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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-K

 

(Mark One)

þ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015.

 

OR

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Commission File Number 000-10822

 

One Horizon Group, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware      46-3561419  
(State or other jurisdiction of     (I.R.S. Employer  
incorporation or organization)     Identification No.)  
         
T1-017 Tierney Building, University of
Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
       
      N/A  
(Address of principal executive offices)     (Zip Code)  

 

+353-61-518477

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Name of each exchange on which
registered
n/a   n/a

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Common Stock, Par Value $0.0001

(Title of Class)

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.  Yes ¨  No þ

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act.  Yes o  No þ

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes þ  No o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  Yes þ  No o

 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers in response to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer o Accelerated filer o
Non-accelerated filer o Smaller reporting company þ
(Do not check if smaller reporting company)  

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes ¨  No þ

  

The aggregate market value of the 22,406,634 shares of voting and non-voting common equity stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $ 70.58 million as of June 30, 2015, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, based on the last sale price of the registrant’s common stock on such date of $3.15 per share, as reported on Nasdaq. 

 

As of March 21, 2016, 35,045,423 shares of the registrant’s common stock, par value $0.0001, were outstanding.

 

 

 

 

  

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Item   Description  Page 
    Cautionary Note Regarding Concerning-Looking Statements  2 
         
    Part I    
 Item 1   Business   3 
 Item 1A   Risk Factors   18 
 Item 1B   Unresolved Staff Comments   18 
 Item 2   Properties   18 
 Item 3   Legal Proceedings   18 
 Item 4   Mine Safety Disclosures   18 
           
     Part II     
 Item 5   Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities   19 
 Item 6   Selected Financial Data   20 
 Item 7   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations   21 
 Item 7A   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk   27 
 Item 8   Financial Statements and Supplementary Data   27 
 Item 9   Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure   27 
 Item 9A   Controls and Procedures   28 
 Item 9B   Other Information   29 
           
     Part III     
 Item 10   Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance   30 
 Item 11   Executive Compensation   34 
 Item 12   Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters   35 
 Item 13   Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence   37 
 Item 14   Principal Accounting Fees and Services   38 
           
     Part IV     
 Item 15   Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules   40 
           
     Signatures   43 

 

 

 

 

Introductory Note

 

Unless otherwise noted, references to the “Company” in this Report include One Horizon Group, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

The statements made in this Report, and in other materials that the Company has filed or may file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, in each case that are not historical facts, contain “forward-looking information” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended, which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “projects,” “estimates,” “believes,” “seeks,” “could,” “should,” or “continue,” the negative thereof, and other variations or comparable terminology as well as any statements regarding the evaluation of strategic alternatives.  These forward-looking statements are based on the current plans and expectations of management, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward-looking statements.  Among these risks and uncertainties are the competition we face; our ability to adapt to rapid changes  in the market for voice and messaging services; our ability to retain customers and attract new customers; our ability to establish and expand strategic alliances; governmental regulation and related actions and taxes in our international operations; increased market and competitive risks, including currency restrictions, in our international operations; risks related to the acquisition or integration of future businesses or joint ventures; our ability to obtain or maintain relevant intellectual property rights; intellectual property and other litigation that may be brought against us; failure to protect our trademarks and internally developed software; security breaches and other compromises of information security; our dependence on third party facilities, equipment, systems and services; system disruptions or flaws in our technology and systems; uncertainties relating to regulation of VoIP services; liability under anti-corruption laws; results of regulatory inquiries into our business practices; fraudulent use of our name or services; our ability to maintain data security; our dependence upon key personnel; our dependence on our customers' existing broadband connections; differences between our service and traditional phone services; our ability to obtain additional financing if required; our early history of net losses and our ability to maintain consistent profitability in the future. These and other matters the Company discusses in this Report, or in the documents it incorporates by reference into this Report, may cause actual results to differ from those the Company describes. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

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PART I

 

ITEM 1.  BUSINESS

 

One Horizon Group, Inc. and its Subsidiaries (the “Company”) is the inventor of the patented SmartPacketTM Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) platform. Our software is designed to capitalize on numerous industry trends, including the rapid adoption of smartphones, the adoption of cloud based Internet services, the migration towards all IP voice networks and the expansion of enterprise bring-your-own-device to work programs.

 

The Company designs, develops and sells white label SmartPackettm software and services to large Tier-1 telecommunications operators. Our licensees deliver an operator-branded mobile Internet communication solution to smartphones including VoIP, multi-media messaging, video, and mobile advertising; and the Business to Business (“B2B”) business. Current licensees include some of the world’s largest operators such as Singapore Telecommunications, Philippines Smart Communication and Indonesia Smartfren Tbk.

 

The SmartPacket™ platform, significantly improves the efficiency by which voice signals are transmitted from smartphones over the Internet resulting in a 10X reduction in mobile bandwidth and battery usage required to transmit a smartphone VoIP call. This is of commercial interest to operators that wish to have a high quality VoIP call on congested metropolitan networks and on legacy 2G and 3G cellular networks.

 

By leveraging its SmartPacketTM solution, the Company is also a VoIP as a Service (“VaaS”) cloud communications leader for hosted smartphone VoIP that run globally on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Company sells its software, branding, hosting and operator services to smaller telecommunications operators, enterprises, operators in fixed line telephony, cable TV operators and to the satellite communications sector; and the “VaaS” business. Our existing licensees come from around the world including USA, China, United Kingdom, Singapore, Canada and Hong Kong.

 

Based on the SmartPacketTM solution, the Company is the sole owner and operator its own branded retail smartphone VoIP, messaging and advertising service in the People’s Republic of China called AishuoTM; the “Aishuo” business. Since its inception in the second quarter of 2015 Aishuo has been downloaded over 12 million times in 2015 and has doubled its revenues for the last 3 consecutive quarters of 2015. Aishuo offers subscribers very competitive telephone call rates and a virtual number rental service plus lots of innovative smartphone social media features. Aishuo has been made available to users across 25 Chinese Android app stores and through iTunes. Aishuo subscribers pay for VoIP or can have a free VoIP call sponsored by advertisers. Aishuo supports top-up payment services inside the smartphone app including China UnionPay, Apple In-App Purchases, Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s Wechat Wallet.

 

Our business model is focused on winning new B2B Tier-1 telecommunications operators, winning new VaaS subscribers and driving Aishuo retail revenues. We are also commercially focused on expanding sales of new and existing licensed products and services to existing customers, and renewing subscriptions and software support agreements. We target customers of all sizes and across a broad range of industries.

 

We are an ISO 9001 and ISO 20000-1 certified company with assets and operations in Switzerland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, India, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Latin America.

 

History and Background

 

(1)    Share Exchange

 

On November 30, 2012, the Company (then known as Intelligent Communication Enterprise Corporation, referred herein below as “ICE Corp.”), and One Horizon Group PLC, a public limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom (“One Horizon UK”), consummated a share exchange (the “Share Exchange”), pursuant to which ICE Corp. acquired One Horizon UK stock from its then existing shareholders in exchange for 17,853,476,138 shares of ICE Corp.’s common stock. Upon completion of this transaction, the shareholders of One Horizon UK controlled approximately 96% of the outstanding stock of ICE Corp. and One Horizon UK became a subsidiary of ICE Corp. The transaction has been accounted for as a reverse acquisition, whereby ICE Corp. is the legal acquirer and One Horizon UK is the legal acquiree and accounting acquirer. On December 27, 2012, the Company changed its name to One Horizon Group, Inc.

 

(2)   History of ICE Corp before the Share Exchange

 

ICE Corp was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1972 as Coratomic, Inc. It changed its name to Biocontrol Technology, Inc. in 1986; BICO, Inc. in 2000; Mobiclear Inc. in 2006; and Intelligent Communication Enterprise Corporation in 2009.

  

Prior to the Share Exchange, ICE Corp had two operational businesses: Modizo, and Global Integrated Media Limited (GIM). The Modizo business consisted of a celebrity blogging application, while the GIM business consisted of custom publishing, advertising design, brand building, media representation, website design and development and market research programs. These operations had employees and expenses, and generated gross revenue of roughly $205,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012.  As the GIM and Modizo businesses did not fit within the Company’s business plan after the Share Exchange, both operational businesses were sold on December 31, 2012 for the return of 70,000 shares of the Company’s common stock held by the purchaser, which had a fair value of $420,000.

 

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(3)One Horizon UK

 

One Horizon UK, was incorporated in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2004. Prior to the Share Exchange, the consolidated financial statements of One Horizon UK for its fiscal years ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 consisted of two main business segments: (1) the Horizon Globex business segment including  One Horizon UK and two of its subsidiaries, Abbey Technology and Horizon Globex;  and (2) the Satcom Global business segment. However, the Satcom Global business was sold on October 25, 2012 as it became unprofitable. On the same day, Abbey Technology sold certain satellite billing software utilized in the Satcom Global business to the same purchaser. The entire purchase price for the software was paid by means of an offset against amounts owed by Abbey Technology and its affiliates to Satcom Global FZE, an entity acquired by the purchaser in connection with the purchase of the Satcom Global business.

 

(4)Current Shareholding Structure of the Company

 

Global Phone Credit Ltd, incorporated in Hong Kong on December 15, 2012, is a wholly subsidiary of the Company.  One Horizon Group Pte Ltd, incorporated in Singapore on November 28, 2012, is a wholly owned subsidiary of One Horizon UK.  One Horizon Hong Kong Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and was formed in 2012. One Horizon Hong Kong Ltd currently holds the Company’s 100% equity interest in Horizon Network Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary incorporated in China during 2013.  The previous minority partner, ZTESoft withdrew and agreed to forfeit its shares.

 

Horizon Globex Ireland Ltd, an Irish company incorporated on August 7, 2013, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

 

 

 

In addition to the subsidiaries listed above, Suzhou Aishuo Network Information Co., Ltd (“Suzhou Aishuo”) is a limited liability company, organized in China and controlled by us via various contractual arrangements. Suzhou Aishuo is treated as one of our subsidiaries for financial reporting purpose in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”).

 

(5) Reverse Stock Split, Change of Domicile and Change of Fiscal Year

 

On August 29, 2013, our 1-for-600 reverse stock split became effective for purposes of the securities markets.   As a result of the reverse stock split, our issued and outstanding shares of common stock decreased from approximately 18.9 billion pre-reverse stock split shares to approximately 31.5 million post-reverse stock split shares.

 

On February 13, 2013, we changed the Company's fiscal year end from June 30 to December 31. As a result of this change, the Company filed transition report on Form 10-KT on May 13, 2013 to include the financial information for the six-month transition period from July 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 (the "Transition Period").

 

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 Recent Developments

 

Business Operation

 

In February 2015, we announced the rollout of our platform in China, brand named Aishuo (http://www.ai-shuo.cn/). This rollout entails multiple strategies including advertisements, search engine optimization, press releases, event marketing, business-traveler direct marketing, as well as on and off-line promotions and leveraging the brand new One Horizon Sponsored-Call platform.  Based on the SmartPacketTM solution, the Company is the sole owner and operator of this retail smartphone VoIP, messaging and advertising service in the People’s Republic of China.

 

Since its commercial availability in the second quarter of 2015, Aishuo has been downloaded over 12 million times in 2015 and has doubled its revenues for the last 3 consecutive quarters of 2015. Aishuo offers subscribers very competitive telephone call rates and a virtual number rental service plus lots of innovative smartphone social media features. Aishuo has been made available to users across 25 Chinese Android app stores and through iTunes. Aishuo subscribers pay for VoIP or can have a VoIP call sponsored by advertisers. Aishuo supports top-up payment services inside the smartphone app including China UnionPay, Apple In-App Purchases, Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s Wechat Wallet.

 

Aishuo is operated by, Suzhou Aishuo Network Information Co., Ltd. a Chinese company controlled by the Company, headquartered in Nanjing, China with 15 staff including customer care, R&D, sales and marketing.

 

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Figure 1. Aishuo Retail

 

In December 2015, we announced the rollout of our VoIP as a Service “VaaS” platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Company sells its software, branding, hosting and operator services to smaller telecommunications operators, enterprises, operators in fixed line telephony, cable TV operators and to the satellite communications sector. The Company was showcased by Microsoft Corp. for its Azure technology (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/smb/customer-success-stories/building-a-global-business)

 

 

Figure 2. VaaS Hosted Offering

 

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Figure 3. Cloud-based Secure, Fault Tolerant and Low Latency Architecture

 

 

 

Figure 4. Microsoft Showcases One Horizon Group Inc.

 

Our B2B platform is being used by a pre-paid VoIP Smartphone application launched by different carriers respectively, some of which are listed as follows:

 

·Smart Communications, Inc, (“Smart”). Smart is the Philippines' leading wireless services provider with 57.3 million subscribers on its GSM network as of June 2013.

 

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·Singapore Telecommunications (“Singtel”). Singtel is the Singapore’s leading wireless services provider with a combined mobile subscriber base of 500 million customers from its own operations and regional associates in 25 countries at end of March 2014.

 

·PT Smartfren Telecom Tbk (“Smartfren”). Smartfren is a wireless service provider based in indonesia, with a combined mobile subscriber base of 12.5 million on its CDMA network as of October 2013.

 

 

 

Figure 1. Horizon B2B Operator Core Network

 

On December 18, 2015, we formed a new Latin America company to facilitate our expansion into the region.

 

In August 2015, a Chinese based Satellite operator, KeyIdea, commenced the launch of its mobile Voice over IP solution targeting its VSAT customers in China. We expect this revenue share based co-operation to contribute to our revenues as the rollout of the numerous KeyIdeas earth stations and customer increases in the next few years.

 

In September 2015, a US based operator, Roam Frii, commenced the launch of its mobile Voice over IP solution targeting free Wi-Fi mobile hotspots throughout New York City. We expect this revenue share based co-operation to contribute to our revenues as the rollout of the numerous New York based Wi-Fi solutions increases in the next few years.

 

On November 30, 2015, we were awarded our patent for our bandwidth efficient mobile voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") platform.

 

In the second quarter of 2015 (the first quarter since the commercial launch of Aishuo) the Company recorded approximately $7,000 of revenue. In the three months ending September 30, 2015, the revenue from Aishuo grew to approximately $16,000 for the quarter. In the final quarter of 2015 the revenue had grown to over $30,000 in the quarter. The management expect this trend in revenue growth to continue as the Chinese user base grows.

 

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During the three months ended September 30, 2015, Aishuo was released on Apple's iTunes App store with support for mobile In App Purchases and we signed a commercial license with Nanjing Lin Ren Communications, a smartphone manufacturer to pre-install the Aishuo smartphone App on the handsets prior to leaving the factory.

 

In addition to the developments in the rollout of Aishuo smartphone app brand in mainland China, we have commenced our penetration into the Latin American market by signing a Horizon license contract with a regional operator. We consider Latin America a huge and growing market for mobile apps as Latin America growth is forecast to be in line with the global average and is also forecasting very significant VoIP revenues growing to $12.8bn by 2018 according to Vision Gain VoIP Market Forecast (https://www.visiongain.com/Report/1107/The-Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol-(VoIP)-Market-2013-2018).

 

Offering and Market Related

 

On August 10, 2015, in connection with an Underwriting Agreement dated August 4, 2015 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Aegis Capital Corp. (“Aegis”), as representative of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), we closed a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 1,714,286 shares of Common Stock, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 857,143 shares of Common Stock at a combined offering price of $1.75 per share and accompanying Warrant. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters exercised an option to purchase 151,928 additional shares of Common Stock and 75,964 additional warrants. The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $2.89 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

The warrants offered have a per share exercise price of $2.50 (subject to adjustment in the event of certain stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications or similar events affecting our Common Stock and also upon any distributions of assets, including cash, stock or other property to our stockholders), are exercisable immediately and will expire three years from the date of issuance. Subject to applicable laws, the warrants may be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without our consent.

 

On December 22, 2014, we closed a private placement of $3,500,000 in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Regulation S (“Regulation S”) as promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “December 2014 Offering”). In connection with the December 2014  Offering, we issued to an investor a convertible debenture that is convertible into 1,555,556 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), Class C Warrant (the “Class C Warrant(s)”) to purchase 388,889 shares of Common Stock and Class D Warrant (the “Class D Warrant”) to purchase 388,889 shares of Common Stock, and Performance Warrants (the “Performance Warrant(s)”) to purchase up to 450,000 shares of Common Stock based on our annual reported subscriber numbers, twenty four (24) months after the closing, as is reflected in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2016 (the “ 2016 Form 10-K ”), if we fail to achieve 15.0 million subscribers at that time. In addition, the placement agent in the offering received placement agent warrant, Class C Warrant and Class D Warrant to purchase 62,222, 15,556 and 15,556 shares of Common Stock, respectively; and a cash fee of $280,000.

 

In July 2014, we closed a private placement of $1,000,000  for a total of 10 units at a purchase price of $100,000 per unit, each consisting of, (i) 17,094 shares of our  Series A Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share ( the “Series A Preferred Stock”), initially convertible into 17,094 shares of Common Stock, and (ii) 10,000 Class B Warrants ( the “Class B Warrant(s)”), each exercisable to purchase 1 share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share (the “July 2014 Offering”). The July 2014 Offering was completed in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Regulation S.

 

Our common stock commenced trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market on July 9, 2014 under the same ticker symbol "OHGI".

 

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Industry

 

Rapid Growth in Global Mobile Voice over IP Service Market

 

We aim to deliver our patented smartphone software to the ever expanding mobile Voice over IP (“mVoIP”) user. There are over 1.9 billion smartphones now in circulation and, by 2018, we expect the number of users will grow to 2.56 billion, or one-third of all people worldwide (Source: http://www.emarketer.com/Article/2-Billion-Consumers-Worldwide-Smartphones-by-2016/1011694). Each new smartphone represents an opportunity for us to deliver our innovative mobile VoIP, Messaging over IP and Advertising over IP solution in whatever mobile app brand is attractive to the end user throughout the globe.

 

By partnering with national carriers and delivering our solution as a licensed service to regional mobile operators, we leverage the power of their brand and join them to fight back against already lost revenues, or potential revenue loss, to network bandwidth-intensive Over The Top (“OTT”) VoIP apps; such as Skype in the USA or Line in Japan and so on.

 

In the past mobile operators relied upon blocking VoIP on their networks but they have realized that this is no longer a viable option. They must embrace innovations in VoIP software, especially on the smartphone, from businesses like ours. Not only can we offer a multi-media, multi-faceted software solution to smartphones, but we are the only company that offers a package that aids the operators in the rollout, expansion, maintenance and upgrade of their mobile network in metro and rural areas to cater for smartphones.

 

From the beginning of the first smartphones in 2008, our software was specifically targeted to be a disruptive technology, which was and has been explicitly designed, and patented, to work on congested wireless Internet connections; the absolute fundamental basis of mobile phones in 2016 and beyond.

 

As more and more smartphones come online, each one places a significantly higher load on the existing cellular infrastructure; as smartphone users now use smartphone to check for emails, surf the Internet, check the weather, read the news, etc. while in the past, all a mobile phone did was calling and Short Messaging (SMS). In order for carriers to keep up with the explosive growth of smartphones and their increased network consumption they are in need of any possible tool to assist them in managing their network and maintaining relevance on the users’ device.

 

We offer operators a mobile VoIP call that has ten (10) times less bandwidth than a standard telephone call over GSM or legacy mobile VoIP solutions such as Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”). This gives operators a higher quality call on busy and legacy networks such as 2G, 3G and congested metro-based 4G using less bandwidth; meaning more bang for their “spectrum buck”. We will not replace traditional calls nor prevent the delivery of newer call types such as Voice over LTE (“VoLTE”) etc., but we give operators yet another tool in their arsenal to deliver the best quality voice, for the best value, for their diversified customer bases.

 

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Our Technology

 

Our Technology

 

We have a very detailed knowledge of these wireless data network issues and have invented a totally new solution to successfully deliver a high quality voice call over a wireless Internet connection. Our solution is designed specifically to address such issues as call latency (i.e. delay) and network jitter (i.e. lost data) in a way that achieves a much higher likelihood of a voice packet (i.e. tiny piece of recorded voice) arriving in time and not being lost or delayed. Our awareness of these problems led us to develop a completely new algorithm for sending and receiving (and ordering) voice packets so as to reduce the likelihood of packet loss due to congestion, which we call SmartPacket™; and to the end user this just means near HD audio at a fraction of the cellular consumption.

 

 

 

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SmartPacket™ Technology

 

The core of the Horizon solution is our truly innovative, and patented, SmartPacket™ technology. This enables VoIP from only 2 kilobytes/second (kbps) compared to around 8kbps and upwards from other VoIP platforms available today.  This industry-leading solution has been developed in-house and is fully compatible with digital telecommunications standards.  This technology is capable of interconnecting any phone system over IP - on mobile, fixed and satellite networks.  Our SmartPacket™ technology is not based on legacy SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) or RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol).  Rather, the Horizon signaling protocol is much simpler and benchmark testing has shown that it consumes significantly less bandwidth for the same audio quality score.  Our SmartPacket™ technology is the world’s most bandwidth efficient IP communication platform designed for mobile communications. The technology optimizes voice flow, delivery and playback and delivers excellent call quality, reduced delays and drops.   As a further illustration, the technology is considerably more efficient in the way it handles silence.  Traditional VoIP calls send the same amount of data in both directions, regardless of whether or not someone is speaking.  SmartPacket™ technology is designed to detect silence and send tiny “indications of silence”, rather than the silence itself. This massively reduces the amount of data transmitted, lowers the load on the cellular infrastructure which, in turn, means that more data can get through.  This results in higher audio quality and a better user experience.

 

Our Benchmark Testing: Horizon vs G.729

 

G.729 is a type of audio compression that is typically used throughout the world for mobile VoIP. Our testing has shown that Horizon is up to 10 times more efficient, depending on which one of our voice compression settings is selected by the user.

 

Codec  "Talking" bandwidth   "Listening" bandwidth   IP headers   Total call data   Minutes per MB 
Horizon Q1   1.9kbps    0kbps    2.46kbps    4.36kbps    32.03 
Horizon Q2   3.5kbps    0kbps    2.46kbps    5.96kbps    23.44 
Horizon Q3   5.5kbps    0kbps    2.46kbps    7.96kbps    17.56 
G.729   8kbps    8kbps    32kbps    48kbps    2.91 

 

Proprietary

 

The Horizon Platform has been developed entirely in-house, patented, and is fully compatible with digital telecommunications standards. It is capable of interconnecting any phone system over IP – on mobile, fixed and satellite networks.

 

The Horizon Platform was initially developed for the burgeoning smartphone market and the challenging mobile VoIP over satellite market by Abbey Technology to make the best use of the limited wireless bandwidth available and to minimize the amount of data consumed.

 

We further developed the Horizon Platform for the broader telecommunications market on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and a Windows PC client focusing on the mobile Internet sector. This sector also benefits from our optimized mobile VoIP as it allows voice calls over new and legacy cellular telecom data networks. With the explosive growth in smartphone sales and increased usage of mobile data services, mobile operators face the challenge of dealing with increasingly congested networks, more dropped calls and rising levels of churn. Since the wireless spectrum is a finite resource, it is not always possible, or can be cost prohibitive, to increase network capacity. For these reasons, we believe that the demand for solutions to optimize the use of IP bandwidth will inevitably increase.

 

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Our Strategy

 

We have developed a mobile application template called “Horizon Call,” that enables highly bandwidth-efficient VoIP calls over a smartphone using a 2G/EDGE, 3G, 4G/LTE, WiFi or Satellite connection. Our Horizon Call application is currently available for the iPhone and for Android handsets and we use it to showcase all of our functions, features, our call quality and the level of software innovation that we can brand for our potential clients.

 

Unlike the majority of mobile VoIP applications, Horizon Call creates a white-label business-to-business solution for mobile operators. Telecommunications operators are able to license from us, brand with us and deploy with us a completely new “white-labeled” solution so that they can optimize their highly pressurized mobile internet bandwidth and deliver innovation that in turn brings them new smartphone users. The operators decide how to integrate our application within their portfolio, how to offer it commercially and can customize it according to their own branding.  Our solution helps them to manage increased traffic volumes while combating the competitive threat to their voice telephony revenues from other mobile VoIP applications by giving its mobile data customers a more efficient mobile VoIP solution that adds value to their mobile data network.

 

We are positioning ourselves as an operator-enabler by licensing our technology to mobile operators in a manner that can be fully customized to the needs of their subscribers. As shown below, operators are able to offer our platform to deliver branded smartphone applications to their existing customers to reduce lost Voice/Text revenue and minimize customer churn. 

 

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By offering Horizon Call to their existing customer base, our customers can offer innovative data-based voice and data services that are different from the existing Over The Top (“OTT”) data applications running on their networks. OTT refers to voice and messaging services that are delivered by a third party to an end user’s smartphone, leaving the mobile network provider responsible only for transporting internet data packets and not the value-added content. The Horizon Call voice services allow mobile operators’ customers to make VoIP calls under mobile operators’ call plans, thereby allowing mobile operators to capture value-added content, including voice calls, text messaging, voice messaging, group messaging, multimedia messaging, and advertising, that would have otherwise gone to the providers of other OTT services.

 

Horizon Call runs on both smartphone and tablet devices and, as networks become more congested, software services such as Horizon Call become ever more relevant. We believe that although more network capacity will eventually come on stream with 4G/LTE, it, like all other highways, will quickly become congested and this is why we believe that Horizon Call is ideally placed to add value to mobile data networks.

 

Incumbent mobile operators are suffering a reduction in revenue per user due to the OTT software services on mobile devices. These OTT applications, such as Skype and Line, can negatively impact mobile operators’ traditional revenue streams of voice and SMS (short message service). As shown below, the Horizon Platform positions the Company to enable mobile operators to operate their own OTT solution branded in their image allowing use on all mobile data networks.

 

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In addition to delivering new data services to their existing customers, mobile operators can offer their brand of Horizon Call on any other operators’ handsets. Because the Horizon Call application can be installed on the smartphone from the Internet, the potential customer base for the operators’ data application surpasses the customer base that they can reach through traditional mobile phone SIM card distribution. We believe that this service innovation, coupled with the fact that the Horizon Call application can also use existing mobile operator pre-paid credit redemption and distribution services, presents a very compelling service against OTT services.

 

We believe that emerging markets represent a key opportunity for Horizon Call because these are significant markets with high population densities, high penetration of mobile phones, congested mobile cellular networks and high growth in the adoption of smartphones.  More than one-quarter of the world’s population will use smartphones in 2015, and by 2018, over 2.56 billion or one-third of all people worldwide will be smartphone users.  Asia-Pacific will account for over half of all smartphone users in 2015, estimated at 951.5 M users. Globally, China is the largest smartphone market with an estimated 574.2 M handsets. These factors will put increased pressure on mobile operators to manage their network availability.

 

In this context, where necessary, we have created our own brand in China, called Aishuo, formed a number of strategic ventures with local partners in regions of various emerging markets to seize upon this opportunity.

 

In 2013 through our subsidiary One Horizon Hong Kong Ltd, we invested $1.5 million for a 75% equity stake in, Horizon Network Technology Co., Ltd (“HNT”), while, ZTE Corporation, held a 25% equity stake in HNT. In 2015 ZTE Corporation allowed OHGI to take 100% ownership of HNT by forfeiting their minority shareholding.

 

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Aishuo in China

 

To address the explosive growth in China, One Horizon is launching an own-brand smartphone VoIP service, called Aishuo. To date, we have over 15 million downloads of the Aishuo smartphone App and have successfully installed servers throughout China. Our Aishuo app interconnects to the WeChat Wallet, AliPay and UnionPay credit card and micro-payments services in China to facilitate payments.  We have also uploaded the App to the biggest smartphone App stores in China including Baidu, Tencent and Qihoo.  The smart phone app will be able to provide various optimized internet value added services to its mobile subscribers including but not limited to voice and social media services such as text, picture, video and geo-location messaging. These value added services are made possible through the creation of a "Virtual SIM" and One Horizon's proprietary communication software, an industry first. Combined with One Horizon's location aware mobile advertising services, the Aishuo branded smart phone app is expected to drive multiple revenue streams from the supply of its value-added services. The service has attracted over 15 million downloads in its first year of operation and expects to achieve industry average revenues per user (ARPU) for similar social media apps for its subscribers.

 

Marketing

 

Our marketing objective is to become a broadly adopted solution in the regions of the world with large concentrations of smartphone users and high network congestion. We aim at becoming the preferred solution for carriers who wish to deploy branded VoIP solutions that enable them to minimize revenue erosion, reduce churn, increase the effective capacity of their network infrastructure and improve user experience. We employ an integrated multi-channel approach to marketing, whereby we evaluate and focus our efforts on selling through telecommunications companies to enable them to provide the Horizon Platform to their customers. We routinely evaluate our marketing efforts and try to reallocate budgets to identify more effective media mixes.

 

We conduct marketing research to gain consumer insights into brand, product, and service performance, and utilize those findings to improve our messaging and media plans. Market research is also leveraged in the areas of testing, retention marketing, and product marketing to ensure that we bring compelling products and services to market.

 

Sales

 

Direct Sales. Our primary sales channel for the products and services of Horizon Platform is the sale of Horizon Platforms to Tier 1 and Tier 2 telecommunications companies to enable them to provide the product and services to their customers. We continue our efforts to develop new customers globally but particularly in Asia and Latin America.

 

Strategic Ventures. In addition to our direct sales channel, we also offer increased sales through our strategic venture channel. In this context, as mentioned above, we are working towards forming a number of strategic ventures in areas where regulatory issues require local representation.

 

Target Markets. The markets for our primary and joint venture channels will have high population density, high penetration of mobile phones, congested mobile cellular networks and high growth in the adoption of smartphones.

 

Competition

 

The Company’s direct competitors for its technology primarily consist of systems integrators that combine various elements of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) dialers and media gateways. Other dial-back solutions exist but they are not IP-based. Because SIP dialers and media gateways currently are unable to provide a low bandwidth solution, they do not currently compete with the Company’s technology in those markets in which their high bandwidth needs are unsupported by the existing cellular networks. They do, however, compete in those markets where the cellular networks are accessible by those SIP dialers and gateways.

 

The Company licenses the Horizon Platform to mobile operators, who in turn may offer the application to their end-user subscribers. The Company’s principal competitors for the mobile operators’ end-users are Skype, Viber, WeChat, and WhatsApp. Having a mobile operator’s subscriber opt to use the operator’s (branded) Horizon Call service instead of existing OTT services means that the mobile operator will gain market share of some of the OTT voice and messaging traffic. We are currently unaware of any other companies that seek to license VoIP technology directly to mobile operators.

 

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One of the Company’s key competitive advantages is that it is not a threat to mobile operators. Rather, the Company’s Horizon Platform is a tool that can be used by mobile operators to compete against the OTT provider’s applications that are running on their networks. Through the Horizon Platform, mobile operators are able to compete directly with OTT services that, by their design, divert voice and messaging services away from mobile operators. The solution is delivered completely and is easy to install and operate. This means that a mobile operator has a turnkey mobile voice and messaging solution to deploy to its customer (i.e., the end-user).

 

The turnkey Horizon software platform and the Horizon SmartPacket™ technology give us a competitive advantage by managing credit, routing, rating, security, performance, billing and monitoring. Horizon SmartPacket™ is the world’s lowest bandwidth voice compression and transmission protocol and is 100% developed and owned by the Company. Though other software companies can offer part of this solution space, we believe none offers it in such a complete and integrated fashion as we do. We believe it will take a substantial number of years to copy/replicate the Horizon Platform in its entirety, by which time we believe the Horizon Platform will have improved and further distanced itself from potential competition.

 

Intellectual Property

 

Our strategy with respect to our intellectual property is to patent our core software concepts wherever possible. The Company’s current software patent has been approved in the United States and is pending in other jurisdictions around the world. Our patent strategy serves to protects the Horizon Platform and the central processing service of the Horizon Platform.

 

The Company endeavors to protect its internally developed systems and technologies. All of our software is developed “in-house,” and then licensed to our customers. We take steps, including by contracts, to ensure that any changes, modifications or additions to the Horizon Platform requested by our customers remain the sole intellectual property of the Company.

 

Research and Development and Software Products

 

The Company has spent approximately $1.1 million on capitalizable research and development in the fiscal year 2015.

 

During 2015, we expanded our Irish software development team, our QA team and our graphics team with the addition of 5 new employees in our office at the Nexus Innovation Center on the campus of the University of Limerick.

 

Throughout 2015 we continued with our focus on innovation and our research and development teams (“R&D”) brought us a brand new call handoff solution. Applying this new call handoff solution, a call that is in progress on Wi-Fi will automatically transfer to 2G/3G/4G when Wi-Fi signal becomes too weak. Vice versa when a call is in progress over 2G/3G/4G and a known Wi-Fi signal is detected, the call will automatically transfer to a stronger signal. Whilst others have partially solved this issue of radio-handoff, the Horizon solution works for all handset types on Android and on Apple's iOS and we believe that this will open up other mobile VoIP opportunities.

 

R&D also delivered the only service in the world with a combo multi-installation App joined to a shared/peer landline or mobile. Using these features, especially for business, an App will ring on multiple devices at the same time not only on a smartphone and tablet but also ring a land line, mobile, and remote office etc. In this case, an end user can choose the most convenient way to answer a call. Whilst our competitors have partially solved this issue of simultaneous ringing with just the App, we have solved this for all phone types and we believe that this will open up other mobile VoIP opportunities for the Company.

 

Our R&D also focused on further enhancing our VoIP technology to detect and tune optimized voice quality on Xiaomi phones. Xiaomi is China's biggest selling smartphone vendor (source: IDC http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prHK25437515). We plan to continue our R&D focus on optimizing our application and service on Xiaomi smartphones given the expansion of the Xiaomi brand in China, India and South East Asia in order to keep the Aishuo App as the top performing retail VoIP service across the other top four brands in China's smartphone marketplace including Samsung, Lenovo, Huawei and Coolpad.

 

Furthermore, the R&D team delivered a brand new mobile VoIP app Voicemail concept and Ringback Tune concept. The new Voicemail solution means that when subscribers rent telephone numbers on Horizon, they will automatically have the facility of a personalized Voicemail service for them when they are busy or out of Internet coverage. Voicemails can be left by the calling party, optimized for efficient delivery and delivered to the App as audio messages. The user does not have to go through the cumbersome steps of dialing into a messaging service, our App delivers the voicemail directly to the App, complete with caller ID of the caller. The new Ringback Tune solution allows the App user to record, usually fun, audio track to be played to the person calling them while their phone is ringing. Ringback is sold on a monthly basis by mobile operators throughout Asia and our new method for doing this in our technology means that further service revenues can be derived by our licensee by offering new and fun features within our mobile Apps.

 

Further and deeper integration with the Google Wallet and Apple In-App Purchase solutions was also carried out by our R&D teams. Both of these payment service solutions were released in the second quarter of 2015 and provided more payment options to our B2B and B2C subscribers. And we continue to research the ever changing realm of on-line payment services for our customers by getting our In App Payment service for iTunes deployed for use in mainland China for Aishuo and our new KeyIdeas and LinRen licensees.

 

R&D also delivered an in app Sticker solution this year. Stickers are small cartoonlike figures used in smartphone text-chat conversations to show emotions. They are hugely popular in Asia and generate significant revenues for those companies that have such services in place. We intend to license the core Sticker service to our operators and also to launch a complete Sticker purchase service in the Aishuo app in China.

 

R&D delivered a brand new concept in mobile advertising called a Gift Center. Our technology can now deliver small gifts of free calls etc. to our loyal users when they invite others to join, use our app on a regular basis etc. Bringing a feeling of loyalty to a smartphone app is key to retaining the customer and reducing churn.

 

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Employees

 

As of December 31, 2015, we had 29 employees, all of whom were full-time employees.

 

ITEM 1A.  RISK FACTORS

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 1B.  UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 2.  PROPERTIES

 

We do not currently own any real property.  In March 2016, we leased the following offices:

 

Location  Approximate size  Approximate monthly rent 
        
Ireland  840 sqft  $1,700 
China  1,900 sqft  $1,400 
UK  120 sqft  $1,400 
Switzerland  300 sqft  $900 
Singapore  100 sqft  $1,000 

 

Executive Offices

 

Our offices are located at T1-017 Tierney Building, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

 

ITEM 3.  LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

We are not a party to any material legal proceedings and no material legal proceedings have been threatened by us or, to the best of our knowledge, against us except the following:

 

In 2012, we sold certain former subsidiaries engaged in provision of satellite service in 2012 to Broadband Satellite Services (“BSS”), a company incorporated under laws of England and Wales. Horizon Globex, a company incorporated in Switzerland and a subsidiary of us, had provided these subsidiary companies with software and IT services.  In connection with its acquisition of our former subsidiary companies, BSS entered into three agreements with Horizon Globex pursuant to which BSS continued to use Horizon Globex to supply software and IT services.  Notwithstanding the fact that Horizon Globex has provided such ongoing software and IT services, BSS has failed to pay our fees pursuant to the agreements.  As a result, on December 23, 2014, we initiated legal proceedings in the High Court, Queens Bench Division, Commercial Court No. 2014 folio 1560 against BSS in the United Kingdom to collect such fees in the amount of $640,000.  Subsequently, BSS asserted counter claims in the amount of $5.8 million, alleging among other claims, civil fraud in connection with the sale of subsidiary companies.   Based on the timing of these claims, which were never raised until we filed our action against BSS, it is our position that these claims are specious and represent nothing more than an attempt to improve BSS's negotiating position with regard to our legitimate claims against it.   As a result, we plan to continue to carry out our claims against BSS to the fullest extent possible and to defend BSS's counter-claims vigorously.  We note further that several of BSS's counter claims may be time barred by applicable sections of the contracts and plan to assert the same as an affirmative defense to such counter claim. Notwithstanding our views with regard to our claims against BSS and BSS's counterclaims, litigation is by its nature unpredictable and therefore we cannot guarantee with certainty the outcome of our dispute with BSS.

 

ITEM 4.  MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

 

Not applicable.

 

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PART II

 

ITEM 5.  MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

 

Our common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol OHGI. Prior to July 9, 2014, our common stock was quoted on the OTCBB under the symbol OHGI. Prior to January 31, 2013, our common stock was quoted under the symbol ICMC.

 

The following table sets forth the high and low bid information, as reported by Nasdaq on its website, www.nasdaq.com, for our common stock for each quarterly period in 2015, 2014 and 2013. The information reflects inter-dealer prices reflecting a reverse split on a 1 for 600 basis effective August 29, 2013, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.

 

   Low   High 
         
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2015:          
Quarter ended December 31  $0.90   $1.62 
Quarter ended September 30   1.11    3.34 
Quarter ended June 30   1.03    5.84 
Quarter ended March 31   1.21    3.92 
           
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2014:          
Quarter ended December 31  $1.91   $3.20 
Quarter ended September 30   1.55    4.85 
Quarter ended June 30   3.50    5.91 
Quarter ended March 31   4.00    6.50 
           
Fiscal year ended December 31, 2013:          
Quarter ended December 31  $3.75   $6.75 
Quarter ended September 30   6.50    6.75 
Quarter ending June 30   6.00    11.40 
Quarter ended March 31   3.60    21.60 

 

As of March 22, 2016, the closing bid price of the common stock was $0.92 and we had approximately 198 record holders of our common stock. This number excludes any estimate by us of the number of beneficial owners of shares held in street name, the accuracy of which cannot be guaranteed.

 

We issued 116,760 warrants with an exercise price of $0.86 per share to an investor in 2012. In February 2013 Offering, we issued 403,225 Class A Warrant with an exercise price of $5.94 per share to purchase 403,225 shares of Common Stock to an investor as part of the $6.0 million subscription agreement signed. In July 2014 Offering,  we issued 170,940 shares of Series A Preferred Stock convertible into 170,940 shares of Common Stock, 100,000 Class B Warrants to purchase up to 100,000 shares of Common Stock at a price of  $4.00 per share; and we also issued 25,000 shares of Common Stock to the placement agent. In connection with and as a consideration to the closing of the July 2014 offering, we reduced the exercise price of Class A Warrants issued in the February 2013 Offering from $5.94 to $4.25 per share and increased the amount of shares issuable upon exercise of Class A warrants from 403,225 to 1,209,675. In December 2014 Offering, we issued a convertible debenture that is convertible into 1,555,556 shares of Common Stock, Class C Warrant to purchase 388,889 shares of Common Stock, Class D Warrant to purchase 388,889 shares of Common Stock and Performance Warrant to purchase up to 450,000 shares of Common Stock. In addition, the placement agent in the December 2014 Offering received a placement agent warrant, Class C Warrant and Class D Warrant to purchase 62,222, 15,556 and 15,556 shares of Common Stock respectively. On August 10, 2015, in connection with an Underwriting Agreement dated August 4, 2015 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Aegis Capital Corp. (“Aegis”), as representative of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), the Company closed a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 1,714,286 shares of Common Stock, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 857,143 shares of Common Stock at a combined offering price of $1.75 per share and accompany warrant. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters exercised an option to purchase 151,928 additional shares of Common Stock and 75,964 additional warrants.

 

Effective August 11, 1993, the SEC adopted Rule 15g-9, which established the definition of a "penny stock," for purposes relevant to the Company, as any equity security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share or with an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the rules require: (i) that a broker or dealer approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks; and (ii) that the broker or dealer receive from the investor a written agreement to the transaction, setting forth the identity and quantity of the penny stock to be purchased. In order to approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks, the broker or dealer must (i) obtain financial information and investment experience and objectives of the person; and (ii) make a reasonable determination that the transactions in penny stocks are suitable for that person and that person has sufficient knowledge and experience in financial matters to be capable of evaluating the risks of transactions in penny stocks. The broker or dealer must also deliver, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, a disclosure schedule prepared by the Commission relating to the penny stock market, which, in highlight form, (i) sets forth the basis on which the broker or dealer made the suitability determination; and (ii) states that the broker or dealer received a signed, written agreement from the investor prior to the transaction. Disclosure also has to be made about the risks of investing in penny stock in both public offerings and in secondary trading, and about commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the securities and the rights and remedies available to an investor in cases of fraud in penny stock transactions. Finally, monthly statements have to be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the limited market in penny stocks.

 

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Dividend Policy

 

The payment of cash dividends by us is within the discretion of our board of directors and depends in part upon our earnings levels, capital requirements, financial condition, any restrictive loan covenants, and other factors our board considers relevant. Since the share exchange in 2012, we have not declared or paid any dividends on our common stock and we do not anticipate paying such dividends in the foreseeable future. We intend to retain earnings, if any, to finance our operations and expansion.

  

Description of Equity Compensation Plans Approved by Shareholders

 

Prior to the Share Exchange, One Horizon UK had authorized securities for issuance under equity compensation plans that have not been approved by the stockholders, but none under equity compensation plans that were approved by the stockholders. The following table shows the aggregate amount of securities authorized for issuance under all equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2015:

 

Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(a)

 

Weighted-
average
exercise price
of
outstanding
options,
warrants and
rights
(b)

  

Number of
securities
remaining
available for
future
issuance
under equity
compensation
plans
(excluding
securities
reflected in
column (a))
(c)

 
         
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders   944,000   $2.48    4,056,000 

 

The securities referenced in the table above reflect stock options granted and approved by security holders pursuant to the 2013 plan. In addition share options were issued to employees under previous unapproved plans, 291,900 of such options are fully vested and 291,900 of such options vest on December 31, 2015.    291,900 of such options are expiring in 2020; and 291,900 are expiring in 2022. The number of options in the table above reflect a conversion that occurred in connection with the Share Exchange, whereby the number of options (to purchase One Horizon UK shares) held by each employee was increased by 175.14 times and the exercise price was decreased by the option exercise price divided by 175.14, and additionally reflect a 1-for-600 reverse stock split effected as of August 6, 2013.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities

 

Information regarding any equity securities we have sold during the periods covered by this Report that were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are included in a previously filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or in a Current Report on Form 8-K except the following:

 

Repurchases of Equity Securities

 

We have not repurchased any equity securities during the periods covered by this Report.

 

ITEM 6.  SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

Not applicable.

 

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ITEM 7.  MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following discussion provides information which management believes is relevant to an assessment and understanding of our results of operations and financial condition. The discussion should be read along with our audited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014. The following discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties, such as our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Our actual results may differ significantly from the results, expectations and plans discussed in these forward-looking statements. We use words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “continuing,” “ongoing,” “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements.

See “Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements.”

 

Overview

 

Our operations include the licensing of software to telecommunications operators and the development of software application platforms that optimize mobile voice, instant messaging and advertising communications over the Internet. Our proprietary software techniques use internet bandwidth more efficiently than other technologies that are unable to provide a low-bandwidth solution. The Horizon Platform is a bandwidth-efficient Voice over Internet Protocol platform for smartphones and also provides optimized data applications including messaging and mobile advertising. We license our software solutions to telecommunications network operators and service providers in the mobile, fixed line and satellite communications markets. We are an ISO 9001 and ISO 20000-1 certified company with assets and operations in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, China, India, Singapore and Hong Kong.   

 

We have developed a mobile application, “Horizon Call,” which enables highly bandwidth-efficient VoIP calls over a smartphone using a 2G/EDGE, 3G, 4G/LTE, WiFi or WiMax connection. Our Horizon Call application is currently available for iPhones and for Android handsets.

 

Unlike other mobile VoIP applications, Horizon Call creates a business-to-business solution for mobile operators. It is a software solution that telecommunications operators license, brand and deploy. Mobile operators decide how to integrate Horizon Call within their portfolio and how to offer it commercially. Horizon Call can be customized according to each mobile operators’ own branding. It helps them to manage rising traffic volumes while combating the competitive threat to their voice telephony revenues from other mobile VoIP applications by giving its mobile data customers a more efficient mobile VoIP solution that adds value to their mobile data network.

 

We believe that emerging markets represent a key opportunity for Horizon Call because there are significant markets with high population density, high penetration of mobile phones, congested mobile cellular networks and high growth in the adoption of smartphones. These factors will put increased pressure on mobile operators to manage their network availability.

 

In this context, the Company has entered into some strategic relationships with local partners in certain regions to seize upon this opportunity. As of the date of this report, we have formed strategic relationships in India, Russia and Latin America.

 

We expect to form strategic relationships when local regulations prevent us from accessing a particular market directly.

 

We plan to fund our expansion through debt financing, cash from operations and potential equity financing. However, we may not be able to obtain additional financing at acceptable terms, or at all, and, as a result, our ability to continue to improve and expand our software products and to expand our business could be adversely affected.

 

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Recent Developments

 

Business Operation

 

In February 2015, we announced the rollout of our platform in China, brand named, Aishuo. The Aishuo platform provides VoIP services, a Value Added Virtual SIM solution delivered through a PRC entity controlled by us via various contractual arrangements, Suzhou Aishuo. The Aishuo product has been delivered to the major stores in Chinese App marketplace including Baidu’s 91.com and Baidu.com, the Tencent App store MyApp.com, 360 Qihoo store 360.cn and the ever growing Xiaomi store mi.com. The Aishuo smartphone app is expected to drive multiple revenue streams from the supply of its value-added services including the rental of Chinese telephone phone numbers linked to the app, low cost local and international calling plans and sponsorship from advertisers.  Subscribers can top up their app credit from the biggest online payment services in China including AliPay (from Alibaba), Union Pay, PayPal and Tenent’s WeChat payment service.

 

Since its commercial availability in the second quarter of 2015, Aishuo has been downloaded over 12 million times in 2015 and has doubled its revenues for the last 3 consecutive quarters of 2015.

 

In August 2015, a Chinese based Satellite operator, KeyIdea, commenced the launch of its mobile Voice over IP solution targeting its VSAT customers in China. We expect this revenue share based co-operation to contribute to our revenues as the rollout of the numerous KeyIdeas earth stations and customer increases in the next few years.

 

In September 2015, a US based operator, Roam Frii, commenced the launch of its mobile Voice over IP solution targeting free Wi-Fi mobile hotspots throughout New York City. We expect this revenue share based co-operation to contribute to our revenues as the rollout of the numerous New York based Wi-Fi solutions increases in the next few years.

 

On November 30, 2015, we were awarded our USA patent for our bandwidth efficient mobile voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") platform. The Company has patent applications pending in Hong Kong, China, India, Europe and Eurasia/Russia.

 

In December 2015, we announced the rollout of our VoIP as a Service “VaaS” platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Company sells its software, branding, hosting and operator services to smaller telecommunications operators, enterprises, operators in fixed line telephony, cable TV operators and to the satellite communications sector. The Company was showcased by Microsoft Corp. for its Azure technology (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/smb/customer-success-stories/building-a-global-business)

 

In addition to the developments in the rollout of Aishuo smartphone app brand in mainland China, we have commenced our penetration into the Latin American market by signing a Horizon license contract with a regional operator. We consider Latin America a huge and growing market for mobile apps as Latin America growth is forecast to be in line with the global average and is also forecasting very significant VoIP revenues growing to $12.8bn by 2018 according to Vision Gain VoIP Market Forecast (https://www.visiongain.com/Report/1107/The-Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol-(VoIP)-Market-2013-2018). On December 18, 2015, we formed a new Latin America company to facilitate our expansion into the region.

 

Our B2B platform is currently being used by a pre-paid Smartphone VoIP application launched by different carriers respectively, some of which are listed as follows:

 

·Smart Communications, Inc, (“Smart”), the Philippines' leading wireless services provider with 57.3 million subscribers on its GSM network as of end-June 2013.

 

·Singapore Telecommunications (“Singtel”), the Singapore’s leading wireless services provider with a combined mobile subscriber base of 500 million customers from its own operations and regional associates in 25 countries at end of March 2014.

 

·PT Smartfren Telecom Tbk (“Smartfren”), Smartfren is a wireless service provider with a combined mobile subscriber base of 12.5 million on its CDMA network as of October 2013.

 

Offering and Market Related

 

On August 10, 2015, in connection with an Underwriting Agreement dated August 4, 2015 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Aegis Capital Corp. (“Aegis”), as representative of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), we closed a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 1,714,286 shares of Common Stock, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 857,143 shares of Common Stock at a combined offering price of $1.75 per share and accompanying Warrant. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters exercised an option to purchase 151,928 additional shares of Common Stock and 75,964 additional warrants. The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $2.89 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

The warrants offered have a per share exercise price of $2.50 (subject to adjustment in the event of certain stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications or similar events affecting our Common Stock and also upon any distributions of assets, including cash, stock or other property to our stockholder), are exercisable immediately and will expire three years from the date of issuance. Subject to applicable laws, the warrants may be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without our consent.

 

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Corporate Governance

 

 In 2015 the management decided to improve the internal GAAP experience by appointing external consultants with GAAP and public company reporting experience. The external consultants commenced work in July 2015.

 

Research & Development

 

The Company has spent approximately $1.1 million on capitalizable research and development in the fiscal year 2015.

 

During 2015, we continue to expand our Irish software development team with the addition of new senior software developers at our software research and development office at the Nexus Innovation Center on the campus of the University of Limerick.  

 

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP. Our significant accounting policies are described in notes accompanying the consolidated financial statements. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires our management to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Estimates are based on information available as of the date of the financial statements, and accordingly, actual results in future periods could differ from these estimates. Significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements apply critical accounting policies described in the notes to our consolidated financial statements.

 

We consider our recognition of revenues, accounting for the consolidation of operations, accounting for stock-based compensation, accounting for intangible assets and related impairment analyses, the allowance for doubtful accounts and accounting for equity transactions, to be most critical in understanding the judgments that are involved in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.

 

Additionally, we consider certain judgments and estimates to be significant, including those relating to the timing of revenue recognition from the sales of perpetual licenses to certain Tier 1 and Tier 2 telecom entities, those relating to the determination of vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) for purposes of revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, useful lives for amortization of intangibles, determination of future cash flows associated with impairment testing of long-lived assets, determination of the fair value of stock options and other assessments of fair value. We base our estimates on historical experience, current conditions and on other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates and assumptions.

 

Together with our critical accounting policies set out above, our significant accounting policies are summarized in Note 2 of our audited financial statements as of December 31, 2015.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

The Company recognizes revenue when it is realized or realizable and earned. The Company establishes persuasive evidence of a sales arrangement for each type of revenue transaction based on a signed contract with the customer and that delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, price is fixed and determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

Software and licenses – revenue from sales of perpetual licenses to telecom entities is recognized at the date of invoices raised for installments due under the agreement, unless payment terms exceed one year, as described below, presuming all other relevant revenue recognition criteria are met. Revenue from sales of perpetual licenses to other entities is recognized over the agreed collection period.
   
Revenue for user licenses purchased by customers is recognized when the user license is delivered except as set out below.
   
Revenue for maintenance services is recognized over the period of delivery of the services except as set out below.
   
Effective as of October 1, 2014, the Company amended certain existing customer contracts with respect to the terms under which those customers would pay the Company for perpetual licenses, user licenses and maintenance services provided by the Company. Existing customer contracts required payments for maintenance services to be made based on contractually specified fixed amounts, which were billed regularly through September 2014. Through that date the Company recorded revenue for licenses and maintenance services when those licenses and services were billed. Revenue for user licenses was recorded as earned and revenue for maintenance services was recorded based on a fixed annual fee, billed quarterly. The Company has modified the payment terms under certain of those existing customer contracts by entering into Revenue Sharing agreements with those customers. Under the terms of these Revenue Sharing agreements, future payments will be due from the customer when that customer has generated revenue from its customers who subscribe to use the Horizon products and services. Effective October 1, 2014 revenue will be recorded by the Company when it invoices the customer for the revenue share due to the Company. Certain customers who entered into revenue sharing arrangements had outstanding balances due to the Company as of September 30, 2014, which balances were included in accounts receivable at that date. Payments received after September 30, 2014, from those customers under revenue sharing agreements have been applied to the customer’s existing accounts receivable balances first. For those customers having balances due at September 30, 2014, revenue related to perpetual and user licenses and maintenance services will be recorded only after existing accounts receivable balances are fully collected.
   
Revenues from Aishuo retail sales are recognized when the PSTN calls and texts are made

  

Where the Company has entered into a Revenue Share with the customer then all future revenue from granting of user licenses and for maintenance services will be recognized when the Company has delivered user licenses and is entitled to invoice.

 

We enter into arrangements in which a customer purchases a combination of software licenses, maintenance services and post-contract customer support (“PCS”). As a result, judgment is sometimes required to determine the appropriate accounting, including how the price should be allocated among the deliverable elements if there are multiple elements. PCS may include rights to upgrades, when and if available, support, updates and enhancements. When vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of fair value exists for all elements in a multiple element arrangement, revenue is allocated to each element based on the relative fair value of each of the elements. VSOE of fair value is established by the price charged when the same element is sold separately. Accordingly, the judgments involved in assessing the fair values of various elements of an agreement can impact the recognition of revenue in each period. Changes in the allocation of the sales price between deliverables might impact the timing of revenue recognition, but would not change the total revenue recognized on the contract. When elements such as software and services are contained in a single arrangement, or in related arrangements with the same customer, we allocate revenue to each element based on its relative fair value, provided that such element meets the criteria for treatment as a separate unit of accounting. In the absence of fair value for a delivered element, revenue is first allocated to the fair value of the undelivered elements and then allocated to the residual delivered elements. In the absence of fair value for an undelivered element, the arrangement is accounted for as a single unit of accounting, resulting in a delay of revenue recognition for the delivered elements until the undelivered elements are fulfilled. No sales arrangements to date include undelivered elements for which VSOE does not exist.

 

For purposes of revenue recognition for perpetual licenses, the Company considers payment terms exceeding one year as a presumption that the fee in the transaction is not fixed and determinable. This presumption however, may be overcome if persuasive evidence demonstrates that the Company has a business practice of extending payment terms and has been successful in collecting under the original terms, without providing any concessions. In doing so, the Company considers if the arrangement is sufficiently similar to historical arrangements in terms of similar customers and products is assessing whether there is evidence of a history of successful collection.

 

In order to determine the company’s historical experience is based on sufficiently similar arrangements, the Company considers the various factor including the types of customers and products, product life cycle, elements Included in the arrangement, length of payment terms and economics of license arrangement.

 

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If the presumption cannot be overcome due to a lack of such evidence, revenue should be recognized as payments become due, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria has been met.

 

Results of Operations

 

The following table sets forth information from our statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2015 and 2014.  

 

Comparison of year ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 (in thousands)

 

   For the Year Ended
December 31,
   Year to Year Comparison 
   2015
(audited)
   2014
(audited)
   Increase/
(decrease)
   Percentage
Change
 
                 
Revenue  $1,532   $5,122   $(3,590)   (70.0)%
                     
Cost of revenue                    
Hardware   116    362    (246)   (67.9)%
Amortization of software development costs   2,111    1,890    221    11.7%
    2,227    2,252           
                     
Gross margin   (695)   2,870    (3,565)   (124.2)%
                     
Operating Expenses                    
                     
General and administrative   3,326    4,374    (1,048)   (23.9)%
Increase in Allowance for doubtful accounts   5,562    180    5,382    2,991.1%
Depreciation   67    146    (79)   (54.1)%
Research and development   579    379    200    52.8%
Total Operating Expenses   9,534    5,079    4,455   87.7%
                     
Loss from Operations   (10,229)   (2,209)   (8,020)   (263.1)%
                     
Other Income(Expense)                    
Interest expense   (722)   (16)   (706)   (4,412.5)%
Interest expense - related parties   (2)   36    (38)   (105.6)%
Gain on settlement of lease   36    -    36    N/A 
Foreign Exchange (loss) gain, net   (29)   8    (37)   (462.5)%
Interest income   2    2    -    -%
                     
Loss for continuing operations before income taxes   (10,944)   (2,179)   (8,765)   (402.2)%
                     
Income taxes (recovery)   (20)   (210)   (190)   (90.5)%
Net Loss for the year   (10,924)   (1,969)   (8,955)   (454.8)%

 

Revenue: Our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2015 was approximately $1.5 million as compared to approximately $5.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, a decrease of roughly $3.6 million or 70%. The decrease was primarily due to the shift in business to concentrate on the roll out of the B2C business in China through the Aishuo app. This roll out has gained us over 15 million downloads since it’s in launch in February 2015 through to the date of this report. It has greatly increased our exposure and overall recognition which allows us to take market share and acquire customers in what the Company believes will be an increasingly competitive user marketplace. During the quarter ended December 31, 2015 the revenue by Aishuo grew to just over $30,000 approximately as compared to $16,000 and $7,000 approximately in the third and second quarters in 2015 respectively. The management expects further growth in this sector of revenue.

 

The B2B business continues and one new global exchange was sold in the first quarter of 2015. We have converted most of the B2B partnerships into a revenue share basis and we are starting to see some payments from these operating companies. For customers with existing accounts receivable balances, revenue share basis payments are first applied to reduce their receivable balance before additional revenue is recorded. The strategic shift being executed by the Company is in-line with longer term development goals and management believes it will position the Company for a greater long-term shareholder value creation.

 

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Cost of Revenue: Cost of revenue for hardware was approximately $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, compared to approximately $0.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. Our cost of sales is primarily composed of the costs of ancillary hardware sold with the Horizon Platform together with the amortization of software development costs.  In addition, we recognize costs relating to the provision of hardware when a customer acquires such ancillary hardware.

 

Gross Profit:  Gross profit before the amortization charge for the year ended December 31, 2015 was approximately $1.4 million as compared to $4.7 million for the previous year.  Our gross profits decreased by 70% from 2014 to 2015.  The decrease was mainly due to the reduced revenue as set forth above herein. However, management anticipate gross profit to increase with the growth of our business and the global smartphone market as well as our established expansion plan of entering into markets with high population density, high penetration of mobile phones, congested mobile cellular networks and high adoption of smartphones. 

 

Operating Expenses: Operating expenses including general and administrative expenses, allowance for doubtful accounts, depreciation and research and development expenses were approximately $9.5 million or 633% of sales for the year ended December 31, 2015, as compared to approximately $5.1 million, or 99% of sales for the same period in 2014, an increase of $4.4 million. The significant increase in expenses arose due to the additional provision for doubtful accounts of $5.6 million in the year ended December 31, 2015 compared to $0.3 million for the same period in 2014. Management determined this additional allowance was necessary in their fourth quarter analysis of collectability. This increase arose due to the change in collection policy on certain customers to receiving payments under a revenue share arrangement. As a result of this change the Company is unable to predict with certainty of the timing of long-term future receipts and has therefore decided to fully provide for the balances expected beyond 12 months from the balance sheet date. The provision will be reduced if customer payments are received against these provided balances. General and administrative expenses were approximately $3.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 as compared to approximately $4.2 million for the same period in 2014. The reduction was mainly due to the reduction in staff and office costs in Switzerland. The resources have been replaced in lower cost jurisdictions in Ireland and China.

 

Net Loss: Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2015 was approximately $10.9 million as compared to a net loss of $2.0 million for the same period in 2014.  Going forward, management expects to generate a growth in revenue based on the roll out of the products primarily in the China, Asia and Latin America regions. Going forward, management believes the Company will continue to grow the business and increase profitability if we are successful in selling the Horizon B2B solution to new telecommunications company customers globally and the B2C service to end users.

 

Non-Controlling Interest:

 

In the last quarter of 2015 the Company acquired full control of Horizon Network Technology Co. Ltd and as a result the Group is now wholly owned and controlled by One Horizon Group, Inc.

 

Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment:     Our reporting currency is the U.S. dollar. Our local currencies, Swiss Francs, Euro, British pounds and Chinese Renminbi, are our functional currencies. Results of operations and cash flow are translated at average exchange rates during the period, and assets and liabilities are translated at the unified exchange rate as quoted by http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates/ at the end of the period. Translation adjustments resulting from this process are included in accumulated other comprehensive income in the statement of shareholders’ equity. Transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in the results of operations as incurred.

 

Currency translation adjustments resulting from this process are included in accumulated other comprehensive income in the consolidated statement of shareholders' equity and amounted to approximately $(99,000) for the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

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Years Ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014

 

The following table sets forth a summary of our approximate cash flows for the periods indicated:

 

   For the Years Ended
December 31
(in thousands)
 
   2015   2014 
Net cash used in operating activities   (2,115)   (1,755)
Net cash used in investing activities   (1,072)   (1,167)
Net cash provided by financing activities   1,787    4,083 

 

Net cash used by operating activities was approximately $2.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 as compared to approximately $1.8 million for the same period in 2014. The increase in cash used in operating activities is largely due to the reduction in revenue generated in 2015 compared to the previous year 

 

Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $1.1 million and $1.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. Net cash used in investing activities was primarily focused on investment in software development costs.  

  

Net cash provided by financing activities amounted to approximately $1.8 million for 2015 and $4.1 million for 2014. Cash provided by financing activities in 2015 primarily from the sale of Common Stock in August and September 2015, net of related costs. Cash provided by financing activities in 2014 was primarily due to the sale of preferred shares and convertible stock in July and December 2014. Cash used by financing activities in 2015 was primarily due to the reduction in loan to related party and payment of preferred dividends.

 

Our working capital as of December 31, 2015, was approximately $5.2 million, as compared to working capital of approximately $11.1 million for the same period in 2014.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements that have, or are reasonably likely to have, a current or future effect on its financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to investors.

 

ITEM 7A.  QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 8.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

 

Our financial statements, including the independent registered public accounting firm’s report on our financial statements, are included beginning at page F-1 immediately following the signature page of this report.

 

ITEM 9.  CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

 

(a) Dismissal of Independent Certifying Accountant.

 

None during our two most recent fiscal years.

  

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ITEM 9A.  CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Disclosure controls are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Report, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management evaluated, with the participation of our current chief executive officer and chief financial officer (our “Certifying Officers”), the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2015, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, our Certifying Officers concluded that, as of December 31, 2015, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.

 

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)). Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of our Certifying Officers to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of our financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

Management, under the supervision and with the participation of our Certifying Officers, evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in 2013 Internal Control-Integrated Framework.

 

Changes have been made to internal controls during 2015, including the recruitment of external US GAAP consultants to address the material weakness described in the previous year. Improvements have been made but management conclude the internal control over the financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2015. This Report does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Because we are a smaller reporting company, management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

As disclosed in our 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K, we reported a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting due to a lack of in-house US GAAP expertise.

 

During 2015 the Company engaged external CPA consultants to provide the Company with improved in-house US GAAP expertise and management continues its efforts to remediate this material weakness.

 

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Except as disclosed above in respect of our hiring of external US GAAP consultants, there were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the period ended December 31, 2015, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting. 

 

ITEM 9B.  OTHER INFORMATION

 

None.

 

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PART III

 

ITEM 10.  DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

Directors and Executive Officers

 

The following table and text set forth the names and ages of all directors and executive officers as of March 16, 2016. There are no family relationships among our directors and executive officers. Each director is elected at our annual meeting of shareholders and holds office until the next annual meeting of shareholders, or until his successor is elected and qualified. Also provided herein are brief descriptions of the business experience of each director, executive officer and advisor during the past five years and an indication of directorships held by each director in other companies subject to the reporting requirements under the Federal securities laws. None of our officers or directors is a party adverse to us or has a material interest adverse to us.  Each director has been elected to the term indicated. Directors whose term of office ends in 2015 shall serve until the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified.

 

Name   Age   Principal Occupation or Employment   First Became Director   Current
Board Term
Expires
 
                   
Brian Collins    48   President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Director   12/10/12     2016  
                       
Martin Ward    58   Chief Financial Officer, Director   12/10/12     2016  
                       
Nicholas Carpinello    66   Owner, Carpinello Enterprises LLC, Director   3/7/13   Until the date of removal or resignation  
                       
Richard Vos    70   Director   8/21/2013   Until the date of removal or resignation  
                       
Robert Law    65   Director   8/28/2013   Until the date of removal or resignation  
                       
Robert Vogler    65   Director   1/8/14   Until the date of removal or resignation  

 

Brian Collins

 

Mr. Collins was appointed as the Chief Executive Office and President on July 28, 2014. Mr. Collins also acts as the Chairman of the Board of the Company upon his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Collins was earlier appointed as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer on November 30, 2012 and director on December 10, 2012. Prior to his appointment as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Collins had served as Chief Technology Officer of One Horizon Group, PLC since 2010, following the acquisition by One Horizon Group of Abbey Technology GmbH, a company that was founded by, and employed, Mr. Collins in 1999, and which became a subsidiary of One Horizon Group upon its acquisition. He is the co-inventor of the Horizon Platform, and has over 20 years’ experience in the technology sector with a background in software engineering. Abbey Technology developed software systems for the Swiss banking industry. Prior to his employment at Abbey, he worked as a software engineer for Credit Suisse First Boston Equities in Zurich. Earlier in his career, between 1993 and 1996, he worked as a software engineer for Sybase, an information technology company, in California and Amsterdam. Mr. Collins graduated in 1990 with a BSc Hons in Computer Systems from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He also undertook further software research and development at International Computers Limited between 1990 and 1993. Mr. Collins brings experience founding and working at technology companies along with extensive knowledge of software engineering.

 

Martin Ward

 

Mr. Ward was appointed Chief Financial Officer on November 30, 2012 and director on December 10, 2012. Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Ward had served as the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of One Horizon Group, PLC since 2004. Prior to joining One Horizon Group, Mr. Ward was a partner at Langdowns DFK, a United Kingdom-based chartered accountancy practice. Earlier in his career, between 1983 and 1987, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an Audit Manager. Mr. Ward is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Mr. Ward brings significant experience in accounting, corporate finance and public company reporting. 

 

Nicholas Carpinello

 

Mr. Carpinello was appointed as a director on March 7, 2013. He has been the owner of Carpinello Enterprises LLC d/b/a Cottman Transmission Center, a national auto service franchise, since 2004 and also has worked as a consultant to SatCom Distribution Inc. (“SDI”), assisting in various business, tax and financial matters of US operations of UK-based distributors of satellite communication hardware and airtime, since 2005. Prior to November 2012, SDI was a subsidiary of One Horizon Group PLC. Mr. Carpinello’s years of professional experience are extensive, and include experience as CFO and Treasurer with multinational public and private manufacturers of armored vehicles and, later in his career, CFO of privately-held companies in the computer science field. He is a Certified Public Accountant, an alumnus of Arthur Andersen & Co., and holds a BA degree in Accounting from the University of Cincinnati. The Board decided that Mr. Carpinello should serve as a director because of his significant U.S. public company experience, as well as years of experience as a certified public accountant.

 

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Richard Vos

 

Mr. Vos was appointed as a director on August 28, 2013. Mr. Vos has been a non-executive director since 2007 of Avanti Communications Group plc, a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVN).  He is chairman of its remuneration committee and past chairman of its audit committee.  In addition, since 2001, Mr. Vos has been a non-executive director of NSSC Operations Ltd., which operates the National Space Centre in the United Kingdom.  He is the chairman of its audit committee.  From June 2005 to June 2010, Mr. Vos was a director of our United Kingdom subsidiary, One Horizon Group plc (formerly SatCom Group Holdings plc) (“One Horizon UK”), and from October 2006 to June 2010 was also Chairman.  From July 2005 to March 2010, One Horizon UK was listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: SGH).  From October 2008 to October 2010, Mr. Vos served as a director of TerreStar Europe Ltd., a former start-up business seeking to provide mobile satellite services in Europe. From April 2003 to 2009, Mr. Vos was chairman of the Telecommunications and Navigation Advisory Board of the British National Space Centre (subsequently replaced by the United Kingdom Space Agency).   From September 2006 to June 2009, Mr. Vos was a director of Avanti Screenmedia Group plc, formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:ASG), which provided satellite and other services.  Mr. Vos since August 2014 has been a non-executive director of Tawsat Limited and Tawsat Holdings Limited, both Irish registered companies which hold intellectual property in certain satellite operations. Mr. Vos obtained his Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Modern Languages from University of London in 1968, and his Diploma in Management Studies from Kingston Polytechnic in 1973. He is a member of the Institute of Directors

 

Robert Law

 

Mr. Law was appointed as a director on August 28, 2013. Between May 1990 and January 2016, Mr. Law has served as chief executive officer of Langdowns DFK Limited (“Langdowns”), a United Kingdom-based accounting, tax and business advisory firm, and since 1979 has served as a director of Langdowns.  Also, between May 1990 and January 2016 Mr. Law has been the chief executive officer of Southern Business Advisers LLP (“Southern Business Advisers”), a United Kingdom-based business associated with Langdowns that also offers accounting, tax and business advisory services, and has been a member of Southern Business Advisers since 1979.  Mr. Law is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (“ICAEW”), and is a member of the Valuation and Information Technology Faculties of the ICAEW.  Mr. Law qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant in 1976.

 

Robert Vogler

 

Mr. Vogler was appointed as a director on January 8, 2014. He has a long-standing history as a successful executive and business owner. He also has extensive experiences and practices as an accounting specialist.  Mr. Vogler has been the owner and Chairman of the Board of Kreivo AG, an accounting and bookkeeping company serving Swiss companies in a variety of industries with operations throughout Europe since 1974. Mr. Vogler has served on the Boards of other Swiss accounting firms such as RV Revisions AG, Impe Zug AG and also served as President of Lüfta Baar, a HVAC Company also based in Switzerland. Mr. Vogler is not a director of any public companies except One Horizon.

 

Significant Employees

  

Qingsong  Li

Mr. Li, aged 39, was appointed the General Manager of Horizon Network Technology Co., Ltd at the end of 2012. Mr. Li was the Deputy General Manager of Nanjing ZTEsoft CO., Ltd, in charge of international marketing and national business development from 2008 to 2012. Before that period, he was a Software Engineer(2002-2003), Chief of International Development Team(2003-2004), Deputy Head of International Sales Department(2004-2005) and Head of International Sales Department(2006-2007) of Nanjing ZTEsoft Co., Ltd. Mr. Li graduated from Southeast University, Nanjing with a master degree in System Engineering and Hefei University of Technology with a bachelor degree in Accounting and minor in Computer Science.

 

Peter Hall

Peter Hall, aged 42, joined One Horizon Group in 2011 and was appointed Chief Information Officer in August 2014. Before joining the Company, he worked at Microsoft within the Premier Field Engineering Division (2008-2011).  Between 2004 and 2008 he worked as a Security Consultant for Atos Origin and a CRM software company, AIT Group plc, between 1998 and 2002. Mr. Hall has held the CISSP certification since 2010. He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1995 and also holds an MSc (Distinction) Degree from University College London in 2006.

 

Andrew Le Gear

Dr. Andrew Le Gear, aged 33, joined One Horizon Group in 2013 and was appointed Chief Horizon Architect in September 2015.  Before joining the Company, he worked as a Senior Solutions Architect at Dell Inc. (2012-1013),and as an Equity Trading Software Engineer at Lehman Brothers Inc. and Nomura Plc. (2007-2012).  Prior to this he was co-founder of Juneberi Ltd., a research driven software tech start up (2004-2007). Dr. Le Gear graduated from the University of Limerick in 2003 and again in 2006, with a B.Sc. in Computer Systems and a Ph.D. in Computer Science respectively.

 

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Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

 

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder require our officers and directors, and persons that own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities, to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the Securities and Exchange Commission and to furnish us with copies. Based solely on our review of the copies of the Section 16(a) forms received by us, or written representations from certain reporting persons, we believe that none of our officers, directors, and greater than 10% beneficial owners filed on a timely basis reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act prior to the Share Exchange on November 30, 2012 during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012. After the Share Exchange, we believe that none of our officers, directors, and beneficial owners with more than 10% shareholding, failed to file on a timely basis reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015.

 

Board Committees

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

Audit Committee

 

Our Audit Committee consists of Nicholas Carpinello, Robert Law and Richard Vos, each of whom is independent. The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors oversight of (i) the integrity of financial statements, (ii) our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, (iii) the independent auditor’s qualifications and independence, and (iv) the performance of our internal audit function and independent auditor, and prepares the report that the Securities and Exchange Commission requires to be included in our annual proxy statement. The audit committee operates under a written charter. Mr. Carpinello is the Chairman of our audit committee.

 

The Board of Directors determined that Mr. Carpinello possesses accounting or related financial management experience that qualifies him as financially sophisticated within the meaning of Rule 4350(d)(2)(A) of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules and that he is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined by the rules and regulations of the SEC.

 

A copy of current charter of Audit Committee is available on the Company’s website http://content.stockpr.com/onehorizongroup/media/6f6926ac07f2526da1eaa0d94f84c6d7.pdf

 

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

 

The purpose of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is to assist the Board of Directors in identifying qualified individuals to become members of our Board of Directors, in determining the composition of the Board of Directors and in monitoring the process to assess Board effectiveness. Each of Nicholas Carpinello, Robert Law and Richard Vos are members of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee operates under a written charter. Mr. Richard Vos is the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

 

Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has, among the others, the following authority and responsibilities:
   
To determine and recommend to the Board, the criteria to be considered in selecting nominees for the director;

 

To identify and screen candidate consistent with such criteria and consider any candidates recommended by our stockholders pursuant to the procedures described in our proxy statement or in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations and provisions of our charter documents.
   
To select and approve the nominees for director to be submitted to a stockholder vote at the annual meeting of stockholders.

 

A copy of current charter of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is available on the Company’s website http://content.stockpr.com/onehorizongroup/media/8eccadeceb1ccc10b249cc5ab2456058.pdf

 

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Compensation Committee

 

The Compensation Committee is responsible for overseeing and, as appropriate, making recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding the annual salaries and other compensation of our executive officers and general employees and other policies, and for providing assistance and recommendations with respect to our compensation policies and practices. Each of Nicholas Carpinello, Robert Law and Richard Vos are members of the Compensation Committee. The Compensation Committee operates under a written charter. Mr. Robert Law is the Chairman of Compensation Committee.

 

As required by Rule 10C-1(b)(2), (3) and (4)(i)(vi) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Act”) , our Compensation Committee has, among the others,  the following responsibilities and authority.

 

The compensation committee may, in its sole discretion, retain or obtain the advice of a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser.
   
The compensation committee shall be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of any compensation consultant, legal counsel and other adviser retained by the compensation committee or said group.

 

The Company must provide for appropriate funding, as determined by the compensation committee, for payment of reasonable compensation to a compensation consultant, legal counsel or any other adviser retained by the compensation committee or said group.
   
The compensation committee select, or receive advice from, a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser to the compensation committee or said group, other than in-house legal counsel, only after conducting an independence assessment with respect to the adviser as provided for in the Act.

 

A copy of current Charter of Compensation Committee is available on the Company’s website http://content.stockpr.com/onehorizongroup/media/abf14232f92dbd65d5ee4c83d7b1fa3b.pdf

 

Code of Ethics

 

Our board of directors has adopted a Policy Statement on Business Ethics and Conflicts of Interest (“Code of Ethics”) applicable to all employees, including the Company’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer. A copy of the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct is available on the Company’s website http://content.stockpr.com/onehorizongroup/media/250c1db923f658aca6cc69dfc35c7f89.pdf

 

Board Leadership Structure and the Board’s Role in Risk Oversight.

 

The Board of Directors currently does not have a Chairman. Our Chief Executive Officer acts as the Chairman of the Board. The Board determined that in the best interest of the Company the most effective leadership structure at this time is not to separate the roles of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. A combined structure provides the Company with a single leader who represents the company to our stockholders, regulators, business partners and other stakeholders, among other reasons set forth below. Should the Board conclude otherwise, the Board will separate the roles and appoint an independent Chairman.

 

●   This structure creates efficiency in the preparation of the meeting agendas and related Board materials as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer works directly with those individuals preparing the necessary Board materials and is more connected to the overall daily operations of the Company. Agendas are also prepared with the permitted input of the full Board of Directors allowing for any concerns or risks of any individual director to be discussed as deemed appropriate. The Board believes that the Company has benefited from this structure, and Mr. Collin’s continuation in the combined role of the Acting Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is in the best interest of the stockholders.

 

●   The Company believes that the combined structure is necessary and allows for efficient and effective oversight, given the Company’s relatively small size, its corporate strategy and focus.

 

The Board of Directors does not have a specific role in risk oversight of the Company. The Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and other executive officers and employees of the Company provide the Board of Directors with information regarding the Company’s risks.

 

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ITEM 11.  EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

The following tables set forth, for each of the last two completed fiscal years of the Company, the total compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to any person who was a principal executive officer during the preceding fiscal year and every other highest compensated executive officers earning more than $100,000 during the last fiscal year (together, the “Named Executive Officers”).

 

Summary Compensation Table: Executives

 

Name and
Principal
Position
  Period  Salary
($)
   Bonus
($)
   Stock
Award(s)
($)
   Option
Awards
($)
   Non-
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compensation
   Non-
Qualified
Deferred
Compen-
sation
Earnings 
($)
   All Other
Compensation 
($)
   Total ($) 
(a)  (b)  (c)   (d)   (e)   (f)   (g)   (h)   (i)   (j) 
                                            
 Mark White, Former CEO(1)  Year ended 12/31/15   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0 
                                            
   Year ended 12/31/14   358,750    0    0    0    0    0    0    358,750 
                                            
 Brian Collins, CEO (2)  Year ended 12/31/15   360,000    0    0    357,000    0    0    0    717,000 
                                            
   Year ended 12/31/14   615,000    0    0    0    0    0    0    615,000 
                                            
Martin Ward, CFO(3)  Year ended 12/31/15   287,000    0    0    0    0    0    0    287,000 
   Year ended 12/31/14   292,000    0    0    0    0    0    0    292,000 

 

 

 

(1) Mr. White was appointed our Chief Executive Officer effective November 30, 2012 and resigned on July 24, 2014 due to personal reasons. Mr. White was paid predominately in Swiss Francs, with a conversion rates of CHF 1.00 = $1.12, which rate represents the average exchange rate for that period, as represented by http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates/.

 

(2) Mr. Collins was appointed our Chief Executive Officer effective July 28, 2014 and our chief technology officer effective November 30, 2012. For the period ended December 31, 2015, Mr. Collins was paid predominately .in US Dollars.

 

(3) Mr. Ward was appointed our Chief Financial Officer effective November 30, 2012. For the period ended December 31, 2014, Mr. Ward was paid predominately in pounds sterling, with conversion rate of £1.00 = $1.5571, which rate represents the average exchange rate for that period, as represented by http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates/. For the period ended December 31, 2015, Mr. Ward was paid predominately in British pounds (GBP 1 = USD 1.5288).

 

Pension Benefit

 

None during the periods covered in this Report

 

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation

 

None during the periods covered in this Report

 

Retirement/Resignation Plans

 

None during the periods covered in this Report

 

Outstanding Equity Awards at 2014 Year-End

As of the year ended December 31, 2015, there were no unexercised options, stock that has not vested or equity incentive plan awards held by any of the Company’s named executive officers.

 

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Compensation of Directors

 

Our directors are reimbursed for expenses incurred by them in connection with attending Board of Directors’ meetings. The following table sets forth all cash compensation paid by us, as well as certain other compensation paid or accrued, in 2015, to each of the following named directors.

 

Name  Fees
Earned
or
Paid in
Cash
($)
   Stock
Awards
($)
   Option
Awards
($)
   Non-Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compensation
($)
   Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)
   All Other
Compen-
sation
($)
   Total ($) 
Nicholas
Carpinello
   18,000    0    0    0    0    0    18,000 
Brian Collins   360,000    0    357,000    0    0    0    717,000 
Robert Law   18,000    0    0    0    0    0    18,000 
Richard Vos   18,000    0    0    0    0    0    18,000 
Martin Ward   287,000    0    0    0    0    0    287,000 
Robert Vogler   18,000    0    0    0    0    0    18,000 

 

ITEM 12.  SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

The following table sets forth certain information regarding beneficial ownership of our Common Stock as of April 14, 2014  by (i) each person (or group of affiliated persons) who is known by us to own more than five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of our Common Stock, (ii) each director, executive officer and director nominee, and (iii) all of our directors, executive officers and director nominees as a group. As of  March 21, 2016, we had 35,045,423 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding.

 

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Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with SEC rules and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. For purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares of common stock that such person has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 21, 2016. For purposes of computing the percentage of outstanding shares of our common stock held by each person or group of persons named above, any shares that such person or persons has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 21, 2016  is deemed to be outstanding for such person, but is not deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. The inclusion herein of any shares listed as beneficially owned does not constitute an admission of beneficial ownership.

 

Name of Person or Group  Amount And
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership(1)
   Percent 
         
Principal Stockholders:          
           
Alexandra Mary Johnson
44 Fairway Lakes Village
Fritton, Great Yarmouth, NR31 9EY
United Kingdom
   1,942,666    5.5%
           
Adam Christe Thompson
547A Wellington Road
Crisfield, MD 21817
   1,942,666    5.5%
           
Mark White(2)   4,764,399    13.6%
           
Named Executive Officers and Directors:          
           
Brian Collins   6,069,011    17.3%
           
Martin Ward   2,914,666    8.3%
           
 Richard Vos   9,729    * 
           
Nicholas Carpinello   16    * 
           
Robert Vogler   194,600    * 
All Executive Officers and Directors as a Group (6 persons):   9,188,022    26.2%

 

 

 

* Less than 1%.
(1) Except as otherwise indicated, each of the stockholders listed above has sole voting and investment power over the shares beneficially owned.

(2)  Mr. White was appointed our chief executive officer effective November 30, 2012 and resigned on July 24, 2014 due to personal reasons. 

 

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Equity Compensation Plan

 

Prior to the Share Exchange, One Horizon UK had authorized securities for issuance under equity compensation plans that have not been approved by the stockholders, but none under equity compensation plans that were approved by the stockholders. The following table shows the aggregate amount of securities authorized for issuance under all equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2015:

 

   Number of
securities to
be issued
upon exercise
of
outstanding
options,
warrants and
rights
(a)
   Weighted-
average
exercise price
of
outstanding
options,
warrants and
rights
(b)
   Number of
securities
remaining
available for
future
issuance
under equity
compensation
plans
(excluding
securities
reflected in
column (a))
(c)
 
             
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders   944,000   $2.48    4,056,000 

 

A summary of the Company’s other stock options as of December 31, 2015, is as follows:

 

       Weighted
Average
 
   Number of
Options
   Exercise
Price
 
         
Outstanding at December 31, 2014   584,650   $0.53 
Options issued   291,900    0.53 
Options forfeited   (850)   0.51 
Outstanding at December 31, 2015   875,700   $0.53 

 

The securities referenced in the table above reflect stock options granted beginning in 2005 pursuant to individual compensation arrangements with the Company’s employees. 291,900 of such options are fully vested and 291,600 expiring in 2020. The number of options reflected in the table above reflect a conversion that occurred in connection with the Share Exchange, whereby the number of options (to purchase One Horizon UK shares) held by each employee was increased by 175.14 times and the exercise price was decreased by the option exercise price divided by 175.14 and a reverse split of 1-for-600 that went effective on August 29, 2013, whereby the number of options held by each employee was decreased by 600 times and the exercise price was increased by the option exercise price multiplied by 600. Also included in the table above are options to purchase 291,900 shares of the Company’s common stock, which options were issued to an employee on December 31, 2012 and vested on December 31, 2015.

 

ITEM 13.  CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

 

Related Party Transactions

 

Amounts due to related parties include the following: (in thousands)

 

   December 31   December 31 
   2015   2014 
Loans due to stockholders          
Due within one year  $0   $600 
Long-term   2,354    2,598 
   $2,354   $3,198 

 

The balance of $2,354,000 matures on April 1, 2017 and is interest free.

 

In the quarter ended March 31, 2015 the Company entered into a sales contract in the normal course of business with a customer (Horizon Latin America) which the Company holds minority ownership interest. The customer purchased perpetual software license for $500,000. The Company owns a cost based investment interest of 19% in the customer with no voting rights of board representation.

 

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Promoters and Certain Control Persons

 

None of our management or other control persons were “promoters” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act), and none of such persons took the initiative in the formation of our business or received any of our debt or equity securities or any of the proceeds from the sale of such securities in exchange for the contribution of property or services, during the last five years.

 

Director Independence

 

Presently, we are not required to comply with the director independence requirements of any securities exchange since we are listed on OTC markets, which does not have any such listing standards. In determining whether our directors are independent, however, we intend to comply with the rules of the Nasdaq. The Board of Directors also will consult with counsel to ensure that the Board of Directors’ determinations are consistent with those rules and all relevant securities and other laws and regulations regarding the independence of directors, including those adopted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 with respect to the independence of audit committee members. The Nasdaq listing standards define an “independent director” generally as a person, other than an officer of a company, who does not have a relationship with the company that would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment.

 

Under the definition of independent directors found in Nasdaq Rule 5605(a)(2),we currently have four independent directors, Nicholas Carpinello, Robert Law, Robert Vogler and Richard Vos.

 

ITEM 14.  PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES

 

Aggregate fees for professional services rendered to the Company by Peterson Sullivan LLP for the years ended December 31, 2015and 2014 were as follows:

 

Services Provided   2015   2014  
Audit Fees   $ 180,000     $ 80,000  
Audit Related Fees   0       100,000  
Tax Fees   0       0  
All Other Fees   0     0  
Total   180,000     $ 180,000  

 

Audit Fees

 

Audit fees billed by Peterson Sullivan, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, were for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements and the reviews of our interim financial statements, including any fees related to other filings with the SEC.

 

Audit-Related Fees

 

Audit-related fees billed during the 2014 were for the work undertaken in respect of the restatement of the 2013 consolidated financial statements and prior years together with the interim financial statements on Form 10Q.

 

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Tax Fees

 

There were no tax fees billed or accrued during the Reported Periods.  

 

All Other Fees

 

There were no other fees billed or accrued during the Reported Periods.

 

Preapproval Policies and Procedures

 

Before the independent registered accountants are engaged to render audit services or non audit activities, the engagement is approved by the audit committee.

 

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PART IV

 

ITEM 15.  EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

Exhibit
Number
   
Title of Document
   
Location
         
Item 2   Plan of acquisition, reorganization, arrangement, liquidation or succession    
         
2.1   Agreement and Plan of Merger effective as of August 26, 2013  

Incorporated by reference from Definitive Information Statement on Form 14C Appendix C

filed May 26, 2013

         
Item 3   Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws    
         
3.1   Amendment to Articles of Incorporation as filed December 27, 2012, with the Pennsylvania Department of State Corporate Bureau   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 10-K filed May 13, 2013
         
3. 2   Amendment to Articles of Incorporation as filed, with the Pennsylvania Department of State Corporate Bureau  

Incorporated by reference from Definitive Information Statement on Form 14C Appendix B

filed May 26, 2013

         
3. 3   Amended and restated articles of incorporation of BICO, Inc as filed,  with the Pennsylvania Department of State Corporate Bureau  

Incorporated by reference from Definitive Information Statement on Form 14C Appendix F

filed May 26, 2013

         
3. 4   Bylaws of BICO, Inc. as filed, with the Pennsylvania Department of State Corporate Bureau   Incorporated by reference from Definitive Information Statement on Form 14C Appendix G filed May 26, 2013
         
3.5   Certificate of incorporation of  One Horizon Group, Inc., as filed, with Delaware Secretary of State   Incorporated by reference from Definitive Information Statement on Form 14C Appendix D filed May 26, 2013
         
3.6   Bylaws of One Horizon Group, Inc., as filed, with Delaware Secretary of State   Incorporated by reference from Definitive Information Statement on Form 14C Appendix E filed May 26, 2013

 

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Exhibit
Number
   
Title of Document
   
Location
Item 10   Material Contracts    
         
10.1   Loan Agreement dated January 22, 2013 between the Company and Mark White   Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A filed on May 30, 2013
         
10.2   Loan Agreement dated January 22, 2013 between the Company and Brian Collins   Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A filed on May 30, 2013
         
10.3   Subscription Agreement, as amended, dated as of February 18, 2013, between the Company and Patrick Schildknecht   Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A filed on May 30, 2013
         
10.4   Warrant Agreement, dated as of February 18, 2013, between the Company and Patrick Schildknecht   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report  on Form 10-8K filed September 5, 2013
         
10.5   Advisory Agreement dated as of April 15, 2013 between the Company and TriPoint Global Equities, LLC   Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A filed on May 30, 2013
         
    Common Stock Purchase Warrant dated May 1, 2013    
         
10.6   Amended and Restated Subscription Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2013, between the Company and Patrick Schildknecht   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report  on Form 10-8K filed September 5, 2013
         
10.7   Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2013, between the Company and Patrick Schildknecht  

Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed September 5, 2013

 

         
10.8   Form of Independent Director Agreement between the Company and Richard Vos/Nicholas Carpinello/Robert Law   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 22, 2013
         
10.9   From of Indemnification Agreement between the Company and Richard Vos/Nicholas Carpinello/Robert Law   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 22, 2013
         
10.10   Agreement, dated November 29, 2013, between One Horizon Group, Inc. and Newport Coast Securities, Inc.   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 3, 2013
         
10.11   Director Agreement between the Company and Robert Vogler dated January 8, 2014   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 13, 2014
         
10.12   Securities Purchase Agreement dated July 21, 2014   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 25, 2014
         
10.13   Form of Class B Warrant   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 25, 2014
         
10.14   Form of Class A Warrant   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 25, 2014
         
10.15   Amendment to Certain Transaction Documents dated August 15, 2014   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 8, 2014
         
10.16   Securities Purchase Agreement dated December 22, 2014   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 29, 2014
         
10.17   Form of Convertible Debenture   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 29, 2014
         
10.18   Registration Rights Agreement dated December 22, 2014   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 29, 2014
         
10.19   Form of Amended and Restated Class C Warrant   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2015
         
10.20   Form of Amended and Restated Class D Warrant   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2015
         
10.21   Form of Amended and Restated Performance Warrant   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2015
         
10.22   Form of Amended and Restated Placement Agent Warrant   Incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2015
         
10.23   Indemnification Agreement between the Company and Brian Collins   Filed herein as a part of this Report
         
10.24   Indemnification Agreement between the Company and Martin Ward dated   Filed herein as a part of this Report

 

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Exhibit
Number
   
Title of Document
   
Location
Item 14.   Code of Ethics    
         
14.1   Policy Statement on Business Ethics and Conflicts of Interest   Incorporated by reference from the Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2004, filed May 23, 2005
         
14.2   Insider Trading Policy   Incorporated by reference from the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed February 5, 2015
         
Item 31.   Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications    
         
31.1   Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Rule 13a-14   Filed as part of this report
         
31.2   Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rule 13a-14   Filed as part of this report
         
Item 32.   Section 1350 Certifications    
         
32.1   Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002   Filed as part of this report
         
32.2   Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002   Filed as part of this report

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

  ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.  
       
Date: March 30 , 2016 By: /s/ Brian Collins  
    Brian Collins  
    President and Principal Executive Officer  

  

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated:  March 30, 2016

 

  By: /s/ Brian Collins  
    Brian Collins  
    President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director  

 

  By: /s/ Martin Ward  
    Martin Ward  
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Finance and Accounting Officer and Director  

 

  By: /s/ Robert Vogler  
    Robert Vogler  
    Director  

 

  By: /s/ Nicholas Carpinello  
    Nicholas Carpinello  
    Director  

 

  By: /s/ Robert Law  
    Robert Law  
    Director  
       

 

  By: /s/ Richard Vos  
    Richard Vos  
    Director  

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders

One Horizon Group, Inc.

Limerick, Ireland

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of One Horizon Group, Inc. (“the Company”) as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for the years then ended. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company has determined that it is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of One Horizon Group, Inc. as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

 

/s/ PETERSON SULLIVAN LLP

 

Seattle, Washington

March 30, 2015

 

 

 

 

ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

December 31, 2015 and 2014

(in thousands, except share data)

 

   2015   2014 
         
Assets          
           
Current assets:          
Cash  $1,772   $3,172 
Accounts receivable, net   3,560    9,072 
Other assets   402    576 
Total current assets   5,734    12,820 
           
Property and equipment, net   96    212 
Intangible assets, net   9,823    10,960 
Investment   18    19 
Debt issue costs   263    395 
Total assets  $15,934   $24,406 
           
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity          
           
Current liabilities:          
Accounts payable  $223   $556 
Accrued expenses   220    360 
Accrued compensation   18    15 
Income taxes   90    93 
Amount due to related parties, current portion   -    600 
Current portion of long-term debt   5    73 
Total current liabilities   556    1,697 
           
Long-term liabilities          
Long term debt, net of current portion   -    108 
Amount due to related parties, net of current portion    2,354    2,598 
Convertible debenture   2,899    2,598 
Deferred income taxes   215    235 
Mandatorily redeemable preferred shares   73    90 
Total liabilities   6,097    7,326 
           
Stockholders' Equity          
One Horizon Group, Inc. stockholders' equity          
Preferred stock: $0.0001 par value, authorized 50,000,000; issued and outstanding 170,940 shares   1    1 
Common stock: $0.0001 par value, authorized 200,000,000 shares, issued and outstanding 35,147,283 shares (2014: 33,281,069);   3    3 
Additional paid-in capital   36,070    32,163 
Deferred Compensation   -    (214)
Retained Earnings (Deficit)   (26,201)   (15,227)
Accumulated other comprehensive income   (36)   63 
Total One Horizon Group, Inc. stockholders' equity   9,837    16,789 
Non-controlling interest   -    291 
Total stockholders' equity   9,837    17,080 
           
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity  $15,934   $24,406 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 F-1 

 

 

ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

   Year ended December 31, 
   2015   2014 
         
Revenue  $1,532   $5,122 
           
Cost of revenue          
Hardware   116    362 
Amortization of intangibles   2,111    1,890 
    2,227    2,252 
Gross margin   (695)   2,870 
           
Expenses:          
General and administrative   3,326    4,374 
Increase in Allowance for doubtful accounts   5,562    180 
Depreciation   67    146 
Research and development   579    379 
    9,534    5,079 
           
Loss from operations   (10,229)   (2,209)
           
Other income and expense:          
Interest expense   (722)   (16)
Interest expense - related parties   (2)   36 
Gain on settlement of lease   36    - 
Foreign exchange   (29)   8 
Interest income   2    2 
    (715)   30 
           
Loss from continuing operations before income taxes   (10,944)   (2,179)
           
Income taxes (recovery)   (20)   (210)
Net loss for the year   (10,924)   (1,969)
           
Loss attributable to non-controlling interest   (50)   (105)
Net loss for the year attributable to One Horizon Group, Inc.   (10,874)   (1,864)
           
Less: Preferred dividends   (100)   (44)
           
Net loss attributable to One Horizon Group, Inc. Common stockholders  $(10,974)  $(1,908)
           
Earnings per share          
           
Basic net loss per share  $(0.32)  $(0.06)
           
Diluted net loss per share  $(0.30)  $(0.06)
           
Weighted average number of shares outstanding          
Basic and diluted   33,996    32,981 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 F-2 

 

  

ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014

(in thousands)

 

   Year ended December 31, 
   2015   2014 
         
Net loss  $(10,924)  $(1,969)
Other comprehensive (loss):          
Foreign currency translation adjustment gain (loss)   (99)   (1,074)
Comprehensive loss   (11,023)   (3,043)
           
Comprehensive loss attributable to the non-controlling interest   (50)   (105)
           
Total comprehensive loss  $(10,973)  $(2,938)

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 F-3 

 

 

ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity

For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014

(in thousands)

 

   Preferred
Stock
   Common Stock   Additional 
Paid-in Capital
   Deferred
Compensation
   Retained
Earnings
(Deficit)
   Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income
(Loss)
   Non-controlling
Interest
   Total
Stockholders'
Equity
 
   Number
of
Shares
   Amount   Number
of
Shares
   Amount                         
                                         
Balance December 31, 2013   -   -    32,921   $3   $28,269   $-   $(13,319)  $1,137   $396   $16,486 
                                                   
Net loss                                 (1,864)        (105)   (1,969)
Foreign currency translations                                      (1,074)        (1,074)
Preferred dividends                                 (44)             (44)
Common stock issued for services received             15         65                        65 
                                                   
Common stock issued for services to be received in the future             75         323    (323)                  -  
                                                   
Amortization of deferred compensation                            109                   109 
                                                   
Options issued for services                       516                        516 
                                                   
Preferred Stock issued for cash   171    1              981                        982 
                                                   
Common stock issued for services received             25    108                             108 
Costs of financing                  (108)                            (108)
Common stock issued in settlement of debt             246    -    822                        822 
Fair value of warrants issued for services received                       187                        187 
Issuance of warrants in connection with convertible debenture                       599                        599 
Beneficial conversion feature in connection with convertible debenture                       303                        303 
Warrants issued as part of debt issue costs                       98                        98 
                                                   
Balance December 31, 2014   171   $1    33,282   $3   $32,163   $(214)  $(15,227)  $63   $291   $17,080 
                                                   
Net loss                                 (10,874)        (50)   (10,924)
Foreign currency translation                                      (99)        (99)
Preferred dividends                                 (100)             (100)
Amortization of deferred compensation                            214                   214 
Issuance of common stock for cash             1,866         3,266                        3,266 
Costs of issuance of common stock                       (391)                       (391)
 Options issued for services                       660                        660 
Contribution of shares of subsidiary                       241                   (241)   - 
Amounts owing to related parties forgiven.                       131                        131 
                                                   
Balance December 31, 2015   171   $1    35,148   $3   $36,070   $-   $(26,201)  $(36)  $-   9,837 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 F-4 

 

 

ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014

(in thousands)

 

   Year ended December 31, 
   2015   2014 
Cash used in operating activities:          
           
           
Operating activities:          
Net loss for the year  $(10,874)  $(1,864)
           
Adjustment to reconcile net loss for the year to net cash used in operating activities:          
Depreciation of property and equipment   67    146 
Amortization of intangible assets   2,111    1,890 
Increase in allowance for doubtful accounts   5,562    180 
Amortization of debt issue costs   132    - 
Amortization of beneficial conversion feature   101    - 
Amortization of debt discount   199    - 
Amortization of deferred compensation   214    - 
Gain on settlement of lease   (36)   - 
Options issued for services received   660    516 
Warrants issued for services   -    187 
Common shares issued for services received   -    174 
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interest   (50)   (105)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:          
Accounts receivable   (50)   (1,988)
Other assets   174   (437)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses   (302)   (244)
Income taxes   (3)   -
Deferred income taxes   (20)   (210)
           
Net cash used in operating activities   (2,115)   (1,755)
           
Cash used in investing activities:          
           
Acquisition of intangible assets   (1,063)   (1,122)
Acquisition of property and equipment   (9)   (49)
Other assets   -    4 
           
Net cash used in investing activities   (1,072)   (1,167)
           
Cash flow from financing activities:          
           
Increase (decrease) in long-term borrowing, net   (144)   (68)
Cash proceeds from issuance of common stock   2,875    - 
Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock, net of costs   -    982 
Proceeds from issuance of convertible debenture, net of costs   -    3,202 
Preferred dividends paid   (100)   - 
Advances from related parties, net of repayment   (844)   (33)
           
Net cash provided by financing activities   1,787    4,083 
           
Increase in cash during the year   (1,400)   1,161 
Foreign exchange effect on cash        (59)
           
Cash at beginning of the year   3,172    2,070 
           
Cash at end of the year  $1,772   $3,172 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 F-5 

 

 

 

ONE HORIZON GROUP, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (continued)

For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014

(in thousands)

 

   Year ended December
31,
 
   2015   2014 
         
Interest paid  $216   $- 
Income taxes paid   -    - 
           
Non-cash transactions:          
           
Common stock issued for services received   -    65 
Common stock issued for settlement of debt   -    822 
Common stock issued for services to be received in the future   -    323 
Fair value of warrants issued for services received   -    187 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

 

 F-6 

 

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

December 31, 2015

 

Note 1.  Description of Business and Principles of Consolidation

 

Description of Business

 

One Horizon Group, Inc., (the “Company” or “OHGI”) develops proprietary software primarily in the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and bandwidth optimization markets. Its subsidiary Horizon Globex GmbH provides our software and hosted VoIP services under perpetual license arrangements on a business to business basis throughout the world to telecommunications companies. OHGI through its Chinese company Suzhou Aishuo Network Information Co., Ltd provides the Aishuo App to end user customers through App stores based in China.  Our Aishuo subscribers purchase call credits for Public Service Telephone Network (“PSTN”) access using a variety of Chinese on-line payments services including Union Pay and Apple Pay.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

The December 31, 2015 and 2014 consolidated financial statements include the accounts of One Horizon Group, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries OHG, Horizon Globex GmbH, Abbey Technology GmbH, One Horizon Group Pte Limited, Horizon Globex Ireland Limited, Global Phone Credit Limited and One Horizon Hong Kong Limited, and its wholly owned subsidiary. Horizon Network Technology Co. Ltd. (HNT) In addition included in the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015, are the accounts of Suzhou Aishuo Network Information Co., Ltd, which is controlled by One Horizon Group, Inc. through various contractual arrangements. (Note 3)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2015, the minority parties which held ownership interests in HNT returned their shareholdings to HNT such that HNT is now fully owned by the Company. The amount of consolidated net loss attributable to the Company and the non-controlling interest, up to the time that the shareholdings were returned, are both presented on the face of the Consolidated Statement of Operations.

 

All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

 

Note 2.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Basis of Accounting and Presentation

 

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States

 

Foreign Currency Translation

 

The reporting currency of the Company is the United States dollar. Assets and liabilities of operations other than those denominated in U.S. dollars, primarily in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and China, are translated into United States dollars at the rate of exchange at the balance sheet date.  Revenues and expenses are translated at the average rate of exchange throughout the period.  Gains or losses from these translations are reported as a separate component of other comprehensive income (loss) until all or a part of the investment in the subsidiaries is sold or liquidated.  The translation adjustments do not recognize the effect of income tax because the Company expects to reinvest the amounts indefinitely in operations.

 

Transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange-rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in general and administrative expenses.

 

 F-7 

 

 

Cash

 

Cash and cash equivalents include bank demand deposit accounts and highly liquid short term investments with maturities of three months or less when purchased. Cash consists of checking accounts held at financial institutions in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong and China which, at times, balances may exceed insured limits.  The Company has not experienced any losses related to these balances, and management believes the credit risk to be minimal.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

Accounts receivable result primarily from sale of software and licenses to customers and are recorded at their principal amounts. The categories of sales and receivables and their terms of payment are as follows:

 

a)   Master License Agreement (“Agreement”) deposits – these deposits are payable in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. The deposits are invoiced and recognized when the Agreement is signed providing the deposits are due to be received within 12 months. When the deposits under the Agreement are due in later periods, the later deposits are invoiced when they are due.

 

b)  

Maintenance and operational fees and end user licenses fees– these charges are invoiced and recognized when a customer is due to pay them under the Agreement. In some Agreements, the charges are invoiced and payable when the service/licenses have been delivered by the Company. In the other cases, the Company has agreed to payments on revenue share basis whereby the Company will receive an agreed proportion of a customer’s revenue from its operation of the Horizon service. On revenue share basis, the income for maintenance and operational fees together with end user licenses fees are not recognized until these charges are invoiced and due. In September 2014, the Company reported that it had converted a significant number of its customers to a revenue share basis of collection (prior revenue was recognized in accordance with revenue recognition policies - see note in Revenue Recognition) and the balance outstanding at the point of conversion for those customers will be collected prior to the commencement of recognizing income on revenue share basis. In addition, on revenue share basis, the Company also offers a hosted service where a customer can buy vouchers for resale of minutes to be used over the Public Service Telephone Network ("PTSN"). These voucher sales are recognized when invoiced and payment terms are 30 days.

Accounts receivable balances from certain customers arose from revenue recognised prior to September 30, 2014. The effective date as of which many of the company’s customers entered into revenue sharing arrangements. Those revenue sharing arrangements changed the basis under which the customers would pay their existing balances, as described, effective starting as early as October 1, 2014. 

 

Revenue that has been recognized under category b), prior to the Company’s conversion of Tier 2 customers to revenue share arrangements on October 1, 2014, was based on invoices provided to customers as payments became due. As of December 31, 2015, a significant portion of those receivables remain uncollected, which management attributes in part to the Company’s conversion of those customers to a revenue share arrangement. Considering the effects of the revenue share arrangements on collection of accounts receivable and the timing of those collections, along with other factors, management has estimated the amounts they expect to collect within 12 months of the balance sheet date from those customers operating under revenue share arrangements. The portion of the receivable balance expected to be received in more than 12 months is considered a non-current receivable. The Company maintains its belief that current and non-current accounts receivable continue to be due from their customers. Further, management is of the belief that its customers are contractually obligated to pay the full amount due as provided under the Master License Agreements executed by each of its customers. Regardless, management has considered the collectability of those receivables classified as long-term in terms of providing an appropriate allowance for the slow-paying nature of these accounts. For receivables classified as long-term, management believes there is general uncertainty in the collection of those balances and the timing of those collections, taken as a whole, and has increased the general provision for doubtful accounts to cover accounts receivable balances expected to be collected beyond 12 months from the balance sheet date. The slow-pay uncertainties arise from a number of factors, including the effects of revenue share arrangements, the extended time customers are talking to generate significant revenue under revenue share arrangements, and general technological changes in the industry. 

 

c)   Software consultancy fees – When customers require customization of software, the Company quotes a flat project amount or a daily rate for the work. When a Customer has confirmed their approval of the quote and the work has been undertaken, the Company will invoice consultancy fee and recognize the revenue. The terms of payment are fixed terms and normally 30 days of the date of the invoice.

 

d)   Hardware fees– Hardware fees represent the fees the Company charges for the supply of ancillary equipment which customers occasionally ask us to source and supply. The Company quotes the price prior to the delivery and upon delivery, invoices the customer with payment due within stated terms, normally 30 days from the date of the invoice.

 

When necessary, the Company provides an allowance for doubtful accounts that is based on a review of outstanding receivables, historical collection information, and current economic conditions. The Company has strong collection history in all categories above except category b), and generally does not believe that an allowance for doubtful accounts for these categories except category b) is necessary. For receivables in category b), when the Company becomes aware of a customer’s inability to meet its financial obligations, such as in the case of bankruptcy or deterioration in the customer’s operating results, financial position, or credit rating, the Company records a specific reserve for bad debts to reduce the related receivable to the amount it believes to be collectable. The Company records a general allowance for doubtful collections for those accounts receivable considered to be slow paying, on the basis described above for accounts receivable balances of customers under category (b) above. There was an allowance of $6,055,000 and $492,000 for doubtful accounts at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively. Receivables are generally unsecured. Account balances are charged off against the allowance when the Company determines that certain receivable will probably not be recovered. The Company does not have off-balance sheet credit exposure related to its customers. As of December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, two customers accounted for 24% and 28%, respectively, of the accounts receivable balance.

 

When a portion of the receivable balances of certain customers under category (b) above, is expected to be received in more than 12 months, the relevant balances are shown as a non current asset. Due to an uncertainty in the timing of the receipt of these balances the Company has decided to provide a general provision covering these balances. The Company retains it belief that the balances are recoverable and when recovery is achieved the appropriate reduction in the general provision will be shown.

 

Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment is primarily comprised of leasehold property improvements, motor vehicles and equipment that are recorded at cost and depreciated or amortized using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives as follows: motor vehicles – 5 years, equipment – between 3 and 5 years, leasehold property improvements, over the lesser of the estimated remaining useful life of the asset or the remaining term of the lease.

 

Repairs and maintenance are charged to expense as incurred.  Expenditures that substantially increase the useful lives of existing assets are capitalized.

 

Investment

 

Cost-based investments includes investments in companies for which we do not have the ability to exercise significant influence. The cost-based investments are analyzed for impairment based on current market and other factors relevant to the investments. No impairment was considered necessary as of December 31, 2015 or 2014. As of December 31, 2015 and 2014, we had $18,000 and $19,000 respectively of cost-based investments on our balance sheet.

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that will be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal.  Valuation techniques used to measure fair value should maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.  To measure fair value, the Company uses the following fair value hierarchy based on three levels of inputs, of which the first two are considered to be observable and the third unobservable:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

 

Level 2 – Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

 

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs are supported by little or no market activity and are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

 

Intangible Assets

 

Intangible assets include software development costs and customer lists and are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of five years for customer lists and ten years for software development.  The Company periodically evaluates whether changes have occurred that would require revision of the remaining estimated useful life.  The Company performs periodic reviews of its capitalized intangible assets to determine if the assets have continuing value to the Company.

 

 F-8 

 

 

 

The Company expenses software development costs as incurred until technological feasibility has been established, at which time those costs are capitalized until the product is available for general release to customers. Judgement is required in determining when technological feasibility of a product is established. The Company has determined that after technological feasibility for software products is reached, the Company continues to address all high risk development issues through coding and testing prior to the release of the products to customers. The amortization of these costs is included in cost of revenue over the estimated life of the products.

 

During the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 software development costs of $1,063,000 and $1,122,000, respectively, have been capitalized.

 

Impairment of Other Long-Lived Assets

 

The Company evaluates the recoverability of its property and equipment and other long-lived assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate impairment may have occurred.  An impairment loss is recognized when the net book value of such assets exceeds the estimated future undiscounted cash flows attributed to the assets or the business to which the assets relate.  Impairment losses, if any, are measured as the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value of the assets.  During the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 the Company identified no impairment losses related to the Company’s long-lived assets.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

The Company recognizes revenue when it is realized or realizable and earned.  The Company establishes persuasive evidence of a sales arrangement for each type of revenue transaction based on a signed contract with the customer and that delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, price is fixed and determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

Software and licenses – revenue from sales of perpetual licenses to telecom entities is recognized at the date of invoices raised for installments due under the agreement, unless payment terms exceed one year, as described below, presuming all other relevant revenue recognition criteria are met. Revenue from sales of perpetual licenses to other entities is recognized over the agreed collection period
   
Revenue for user licenses purchased by customers is recognized when the user license is delivered except as set out below.
   
Revenue for maintenance services is recognized over the period of delivery of the services except as set out below.
   
Effective as of October 1, 2014, the Company amended certain existing customer contracts with respect to the terms under which those customers would pay the Company for perpetual licenses, user licenses and maintenance services provided by the Company. Existing customer contracts required payments for maintenance services to be made based on contractually specified fixed amounts, which were billed regularly through September 2014. Through that date the Company recorded revenue for licenses and maintenance services when those licenses and services were billed. Revenue for user licenses was recorded as earned and revenue for maintenance services was recorded based on a fixed annual fee, billed quarterly. The Company has modified the payment terms under certain of those existing customer contracts by entering into Revenue Sharing agreements with those customers. Under the terms of these Revenue Sharing agreements, future payments will be due from the customer when that customer has generated revenue from its customers who subscribe to use the Horizon products and services. Effective October 1, 2014 revenue will be recorded by the Company when it invoices the customer for the revenue share due to the Company. Certain customers who entered into revenue sharing arrangements had outstanding balances due to the Company as of September 30, 2014, which balances were included in accounts receivable at that date. Payments received after September 30, 2014, from those customers under revenue sharing agreements have been applied to the customer’s existing accounts receivable balances first. For those customers having balances due at September 30, 2014, revenue related to perpetual and user licenses and maintenance services will be recorded only after existing accounts receivable balances are fully collected.
   
Revenues from Aishuo retail sales are recognized when the PSTN calls and texts are made by the customer

 

Where the Company has entered into a Revenue Share with the customer, then all future revenue from granting of user licenses and for maintenance services will be recognized when the Company has delivered user licenses and is entitled to invoice.

 

The Company enters into arrangements in which a customer purchases a combination of software licenses, maintenance services and post-contract customer support (“PCS”). As a result, judgment is sometimes required to determine the appropriate accounting, including how the price should be allocated among the deliverable elements if there are multiple elements. PCS may include rights to upgrades, when and if available, support, updates and enhancements. When vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of fair value exists for all elements in a multiple element arrangement, revenue is allocated to each element based on the relative fair value of each of the elements. VSOE of fair value is established by the price charged when the same element is sold separately. Accordingly, the judgments involved in assessing the fair values of various elements of an agreement can impact the recognition of revenue in each period. Changes in the allocation of the sales price between deliverables might impact the timing of revenue recognition, but would not change the total revenue recognized on the contract. When elements such as software and services are contained in a single arrangement, or in related arrangements with the same customer, we allocate revenue to each element based on its relative fair value, provided that such element meets the criteria for treatment as a separate unit of accounting. In the absence of fair value for a delivered element, revenue is first allocated to the fair value of the undelivered elements and then allocated to the residual delivered elements. In the absence of fair value for an undelivered element, the arrangement is accounted for as a single unit of accounting, resulting in a delay of revenue recognition for the delivered elements until the undelivered elements are fulfilled. No sales arrangements to date include undelivered elements for which VSOE does not exist.

 

For purposes of revenue recognition for perpetual licenses, the Company considers payment terms exceeding one year as a presumption that the fee in the transaction is not fixed and determinable.   This presumption however, may be overcome if persuasive evidence demonstrates that the Company has a business practice of extending payment terms and has been successful in collecting under the original terms, without providing any concessions.  In doing so, the Company considers if the arrangement is sufficiently similar to historical arrangements in terms of similar customers and products is assessing whether there is evidence of a history of successful collection.

 

In order to determine the company’s historical experience is based on sufficiently similar arrangements, the Company considers the various factor including the types of customers and products, product life cycle, elements Included in the arrangement, length of payment terms and economics of license arrangement.

 

 F-9 

 

 

If the presumption cannot be overcome due to a lack of such evidence, revenue should be recognized as payments become due, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria has been met.

 

During 2015 78% of the Company’s revenue was concentrated in the hands of two major customers.

 

Leases

 

Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee. All other leases are classified as operating leases.

 

Assets held under finance leases are recognized as assets of the Company at their fair value or, if lower, at the present value of the minimum lease payments, each determined at the inception of the lease. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet as finance lease obligation. Lease payments are apportioned between finance charges and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. Finance charges are charged directly against income.

 

Rentals payable under operating leases are charged to income on a straight-line basis over the term of the relevant lease.

 

Benefits received and receivable as an incentive to enter into an operating lease are also spread on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

 

Advertising Expenses

 

It is the Company’s policy to expense advertising costs as incurred. Advertising costs totaling $30,000 were incurred during the year ended December 31, 2015 (2014: $0).

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

Research and development expenses include all direct costs, primarily salaries for Company personnel and outside consultants, related to the development of new products, significant enhancements to existing products, and the portion of costs of development of internal-use software required to be expensed. Research and development costs are charged to operations as incurred with the exception of those software development costs that may qualify for capitalization. The Company incurred research and development costs in the amount of $579,000 and $379,000 in the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

 

Debt Issue Costs

 

Debt issue costs related to long-term debt are capitalized and amortized over the term of the related debt using the effective interest method.

 

Income Taxes

 

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are determined based on temporary differences between financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities, operating loss, and tax credit carryforwards, and are measured using the enacted income tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to be recovered or settled.  Realization of certain deferred income tax assets is dependent upon generating sufficient taxable income in the appropriate jurisdiction.  The Company records a valuation allowance to reduce deferred income tax assets to amounts that are more likely than not to be realized.  The initial recording and any subsequent changes to valuation allowances are based on a number of factors (positive and negative evidence).  The Company considers its actual historical results to have a stronger weight than other, more subjective, indicators when considering whether to establish or reduce a valuation allowance.

 

The Company continually evaluates its uncertain income tax positions and may record a liability for any unrecognized tax benefits resulting from uncertain income tax positions taken or expected to be taken in an income tax return.  Estimated interest and penalties are recorded as a component of interest expense and other expense, respectively.

 

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Because tax laws are complex and subject to different interpretations, significant judgment is required.  As a result, the Company makes certain estimates and assumptions in: (1) calculating its income tax expense, deferred tax assets, and deferred tax liabilities; (2) determining any valuation allowance recorded against deferred tax assets; and (3) evaluating the amount of unrecognized tax benefits, as well as the interest and penalties related to such uncertain tax positions.  The Company’s estimates and assumptions may differ significantly from tax benefits ultimately realized.

 

Net Loss per Share

 

Basic net loss per share is calculated by dividing the net loss attributable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding in the period.  Diluted loss per share takes into consideration common shares outstanding (computed under basic loss per share) and potentially dilutive securities.  For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, outstanding stock options, warrants and convertible debt are antidilutive because of net losses, and as such, their effect has not been included in the calculation of diluted net loss per share.  Common shares issuable are considered outstanding as of the original approval date for purposes of earnings per share computations.

 

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), as defined, includes net income (loss), foreign currency translation adjustment, and all changes in equity (net assets) during a period from non-owner sources.  To date, the Company has not had any significant transactions that are required to be reported in other comprehensive income (loss), except for foreign currency translation adjustments.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the fiscal year.  The Company makes estimates for, among other items, useful lives for depreciation and amortization, determination of future cash flows associated with impairment testing for long-lived assets, determination of the fair value of stock options and warrants, valuation allowance for deferred tax assets, allowances for doubtful accounts, and potential income tax assessments and other contingencies.  The Company bases its estimates on historical experience, current conditions, and other assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances.  Actual results could differ from those estimates and assumptions.

 

Financial Instruments

 

The carrying amounts of our financial assets and liabilities such as cash, current accounts receivable and accounts payable approximate their fair values based on level 1 inputs in the fair value hierarchy because of the short maturity of these instruments. Due to the conversion features and other terms, it is not practical to estimate the fair value of amounts due to related parties and long term debt.

 

Share-Based Compensation

 

The Company accounts for share-based awards at fair value on date of grant and recognizes compensation over the service period for awards expected to vest.  The fair value of stock options is determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which includes subjective judgements about the expected life of the awards, forfeiture rates and stock price volatility. The Company issues new shares of common stock to satisfy exercises and vesting of awards, granted under our stock plans.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

 

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The updated standard will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective and permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. In August 2015, the FASB issued an update to defer the effective date of this update by one year. The updated standard becomes effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, but allows the Company to adopt the standard one year earlier if it so chooses. The Company has not yet selected a transition method and is currently evaluating the effect that the updated standard will have on its Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

 

In November 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2015-17, Income Taxes – Balance Sheet Reclassification of Deferred Taxes (Topic 740).  This ASU requires that deferred tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in a classified statement of financial position.  The current requirement that deferred tax liabilities and assets of a tax-paying component of an entity be offset and presented as a single amount is not affected by the amendments in this update.  The amendments in this update are effective for financial statements issued for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods.  Early adoption is permitted and the amendments may be applied either prospectively to all deferred tax liabilities and assets or retrospectively to all periods presented.   

 

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-03, Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs, which amends ASC 835-30, Interest – Imputation of Interest. This ASU requires that debt issuance costs related to borrowings be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the borrowing. This treatment is consistent with debt discounts. The ASU does not affect the amount or timing of expenses for debt issuance costs. The effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 and will be applied retrospectively. The adoption will not have a material effect on the company's consolidated financial statements.

 

In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-15, Presentation and Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with Line-of-Credit Arrangements, which amends ASC 835-30, Interest – Imputation of Interest. This ASU clarifies the presentation and subsequent measurement of debt issuance costs associated with lines of credit. These costs may be presented as an asset and amortized ratably over the term of the line of credit arrangement, regardless of whether there are outstanding borrowings on the arrangement. The effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 and will be applied retrospectively. The adoption will not have a material effect on the company's consolidated financial statements.

 

In 2015, the FASB issued new guidance related to consolidations. The new standard amends the guidelines for determining whether certain legal entities should be consolidated and reduces the number of consolidation models. The new standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. Early adoption is permitted. We are evaluating the impact, if any, of adopting this new accounting guidance on our consolidated financial statements.

 

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Note 3.  Suzhou Aishuo Network Information Co. Ltd.

 

The Company has control of a Chinese entity Suzhou Aishuo Network Information Co. Ltd. (“AISHOU”) through various contractual arrangements in place. As a result of this control, one hundred percent of the results of operations, assets, liabilities and cash flows of AISHUO have been consolidated in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

Summarized assets, liabilities and results of operations of AISHOU are as follows:

  

   December 31   December 31 
   2015   2014 
         
Assets  $43    3 
Intercompany receivables/(payables)   (123)   151  
Other liabilities   (60)   -  
Revenue   56    -  
Net loss   (286)   (8 ) 

 

Note 4.  Property and Equipment, net

 

Property and equipment consist of the following: (in thousands)

 

   December 31   December 31 
   2015   2014 
         
Leasehold improvements  $-   $265 
Motor vehicle   -    120 
Equipment   291    348 
    291    733 
Less accumulated depreciation   (195)   (521)
           
Property and equipment, net  $96   $212 

 

Note 5.  Intangible Assets

 

Intangible assets consist primarily of software development costs and customer and reseller relationships which are amortized over the estimated useful life, generally on a straight-line basis with the exception of customer relationships, which are generally amortized over the greater of straight-line or the related asset’s pattern of economic benefit. (in thousands)

 

   December 31   December 31 
   2015   2014 
         
Horizon software  $17,879   $16,936 
ZTEsoft Telecom software   469    495 
Contractual relationships   885    885 
    19,233    18,316 
Less accumulated amortization   (9,410)   (7,356)
           
Intangible assets, net  $9,823   $10,960 

 

Amortization of intangible assets for each of the next five years is estimated to be $2,000,000 per year

 

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Note 6.  Long-term Debt

 

Long – term liabilities consist of the following (in thousands)

 

   December 31   December 31 
   2015   2014 
         
Vehicle loan  $-   $32 
Equipment loan   5    15 
Office term loan   -    134 
    5    181 
Less current portion   (5)   (73)
           
Balance  $-   $108 

 

During the year ended December 31, 2015 the Company negotiated early settlement of the Office and vehicle term loan balances. As a result a gain of $32,000 was recorded.

 

Note 7.  Convertible Debenture

 

In December 2014, the Company closed a private placement of $3,500,000 under Regulation S whereby we issued to an investor a convertible debenture that is convertible into 1,555,556 shares of Common Stock, Class C Warrant to purchase 388,889 shares of Common Stock, Class D Warrant to purchase 388,889 shares of Common Stock and the potential for performance warrants. The unsecured convertible debenture is for a term of three years from the date of issue and has an interest rate of 8% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears in either cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock. The Company has the right to repurchase the convertible debenture upon notice at any time after the first twelve months.

 

The Class C and Class D warrants have a term of four years and are each entitled to purchase one-fourth of a share of common stock. In total the Company issued 388,889 Class C warrants and 388,889 Class D warrants.

 

Performance Warrants associated with the convertible debenture were potentially issuable and exercisable based on the Company’s annual reported subscriber numbers, twenty four (24) months after December 22, 2014, as is reflected in our 2014 Form 10-K. In the first quarter of 2016 the Company announced it has achieved the required number subscriber downloads and therefore the additional performance warrants are not issuable by the Company.

 

Proceeds received in 2014 from the convertible debentures were allocated between the convertible debenture and warrants based on their relative fair values. The resulting discount for the warrants is amortized using the effective interest method over the life of the debentures. The relative fair value of Class C and Class D warrants resulted in a discount of $598,500 at the date of issuance. After allocating a portion of the proceeds to the warrants, the effective conversion price of the convertible debentures was determined to result in a beneficial conversion feature. The beneficial conversion feature has a relative fair value of $302,994 at the date of issuance and is being amortized over the life of the convertible debenture. The beneficial conversion feature discount is amortized using the effective interest method over the life of the debentures. During the year ended December 31, 2015 amortization of the debt discount in the amount of $199,233 and the amortization of the beneficial conversion feature in the amount of $100,980 are included in interest expense in the consolidated statement of operations.

 

A total of 1,555,556 shares of common stock have been reserved for the potential conversion of the convertible debenture.

 

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Note 8.  Related-Party Transactions

 

Amounts due to related parties include the following: (in thousands)

 

   December 31   December 31 
   2015   2014 
         
Loans due to stockholders (current and former officers and directors)          
Due within one year  $-   $600 
Long-term   2,354    2,598 
   $2,354   $3,198 

 

The balance of related party debt outstanding as at December 31, 2015 of $2,354,000 matures on April 1, 2017 and is interest free (2014: 0.21%)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2015 the Company entered into a sales contract, with a customer (Horizon Latin America) in which the Company holds a minority ownership interest. The customer purchased perpetual software license, requiring initial payments of $500,000, which has been recognized as revenue in the year ended December 31, 2015. The Company owns a cost based investment interest of 19% in the customer with no voting rights or board representation therein.

 

Note 9.  Share Capital

 

Preferred Stock

 

The Company’s authorized capital includes 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock of $0.0001 par value.  The designation of rights including voting powers, preferences, and restrictions shall be determined by the Board of Directors before the issuance of any shares.

 

On July 21, 2014 the Company completed a private placement of 170,940 shares of mandatorily convertible Series A Preferred Stock that also included 100,000 Class B warrants, each warrant convertible to one share of common stock at an exercise price of $4 per share. The net proceeds of the offering were $982,000 after deducting offering costs.

 

The holders of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive cumulative dividends during a period of twenty-four (24) months from and after the Issuance Date (the “Dividend Period”). During the Dividend Period for each outstanding share of Series Preferred Stock, dividends shall be payable quarterly in cash, at the rate of 10% per annum on or before each ninety (90) day period following the Issuance Date (each a “Dividend Payment Date”), with the first Dividend Payment Date to occur promptly following the three month period following the Issuance Date, and continuing until the end of the Dividend Period. Following the expiration of the Dividend Period, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to any additional dividend payment or coupon rate.

 

Shares of Series A Preferred Stock are convertible in whole or in part, at the option of the holders, into shares of common stock at $5.85 per share prior to the Maturity, and all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall automatically convert to shares of common stock upon Maturity, provided however, at no time may holders convert shares of Series A Preferred Stock if the number of shares of common stock to be issued pursuant to such conversion would cause the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by such holder and its affiliates to exceed 9.99% of the then issued and outstanding shares of common stock outstanding at such time, unless the holder provides us with a waiver notice in such form and with such content specified in the Series A Certificate of Designation.

 

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Shares of Series A Preferred Stock are redeemable, at the option of the holders commencing any time after 12 months from and after the closing at a price equal to the original purchase price plus all accrued but unpaid dividends. In the event that the Company completes a financing of $10 million or greater prior to Maturity, the Series A Preferred Stock will be redeemed at a price equal to the original purchase price plus all accrued but unpaid dividends.

 

170,940 shares of Series A preferred stock are issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2015.

 

Mandatorily Redeemable Preferred Shares (Deferred Stock)

 

The Company’s subsidiary One Horizon Group Plc (“OHG”) has in issue 50,000 shares of deferred stock, par value of £1.These shares are non-voting, non-participating,  redeemable and have been presented as a long-term liability.

 

Common Stock

 

The Company is authorized to issue 200 million shares of common stock, par value of $0.0001.

 

On August 10, 2015, in connection with an Underwriting Agreement dated August 4, 2015 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Aegis Capital Corp. (“Aegis”), as representative of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), the Company closed a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 1,714,286 shares of Common Stock, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 857,143 shares of Common Stock at a combined offering price of $1.75 per share and accompanying warrants. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters exercised an option to purchase 151,928 additional shares of Common Stock and 75,964 additional warrants. The Company allocated $2.5 million of the proceeds of the common stock and $0.8 million to the warrants to purchase common stock. This allocation was based on the relative fair value of each security on the date of issuance.

 

The warrants offered have a per share exercise price of $2.50 (subject to adjustment in the event of certain stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications or similar events affecting our Common Stock and also upon any distributions of assets, including cash, stock or other property to our stockholders), are exercisable immediately and will expire three years from the date of issuance. Subject to applicable laws, the warrants may be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without the Company’s consent.

  

During the year ended December 31, 2014, the Company:

 

· issued 15,000 shares of common stock for services received with a fair value of $64,500.
· issued 25,000 shares of common stock for services received, in connection with the $1 million private placement, with a fair value of $107,500

· issued 75,000 shares of common stock for services received in the future with a fair value of $322,500
· issued 246,000 shares of common stock in settlement of amounts owing of $553,500

  

Stock Purchase Warrants

 

At December 31, 2015, the Company had reserved 3,294,746 shares of its common stock for the following outstanding warrants:

 

Number of Warrants   Exercise Price   Expiry
         
 116,760   $0.86   no expiry date
 1,209,675    4.25   January 2019
 100,000    4.00   July 2016
 60,000    6.55   December 2015
 68,850    2.25   December 2018
 403,786    3.00   December 2018
 402,568    3.50   December 2018
 857,143    2.50   August 2018
 75,964    2.50   September 2018

 

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There were 933,107 warrants issued and none exercised during the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

If, at the time of exercise of warrants issued pursuant to the financing of August 2015, wherein a total of 933,107 warrants were issued, that the shares issued upon exercise are not able to be included in a registration statement then the holder may request that the warrants so exercised be done on a cashless basis.

 

Note 10.  Stock-Based Compensation

 

The shareholders approved a stock option plan on August 6, 2013, the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan. This stock option plan is for the issuance of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance awards, dividend equivalents, cash bonuses and other stock-based awards to employees, directors and consultants of the Company.

 

There are 3,000,000 shares of common stock available for granting awards under the plan. Each year, commencing 2014, until 2016, the number of shares of common stock available for granting awards shall be increased by the lesser of 1,000,000 shares of common stock and 5% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2014 the Company issued options to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan. The options become fully vested on January 15, 2017 and are exercisable, at an exercise price of $4.54 per common share, to January 15, 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2015 the Company issued options to purchase 564,000 shares of common stock under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan. These options become fully vested on May 12, 2018 and are exercisable, at an exercise price of $1.09 per common share, between May 12, 2015 and May 12, 2025. On both January 1, 2014 and 2015 the number of shares available for granting awards under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan was increased by 1,000,000 shares.

 

A summary of the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan as of December 31, 2015, is as follows:

 

       Weighted
Average
 
   Number of
Options
   Exercise
Price
 
         
Outstanding at December 31, 2013   -    - 
Options issued   500,000    4.54 
Outstanding at December 31, 2014   500,000   $4.54 
Options issued   564,000    1.09 
Options forfeited   (120,000)   4.54 
Outstanding at December 31, 2015   944,000   $2.48 

 

The grant date fair value of these options, using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, was estimated to be $2,576,000. This expense, less an estimated forfeiture rate of 30%, is being recognized over the 3 year vesting periods. The amount of $596,000 and $516,000 has been recognized during the year ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 respectively. As of December 31, 2015 there was unrecognized compensation expense of approximately $706,000 to be recognized over the remaining vesting periods.

 

For the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan there were 564,000 options issued and 120,000 were forfeited and none were exercised during the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

 A summary of the Company’s other stock options as of December 31, 2015, is as follows:

 

       Weighted
Average
 
   Number of
Options
   Exercise
Price
 
         
Outstanding at December 31, 2013   584,650    0.53 
Options forfeited   -    - 
Outstanding at December 31, 2014   584,650   $0.53 
Options issued   291,900    0.53 
Options forfeited   (850)   0.51 
Outstanding at December 31, 2015   875,700   $0.53 

 

The grant date fair value of the options issued in 2015, using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, is estimated to be $255,000. This expense is being recognized over the 2 year vesting period. The amount of $64,000 and $nil has been recognized during the year ended December 31, 2015 and the year ended December 31, 2014 respectively. As at December 31, 2015 there was unrecognized compensation expense of approximately $191,000 to be recognized over the remaining vesting period.

 

There were 291,900 options issued, no options exercised and 850 options were forfeited during the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

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The following table summarizes stock options outstanding at December 31, 2015:

 

    Number   Average   Number   Intrinsic 
    Outstanding   Remaining   Exercisable   Value 
    at   Contractual   at   at 
    December 31,   Life   December 31,   December 31, 
Exercise Price   2015   (Years)   2015   2015 
$0.53    291,900    4.50    291,900   $183,987 
 0.53    291,900    6.50    291,900    183,987 
 0.53    291,900    9.75    -    - 
 4.54    380,000    8.00    -    - 
 1.09    564,000    9.50    -    - 

 

At December 31, 2015, 5,875,700 shares of common stock were reserved for all outstanding options and future commitments under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

The fair value of each option granted in 2015 is estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The assumptions used in calculating the fair value of the options granted were: risk-free interest rate of 2.5%, a 3 year expected life, a dividend yield of 0.0%, and a stock price volatility factor of 95%

 

The fair value of each option granted in 2014 is estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The assumptions used in calculating the fair value of the options granted were: risk-free interest rate of 2.5%, a 2 year expected life, a dividend yield of 0.0%, and a stock price volatility factor of 123%

 

Note 11.  Income Taxes

Income tax benefit of $20,000 and $210,000 in 2015 and 2014, respectively, is recognized for the impact of deferred tax assets and liabilities, which represent consequences of events that have been recognized differently in the financial statements under GAAP than for tax purposes. The difference between the U.S. statutory federal tax rate of 34% in 2015 and 2014 and the provision for income tax recorded by the Company is primarily attributable to the change in the Company’s valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets and to a lesser extent to the tax rate differential on losses in foreign countries.

 

Loss from operations before income taxes consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

   December 31,   December 31, 
   2015   2014 
United States  $(2,281)  $(1,646)
           
International   (8,663)   (533)
Total  $(10,944)  $(2,179)

  

As of December 31, 2015, the Company had federal net operating losses of $3.5 million available for future deduction from taxable income derived in the United States. The Company’s United Kingdom subsidiary has non-capital losses of approximately $13.3 million available for future deductions from taxable income derived in the United Kingdom, which do not expire. The potential benefit of net operating loss carryforwards has not been recognized in the combined financial statements since the Company cannot determine that it is more likely than not that such benefit will be utilized in future years. The tax years 2006 through 2014 remain open to examination by federal authorities and other jurisdictions in which the Company operates namely United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ireland, China and Hong Kong. The components of the net deferred tax liability and the amount of the valuation allowance are as follows: (in thousands)

 

   December 31 
   2015   2014 
Deferred tax assets (liabilities)          
Net operating loss carryforwards - United States  $1,205   $829 
Net operating loss carryforwards - International   3,322    3,249 
Valuation allowance   (4,527)   (4,078)
Net deferred tax liabilities  $-   $- 

 

The increase in the valuation allowance was $449,000 for the year ended December 31, 2015 and $646,000 for the year ended December 31, 2014.

 

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Note 12.  Commitments and Contingencies

 

Contractual Commitments

 

The Company incurred total rent expense of $86,000 and $100,000, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014.

 

Minimum contractual commitments, as of December 31, 2015, is as follows:

 

   Operating   Long-term 
   leases   Financing 
         
2016  $23,000   $5,000 
2017   -    - 
2018   -    - 

 

Legal Proceedings

 

In 2012, we sold certain former subsidiaries engaged in provision of satellite service in 2012 to Broadband Satellite Services (“BSS”), a company incorporated under laws of England and Wales. Horizon Globex, a company incorporated in Switzerland and a subsidiary of us, had provided these subsidiary companies with software and IT services.  In connection with its acquisition of our former subsidiary companies, BSS entered into three agreements with Horizon Globex pursuant to which BSS continued to use Horizon Globex to supply software and IT services.  Notwithstanding the fact that Horizon Globex has provided such ongoing software and IT services, BSS has failed to pay our fees pursuant to the agreements.  As a result, on December 23, 2014, we initiated legal proceedings in the High Court, Queens Bench Division, Commercial Court No. 2014 folio 1560 against BSS in the United Kingdom to collect such fees in the amount of $640,000.  Subsequently, BSS asserted counter claims in the amount of $5.8 million, alleging among other claims, civil fraud in connection with the sale of subsidiary companies.   Based on the timing of these claims, which were never raised until we filed our action against BSS, it is our position that these claims are specious and represent nothing more than an attempt to improve BSS's negotiating position with regard to our legitimate claims against it.   As a result, we plan to continue to carry out our claims against BSS to the fullest extent possible and to defend BSS's counter-claims vigorously.  We note further that several of BSS's counter claims may be time barred by applicable sections of the contracts and plan to assert the same as an affirmative defense to such counter claim. Notwithstanding our views with regard to our claims against BSS and BSS's counterclaims, litigation is by its nature unpredictable and therefore we cannot guarantee with certainty the outcome of our dispute with BSS.

 

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Note 13. Segment Information

 

The Company has two business segments, both of which involve the development and licensing of software for mobile VoIP. One for business to business line and one for business to consumer line, primarily represented by Aishuo for 2015 and 2014 activity in the business to consumer line is not material for separate segment presentation.

 

The Company’s revenues were generated in the following geographic areas:

 

   2015   2014 
China  $57,000   $0 
Rest of Asia  $900,000   $3,700,000 
Europe and Russia  $25,000   $800,000 
The Americas  $550,000   $600,000 

 

Note 14.  Subsequent Event

 

On March 2, 2016, the Company received a written alert from Nasdaq Listing Qualifications that our closing bid price for the last 30 consecutive business days was less than $1.00 per share. As a result the Company is below the continued listing requirement to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a). However, Nasdaq Listing Rule 581(c)(3)(A) provides us a compliance period of 180 calendar days to regain compliance. If at any time during this 180 day period the closing bid price is at least $1.00 for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days, we will regain compliance.

 

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