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Proactive news summary: Alexander Nubia, AFC Energy, African Potash, Breedon Aggregates, Clinigen...

Last updated: 18:03 03 Mar 2015 GMT, First published: 19:03 03 Mar 2015 GMT

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We start, to misquote Mitzi Gaynor, star of “South Pacific”, with some ‘appy talk’.

Motive Television (LON:MTV) has released the first update to its app for TabletTV in the UK.

Version 2.0 has been submitted to the Apple App store for review and is expected to be available in around a week. The update adds several functions to TabletTV, including one-touch-recording (OTR), home network, and social networking.

Mobile software firm Globo (LON:GBO) has claimed an industry first with the new security features it has added to its app development platform, GO!AppZone.

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Globo said the platform now offers FIPS 140-2 certified end-to-end encryption across mobile networks, the only company that offers such security.

Elsewhere in the tech sector, Tern (LON:TERN) revealed that data security firm Cryptosoft, in which it owns 95% of equity, has struck a strategic agreement with a US based software vendor specialising in the “Internet of Things”.

AFC Energy (LON:AFC) faces a pivotal year in 2015, its new chief executive said today.

Adam Bond took over the reins at the alkaline fuel cell developer in December and said the fast-tracking of the delivery of its KORE technology within the POWER-UP project by the end of this year was a significant step forward for the company.

Losses in the year to October 2015 rose to £5.85mln (£4.5mln), while revenues were £782,000.

Sticking with tech – sort of - TyraTech’s (LON:TYR) Vamousse head lice product is gaining significant traction in the US where it is already stocked by the world’s largest retailer.

This morning it said the only natural remedy in this category is now listed with AmerisourceBergen.

Amerisource is the second-biggest distributor of pharmaceutical products in the States, so the deal paves the way for distribution to the large network of independent pharmacies there.

Clinigen (LON:CLIN) remains upbeat over the remainder of the year after interim profits improved due to a strong performance from its speciality drugs business.

Sales rose by 17% to £72.6mln in the half year to December, with underlying profits [EBITDA] 8% higher at £13.5mln. Pre-tax profits rose by 3% to £9.9mln.

It was a glittering day for Golden Saint Resources (LON:GSR), which was the day’s best performing share after it said it will not draw down further on the £2mln of senior convertible bonds with Darwin Strategic announced last year.

Elsewhere in the mining sector, Rare Earth Minerals (LON:REM) has increased its shareholding in Bacanora Minerals Limited from 14.48% to 15.02% through further market purchases totalling £334,564.

Bacanora is Rare Earth's (REM's) joint venture partner in the Sonora lithium project in Mexico.

Egypt focused mining group Alexander Nubia (CVE:AAN) has increased the size of its non-brokered placing to raise up to C$1.05mln compared to C$1mln previously. The firm unveiled the fund-raise in January alongside a reduction of the number of shares in issue.

Slovakia-focused oil firm Global Minerals (CVE:CTG) is assessing financing options to continue the development of the Strieborná property.

The company completed a preliminary economic assessment for the Strieborná in January, and found it to be a low-capex start-up with an initial seven year life.

Also on the financing front, Mwana Africa (LON:MWA) subsidiary Bindura Nickel has arranged a US$20 mln bond to finance the re-start its smelter in Zimbabwe.

British Columbia-focused Ximen Mining (CVE:XIM) said it ended 2014 with C$149,464 in cash and having spent C$1.7mln on exploration and evaluation across its properties.

International Mining & Infrastructure Corporation (LON:IMIC), has increased the resource estimate at its Ntem iron ore project in Cameroon by more than half.

The overall total rose to 176.3 million tonnes (mt), a 53% rise, at a 35% iron grade with most of this increase accounted for by a 148% jump in the indicated category to 96.9Mt

Not mining, but quarrying is the game of Breedon Aggregates (LON:BREE), the UK's leading independent aggregates business, which produced rock solid results in 2014.

Steadily improving market conditions, the benefits of its investment programme and a healthy contribution from acquisitions saw revenues and profits advance strongly.

Revenue rose 20.1% to £269.7mln from £224.5mln the year before, while underlying earnings (EBITDA) shot up 36.2% to £38.5mln from £28.3mln.

Profit before tax almost doubled from £11mln in 2013 to £21.4mln in 2014.

Not rock but potash is the stock in trade of AIM-quoted potash firm African Potash (LON:AFPO). Barrister and Africa-focused entrepreneur Christopher Cleverly has been hired as a director at the firm, where he will combine corporate experience with regional expertise to help advance the firm’s Lac Dinga potash project in the Republic of Congo.

Finally, on to the ever busy energy sector, where President Energy (LON:PPC) received a nasty shock when Canadian firm Petro-Victory Energy claimed it had been granted injunctions relating to President’s Pirity block in Paraguay, in which Petro-Victory has a 35% net working concession.

President noted Petro-Victory’s press release about a court action that has reportedly taken place – without President being notified or given a chance to put its case – and said it believes any claims made by Petro-Victory are without foundation.

Europa Oil & Gas (LON:EOG) has revealed that the third and final reservoir zone in the Wressle discovery well has successfully flowed hydrocarbons.

The well, in east Lincolnshire, flowed gas at a rate of 1.7mln cubic feet per day from the Penistone Flags zone. There was also modest oil flow, at rate of 12 barrels per day.

Madagascar Oil (LON:MOIL) said that oil produced from the Tsimiroro field will be sent to an industrial customer this month for testing.

As the company continues to expand the market in Madagascar for its crude and blended heavy fuel oil discussions are ongoing over test sales to a local power utility and domestic end users.

Independent Resources (LOMN:IRQ) told investors that a number of interested parties are currently considering a partnership in the Ksar Hadada project, in Tunisia.

An ongoing farm-out process is being marketed by Envoi, a number of interested third parties are evaluating the project and the data-room remains open to other potential partners.

Irish oil firm Providence Resources (LON:PVR) has revealed new analysis which points to the Drombeg prospect potentially being a large deep-water fan system.

The initial evaluation of Drombeg shows seismic morphologies consistent with those of a large deep-water fan system, Providence said.

Mosman Oil & Gas (LON:MSMN) has sent a letter to MEO Australia shareholders urging them to accept Mosman’s takeover offer.

Mosman has made a takeover bid for MEO, offering one Mosman share for every 10 MEO shares.

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