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new personnel;
−Removed: the diversion of our management’s attention from our existing product programs and initiatives in pursuing such a strategic merger
−Removed: or acquisition;
+Added: · the diversion of our management’s attention from our existing product programs and initiatives in pursuing such a strategic
+Added: merger or acquisition;
· retention of key employees, the loss of key personnel, and uncertainties in our ability to maintain key business relationships;
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inability could impair our ability to grow or obtain access to technology or products that may be important to the development of our
−Removed: Our PeriShip Global Solutions segment relies on one key strategic
−Removed: partner for shipping services for our customers and as a source for customers representing a substantial percentage of our revenues.
+Added: Our Precision Logistics segment relies on one key strategic partner
+Added: for shipping services for our customers and as a source for customers representing a substantial percentage of our revenues.
Our business is dependent, and we believe that
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Sales through our strategic
−Removed: partner accounted for approximately 13% of revenue of our PeriShip Global Solutions segment for the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: fail to maintain certain minimum service level requirements related to our service with this strategic partner, it may terminate our agreement
+Added: partner accounted for approximately 17% of revenue of our Precision Logistics segment for the year ended December 31, 2023.
+Added: to maintain certain minimum service level requirements related to our service with this strategic partner, it may terminate our agreement
to provide them with such service.
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materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Our key strategic partner has announced that it is developing
−Removed: a service that may be competitive to our own, and others may do the same.
−Removed: In the second quarter of 2020 our key strategy
−Removed: partner publicly announced that it plans to develop an inhouse software solution in collaboration with a multinational software company
−Removed: that may ultimately be competitive with our service offerings.
−Removed: In January 2022, our key strategy partner announced the development of
−Removed: a logistics as a service solution as a result of this collaboration.
−Removed: The details regarding this product offering, and whether this inhouse
−Removed: solution will ultimately be developed and successfully launched commercially, are unclear.
−Removed: To date we do not believe that this product
−Removed: offering has been adopted by our existing clients or adversely impacted our results in a material way.
−Removed: However, if our key strategic partner
−Removed: takes steps to position this product offering as a replacement or competitor to our service offerings, there can be no assurance that
−Removed: such steps would not increase our cost of delivering our services to our customers, hinder our ability to deliver our services to our
−Removed: customers, entice our existing customers to discontinue using our services, or reduce the number of customers referred to us by our strategic
−Removed: In addition, other carriers or companies, such as Amazon, may develop services that compete with ours.
−Removed: Further, some of our existing
−Removed: customers may develop their own logistics capabilities such that they no longer require our services.
−Removed: Any of these events could harm our
−Removed: business, financial condition and results of operations and may have a material adverse impact on our business.
Our business is subject to seasonal trends.
−Removed: Historically, our operating results in the PeriShip
−Removed: Global Solutions segment have been subject to seasonal trends when measured on a quarterly basis.
+Added: Historically, our operating results in the Precision
+Added: Logistics segment have been subject to seasonal trends when measured on a quarterly basis.
Our first and second quarters have traditionally
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The transportation and logistics industry is highly
−Removed: competitive and cyclical, and is expected to remain so for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: The traceability and consumer engagement industry is
−Removed: also highly competitive.
+Added: competitive, cyclical, and is expected to remain so for the foreseeable future.
+Added: The traceability and consumer engagement industry is also
+Added: highly competitive.
We face competition in all geographic markets and each industry sector in which we operate.
−Removed: Many of these competitors
−Removed: have significantly more resources and are actively pursuing acquisition opportunities and are developing new technologies to gain competitive
+Added: We have and may face continued
+Added: competition by strategic partners.
+Added: Many of these competitors have significantly more resources and are actively pursuing acquisition opportunities
+Added: and are developing new technologies to gain competitive advantages.
The primary competitive factors are price and quality of service.
−Removed: Increased competition or our inability to compete successfully
−Removed: may lead to a reduction in our volume, reduced revenues, reduced profit margins, increased pricing pressure, or a loss of customer relationships,
−Removed: any one of which could affect our business and financial results.
−Removed: Numerous competitive factors could impair our ability to maintain our
−Removed: current profitability, including the following:
−Removed: our competitors may periodically reduce their prices to gain business, especially during times of weak economic conditions, which may
−Removed: limit our ability to maintain or increase prices or impede our ability to maintain or grow our customer relationships;
+Added: Increased competition or our inability to compete successfully may lead to a reduction in our volume, reduced revenues, reduced profit
+Added: margins, increased pricing pressure, or a loss of customer relationships, any one of which could affect our business and financial results.
+Added: Numerous competitive factors could impair our ability to maintain our current profitability, including the following:
+Added: · our competitors may periodically reduce their prices to gain business, especially during times of weak
+Added: economic conditions, which may limit our ability to maintain or increase prices or impede our ability to maintain or grow our customer
+Added: relationships;
· our inability to achieve expected customer retention levels or sales growth targets;
−Removed: we compete with many other transportation and logistics service providers, and companies providing traceability and consumer engagement
−Removed: solutions, some of which have greater capital resources or lower cost structures than us;
−Removed: our inability to compete with new entrants in the market that may offer similar services at lower cost or have greater technological capabilities;
+Added: · we compete with many other transportation and logistics service providers, and companies providing traceability
+Added: and consumer engagement solutions, which has included and may include our strategic partners, some of which have greater capital resources
+Added: or lower cost structures than us;
+Added: · our strategic partners may take steps to position their own product offerings as a replacement or competitor
+Added: to our service offerings;
+Added: · our inability to compete with existing and new entrants in the market that may offer similar services
+Added: at lower cost or have greater technological capabilities;
· customers may choose to provide for themselves the services that we now provide;
−Removed: many customers periodically accept proposals from multiple carriers for their shipping needs, and this process may depress rates or result
−Removed: in the loss of some of our business to competitors;
−Removed: advances in technology require increased investments to remain competitive, and our customers may not be willing to accept higher prices
−Removed: to cover the cost of these investments;
+Added: · many customers periodically accept proposals from multiple carriers for their shipping needs, and this
+Added: process may depress rates or result in the loss of some of our business to competitors;
+Added: · advances in technology require increased investments to remain competitive, and our customers may not
+Added: be willing to accept higher prices to cover the cost of these investments;
· we may not have sufficient resources to develop and market our services effectively, or at all.
+Added: There can be no assurance that such competitive
+Added: factors will not increase our cost of delivering our services to our customers, hinder our ability to deliver our services to our customers,
+Added: entice our existing customers to discontinue using our services, or reduce the number of customers referred to us by strategic partners.
+Added: Any of these factors could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations and may have a material adverse impact on
+Added: our business.
The shipping and logistics industry is rapidly
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The Company has recorded significant goodwill
−Removed: and other identifiable intangible assets on its balance sheet as a result of its acquisition of the PeriShip business in 2022.
−Removed: of factors may result in impairments to goodwill and other intangible assets, including significant negative industry or economic trends,
−Removed: disruptions to our business, increased competition and significant changes in the use of the assets.
−Removed: Impairment charges could adversely
−Removed: affect the Company's financial condition or results of operations in the periods recognized.
+Added: and other identifiable intangible assets on its balance sheet as a result of its acquisition of the PeriShip business in 2022 and Trust
+Added: Codes business in 2023.
+Added: A number of factors may result in impairments to goodwill and other intangible assets, including significant negative
+Added: industry or economic trends, disruptions to our business, increased competition and significant changes in the use of the assets.
+Added: charges could adversely affect the Company's financial condition or results of operations in the periods recognized.
Our customers’ businesses may be negatively
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to reductions from time to time in discretionary consumer spending.
−Removed: For example, demand for high-end perishable items and cannabis products,
−Removed: and subsequently the demand for shipping, brand protection, and other services related to such, can be affected by changes in the economy
−Removed: and consumer tastes, both of which are difficult to predict and beyond our control.
−Removed: Unfavorable changes in general economic conditions,
−Removed: including recessions, economic slowdowns, sustained high levels of unemployment, and rising prices or the perception by consumers of weak
−Removed: or weakening economic conditions, may reduce consumer’s disposable income or result in a decrease in demand for our services and
−Removed: As a result, we cannot ensure that demand for our services and products will materialize or remain constant.
−Removed: In early September,
−Removed: 2022, the major global carrier company that PeriShip partners with disclosed that a global recession could be coming based on various
−Removed: indicators in its business including the demand for packages weakening considerably in the final weeks of August 2022, a negative impact
−Removed: on its express delivery business due to the weakening global economy, particularly in Asia and Europe, and a decline in the volume of
−Removed: freight it handles in every region around the world.
−Removed: The major global carrier stated that it expects business conditions to further weaken
−Removed: during its current quarter and is responding by reducing flights, temporarily parking aircraft, trimming hours for its staff, delaying
−Removed: some hiring plans and closing ninety office locations as well as five corporate offices.
−Removed: It also stated it is cutting $500 million from
−Removed: its capital expenditure budget for its fiscal year, which runs through May of 2023.
+Added: For example, demand for high-end perishable items, and subsequently
+Added: the demand for shipping, brand protection, and other services related to such, can be affected by changes in the economy and consumer
+Added: tastes, both of which are difficult to predict and beyond our control.
+Added: Unfavorable changes in general economic conditions, including recessions,
+Added: economic slowdowns, sustained high levels of unemployment, and rising prices or the perception by consumers of weak or weakening economic
+Added: conditions, may reduce consumer’s disposable income or result in a decrease in demand for our services and products.
+Added: we cannot ensure that demand for our services and products will materialize or remain constant.
+Added: In response to market conditions and lower
+Added: demand some carriers have implemented strategies to address a potential global recession.
+Added: In April 2023, the major carrier that PeriShip
+Added: Global partners with laid out steps it was taking to slash $4 billion in permanent costs by the end of its 2025 fiscal year in response
+Added: to these market conditions and lower demand.
+Added: In June 2023, the major carrier stated that due to ongoing demand its plans to ground 29
+Added: more aircraft in its fiscal year that started in June 2024.
+Added: In mid-December 2023 the carrier forecasted a low single digit percentage
+Added: decline in revenue year over year for 2024.
We have seen a softening in demand for some services
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immediately before the ownership change.
−Removed: In 2022, we completed the IRC Section 382 analysis, and determined that an ownership change occurred
−Removed: sufficient to impose additional limitations on the use of NOL carryforwards.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2022, Federal and state NOLs
−Removed: of $23.1 million and $0, respectively, will expire unutilized due to the limitations of Section 382, leaving Federal and state NOL carryforwards
−Removed: of $24.4 million and $13.1 million, respectively that may be offset against future taxable income.
−Removed: In the event future ownership changes
−Removed: are determined, we might be unable to offset our taxable income with losses, or our tax liability with credits, before such losses and
−Removed: credits expire, in which event we could incur larger federal and state income tax liabilities than we would have had we not experienced
−Removed: an ownership change.
+Added: The Company completed an IRC Section 382 analysis in 2022, and determined that an ownership change
+Added: occurred sufficient to impose additional limitations on the use of NOL carryforwards.
+Added: The Company has not completed an IRC Section 382
+Added: analysis in 2023.
+Added: In the event future ownership changes are determined, we might be unable to offset our taxable income with losses, or
+Added: our tax liability with credits, before such losses and credits expire, in which event we could incur larger federal and state income tax
+Added: liabilities than we would have had we not experienced an ownership change.
Because our name and brand could be confused
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We rely on strategic partnerships with one large
−Removed: logistics carrier for our PeriShip Global Solutions segment and larger companies which integrate our technologies into their product offerings
−Removed: for our legacy VerifyMe Solutions segment.
+Added: logistics carrier for our Precision Logistics segment and larger companies which integrate our technologies into their product offerings
+Added: for our legacy Authentication segment.
These strategies leave us largely dependent upon the success of our partners.
−Removed: If any of our
−Removed: strategic partners who include our technology in their products cease to do so, or we fail to obtain other partners who will incorporate,
−Removed: embed, integrate or bundle our technology, or these partners are unsuccessful in their efforts, expanding deployment of our technology,
−Removed: our business and future growth would be materially and adversely affected.
+Added: If any of our strategic
+Added: partners who include our technology in their products cease to do so, or we fail to obtain other partners who will incorporate, embed,
+Added: integrate or bundle our technology, or these partners are unsuccessful in their efforts, expanding deployment of our technology, our business
+Added: and future growth would be materially and adversely affected.
If we cannot manage
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and ability to become profitable.
−Removed: Because a small number of customers account
−Removed: for most of our revenue, the loss of any of these customers would have a material adverse impact on our operating results and cash flows .
−Removed: We derive our revenue from a limited number of
−Removed: customers and our revenue in 2022 grew to $19,576 thousand with the acquisition of PeriShip Global, compared to $867 thousand in 2021.
−Removed: Our principal revenue has been generated from thirty customers in 2022, compared to five customers in 2021.
−Removed: Certain of our agreements
−Removed: with customers have short terms or can be terminated on short notice.
−Removed: Any termination of a business relationship with, or a significant
−Removed: sustained reduction in business received from, one of these customers could have a material adverse effect on our operating results and
−Removed: If we are unable to materially increase the number of our customers and the number of products for which they use our service,
−Removed: it could adversely impact our financial condition and our business.
We will need to expand our sales, marketing
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Our management concluded that our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2022, and the remediated material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: identified in Item 9A of the Report covering the year ended December 31, 2021 have been remediated.
−Removed: Any failure to develop or maintain
−Removed: effective controls or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement could harm our results of operations or cause
−Removed: us to fail to meet our reporting obligations and may result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods.
−Removed: to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting also could adversely affect the results of periodic management
−Removed: evaluations and annual independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.
+Added: and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls or any difficulties encountered
+Added: in their implementation or improvement could harm our results of operations or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations and
+Added: may result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods.
+Added: Any failure to implement and maintain effective internal control
+Added: over financial reporting also could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually
+Added: be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.
Material weaknesses in our disclosure controls
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or to meet our obligations to our users, and our business, financial condition and operating results could be materially and adversely
−Removed: Fluctuations in labor costs, raw materials,
−Removed: changes in the availability of key suppliers, or catastrophic events may increase the cost of our products and services.
+Added: Fluctuations in labor costs, changes in
+Added: the availability of key suppliers, or catastrophic events may increase the cost of our products and services.
Increases in labor costs might be difficult to
pass on to our customers.
−Removed: In our VerifyMe Solutions segment, security pigments, ink canisters, labels and bar codes are key elements in
−Removed: the cost of our products.
−Removed: Our inability to offset material price inflation could adversely affect our results of operations.
−Removed: one global carrier for transportation services, one supplier to procure our raw materials, one strategic partner to produce our ink canisters,
−Removed: and it is difficult to predict what effects shortages or price increases for the raw materials we use to make our products may have in
−Removed: Our ability to manage inventory and meet delivery requirements may be constrained by our supplier’s inability to scale
−Removed: production and adjust delivery during times of volatile demand.
−Removed: Our inability to fill our supply needs would jeopardize our ability to
−Removed: fulfill obligations under current contracts or enter new contracts to sell our products, which would, in turn, result in reduced sales
−Removed: and profits, contract penalties or terminations, and damage to customer relationships.
+Added: In our Authentication segment (formerly VerifyMe Solutions segment), security pigments, ink canisters, labels
+Added: and bar codes are key elements in the cost of our products.
+Added: Our inability to offset material price inflation could adversely affect our
+Added: results of operations.
+Added: We rely on one global carrier for transportation services, one supplier to procure our raw materials, one strategic
+Added: partner to produce our ink canisters, and it is difficult to predict what effects shortages or price increases for the raw materials we
+Added: use to make our products may have in the future.
+Added: Our ability to manage inventory and meet delivery requirements may be constrained by
+Added: our supplier’s inability to scale production and adjust delivery during times of volatile demand.
+Added: Our inability to fill our supply
+Added: needs would jeopardize our ability to fulfill obligations under current contracts or enter new contracts to sell our products, which would,
+Added: in turn, result in reduced sales and profits, contract penalties or terminations, and damage to customer relationships.
Our ability to become profitable is largely
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If we are unable to develop new products to meet market demands, our business could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: As a company with revenues deriving from
−Removed: clients in the cannabis industry, we face many unique and evolving risks.
−Removed: We currently derive approximately 5% of revenues
−Removed: from clients in the cannabis industry from use of our track and trace and customer engagement technologies.
−Removed: As such, any risks related
−Removed: to the cannabis industry may adversely impact our clients, and potential clients, which may in turn, impact the demand for our products
−Removed: and services.
−Removed: Specific risks impacting the cannabis industry include, but are not limited, to the following:
−Removed: United States federal law
−Removed: prohibits Marijuana
−Removed: Under the Controlled Substances
−Removed: Act (“CSA”), marijuana is a Schedule-I controlled substance making it illegal under federal law to grow, cultivate, distribute,
−Removed: sell or possess marijuana for any purpose or to assist or conspire with those who do so.
−Removed: Although the use of marijuana is legal in certain
−Removed: states under state law, since federal law supersedes state law, strict enforcement of federal law would likely result in adverse effects
−Removed: on our clients’ operations, which would in turn, adversely impact our revenues.
−Removed: Banking regulations could
−Removed: limit access to banking services and expose us to risk
−Removed: Funds received from our clients
−Removed: in the cannabis industry, operating legally under state law, may subject us to a variety of federal laws and regulations involving money
−Removed: laundering, financial record keeping and proceeds of crime, since the funds are considered illegal under the CSA and as such banks and
−Removed: other financial institutions providing services to us risk violation of anti money laundering statutes and other applicable statutes.
−Removed: Furthermore, banks often refuse to provide banking services to businesses involved in the cannabis industry due to the federal and state
−Removed: laws and regulations governing financial institutions.
−Removed: The difficulty and potential inability to open bank accounts that our clients in
−Removed: the cannabis industry deal with, makes it difficult to conduct business and as such could affect our ability to collect revenues earned.
−Removed: Furthermore, our clients in this industry are more susceptible to theft, and potentially lack the ability to insure themselves against
−Removed: We may experience similar difficulties in obtaining banking and financial services because of the activities of our clients in
−Removed: the cannabis industry.
−Removed: The legality of cannabis
−Removed: could be reversed in one or more states
−Removed: The voters or legislatures
−Removed: of states in which marijuana has already been legalized could potentially repeal applicable laws that permit the operation of both medical
−Removed: and retail marijuana businesses.
−Removed: These actions might force businesses, including those that are our clients, to cease operations in one or
−Removed: more states entirely.
−Removed: Additionally, these actions could negatively impact us and lead to a decrease of our revenue through the loss of
−Removed: current and potential customers.
−Removed: Recent and changing interpretations
−Removed: of the law regarding medical and recreational use of marijuana
−Removed: State laws and regulations
−Removed: surrounding medical and recreational use of marijuana are fairly recent and constantly changing resulting in a potential challenge to
−Removed: maintain compliance.
−Removed: As such, violations of these laws, or allegations of such violations, could be disruptive to our clients’ business
−Removed: and in return cause a disruption in our operations.
−Removed: Future modifications of state and local laws surrounding marijuana, may limit operations
−Removed: of our clients’ business in this industry, which could negatively impact our revenues.
−Removed: Dependence on client licensing
−Removed: Our clients in the cannabis
−Removed: industry must obtain various licenses from various local and state licensing agencies.
−Removed: As such, there is a risk that our existing clients
−Removed: will not be able to retain their licenses going forward, should they violate applicable rules and regulations, or should renewal become
−Removed: more stringent.
−Removed: If our customers are not able to maintain or renew their licenses, this would adversely impact our operations.
−Removed: Insurance Risk
−Removed: Insurance companies may limit
−Removed: policies to only cover claims legal under federal law.
−Removed: As such our clients in the cannabis industry may not be properly insured.
−Removed: against our clients may have a negative impact on our ability to collect revenues from our clients in the cannabis sector.
+Added: Foreign Currency
+Added: Exchange Rate Risk
+Added: We operate in the US and New Zealand, which exposes
+Added: us to market risk associated with foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.
+Added: Our foreign currency exposure primarily relates to intercompany
+Added: receivables and payables and third-party receivables and payables that are denominated in currencies other than the functional currency
+Added: of our legal entities.
+Added: Our largest foreign currency exposure is unsettled intercompany payables and receivables which are reviewed on
+Added: a regular basis.
+Added: Gains and losses from foreign currency transactions are included in “General and administrative” on our Consolidated
+Added: Statements of Operations.
+Added: Our foreign subsidiary operates in a currency
+Added: other than the United States dollar;
+Added: therefore, increases or decreases in the value of the U.S.
+Added: dollar against other major currencies
+Added: will affect our operating results and the value of our balance sheet items denominated in foreign currencies.
+Added: Our most significant exposures
+Added: to translation risk relates to functional currency assets and liabilities that are denominated in the New Zealand dollar.
+Added: in the net investment of our foreign subsidiary are reflected in "Foreign currency translation adjustments” on our Consolidated
+Added: Statements of Comprehensive Loss.
+Added: We have not used any exchange rate hedging programs to mitigate the effect of exchange rate fluctuations.
Risks Relating to our Common Stock
Upon exercise of our outstanding options
−Removed: or warrants, conversion of our Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and vesting of our restricted stock units, we will be obligated to
−Removed: issue a substantial number of additional shares of common stock which will dilute our present shareholders .
+Added: or warrants, conversion of our Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, conversion of our Convertible debt, vesting of our restricted stock
+Added: units, and issuance of shares relating to the Trust Codes earnout, we will be obligated to issue a substantial number of additional shares
+Added: of common stock which will dilute our present shareholders .
We are obligated to issue additional shares of
our common stock in connection with our outstanding options, warrants and shares of our Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2022, there were options, warrants, shares of Series B Convertible Stock outstanding, and restricted stock units convertible into
−Removed: and 413,626 shares of common stock, respectively.
−Removed: The exercise, conversion or exchange of warrants or convertible
−Removed: securities, including for other securities, will cause us to issue additional shares of our common stock and will dilute the percentage
−Removed: ownership of our shareholders.
−Removed: In addition, we have in the past, and may in the future, exchange outstanding securities for other securities
−Removed: on terms that are dilutive to the securities held by other shareholders not participating in such exchange.
+Added: years ended December 31, 2023, there were approximately 8,286,000 anti-dilutive shares consisting 1,439,000 unvested performance restricted
+Added: stock units, 816,000 restricted stock units, restricted stock awards and options under the stock purchase plan, 301,000 shares issuable
+Added: upon exercise of stock options, 4,629,000 shares issuable upon exercise of warrants, 957,000 shares issuable upon conversion of convertible
+Added: debt, and 144,000 shares issuable upon conversion of preferred stock.
+Added: As of December 31, 2023, there were no shares issuable related to
+Added: the Trust Codes earnout.
+Added: The exercise, conversion or exchange of warrants or convertible securities, including for other securities, will
+Added: cause us to issue additional shares of our common stock and will dilute the percentage ownership of our shareholders.
+Added: In addition, we
+Added: have in the past, and may in the future, exchange outstanding securities for other securities on terms that are dilutive to the securities
+Added: held by other shareholders not participating in such exchange.
Offers or availability for sale of a substantial
number of shares of our common stock may cause the price of our common stock to decline .
−Removed: Sales of large blocks
−Removed: of our common stock over a short time in the spring of 2022 had a significant adverse effect on our common stock price.
−Removed: Further sales
−Removed: could depress the price of our common stock.
+Added: Sales of large blocks of our common stock could
+Added: depress the price of our common stock.
The existence of these shares and shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding
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trading volume and price fluctuations, which could adversely impact the value of our common stock .
−Removed: Our common stock
−Removed: has experienced, and is likely to experience in the future, significant price and volume fluctuations, which could adversely affect the
−Removed: market price of our common stock without regard to our operating performance.
−Removed: In addition, we believe that factors such as quarterly fluctuations
−Removed: in our financial results and changes in the overall economy or the condition of the financial markets could cause the price of our common
−Removed: stock to fluctuate substantially.
−Removed: These fluctuations may also cause short sellers to periodically enter the market in the belief that
−Removed: we will have poor results in the future.
−Removed: We cannot predict the actions of market participants and, therefore, can offer no assurances
−Removed: that the market for our common stock will be stable or appreciate over time.
+Added: Our common stock has experienced, and is likely
+Added: to experience in the future, significant price and volume fluctuations, which could adversely affect the market price of our common stock
+Added: without regard to our operating performance.
+Added: In addition, we believe that factors such as quarterly fluctuations in our financial results
+Added: and changes in the overall economy or the condition of the financial markets could cause the price of our common stock to fluctuate substantially.
+Added: These fluctuations may also cause short sellers to periodically enter the market in the belief that we will have poor results in the future.
+Added: We cannot predict the actions of market participants and, therefore, can offer no assurances that the market for our common stock will
+Added: be stable or appreciate over time.
Because we may issue preferred stock without
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depress our stock price .
−Removed: In general, our Board of Directors may issue, without a vote of our shareholders, one or
−Removed: more additional series of preferred stock that have more than one vote per share, although the Company’s ability to designate and
−Removed: issue preferred stock is currently restricted by covenants under our agreements with prior investors.
−Removed: Without these restrictions, our
−Removed: Board of Directors could issue preferred stock to investors who support us and our management and give effective control of our business
−Removed: to our management.
−Removed: Additionally, issuance of preferred stock could block an acquisition resulting in both a drop in our stock price and
−Removed: a decline in interest of our common stock.
−Removed: This could make it more difficult for shareholders to sell their common stock.
−Removed: This could also
−Removed: cause the market price of our common stock shares to drop significantly, even if our business is performing well.
+Added: In general, our Board of Directors may issue,
+Added: without a vote of our shareholders, one or more additional series of preferred stock that have more than one vote per share, although
+Added: the Company’s ability to designate and issue preferred stock is currently restricted by covenants under our agreements with prior
+Added: Without these restrictions, our Board of Directors could issue preferred stock to investors who support us and our management
+Added: and give effective control of our business to our management.
+Added: Additionally, issuance of preferred stock could block an acquisition resulting
+Added: in both a drop in our stock price and a decline in interest of our common stock.
+Added: This could make it more difficult for shareholders to
+Added: sell their common stock.
+Added: This could also cause the market price of our common stock shares to drop significantly, even if our business
+Added: is performing well.
Because we do not intend to pay cash dividends
on our shares of common stock, any returns will be limited to the value of our shares .
−Removed: We currently anticipate that we
−Removed: will retain future earnings for the development, operation and expansion of our business and do not anticipate declaring or paying any
−Removed: cash dividends for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: Any return to shareholders will therefore be limited to the increase, if any, of our share
+Added: We currently anticipate that we will retain future
+Added: earnings for the development, operation and expansion of our business and do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends for
+Added: the foreseeable future.
+Added: Any return to shareholders will therefore be limited to the increase, if any, of our share price.
There can be no assurance that we will be
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common stock and certain warrants .
−Removed: The Nasdaq Capital Market requires that the trading price of its listed stocks remain
−Removed: above one dollar in order for the stock to remain listed.
−Removed: If a listed stock trades below one dollar for more than 30 consecutive trading
−Removed: days, then it is subject to delisting from the Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: In addition, to maintain a listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market,
−Removed: we must satisfy minimum financial and other continued listing requirements and standards, including those regarding director independence
−Removed: and independent committee requirements, minimum stockholders’ equity, and certain corporate governance requirements.
−Removed: If we are unable
−Removed: to satisfy these requirements or standards, we could be subject to delisting, which would have a negative effect on the price of our common
−Removed: stock and warrants and would impair your ability to sell or purchase our common stock or warrants when you wish to do so.
−Removed: of a delisting, we would expect to take actions to restore our compliance with the listing requirements, but we can provide no assurance
−Removed: that any such action taken by us would allow our common stock or warrants to become listed again, stabilize the market price or improve
−Removed: the liquidity of our common stock, prevent our common stock from dropping below the minimum bid price requirement, or prevent future non-compliance
−Removed: with the listing requirements.
+Added: The Nasdaq Capital Market requires that the trading
+Added: price of its listed stocks remain above one dollar in order for the stock to remain listed.
+Added: If a listed stock trades below one dollar
+Added: for more than 30 consecutive trading days, then it is subject to delisting from the Nasdaq Capital Market.
+Added: In addition, to maintain a
+Added: listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we must satisfy minimum financial and other continued listing requirements and standards, including
+Added: those regarding director independence and independent committee requirements, minimum stockholders’ equity, and certain corporate
+Added: governance requirements.
+Added: If we are unable to satisfy these requirements or standards, we could be subject to delisting, which would have
+Added: a negative effect on the price of our common stock and warrants and would impair your ability to sell or purchase our common stock or
+Added: warrants when you wish to do so.
+Added: In the event of a delisting, we would expect to take actions to restore our compliance with the listing
+Added: requirements, but we can provide no assurance that any such action taken by us would allow our common stock or warrants to become listed
+Added: again, stabilize the market price or improve the liquidity of our common stock, prevent our common stock from dropping below the minimum
+Added: bid price requirement, or prevent future non-compliance with the listing requirements.
Provisions of our publicly traded warrants
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of the warrants could prevent or deter a third party from acquiring us even where the acquisition could be beneficial to you.
−Removed: Risks Related to our Debt
+Added: Risks Relating to our Debt
If we do not timely pay amounts due and
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condition and results of operations and may have a material adverse impact on our business.
+Added: 25, 2023, the Company entered into a Convertible Note Purchase Agreement with certain investors for the sale of convertible promissory
+Added: notes for the aggregate principal amount of $1,100 thousand.
+Added: The notes are subordinated unsecured obligations of the Company and accrue
+Added: interest at a rate of 8% per year payable semiannually in arrears.
+Added: The notes will mature on August 25, 2026, unless earlier converted or
+Added: repurchased at a conversion price of $1.15 per share of common stock.
+Added: Although we believe the majority of our investors will choose to
+Added: convert into shares, if this does not occur, this may have a material adverse impact on our cash and as a result, a material adverse impact
+Added: on our business.
Our cash flows and operating results could
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believe would otherwise be in the best interests of our stockholders.
−Removed: STAFF COMMENTS.
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