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Like I said in January this would make a good RTO. Very few shares in issue and presumably not many current holders. It would be nice to get something back from this.

CPAP MAN - 28 Mar 2017 - 08:55 - 2865 of 2894 - 1 LOL you are NOT totally mistaken comedy as TOM are more than likely to obtain an additional extremely exciting very high upside potential new natural resources project!

With regards to TOM all of us LTH's have been and indeed still are watching the TOM BOD's with EAGLE EYES [and they know this!] but todays RNS is truly exceptional in that.... 1]. TOM still owns 100% of their OIL SHALE leases 2]. TOM [due to todays RNS] are much more likely to be able to do something with those Oil Shale leases in a timely fashion 3]. TOM are also still free to do other things such as add a new attractive natural resources asset to the portfolio 4]. TOM get paid over £100,000 p.a. which covers the basic running costs 5]. TOM will have at least 40% of TurboShale for no cost 6]. TOM will earn as TurboShale earn from the likes of royalties etc.... 7]. Chris Brown is a MAJOR shareholder in TOM so it is very much in his interests to make TurboShale work 8]. If TOM were to raise the required monies the dilution for all TOM shareholders including Chris Brown would NOT have been at all attractive with billions of new TOM shares having to be issued at some really silly price!

Hi Aberdeenman I think the mining element has nothing to do with it. I've been in and out here for about 10 years and John May has achieved close to zero. I think it was simply that they couldn't get a NOMAD and Chris Akers saw an opportunity and John May had little choice to accept the proposals. It has ceased mining activities (though it wasn't actually doing anything) so I would expect a reverse takeover and name change. Personally I'm very happy that Chris Akers is on board. It certainly has created some excitement at long last. Where it will take us i have no idea though.

Tesla is itself becoming a leader in AI technologies, and back in October, the company posted a video of its self-driving AI driving a person around in one of its vehicles -- completely hands-free -- as it navigated stop signs, bicyclists, and foggy roads. Image source: Tesla. OK, so technology companies are obviously betting on AI's future, and NVIDIA is proving that the automotive sector will bank on AI as well, but it's important to note that governments are betting on AI's growth as well. China announced last year that its government will invest in new AI technologies over the next three years, as it tries to create its own $15 billion AI market. And even the U.S. government has taken notice of China's recent focus on artificial intelligence. In a report released back in October, the White House said that Chinese scientists are publishing far more AI research than American scientists and that their work is being cited more often. The U.S. then urged more AI research and development spending in order to catch up and improve economic growth. The South Korean government recently turned its attention to AI as well. After Google's DeepMind AI beat a South Korean grandmaster Go player in an exhibition match in Seoul, the country pledged $863 million to develop more AI technology and called on private companies to invest even more. There's no turning back now With so many companies (and leading world powers) focusing their attention on AI, there's no stopping the momentum now. Investors waiting around to see how AI plays out could be left in the dust, as this technological shift begins to speed up even faster this year. Of course, there's no guarantee that 2017 will be the best year to invest in AI. But if all of the AI focus from 2016 spills into this year, then it certainly looks like a good bet. Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool’s board of directors. Chris Neiger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alphabet (C shares), Facebook, Nvidia, and Tesla Motors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. hxxps://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/16/why-2017-is-the-year-to-invest-in-artificial-intel.aspx

Why 2017 Is the Year to Invest in Artificial Intelligence Stocks AI is reaching an inflection point -- and investors should take notice now. Chris Neiger (TMFNewsie) Jan 16, 2017 at 1:16PM The other day, I sat in a coffee shop across from a student who was studying a complex math problem. The equation took up the entire page, and he sat there staring at it for quite a while. After I thought about how glad I am to not be in school anymore, I started thinking about how jumping into a new investing market can be intimidating. Like the math equation, it can be hard to make sense of all the information on the page. But it doesn't have to be this way, especially if you closely follow what smart companies are doing in new segments and pair that with some good ol' fashioned research. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one such opportunity where companies are making big bets on it and where the research backs up its potential. And if AI pans out the way many are thinking, then 2017 may be a very good year to get on board with this technological shift. AI is at an inflection point In 2016, the AI market was worth just $644 million, according to Tractica. This year, that amount will nearly double and then grow exponentially from there. Take a look: Artificial Intelligence Revenue Data source: Tractica and Statista. Clearly, we're still at the beginning of AI's revenue possibilities, and its opportunity will accelerate over the coming the years until it reaches $37.8 billion less than 10 years from now. Growth in the AI market will be spurred on by many large tech companies that implement AI into their current businesses. For example, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) uses its own internally developed AI programs to read the posts we put on Facebook and understand the context they're written in. The company's DeepText program reads thousands of posts in just seconds and does so across 20 different languages. Facebook also uses deep learning to tag our friends in photos, and is even using AI to identify people (and their voices!) in videos. But AI is expanding its reach outside of the technology sector as well. There's plenty of talk about self-driving cars these days (I've done my fair share) and that's because the number of vehicles worldwide with some level of autonomy will hit 76 million by 2035 -- and be worth $77 billion by that year. That growth is being fueled, at least in part, by AI. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is using its graphics processors (GPUs) to create some of the most sophisticated image processing supercomputers, like the company's Drive PX 2. The computer is being used by 80 automakers and auto suppliers already, and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) recently said that it would use some of NVIDIA's technology in its next version of its semi-autonomous Autopilot driving feature. Tesla is itself becoming a leader in AI technologies, and back in October, the company posted a video of its self-driving AI driving a person

Red Leopard Holdings and EVR Holdings – how to make money at different stages of the Akers investment lifecycle By Cynical Bear | Thursday 16 March 2017 Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from *************). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. Following my recommendation on Red Leopard earlier this month, I thought I’d follow up with a compare and contrast of Akers related stocks looking at the different phases of the investment lifecycle and how to make money at those different stages. If one goes back to my original piece looking at ‘How to Make Money Out of A Chris Akers Stock’ I set out the five stages of the investment lifecycle. Red Leopard is very much at the first step, namely: “Find a business that is in a market that is indisputably large and/or potentially large and is fast growing.” Hype and excitement can go a long way at this stage. This is almost pre-step one in fact as the investment hasn’t been made yet; however, to be fair to Chris, he has put £250,000 of his own money into this which carries a lot of weight. As anticipated, the share price has steadily increased from 0.26p as I wrote previously to a current share price of 0.35, albeit with a chunky spread as it is still relatively illiquid. However, the fun part is still to come and that is the investment announcement itself. I am assuming that Chris has something up his sleeve and I have no doubt that, as with podcasting, e-sports and virtual reality, he will pick an industry that is, or could become, huge but is still some way off maturity so that one can big up the potential. Hard to guess obviously but looking at his Twitter feed, I wouldn’t be surprised to see something in the artificial intelligence space. So even though the current market cap is looking a bit punchy at this level at over £3 million, I expect the news flow as and when it comes to give it another boost and will then reassess.

With so few shares in issue and the main market listing surely this would make a great shell for a RTO

I think it makes a difference that XPL are listed on the main market and not AIM. Maybe they will pull a rabbit out of the hat.

XPL were suspended three months ago today. I guess they only show trades for the last three months. That's the reason I think.

Sounds encouraging...

That would be good. Anybody heard any more??

Any chance of us seeing 50p+ again?

So any more details on this? I see Pakistan has major power issues and that they agreed a $42 billion investment from China recently.

I'm still here too. So XPL are now looking at RTOs other than in oil and gas? I don't mind what it is as long as a good deal can be put together. Cheers.

By end of Jan would be awesome. You sound confident jack. I hope you're right and this all comes together. Cheers

showmethemoney123 1 Dec'14 - 12:05 - 412 of 412 0 0 I believe the Share Purchase Agreements and the Admission Document have been finalised and any Placing at RTO will be at a much higher level as it will be referenced to the value of the assets coming in. The pre-RTO funding is I believe going into the targets as a convertible loan again at a much higher value than XPLs current share price as again it is with reference to the value of the assets coming in. AIMHO. DYOR.

remember the presentation that was posted in the summer. It talked of a placing at a 20% discount to the RTO price of 50p. If they can get that away then it's quite the buying opportunity. Huge deal incoming. It's just taking a while :)

Yes the timings have slipped but it looks good... Imara Investment Opportunity  December 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with London and Hong Kong based group who control a UK main board standard listed shell company (“Pubco”);  Main terms and representations of MOU include: 1. Complete RTO merger with agreed pre-money ownership split. Target completion date of end Q2 2014; 2. Sproule to complete technical review on Imara assets and draft CPR; Target completion May 2014; 3. Execute Heads of Terms between Imara and Pubco prior to definitive Sales and Purchase Agreement “SPA”. Target completion date May, 2014 4. Market a $5 - 10 million convertible debenture (“CD”) offering into Imara which converts into shares of resulting “Pubco” at a 20% discount to the re-entry or deemed transaction price; Timing now; 5. Close the CD offering. Target completion date May 15, 2014; 6. Complete RTO of Imara assets. Target date June 15, 2014; 7. Independent Technical Consulting firm to complete CPR on identified production asset currently producing 8,500 bpd to be merged with Imara exploration assets post the completion of the RTO; 8. Raise an additional $75million in public equity concurrent with the completion of RTO and production asset acquisition. Target completion date Q3 2014.

FSTE 350 soon. It's been a long wait but will be worth it. Ignore these guys with nothing positive to say. This was always going to take a while given the complexity of the deal. Not long to go now.