IceWEB announced this week a major strategic shift in focus-from primarily R&D in the first half of 2012 to sales & marketing in the second half of the year.

In line with his vision to evolve IceWEB into a formidable challenger vs. the large, longstanding players, IceWEB's late CEO John Signorello placed several initiatives in motion up until his untimely passing in late May. These initiatives include:

The Pulse Beverage Corporation (OTCBB: PLSB) ("Pulse"), makers of Cabana™ 100% Natural Lemonade and Pulse® NutriPurpose™ brand beverages, gave the Street an update today on its continued rapid growth of distribution territories and 150%+ quarter-over-quarter case sales growth rates.

5 days without power in 100+ degree heat both fogs and sharpens the mind.
Fogs as in too hot to think. Sharpens as in figuring out how NOT to be a hostage to the utility companies.

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It mostly goes unsaid in publicly listed emerging growth stock investing, but it shouldn't: we are investing in PUBLIC venture capital and, to a lesser degree, PUBLIC private equity deals.

Most of the APO emerging growth microcap deals we look at—i.e., Alternative Public Offerings where the company has gone public via a reverse merger or Form-10 filing without an underwritten deal—are either relatively new companies who have chosen to fund their start-up capital via public markets or are established companies looking to finance their "going to the next level" strategy with a round of public private equity funding.

IceWEB added over 100 salespeople with their new deal with Rackspace...the data center leader in North America. The reason for this you ask? Three words: Rackspace Partner Program.

Announced on Tuesday, IceWeb enters the Rackspace Partner Program. If you have been following us or our sister site, CloudInvestor.com, then you would already know who Rackspace is. For those who don’t, they are the service leader in cloud computing. A MAJOR player in the Cloud Computing Industry.

Whatever is good for cloud storage is good for IceWEB’s (IWEB) unified cloud storage business…SINCE they are the low cost provider to the cloud storage players.

Gartner Research now forecasts 1/3 of ALL consumer digital content—photos/movies/video/music/eBooks etc.—will be stored in the cloud by 2016.  Consumers only store seven percent of their content in the cloud now…so this report calls for 5X higher rates of cloud storage “market share” in essence.

Summer is almost offcially here...the US Open kicks off today and the European solvency...not liquidity...crisis moves ever slowly to the inevitable divorce of the North from the South.

Yet the Innovation Economy moves ahead because innovators are too busy and driven to notice.

Pulse Secures Oklahoma City Metro MillerCoors Distributor for its Cabana™ 100% Natural Lemonade. 

DENVER, CO - (MARKETWIRE - June 14, 2012) - The Pulse Beverage Corporation (OTCBB: PLSB) ("Pulse"), makers of Cabana™ 100% Natural Lemonade and Pulse® NutriPurpose™ brand beverages, today announced that it has secured distribution with Capital Distributing, LLC, a large MillerCoors distributor serving the Oklahoma City Metro area. 

GlyEco, Inc. (GLYE) announced today it has completed a preliminary agreement to acquire Antifreeze Recycling, Inc. located in Tea, SD. The transaction is scheduled to close July 31, 2012.

This is the seventh preliminary acquisition agreement GlyEco has announced in 2012—with a target of 12 initial acquisitions for their first year they are AHEAD of plan…and have at least 5 more glycol recyclers in their M&A pipeline.

Pulse Beverage announced this week they have added Chicago and NYC...almost 20 Million thirsty citizens...to their 200 million distribution footprint.

Amazing...for big successes in the non-alcoholic beverage biz it takes 5-8 years to get to one million annual cases of sales.

The stress and strain of building any company…but especially a technology company competing against the tech giants day-after-day… is without question grueling. How ironic it was for his company to be named the best unified storage system the day before he died…some much needed validation and vindication for his IceWeb vision.

Because of the “quiet period” for GlyEco’s $10 Million private placement equity raise, NBT has been restricted from broadcasting our coverage or equity research report of our FAVORITE Economic CleanTech portfolio company.

IceWEB today released additional details supporting its irrefutable position of strength and rapid growth potential in the $100 billion data storage market. As we talked about in our original report, IWEB has made significant advancements in key areas of the business over the past six months, including sales and marketing, hardware and software product development, customer support, strategic partnerships and finance.

How strange and downright cruel life can be. On the day following what could be described as the company's finest hour, i.e. winning the Storage Hardware Product of the Year Award over ALL the unified storage industry's giants, the never-say-die CEO who regenerated the company and its product line suddenly and tragically dies.

The IceWeb team reached me with this news late in the afternoon Friday—I was on plane and unreachable till 3pm. John R. Signorello, IceWEB (OTCBB: IWEB) Chairman and CEO, passed away Friday from a genetic heart condition in his Northern Virginia home. He was 45.