From today's shares mag.

TADPOLE TECHNOLOGY
(TAD) 15.75p
BRAVE HOLD
Tadpole was tipped at 12.5p in
January. It raced to 25p in anticipation
of a flood of great news.
In true Tadpole fashion the flood turned out to be only a
trickle, though MCI was eventually
confirmed as the telco using
Tadpoles software to stream
business applications to customers.
But this months purchase
of California-based Stream
Theory has jinxed investors.
The $25 million initial price will
be joined by a payment of 2
times sales over the next two
years, adding perhaps another
$18 million. A Japanese telco will
use STs software to distribute
games. Next Tuesday, Tadpole
will issue a prospectus and
promises to explain all.

From investtech.com

Negative Candidate (-79)
(Overall analysis) - Jul 21, 2004 Score explanation
TADPOLE TECH. ORD 10P is technically negative for the short and medium term, and neutral for the long term.

Negative Candidate (-91) (Short term)
Has broken down through the floor of the falling trend channel, which signals an even stronger falling rate. The negative development, however, may give rise to short term corrections up from today's level. It also gave a negative signal from a rectangle formation at the break down through the support at 14.70. Further fall to 11.65 or lower is signaled. The stock has resistance at p 15.10. The volume balance is negative and weakens the stock in the short term. The stock is overall assessed as technically negative for the short term.

Negative Candidate (-87) (Medium term)
Has broken down through the floor of the falling trend channel, which signals an even stronger falling rate. The negative development, however, may give rise to short term corrections up from today's level. It also gave a negative signal from a rectangle formation at the break down through the support at 14.70. Further fall to 11.67 or lower is signaled. The stock has support at p 9.20 and resistance at p 15.40. Volume tops correspond well with price tops, and volume bottoms correspond well with price bottoms. Volume balance is also positive, which weakens the falling trend and could be an early signal for a coming trend break. RSI is oversold, which indicates a potential short-term reaction up. The RSI curve shows a falling trend, which supports the negative trend. The stock is overall assessed as technically negative for the medium long term.

Neutral (-9) (Long term)
(Has broken through the floor of a rising trend channel. This indicates a slower rising rate at first, or the start of a more horizontal development. Is moving within a rectangle formation between support at 1.34 and resistance at 23.83. A decisive break through one of these levels indicates the new direction for the stock. The stock has support at p 5.80 and resistance at p 19.00. Negative volume balance weakens the stock in the short term. The stock is overall assessed as technically neutral for the long term.

Own goal?

yes.

Will it ever turn into a big fat toad.

Ok guys

Back to the early mornings next week I'm afraid.
Still I am assured it will be worth it.

M

ML
Lets hope the outcome is better than the last time we got up early.....

Why do we have to get up early? some kind of presentation/prospectus on Tuesday, does anyone know more?

Get Those Stun Guns Ready: Here Comes Masayoshi Son
Softbank is launching an assault on the online-game market

For a guy who spent the late 1990s buying a piece of just about any company that struck his fancy, Masayoshi Son sure has been doing a lot of selling lately. Over the past year, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank Corp. has unloaded parts of its holdings in Yahoo!, Yahoo Japan, and telecom gear-maker UTStarcom for a total of $1.4 billion. In August, Softbank expects to sell its 49% stake in Japan's Aozora Bank for $865 million. Why the sell-off? Broadband. In the past two years, Softbank has emerged as a leading provider of high-speed Internet access in Japan. Now, Son wants to dominate the market for entertainment delivered over the Net. The asset sales "will give me more ammunition to keep fighting," says Son, Softbank's founder and president. Advertisement

Get your stun guns ready: Son's first assault will aim at Japan's online-game market. On July 25 he plans to open a Web portal called BB Games featuring about 50 titles. Players will pay a monthly fee of $8.50 to $13 per title to square off against others across the country. By yearend 2004, Softbank plans to offer as many as 300 games and hopes the site to bring in revenues of at least $400 million per year by 2006. Of that, BB Games will keep 20%, with the remainder going to game developers. "There's no doubt that the killer application for broadband is online games," says Taizo Son, Son's younger brother and a partner in the venture.

Having bet some $1.5 billion on Softbank's Yahoo BB broadband service in the past two years, Son could use a killer app. Today, Yahoo BB has 2.8 million subscribers and holds 25% of Japan's broadband market, just behind leader Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. Problem is, Softbank has spent more than $1 billion to build Yahoo BB's network and at least an additional $500 million on marketing. And it pays NTT some $40 million a month to use the lines linking Yahoo BB to customers' homes. Yahoo BB is now generating $95 million in revenue a month, but Softbank continues to bleed cash. In the fiscal year ended in March, it lost $855 million on revenues of $3.5 billion, compared with a $760 million loss on $3.5 billion in sales in 2001.

Son is hoping to turbocharge revenues by getting his broadband subscribers hooked on services such as games that bring in extra cash. Already, Yahoo BB has attracted 2.5 million users to an Internet phone service, and it's now experimenting with pay-TV over its network. Down the line, Son plans to expand into e-learning and corporate services such as videoconferencing. Japan's broadband content market could be worth $6.4 billion by 2005, a sharp jump from $1.5 billion last year, according to Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc.

Some wonder, though, whether people are ever going to pay for services delivered over the Internet. "It's a bet that I don't think is going to make a lot of money" for Softbank, says Ben Wedmore, an industry analyst with HSBC Securities (Japan) Ltd. Softbank's track record isn't all that great. In March, Son launched BB television, which offers Tokyo customers 14 TV channels over Internet lines as well as access to more than 400 movies for as little as $2.50 each. So far, only 1,000 subscribers have signed up for the $21-per-month service -- though Son says that's because Softbank hasn't really begun marketing yet.

Few, however, doubt that online interactive games will be profitable for Softbank. In Korea, games have emerged as a major driver of traffic on that country's ultrafast Internet connections. Softbank has already attracted 265,000 customers willing to pay $13 per month to play Ragnarok, a community-building game in which players assume the identity of a cartoon character.

Son isn't the only one who sees the potential for black ink in the blood-and-pixels of online games. NTT, Softbank's biggest rival in broadband services, is considering a game portal of its own, and Sony offers a similar service to owners of its game machines. Still, Son is wagering almost everything he owns. For the father of the Japanese Net, this is a thriller not even BB Games can top.

By Irene M. Kunii in Tokyo

i repeat, Why do we have to get up early?

Kivver: I shouldn't bother, TAD's share price, or any other, for that matter, is unlikely to be influenced by any of us crawling out of our pits at some ungodly hour.

Price looks attractive but I'm not sure if it's bottomed yet.

Kivver

As you may or may not know Tues is when the details of the aquisition are to be announced, according to Shares Mag. I was personally hoping for a little bit of news as well.
Now as news is usually announced in the morning!! You follow?

M

As Hermans Hermits would say (and i got up early) 'no news today, my tad has gone away'

So did I!!!!!!!!

Must admit this is testing even my paitence.
Still if what i hear is correct the wait will be worth it.

M
(a very tired M)

the end of all my hopes, the end of all my dreams.

alternatively


" im into something good "

where is the prospectus?

as is usual with Tad it's late.

Don't want to be rude, but why get up early for this?