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Earthlabs sees executives buying large insider investment - Spot.v

 Execs in this microcap have been buying shares in the 19 cent range.  The current market cap is 27 million and the business saw pretty choppy quarterly reporting over the last year.  Earthlabs operates as a SaaS or Software as a Service business in the mining industry.   They have a web-publishing business and communications group that runs CEO.CA and recently purchased MINING.COM and other offerings in the publishing digital space.   We see these as the area that has spur the insider investment.  Execs in March made significant insider purchases.  As a group they see the current price as undervalued.     SPOT>V is stock on the venture exchange we ask you to do your own due diligence. INSIDER NAME TITLE TRANSACTION DATE TRANSACTION DATE NUM OF SHARES DIVIDEND AMOUNT PRICE TOTAL TRANSACTION TOTAL Cejay Kim CBO ...

Magazine Ad Revenue continued decline

US Competitive Info: Magazines Tumble, Debate Ads Rumble. Magazine newsstand sales continued their steady decline in the first half of 2015, according to new figures from MagNet, reported by MediaPost. Total volume of magazines distributed to wholesalers dropped 2.6% to 784 million units comparted to the first half of 2014. But the number of issues sold had a steeper decline, tumbling 18.5% to 207.5 million. Dollar value of magazine sales decreased 13.9% to $1.11 billion. One caveat noted by MagNet is the new numbers may not be an apples-to-apples comparison due to the closing of magazine distributor Source Interlink and the lack of figures from Barnes & Noble. Still, no turnaround is in sight for magazine newsstand sales . MagNet says preliminary data for July and August point to sales falling further in the second half. Meanwhile, the chord that Donald Trump has struck among voters is reverberating for CNN ad sales. The cable news network is asking for 40 times its normal r...