on public companies, financial news, investor tips, and more; announced today that the company has entered into a strategic cross-marketing relationship with www.SmallCapVoice.com.  The relations…

OpportunistMagazine.com Enters into Cross-Marketing Relationship with MoneyTV to Offer Companies Even Greater Shareholder Awareness

Orlando, Florida–February 28, 2011–OpportunistMagazine.com; an online financial publication filled with informative content on public companies, financial news, investor tips, and more; announced today that the company has entered into a strategic cross-marketing relationship with MoneyTV. The relationship will allow Opportun…

Opportunist Magazine Launches Their Online Publication — Becomes A New Resource For The Financial Community

World Wide Web — February 8, 2011.
For Immediate Release
Markham Woods Press Publishing Co. announced the official launch of OpportunistMagazine.com, its innovative website for the financial community that is smart phone and iPad ready.
Opportunist Magazine retained Emediaplex.com to design a cutting edge website using our magazine based con…

Launch of Opportunist Magazine Provides a Voice for Penny Stock, Micro Cap and Small Cap Companies

World Wide Web — February 8, 2011.
For Immediate Release

The launch of an online publication for investors, OpportunistMagazine.com, promises to give voice to penny stock, micro cap stock and small cap stock companies. Offering valuable information and daily news to financial firms, small businesses and investors, Opportunist Magazine will ad…

3D Eye Solutions, Inc. Successfully Installs its 3D Without Glasses Screens at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Apr 05, 2010
OTC Disclosure & News Service
Longwood, FL – 3D Eye Solutions, Inc. Successfully Installs its 3D Without Glasses Screens at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Company’s Cutting Edge 3D Technology Ready for Digital Signage Advertising in the New York Area
LONGWOOD, Fla., April. 5 /Pink Sheets/ — 3D Eye Solutions, Inc. (OTC…

Rule 504 l OTC Pink Sheet Offering Cheat Sheet

 
By: Brenda Hamilton, Attorney
Hamilton & Associates Law Group
May 21, 2013
 
Rule 504 l OTC Pink Sheet Offering Cheat Sheet
Rule 504 of Regulation D is a transactional exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) for non-reporting companies when they offer and sell secu…

Options Writer Series — PWE – Penn West – Will it Or Won’t it???

By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011-2013
May 20, 2013
 
This company is a former Canadian Oil Trust.  As a category, these no longer exist. All of them are now corporations.  However, they all have large investor bases of people who are seeking income and these oil companies have delivered. All of them have cut their dividend…

National Debt a Monstrous Fraud

BYRON RAMBO, MBA, EA
Fellow, National Tax Practice Institute
Byron.Rambo@rsbpartners.com
May 14, 2013
 
Thomas Jefferson considered the national debt a monstrous fraud on posterity….. (Wright, Robert, PhD. One Nation under Debt. McGraw Hill. Princeton, NJ Jan 1, 2008)
The general “rule of thumb” for the value of common stocks, is that the s…

Market Makers 101

By: Brenda Hamilton, Attorney
Hamilton & Associates Law Group
May 14, 2013
 
The Role of Market Makers in Going Public Transactions
The last step in going public transactions is most often obtaining a stock trading or ticker symbol. For a private company to receive a trading or ticker symbol and get its stock trading in a going public transaction, i…

Stock Scalping 101

By: Brenda Hamilton, Attorney
Hamilton & Associates Law Group
May 2, 2013
 
Stock Scalping refers to the illegal & deceptive practice of recommending that others purchase a security while secretly selling the same security. In recent years, the SEC and Justice Department have brought an increasing number of cases involving securities vio…

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

 
BYRON RAMBO, MBA, EA
Fellow, National Tax Practice Institute
Byron.Rambo@rsbpartners.com
April 30, 2013
 
 “The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.”
- John Adams, First Address to Congress, Nov. 23, 1797.

Histo…

Options Writer Series — GE – How To Buy General Electric at $20.00… Maybe

By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011-2013
April 23, 2013
 
There are ways of trying to buy securities at a price that is below the current price.  GE closed at $21.75 on Friday April 19, 2013. Here is a plan to either buy the stock at a price you want to buy it at or to receive a yield on your money that exceeds the current dividend yield…

Options Writer Series — SDY – A Stock for All Times SPDR S&P Dividends

By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011-2012
April 7, 2013
 
Here is an ETF that belongs in everyone’s core holdings. Why? Because with this ETF, you can never get wiped out.  You do not get concerned about accounting issues or huge JCP type errors. This particular ETF, with an average day trading volume of slightly over 1,000,0…