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Echo Automotive Pump Continues with Investor Day

TMFBent — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:18:54 GMT

I just got another hot press release from the paid promoters working with Echo Automotive to sell this stock and story to the street.

Poor Echo Automotive: the pump isn't working anymore. With volume falling off and (I would like to hope) real investors realizing what a lousy enterprise this looks to be, prices have dropped by 2/3 over the past month, despite the best efforts and tens of thousands of dollars w...

Serial Junk Purveyor Robert Federowicz back with new promotion: Aristocrat Group

TMFBent — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:59:33 GMT

Too bad only TMFStockspam can red thumb this one, because it looks likely to head straight toward zero, because that's what happens to these promotions by Robert Federowicz.

The latest promotion is, like his Jeans promotion, ostensibly about high-end products via "Luxuria Brands." This high-end product, by the way, keeps an address in a strip mall right next door to what looks like the sewage treatme...

Echo Automotive, Pump Continues as the Dump Begins

TMFBent — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:31:49 GMT

Echo Autmotive drops 26% this morning as the company continues to put out PR. Possibly the beginning of the end for this promotion, and I'm doing everything I can to make sure the truth gets out about this company that:

1) has no revenues

2) has no product

3) has no net cash on the balance sheet to produce its concept and make an actual pr...

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard being duped and used by Echo Automotive stock promoters?

TMFBent — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:00:59 GMT

Echo Automotive, a company with no revenue, $1.2 million in debt, and being promoted by penny-stock hypesters, appears to have found a useful rube in Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50704520

Perhaps the good mayor or his staff should take a look at t...

European Antitrust KeystoneKops and IE

TMFBent — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:02:18 GMT

So, the news comes today that the European Antitrust cops are after Microsoft again for its alleged abuses in bundling internet explorer with its operating system. As you remember, back when everyone thought that the key to the web was owning the browser, this made the unthinking Euros very afraid. If microsoft owned the browser, it would own search, right?

Anyone seen search numbers lately?

World Surveillance Group Inc. (OTCBB: WSGI), a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and related technologies, today issued a letter to its shareholders from the Company's Chairman Michael K. Clark and President and CEO Glenn D. Estrella. The letter sets forth certain strategic goals and objectives of the Company for 2012 following the recently closed $5.5 million institutional investment...

Fake Newspaper Stock Promotion: Washington Financial Times

TMFBent — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:57:06 GMT

I was alerted to this scheme by an alert colleague. Note the fake newspaper look, with content scraped (stolen, my guess) from legitimate news sources, including the New York Times. All in support of a long-form stock promotion of a penny mining stock, with a humongous disclaimer that is hilarious and sad.
I'm probably late to this, but I don't use Twitter all that much. I'll probably never use it again.
I went to Twitter today to stop "following" a couple of companies I was previously interested in seeing updates from, because they moved from "hey, here's our new product" to retweeting utter crap like "AwesomeDUDEZ! I just BOT new speakerz!"
Then...

Morons and their penny stocks...

TMFBent — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:29:38 GMT

Anyone who believes this kind of story is going to hand over money to penny-stock charlatans every time.
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Apple's Amazing Vision for TV...

TMFBent — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:01:49 GMT

In at least one meeting, Apple described future television technology that would respond to users' voices and movements, one of the people said. Such technology, which Apple indicated may take longer than some of its other ideas, might allow users to use their voices to search for a show or change channels.

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Good thing we don't need this here...

TMFBent — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:25:41 GMT

New Decoy Website Launched To Lure Away All Moronic Internet Commenters

More Proof Of Apple's Non-Stop Awesomeness

TMFBent — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:01:11 GMT

Behold the magical, mystical power of Steve Jobs' autocorrect for the iPhone, worse, even, than the handwriting recognition on the much-loved Newton.
But since there's no other smartphone out there, I guess we just have to live with it.

Obscene Jeans: $20 Million Worth of Nothing

TMFBent — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:57:19 GMT

This self-proclaimed fashion leader has been heavily promoted, or rather, the stock has been promoted, in advertisements all over the Net. It's run by a guy who seems to be in love with his own image. Naturally, this "
A wee exchange between me and a PR hack.
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From: Mary Campe [mailto:mcampe@sspr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:10 P...

Apple iPods and iTunes still suck

TMFBent — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:18:54 GMT

I really don't get why people are so in love with this garbage product ecosystem.
Today's unnecessary morning annoyance for what should be a 3 minute task (and is, with Zune...)
I go to download half a dozen kids shows to put on my daughter's little iPod touch (for a long plane ride) and here's what iTunes gives me.
Some kind of "you ...

Scummy Stock Promoter/Trial Fleer Caught in Utah

TMFBent — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:25:52 GMT

Anyone remember the sham that was Conversion Solutions? Remember the semi-illiterate bozo behind it, Rufus Paul Harris?
Well, the big-shot himself was caught hiding like a scared child in a utility closet in Utah.

Top 5 Tech Stocks

TMFBent — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:40:09 GMT

And, to conclude the popularity series for today, the 5 most popular tech stocks, from response to my articles.
·          Here's How Cisco Systems Is Making You So Much Cash

Top 5 Energy Stocks

TMFBent — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:37:04 GMT

In keeping with looking at the stocks which, by reader response to my article output, turn out to be the most popular, some surprising names in energy.
·          Should You Get Out of Pioneer Drilling B...

Top 5 Commodities, Materials Stocks

TMFBent — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:31:28 GMT

Continuing on the theme of looking at the stocks that, from my article output, look most popular. In materials/commodities, the top 5 from last month are:
·          Why Titanium Metals' Earnings Are Outstand...

Ten Stocks No One Cares About

TMFBent — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:23:57 GMT

As I explained in the post below: We track everything here at the Fool, and I am a bigger data hound than most. So, I am always checking to see which of my articles generate the most interest from readers. This is usually based solely on the popularity of a given company during a given time period.
As such, this is a decent proxy for investor interest in a company. Conversely, if you are interested in compani...