Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Acquisitions

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Acquisitions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 3 - Acquisitions

Txtstation Acquisition

 

On April 1, 2011, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of the Txtstation interactive mobile marketing platform and services business from Adsparq Limited (“Adsparq”).  The purchase price for the acquisition was 2,125,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, $26,184 in cash at closing and $250,000 of scheduled cash payments.  The $250,000 of scheduled cash payments is due as follows:  $25,000 payable on the 60th day following closing and the balance is payable in $25,000 installments at the end of each of the next nine 30-day periods thereafter.  

 

The Company also issued 300,000 shares of its common stock to the controlling stockholder of Adsparq in consideration of certain indemnification obligations and other agreements.  

 

The acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination and the Company valued all assets and liabilities acquired at their fair values on the date of acquisition. An independent valuation expert (Vantage Point Advisors) was hired to assist the Company in determining these fair values. Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the acquired entity were recorded at their estimated fair values at the date of the acquisition.

 

Mobivity Acquisition

 

Effective April 1, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of Mobivity, LLC’s and Mobile Visions, Inc.’s Mobivity interactive mobile marketing platform and services business.  

 

The purchase price for the acquisition consisted of 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, $64,969 in cash paid at closing and a secured subordinated promissory note of Mobivity, Inc. in the principal amount of $606,064.  The promissory note earns interest at 6.25% per annum; is payable in six quarterly installments of $105,526 (inclusive of interest) starting May 1, 2011; matures on August 1, 2012 and was repaid in full as discussed in Note 6; is secured by the acquired assets of the Mobivity business; and is subordinated to the Company’s obligations under its outstanding 10% Senior Secured Convertible Bridge Notes due October 15, 2012 (see Note 6).  Mobivity, LLC was granted a security interest in the acquired assets, subordinated only to the Company's senior debt (Bridge Loan), and a majority of the Bridge Lenders consented to the junior security interest.  

 

The acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination and the Company valued all assets and liabilities acquired at their fair values on the date of acquisition. An independent valuation expert (Vantage Point Advisors) was hired to assist the Company in determining these fair values. Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the acquired entity were recorded at their estimated fair values at the date of the acquisition. 

  

BoomText  Acquisition

 

Effective August 1, 2011, the Company completed the purchase from with Digimark, LLC (“Digimark”) of substantially all of the assets of its BoomText interactive mobile marketing services business.  The purchase price for the acquisition consisted of the following components: (i) 519,540 shares of the Company’s common stock issued at closing; (ii) $120,514 in cash paid at closing; (iii) a secured subordinated promissory note of Mobivity, Inc. in the principal amount of $175,000.  This note bears interest at 6.25% per annum; is payable in full on May 25th, 2012 (original maturity March 31, 2012 was extended) and was repaid in full as discussed in Note 6; was secured by all of the assets of Mobivity, Inc. and is subordinated to the Company’s obligations under its outstanding 10% Senior Secured Convertible Bridge Notes due October 15, 2012 (see Note 6); (i7v) an unsecured subordinated promissory note in the principal amount of $194,658 issued by Mobivity, Inc.  This note does not bear interest; is payable in installments (varying in amount) from August 2011 through October 2012; and is subordinated to the Company’s obligations under its outstanding 10% Senior Secured Convertible Bridge Notes due October 15, 2012 (see Note 6); (v) an earn-out payment (payable 20 months after closing of the transaction) of a number of shares of common stock of the Company equal to (a) 1.5, multiplied by the Company’s net revenue from acquired customers and customer prospects for the twelve-month period beginning six months after the closing date, divided by (b) the average of the volume-weighted average trading prices of the Company’s common stock for the 25 trading days immediately preceding the earn-out payment (subject to a collar of $1.49 and $2.01 per share).  As of September 30, 2012 the dollar value of the earn-out payable is $2,739,399, which is recorded as a current liability on the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet.  The estimated number of common shares to be issued to settle the earn-out payable is 1,826,266 as of September 30, 2012.  The purchase price also included the assumption of an office lease obligation and certain of Digimark’s accounts payable.

 

For one year following the closing of the transaction, 50% of the shares of common stock issued to Digimark at closing will be held in escrow as security for its indemnification obligations in the transaction.

 

The Company completed the acquisition in furtherance of its strategy to acquire small, privately owned enterprises in the mobile marketing sector through an asset purchase structure. This acquisition was consistent with the Company's purchase price model in which equity will represent most of the purchase price plus a small cash component and, in some cases, the assumption of specific liabilities.

 

The acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination and the Company valued all assets and liabilities acquired at their fair values on the date of acquisition. An independent valuation expert (Vantage Point Advisors) was hired to assist the Company in determining these fair values. Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the acquired entity were recorded at their estimated fair values at the date of the acquisition.