On 06/10/14 11:28, andrel wrote:
> On 5-10-2014 15:32, Doctor John wrote:
>>
>> The 'Stanny' is a freesheet
> 
> So it is quite likely the company paid for this 'news-article'.
> 

See accounts extract below. I doubt that they could afford to pay.

> 
> When I read something like "Scentrics is attracting enormous interest
> from giant tech companies in the US and Japan." then I ask myself
> - what is enormous and what giant tech companies are they?
> - was this copy/pasted from a press release by the company?
> - why is this 'journalist' trying to increase the value of this company?
> - is this company attracting new funding ATM?
> - and now also, has the owner of the newspaper financial interests in
> this company? (although it should have been my first question, I am
> still not paranoid enough)
> 

They certainly need funding. Some extracts from their latest accounts:
Cash £18,665
Assets £362,028
Liabilities £747,302

> There are two simple rules for an application that allows secure storage
> and transmission of data
> 1) no US company is involved
> 2) you can not make money with it (because as a company you don't have
> access to the data and because you lost the US market)
> 

I'm with you there :-)

John
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