RENN Global – TOP 10 Companies

Updated Quarterly (March 2012)

 

 

Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc. (NASDAQ:ACHC) (Medical-Hospitals) (Formerly PHC, Inc.)

Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc. operates a network of behavioral health centers.  The Company provides psychiatric and chemical dependency services, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, outpatient clinics, and therapeutic school based programs across the United States.

 

Access Plans, Inc. (OTC:APNC) (Health Care  Cost Containment)

Access Plans, Inc. operates as a membership and insurance marketing company in the United States. The company provides various wholesale membership programs to consumers through retail, rent-to-own, financial, and consumer finance clients. Its membership plans feature product protection; discounts on medical and other healthcare services; restaurant, food, shopping, and entertainment discounts; automotive service discounts; and supplemental insurance. It also offers various retail plans to consumers primarily through third-party marketers, such as telesales, direct mail, and internet vehicles. These programs include healthcare-related discounts; patient advocacy services; restaurant, food, shopping, and entertainment discounts; automotive service discounts; and supplemental insurance. In addition, the company operates as an agent-driven distributor of individual medical health insurance products. It offers various insurance plans comprising medical, catastrophic care, short-term medical, dental, limited benefit, critical illness, and accident for families and small business owners.

 

AnchorFree (Private) (Internet Security)

AnchorFree develops technology affords users privacy while online and for advertisers to have an effective communication vehicle with users across the web.  AnchorFree focuses on consumer privacy and data protection and has launched the world’s only free ad-supported virtual private network called Hotspot Shield.  This is utilized by millions of people in over 190 countries. 

 

AuraSound, Inc. (OTCBB:ARUZ) (Audio/Video Products)

AuraSound develops, manufactures, and markets audio products.  The company’s products include speakers, speaker components, loudspeakers, home and professional audio products, amplifiers, subwoofers, etc.

 

Bovie Medical Corporation (AMEX:BVX) (Medical Instruments)

Bovie Medical Corp. manufactures, markets, and develops medical products and related technologies.  The Company also manufactures a variety of specialty lighting instruments for use in ophthalmology, general surgery, hip replacement surgery, and for the placement of endotracheal tubes.

 

COGO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:COGO) (Electronic Design Automation)

COGO Group, Inc. provides design solutions to telecom equipment, mobile devices, and consumer electronics manufacturers in China.

 

Integrated Security Systems, Inc. (OTC:IZZI)

Integrated Security Systems is a company with $4.97MM of cash and other liquid assets looking for a merger partner.

 

Flamel Technologies S.A. (NASDAQ:FLML), a leading drug delivery company focused on the goal of developing safer, more efficacious formulations of drugs that address unmet medical needs. Its product development pipeline includes biological and chemical drugs formulated with the Medusa® and Micropump® proprietary platforms. Its Micropump technology is a multiparticle technology for oral administration of small molecule drugs with applications in controlled-release, taste-masking and bioavailability enhancement.  Flamel recently acquired Éclat Pharmaceuticals, a St. Louis, Missouri-based specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing niche brands and generic products.

 

Plures Technologies (OTC:MANY) (Infrastructure Software)

Plures Technologies specializes in the commercialization of advanced MEMS and spintronics technologies.  MEMS is an acronym for micro-electro-mechanical-systems.  MEMS devices are typically 1mm X 1mm in size and built using semiconductor fabrication processes derived from the microelectronics industry.  MEMS devices operate the air bags in your car, the microphone in your cell phone and disbursement of the ink in your ink jet printer.  Spintronics is short for spin transport electronics.  Spintronics utilizes the intrinsic spin of the electron in addition to the electron’s fundamental electronic charge to produce advanced solid-state electronics devices.  Harnessing the spin of electrons will enable cheaper, faster, lower power processing and storage of digital data.  Silicon of electrons will enable cheaper, faster, lower power processing and storage of digital data.  Silicon magnetic sensors use spintronics technology.  Applications include cell phone, medical and automotive uses.

 

Points International Ltd. (NASDAQ:PCOM) (E-Marketing)

Points International Ltd. is the owner and operator of Points.com, the world's leading reward-program management portal. At Points.com consumers can Swap, Earn, Buy, Gift, Share and Redeem miles and points from more than 25 of the world's leading reward programs.