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Been as high as 55p and as low as 48p, they are bouncing the SP all over the place trying to find the balance. I suspect that as invariably happens when a bid looks likely, the speculators will pile in on any weakness and the SP will continue to rise for a while. It would be nice to see 60p by the end of the week, the question then is whether to hang on like before or exit.

Monstermob Group plc ('Monstermob') announced on 23 November 2006 that whilst discussions with potential offerors were continuing, it believed it was unlikely that a proposal would be forthcoming that could be recommended to shareholders. Since that announcement, discussions have been brought to a close with all the parties that have expressed interest in a potential offer for Monstermob, with the exception of one, La Netro Zed, S.A. ('Zed'). Although Zed has made no proposal to the board of Monstermob as to the terms of any business combination between Monstermob and Zed, it has now indicated that it may desire to make one. Monstermob is continuing its negotiations to restructure outstanding earn-out and related obligations, and a further announcement is expected to be made in due course.

And there off! Away flying again now, up 5p when I checked a minute ago. These bid rumours must be pretty strong for this kind of SP turnaround. Here's hoping for a positive RNS from MOB or a predator very soon...

The Times attributes yesterdays 27% rise to renewed bid speculation, but only in a comment on biggest movers of the day, there's no report. Good to see the opening SP at a similar price to yesterdays close and a small rise again this morning. Must have been a £4.5K turnaround for you yesterday gluefactory, I hold less but £2.5K was very welcome. Of course that's academic if we hold and they go back down, but I'm of the opinion that someone will go hostile on MOB and we could see 60p again this month. Glad I topped up at 40p to bring my average down, another day like yesterday and back into profit. Still rating as a hold.

I'm am planning on another cherry pie, but not likely to hit the oven until after the close at about 5pm ;) Up 11p at 47p mid. I think there must be a strong rumour of an impending bid, the last time we had a rise from the 30s it shot up very quickly into the 60s within a couple of days and didn't really stop until the 80s. At the time a possible recommended bid of 100p per share looked on the cards, the recent lows were only hit following MOB saying that it was unlikely that the talks, which were continuing, would end in an offer which could be recommended by the board. Either someone is going hostile or the talks have taken a turn for the better. It's very rare for a share to leap nearly 30% in a day on pure speculation.

Now 45-46pin the last 5 minutes, where the hell did that one come from?

There's nowt but charcoal left! Have been a long term holder in SKP, much to my dismay. So many broken promises and false dawns it's depressing. I have managed to get in and out a few times on the way down though, so it's not all been bad. Currently I still buy in when we get close to lows, 22p seems to have a bit of support and the SP can recover to 24p or so, but struggling to make a firm upward movement. Staggering long term potential if you can bear with it though, billion dollar blockbuster product...

SP still bouncing around, 37.25p to 42.5p, back down and now up to 41p mid. I can't fathom this as volume is comparatively low and there have been no huge buys or sells today. I can only assume that the rumour mill is ticking away today...

Ho hum, a rather short lived burst in SP this morning. No RNS or huge buying so I can't see any reason why that might have happened. The SP now back down to 39p-41.25p according to my broker.

My broker is quoting a 10%+ jump in the MOB SP over the last couple of minutes, although 42p bid and 41p offer is not a figure that is tradeable against. Not sure what's going on here or if it's just a blip, as I'm subject to the 15 minute trades delay most of us trade under....

I used to work for them for a time many years ago (as a sub contractor), changed a lot since then of course, but was a great company at the time. Need something like MOB to recover to free up some funds first though...

Another small rise today on the back of yesterdays buyback of 10.5m shares (around 3.6% of the equity). This explains my comment on the sale of 10m yesterday, it will have been a takeup from the market makers by the company, hence the share price rise. The release also mentions further possible buy backs and a redistribution of cash to shareholders (see below). My top up at 11.25p last week was well timed and I now rate these a buy. The potential to buy back a further 6.4% of the business coupled with a large special dividend payout suggests further gains in the SP over next few weeks. Release from yesterday: Eckoh plc ('the Company') today announces that it has commenced a buy back of its ordinary shares through the purchase of 10,500,000 ordinary shares at 11.5p per ordinary share in the market on 28 November 2006 for cancellation: Following the above purchases, the total number of Ordinary Shares held by persons other than the Company in issue is 263,404,187. This purchase was made pursuant to the authority granted by shareholders at an Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 30 October 2006 to repurchase up to 27,388,122 Ordinary Shares. An announcement relating to a wider return of cash to all shareholders will be made in the coming weeks.

I have 11 stocks, 6 up today, 3 static. Guess which is the only duffer in the red? What I want for Christmas is to see Martin rubbing his hands in glee at his recovering fortune. So we're pretty much in agreement then :)

We think we have it bad with the falling SP. Spare a thought for Martin Higginson, whose 16% holding in Monstermob was worth over £35.5m just under a year ago at the peak in December 2005. His holding is now valued at just over £2.8m at todays sell price. Somehow the SP seems a little more palatable, it does seem easier to stomach when someone is doing worse than you in a particular share. However, I for one hope he recoups his investment. ;)

If I had a need for the cash I'd be ****ing bricks right now. There's little trading going on but the market makers are thumping the share price chronically. We just touched a new low of 35p. I'm baffled by the lack of support and now suspect we could be looking at a long term period to recoup our outlay. Bummer.

Now here's an odd one. The results out yesterday were very good, sales up 91% on continuing operations, big contract with BAA, huge cash surplus following sale of part holding in Symphony plus the prospect of a 3-4p special dividend (around 30% return on current SP possible). Share price rose yesterday and up a tad again this morning on moderate buying, despite the sale at close yesterday of 10m shares (over £1.1m worth), along with a few other hefty sales over the past couple of days. Now either the market makers are short of stock, which doesn't seem likely as it's generally half a million or less shares traded daily, or something else is going on, perhaps linked to the suggested special dividend. Interesting to note that volume was 160K shares on Monday but over 17m shares yesterday. With the strong performance of the company and the prospect of a big cash payout, these may well have further to go, despite the ending of takeover talks.

MOB finished the day at its high and a couple of pence up on last nights close. Definite support in the high 30s by the look of it, and lots of buys today too.

I think if you look at the text of the release then it certainly doesn't say that any prospective bidder has walked away. This seems to me to be a case of oversell, I would not sell my share now. A definite hold. LONDON (AFX) - Monstermob Group PLC said that talks underway over potential bids for the firm are 'unlikely' to lead to a proposal that can be recommended to shareholders. The talks are continuing, said the mobile phone game and ringtone company.

I'm not a holder, nor considering at present. From what I observed, the share price shot up on bid speculation, following a sustained fall in share price from the results in late May. These revealed a loss if £6.5m for its first full year of trading. The 66% jump in SP over a two day period a week and a half ago was not sustained and has fallen back rapidly from 23.75p to 14.5p today. In the absence of any real bid I cannot see a reason for this one to rise quickly again, although as has been mentioned there is a significant potential market for customers in the UK. I wonder if an Islamic Bank under the ownership of HBOS or NatWest would have the same appeal though. I think talk of a takeover from an existing bank is unfounded speculation. As classic says, anyone buying in when the price was rising is probably in for a long haul to get back to break even.

However, there look to be an aweful lot of shorters on this stock, and of course shorters have to buy back the non existant shares they sold to make a profit as the share price dropped. I suspect this happened big time with OXS, but in that case a good RNS aided the recovery, along with speculators piling in again. Since I've been typing MOB is ticking up nicely, could be the start of a turnaround or another false dawn, would like to see them back above 40p and sustaining that by the end of the week, still very good value for anyone with spare cash I think.