The latest Investing Matters Podcast with Jean Roche, Co-Manager of Schroder UK Mid Cap Investment Trust has just been released. Listen here.
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Take a close look at the last RNS and see how Francesco Petruzzelli uses the word "respectively" . Not a huge thing but but again doesn't exactly shout out competence. Gla.
Robski - best post for sometime by a country mile. Assuming we known there is a very good chance of £2million income coming BIDS way and the present MC of around £20m is fair imo. All we need before summer is a couple more contracts. Come on James.
13p by Easter
Nice post Am I Rich Yet. I looked at the RNS to check your figures. Good to see a post based on a RNS. Isn't another way to interpret it that Bidstack keep 24p of every pound they receive and the other 76p goes to say the game developer? So £1m revenue is in fact just £240,000 income for BIDS ? Still not bad at all.
Lots of people are stressed now especially those who paid more than the current share price but the thing to remember is that 2019 is all about scalebility. In 2020 Bidstack needs to scale up so that it takes its 24% of many millions. GLA.
#ThisIsJustTheShirt
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/nov/18/google-stadia-review-gylt
Mornin all. Stadia gets only 3 stars out of 5 but there's nowt wrong with the technology so they say. Looking good. GLA
It's 25th December 2019, Christmas Day. Thanks to climate change there has been an unusually nice thick layer of snow, the type for snow balling, not the slushy stuff. Hungover parents come down the stairs to find their children have already cranked up the Stadia console presents and are competing with other gamers around the world.
Looking at the cars whiz around the track in GRID the penny drops for the parents who work in the corporate sector, they turn to their partner and say "you know once I get back to the office I'm going to have a word with our marketing director".
to be continued..
Hoping for a good RNS but it really is just speculation that Bidstack has any involvement with Fortnite .
Had a look at the Bidstack website yesterday, stack.games and it's still not up and running. The sooner this gets done the better.
Another sunny day here in Madagascar. GLA
What's people's thinking of Bidstacks likely Revenue Per Employee??? Given that its tech stock it could be high?
By thinking is that is we know the number of employees and can estimate the RPE then we can take a guess at revenues that James is aiming for?
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"But the hottest question around this subject is how closely an addictive, cash-ingesting game of chance skirts your definition of gambling. Some authorities, most prominently in Belgium, have decided that it steps clearly over the line and have banned games with certain gacha elements.
As a measure of how serious the issue has become, a forum of gambling regulators from 19 European countries has for the past year been locked in a study into gacha-style transactions in games. On October 2, it strongly recommended that individual countries should take the initiative in setting out clear rules.
Just days before, Nintendo launched Mario Kart Tour — a mobile game that, to a staggering degree, incorporates gacha mechanisms into the pantheon of cartoonish characters that gamers of all ages know and love. Better vehicles, new characters and other equipment all lie hidden in fixed-odds gacha, which can be bought for real money.
Some analysts are already predicting that gacha and other micro-transactions used to make games more addictive and lucrative are due a grand reckoning — not just in the court of public opinion, but in actual courts. That may be a way off but, with Nintendo’s latest move, it feels like a Rubicon may have been crossed.
Leo Lewis is the FT’s Tokyo correspondent"
can post all if anybody is interested.
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I saw this piece on the BBC website a few days ago. It about a firm designing swimming googles with AR. It can't be far off that it will be possible to place adverts on the floor of the pool well as well as games. As the real world collides more and more with the digital world its companies like Bidstack that will profit.
bbc dot com / news/av/technology-49852311/can-ar-goggles-make-swimming-more-fun
"Augmented reality goggles that can help swimmers track their swim time and distance have been put to the test by BBC Click's Chris Fox. The Form swim goggles were developed by former competitive swimmer Dan Eisenhardt, while UK firm Swim AR is working on a similar device that can clip on to any pair of goggles."
i'm sure you are right in what you say Pascoe...can't help thinking while the bond market isn't good the issue of Brexit can't be helping and pushing everything back until after Brexit was also a factor
Admittedly I might be wrong here but I think that as things stand the UK government can not (legally) give financial advantage to an industry. So a no-deal Brexit would allow the UK government to support SXX. If there is a deal of some kind it may still restrict the UK government from offering unfair advantage to home industries. GLA
there is much talk about single use plastic, waste and plastic getting into the environment .. i can see packaging is a sector that needs to change and perhaps will be required to change by way of regulation... not sure if this company will rise to the challenge but who knows....will wait and see ...gla
my bad...i had intended to post this on another company...
there is much talk about single use plastic, waste and plastic getting into the environment .. i can see packaging is a sector that needs to change and perhaps will be required to change by way of regulation... not sure if this company will rise to the challenge but who knows....will wait and see ...gla
42 is the answer to answer to life, the universe and the meaning of everything.... could be significant gla
Not exactly BIDS stuff but there's a price in the Daily Mail. I counted almost 10 out of the top 100 influencers as GAMERS
https://www.**************.co
ok/news/article-7440455/Britains-100-influencers-revealed-Gamers-lifestyle-fitness-vloggers.html