Every battery ever built forces the same trade-off between energy density for endurance and power output for performance, because the electrode design that stores the most charge is the same one that slows its release. Nearly two decades and tens of billions of dollars have gone into solid state, silicon anode, and sodium ion looking for a chemistry that does both, and none of it has produced one. Premergy (OTCID: $IHAI) holds granted patents that solve the problem from outsi

There is a very short list of OTC-listed companies approaching $100 million in real assets inside their first year of a build. Pride Holdings Group (OTCQB: $PHSE), the only publicly traded LGBTQ+ hospitality rollup, is one of them. When we first covered PHSE back in March, CEO Mike Barrett was on Buffalo Fireside Chats comparing the company to an iceberg with maybe 30% of it above water, running gay bars, clubs, and hotels across four countries anchored by Aqua Nightclub in K

Anyone who has spent time in the OTC market knows the roll-up pitch, and knows how few of them ever amount to more than a press release and a plan. Affluence Corporation (OTCID: $AFFU) is turning that narrative on its head, assembling a global Industrial IoT and smart-infrastructure group. Its president, Oscar Brito, co-founded iQSTEL (NASDAQ: $IQST) in 2018, back when it was doing $13.8 million a year, and more than a dozen acquisitions later that company trades on the Nasda

A company posting the biggest profits in its history while its stock gets cheaper by the month is a company the market expects the spending to bury. Meta was that company in 2022, losing two thirds of its value before returning more than fivefold in under two years once the spending dialed back. Now, that same setup sits inside three companies that more or less own the current AI economy. Nearly everything in AI runs on rented computing, and the three companies that sell it c