−Removed: The risks below are those that we believe
−Removed: are the material risks that we currently face, but are not the only risks facing us and our business.
−Removed: If any of these risks actually
−Removed: occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Business
−Removed: The success of our consumer applications
−Removed: is principally dependent on our active subscribers and our engagement with our user base.
−Removed: As of March 13, 2020, our applications
−Removed: supported an active subscriber base of approximately 103,800 active subscribers worldwide.
−Removed: However, compared to the total number
−Removed: of users in any given period, only a small portion of our users are active subscribers or purchasers of virtual currency.
−Removed: generate revenue through the sale of subscriptions and virtual currency to this small portion of users and secondarily generate
−Removed: revenue through paid advertisements.
−Removed: Accordingly, the success of our consumer applications is substantially dependent on our ability
−Removed: to convert our users into active subscribers and to sell our users virtual currency.
−Removed: Users discontinue the use of our applications in the ordinary
−Removed: course of business, and to sustain our revenue levels, we must attract, retain and increase the number of users or more effectively
−Removed: monetize our existing users.
−Removed: Falling user retention, growth or engagement could also make our applications less attractive to
−Removed: advertisers, which could harm our business.
−Removed: There are a number of factors that could
−Removed: negatively impact user retention, growth and engagement, including, among other things:
−Removed: users may adopt
−Removed: competing products instead of ours;
−Removed: we may fail to introduce
−Removed: new products and services or those we introduce may be poorly received;
−Removed: our products may
−Removed: fail to operate effectively on mobile or other platforms;
−Removed: we may be unable
−Removed: to combat spam or other hostile or inappropriate usage on our products;
−Removed: there may be adverse
−Removed: changes in user sentiment about the quality or usefulness of our existing products;
−Removed: there may be concerns
−Removed: about the privacy implications, safety or security of our products;
−Removed: technical or other
−Removed: problems may frustrate the experience of our users, particularly if those problems prevent us from delivering our products
−Removed: in a fast and reliable manner;
−Removed: we may fail to provide
−Removed: adequate service to our users;
−Removed: we or other companies
−Removed: in our industry may be the subject of adverse media reports or other negative publicity;
−Removed: we may not maintain
−Removed: our brand image or our reputation may be damaged;
−Removed: we may be subject
−Removed: to denial of service or other attacks from hackers that result in service downtime.
−Removed: To retain existing users, and particularly
−Removed: those users who are paying subscribers, we must devote significant resources so that our applications retain their interest.
−Removed: we fail to grow or sustain the number of our users, or if the rates at which we attract and retain existing users declines or
−Removed: the rate at which users become paying subscribers declines, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of
−Removed: operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We operate in intensely competitive
−Removed: industries and any failure to attract new clients and users could diminish or suspend our development and possibly cease our operations.
−Removed: The industries in which we compete are
−Removed: highly competitive and have few barriers to entry.
−Removed: If we are unable to efficiently and effectively attract new users or clients
−Removed: as a result of intense competition or a saturated market, we may not be able to continue the provision, development and enhancement
−Removed: of our software, services and applications or become profitable on a consistent basis in the future.
−Removed: Important factors affecting our ability
−Removed: to successfully compete include:
−Removed: the usefulness,
−Removed: novelty, performance and reliability of our products compared to our competitors;
−Removed: the timing and market
−Removed: acceptance of our products, including developments and enhancements of our competitors’
−Removed: our ability to effectively
−Removed: monetize our services and products and the availability of free or cheaper alternatives from our competitors;
−Removed: our ability to hire
−Removed: and retain talented employees, including technical employees, executives, and marketing experts;
−Removed: the success of our
−Removed: customer service and support efforts;
−Removed: our reputation and
−Removed: brand strength compared to our competitors;
−Removed: with respect to
−Removed: consumer applications, competition for acquiring users that could result in increased user acquisition costs;
−Removed: reliance upon the
−Removed: platforms through which our consumer applications are accessed and the platform owner’s ability to control our activities
−Removed: on such platforms;
−Removed: the effectiveness
−Removed: of the marketing and advertisement of our services and products;
−Removed: our ability to maintain
−Removed: advertisers’
−Removed: interest in advertising through our products;
−Removed: our ability to innovate
−Removed: in the ever-changing industries in which we operate;
−Removed: changes as a result
−Removed: of new legislation or regulation within our industries;
−Removed: acquisitions or
−Removed: consolidations within our industries.
−Removed: Many of our current and potential
−Removed: competitors offer similar services, have longer operating histories, significantly greater capital, financial, technical, marketing
−Removed: and other resources and, with respect to our consumer applications, larger user or subscriber bases than we do.
−Removed: These factors
−Removed: may allow our competitors to more quickly respond to new or emerging technologies and changes in client or consumer preferences.
−Removed: These competitors may engage in more extensive research and development efforts, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns
−Removed: and adopt more aggressive pricing strategies that may allow them to build larger user bases consisting of greater numbers of clients
−Removed: or paying users.
−Removed: Our competitors may provide services or develop applications and software that are equal or superior to our services
−Removed: or applications and software or that achieve greater market or industry acceptance.
−Removed: It is possible that a new product or service
−Removed: developed or offered by one of our competitors could gain rapid scale at the expense of existing brands through harnessing a new
−Removed: technology or distribution channel, creating a new approach to servicing clients or connecting people.
−Removed: Certain entities that we do not directly
−Removed: compete with but that have large or dominant positions in one or more markets could use those positions to gain a competitive
−Removed: advantage against us in areas where we operate by beginning to provide secured communications software and implementation services
−Removed: or by integrating competing video chat or social media platforms into products they control, such as search engines, web browsers
−Removed: or mobile device operating systems.
−Removed: With respect to consumer applications,
−Removed: costs for consumers to switch between products in the video chat industry are generally low, and consumers have a propensity to
−Removed: try new products to connect with new people.
−Removed: As a result, new entrants and business models are likely to continue to emerge in
−Removed: our industry.
−Removed: These activities could attract users and subscribers away from our applications and reduce our market share.
−Removed: If we are unable to effectively compete,
−Removed: we may fail to obtain new clients for our products or our users may discontinue the use of our products and we may lose active
−Removed: subscribers, either of which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: We are subject to risks related
−Removed: to holding and distributing cryptocurrencies.
−Removed: we have accepted cryptocurrencies as compensation for our services.
−Removed: Cryptocurrencies are not considered legal tender or backed
−Removed: by any government and have experienced price volatility, technological glitches and various law enforcement and regulatory interventions.
−Removed: use of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin has been prohibited or effectively prohibited in some countries.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with
−Removed: prohibitions applicable to us, we could face regulatory or other enforcement actions and potential fines and other consequences.
−Removed: As part of our
−Removed: strategy of forming strategic alliances with blockchain companies, we may make limited investments in initial coin or token offerings
−Removed: or negotiate that we receive cryptocurrency tokens as compensation for services.
−Removed: For instance, as part of our technology services
−Removed: agreement with ProximaX, a portion of our compensation was paid in XPX tokens.
−Removed: The prices of cryptocurrency tokens, including
−Removed: our XPX tokens, are typically highly volatile and subject to exchange rate risks, as well as the risk that regulatory or other
−Removed: developments may adversely affect their value.
−Removed: Fluctuations in the market value of XPX tokens could cause us to record an impairment
−Removed: charge on the value of our XPX tokens, which would directly impact our balance sheet and statements of operations.
−Removed: In particular,
−Removed: tokens may experience periods of extreme volatility due to (i) having a very limited trading history, (ii) limited public supply,
−Removed: (iii) a lack of adoption by cryptocurrency holders, including a lack of adoption of cryptocurrencies generally due to the expense
−Removed: of mining cryptocurrencies and (iv) tokens trading on a limited number of cryptocurrency exchanges, all of which have limited
−Removed: operating histories.
−Removed: Speculators and investors who seek to profit from trading and holding tokens currently account for a significant
−Removed: portion of token demand.
−Removed: Such speculation regarding the potential future appreciation in the value of tokens may artificially
−Removed: inflate their price.
−Removed: Fluctuations in the value of our tokens or any other cryptocurrencies that we hold may also lead to fluctuations
−Removed: in the value of our common stock.
−Removed: In addition, because of the limited trading volumes in tokens on cryptocurrency exchanges, converting
−Removed: our holdings to fiat currency would likely take an extended period of time.
−Removed: If exchanges where tokens trade were to cease operations
−Removed: or no longer quote our tokens, it would likely be impossible to convert XPX tokens into fiat currency.
−Removed: In addition, we recently launched our partnership with YouNow
−Removed: in the Props Developer Network, which, now that regulatory approval has been obtained, enables us to distribute YouNow’s
−Removed: Props tokens to our application end users for anticipated loyalty and retention benefits.
−Removed: Because we will be receiving Props tokens
−Removed: from YouNow so that they may be distributed to users, we will be deemed to be a statutory underwriter under Section 2(a)(11) of
−Removed: the Securities Act.
−Removed: A statutory underwriter is subject to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act,
−Removed: Regulation M, and may be deemed to be conducting broker-dealer like activities that could in certain circumstances subject us to
−Removed: regulatory obligations.
−Removed: It is possible
−Removed: that the SEC or another regulator could conclude that our distribution of Props tokens could constitute broker-dealer activities.
−Removed: If so, we could be forced to register as a broker-dealer and comply with laws and regulations applicable to broker-dealers, which
−Removed: would disrupt our business substantially and make it prohibitive to operate and participate on the Props Developer Network.
−Removed: such circumstance, we may also become the target of regulatory enforcement for conducting unlicensed broker-dealer activities,
−Removed: which could lead to costly litigation and otherwise materially adversely impact our business.
−Removed: There is substantial
−Removed: uncertainty regarding the future legal and regulatory requirements relating to cryptocurrency or transactions utilizing cryptocurrency.
−Removed: For instance, governments may in the near future curtail or outlaw the acquisition, use or redemption of cryptocurrencies.
−Removed: of, holding or trading in cryptocurrencies may then be considered illegal and subject to sanction.
−Removed: These uncertainties, as well
−Removed: as future accounting and tax developments, or other requirements relating to cryptocurrency, could have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on our business.
−Removed: Currently, there are no regulated
−Removed: trading markets for cryptocurrency tokens, and therefore our ability to sell such tokens may be limited.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, the online
−Removed: trading platforms on which cryptocurrency tokens trade do not qualify as registered exchanges within the meaning of federal securities
−Removed: laws or regulated alternative trading systems.
−Removed: To the extent the tokens trading on these platforms meet the definition of a security
−Removed: under federal securities laws, the platform is generally required to register with the SEC as a national securities exchange or
−Removed: be exempt from such registration requirements.
−Removed: The failure of these platforms to register as national securities exchanges or
−Removed: properly comply with registration exemptions could result in the SEC bringing an enforcement action seeking to prohibit, suspend
−Removed: or limit their operations.
−Removed: In such event, the tokens we hold may be tradable on a very limited range of venues, or not at all,
−Removed: and there may be periods where trading activity in tokens that we hold is minimal or non-existent.
−Removed: These potential consequences
−Removed: could have a material adverse impact on the trading price of the tokens that we hold and could render the exchange of our tokens
−Removed: for other digital assets or fiat currency difficult or impossible.
−Removed: Our tokens and other cryptocurrencies
−Removed: that we hold may be subject to loss, theft or restriction on access.
−Removed: There is a risk that some or all of our
−Removed: cryptocurrencies could be lost or stolen.
−Removed: Access to our coins could also be restricted by cybercrime.
−Removed: We currently hold all of
−Removed: our cryptocurrencies in cold storage.
−Removed: Cold storage refers to any cryptocurrency wallet that is not connected to the internet.
−Removed: Cold storage is generally more secure but is not ideal for quick or regular transactions.
−Removed: We expect to continue to hold the majority
−Removed: of our cryptocurrencies in cold storage to reduce the risk of malfeasance, but this risk cannot be eliminated.
−Removed: Hackers or malicious actors may launch
−Removed: attacks to steal, compromise or secure cryptocurrencies, such as by attacking the cryptocurrency network source code, exchange
−Removed: servers, third party platforms, cold and hot storage locations or software, or by other means.
−Removed: As we increase in size, we may
−Removed: become a more appealing target of hackers, malware, cyber-attacks or other security threats.
−Removed: Any of these events may adversely
−Removed: affect our operations and, consequently, our investments and profitability.
−Removed: The loss or destruction of a private key required
−Removed: to access our digital wallets may be irreversible and we may be denied access for all time to our cryptocurrency holdings or the
−Removed: holdings of others.
−Removed: Our loss of access to our private keys or our experience of a data loss relating to our digital wallets could
−Removed: adversely affect our investments and assets.
−Removed: Cryptocurrencies are controllable only
−Removed: by the possessor of both the unique public and private keys relating to the local or online digital wallet in which they are held,
−Removed: which wallet’s public key or address is reflected in the network’s public blockchain.
−Removed: We will publish the public key
−Removed: relating to digital wallets in use when we verify the receipt of transfers and disseminate such information into the network,
−Removed: but we will need to safeguard the private keys relating to such digital wallets.
−Removed: To the extent such private keys are lost, destroyed
−Removed: or otherwise compromised, we will be unable to access our cryptocurrency coins and such private keys may not be capable of being
−Removed: restored by any network.
−Removed: Any loss of private keys relating to digital wallets used to store our cryptocurrencies could have a
−Removed: material adverse effect on our business, prospects or operations and the value of any cryptocurrencies we hold for our own account.
−Removed: Because there has been limited precedent
−Removed: set for financial accounting of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, the determination that we have made for how to account
−Removed: for our tokens and any other digital assets we may acquire may be subject to change.
−Removed: Because there has been limited precedent
−Removed: set for the accounting classification and measurement of cryptocurrency and other digital tokens and related revenue recognition,
−Removed: it is unclear how companies may in the future be required to account for digital asset transactions and assets and related revenue
−Removed: We are currently accounting for our tokens as indefinite-lived intangible assets in accordance with Accounting
−Removed: Standard Codification No.
−Removed: Intangibles—Goodwill and Other.
−Removed: Indefinite-lived intangible assets are recorded at cost and
−Removed: are not subject to amortization, but shall be tested for impairment annually and more frequently if events or changes in circumstances
−Removed: indicate that it is more likely than not that the asset is impaired.
−Removed: However, a change in regulatory or financial accounting standards
−Removed: could result in the necessity to change our accounting methods and restate our financial statements.
−Removed: Such a restatement
−Removed: could adversely affect the accounting for our tokens or other cryptocurrencies that we may acquire and may more generally negatively
−Removed: impact our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operation.
−Removed: The further development and acceptance
−Removed: of blockchain technologies, which are part of a new and rapidly changing industry, are subject to a variety of factors that are
−Removed: difficult to evaluate.
−Removed: The slowing or stopping of the development or acceptance of blockchain technologies or assets would have
−Removed: a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: The growth of the blockchain industry
−Removed: in general is subject to a high degree of uncertainty.
−Removed: The factors affecting the further development of the blockchain industry
−Removed: and networks, include, without limitation:
−Removed: worldwide growth
−Removed: in the adoption and use of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, including cryptocurrencies and digital tokens,
−Removed: cryptosecurities and digital tokens;
−Removed: government and quasi-government
−Removed: regulation of blockchain assets, including cryptocurrencies, and their use, or restrictions on or regulation of access to
−Removed: and operation of blockchain networks or similar systems;
−Removed: the maintenance
−Removed: and development of the open-source software protocol of blockchain networks;
−Removed: changes in consumer
−Removed: demographics and public tastes and preferences;
−Removed: general economic
−Removed: conditions and the regulatory environment relating to cryptocurrencies;
−Removed: a decline in the
−Removed: popularity or acceptance of blockchain-based technologies, including cryptocurrencies and tokens.
−Removed: The blockchain industry as a whole is
−Removed: in its infancy and has been characterized by rapid changes and innovations.
−Removed: Although it has experienced significant growth in
−Removed: recent years, the slowing or stopping of the development, general acceptance and adoption and usage of blockchain networks and
−Removed: blockchain assets may materially adversely affect our business plans, financial results and prospects.
−Removed: ProximaX may not have sufficient
−Removed: cash resources to pay us amounts owed under our termination agreement and may be required to make payments to us in security tokens.
−Removed: On June 29, 2019, we entered into the
−Removed: Termination Agreement with ProximaX to, among other things, terminate the remaining obligations under our technology services
−Removed: agreement with ProximaX.
−Removed: Under the Termination Agreement, ProximaX paid us eight monthly cash installments of $7,500 each from
−Removed: May through December 2019.
−Removed: In addition, ProximaX agreed to pay us, by December 31, 2019, a remaining balance of $2.44 million
−Removed: owed to us in either cash or security tokens issued by ProximaX.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, we have not received the $2.44
−Removed: million payment from ProximaX.
−Removed: As a recently formed entity with limited
−Removed: capital, ProximaX may not have sufficient cash or liquid assets, and may not be able to raise sufficient capital, to make the
−Removed: remainder of the payments owed to us under the Termination Agreement in cash.
−Removed: As a result, ProximaX may be required to pay us
−Removed: in an equivalent amount of newly issued security tokens.
−Removed: The value of any security tokens that would be issued in the future by
−Removed: ProximaX is speculative, and the price of such security tokens may experience periods of extreme volatility due to (i) such tokens
−Removed: having a very limited trading history, (ii) the limited public supply of such tokens, (iii) a potential lack of adoption of such
−Removed: tokens by token holders, and (iv) such tokens trading on a limited number of token exchanges or any at all.
−Removed: As a result, any future
−Removed: acquisition of newly issued security tokens from ProximaX could subject our business to additional risks and could have a material
−Removed: adverse impact on our operations.
−Removed: Our mobile applications are substantially
−Removed: dependent on interaction with mobile platforms and operating systems that we do not control.
−Removed: A portion of our revenue, primarily our
−Removed: revenue from mobile platforms, is derived from the Apple iOS platform and the Google Android platform.
−Removed: Although we believe that
−Removed: we have a good relationship with Apple and Google, any deterioration in our relationship with either could materially harm our
−Removed: business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We are subject to each of Apple’s
−Removed: and Google’s standard terms and conditions for application developers, which govern the promotion, distribution and operation
−Removed: of our applications on their respective storefronts.
−Removed: Each of Apple and Google has broad discretion to change its standard terms
−Removed: and conditions.
−Removed: In addition, these standard terms and conditions can be vague and subject to changing interpretations by Apple
−Removed: In addition, each of Apple and Google has the right to prohibit a developer from distributing applications on the storefront
−Removed: if the developer violates the standard terms and conditions.
−Removed: In the event that either Apple or Google ever determines that we
−Removed: are in violation of its standard terms and conditions and prohibits us from distributing our applications on its storefront, it
−Removed: could materially harm our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: The number of people who access the internet
−Removed: through devices other than personal computers, including smart phones, cell phones and handheld tablets, has increased dramatically
−Removed: in the past few years and is projected to continue to increase.
−Removed: Accordingly, we are substantially dependent on interoperability
−Removed: with popular mobile platforms that we do not control, including the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, and a portion of
−Removed: our revenue is derived from these two digital storefronts.
−Removed: There have been occasions in the past when these digital storefronts
−Removed: were unavailable for short periods of time or where there have been issues with the in-App purchasing functionality from the storefront.
−Removed: In the event that either the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store is unavailable or if in-App purchasing functionality from
−Removed: the storefront is non-operational for a prolonged period of time, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results
+Added: is a summary of our risk factors with a more detailed discussion following.
+Added: The risks below are those that we believe are the
+Added: material risks that we currently face, but are not the only risks facing us and our business.
+Added: If any of these risks actually occur,
+Added: our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic may adversely affect our revenues, results of operations and financial
+Added: success of our consumer applications is principally dependent on our active subscribers
+Added: and our engagement with our user base.
+Added: operate in an intensely competitive industry and any failure to attract new users could
+Added: diminish or suspend our development and possibly cease our operations.
+Added: mobile applications are substantially dependent on interaction with mobile platforms
+Added: and operating systems that we do not control.
+Added: business depends on developing, establishing and maintaining strong brands.
+Added: unable to maintain and enhance our brands, we may be unable to expand or retain our user
+Added: and paying subscriber bases.
+Added: may conduct a portion of our operations through informal relationships, partnerships,
+Added: strategic alliances or joint ventures, and our failure to continue such relationships
+Added: or resolve any material disagreements with these third parties could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on the success of these operations, our financial condition and our results
+Added: of operations.
+Added: our goodwill or other intangible assets become impaired, we may be required to record
+Added: a significant charge to earnings, which could seriously harm our operating results.
+Added: the distribution of our products through application stores increases, we may incur additional
+Added: fees from the developers of application stores.
+Added: future success is dependent, in part, on the performance and continued service of our
+Added: executive officers.
+Added: Without their continued service, we may be forced to interrupt or
+Added: eventually cease our operations.
+Added: subscription metrics and other estimates are subject to inherent challenges in measurement,
+Added: and real or perceived inaccuracies in those metrics may seriously harm and negatively
+Added: affect our reputation and our business.
+Added: we recognize revenue from subscriptions over the term of the subscription, the full impact
+Added: of downturns or upturns in subscription sales may not be immediately reflected in our
+Added: results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: online live video industry is characterized by rapid technological change and the development
+Added: of enhancements and new applications, and if we fail to keep pace with technological
+Added: developments or launch new applications, our business may be adversely affected.
+Added: plan to continue expanding our operations internationally and may be subject to increased
+Added: business and economic risks that could seriously harm our business.
+Added: portion of our revenue is dependent on third-party resellers, the efforts of which we
+Added: do not control.
+Added: governments restricting access to our applications could materially adversely impact
+Added: our business.
+Added: mobile applications rely on high-bandwidth data capabilities, which are subject to hardware,
+Added: networks, regulations and standards that we do not control.
+Added: business depends in large part upon the availability of cost-effective advertising space
+Added: through a variety of media and keeping pace with trends in consumer behavior.
+Added: ● Interruption,
+Added: maintenance or failure of our programming code, servers or technological infrastructure
+Added: could hurt our ability to effectively provide our applications, which could damage our
+Added: reputation and harm our results of operations.
+Added: breaches, computer viruses and computer hacking attacks could harm our business, results
of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, each of the Apple App Store
−Removed: and Google Play Store provides consumers with products that compete with ours.
−Removed: If either of these platforms give preferential
−Removed: treatment to competitive products, it could seriously harm the usage of our products on mobile devices.
−Removed: Our business depends on developing,
−Removed: establishing and maintaining strong brands.
−Removed: If we are unable to maintain and enhance our brands, we may be unable to expand or
−Removed: retain our user and paying subscriber bases.
−Removed: We believe that developing, establishing
−Removed: and maintaining awareness of our application brands is critical to our efforts to achieve widespread acceptance of our applications
−Removed: and is an important element to expanding our client and subscriber bases.
−Removed: Successful promotion of our application brands will
−Removed: depend largely on the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing efforts and on our ability to provide reliable and useful
−Removed: applications at competitive prices.
−Removed: If clients and users do not perceive our products to be of high quality, or if our products
−Removed: are not favorably received by clients and users, the value of our brands could diminish, thereby decreasing the attractiveness
−Removed: of our software, services and applications to clients and users.
−Removed: In addition, advertising and marketing activities may not yield
−Removed: increased revenue, and even if they do, any increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incurred in building our brands.
−Removed: If we fail to successfully
−Removed: promote and maintain our application brands, or incur substantial expenses in unsuccessfully attempting to promote and maintain
−Removed: our brands, we may fail to attract enough new clients or subscribers or retain our existing clients and subscribers to the extent
−Removed: necessary to realize a sufficient return on our advertising and marketing activities, and it could have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We may conduct a portion of our
−Removed: operations through informal relationships, partnerships, strategic alliances or joint ventures, and our failure to continue such
−Removed: relationships or resolve any material disagreements with these third parties could have a material adverse effect on the success
−Removed: of these operations, our financial condition and our results of operations.
−Removed: We may conduct a portion of our operations
−Removed: through partnerships, strategic alliances or joint ventures.
−Removed: For instance, at the end of 2019, we launched our consumer application
−Removed: platform strategy, under which we plan to co-brand our video chat applications and promote them in partnership with third-party
−Removed: communities, with the expectation of entering into revenue sharing arrangements with potential partners.
−Removed: We may depend on third parties for elements
−Removed: of these arrangements that are important to the success of the relationship, such as the development of features or technologies
−Removed: to be incorporated into our applications.
−Removed: The performance of these third party obligations or the ability of third parties to
−Removed: meet their obligations under these arrangements would be outside of our control.
−Removed: If these third parties do not meet or satisfy
−Removed: their obligations under these arrangements, the performance and success of these arrangements, and their value to us, would be
−Removed: adversely affected.
−Removed: If our current or future partners are unable to meet their obligations, we may be forced to undertake the
−Removed: obligations ourselves and/or incur additional expenses in order to have some other party perform such obligations.
−Removed: In such cases
−Removed: we may also be required to seek legal enforcement of our rights, the outcome of which would be uncertain.
−Removed: If any of these events
−Removed: occur, they may adversely impact us, our financial performance and results of operations, and/or adversely impact our ability
−Removed: to enter into similar relationships in the future.
−Removed: Strategic arrangements with third parties
−Removed: could involve risks not otherwise present when we directly manage our operations, including, for example:
−Removed: third parties may
−Removed: share certain approval rights over major decisions within the scope of the relationship;
−Removed: the possibility
−Removed: that these third parties might become insolvent or bankrupt;
−Removed: the possibility
−Removed: that we may incur liabilities as a result of an action taken by one of these third parties;
−Removed: these third parties
−Removed: may be in a position to take action contrary to our instructions or requests or contrary to our policies or objectives;
−Removed: disputes between
−Removed: us and these third parties may result in litigation or arbitration that would increase our expenses, delay or terminate projects
−Removed: and prevent our officers and directors from focusing their time and effort on our business.
−Removed: If our goodwill or other intangible
−Removed: assets become impaired, we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings, which could seriously harm our operating
−Removed: We are required to test goodwill for impairment at least annually
−Removed: or more frequently if there are indicators that the carrying amount of the goodwill exceeds its carried value.
−Removed: As of December 31,
−Removed: 2019, we had recorded a total of $6.3 million of goodwill, $0.6 million of other intangible assets and $0.1 million of digital
−Removed: An adverse change in domestic or global market conditions, particularly if such change has the effect of changing one of
−Removed: our critical assumptions or estimates made in connection with the impairment testing of goodwill or intangible assets, could result
−Removed: in a change to the estimation of fair value that could result in an impairment charge to our goodwill or other intangible assets.
−Removed: If we divest or discontinue product categories or products that we previously acquired, or if the value of those parts of our business
−Removed: become impaired, we also may need to evaluate the carrying value of our goodwill.
−Removed: Any such material charges may have a negative
−Removed: impact on our operating results.
−Removed: As the distribution of our products
−Removed: through application stores increases, we may incur additional fees from the developers of application stores.
−Removed: As the user base of our consumer applications
−Removed: continues to shift to mobile solutions, we increasingly rely on the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms to distribute our products.
−Removed: While our products are free to download from these stores, we offer our users the opportunity to purchase paid memberships and
−Removed: certain premium features through our products.
−Removed: We determine the prices at which these memberships and features are sold and, in
−Removed: exchange for facilitating the purchase of these memberships and features through our products to users who download our products
−Removed: from these stores, we pay Apple or Google, as applicable, a share, which is currently 30% of the revenue we receive from these
−Removed: transactions.
−Removed: In the future, other distribution platforms that we utilize may charge us fees for the distribution of our applications.
−Removed: As the distribution of our products through application stores increases, the amount of fees that we must pay to the developers
−Removed: of these application stores will also increase.
−Removed: Unless we find a way to offset these fees, our business, financial condition and
−Removed: results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Our future success is dependent,
−Removed: in part, on the performance and continued service of our executive officers.
−Removed: Without their continued service, we may be forced
−Removed: to interrupt or eventually cease our operations.
−Removed: We are dependent to a great extent upon
−Removed: the experience, abilities and continued service of Jason Katz, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors,
−Removed: Jenny, our Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: The loss of the services of these individuals would substantially affect our business
−Removed: or operations and could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: Our subscription metrics and other
−Removed: estimates are subject to inherent challenges in measurement, and real or perceived inaccuracies in those metrics may seriously
−Removed: harm and negatively affect our reputation and our business.
−Removed: We regularly review metrics, including
−Removed: our active subscribers, to evaluate growth trends, measure our performance, and make strategic decisions.
−Removed: These metrics are calculated
−Removed: using internal Company data and have not been validated by an independent third party.
−Removed: While these numbers are based on what we
−Removed: believe to be reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in
−Removed: measuring how our products are used across large populations globally.
−Removed: Some of our demographic data may be incomplete
−Removed: or inaccurate.
−Removed: For example, because users self-report their dates of birth, our age-demographic data may differ from our users’
−Removed: If our users provide us with incorrect or incomplete information regarding their age or other attributes, then our
−Removed: estimates may prove inaccurate.
−Removed: In addition, our business strategy is
−Removed: guided by data analytics that we compute internally based on data collection, data processing, cloud-based platforms, statistical
−Removed: projections and forecasting, mobile computing, social media analytics and other applications and technologies.
−Removed: We use these internally
−Removed: derived data analytics to guide decisions concerning the development and modification of features on our applications, monetization
−Removed: strategies for our applications and the development of new applications, among other things.
−Removed: The inability to accurately derive our
−Removed: metrics or data analytics could result in incorrect business decisions and inefficiencies.
−Removed: For instance, if a significant understatement
−Removed: or overstatement of our active subscribers were to occur, we may expend resources to implement unnecessary business measures or
−Removed: fail to take required actions to attract a sufficient number of subscribers to satisfy our growth strategies.
−Removed: If advertisers or
−Removed: investors do not perceive our subscription, geographic or other demographic metrics to be accurate representations of our user
−Removed: base, or if we discover material inaccuracies in our subscription, geographic or other demographic metrics, our reputation may
−Removed: be seriously harmed.
−Removed: At the same time, advertisers may be less willing to allocate their budgets or resources to our products,
−Removed: which could seriously harm our business, results of operation or financial condition.
−Removed: Because we recognize revenue from
−Removed: subscriptions over the subscription term, the full impact of downturns or upturns in subscription sales may not be immediately
−Removed: reflected in our results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We recognize subscription revenue from
−Removed: customers monthly over the subscription term, and subscriptions are generally offered in one-, three-, six-, twelve-, and fifteen-month
−Removed: terms, depending on the particular product.
−Removed: As a result, much of the subscription revenue we report in each period is deferred
−Removed: revenue from subscription agreements entered into during previous periods.
−Removed: Consequently, a decline in new or renewed subscriptions
−Removed: in any one quarter will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters.
−Removed: In addition, we might not be able to immediately adjust
−Removed: our costs and expenses to reflect these reduced revenues.
−Removed: Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in user acceptance
−Removed: of our applications may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
−Removed: Our subscription model also
−Removed: makes it difficult for us to quickly increase our revenue through additional sales in any period, as revenue from new subscribers
−Removed: must be recognized over the subscription term.
−Removed: As a result, you should not rely on the amount of subscription revenue generated
−Removed: in prior quarters as an indication of future results.
−Removed: The online live video industry is
−Removed: characterized by rapid technological change and the development of enhancements and new applications, and if we fail to keep pace
−Removed: with technological developments or launch new applications, our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: The online live video industry is characterized
−Removed: by rapid change, and our future success is dependent upon our ability to adopt and innovate.
−Removed: To attract new users and increase
−Removed: revenues from existing users, we need to enhance, add new features to and improve our existing applications and introduce new
−Removed: applications in the future.
−Removed: The success of any enhancements or new features and applications depends on several factors, including
−Removed: timely completion, introduction and market acceptance.
−Removed: Building a new brand or product is generally an iterative process that
−Removed: occurs over a meaningful period of time and involves considerable resources and expenditures, and we may expend significant time
−Removed: and resources developing and launching an application that may not result in revenues in the anticipated timeframe or at all,
−Removed: or may not result in revenue growth that is sufficient to offset increased expenses.
−Removed: If we are unable to successfully develop
−Removed: enhancements, new features or new applications to meet user trends and preferences, our business and operating results could be
−Removed: adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, our applications are designed
−Removed: to operate on a variety of network, hardware and software platforms using internet tools and protocols and we need to continuously
−Removed: modify and enhance our applications to keep pace with technological changes.
−Removed: If we are unable to respond in a timely and cost-effective
−Removed: manner, our current and future applications may become less marketable and less competitive or even obsolete.
−Removed: If we are unable to protect our
−Removed: intellectual property rights, we may be unable to compete with competitors developing similar technologies.
−Removed: Historically, our defense of our intellectual
−Removed: property rights has been a significant aspect of our business and has meaningfully contributed to our results of operations.
−Removed: our success and ability to compete are often dependent upon the development of intellectual property for our applications.
−Removed: We aim to protect our confidential proprietary
−Removed: information, in part, by entering into confidentiality agreements and invention assignment agreements with all our employees,
−Removed: consultants, advisors and any third parties who access or contribute to our proprietary know-how, information, or technology.
−Removed: We also rely on trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, and domain-name-protection laws to protect our proprietary rights.
−Removed: In the United States and internationally, we have filed various applications to protect aspects of our intellectual property,
−Removed: and we currently hold a number of issued patents in multiple jurisdictions.
−Removed: In the future we may acquire additional patents or
−Removed: patent portfolios, which could require significant cash expenditures.
−Removed: However, third parties may knowingly or unknowingly infringe
−Removed: our proprietary rights, third parties may challenge proprietary rights held by us, and pending and future trademark and patent
−Removed: applications may not be approved.
−Removed: In addition, effective intellectual property protection may not be available in every country
−Removed: in which we operate or intend to operate our business.
−Removed: In any of these cases, we may be required
−Removed: to expend significant time and expense to prevent infringement or to enforce our rights.
−Removed: Although we have taken measures to protect
−Removed: our proprietary rights, others may offer products or concepts that are substantially similar to ours and compete with our business.
−Removed: If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights or prevent unauthorized use or appropriation by third parties, the value of
−Removed: our brand and other intangible assets may be diminished, and competitors may be able to more effectively mimic our service and
−Removed: methods of operations.
−Removed: Any of these events could seriously harm our business.
−Removed: We plan to continue expanding our
−Removed: operations internationally and may be subject to increased business and economic risks that could seriously harm our business.
−Removed: Presently, we derive a significant portion
−Removed: of revenue from international territories and we plan to continue expanding our business operations abroad.
−Removed: In addition, we rely
−Removed: on outsourced services based in Russia, India and elsewhere.
−Removed: We may enter new international markets where we have limited or no
−Removed: experience in marketing, selling and deploying our products.
−Removed: If we fail to deploy or manage our operations in international markets
−Removed: successfully, our business may suffer.
−Removed: As our international operations increase our operating results may become more greatly
−Removed: affected by fluctuations in the exchange rates of the currencies in which we do business.
−Removed: In addition, we are subject to a variety
−Removed: of risks inherent in doing business internationally, including:
−Removed: political, social,
−Removed: and economic instability;
−Removed: risks related to
−Removed: the legal and regulatory environment in foreign jurisdictions, including with respect to privacy, and unexpected changes in
−Removed: laws, regulatory requirements, and enforcement;
−Removed: potential damage
−Removed: to our brand and reputation due to compliance with local laws, including potential censorship and requirements to provide
−Removed: user information to local authorities;
−Removed: fluctuations in
−Removed: currency exchange rates;
−Removed: higher levels of
−Removed: credit risk and payment fraud;
−Removed: complying with multiple
−Removed: tax jurisdictions;
−Removed: reduced protection
−Removed: for intellectual-property rights in some countries;
−Removed: difficulties in
−Removed: staffing and managing global operations and the increased travel, infrastructure and compliance costs associated with multiple
−Removed: international locations;
−Removed: regulations that
−Removed: might add difficulties in repatriating cash earned outside the United States and otherwise preventing us from freely moving
−Removed: import and export
−Removed: restrictions and changes in trade regulation;
−Removed: complying with statutory
−Removed: equity requirements;
−Removed: complying with the
+Added: We have faced, and
+Added: we expect that we will continue to face, chargeback liability when our credit card providers resolve chargebacks in favor
+Added: of their customers.
+Added: We cannot accurately anticipate the extent of these liabilities, and if not properly addressed, these
+Added: liabilities could increase our operating expenses or preclude us from accepting certain credit cards as a method of payment,
+Added: either of which would materially adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We may make or attempt
+Added: to make acquisitions in the future, which could require significant management attention, disrupt our business, dilute our
+Added: stockholders and seriously harm our business.
+Added: We face certain risks related to the physical
+Added: and emotional safety of users and third parties.
+Added: We may need additional
+Added: capital to execute our business plan.
+Added: If we do not obtain additional financing, it could have a material adverse effect on
+Added: our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: We are subject to risks related to holding and
+Added: distributing cryptocurrencies.
+Added: Currently, there
+Added: are no regulated trading markets for cryptocurrency tokens, and therefore our ability to sell such tokens may be limited.
+Added: Our tokens and other
+Added: cryptocurrencies that we hold may be subject to loss, theft or restriction on access.
+Added: Because there has
+Added: been limited precedent set for financial accounting of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, the determination that we
+Added: have made for how to account for our tokens and any other digital assets we may acquire may be subject to change.
+Added: We may be liable as a result of information
+Added: retrieved from or transmitted over the internet.
+Added: If there are changes
+Added: in laws or regulations regarding privacy and the protection of user data, or if we fail to comply with such laws or regulations,
+Added: we may face claims brought against us by regulators or users that could adversely affect our business, results of operations
+Added: or financial condition.
+Added: in laws or regulations, including laws and regulations that impact the use of the internet,
+Added: such as internet neutrality laws, or laws that relate to content provided over the internet
+Added: or monitoring such content, could adversely affect our business, results of operations or
+Added: financial condition.
+Added: We may not be effective in protecting our internet
+Added: domain names.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be unable to compete with competitors developing similar technologies.
+Added: If we are subject
+Added: to intellectual property infringement claims, it could cause us to incur significant expenses, pay substantial damages or
+Added: royalties and prevent us from offering our applications.
+Added: results of operations are volatile and difficult to predict, and our stock price may
+Added: decline if we fail to meet the expectations of stockholders.
+Added: common stock is usually thinly traded, stockholders may be unable to sell at or near ask prices
+Added: or at all and the price of our common stock may be volatile.
+Added: ownership of our common stock is significantly concentrated in a small number of investors,
+Added: some of whom are affiliated with our Board of Directors and management, which could prevent
+Added: stockholders from having input on the course of our operations or otherwise lead to actual
+Added: or potential conflicts of interest.
+Added: issuance of shares upon the exercise of stock options and unvested shares of restricted
+Added: common stock may cause immediate and substantial dilution to our existing stockholders.
+Added: Certificate of Incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware
+Added: as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may
+Added: be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’
+Added: obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees,
+Added: or stockholders.
+Added: we fail to remain current on our reporting requirements, we could be removed from the
+Added: OTCQB, which would limit the ability of broker-dealers to sell our common stock and the
+Added: ability of stockholders to sell their common stock in the secondary market.
+Added: we have no current plans to pay cash dividends on our common stock
+Added: for the foreseeable future, a stockholder might not receive any return on investment unless the stockholder sold its shares of
+Added: common stock for a price greater than that for which the shares were purchased.
+Added: relations activities, nominal “float”
+Added: and supply and demand factors may affect
+Added: the price of our common stock.
+Added: we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting,
+Added: we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud and our
+Added: business may be harmed and our stock price may be adversely impacted.
+Added: Related to Our Business
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic may adversely affect our revenues, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (“COVID-19”) was reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China, and has reached
+Added: multiple other countries, including the United States, resulting in government-imposed quarantines, travel restrictions and other
+Added: public health safety measures in the United States and other affected countries.
+Added: The various precautionary measures taken by many
+Added: governmental authorities around the world in order to limit the spread of COVID-19 have had, and could continue to have, an adverse
+Added: effect on the global markets and its economy, including on the availability and pricing of employees and resources, and other
+Added: aspects of the global economy.
+Added: Therefore, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt and cause delays in our software,
+Added: disrupt the marketplace in which we operate, slow down the overall economy, curtail consumer spending, make it hard to adequately
+Added: staff our operations or enter into agreements with independent contractors and have a material adverse effect on our operations.
+Added: In addition, disruptions in the operations of the third parties with whom we do business have caused and could in the future cause
+Added: such third parties to fail to perform under their respective contracts or commitments with us.
+Added: For instance, we were party to
+Added: a sublease agreement with Telecom for office space located at 122 East 42nd Street in New York, NY, pursuant to which Telecom
+Added: was required to pay us $11,164 per month.
+Added: Due to the COVID-19, Telecom was unable to make its monthly payments under the sublease
+Added: agreement, and as a result, on June 18, 2020, we entered into an agreement with Telecom to terminate the sublease agreement.
+Added: the terms of the agreement, Telecom vacated the offices on June 30, 2020.
+Added: In addition, on June 22, 2020, we entered into an agreement
+Added: to terminate our lease for this office space.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, we vacated the offices on June 30, 2020
+Added: and agreed to forfeit our security deposit of $133,968.
+Added: the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic causes a substantial reduction or change in timing of our cash provided by operating activities,
+Added: we may be required to seek additional capital through the incurrence of debt or the issuance equity securities.
+Added: For instance,
+Added: on April 13, 2020, to help ensure adequate liquidity in light of the uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we applied
+Added: for a loan under the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) Paycheck Protection Program under the Coronavirus Aid,
+Added: Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”), and on May 3, 2020, we entered into a promissory note with an
+Added: aggregate principal amount of $506,500 (the “Note”) in favor of Citibank, N.A., as lender (the “Lender”).
+Added: On January 13, 2021, the Note was fully forgiven by the SBA and the Lender in compliance with the provisions of the CARES Act.
+Added: While we do not currently expect to incur additional indebtedness under the CARES Act, any inability to obtain additional liquidity
+Added: as and when needed would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain
+Added: and cannot be predicted, including the actions to contain COVID-19 or treat its impact and the availability of COVID-19 vaccines,
+Added: among others.
+Added: success of our consumer applications is principally dependent on our active subscribers and our engagement with our user base.
+Added: of March 12, 2021, our applications supported an active subscriber base of approximately 103,700 active subscribers worldwide.
+Added: compared to the total number of users in any given period, only a small portion of our users are active subscribers or purchasers
+Added: of virtual currency.
+Added: We primarily generate revenue through the sale of subscriptions and virtual currency to this small portion
+Added: of users and secondarily generate revenue through paid advertisements.
+Added: Accordingly, the success of our consumer applications is
+Added: substantially dependent on our ability to convert our users into active subscribers and to sell our users virtual currency.
+Added: discontinue the use of our applications in the ordinary course of business, and to sustain our revenue levels, we must attract,
+Added: retain and increase the number of users or more effectively monetize our existing users.
+Added: Falling user retention, growth or engagement
+Added: could also make our applications less attractive to advertisers, which could harm our business.
+Added: are a number of factors that could negatively impact user retention, growth and engagement, including, among other things:
+Added: may adopt competing products instead of ours;
+Added: may fail to introduce new products and services or improve upon our existing applications,
+Added: or those new products and services or improvements we introduce may be poorly received;
+Added: products may fail to operate effectively on mobile or other platforms;
+Added: may be unable to combat spam or other hostile or inappropriate usage on our products or free speech;
+Added: may be adverse changes in user sentiment about the quality or usefulness of our existing
+Added: may be concerns about the privacy implications, safety or security of our products;
+Added: or other problems may frustrate the experience of our users, particularly if those problems
+Added: prevent us from delivering our products in a fast and reliable manner;
+Added: may fail to provide adequate service to our users;
+Added: or other companies in our industry may be the subject of adverse media reports or other
+Added: negative publicity;
+Added: may not maintain our brand image or our reputation may be damaged;
+Added: may be subject to denial of service or other attacks from hackers that result in service
+Added: retain existing users, and particularly those users who are paying subscribers, we must devote significant resources so that our
+Added: applications retain their interest.
+Added: If we fail to grow or sustain the number of our users, or if the rates at which we attract
+Added: and retain existing users declines or the rate at which users become paying subscribers declines, it could have a material adverse
+Added: effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: operate in an intensely competitive industry and any failure to attract new users could diminish or suspend our development and
+Added: possibly cease our operations.
+Added: industry in which we compete is highly competitive and has few barriers to entry.
+Added: If we are unable to efficiently and effectively
+Added: attract new users as a result of intense competition or a saturated market, we may not be able to continue the provision, development
+Added: and enhancement of our consumer applications or become profitable on a consistent basis in the future.
+Added: factors affecting our ability to successfully compete include:
+Added: usefulness, novelty, performance and reliability of our consumer applications compared
+Added: to our competitors;
+Added: timing and market acceptance of our consumer applications, including developments and
+Added: enhancements of our competitors’
+Added: consumer applications;
+Added: ability to effectively monetize our consumer applications and the availability of free
+Added: or cheaper alternatives from our competitors;
+Added: ability to hire and retain talented employees, including technical employees, executives,
+Added: and marketing experts;
+Added: success of our customer service and support efforts;
+Added: reputation and brand strength compared to our competitors;
+Added: ● competition
+Added: for acquiring users that could result in increased user acquisition costs;
+Added: upon the platforms through which our consumer applications are accessed and the platform
+Added: owner’s ability to control our activities on such platforms;
+Added: effectiveness of the marketing and advertisement of our consumer applications;
+Added: ability to maintain advertisers’
+Added: interest in advertising through our consumer applications;
+Added: ability to innovate in the ever-changing consumer applications industry in which we operate;
+Added: as a result of new legislation or regulation within the consumer applications industry;
+Added: ● acquisitions
+Added: or consolidations within the consumer applications industry.
+Added: of our current and potential competitors offer similar services, have longer operating histories, significantly greater capital,
+Added: financial, technical, marketing and other resources and larger user or subscriber bases than we do.
+Added: These factors may allow our
+Added: competitors to more quickly respond to new or emerging technologies and changes in client or consumer preferences.
+Added: These competitors
+Added: may engage in more extensive research and development efforts, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns and adopt more
+Added: aggressive pricing strategies that may allow them to build larger user bases consisting of greater numbers of clients or paying
+Added: Our competitors may develop applications and software that are equal or superior to our applications and software or that
+Added: achieve greater market or industry acceptance.
+Added: It is possible that a new application developed or offered by one of our competitors
+Added: could gain rapid scale at the expense of existing brands through harnessing a new technology or distribution channel, creating
+Added: a new approach to servicing clients or connecting people.
+Added: entities that we do not directly compete with but that have large or dominant positions in one or more markets could use those
+Added: positions to gain a competitive advantage against us by integrating competing video chat or social media platforms into products
+Added: they control, such as search engines, web browsers or mobile device operating systems.
+Added: for consumers to switch between products in the video chat industry are generally low, and consumers have a propensity to try
+Added: new products to connect with new people.
+Added: As a result, new entrants and business models are likely to continue to emerge in our
+Added: These activities could attract users and subscribers away from our applications and reduce our market share.
+Added: we are unable to effectively compete, we may fail to obtain new clients for our products or our users may discontinue the use
+Added: of our products and we may lose active subscribers, either of which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results
+Added: of operations and financial condition.
+Added: mobile applications are substantially dependent on interaction with mobile platforms and operating systems that we do not control.
+Added: portion of our revenue, primarily our revenue from mobile platforms, is derived from the Apple iOS platform and the Google Android
+Added: Although we believe that we have a good relationship with Apple and Google, any deterioration in our relationship with
+Added: either could materially harm our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: are subject to each of Apple’s and Google’s standard terms and conditions for application developers, which govern
+Added: the promotion, distribution and operation of our applications on their respective storefronts.
+Added: Each of Apple and Google has broad
+Added: discretion to change its standard terms and conditions.
+Added: In addition, these standard terms and conditions can be vague and subject
+Added: to changing interpretations by Apple or Google.
+Added: In addition, each of Apple and Google has the right to prohibit a developer from
+Added: distributing applications on the storefront if the developer violates the standard terms and conditions.
+Added: In the event that either
+Added: Apple or Google ever determines that we are in violation of its standard terms and conditions and prohibits us from distributing
+Added: our applications on its storefront, it could materially harm our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: number of people who access the internet through devices other than personal computers, including smart phones, cell phones and
+Added: handheld tablets, has increased dramatically in the past several years and is projected to continue to increase.
+Added: we are substantially dependent on interoperability with popular mobile platforms that we do not control, including the Apple App
+Added: Store and the Google Play Store, and a portion of our revenue is derived from these two digital storefronts.
+Added: There have been occasions
+Added: in the past when these digital storefronts were unavailable for short periods of time or where there have been issues with the
+Added: in-App purchasing functionality from the storefront.
+Added: In the event that either the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store is
+Added: unavailable or if in-App purchasing functionality from the storefront is non-operational for a prolonged period of time, it could
+Added: have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: addition, each of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store provides consumers with products that compete with ours.
+Added: of these platforms give preferential treatment to competitive products, it could seriously harm the usage of our products on mobile
+Added: business depends on developing, establishing and maintaining strong brands.
+Added: If we are unable to maintain and enhance our brands,
+Added: we may be unable to expand or retain our user and paying subscriber bases.
+Added: believe that developing, establishing and maintaining awareness of our application brands is critical to our efforts to achieve
+Added: widespread acceptance of our applications and is an important element to expanding our client and subscriber bases.
+Added: promotion of our application brands will depend largely on the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing efforts and on our
+Added: ability to provide reliable and useful applications at competitive prices.
+Added: If clients and users do not perceive our products to
+Added: be of high quality, or if our products are not favorably received by clients and users, the value of our brands could diminish,
+Added: thereby decreasing the attractiveness of our software, services and applications to clients and users.
+Added: In addition, advertising
+Added: and marketing activities may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, any increased revenue may not offset the expenses
+Added: we incurred in building our brands.
+Added: we fail to successfully promote and maintain our application brands, or incur substantial expenses in unsuccessfully attempting
+Added: to promote and maintain our brands, we may fail to attract enough new clients or subscribers or retain our existing clients and
+Added: subscribers to the extent necessary to realize a sufficient return on our advertising and marketing activities, and it could have
+Added: a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: may conduct a portion of our operations through informal relationships, partnerships, strategic alliances or joint ventures, and
+Added: our failure to continue such relationships or resolve any material disagreements with these third parties could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on the success of these operations, our financial condition and our results of operations.
+Added: may conduct a portion of our operations through partnerships, strategic alliances or joint ventures.
+Added: For instance, at the end
+Added: of 2019, we launched our consumer application platform strategy, under which we plan to co-brand our video chat applications and
+Added: promote them in partnership with third-party communities, with the expectation of entering into revenue sharing arrangements with
+Added: potential partners.
+Added: may depend on third parties for elements of these arrangements that are important to the success of the relationship, such as
+Added: the development of features or technologies to be incorporated into our applications.
+Added: The performance of these third-party obligations
+Added: or the ability of third parties to meet their obligations under these arrangements would be outside of our control.
+Added: If these third
+Added: parties do not meet or satisfy their obligations under these arrangements, the performance and success of these arrangements,
+Added: and their value to us, would be adversely affected.
+Added: If our current or future partners are unable to meet their obligations, we
+Added: may be forced to undertake the obligations ourselves and/or incur additional expenses in order to have some other party perform
+Added: such obligations.
+Added: In such cases we may also be required to seek legal enforcement of our rights, the outcome of which would be
+Added: If any of these events occur, they may adversely impact us, our financial performance and results of operations, and/or
+Added: adversely impact our ability to enter into similar relationships in the future.
+Added: arrangements with third parties could involve risks not otherwise present when we directly manage our operations, including, for
+Added: parties may share certain approval rights over major decisions within the scope of the relationship;
+Added: possibility that these third parties might become insolvent or bankrupt;
+Added: possibility that we may incur liabilities as a result of an action taken by one of these third parties;
+Added: third parties may be in a position to take action contrary to our instructions or requests or contrary to our policies or
+Added: between us and these third parties may result in litigation or arbitration that would increase our expenses, delay or terminate
+Added: projects and prevent our officers and directors from focusing their time and effort on our business.
+Added: our goodwill or other intangible assets become impaired, we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings, which
+Added: could seriously harm our operating results.
+Added: are required to test goodwill for impairment at least annually or more frequently if there are indicators that the carrying amount
+Added: of the goodwill exceeds its carried value.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, we had recorded a total of $6.3 million of goodwill and $0.4
+Added: million of other intangible assets.
+Added: An adverse change in domestic or global market conditions, particularly if such change has
+Added: the effect of changing one of our critical assumptions or estimates made in connection with the impairment testing of goodwill
+Added: or intangible assets, could result in a change to the estimation of fair value that could, in turn, result in an impairment charge
+Added: to our goodwill or other intangible assets.
+Added: If we divest or discontinue product categories or products that we previously acquired,
+Added: or if the value of those parts of our business become impaired, we also may need to evaluate the carrying value of our goodwill.
+Added: Any such material charges may have a negative impact on our operating results.
+Added: the distribution of our products through application stores increases, we may incur additional fees from the developers of application
+Added: the user base of our consumer applications continues to shift to mobile solutions, we increasingly rely on the Apple iOS and Google
+Added: Android platforms to distribute our products.
+Added: While our products are free to download from these stores, we offer our users the
+Added: opportunity to purchase paid memberships and certain premium features through our products.
+Added: We determine the prices at which these
+Added: memberships and features are sold and, in exchange for facilitating the purchase of these memberships and features through our
+Added: products to users who download our products from these stores, we pay Apple or Google, as applicable, a share, which is currently
+Added: 30% of the revenue we receive from these transactions.
+Added: In the future, other distribution platforms that we utilize may charge
+Added: us fees for the distribution of our applications.
+Added: As the distribution of our products through application stores increases, the
+Added: amount of fees that we must pay to the developers of these application stores will also increase.
+Added: Unless we find a way to offset
+Added: these fees, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
+Added: future success is dependent, in part, on the performance and continued service of our executive officers.
+Added: Without their continued
+Added: service, we may be forced to interrupt or eventually cease our operations.
+Added: are dependent to a great extent upon the experience, abilities and continued service of Jason Katz, our Chief Executive Officer
+Added: and Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Kara B.
+Added: Jenny, our Chief Financial Officer and director.
+Added: The loss of the services
+Added: of these individuals would substantially affect our business or operations and could have a material adverse effect on our business,
+Added: results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: subscription metrics and other estimates are subject to inherent challenges in measurement,
+Added: and real or perceived inaccuracies in those metrics may seriously harm and negatively
+Added: affect our reputation and our business.
+Added: regularly review metrics, including our active subscribers, to evaluate growth trends, measure our performance, and make strategic
+Added: These metrics are calculated using internal Company data and have not been validated by an independent third party.
+Added: While these numbers are based on what we believe to be reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement,
+Added: there are inherent challenges in measuring how our products are used across large populations globally.
+Added: of our demographic data may be incomplete or inaccurate.
+Added: For example, because users self-report their dates of birth, our age-demographic
+Added: data may differ from our users’
+Added: If our users provide us with incorrect or incomplete information regarding
+Added: their age or other attributes, our estimates may prove inaccurate.
+Added: addition, our business strategy is guided by data analytics that we compute internally based on data collection, data processing,
+Added: cloud-based platforms, statistical projections and forecasting, mobile computing, social media analytics and other applications
+Added: and technologies.
+Added: We use these internally derived data analytics to guide decisions concerning the development and modification
+Added: of features on our applications, monetization strategies for our applications and the development of new applications, among other
+Added: inability to accurately derive our metrics or data analytics could result in incorrect business decisions and inefficiencies.
+Added: For instance, if a significant understatement or overstatement of our active subscribers were to occur, we may expend resources
+Added: to implement unnecessary business measures or fail to take required actions to attract a sufficient number of subscribers to satisfy
+Added: our growth strategies.
+Added: If advertisers or investors do not perceive our subscription, geographic or other demographic metrics to
+Added: be accurate representations of our user base, or if we discover material inaccuracies in our subscription, geographic or other
+Added: demographic metrics, our reputation may be seriously harmed.
+Added: At the same time, advertisers may be less willing to allocate their
+Added: budgets or resources to our products, which could seriously harm our business, results of operation or financial condition.
+Added: we recognize revenue from subscriptions over the term of the subscription, the full impact of downturns or upturns in subscription
+Added: sales may not be immediately reflected in our results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: recognize subscription revenue from customers monthly over the term of the subscription, and subscriptions are generally offered
+Added: in one-, three-, six-, twelve-, and fifteen-month terms, depending on the particular product.
+Added: As a result, much of the subscription
+Added: revenue we report in each period is deferred revenue from subscription agreements entered into during previous periods.
+Added: Consequently,
+Added: a decline in new or renewed subscriptions in any one quarter will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters.
+Added: we might not be able to immediately adjust our costs and expenses to reflect these reduced revenues.
+Added: Accordingly, the effect of
+Added: significant downturns in user acceptance of our applications may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future
+Added: Our subscription model also makes it difficult for us to quickly increase our revenue through additional sales in any
+Added: period, as revenue from new subscribers must be recognized over the term of the subscription.
+Added: As a result, you should not rely
+Added: on the amount of subscription revenue generated in prior quarters as an indication of future results.
+Added: online live video industry is characterized by rapid technological change and the development of enhancements and new applications,
+Added: and if we fail to keep pace with technological developments or launch new applications, our business may be adversely affected.
+Added: online live video industry is characterized by rapid change, and our future success is dependent upon our ability to adopt and
+Added: To attract new users and increase revenues from existing users, we need to enhance, add new features to and improve
+Added: our existing applications and introduce new applications in the future.
+Added: The success of any enhancements or new features and applications
+Added: depends on several factors, including timely completion, introduction and market acceptance.
+Added: Building a new brand or product is
+Added: generally an iterative process that occurs over a meaningful period of time and involves considerable resources and expenditures,
+Added: and we may expend significant time and resources developing and launching an application that may not result in revenues in the
+Added: anticipated timeframe or at all, or may not result in revenue growth that is sufficient to offset increased expenses.
+Added: unable to successfully develop enhancements, new features or new applications to meet user trends and preferences, our business
+Added: and operating results could be adversely affected.
+Added: addition, our applications are designed to operate on a variety of network, hardware and software platforms using internet tools
+Added: and protocols and we need to continuously modify and enhance our applications to keep pace with technological changes.
+Added: unable to respond in a timely and cost-effective manner, our current and future applications may become less marketable and less
+Added: competitive or even obsolete.
+Added: plan to continue expanding our operations internationally and may be subject to increased business and economic risks that could
+Added: seriously harm our business.
+Added: we derive a significant portion of revenue from international territories and we plan to continue expanding our business operations
+Added: In addition, we rely on outsourced services based in Russia, India and elsewhere.
+Added: We may enter new international markets
+Added: where we have limited or no experience in marketing, selling and deploying our products.
+Added: If we fail to deploy or manage our operations
+Added: in international markets successfully, our business may suffer.
+Added: As our international operations increase our operating results
+Added: may become more greatly affected by fluctuations in the exchange rates of the currencies in which we do business.
+Added: we are subject to a variety of risks inherent in doing business internationally, including:
+Added: social, and economic instability;
+Added: related to the legal and regulatory environment in foreign jurisdictions, including with
+Added: respect to privacy, free speech and unexpected changes in laws, regulatory requirements,
+Added: and enforcement;
+Added: damage to our brand and reputation due to compliance with local laws, including potential
+Added: censorship and requirements to provide user information to local authorities;
+Added: ● fluctuations
+Added: in currency exchange rates;
+Added: levels of credit risk and payment fraud;
+Added: with multiple tax jurisdictions;
+Added: protection for intellectual-property rights in some countries;
+Added: ● difficulties
+Added: in staffing and managing global operations and the increased travel, infrastructure and
+Added: compliance costs associated with multiple international locations;
+Added: ● regulations
+Added: that might add difficulties in repatriating cash earned outside the United States and
+Added: otherwise preventing us from freely moving cash;
+Added: and export restrictions and changes in trade regulation;
+Added: with statutory equity requirements;
+Added: with the U.S.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.K.
−Removed: Bribery Act and similar laws in other jurisdictions;
−Removed: the impact of the
−Removed: United Kingdom’s pending exit from the European Union;
−Removed: export controls
−Removed: and economic sanctions administered by the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security and the Treasury Department’s
−Removed: Office of Foreign Assets Control.
−Removed: If we are unable to expand internationally
−Removed: and manage the complexity of our global operations successfully, our business could be seriously harmed.
−Removed: A portion of our revenue is dependent
−Removed: on third-party resellers, the efforts of which we do not control.
−Removed: We are dependent on the efforts of third
−Removed: parties who resell our subscriptions for a portion of our revenue.
−Removed: In particular, video chat users in certain international territories
−Removed: have an option to purchase subscriptions through local resellers.
−Removed: These local resellers prepay in bulk for services and debit
−Removed: the prepaid balance as one-time subscriptions and virtual currency are sold to end users.
−Removed: We do not control the efforts of these
−Removed: If they fail to market or sell our subscriptions successfully, merge or consolidate with other businesses, declare
−Removed: bankruptcy or depart from their respective industries, our business could be harmed.
−Removed: If we are unable to maintain or replace our
−Removed: contractual relationships with resellers, efficiently manage our relationships with them or establish new contractual relationships
−Removed: with other third parties, we may fail to retain subscribers or acquire potential new subscribers and may experience delays and
−Removed: increased costs in adding or replacing subscribers that were lost, any of which could materially affect our business, operating
−Removed: results and financial condition.
−Removed: Foreign governments restricting
−Removed: access to our applications could materially adversely impact our business.
−Removed: We have continued to focus on increasing
−Removed: the international presence of our applications by expanding the localized and translated versions for additional international
−Removed: countries that are culturally aligned with our products.
−Removed: Foreign data protection, privacy, consumer protection, content regulation,
−Removed: and other laws and regulations are often more restrictive than those in the United States.
−Removed: Foreign governments may censor our
−Removed: products in their countries, restrict access to our products from their countries entirely, or impose other restrictions that
−Removed: may affect their citizens’
−Removed: ability to access our products for an extended period of time or even indefinitely.
−Removed: governments think we are violating their laws, or for other reasons, they may seek to restrict access to our products, which would
−Removed: give our competitors an opportunity to penetrate geographic markets that we cannot access.
−Removed: As a result, our ability to grow our
−Removed: international user base would be impaired, and we may not be able to maintain or grow our revenue as anticipated and our business
−Removed: could be seriously harmed.
−Removed: Our mobile applications rely on
−Removed: high-bandwidth data capabilities, which are subject to hardware, networks, regulations and standards that we do not control.
−Removed: Our mobile applications require high-bandwidth
−Removed: data capabilities.
−Removed: If the costs of data usage increase or access to cellular networks is limited, our user growth and retention
−Removed: on mobile platforms may be seriously harmed.
−Removed: Additionally, to deliver high-quality video and other content over mobile cellular
−Removed: networks, our products must work well with a range of mobile technologies, systems, networks, regulations and standards that we
−Removed: do not control, and any changes to those mobile technologies, systems, networks, regulations or standards could impact the usability
−Removed: of our mobile applications, which would materially adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: Our business depends in large part
−Removed: upon the availability of cost-effective advertising space through a variety of media and keeping pace with trends in consumer
−Removed: We depend upon the availability of advertising
−Removed: space through a variety of media, including third-party applications on platforms such as Facebook, to recruit new users and subscribers,
−Removed: generate activity from existing users and subscribers and direct traffic to our application.
−Removed: Historically, we have had to increase
−Removed: our marketing expenditures in order to attract and retain users and sustain our growth.
−Removed: The availability of advertising space
−Removed: varies, and a shortage of advertising space in any particular media or on any particular platform, or the elimination of a particular
−Removed: medium on which we advertise, could limit our ability to generate new subscribers, generate activity from existing subscribers
−Removed: or direct traffic to our applications, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations
−Removed: and financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, evolving consumer behavior can affect the availability of profitable marketing opportunities.
−Removed: For example, as consumers communicate less via email and more via text messaging and other virtual means, the reach of email campaigns
−Removed: designed to attract new and repeat users (and retain current users) for our applications is adversely impacted.
−Removed: To continue to
−Removed: reach potential users and grow our business, we must devote more of our overall marketing expenditures to newer advertising channels,
−Removed: which may be unproven and undeveloped, and we may not be able to continue to manage and fine-tune our marketing efforts in response
−Removed: to these trends.
−Removed: Interruption, maintenance or failure
−Removed: of our programming code, servers or technological infrastructure could hurt our ability to effectively provide our applications,
−Removed: which could damage our reputation and harm our results of operations.
−Removed: The availability of our applications depends
−Removed: on the continued operation of our programming code, databases, servers and technological infrastructure.
−Removed: Any damage to, or failure
−Removed: of, our systems could result in interruptions in service for our applications, which could damage our brands and have a material
−Removed: adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: Our systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption
−Removed: from terrorist attacks, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures, computer viruses, computer denial of service attacks
−Removed: or other attempts to harm our systems.
−Removed: Some of our systems are not fully redundant, and our disaster recovery planning cannot
−Removed: account for all eventualities.
−Removed: In addition, from time to time we experience
−Removed: limited periods of server downtime due to maintenance or enhancements.
−Removed: If our applications are unavailable during these periods
−Removed: of downtime or if our users are unable to access our applications within a reasonable amount of time, users may not return to
−Removed: our applications in the future, or at all.
−Removed: As our user base and the volume and types of information shared on our applications
−Removed: continues to grow, we will need an increasing amount of technology infrastructure, including network capacity and computing power,
−Removed: to continue to satisfy our users’
−Removed: It is possible that we may fail to effectively scale and grow our technology infrastructure
−Removed: to accommodate these increased demands.
−Removed: Any failure to support and scale our technology infrastructure could adversely impact
−Removed: the reputation of our brands and harm our results of operations.
−Removed: Security breaches, computer viruses
−Removed: and computer hacking attacks could harm our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We receive, process, store and transmit
−Removed: a significant amount of personal user and other confidential information, including credit card information, and enable our users
−Removed: to share their personal information with each other.
−Removed: In some cases, we retain third party vendors to store this information.
−Removed: continuously develop and maintain systems to protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of this information, but cannot
−Removed: guarantee that inadvertent or unauthorized use or disclosure will not occur or that third parties will not gain unauthorized access
−Removed: to this information despite our efforts.
−Removed: If any such event were to occur, we may not be able to remedy the event, and we may have
−Removed: to expend significant capital and resources to mitigate the impact of such an event, and to develop and implement protections
−Removed: to prevent future events of this nature from occurring.
−Removed: Security breaches, computer malware and
−Removed: computer hacking attacks have become more prevalent in our industry, have occurred on our systems in the past, and may occur on
−Removed: our systems in the future.
−Removed: Although it is difficult to determine what, if any, harm may directly result from an interruption or
−Removed: attack, any security breach caused by hacking, including efforts to gain unauthorized access to our applications, servers or websites,
−Removed: or to cause intentional malfunctions or loss or corruption of data, software, hardware or other computer equipment, and the inadvertent
−Removed: transmission of computer viruses could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: If a breach of our security
−Removed: (or the security of our vendors and partners) occurs, the perception of the effectiveness of our security measures and our reputation
−Removed: may be harmed, we could lose current and potential users and the recognition of our various brands and their competitive positions
−Removed: could be diminished, any or all of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Spammers may attempt to use our products
−Removed: to send targeted and untargeted spam messages to users, which may embarrass or annoy users and make our products less user friendly.
−Removed: We cannot be certain that the technologies that we have developed to repel spamming attacks will be able to eliminate all spam
−Removed: messages from our products.
−Removed: Our actions to combat spam may also require diversion of significant time and focus of our engineering
−Removed: team from improving our products.
−Removed: As a result of spamming activities, our users may use our products less or stop using them altogether,
−Removed: and result in continuing operational cost to us.
+Added: Bribery Act and similar laws in
+Added: other jurisdictions;
+Added: impact of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union;
+Added: controls and economic sanctions administered by the Department of Commerce Bureau of
+Added: Industry and Security and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
+Added: we are unable to expand internationally and manage the complexity of our global operations successfully, our business could be
+Added: seriously harmed.
+Added: portion of our revenue is dependent on third-party resellers, the efforts of which we do not control.
+Added: are dependent on the efforts of third parties who resell our subscriptions for a portion of our revenue.
+Added: In particular, video
+Added: chat users in certain international territories have an option to purchase subscriptions through local resellers.
+Added: resellers prepay in bulk for services and debit the prepaid balance as one-time subscriptions and virtual currency are sold to
+Added: do not control the efforts of these resellers.
+Added: If they fail to market or sell our subscriptions successfully, merge or consolidate
+Added: with other businesses, declare bankruptcy or depart from their respective industries, our business could be harmed.
+Added: unable to maintain or replace our contractual relationships with resellers, efficiently manage our relationships with them or
+Added: establish new contractual relationships with other third parties, we may fail to retain subscribers or acquire potential new subscribers
+Added: and may experience delays and increased costs in adding or replacing subscribers that were lost, any of which could materially
+Added: affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
+Added: governments restricting access to our applications could materially adversely impact our business.
+Added: have continued to focus on increasing the international presence of our applications by expanding the localized and translated
+Added: versions for additional international countries that are culturally aligned with our products.
+Added: Foreign data protection, privacy,
+Added: consumer protection, content regulation, and other laws and regulations are often more restrictive than those in the United States.
+Added: Foreign governments may censor our products in their countries, restrict access to our products from their countries entirely,
+Added: or impose other restrictions that may affect their citizens’
+Added: ability to access our products for an extended period of time
+Added: or even indefinitely.
+Added: If foreign governments think we are violating their laws, or for other reasons, they may seek to restrict
+Added: access to our products, which would give our competitors an opportunity to penetrate geographic markets that we cannot access.
+Added: As a result, our ability to grow our international user base would be impaired, and we may not be able to maintain or grow our
+Added: revenue as anticipated and our business could be seriously harmed.
+Added: mobile applications rely on high-bandwidth data capabilities, which are subject to hardware, networks, regulations and standards
+Added: that we do not control.
+Added: mobile applications require high-bandwidth data capabilities.
+Added: If the costs of data usage increase or access to cellular networks
+Added: is limited, our user growth and retention on mobile platforms may be seriously harmed.
+Added: Additionally, to deliver high-quality video
+Added: and other content over mobile cellular networks, our products must work well with a range of mobile technologies, systems, networks,
+Added: regulations and standards that we do not control, and any changes to those mobile technologies, systems, networks, regulations
+Added: or standards could impact the usability of our mobile applications, which would materially adversely affect our business, results
+Added: of operations or financial condition.
+Added: business depends in large part upon the availability of cost-effective advertising space through a variety of media and keeping
+Added: pace with trends in consumer behavior.
+Added: depend upon the availability of advertising space through a variety of media, including third-party applications on platforms
+Added: such as Facebook, to recruit new users and subscribers, generate activity from existing users and subscribers and direct traffic
+Added: to our application.
+Added: Historically, we have had to increase our marketing expenditures in order to attract and retain users and
+Added: sustain our growth.
+Added: The availability of advertising space varies, and a shortage of advertising space in any particular media
+Added: or on any particular platform, or the elimination of a particular medium on which we advertise, could limit our ability to generate
+Added: new subscribers, generate activity from existing subscribers or direct traffic to our applications, any of which could have a
+Added: material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, evolving consumer behavior
+Added: can affect the availability of profitable marketing opportunities.
+Added: For example, as consumers communicate less via email and more
+Added: via text messaging and other virtual means, the reach of email campaigns designed to attract new and repeat users (and retain
+Added: current users) for our applications is adversely impacted.
+Added: To continue to reach potential users and grow our business, we must
+Added: devote more of our overall marketing expenditures to newer advertising channels, which may be unproven and undeveloped, and we
+Added: may not be able to continue to manage and fine-tune our marketing efforts in response to these trends.
+Added: Interruption,
+Added: maintenance or failure of our programming code, servers or technological infrastructure could hurt our ability to effectively
+Added: provide our applications, which could damage our reputation and harm our results of operations.
+Added: availability of our applications depends on the continued operation of our programming code, databases, servers and technological
+Added: infrastructure.
+Added: Any damage to, or failure of, our systems could result in interruptions in service for our applications, which
+Added: could damage our brands and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption from terrorist attacks, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures,
+Added: computer viruses, computer denial of service attacks or other attempts to harm our systems.
+Added: Some of our systems are not fully
+Added: redundant, and our disaster recovery planning cannot account for all eventualities.
+Added: addition, from time to time we experience limited periods of server downtime due to maintenance or enhancements.
+Added: If our applications
+Added: are unavailable during these periods of downtime or if our users are unable to access our applications within a reasonable amount
+Added: of time, users may not return to our applications in the future, or at all.
+Added: As our user base and the volume and types of information
+Added: shared on our applications continues to grow, we will need an increasing amount of technology infrastructure, including network
+Added: capacity and computing power, to continue to satisfy our users’
+Added: It is possible that we may fail to effectively scale
+Added: and grow our technology infrastructure to accommodate these increased demands.
+Added: Any failure to support and scale our technology
+Added: infrastructure could adversely impact the reputation of our brands and harm our results of operations.
+Added: breaches, computer viruses and computer hacking attacks could harm our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: receive, process, store and transmit a significant amount of personal user and other confidential information, including credit
+Added: card information, and enable our users to share their personal information with each other.
+Added: In some cases, we retain third party
+Added: vendors to store this information.
+Added: We continuously develop and maintain systems to protect the security, integrity and confidentiality
+Added: of this information, but cannot guarantee that inadvertent or unauthorized use or disclosure will not occur or that third parties
+Added: will not gain unauthorized access to this information despite our efforts.
+Added: If any such event were to occur, we may not be able
+Added: to remedy the event, and we may have to expend significant capital and resources to mitigate the impact of such an event, and
+Added: to develop and implement protections to prevent future events of this nature from occurring.
+Added: breaches, computer malware and computer hacking attacks have become more prevalent in our industry, have occurred on our systems
+Added: in the past, and may occur on our systems in the future.
+Added: Although it is difficult to determine what, if any, harm may directly
+Added: result from an interruption or attack, any security breach caused by hacking, including efforts to gain unauthorized access to
+Added: our applications, servers or websites, or to cause intentional malfunctions or loss or corruption of data, software, hardware
+Added: or other computer equipment, and the inadvertent transmission of computer viruses could harm our business, financial condition
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: If a breach of our security (or the security of our vendors and partners) occurs, the perception of
+Added: the effectiveness of our security measures and our reputation may be harmed, we could lose current and potential users and the
+Added: recognition of our various brands and their competitive positions could be diminished, any or all of which could adversely affect
+Added: our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: may attempt to use our products to send targeted and untargeted spam messages to users, which may embarrass or annoy users and
+Added: make our products less user friendly.
+Added: We cannot be certain that the technologies that we have developed to repel spamming attacks
+Added: will be able to eliminate all spam messages from our products.
+Added: Our actions to combat spam may also require diversion of significant
+Added: time and focus of our engineering team from improving our products.
+Added: As a result of spamming activities, our users may use our
+Added: products less or stop using them altogether, and result in continuing operational cost to us.
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team to divert significant time and focus from improving our products.
−Removed: In addition, we may not be able to control or stop our
−Removed: products from becoming the preferred application of use by these groups, which may become public knowledge and seriously harm
−Removed: our reputation or lead to lawsuits or attention from regulators.
−Removed: If these activities increase, our reputation, user growth and
−Removed: user engagement, and operational cost structure could be seriously harmed.
−Removed: If there are changes in laws or
−Removed: regulations regarding privacy and the protection of user data, or if we fail to comply with such laws or regulations, we may face
−Removed: claims brought against us by regulators or users that could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial
−Removed: State, federal and international laws
−Removed: and regulations govern the collection, use, retention, sharing and security of data that we receive from and about our users.
−Removed: These laws can be particularly restrictive in countries outside of the United States.
−Removed: In addition, the application and interpretation
−Removed: of these laws and regulations are often uncertain, particularly in the new and rapidly evolving industries in which we operate.
−Removed: Any failure, or perceived failure, by
−Removed: us to comply with such laws and regulations, including Federal Trade Commission requirements or industry self-regulatory principles,
−Removed: could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others, which could potentially have an adverse
−Removed: effect on our business.
−Removed: As a result of such a failure, or perceived failure, we may be subject to a claim or class-action lawsuit
−Removed: regarding our online services.
−Removed: The successful assertion of a claim against us, or a regulatory action against us, could result
−Removed: in significant monetary damages, diversion of management resources and require us to make significant payments and incur substantial
−Removed: legal expenses.
−Removed: Any claims with respect to violation of privacy or misappropriation of user data brought against us may have a
−Removed: material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Several proposals are pending before federal,
−Removed: state, and foreign legislative and regulatory bodies or have recently been enacted that could significantly affect our business.
−Removed: For example, the GDPR in the European Union, which went into effect on May 25, 2018, required us to change our policies and procedures
−Removed: regarding the handling of personal and sensitive data in the European Union.
−Removed: The failure to comply with the GDPR could, in certain
−Removed: instances, result in penalties of up to 4% of our worldwide revenues.
−Removed: As a result, a failure to comply with the GDPR could seriously
−Removed: harm our business.
−Removed: Continued privacy concerns may result
−Removed: in new or amended laws and regulations.
−Removed: Future laws and regulations with respect to the collection, compilation, use and publication
−Removed: of information and consumer privacy could result in limitations on our operations, increased compliance or litigation expense,
−Removed: adverse publicity or loss of revenue, which any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: It is also possible that we could be prohibited from collecting or disseminating certain types of data,
−Removed: which could affect our ability to meet our users’
−Removed: Changes in laws or regulations that
−Removed: impact the use of the internet, including internet neutrality laws, could adversely affect our business, results of operations
−Removed: or financial condition.
−Removed: The adoption of any laws or regulations
−Removed: that adversely affect the growth or use of the internet, including laws governing internet neutrality, could decrease the demand
−Removed: for our products and increase our cost of doing business.
−Removed: Current Federal Communications Commission “open internet rules”
−Removed: prohibit internet providers in the United States from impeding access to most content, or otherwise unfairly discriminating against
−Removed: content providers like us.
−Removed: These rules also prohibit mobile providers from entering into arrangements with specific content providers
−Removed: for faster or better access over their data networks.
−Removed: The European Union similarly requires equal access to internet content.
−Removed: If the Federal Communications Commission, Congress, the European Union or courts modify these open internet rules, mobile providers
−Removed: may be able to limit our users’
−Removed: ability to access our applications or make our applications a less attractive alternative
−Removed: to our competitors’
−Removed: applications, which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial
−Removed: We have faced, and we expect that
−Removed: we will continue to face, chargeback liability when our credit card providers resolve chargebacks in favor of their customers.
−Removed: We cannot accurately anticipate the extent of these liabilities, and if not properly addressed, these liabilities could increase
−Removed: our operating expenses or preclude us from accepting certain credit cards as a method of payment, either of which would materially
−Removed: adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: We depend on the ability to accept credit
−Removed: and debit card payments from our subscribers and our ability to maintain the good standing of our merchant account with our credit
+Added: In addition, we may not be able to control or stop our products
+Added: from becoming the preferred application of use by these groups, which may become public knowledge and seriously harm our reputation
+Added: or lead to lawsuits or attention from regulators.
+Added: If these activities increase, our reputation, user growth and user engagement,
+Added: and operational cost structure could be seriously harmed.
+Added: have faced, and we expect that we will continue to face, chargeback liability when our credit card providers resolve chargebacks
+Added: in favor of their customers.
+Added: We cannot accurately anticipate the extent of these liabilities, and if not properly addressed, these
+Added: liabilities could increase our operating expenses or preclude us from accepting certain credit cards as a method of payment, either
+Added: of which would materially adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We depend on the ability to accept credit and
+Added: debit card payments from our subscribers and our ability to maintain the good standing of our merchant account with our credit
card providers to process subscription payments.
In the event that one of our customers initiates a billing dispute and one of
−Removed: our credit card providers resolves the dispute in the customer’s favor, the transaction is normally “charged back”
−Removed: to us and the purchase price is credited or otherwise refunded to the customer.
−Removed: In addition, under current credit card practices,
−Removed: a merchant is liable for fraudulent credit card transactions when, as is the case with the transactions we process, that merchant
−Removed: does not obtain a cardholder’s signature.
−Removed: We have suffered losses and we expect
−Removed: that we will continue to suffer losses as a result of subscriptions placed with fraudulent credit card data, as well as users
−Removed: who chargeback their purchases.
−Removed: Any failure to adequately control fraudulent credit card transactions or keep our chargebacks
−Removed: under an acceptable threshold would result in significantly higher credit card-related costs and, therefore, materially increase
−Removed: our operating expenses.
−Removed: If we are subject to intellectual
−Removed: property infringement claims, it could cause us to incur significant expenses, pay substantial damages or royalties and prevent
−Removed: us from offering our applications.
−Removed: From time to time, third parties may claim
−Removed: that our applications infringe or violate their intellectual property rights.
−Removed: Any claims of infringement could cause us to incur
−Removed: significant expenses and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay substantial damages and prevent us from
−Removed: using licensed technology that may be fundamental to our applications.
−Removed: Even if we were to prevail, any litigation regarding intellectual
−Removed: property could be costly and time-consuming and divert the attention of our management and key personnel from our business operations.
−Removed: We maintain insurance to protect against intellectual property infringement claims and resulting litigation, but such insurance
−Removed: may not cover or may not be sufficient to cover all potential claims, liability or expenses.
−Removed: We may also be obligated to indemnify
−Removed: our business partners in any such litigation, which could further exhaust our resources.
−Removed: Furthermore, as a result of an intellectual
−Removed: property challenge, we may be prevented from offering our applications unless we enter into royalty, license or other agreements.
−Removed: We may not be able to obtain such agreements at all or on terms acceptable to us, and as a result, we may be precluded from offering
−Removed: our applications and services.
−Removed: We may make or attempt to make acquisitions
−Removed: in the future, which could require significant management attention, disrupt our business, dilute our stockholders and seriously
−Removed: harm our business.
−Removed: As part of our business strategy, we have
−Removed: made and intend to make acquisitions to add specialized employees and complementary companies, products and technologies.
−Removed: future, we may not be able to find other suitable acquisition candidates, and we may not be able to complete acquisitions on favorable
−Removed: terms, if at all.
−Removed: Our previous and future acquisitions may not achieve our goals, and any future acquisitions we complete could
−Removed: be viewed negatively by users, advertisers or investors.
−Removed: In addition, if we fail to successfully close transactions or integrate
−Removed: new teams, or integrate the products and technologies associated with these acquisitions into our company, our business could
−Removed: be seriously harmed.
−Removed: Any integration process may require significant time and resources, and we may not be able to manage the
−Removed: process successfully.
−Removed: We may not successfully evaluate or use the acquired products, technology and personnel, or accurately forecast
−Removed: the financial impact of an acquisition transaction, including accounting charges.
−Removed: We may also incur unanticipated liabilities
−Removed: that we assume as a result of acquiring companies.
−Removed: We may have to pay cash, incur debt or issue equity securities to pay for any
−Removed: acquisition, any of which could negatively impact our business and financial condition.
−Removed: Issuing equity to finance any such acquisitions
−Removed: would also dilute our existing stockholders.
−Removed: Incurring debt would increase our fixed obligations and could also include covenants
−Removed: or other restrictions that would impede our ability to manage our operations.
−Removed: We face certain risks related to
−Removed: the physical and emotional safety of users and third parties.
−Removed: We cannot control the actions of our users
−Removed: in their communications or physical actions.
−Removed: There is a possibility that users or third parties could be physically or emotionally
−Removed: harmed following interaction with another user.
−Removed: We warn our users that we do not screen other users and, given our lack of physical
−Removed: presence, we do not take any action to ensure personal safety on a meeting between users or subscribers arranged following contact
−Removed: initiated via our applications or ensure personal safety of our users against self-harming following contact with other users
−Removed: initiated via our applications.
−Removed: If an unfortunate incident of this nature occurred in a meeting of two people following contact
−Removed: initiated on our applications or that of one of our competitors, any resulting negative publicity could materially and adversely
−Removed: affect us or the online video chat industry in general.
−Removed: Any such incident involving our applications could damage our reputation
−Removed: and our brand, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: the affected users or third parties could initiate legal action against us, which could divert management attention from operations,
−Removed: cause us to incur significant expenses, whether we are successful or not, and damage our reputation.
−Removed: We may be liable as a result of
−Removed: information retrieved from or transmitted over the internet.
−Removed: We may be sued for defamation, civil rights
−Removed: infringement, negligence, copyright or trademark infringement, invasion of privacy, personal injury, product liability or under
−Removed: other legal theories relating to information that is published or made available on our websites or applications.
−Removed: of claims have been brought, sometimes successfully, against online services in the past.
−Removed: We also offer messaging services on
−Removed: our applications and we send emails directly and through third parties to our users, which may subject us to potential risks,
−Removed: such as liabilities or claims resulting from unsolicited email or spamming, lost or misdirected messages, security breaches, illegal
−Removed: or fraudulent use of email or personal information or interruptions or delays in email service.
−Removed: Our insurance does not specifically
−Removed: provide for coverage of these types of claims and, therefore, may be inadequate to protect us against them.
−Removed: In addition, we could
−Removed: incur significant costs in investigating and defending such claims, even if we ultimately are not held liable.
−Removed: If any of these
−Removed: events occur, our revenue could be materially adversely affected or we could incur significant additional expense, and the market
−Removed: price of our securities may decline.
−Removed: We may need additional capital to
−Removed: execute our business plan.
−Removed: If we do not obtain additional financing, it could have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We might need to raise additional capital
−Removed: or financing through debt or equity offerings to support our expansion, marketing efforts and application development programs
−Removed: in the future.
−Removed: We might require additional capital or financing to:
−Removed: expand our software
−Removed: licensing and technology implementation services business;
−Removed: hire and retain
−Removed: talented employees, including technical employees, executives, and marketing experts;
+Added: our credit card providers resolves the dispute in the customer’s favor, the transaction is normally charged back to us and
+Added: the purchase price is credited or otherwise refunded to the customer.
+Added: In addition, under current credit card practices, a merchant
+Added: is liable for fraudulent credit card transactions when, as is the case with the transactions we process, that merchant does not
+Added: obtain a cardholder’s signature.
+Added: have suffered losses and we expect that we will continue to suffer losses as a result of subscriptions placed with fraudulent
+Added: credit card data, as well as users who chargeback their purchases.
+Added: Any failure to adequately control fraudulent credit card transactions
+Added: or keep our chargebacks under an acceptable threshold would result in significantly higher credit card-related costs and, therefore,
+Added: materially increase our operating expenses.
+Added: may make or attempt to make acquisitions in the future, which could require significant management attention, disrupt our business,
+Added: dilute our stockholders and seriously harm our business.
+Added: part of our business strategy, we have made and intend to make acquisitions to add specialized employees and complementary companies,
+Added: products and technologies.
+Added: In the future, we may not be able to find other suitable acquisition candidates, and we may not be
+Added: able to complete acquisitions on favorable terms, if at all.
+Added: Our previous and future acquisitions may not achieve our goals, and
+Added: any future acquisitions we complete could be viewed negatively by users, advertisers or investors.
+Added: In addition, if we fail to
+Added: successfully close transactions or integrate new teams, or integrate the products and technologies associated with these acquisitions
+Added: into our company, our business could be seriously harmed.
+Added: Any integration process may require significant time and resources,
+Added: and we may not be able to manage the process successfully.
+Added: We may not successfully evaluate or use the acquired products, technology
+Added: and personnel, or accurately forecast the financial impact of an acquisition transaction, including accounting charges.
+Added: also incur unanticipated liabilities that we assume as a result of acquiring companies.
+Added: We may have to pay cash, incur debt or
+Added: issue equity securities to pay for any acquisition, any of which could negatively impact our business and financial condition.
+Added: Issuing equity to finance any such acquisitions would also dilute our existing stockholders.
+Added: Incurring debt would increase our
+Added: fixed obligations and could also include covenants or other restrictions that would impede our ability to manage our operations.
+Added: face certain risks related to the physical and emotional safety of users and third parties.
+Added: cannot control the actions of our users in their communications or physical actions.
+Added: There is a possibility that users or third
+Added: parties could be physically or emotionally harmed following interaction with another user.
+Added: We warn our users that we do not screen
+Added: other users and, given our lack of physical presence, we do not take any action to ensure personal safety on a meeting between
+Added: users or subscribers arranged following contact initiated via our applications or ensure personal safety of our users against
+Added: self-harming following contact with other users initiated via our applications.
+Added: If an unfortunate incident of this nature occurred
+Added: in a meeting of two people following contact initiated on our applications or that of one of our competitors, any resulting negative
+Added: publicity could materially and adversely affect us or the online video chat industry in general.
+Added: Any such incident involving our
+Added: applications could damage our reputation and our brand, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of
+Added: operations or financial condition.
+Added: In addition, the affected users or third parties could initiate legal action against us, which
+Added: could divert management attention from operations, cause us to incur significant expenses, whether we are successful or not, and
+Added: damage our reputation.
+Added: may need additional capital to execute our business plan.
+Added: If we do not obtain additional financing, it could have a material adverse
+Added: effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: might need to raise additional capital or financing through debt or equity offerings to support our expansion, marketing efforts
+Added: and application development programs in the future.
+Added: For instance, we might require additional capital or financing to:
+Added: and retain talented employees, including technical employees, executives, and marketing experts;
effectuate our long-term
growth strategy and expand our application development programs;
−Removed: market and advertise
−Removed: our applications to attract more paying subscribers.
−Removed: We may be unable to obtain future capital
−Removed: or financing on favorable terms or at all.
−Removed: If we cannot obtain additional capital or financing, we may need to reduce, defer or
−Removed: cancel application development programs, planned initiatives, marketing or advertising expenses or costs and expenses.
−Removed: to obtain necessary additional capital or financing on favorable terms, if at all, could have a material adverse effect on our
−Removed: business, results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We may not be effective in protecting
−Removed: our internet domain names.
−Removed: We currently hold various internet domain
−Removed: names related to our brands and in the future may acquire new internet domain names.
−Removed: The regulation of domain names in the United
−Removed: States and in foreign countries is subject to change.
−Removed: Governing bodies may establish additional top level domains, appoint additional
−Removed: domain name registrars or modify the requirements for holding domain names.
−Removed: As a result, we may be unable to acquire or maintain
−Removed: relevant domain names in all countries in which we conduct business.
−Removed: Furthermore, the relationship between regulations governing
−Removed: domain names and laws protecting trademarks and similar proprietary rights is unclear.
−Removed: We may be unable to prevent third parties
−Removed: from acquiring domain names that are similar to, infringe upon or otherwise decrease the value of our existing trademarks and
−Removed: other proprietary rights or those we may seek to acquire.
−Removed: Any such inability to protect ourselves could cause us to lose a significant
−Removed: portion of our members and paying subscribers to our competitors.
−Removed: Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common
−Removed: Our results of operations are volatile
−Removed: and difficult to predict, and our stock price may decline if we fail to meet the expectations of stockholders.
−Removed: Our revenue and results of operations
−Removed: could vary significantly from period-to-period and year-to-year and may fail to match our past performance because of a variety
−Removed: of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
−Removed: Any of these events could cause the market price of our common stock to
+Added: and advertise our applications to attract more paying subscribers.
+Added: may be unable to obtain future capital or financing on favorable terms or at all.
+Added: If we cannot obtain additional capital or financing,
+Added: we may need to reduce, defer or cancel application development programs, planned initiatives, marketing or advertising expenses
+Added: or costs and expenses.
+Added: The failure to obtain necessary additional capital or financing on favorable terms, if at all, could have
+Added: a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: Related to Our Ownership of Cryptocurrencies
+Added: are subject to risks related to holding and distributing cryptocurrencies.
+Added: the past, we have accepted cryptocurrencies as compensation for our services.
+Added: Cryptocurrencies are not considered legal tender
+Added: or backed by any government and have experienced price volatility, technological glitches and various law enforcement and regulatory
+Added: interventions.
+Added: The use of cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin, has been prohibited or effectively prohibited in some countries.
+Added: we fail to comply with prohibitions applicable to us, we could face regulatory or other enforcement actions and potential fines
+Added: and other consequences.
+Added: part of our strategy of forming strategic alliances with cryptocurrencies companies, we may make limited investments in initial
+Added: digital coin or token offerings and have received cryptocurrency tokens as compensation for services.
+Added: For instance, in 2020, we
+Added: launched our partnership with YouNow in the Props Developer Network, which, now that regulatory approval has been obtained, enables
+Added: us to distribute YouNow’s cryptographic props tokens (“Props tokens”) to our application end users for anticipated
+Added: loyalty and retention benefits.
+Added: Because we receive Props tokens from YouNow to be distributed to users, we are deemed to be a
+Added: statutory underwriter under Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act.
+Added: A statutory underwriter is subject to the prospectus delivery
+Added: and liability provisions of the Securities Act, Regulation M, and may be deemed to be conducting broker-dealer like activities
+Added: that could in certain circumstances subject us to regulatory obligations.
+Added: is possible that the SEC or another regulator could conclude that our distribution of Props tokens could constitute broker-dealer
+Added: If so, we could be forced to register as a broker-dealer and comply with laws and regulations applicable to broker-dealers,
+Added: which would disrupt our business substantially and make it prohibitive to operate and participate on the Props Developer Network.
+Added: In such circumstance, we may also become the target of regulatory enforcement for conducting unlicensed broker-dealer activities,
+Added: which could lead to costly litigation and otherwise materially adversely impact our business.
+Added: is substantial uncertainty regarding the future legal and regulatory requirements relating to cryptocurrency or transactions utilizing
+Added: cryptocurrency.
+Added: For instance, governments may in the near future curtail or outlaw the acquisition, use or redemption of cryptocurrencies.
+Added: Ownership of, holding or trading in cryptocurrencies may then be considered illegal and subject to sanction.
+Added: These uncertainties,
+Added: as well as future accounting and tax developments, or other requirements relating to cryptocurrency, could have a material adverse
+Added: effect on our business.
+Added: addition, the prices of cryptocurrency tokens are typically highly volatile and subject to exchange rate risks, as well as the
+Added: risk that regulatory or other developments may adversely affect their value.
+Added: Fluctuations in the market value of digital tokens
+Added: could cause us to record an impairment charge on the value of our digital tokens, which would directly impact our balance sheet
+Added: and statements of operations.
+Added: particular, tokens may experience periods of extreme volatility due to (i) having a very limited trading history, (ii) limited
+Added: public supply, (iii) a lack of adoption by cryptocurrency holders, including a lack of adoption of cryptocurrencies generally
+Added: due to the expense of mining cryptocurrencies and (iv) tokens trading on a limited number of cryptocurrency exchanges, all of
+Added: which have limited operating histories.
+Added: Speculators and investors who seek to profit from trading and holding tokens currently
+Added: account for a significant portion of token demand.
+Added: Such speculation regarding the potential future appreciation in the value of
+Added: tokens may artificially inflate their price.
+Added: Fluctuations in the value of our tokens or any other cryptocurrencies that we hold
+Added: may also lead to fluctuations in the value of our common stock.
+Added: In addition, because of the limited trading volumes in tokens
+Added: on cryptocurrency exchanges, converting our holdings to fiat currency would likely take an extended period of time.
+Added: there are no regulated trading markets for cryptocurrency tokens, and therefore our ability to sell such tokens may be limited.
+Added: of the date of this report, the online trading platforms on which cryptocurrency tokens trade do not qualify as registered exchanges
+Added: within the meaning of federal securities laws or regulated alternative trading systems.
+Added: To the extent the tokens trading on these
+Added: platforms meet the definition of a security under federal securities laws, the platform is generally required to register with
+Added: the SEC as a national securities exchange or be exempt from such registration requirements.
+Added: The failure of these platforms to
+Added: register as national securities exchanges or properly comply with registration exemptions could result in the SEC bringing an
+Added: enforcement action seeking to prohibit, suspend or limit their operations.
+Added: In such event, the tokens we hold may be tradable on
+Added: a very limited range of venues, or not at all, and there may be periods where trading activity in tokens that we hold is minimal
+Added: or non-existent.
+Added: These potential consequences could have a material adverse impact on the trading price of the tokens that we
+Added: hold and could render the exchange of our tokens for other digital assets or fiat currency difficult or impossible.
+Added: tokens and other cryptocurrencies that we hold may be subject to loss, theft or restriction on access.
+Added: is a risk that some or all of our cryptocurrencies could be lost or stolen.
+Added: Access to our coins could also be restricted by cybercrime.
+Added: We currently hold all of our cryptocurrencies in cold storage.
+Added: Cold storage refers to any cryptocurrency wallet that is not connected
+Added: to the internet.
+Added: Cold storage is generally more secure but is not ideal for quick or regular transactions.
+Added: We expect to continue
+Added: to hold the majority of our cryptocurrencies in cold storage to reduce the risk of malfeasance, but this risk cannot be eliminated.
+Added: or malicious actors may launch attacks to steal, compromise or secure cryptocurrencies, such as by attacking the cryptocurrency
+Added: network source code, exchange servers, third party platforms, cold and hot storage locations or software, or by other means.
+Added: we increase in size, we may become a more appealing target of hackers, malware, cyber-attacks or other security threats.
+Added: these events may adversely affect our operations and, consequently, our investments and profitability.
+Added: The loss or destruction
+Added: of a private key required to access our digital wallets may be irreversible and we may be denied access for all time to our cryptocurrency
+Added: holdings or the holdings of others.
+Added: Our loss of access to our private keys or our experience of a data loss relating to our digital
+Added: wallets could adversely affect our investments and assets.
+Added: Cryptocurrencies
+Added: are controllable only by the possessor of both the unique public and private keys relating to the local or online digital wallet
+Added: in which they are held, which wallet’s public key or address is reflected in the network’s public blockchain.
+Added: publish the public key relating to digital wallets in use when we verify the receipt of transfers and disseminate such information
+Added: into the network, but we will need to safeguard the private keys relating to such digital wallets.
+Added: To the extent such private
+Added: keys are lost, destroyed or otherwise compromised, we will be unable to access our cryptocurrency coins and such private keys
+Added: may not be capable of being restored by any network.
+Added: Any loss of private keys relating to digital wallets used to store our cryptocurrencies
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects or operations and the value of any cryptocurrencies we hold for
+Added: our own account.
+Added: there has been limited precedent set for financial accounting of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, the determination
+Added: that we have made for how to account for our tokens and any other digital assets we may acquire may be subject to change.
+Added: there has been limited precedent set for the accounting classification and measurement of cryptocurrency and other digital tokens
+Added: and related revenue recognition, it is unclear how companies may in the future be required to account for digital asset transactions
+Added: and assets and related revenue recognition.
+Added: We are currently accounting for our tokens as indefinite-lived intangible assets in
+Added: accordance with Accounting Standard Codification No.
+Added: Intangibles—Goodwill and Other .
+Added: Indefinite-lived intangible
+Added: assets are recorded at cost and are not subject to amortization, but shall be tested for impairment annually and more frequently
+Added: if events or changes in circumstances indicate that it is more likely than not that the asset is impaired.
+Added: Our management has
+Added: exercised significant judgment in determining the appropriate accounting treatment, and in the event that authoritative guidance
+Added: is enacted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, we may be required to change our policies or restate our financial statements,
+Added: which could have an effect on our consolidated financial position and results from operations.
+Added: Such a restatement or change in
+Added: policies could adversely affect the accounting for our tokens or other cryptocurrencies that we may acquire and may more generally
+Added: negatively impact our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operation.
+Added: and Regulatory Risks
+Added: may be liable as a result of information retrieved from or transmitted over the internet.
+Added: may be sued for defamation, civil rights infringement, negligence, copyright or trademark infringement, invasion of privacy, personal
+Added: injury, product liability or under other legal theories relating to information that is published or made available on our websites
+Added: or applications.
+Added: These types of claims have been brought, sometimes successfully, against online services in the past.
+Added: offer messaging services on our applications and we send emails directly and through third parties to our users, which may subject
+Added: us to potential risks, such as liabilities or claims resulting from unsolicited email or spamming, lost or misdirected messages,
+Added: security breaches, illegal or fraudulent use of email or personal information or interruptions or delays in email service.
+Added: insurance does not specifically provide for coverage of these types of claims and, therefore, may be inadequate to protect us
+Added: against them.
+Added: In addition, we could incur significant costs in investigating and defending such claims, even if we ultimately
+Added: are not held liable.
+Added: If any of these events occur, our revenue could be materially adversely affected or we could incur significant
+Added: additional expense, and the market price of our securities may decline.
+Added: there are changes in laws or regulations regarding privacy and the protection of user data, or if we fail to comply with such
+Added: laws or regulations, we may face claims brought against us by regulators or users that could adversely affect our business, results
+Added: of operations or financial condition.
+Added: federal and international laws and regulations govern the collection, use, retention, sharing and security of data that we receive
+Added: from and about our users.
+Added: These laws can be particularly restrictive in certain states and in countries outside of the United
+Added: In addition, the application and interpretation of these laws and regulations are often uncertain, particularly in the
+Added: new and rapidly evolving industries in which we operate.
+Added: failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with such laws and regulations, including Federal Trade Commission requirements
+Added: or industry self-regulatory principles, could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others,
+Added: which could potentially have an adverse effect on our business.
+Added: As a result of such a failure, or perceived failure, we may be
+Added: subject to a claim or class-action lawsuit regarding our online services.
+Added: The successful assertion of a claim against us, or a
+Added: regulatory action against us, could result in significant monetary damages, diversion of management resources and require us to
+Added: make significant payments and incur substantial legal expenses.
+Added: Any claims with respect to violation of privacy or misappropriation
+Added: of user data brought against us may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: proposals are pending before federal, state, and foreign legislative and regulatory bodies or have recently been enacted that
+Added: could significantly affect our business.
+Added: For example, the California legislature enacted the CCPA, which became effective on January
+Added: 1, 2020, and the CPRA, which expands upon the CCPA and was passed in the recent California election in November 2020.
+Added: the New York legislature enacted the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act, which went into effect
+Added: on March 21, 2020.
+Added: Further, the GDPR, which applies to the European Economic Area and went into effect on May 25, 2018, required
+Added: us to change our policies and procedures regarding the handling of personal and sensitive data in the European Economic Area.
+Added: The failure to comply with the GDPR could, in certain instances, result in penalties of up to 4% of our worldwide revenues.
+Added: failure, or perceived failure to comply with the GDPR or other state, federal or international laws could seriously harm our business.
+Added: privacy concerns may result in new or amended laws and regulations.
+Added: Future laws and regulations with respect to the collection,
+Added: compilation, use and publication of information and consumer privacy could result in limitations on our operations, increased
+Added: compliance or litigation expense, adverse publicity or loss of revenue, which any of which could have a material adverse effect
+Added: on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: It is also possible that we could be prohibited from collecting
+Added: or disseminating certain types of data, which could affect our ability to meet our users’
+Added: Changes in laws or regulations, including
+Added: laws and regulations that impact the use of the internet, such as internet neutrality laws, or laws that relate to content provided
+Added: over the internet or monitoring such content, could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: adoption of any laws or regulations that adversely affect the growth or use of the internet, including laws governing internet
+Added: neutrality, could decrease the demand for our products and increase our cost of doing business.
+Added: In January 2018, the Federal Communications
+Added: Commission (the “FCC”) released an order that repealed the “open internet rules,”
+Added: often known as “net
+Added: neutrality,”
+Added: which prohibit internet providers in the United States from impeding access to most content, or otherwise unfairly
+Added: discriminating against content providers like us.
+Added: These rules also prohibited mobile providers from entering into arrangements
+Added: with specific content providers for faster or better access over their data networks.
+Added: The FCC order repealing the open internet
+Added: rules went into effect in June 2018.
+Added: In response to this decision, California and a number of states implemented their own net
+Added: neutrality rules which largely mirrored the repealed federal regulations.
+Added: Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has
+Added: filed suit to bar implementation of these state laws and their application remains uncertain.
+Added: For instance, on February 8, 2021,
+Added: the DOJ voluntarily dismissed its suit against California’s net neutrality bill.
+Added: We cannot predict the outcome of similar
+Added: litigation or whether the FCC order or state initiatives regulating providers will be modified, overturned, or vacated by other
+Added: legal action, federal legislation, or the FCC, or the degree to which this repeal would adversely affect our business, if at all.
+Added: The European Union similarly requires equal access to internet content.
+Added: If the FCC, Congress, the European Union or courts modify
+Added: these open internet rules, mobile providers may be able to limit our users’
+Added: ability to access our applications or make our
+Added: applications a less attractive alternative to our competitors’
+Added: applications, which could materially adversely affect our
+Added: business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: addition, it is possible that a number of additional laws and regulations may be adopted or construed to apply to us, including
+Added: gambling laws.
+Added: Some of the video card games that we offer on our Paltalk application are based upon traditional casino games,
+Added: such as poker and blackjack.
+Added: We have structured and operate these games and features with gambling laws in mind and believe that
+Added: these games and features do not constitute gambling.
+Added: Our games are offered for entertainment purposes only and do not offer an
+Added: opportunity to win real money.
+Added: However, our video card games could in the future become subject to gambling-related laws and regulations
+Added: and expose us to civil and criminal penalties.
+Added: If were to become subject to such laws and regulations, we might be required to
+Added: seek licenses, authorizations or approvals from relevant regulators, the granting of which may be dependent on us meeting certain
+Added: capital and other requirements, and we may be subject to additional regulation and oversight, such as reporting to regulators,
+Added: all of which could significantly increase our operating costs.
+Added: Changes in current laws or regulations or the imposition of new
+Added: laws and regulations in the United States, Europe or elsewhere regarding these activities may lessen the growth of video card
+Added: game services and impair our business.
+Added: Related to Our Intellectual Property
+Added: may not be effective in protecting our internet domain names.
+Added: currently hold various internet domain names related to our brands and in the future may acquire new internet domain names.
+Added: regulation of domain names in the United States and in foreign countries is subject to change.
+Added: Governing bodies may establish
+Added: additional top-level domains, appoint additional domain name registrars or modify the requirements for holding domain names.
+Added: a result, we may be unable to acquire or maintain relevant domain names in all countries in which we conduct business.
+Added: the relationship between regulations governing domain names and laws protecting trademarks and similar proprietary rights is unclear.
+Added: We may be unable to prevent third parties from acquiring domain names that are similar to, infringe upon or otherwise decrease
+Added: the value of our existing trademarks and other proprietary rights or those we may seek to acquire.
+Added: Any such inability to protect
+Added: ourselves could cause us to lose a significant portion of our members and paying subscribers to our competitors.
+Added: we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be unable to compete with competitors developing similar technologies.
+Added: Historically,
+Added: our defense of our intellectual property rights has been a significant aspect of our business and has meaningfully contributed
+Added: to our results of operations.
+Added: Accordingly, our success and ability to compete are often dependent upon the development of intellectual
+Added: property for our applications.
+Added: aim to protect our confidential proprietary information, in part, by entering into confidentiality agreements and invention assignment
+Added: agreements with all our employees, consultants, advisors and any third parties who access or contribute to our proprietary know-how,
+Added: information, or technology.
+Added: We also rely on trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, and domain-name-protection laws to protect
+Added: our proprietary rights.
+Added: In the United States and internationally, we have filed various applications to protect aspects of our
+Added: intellectual property, and we currently hold a number of issued patents in multiple jurisdictions.
+Added: In the future we may acquire
+Added: additional patents or patent portfolios, which could require significant cash expenditures.
+Added: However, third parties may knowingly
+Added: or unknowingly infringe our proprietary rights, third parties may challenge proprietary rights held by us, and pending and future
+Added: trademark and patent applications may not be approved.
+Added: In addition, effective intellectual property protection may not be available
+Added: in every country in which we operate or intend to operate our business.
+Added: any of these cases, we may be required to expend significant time and expense to prevent infringement or to enforce our rights.
+Added: Although we have taken measures to protect our proprietary rights, others may offer products or concepts that are substantially
+Added: similar to ours and compete with our business.
+Added: If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights or prevent unauthorized use
+Added: or appropriation by third parties, the value of our brand and other intangible assets may be diminished, and competitors may be
+Added: able to more effectively mimic our service and methods of operations.
+Added: Any of these events could seriously harm our business.
+Added: we are subject to intellectual property infringement claims, it could cause us to incur significant expenses, pay substantial
+Added: damages or royalties and prevent us from offering our applications.
+Added: time to time, third parties may claim that our applications infringe or violate their intellectual property rights.
+Added: of infringement could cause us to incur significant expenses and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay
+Added: substantial damages and prevent us from using licensed technology that may be fundamental to our applications.
+Added: Even if we were
+Added: to prevail, any litigation regarding intellectual property could be costly and time-consuming and divert the attention of our
+Added: management and key personnel from our business operations.
+Added: We maintain insurance to protect against intellectual property infringement
+Added: claims and resulting litigation, but such insurance may not cover or may not be sufficient to cover all potential claims, liability
+Added: We may also be obligated to indemnify our business partners in any such litigation, which could further exhaust our
+Added: Furthermore, as a result of an intellectual property challenge, we may be prevented from offering our applications
+Added: unless we enter into royalty, license or other agreements.
+Added: We may not be able to obtain such agreements at all or on terms acceptable
+Added: to us, and as a result, we may be precluded from offering our applications and services.
+Added: Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
+Added: results of operations are volatile and difficult to predict, and our stock price may decline if we fail to meet the expectations
+Added: of stockholders.
+Added: revenue and results of operations could vary significantly from period-to-period and year-to-year and may fail to match our past
+Added: performance because of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
+Added: Any of these events could cause the market
+Added: price of our common stock to fluctuate.
Factors that may contribute to the variability of our results of operations include:
−Removed: changes in expectations
−Removed: as to our future financial performance;
−Removed: announcements by
−Removed: us or our competitors of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships or capital commitments;
−Removed: market acceptance
−Removed: of our new applications and enhancements to our existing applications;
−Removed: the amount of advertising
−Removed: and marketing that is available and spent on user acquisition campaigns;
−Removed: disruptions in the
−Removed: availability of our applications on third party platforms;
−Removed: actual or perceived
−Removed: violations of privacy obligations and compromises of subscriber data;
−Removed: the entrance of
−Removed: new competitors in our market whether by established companies or the entrance of new companies;
−Removed: additions or departures
−Removed: of key personnel and the cost of attracting and retaining application developers and other software engineers;
−Removed: general market conditions,
−Removed: including market volatility.
−Removed: Given the rapidly evolving industries
−Removed: in which we operate, our historical results of operations may not be useful in predicting our future results of operations.
−Removed: addition, metrics available from third parties regarding our industry and the performance of our applications may not be indicative
−Removed: of our future financial performance.
−Removed: common stock is usually thinly traded, you may be unable to sell
−Removed: at or near ask prices or at all and the price of our common stock may be volatile.
−Removed: The shares of our common stock have usually
−Removed: been thinly-traded on the OTCQB Marketplace (the “OTCQB”), meaning that the number of persons interested in purchasing
−Removed: our common stock at or near ask prices at any given time may be relatively small or non-existent.
−Removed: This situation is attributable
−Removed: to a number of factors, including the fact that we are a small company that is relatively unknown to stock analysts, stock brokers,
−Removed: institutional investors and others in the investment community that generate or influence sales volume.
−Removed: As a consequence, there
−Removed: may be periods of several days or more when trading activity in our shares is minimal or non-existent, as compared to a seasoned
−Removed: issuer that has a large and steady volume of trading activity that will generally support continuous sales without an adverse
−Removed: effect on stock price.
−Removed: In addition, we may experience unusual or infrequent trading events that cause the price of our common
−Removed: stock to fluctuate wildly.
−Removed: For example, the price of our common stock ranged from $1.00 per share to $4.48 per share for the period
−Removed: from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
−Removed: A broader or more active public trading
−Removed: market for our common stock may not develop or be sustained, and the current trading level of our common stock may not be sustained.
−Removed: Due to these conditions, you may be unable to sell your common stock at or near ask prices or at all if you desire to sell shares
−Removed: of common stock.
−Removed: Because of the limited trading market
−Removed: for our common stock, and because of the possible price volatility, you may not be able to sell your shares of common stock when
−Removed: you desire to do so.
−Removed: The inability to sell your shares in a rapidly declining market may substantially increase your risk of loss
−Removed: because of such illiquidity and because the price for our common stock may suffer greater declines because of its price volatility.
−Removed: The ownership of our common stock
−Removed: is significantly concentrated in a small number of investors, some of whom are affiliated with our Board of Directors and management,
−Removed: which could prevent stockholders from having input on the course of our operations or otherwise lead to actual or potential conflicts
−Removed: As of March 20, 2020, Jason Katz, our Chairman of the Board
−Removed: of Directors and Chief Operating Officer, beneficially owned approximately 10.8% of our outstanding common stock, including shares
−Removed: of common stock held directly by Mr.
−Removed: Katz’s spouse, and The J.
+Added: in expectations as to our future financial performance;
+Added: ● announcements
+Added: by us or our competitors of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships
+Added: or capital commitments;
+Added: acceptance of our new applications and enhancements to our existing applications;
+Added: amount of advertising and marketing that is available and spent on user acquisition campaigns;
+Added: ● disruptions
+Added: in the availability of our applications on third party platforms;
+Added: or perceived violations of privacy obligations and compromises of subscriber data;
+Added: entrance of new competitors in our market whether by established companies or the entrance
+Added: of new companies;
+Added: or departures of key personnel and the cost of attracting and retaining application developers
+Added: and other software engineers;
+Added: market conditions, including market volatility.
+Added: the rapidly evolving industry in which we operate, our historical results of operations may not be useful in predicting our future
+Added: results of operations.
+Added: In addition, metrics available from third parties regarding our industry and the performance of our applications
+Added: may not be indicative of our future financial performance.
+Added: Our common stock is usually thinly traded,
+Added: stockholders may be unable to sell at or near ask prices or at all and the price of our common stock may be volatile.
+Added: shares of our common stock have usually been thinly-traded on the OTCQB Marketplace (the “OTCQB”), meaning that the
+Added: number of persons interested in purchasing our common stock at or near ask prices at any given time may be relatively small or
+Added: non-existent.
+Added: This situation is attributable to a number of factors, including the fact that we are a small company that is relatively
+Added: unknown to stock analysts, stock brokers, institutional investors and others in the investment community that generate or influence
+Added: sales volume.
+Added: As a consequence, there may be periods of several days or more when trading activity in our shares is minimal or
+Added: non-existent, as compared to a seasoned issuer that has a large and steady volume of trading activity that will generally support
+Added: continuous sales without an adverse effect on stock price.
+Added: In addition, we may experience unusual or infrequent trading events
+Added: that cause the price of our common stock to fluctuate wildly.
+Added: For example, the closing price of our common stock ranged from $0.63
+Added: per share to $1.75 per share for the period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.
+Added: broader or more active public trading market for our common stock may not develop or be sustained, and the current trading level
+Added: of our common stock may not be sustained.
+Added: Due to these conditions, you may be unable to sell your common stock at or near ask
+Added: prices or at all if you desire to sell shares of common stock.
+Added: of the limited trading market for our common stock, and because of the possible price volatility, you may not be able to sell
+Added: your shares of common stock when you desire to do so.
+Added: The inability to sell your shares in a rapidly declining market may substantially
+Added: increase your risk of loss because of such illiquidity and because the price for our common stock may suffer greater declines
+Added: because of its price volatility.
+Added: ownership of our common stock is significantly concentrated in a small number of investors, some of whom are affiliated with our
+Added: Board of Directors and management, which could prevent stockholders from having input on the course of our operations or otherwise
+Added: lead to actual or potential conflicts of interest.
+Added: of March 12, 2021, Jason Katz, our Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Operating Officer and President, beneficially owned
+Added: approximately 10.8% of our outstanding common stock, including shares of common stock held directly by Mr.
+Added: Katz’s spouse,
Crew Delaware Trust A, a trust formed by Mr.
−Removed: benefit of certain of his family members, also beneficially owned approximately 34.3% of our outstanding common stock as of March
−Removed: Katz is not a beneficiary of the trust and does not hold voting or dispositive power over the shares held by
+Added: Katz for the benefit of certain of his family members, also beneficially
+Added: owned approximately 34.3% of our outstanding common stock as of March 19, 2021.
+Added: Katz is not a beneficiary of the trust and
+Added: does not hold voting or dispositive power over the shares held by the trust.
Crew Delaware Trust A
−Removed: and others that have significant beneficial ownership of our common shares have substantial influence regarding matters submitted
−Removed: for stockholder approval, including proposals regarding:
−Removed: any merger, consolidation
−Removed: or sale of all or substantially all of our assets;
−Removed: the election of
−Removed: members of our Board of Directors;
−Removed: any amendment to
−Removed: our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).
−Removed: The current or increased ownership position
−Removed: of any of these stockholders and/or their respective affiliates could delay, deter or prevent a change of control or adversely
−Removed: affect the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for our common shares.
−Removed: In addition, the interests of these
−Removed: stockholders and/or their respective affiliates may significantly differ from the interests of our other stockholders and they
−Removed: may vote the common shares they beneficially own in ways with which our other stockholders disagree.
−Removed: of shares upon the exercise of stock options and unvested shares of restricted common stock may cause immediate and substantial
+Added: and others that have significant beneficial ownership of our common shares have substantial influence regarding matters
+Added: submitted for stockholder approval, including proposals regarding:
+Added: merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets;
+Added: election of members of our Board of Directors;
+Added: amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate of
+Added: Incorporation”).
+Added: current or increased ownership position of any of these stockholders and/or their respective affiliates could delay, deter or
+Added: prevent a change of control or adversely affect the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for our common
+Added: In addition, the interests of these stockholders and/or their respective affiliates may significantly differ from the
+Added: interests of our other stockholders and they may vote the common shares they beneficially own in ways with which our other stockholders
+Added: issuance of shares upon the exercise of stock options and unvested shares of restricted common stock may cause immediate and substantial
dilution to our existing stockholders.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2019, we had approximately 764,400 shares of common stock that were issuable upon the exercise of vested outstanding stock
−Removed: The issuance of shares upon the exercise of these options may result in substantial dilution to the equity interest and
−Removed: voting power of holders of our common stock.
−Removed: In the future, we may also issue additional
−Removed: shares of common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock.
−Removed: Our Certificate of Incorporation
−Removed: currently authorizes us to issue up to 25,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 6,877,004 were outstanding as of December 31,
−Removed: 2019, which includes 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock with such designations, preferences and rights as determined by our Board
−Removed: of Directors, of which none were outstanding as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: The issuance of additional shares of our common stock may
−Removed: substantially dilute the ownership interests of our existing stockholders.
−Removed: Furthermore, sales of a substantial amount of our common
−Removed: stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales may occur, could reduce the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: could also impair our ability to raise additional capital through the sale of our securities.
−Removed: assure you we will repurchase any shares of our common stock pursuant to our stock repurchase plan.
−Removed: 2019, we implemented a stock repurchase plan pursuant to which we may repurchase up to $500 thousand of our common stock for cash.
−Removed: Pursuant to the plan, share repurchases may be made through a variety of methods, including open market or privately negotiated
−Removed: transactions.
−Removed: The timing and number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business
−Removed: and market conditions, and alternative investment opportunities.
−Removed: Our repurchase program does not obligate us to repurchase any
−Removed: specific number of shares and may be suspended or discontinued at any time.
−Removed: As a result, we may not repurchase a material number
−Removed: of shares, or any shares at all, under our stock repurchase plan.
−Removed: In addition, any repurchases of our stock pursuant to the stock
−Removed: repurchase plan may materially reduce the amount of cash we have available and may not materially enhance the long-term value
−Removed: of our business or our stock.
−Removed: Our Certificate
−Removed: of Incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of
−Removed: actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’
−Removed: ability to obtain
−Removed: a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees, or stockholders.
−Removed: Our Certificate
−Removed: of Incorporation provides that, subject to limited exceptions, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole
−Removed: and exclusive forum for any (i) derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of our Company, (ii) action asserting
+Added: of December 31, 2020, we had approximately 479,700 shares of common stock that were issuable upon the exercise of vested outstanding
+Added: stock options.
+Added: The issuance of shares upon the exercise of these options may result in substantial dilution to the equity interest
+Added: and voting power of holders of our common stock.
+Added: the future, we may also issue additional shares of common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares
+Added: of common stock.
+Added: Our Certificate of Incorporation currently authorizes us to issue up to 25,000,000 shares of common stock, of
+Added: which 6,906,454 were outstanding as of December 31, 2020, which includes 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock with such designations,
+Added: preferences and rights as determined by our Board of Directors, of which none were outstanding as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: of additional shares of our common stock may substantially dilute the ownership interests of our existing stockholders.
+Added: sales of a substantial amount of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales may occur, could reduce
+Added: the market price of our common stock.
+Added: This could also impair our ability to raise additional capital through the sale of our securities.
+Added: Certificate of Incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain
+Added: types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’
+Added: to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees, or stockholders.
+Added: Certificate of Incorporation provides that, subject to limited exceptions, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will
+Added: be the sole and exclusive forum for any (i) derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of our Company, (ii) action asserting
a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee, agent, or stockholder of our Company to the Company
−Removed: or the Company’s stockholders, (iii) action asserting a claim against the Company or any director, officer, employee,
−Removed: agent, or stockholder of the Company arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”)
−Removed: or our Certificate of Incorporation or our Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended (the “By-Laws”), or (iv) action
−Removed: asserting a claim against the Company or any director, officer, employee, agent, or stockholder of the Company governed by the
−Removed: internal affairs doctrine.
−Removed: Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock
−Removed: shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation
−Removed: described above.
−Removed: This exclusive
−Removed: forum provision applies to state and federal law claims, although our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance
−Removed: with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
−Removed: In addition, this exclusive forum selection provision
−Removed: will not apply to claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
−Removed: Moreover, Section 22 of the Securities Act of 1933 creates
−Removed: concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities
−Removed: Act of 1933 or the rules and regulations thereunder.
−Removed: Accordingly, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce our
−Removed: forum selection provision as written in connection with claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
−Removed: This choice of forum
−Removed: provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with
−Removed: us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and
−Removed: If we fail to remain current on
−Removed: our reporting requirements, we could be removed from the OTCQB, which would limit the ability of broker-dealers to sell our common
−Removed: stock and the ability of stockholders to sell their common stock in the secondary market.
−Removed: Companies trading
−Removed: on the OTCQB must be reporting issuers under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and must be current in their filings under the Exchange
−Removed: Act to maintain price quotation privileges on the OTCQB.
−Removed: If we fail to remain current on our reporting requirements, we could
−Removed: be removed from the OTCQB.
−Removed: As a result, the liquidity for our common stock could be adversely affected by limiting the ability
−Removed: of broker-dealers to sell our common stock and the ability of stockholders to sell their common stock in the secondary market.
−Removed: Because we have no current plans
−Removed: to pay cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future, you may not receive any return on investment unless you
−Removed: sell your common stock for a price greater than that which you paid for it.
−Removed: We do not anticipate
−Removed: that we will declare or pay any dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
−Removed: Consequently, stockholders will only
−Removed: realize an economic gain on their investment in our common stock if the price appreciates.
−Removed: Stockholders should not purchase our
−Removed: common stock expecting to receive cash dividends.
+Added: or the Company’s stockholders, (iii) action asserting a claim against the Company or any director, officer, employee, agent,
+Added: or stockholder of the Company arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or our Certificate of
+Added: Incorporation or our Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended, or (iv) action asserting a claim against the Company or any director,
+Added: officer, employee, agent, or stockholder of the Company governed by the internal affairs doctrine.
+Added: Any person or entity purchasing
+Added: or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to
+Added: the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation described above.
+Added: exclusive forum provision applies to state and federal law claims, although our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived
+Added: our compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
+Added: In addition, this exclusive forum selection
+Added: provision will not apply to claims under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Moreover, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction
+Added: for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules
+Added: and regulations thereunder.
+Added: Accordingly, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce our forum selection provision
+Added: as written in connection with claims arising under the Securities Act.
+Added: This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s
+Added: ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other
+Added: employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees.
+Added: we fail to remain current on our reporting requirements, we could be removed from the OTCQB, which would limit the ability of
+Added: broker-dealers to sell our common stock and the ability of stockholders to sell their common stock in the secondary market.
+Added: trading on the OTCQB must be reporting issuers under Section 12 of the Exchange Act and must be current in their filings under
+Added: the Exchange Act to maintain price quotation privileges on the OTCQB.
+Added: If we fail to remain current on our reporting requirements,
+Added: we could be removed from the OTCQB.
+Added: As a result, the liquidity for our common stock could be adversely affected by limiting the
+Added: ability of broker-dealers to sell our common stock and the ability of stockholders to sell their common stock in the secondary
+Added: Because we have no current plans to pay
+Added: cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future, a stockholder might not receive any return on investment unless
+Added: the stockholder sold its shares of common stock for a price greater than that for which the shares were purchased.
+Added: do not anticipate that we will declare or pay any dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
+Added: Consequently, stockholders
+Added: will only realize an economic gain on their investment in our common stock if the price appreciates.
+Added: Stockholders should not purchase
+Added: our common stock expecting to receive cash dividends.
Because we currently do not pay dividends, and there may be limited trading
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our ability to expand our business operations.
−Removed: Investor relations activities, nominal
−Removed: “float”
+Added: relations activities, nominal “float”
and supply and demand factors may affect the price of our common stock.
−Removed: We have engaged an
−Removed: investor relations firm to create investor awareness for our Company.
−Removed: These campaigns may include non-deal road shows and personal,
−Removed: video and telephone conferences with investors and prospective investors in which our business and business practices are described.
−Removed: We provide compensation to our investor relations firm, and may in the future provide compensation to additional investor relations
−Removed: firms or financial advisory firms, for these services, and pay for newsletters, websites, mailings and email campaigns that are
−Removed: produced by third parties based upon publicly available information concerning us.
−Removed: We do not intend to review or approve of the
−Removed: content of such analyst reports or other writings and communications that are based upon analysts’
+Added: have engaged an investor relations firm to create investor awareness for our Company.
+Added: These campaigns may include non-deal road
+Added: shows and personal, video and telephone conferences with investors and prospective investors in which our business and business
+Added: practices are described.
+Added: We provide compensation to our investor relations firm, and may in the future provide compensation to
+Added: additional investor relations firms or financial advisory firms, for these services, and pay for newsletters, websites, mailings
+Added: and email campaigns that are produced by third parties based upon publicly available information concerning us.
+Added: We do not intend
+Added: to review or approve of the content of such analyst reports or other writings and communications that are based upon analysts’
own research or methods.
−Removed: Investor relations firms are generally required to disclose when they are compensated for their efforts and the source of such
−Removed: compensation, but whether such disclosure is made or in compliance with applicable laws is not under our control.
−Removed: investors in the Company may, from time to time, take steps to encourage investor awareness through similar activities that may
−Removed: be undertaken at the expense of such investors.
−Removed: Investor awareness activities may also be suspended or discontinued which may
−Removed: impact the trading market of our common stock.
−Removed: The SEC and the Financial
−Removed: Industry Regulatory Authority enforce various statutes and regulations intended to prevent manipulative or deceptive devices in
−Removed: connection with the purchase or sale of any security and carefully scrutinize trading patterns and company news and other communications
−Removed: for false or misleading information, particularly in cases where the hallmarks of “pump and dump”
−Removed: activities may exist,
−Removed: such as rapid share price increases or decreases.
−Removed: We and our stockholders may be subjected to enhanced regulatory scrutiny due
−Removed: to the fact that our affiliates hold a majority of our outstanding common stock and we have a limited number of shares of common
−Removed: stock that are publicly available for resale.
−Removed: The limited trading markets in which our shares of common stock may be offered or
−Removed: sold have often been associated with improper activities concerning penny-stocks, such as the OTCQB or the pink sheets.
−Removed: The Supreme Court
−Removed: of the United States has stated that manipulative action is a term of art connoting intentional or willful conduct designed to
−Removed: deceive or defraud investors by controlling or artificially affecting the price of securities.
−Removed: Often times, manipulation is associated
−Removed: by regulators with forces that upset the supply and demand factors that would normally determine trading prices.
−Removed: Securities regulators
−Removed: have often cited thinly-traded markets, small numbers of holders and awareness campaigns as components of their claims of price
−Removed: manipulation and other violations of law when combined with manipulative trading, such as wash sales, matched orders or other
−Removed: manipulative trading timed to coincide with false or touting press releases.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that our activities or
−Removed: the activities of third parties, or the small number of potential sellers or small percentage of stock in our public float, or
−Removed: determinations by purchasers or holders as to when or under what circumstances or at what prices they may be willing to buy or
−Removed: sell stock, will not artificially impact (or would be claimed by regulators to have affected) the normal supply and demand factors
−Removed: that determine the price of our common stock.
−Removed: If we fail to maintain an effective
−Removed: system of internal controls over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or prevent
−Removed: fraud and our business may be harmed and our stock price may be adversely impacted.
−Removed: Effective internal controls over financial
−Removed: reporting are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and to effectively prevent fraud.
−Removed: Any inability to provide
−Removed: reliable financial reports or to prevent fraud could harm our business.
−Removed: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley
−Removed: Act”) requires management to evaluate and assess the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: order to continue to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we are required to continuously evaluate and, where
−Removed: appropriate, enhance our policies, procedures and internal controls.
−Removed: If we fail to maintain the adequacy of our internal controls
−Removed: over financial reporting, we could be subject to litigation or regulatory scrutiny and investors could lose confidence in the
−Removed: accuracy and completeness of our financial reports.
−Removed: We cannot provide any assurance that in the future we will be able to fully
−Removed: comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or that management will conclude that our internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting is effective.
−Removed: If we fail to fully comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, our business may be harmed
−Removed: and our stock price may decline.
−Removed: Our assessment, testing and evaluation of the
−Removed: design and operating effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting resulted in our conclusion that as of December
−Removed: 31, 2019 our internal control over financial reporting was not effective, due to the Company not having adequate controls related
−Removed: to changes in management within the technology that support the Company’s financial reporting function.
−Removed: With respect to the year ended December 31, 2019, under the supervision
−Removed: and with the participation of our management, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operations of our
−Removed: disclosure controls and procedures.
−Removed: Based upon this evaluation, our management concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures
−Removed: were not effective as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: The recent coronavirus outbreak
−Removed: may adversely affect our revenues, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: In December 2019, a strain of coronavirus was reported to have
−Removed: surfaced in Wuhan, China, and has reached multiple other countries, resulting in government-imposed quarantines, travel restrictions
−Removed: and other public health safety measures in affected countries.
−Removed: The various precautionary measures taken by many governmental authorities
−Removed: around the world in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus could have an adverse effect on the global markets and its economy,
−Removed: including on the availability and pricing of employees and resources, and other aspects of the global economy.
−Removed: Therefore, the coronavirus
−Removed: could disrupt and cause delays in our software and disrupt the marketplace in which we operate and may have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on our operations.
−Removed: The extent to which the coronavirus impacts our results will depend on future developments, which are
−Removed: highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus
−Removed: and the actions to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others.
−Removed: The development of the coronavirus outbreak could
−Removed: materially disrupt our business and operations, slow down the overall economy, curtail consumer spending and make it hard to adequately
−Removed: staff our operations or enter into agreements with independent contractors.
−Removed: UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
−Removed: Not applicable.
+Added: Investor relations firms are generally required to disclose when they are compensated for their efforts
+Added: and the source of such compensation, but whether such disclosure is made or in compliance with applicable laws is not under our
+Added: In addition, our investors may, from time to time, take steps to encourage investor awareness through similar activities
+Added: that may be undertaken at the expense of such investors.
+Added: Investor awareness activities may also be suspended or discontinued,
+Added: which may impact the trading market of our common stock.
+Added: SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority enforce various statutes and regulations intended to prevent manipulative
+Added: or deceptive devices in connection with the purchase or sale of any security and carefully scrutinize trading patterns and company
+Added: news and other communications for false or misleading information, particularly in cases where the hallmarks of “pump and
+Added: activities may exist, such as rapid share price increases or decreases.
+Added: We and our stockholders may be subjected to
+Added: enhanced regulatory scrutiny due to the fact that our affiliates hold a majority of our outstanding common stock and we have a
+Added: limited number of shares of common stock that are publicly available for resale.
+Added: The limited trading markets in which our shares
+Added: of common stock may be offered or sold have often been associated with improper activities concerning penny-stocks, such as the
+Added: OTCQB or the pink sheets.
+Added: Supreme Court of the United States has stated that manipulative action is a term of art connoting intentional or willful conduct
+Added: designed to deceive or defraud investors by controlling or artificially affecting the price of securities.
+Added: Often times, manipulation
+Added: is associated by regulators with forces that upset the supply and demand factors that would normally determine trading prices.
+Added: Securities regulators have often cited thinly-traded markets, small numbers of holders and awareness campaigns as components of
+Added: their claims of price manipulation and other violations of law when combined with manipulative trading, such as wash sales, matched
+Added: orders or other manipulative trading timed to coincide with false or touting press releases.
+Added: There can be no assurance that our
+Added: activities or the activities of third parties, or the small number of potential sellers or small percentage of stock in our public
+Added: float, or determinations by purchasers or holders as to when or under what circumstances or at what prices they may be willing
+Added: to buy or sell stock, will not artificially impact (or would be claimed by regulators to have affected) the normal supply and
+Added: demand factors that determine the price of our common stock.
+Added: we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report
+Added: our financial results or prevent fraud and our business may be harmed and our stock price may be adversely impacted.
+Added: internal controls over financial reporting are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and to effectively prevent
+Added: Any inability to provide reliable financial reports or to prevent fraud could harm our business.
+Added: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
+Added: of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) requires management to evaluate and assess the effectiveness of our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting.
+Added: In order to continue to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we are required to continuously
+Added: evaluate and, where appropriate, enhance our policies, procedures and internal controls.
+Added: We have in the past failed, and may in
+Added: the future fail, to maintain the adequacy of our internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: Such failure could subject us to
+Added: litigation or regulatory scrutiny and investors could lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports.
+Added: We cannot provide any assurance that in the future we will be able to fully comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley
+Added: Act or that management will conclude that our internal control over financial reporting is effective.
+Added: If we fail to fully comply
+Added: with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, our business may be harmed and our stock price may decline.
+Added: example, our assessment, testing and evaluation of the design and operating effectiveness of our internal control over financial
+Added: reporting resulted in our conclusion that as of December 31, 2020 our internal control over financial reporting was not effective,
+Added: due to the Company not having adequate controls related to changes in management within the technology that support the Company’s
+Added: financial reporting function.
+Added: While we have implemented changes and made improvements to our internal control over financial reporting
+Added: during the year ended December 31, 2020, related to general information technology controls in the area of change management in
+Added: order to remediate the material weakness identified above, our internal control over financial reporting may continue to be ineffective.
+Added: UNRESOLVED STAFF
+Added: principal executive office is located at 30 Jericho Executive Plaza in Jericho, New York 11753.
+Added: The lease for the 30 Jericho Executive
+Added: Plaza office space expires on November 30, 2021.
+Added: We currently do not own any real property.
+Added: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
+Added: our knowledge, there are no material pending legal proceedings to which we are a party or of which any of our property is the
+Added: MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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