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Whimventory.com,  Offering a Unique Universal Wishlist Service, Makes Its Debut

The creators of Whimventory.com, a universal wishlist service, announce the debut of their innovative, online gift giving service providing a free central registry for all items available on the Internet. Just moments after registering at Whimventory.com, users may easily add items from any online store enabling friends and family instant access to personal wishlists. Also useful as an organizer, Whimventory.com helps avoid duplicate buying by categorizing current, and listing possible future, purchases. Whether the desired item is a new computer, a cashmere scarf or the gift of a life-sustaining animal from an international non-profit, Whimventory.com simplifies wedding registry, birthday, holiday or corporate buying — virtually any gift giving on the planet.

At Whimventory.com, we believe there’s a good reason for the current explosive growth in e-commerce sales: Internet buying is easy, fast and virtually hassle-free. In fact, Forrester Research predicts that online retail sales in the U.S will grow to $250 billion by 2014, with ComScore projecting total online sales reaching $32.4 billion this holiday season alone. By providing a unique combination of critical features most universal wishlist services don’t — multiple lists; the addition of items without site visit, allowing users to continue shopping while minimizing interference; and list-specific passwords or privacy settings insuring maximum privacy and security — our goal is to take the guesswork out of buying while streamlining the e-shopping experience.

Brought to you by two specialists in visual and software design, Whimventory.com was created with heavy emphasis on usability and online security, offering clean, user-friendly features at maximum speed so that lists may be easily accessed and maintained. Whether users simply want to create a personal wishlist, indulge in anonymous “secret santa” gift giving or receive credit for their generosity, Whimventory.com makes the entire process easy, exacting and fast. Visit www.whimventory.com to register, and find out more about exciting, upcoming developments on our blog at www.whimventory.com/blog.

For additional information please call (512) 609 0502 or email us at contact@whimventory.com

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Trends in Terms of Venture Financings In the San Francisco Bay Area (Third Quarter 2010)

http://fenwick.com/publications/6.12.1.asp?vid=15&WT.mc_id=2010.Q3_VCS_BK_EMAIL

We hope you find this information useful and would be happy to answer any questions you might have regarding the surveys.

Regards,
Barry Kramer
Michael Patrick – Fenwick & West

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Bidding Process – Procedures for the sale of certain Assets and Intellectual Property of Emergent Game Technologies, Inc.

Further to Gerbsman Partners e-mail of November 12, 2010 regarding the sale of certain assets of Emergent Game Technologies, Inc., I attach the legal documents and wire transfer information  that we will be requesting of bidders for certain assets of Emergent Game Technologies, Inc. All parties bidding on the assets are encouraged, to the greatest extent possible, to conform the terms of their bids to the terms and form of the attached agreements.  Any and all of the assets of Emergent Game Technologies, Inc. will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis.  I would also encourage all interested parties to have their counsel speak with Stephen O’Neill, Esq., counsel to Emergent Game Technologies, Inc.

As indicated in the email of November 12, 2010, Gerbsman Partners (www.gerbsmanpartners.com) has been retained by Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. (“WTI”), the senior secured lender to Emergent Game Technologies, Inc., (“EGT”), (www.emergent.net) to solicit interest for the acquisition of all or substantially all of EGT’s assets, including its Intellectual Property (“IP”), in whole or in part (collectively, the “EGT Assets”).  Please be advised that the EGT Assets are being offered for sale pursuant to Section 9-610 of the Uniform Commercial Code.  Purchasers of the EGT Assets will receive all of EGT’s right, title, and interest in the purchased portion of WTI’s collateral, which consists of substantially all of EGT’s assets, as provided in the Uniform Commercial Code.

The sale is being conducted with the cooperation of WTI and EGT. EGT has advised WTI that it will use its best efforts to make its employees available to assist purchasers with due diligence and assist with a prompt and efficient transition at mutually convenient time.

For additional information please contact Stephen O’Neill, Esq., of Murray & Murray counsel to Emergent Game Technologies, Inc. He can be reached at 408 907 9200  and/or at soneill@murraylaw.com

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the EGT Assets.  Sealed bids must be submitted so that they are actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, December 10, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Bid Deadline”) at EGT’s office, located at 5016 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 210, Calabasas, California 91302.  Please also email steve@gerbsmanpartners.com with any bid.
For your convenience, I have restated the description of the Updated Bidding Process.

The key dates and terms include:

The Bidding Process for Interested Buyers

Interested and qualified parties will be expected to sign a nondisclosure agreement (attached hereto as Exhibit A) to have access to key members of the management and intellectual capital teams and the due diligence “war room” documentation (the “Due Diligence Access”).  Each interested party, as a consequence of the Due Diligence Access granted to it, shall be deemed to acknowledge and represent (i) that it is bound by the bidding procedures described herein; (ii) that it has an opportunity to inspect and examine the EGT Assets and to review all pertinent documents and information with respect thereto; (iii) that it is not relying upon any written or oral statements, representations, or warranties of WTI,  Gerbsman Partners, or EGT, or their respective staff, agents, or attorneys; and (iv) all such documents and reports have been provided solely for the convenience of the interested party, and WTI, EGT, and Gerbsman Partners (and their respective, staff, agents, or attorneys) do not make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the same.

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the EGT Assets.  Sealed bids must be submitted so that they are actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, December 10, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Bid Deadline”) at EGT’s office, located at 5016 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 210, Calabasas, California 91302.  Please also email steve@gerbsmanpartners.com with any bid.

Bids should identify those assets being tendered for in a specific and identifiable way.

Any person or other entity making a bid must be prepared to provide independent confirmation that they possess the financial resources to complete the purchase where applicable.  All bids must be accompanied by a refundable deposit check in the amount of $250,000 (payable to Venture Lending and Leasing V, Inc.).  The winning bidder will be notified within 3 business days of the Bid Deadline.  Unsuccessful bidders will have their deposits returned to them within 3 business days of notification that they are an unsuccessful bidder.

WTI reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, accept or reject any bid, or withdraw any or all of the assets from sale.  Interested parties should understand that it is expected that the highest and best bid submitted will be chosen as the winning bidder and bidders may not have the opportunity to improve their bids after submission.

WTI will require the successful bidder to close within a 7 day period.  Any or all of the assets of EGT will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis, with no representation or warranties whatsoever.

All sales, transfer, and recording taxes, stamp taxes, or similar taxes, if any, relating to the sale of the EGT Assets shall be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder and shall be paid to WTI at the closing of each transaction. For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

Stephen O’Neill, Esq.
soneill@murraylaw.com

Steven R. Gerbsman
steve@gerbsmanpartners.com

Dennis Sholl
dennis@gerbsmanpartners.com

Kenneth Hardesty
ken@gerbsmanpartners.com

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Article from SFGate.

“If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world, so it figures that the social networking giant is trying to develop its own currency – Facebook Credits. Already, those credits can buy virtual goods from more than 200 applications on the Facebook platform, like special crop seeds or enhanced tractors in the otherwise free-to-play social game FarmVille. But credits have moved into the physical world as well. Last week, Safeway Stores joined Target, Best Buy and Walmart in selling Facebook Credit gift cards, just in time for them to become a stocking stuffer for the onrushing holiday shopping season. “We want Facebook Credits to be the virtual currency on Facebook,” said product marketing manager Deborah Liu for the Palo Alto firm. Analysts say Facebook Credits also have the potential to become a universal online currency that crosses both applications and country borders, not to mention a multibillion-dollar revenue source for Facebook, which takes a 30 percent cut of each transaction. Credits, for example, could be the future currency used by publishers of digital content like news and video, said analyst Atul Bagga of the investment research firm Think Equity LLC. For now, “Facebook is only taking baby steps,” Bagga said. “But you can see that Facebook Credits can go far.”

Positioned to win

Indeed, online payment systems are a key component of the main theme for the Web 2.0 Summit that begins today at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The convention will focus on “a battle to gain the upper hand in crucial ‘points of control’ across the Internet Economy,” entrepreneur and tech journalist John Battelle wrote earlier this year in a blog post setting up the theme for this year’s conference. And with more than 500 million active members, Facebook is already positioned to become a winner in that battle. “As Facebook Credits increases in usage, Facebook will begin to look and feel like its own economy,” said Augie Ray, a senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc. The privately held Facebook isn’t disclosing how many of its members now use Facebook Credits, which grew out of a Gift Shop feature that closed Aug. 1. Earlier this month, Wedbush Securities projected Facebook will generate more than $1 billion in sales from virtual goods this year, and approach $2 billion next year. Currently, there are more than 200 games and applications from 75 developers that accept Facebook Credits for those virtual goods, including 22 of the 25 most popular social games. On Nov. 2, Facebook signed a five-year deal with Redwood City video game giant Electronic Arts to use Facebook Credits as its exclusive payment method for its social games, such as Pet Society, Restaurant City and FIFA Superstars. That followed a similar deal earlier this year with San Francisco’s Zynga Game Network Inc., maker of popular social games like FarmVille. But there are non-game apps, such as Family Tree and Hallmark Social Calendar, that also accept Facebook Credits for virtual gifts such as digital birthday cards. And charitable organizations like Stand Up to Cancer and the anti-malaria Nothing But Nets have accepted Facebook Credits donations. The payment system could become especially important since Facebook is also pushing its Connect program to directly bridge the social network’s members with millions of other websites.

Making it easy

The system works in a way that’s similar to real-world transactions such as using a BART transit card. Facebook members use a regular credit card, PayPal account or mobile phone account to buy a certain value of Facebook Credits, starting with 15 credits for $1.50. Facebook Credits accepts payments using 15 currencies, including dollars, euros and yen. Like BART cards, which deduct fares based on the distance of travel on the system, a Facebook Credits account is charged for the value of a virtual item that in real currency might cost only a few cents each. It’s the basic concept used by Apple Inc. to sell 99-cent songs on iTunes at a time when downloading songs for free was all the rage, said Alex Rampell, chief executive officer of Trial Pay Inc. “How did Apple get everybody to pay? They just made it very easy,” said Rampell, whose Mountain View company offers an advertising system that entices social game players to try a real product like pizza or cosmetics in exchange for Facebook Credits. Indeed, Facebook’s Liu said the company sees a “sweet spot” for making a frictionless micro-payment system. The company is slowly expanding its list of developers who can “just plug into Facebook Credits” and not have to worry about creating their own payment system, she said. Social gaming is just the first industry to be affected, “but we think a number of verticals will break through,” Liu said.

Potential markets

Airline tickets or other big-ticket purchases may not be practical for Facebook Credits. But news site publishers, for example, could use Facebook Credits to get readers to buy access to an important story or a special video, Bagga said. “And music is a very social phenomenon,” he said. “There are so many industries that can have disruptions due to the social networking phenomenon.” Facebook, however, is based on the proposition that members make the network work by sharing their personal information, so it has also sparked numerous controversies over privacy. Facebook Credits might bring even more scrutiny. “As Facebook becomes a bigger part of the user’s shopping and purchasing activities as well as an even greater part of their communications activities, there’s going to be a greater focus on the part of government as to what Facebook is doing,” Ray said. Read more here. 

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Extension to the Bidding Process – Procedures for the sale of certain assets of Applied Spine Technologies, Inc.

The Board of Directors of Applied Spine Technologies, Inc. did not accept any bid that were due on October 15, 2010.  As such, the Board of Directors has authorized an extension to the Bidding Process for the sale of certain assets of Applied Spine Technologies, Inc. to Friday, November 12, 2010.

Further to Gerbsman Partners previous emails regarding the sale of certain assets of Applied Spine Technologies, Inc., I attach the draft legal documents and wire transfer information that we will be requesting of bidders for certain assets of Applied Spine Technologies, Inc. All parties bidding on the assets are encouraged, to the greatest extent possible, to conform the terms of their bids to the terms and form of the attached agreements.  Any and all of the assets of Applied Spine Technologies, Inc. will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis.  I would also encourage all interested parties to have their counsel speak with Merton Gollaher, Esq., counsel to Applied Spine Technologies, Inc.

For additional information regarding the legal documents please contact Merton Gollaher, Esq., of Wiggin and Dana LLP counsel to Applied Spine Technologies, Inc. He can be reached at 203 498 4362  and/or at mgollaher@wiggin.com For additional information regarding the Bidding Process and Due Diligence please contact Steven R. Gerbsman at 415 505 4991 and/or at steve@gerbsmanpartners.com.  Please do not contact the company directly.

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the Applied Spine Assets. Sealed bids must be submitted so that the bid is actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, November 12, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (the “Bid Deadline”) by email to- steve@gerbsmanpartners.com and mgollaher@wiggin.com with any bid.

For your convenience, I have restated the description of the Updated Bidding Process.

The key dates and terms include:

The Bidding Process for Interested Buyers

Interested and qualified parties will be expected to sign a nondisclosure agreement (attached hereto as Exhibit A) to have access to key members of the management and intellectual capital teams and the due diligence “war room” documentation (the “Due Diligence Access”). Each interested party, as a consequence of the Due Diligence Access granted to it, shall be deemed to acknowledge and represent (i) that it is bound by the bidding procedures described herein; (ii) that it has an opportunity to inspect and examine the Applied Spine Technologies Assets and to review all pertinent documents and information with respect thereto; (iii) that it is not relying upon any written or oral statements, representations, or warranties of Gerbsman Partners, or their respective staff, agents, or attorneys; and (iv) all such documents and reports have been provided solely for the convenience of the interested party, and Gerbsman Partners (and their respective, staff, agents, or attorneys) do not make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the same.

Following an initial round of due diligence, interested parties will be invited to participate with a sealed bid, for the acquisition of the Applied Spine Technologies Assets. Sealed bids must be submitted so that it is actually received by Gerbsman Partners no later than Friday, November 12, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (the “Bid Deadline”) by email steve@gerbsmanpartners.com and mgollaher@wiggin.com with any bid.

Bids should identify those assets being tendered for in a specific and identifiable way.  In particular, please identify separately certain equipment or other fixed assets.  The attached Applied Spine fixed asset list may not be complete and bidders interested in the Applied Spine equipment must submit a separate bid for such assets.

Any person or other entity making a bid must be prepared to provide independent confirmation that they possess the financial resources to complete the purchase. All bids must be accompanied by a refundable deposit check in the amount of $100,000 (payable to Applied Spine Technologies, Inc.).  The deposit should be wired to Applied Spine’s attorneys Wiggin and Dana LLP.  The winning bidder will be notified within 3 business days of the Bid Deadline. Unsuccessful bidders will have their deposit returned to them within 3 business days of notification that they are the unsuccessful bidder.

Applied Spine Technologies reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, accept or reject any bid, or withdraw any or all of the assets from sale.  Interested parties should understand that it is expected that the highest and best bid submitted will be chosen as the winning bidder and bidders may not have the opportunity to improve their bids after submission.

Applied Spine Technologies will require the successful bidder to close within a 7 day period. Any or all of the assets of Applied Spine Technologies will be sold on an “as is, where is” basis, with no representation or warranties whatsoever.

All sales, transfer, and recording taxes, stamp taxes, or similar taxes, if any, relating to the sale of the Applied Spine Technologies Assets shall be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder and shall be paid to Applied Spine Technologies at the closing of each transaction.

For additional information, please see below and/or contact:

Steven R. Gerbsman
(415) 456-0628
steve@gerbsmanpartners.com

Dennis Sholl
(415) 457-9596
dennis@gerbsmanpartners.com

Kenneth Hardesty
(408) 591-7528
ken@gerbsmanpartners.com

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