XPED Ltd (ASX:XPE) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary JCT will be expanding supply of their innovative healthcare equipment and services into the aged care industry. This will be achieved through a national sales team of quality channel partners. JCT has recently signed 5 new channel partner agreements.

OtherLevels Holdings Limited (ASX:OLV) ("OtherLevels" or "the company") today provides an update on its capital raising activities.

Xped Limited (ASX:XPE) is pleased to release the attached Xped Customer presentation for business development and key meetings in Asia and North America.

Xped Limited (ASX:XPE) announces it has successfully ported ADRC to the STM32 Ultra Low Power microcontroller series. Xped ported its ADRC firmware onto STM32 Microcontrollers using the STM32Cube development ecosystem.

Aconex Limited (ASX:ACX), provider of the #1 platform connecting teams on construction and engineering projects, today announced a new progress claim capability for the Aconex platform that will eliminate mutual stress, reduce the compliance burden on head contractors and help subcontractors get paid on time.

As one of the fastest-growing technology-driven companies enabling mobile payments and value-added transactional services, Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ:NETE) is steadily carving out more and more of the global commerce pie. The South-Florida company currently has its sights set on certain key objectives: to empower smart payments through all channels of interaction between merchants and consumers, to establish multiple monetization channels for merchants and to add convenience and speed to everyday commerce. With subsidiaries like PayOnline under its umbrella, it is tactically positioned for substantial growth in the U.S. and in select emerging economies.

An innovative potential treatment for hepatic encephalopathy created by Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OCRX) is a unique product on an under-served market, and if clinical trials are successful, it could become a major source of success and profitability for the company, according to an Aegis Capital Corp. report (http://nnw.fm/cNkZ1) released on December 8. The report reiterates a 'Buy' rating for Ocera and recommends a higher stock price target of $8, compared to the $2.1 at the time of the analysis.

Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOXC), a China-based company in the business of providing social media-based marketing and promotion platforms to merchants to help them grow their business, continues to show a thorough understanding of China's online-to-offline (O2O) and social media market demographics. Although it is hard to establish where China's O2O market stands, O2O in China covers all kinds of services that are offered by brick-and-mortar establishments.

Rennova Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:RNVA, RNVAX), a vertically integrated public holding company serving the health care sector, focuses on offering comprehensive single-source solutions to health care providers ranging from diagnostic laboratory testing to technology solutions, revenue cycle management and financial and billing services. With a declared goal of creating efficient, innovative and empowering solutions, the company is dedicated to putting the needs of health care providers and their patients at the center of everything it does.

Mobile payments have been increasingly adopted since the launch of this new technology back in 2015. By the end of 2016, mobile payments are expected to reach up to $180 billion, and, according to a report entitled 'Mobile Payments Convergence: Opportunities at the Intersection of In-person, Online and P2P Payments' (http://nnw.fm/obqQ9), the number of people using mobile wallets in the last 30 days has grown from 12% to nearly one in four people in 2016, approximately 40 million people in the U.S. Experts expect this type of payment to reach a huge $410.5 billion by the end of 2020. So what is shaping the future of mobile payments for 2017?