With research firm IDC estimating data storage doubling every two years, the need for storage resources which can handle complex and mixed systems that combine both file and block data (i.e. unified data storage) doubles as well. With this news, we updated our NBT Research Report.

Sometimes a picture says…well a hundred words.

Let’s look at the magic 50-day and 200-day moving averages of the S&P 500

Since the capitulation bottom in early March 2009 the market overall market as measured by the S&P 500 has worked to reclaim the pre-crash valuation…and had a couple of scary sell-offs.

Rob Howe, CEO of our favorite cloud/virtual storage play IWEB, will conduct a live webcast on Thursday, August 23rd at 12pm Eastern Time.  The webcast can be accessed here: IceWeb Webinar, and will be available after the session on the Company's website www.iceweb.com.

Steve Eubanks of PGA.com says it perfectly: "Honest and modest: The game needs someone like Rory Mcilroy, not because it needs a dominant player to supplant Tiger, but because it needs a charming gentleman to recover from him.”

CEO Tim Cook is clearly looking to make Apple TV the destination for premium content without a cable subscription, even if that means opening the door to more competition for Apple’s iTunes. In the big picture, iTunes HAS to become iContent.

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Don’t look now, but if you have a successful business, there IS a deadly competitor taking dead aim at your value proposition with a better/faster/easier version from the cloud.

Toby's Take - The Journey In Life IS the Reward

For the last 10 years my wife Marjorie and our adventure travel team at Hamilton Fitzjames have put together food and wine travel adventures around the globe for friends and family of NBT (and our predecessor company ChangeWave Research).

Some of the best times in my life have happened as we explored the incredible gastronomic/wine regions of the world like Tuscany, Rioja, Provence, Piedmont, Chile…but our upcoming trip and safari in South Africa may top them all.

VelaTel Global Communications, Inc. (VELAD ticker symbol remains till mid-August) has reversed split its stock 100-1...which is very symbolic of its entire re-boot as a company.

They have published a 70+ slide "executive summary" of their current operations including VERY extensive and conservative pro-forma projections of operations, revenues and EBITDA margins. Here is the full report

The Pulse Beverage Corporation

Rating: Strong Buy

Rapidly Expanding Pure-Play on 100% Natural and Nutritional Beverage Growth Sectors: Extending Coverage with Strong Buy Rating and 10X Upside

Investment Conclusion: We are extending coverage of The Pulse Beverage Corporation with a Strong Buy Rating and $5.50 Sum-of-Parts Valuation on 42 million shares fully diluted.

Toby's Take -The Magic Strategy of Public Venture Capital Investing

For years I have labeled investing in publicly traded growth stage micro-cap companies as “public venture and/or private capital investing.” More recently I’ve begun to call this asset class “DIY Adventure Capital” to recognize that early stage investing can be both in public and private companies—the latter now recognized as “angel” investing.

But no matter WHAT you label early stage investing, there is ONE constant truth to success: you HAVE to spread your bets on at least 8-10 different plays that ALL have to potential to return 10-to1 or more returns.

Why? It’s the MATH, baby.

In our last part of the interview, we continued speaking with CEO Bob Yates and Exec VP Paddy Shea of The Pulse Beverage Company. Topics we touched on were money funding Hubert's, distribution in major chain stores and possible international deals. If you happened to missed the first part of our interview, you can read it here. Here is the conclusion to our exclusive interview.

In the first part of our interview, we started talking with CEO Bob Yates and Exec VP Paddy Shea of The Pulse Beverage Company to discuss the amazing national expansion success of Pulse's Cabana 100% Natural Lemonades. We discussed the current market strategy, the opportunities from the Anheuser-Bush's problems and more. Here is part 2 of our exclusive interview.

When an emerging growth company loses its founder (in the case to a tragic death) it’s the ultimate test of the board of directors to find the “right guy” to fill the crucial position in the management team.

Kudos to Chairman Hal Compton, Sr. for the recruitment of Rob Howe as CEO of IceWEB…as we say in TV “it’s a big time get.”

We caught up with the VERY busy CEO Bob Yates and Exec VP Paddy Shea of The Pulse Beverage Company to discuss the amazing national expansion success of Pulse’s Cabana 100% Natural Lemonades.

Toby's Take - How Economic Clean Technology Companies Thrive WITHOUT Government “Help”

At NBT we have always invested in clean technology companies based on an economic forecast that did NOT include “free money” from government do-gooder hand-outs.

The reason is pure economics—without a sustainable business model…i.e. a business model that does NOT require a handout or subsidy…the business is NOT a business but a hobby.