Local.com Corp. (NASDAQ:LOCM)
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The Compoany provides paid-search advertising services to local and national businesses on the Internet, which enables businesses to list their products and services in its distributed Internet search results.
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This stock is only valued with 0.5-times-revenues. Competitors have the 10-fold valuations and more.
Unique Local Technology Portfolio 29-Dec-11 02:28 pm • 9 patents issued, 8 pending in local/mobile/data/display
Section "L o c a l.com"
• Multiple databases with millions of SMB listings to validate business information
• We crawl the web and use our proprietary Keyword DNA™ + web indexing algorithms to generate all our search results
• Ingest real-time ad and data feeds from multiple partners
• Syndicates those feeds to over 100,000 sites
Section "Octane360"
• Highly scalable geo-category domain acquisition
• Automated website hosting & mgt. features
• Content marketplace for the procurement, creation, payment and management of custom local content for SMB websites
Section "Krillion"
• Pulls real-time product inventory directly from manufacturers, retailers
• Data aggregation and normalization technologies and know-how
• Product-based search results
Section "Rovion"
• Rich media ad management and serving platform
• Automated creation, production, management and serving of ads
• Rovion ‘in-person’ video unit
• Green screen studios & network
Section "Spreebird"
• A fully featured group-buying distribution platform
• Personalization engine driving enhanced user experience
• API, RSS, widget syndication for our regional media network and planned partners
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Read additional the exellent presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPXZEvHoFg&feature=related
It is easy to see, that valuation with only 0.5-times-reveneus is complete nonsense.