Biometric Investor Alert: Biometric Mobile Commerce Company NXT-ID, Inc. Commences Trading on OTCQB (OTCQB: NXTD)

Shelton, CT - August 16, 2013 (Investorideas.com mobile payment stocks newswire) NXT-ID, Inc., (OTCQB:NXTD) a biometrics company focused on the growing mobile commerce market today announces that it will commence trading on the OTCQB under the trading symbol NXTD on August 16th.

NXT-ID, Inc. is an early stage technology company that is developing and marketing products, solutions, and services for consumers and organizations that have a need for biometric secure access control. The Company has three distinct lines of business: mobile commerce, law enforcement, and biometric access control applications.
NXT-ID went public through an S1 self- registration. The Company also has also received funding from Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for growing Connecticut businesses through innovative financing and strategic assistance.
Part of the NXT-ID technology portfolio is based on years of development, dating back to 1995. NXT-ID’s licensed biometric technologies have historically won awards from the Department of Defense, NIH, NIST and NSF amounting to more than $30 million.
NXT-ID’s initial efforts are focused on developing a secure biometric electronic wallet for the growing mobile commerce market. The Company believes that this constitutes unique technology because it takes a very different approach relative to the current offerings: instead of replacing the wallet through a smartphone, the aim is to improve it. The Wocket™ will reduce the number of cards to be carried in a consumer’s wallet to a single card and will be capable of supporting virtually every payment method currently available at Point-of-Sale (POS) at retailers around the world including magnetic stripe, touchless payment methods such as near field communications and barcode all within a secure biometric vault.
In parallel NXT-ID is marketing its existing line of secure 3D FaceMatch™ biometric identification systems for law enforcement, the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security through their subsidiary 3D-ID, LLC (http://3d-id.net/), acquired in June, 2012.
3D-ID is engaged in the design, research and development, integration, analysis, modeling, system networking, sales and support of intelligent surveillance, three dimensional facial recognition and three dimensional imaging devices and systems primarily for identification and access control in the security industries. 3D-ID has 22 licensed patents in the field of 3D facial recognition. The Company has generated revenues ($250,000) from initial sales of its 3D FaceMatch™ biometric identification products during the year ended December 31, 2012
Using biometrics technologies, NXT-ID plans to address the growing m-commerce market with their innovative MobileBio™ suite of biometric solutions that secure mobile platforms. Currently most mobile devices continue to be protected simply by questions that a user asks, and PIN numbers. This security methodology is easily duplicated on another device, and can be easily spoofed or hacked . NXT-ID’s biometric security paradigm is Dynamic Pairing Codes (DPC). DPCs are a new, proprietary method to secure users, devices, accounts, locations and servers over any communication media by sharing key identifiers, including biometric-enabled identifiers, between end-points by passing dynamic pairing codes (random numbers) between end-points to establish sessions and/or transactions without exposing identifiers or keys. The company’s plan also anticipates that it will use its core biometric algorithms to develop a security application that can be used for corporations (industrial uses, such as enterprise computer networks) as well as individuals (consumer uses, such as smart phones, PDAs or personal computers).
With management experienced in the industry and public companies, NXT-ID will leverage existing knowhow and experience to rapidly develop these solutions.
About NXT- ID Inc. - Mobile Security for a Mobile World
NXT-ID, Inc.'s (OTCQB: NXTD) innovative MobileBio™ solution mitigates consumer risks associated with mobile computing, m-commerce and smart OS-enabled devices. The company is focused on the growing m-commerce market, launching its innovative MobileBio™ suite of biometric solutions that secure consumers' mobile platforms. NXT-ID’ wholly owned subsidiary, 3D-ID LLC, is engaged in biometric identification has 22 licensed patents in the field of 3D facial recognition http://www.nxt-id.com/, http://3d-id.net/
Forward-Looking Statements for NXT-ID
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations, as of the date of this press release, and involve certain risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include statements herein with respect to the successful execution of the Company's business strategy. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward- looking statements as a result of various factors. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, our ability to establish and maintain the proprietary nature of our technology through the patent process, as well as our ability to possibly license from others patents and patent applications necessary to develop products; the availability of financing; the Company's ability to implement its long range business plan for various applications of its technology; the Company's ability to enter into agreements with any necessary marketing and/or distribution partners; the impact of competition, the obtaining and maintenance of any necessary regulatory clearances applicable to applications of the Company's technology; and management of growth and other risks and uncertainties that may be detailed from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Corporate info: info@nxt-id.com
Investor Relations
Jared Mitchell
Managing Director
ProActive Capital
www.ProActiveCapital.com
Direct: 646.863.6274
Cell: 917.453.0637
jmitchell@proactivecapital.com
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Q&A with China based UMeWorld's (OTCQB: UMEWF) Discussing its Video Content Platform and Online Education Business

New York, NY, Point Roberts, WA - August 13, 2013 (Investorideas.com newswire) Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in investing ideas in leading sectors including social media and internet stocks issues an exclusive Q&A with the CEO and President of UMeWorld Limited (OTCQB: UMEWF), an online video and education internet company in China. Mr. Michael Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President share his vision of targeting the massive online market in China.

Q: Investorideas.com
Michael can you first explain briefly to new investors the two divisions of your internet company, the video content platform and the online education market?
A: Michael Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President
You probably are not aware that YouTube and many other popular video sites are blocked by China's "Great Firewall". UMeLook is uniquely positioned to offer advertisers the ability to use their existing promotional video assets to access mainland China consumers. UMeLook is deployed through a sophisticated CDN (Content Delivery Network) with broad coverage throughout mainland China. UMeLook is fast becoming the primary source of foreign video content for the Chinese viewer across any Internet-enabled device in China.
SmartStar is our cloud-based, adaptive learning educational platform, under our digital education business division. Unlike traditional online courseware, SmartStar provides a concept-level assessment and evaluation of a student’s learning progress. It identifies the student’s strengths, weaknesses, their proficiency in a given subject area and personalizes the delivery of proprietary educational items according to the student’s learning needs. SmartStar is also capable of providing scoring and statistical analysis of exams and evaluations and to provide administration of local and nationally standardized exams. It is ideal for schools and teachers.
Q: Investorideas.com
With the UMeLook ( http://www.umelook.com/) website can you explain how having foreign content differentiates your site in China?
A: Michael Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President
UMeLook.com is a niche player in the Chinese online video market, wherein the competition is focused on local TV series and, we different ourselves by focusing on foreign videos of less than 10 minutes duration and target affluent Chinese viewers between the age of 18-45 who are interested in foreign information, products and brands. UMeLook.com has also succeeded in entering the Chinese online video market where global players such as YouTube and Dailymotion are blocked and inaccessible in China. There is no existing direct competitor for UMeLook operations plan and business model in the Chinese online video marketplace.
Q: Investorideas.com
What kind of growth are you seeing for UMeLook ( http://www.umelook.com/) and how do you plan to keep building on that?
A: Michael Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President
More than 60% of China's approximately 600 million internet users watch online videos. As the number of China's internet users grows, so will the online video market. Chinese are spending much of their time online -- an average three hours a day, compared with two hours watching television, according to a study conducted last year by Starcom Mediavest Group. The statistic is the same for consumers even in the less developed, lower-tier markets that brands are keen to crack. UMeLook.com will continue to drive viewership aggressively and in conjunction, are preparing to launch a global e-commerce platform assisting small and medium brands from worldwide sources, to expand into the Chinese market. Marketers spent $7.4 billion on online marketing in China in 2011, representing 13.5% of total media spending. That was up from $5.1 billion, or 10.6% of the total, spent in 2010. We hope to generate significant advertising revenue from our e-commerce platform.
Q: Investorideas.com
The online education market has the potential to be huge according to analysts, filling the gaps in traditional education. How are you targeting that market and what kind of traction is the company getting?
A: Michael Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President
SmartStar is on track to become a leading education service provider in China. The K-12 education system in China is the largest in the world comprising 230 million students and 12 million teachers. Chinese families spend more discretionary income on education than anything other expense, except for housing. SmartStar will be available through a monthly subscription, as low as US$10, enabling the user to have unlimited access via the internet. We are in advance discussions with several national distributors who will offer SmartStar pre-paid cards that can be used against a monthly subscription.
Q: Investorideas.com
In closing Michael, what do you see as your biggest competitive advantage moving forward?
A: Michael Lee, Chief Executive Officer and President
Well, I am happy to say that there is no existing direct competitor for UMeLook operations plan and business model in the Chinese online video marketplace. As for SmartStar, our adaptive learning concept and technology is unique and in fact, we are about to submit a patent application to the patent office in U.S. and China to protect this asset. In conclusion, we are delivering two first-in-class products to meet the unmet needs of the target markets and there is no reason not to be successful.
About UMeWorld
UMeWorld's mission is to facilitate the interaction between people -- "You" and "Me," through its digital platform. Currently, UMeWorld operates UMeLook ( http://www.umelook.com/), an online video platform focused on bringing foreign video content to China. UMeLook is deployed through a sophisticated CDN (Content Delivery Network) with broad coverage throughout mainland China, Hong Kong & Taiwan. UMeLook plans to be a source of foreign video content for the Chinese viewer across any Internet-enabled device in China. UMeWorld intends to focus its future operations on digital media and the digital education market.
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Mobile Payment Stock Alert: Calpian's (OTCQB: CLPI) Money-on-Mobile Serves over 62 Million Unique Users, Volume up 6% from June

DALLAS - August 7, 2013 (Investorideas.com newswire) Calpian, Inc. (OTCQB:CLPI) announced today that, as of July 31, 2013, the Money-on-Mobile service offered by its Indian subsidiary is now being supported by 151,530 retail locations, an increase of 8,473 stores from 143,057 stores on June 30, 2013. Additionally, Money-on-Mobile was accessed by approximately 62.6 million unique phone number customers as of July 31, 2013, up from the 57.8 million reported from the previous month. Processed transaction volume for July 2013, which is measured in Indian rupees, was slightly over 912.4 million INR, a gain of almost 53 million Rupees or about 6% from the previous month. At current exchange rates, July processed transaction volume was approximately $15 million.

According to Calpian CEO, Harold Montgomery, "We are extremely pleased with the consistent and steady growth of all three key metrics. We had previously added about 3,000 to 4,000 stores per month, but our marketing focused on key urban areas has increased store additions to over 8,000 this month. Month after month we are seeing further evidence of the increase in popularity of our Money-on-Mobile service."
Money-on-Mobile Managing Director Shashank Joshi said, "We are focusing our marketing resources to achieve deep penetration in key markets such as Kolkata and the effort is paying off now. In 2013, Money-on-Mobile has increased store count by over 29,000 locations - almost 24%. In July the rate of growth was higher than previous trends."
About Calpian, Inc.
Calpian, Inc. (CLPI) is a publicly traded company with corporate offices in Dallas , Texas , operating centers in Georgia , New York and Illinois and mobile payments emerging-market operations through its subsidiary in India.
Calpian's Indian subsidiary offers Money-on-Mobile, a pre-paid mobile payment solution, to more than 134,200 Indian retail locations. Calpian's management team has over 70 years in combined experience in the payments business. Calpian's CEO, Harold Montgomery, is a recognized industry leader who has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and Federal Reserve Bank on payments-related issues and regularly appears in numerous industry publications, such as Transaction World Magazine. Please visit our website at www.calpian.com for more information.
Contact:
Calpian, Inc.
Harold Montgomery, 214-758-8600
Chief Executive Officer

Social Media Stock UMeWorld's (OTCQB:UMEWF) Reports Video Platform Now Exceeds 4.7 Million Unique Visitors

HONG KONG - August 2, 2013 (Investorideas.com newswire) Social Media Stock Alert: MeWorld Limited (OTCQB: UMEWF) is pleased to announce that UMeLook.com, an online video platform focused on bringing foreign video content to China, had 4.7 million unique visitors and over 20 million page views in July 2013. UMeLook.com has seen a significant increase in viewer traffic after having completed a total redesign and a renewed focus on the user experience just two months ago. Visitors now spend an average of more than nine minutes on UMeLook.com per visit. UMeLook.com has achieved a ranking of 5,169 in China and 42,040 globally according to Alexa.

"I am thrilled with the latest key performance indicators, especially because we have achieved them in just a few months. We are not so far from monetizing our video platform with pre-roll, post-roll and banner advertisements," said Michael Lee, President & CEO of UMeWorld Limited.
About UMeWorld
UMeWorld's mission is to facilitate the interaction between people -- "You" and "Me," through its digital platform. Currently, UMeWorld operates UMeLook (www.umelook.com), an online video platform focused on bringing foreign video content to China. UMeLook is deployed through a sophisticated CDN (Content Delivery Network) with broad coverage throughout mainland China, Hong Kong & Taiwan. UMeLook plans to be a source of foreign video content for the Chinese viewer across any Internet-enabled device in China. UMeWorld intends to focus its future operations on digital media and the digital education market.
Forward Looking Statement
Statements in this press release that relate to the Company's expectations with regard to the future impact on the Company's results from new products in development are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Words such as "expects," "intends," "plans," "may," "could," "should," "anticipates," "likely," "believes" and words of similar import also identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current facts and analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determined and assumptions of management. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance that may arise after the date of this release, even if new information becomes available in the future. For a more detailed description of the risk and uncertainties affecting the Company, reference is made to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more information, please contact:
UMeWorld Limited
E-mail: info@UMeWorld.com
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How Google (GOOG), AT&T (T) and Technology Companies are Opening up the World

Point Roberts, WA, New York, NY - August 2, 2013 (Investorideas.com newswire) Investorideas.com, providing global investing ideas in leading sectors including technology, issues a sector snapshot on developments and the market opportunity for language coding (all Unicode & all ASCII) technology and software.  With apps like the AT&T Translator ( NYSE:T ) Google’s Android (NASDAQ :GOOG), The Bible App in 400 languages, all are working on changing worldwide DIGITAL communications.

Google is looking at how to take digital languages to the next level, and then it’s just a matter of time before language will no longer have any barriers and business and individuals will be able to communicate with anyone, anywhere in any language. And as Google says: they will bring everyone to the Internet by 2020.
A pioneer in the sector, Dr. Philip Payne, founder of Linguist's Software Inc. http://www.linguistsoftware.com/ , started his company 30 years ago in Edmonds, WA not knowing the path to globalization that lay ahead. He grew his company to provide fonts and input from 200 to over 2000 languages over the last three decades, making it by far the largest linguistic software library of its kind.  Now this new (IP) is ten times larger (language/font/key-guide & tool set) than Adobe, who used to be the world leader.
Ken Kinkel, CEO of Mergers & Acquisitions ( www.CorpMA.com ) represents Dr. Payne’s exit strategy and retirement from Linguist's Software Inc. and understands the value of his language software to change the future of mobile and the internet communications.
"Google has said they will have everyone on the Internet by 2020. They are moving so fast that only companies with these 2000+ languages could have a chance to catch up to Google.  Maybe even beat them, to what is now looking like a monopoly for Google by 2020. That’s an astonishing prediction and if it’s true, then the company that owns these 2,000 plus languages will be a perfect position to capitalize on this astonishing achievement.  Being connected worldwide is one thing, but being able to communicate in practically every language of the world is quite another.  Our client’s product makes this possible.  Universal connectivity and now matched with the available in one’s own language - a perfect combination for the future of worldwide digital communications.
Other firms may even beat Google, to what is now looking like a worldwide monopoly for them by 2020.  By using their cell phone dominance (and 6.3 billion cell phones that exist today, according to the UN) they could skip past the huge infrastructure that Google is now building in fiber, and power worldwide. And use existing cell technology to take these languages to world dominance right now and well before Google’s dominance by 2020.
Previous article reference:
How do you say "Apple" in 2000 Languages?
Linguist's Software Blazes the Path to Globalization for Web and Mobile Devices with Fonts and Keyboard Input for 2000 Languages
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China Social Media Stock Alert: UMeWorld's (OTCQB:UMEWF) Video Platform Surpasses 4.7 Million Unique Visitors and Continues to Attract Chinese Viewers

HONG KONG - August 1, 2013 (Investorideas.com newswire) MeWorld Limited (OTCQB: UMEWF) is pleased to announce that UMeLook.com, an online video platform focused on bringing foreign video content to China, had 4.7 million unique visitors and over 20 million page views in July 2013. UMeLook.com has seen a significant increase in viewer traffic after having completed a total redesign and a renewed focus on the user experience just two months ago. Visitors now spend an average of more than nine minutes on UMeLook.com per visit. UMeLook.com has achieved a ranking of 5,169 in China and 42,040 globally according to Alexa.

"I am thrilled with the latest key performance indicators, especially because we have achieved them in just a few months. We are not so far from monetizing our video platform with pre-roll, post-roll and banner advertisements," said Michael Lee, President & CEO of UMeWorld Limited.
About UMeWorld
UMeWorld's mission is to facilitate the interaction between people -- "You" and "Me," through its digital platform. Currently, UMeWorld operates UMeLook (www.umelook.com), an online video platform focused on bringing foreign video content to China. UMeLook is deployed through a sophisticated CDN (Content Delivery Network) with broad coverage throughout mainland China, Hong Kong & Taiwan. UMeLook plans to be a source of foreign video content for the Chinese viewer across any Internet-enabled device in China. UMeWorld intends to focus its future operations on digital media and the digital education market.
Forward Looking Statement
Statements in this press release that relate to the Company's expectations with regard to the future impact on the Company's results from new products in development are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Words such as "expects," "intends," "plans," "may," "could," "should," "anticipates," "likely," "believes" and words of similar import also identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current facts and analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determined and assumptions of management. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance that may arise after the date of this release, even if new information becomes available in the future. For a more detailed description of the risk and uncertainties affecting the Company, reference is made to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more information, please contact:
UMeWorld Limited
E-mail: info@UMeWorld.com
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Investorideas.com - A great time to own land in Argentina

July 24, 2013 (www.investorideas.com newswire) Moneyweek.com- This has been a painful year so far for Latin America 's farmers. From Colombia 's coffee heartlands to Argentina 's rolling pampas, farmers are being hit by falling prices. Sugar is down around 50% from its 2010 peak, while coffee has fallen by more than 50%. Cereals, which are also down 24%, look likely to take another hit later on this year as analysts expect America to deliver a record-breaking grain harvest. It's been a rude awakening.

Unsurprisingly the price drops have scared investors. In times of a food crisis people often blame 'speculators', the non-agricultural investors who buy into soft commodities for pushing up the price. But it works both ways. When these speculators get cold feet they can often exacerbate price drops too. And that's exactly what's happening at the moment.