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Originally Posted by lucevans

With Phorm's stock croaking on AIM, the small investors are trying to talk it back up....

Quote from Carol & Son over on iii:

"Small volumes speak rather loudly to people dealing in even smaller volumes and this share isn't being traded enough to get an accurate picture of the real market value. There's more to this than the UK market - and enough cash and equivalents to keep it ticking over. Worry though is the Charles Stanley "research" showing forecast of revenues from Germany and Italy. In my view they need to look to Eastern markets where perceived privacy is less of an issue. Also US looks favourable. The board always said UK was a market tester, but Germany is even more privacy focussed, with scars of the Cold War hanging over the East and so it appears a very privacy-focussed legal framework."

It sounds as if the message that the UK won't take this lying down is starting to get through to Phorm's investors. They're beginning to talk about other countries - a tacit admission that the "pilot study" in the UK is failing even before it's got off the ground? I'd like to think so

I always find it fascinating that otherwise decent, rational people check their conscience at the door when they go shopping for shares. It never ceases to amaze me that people living in a democracy feel no shame openly talking about infringing individuals' human right to privacy for commercial gain; "Hey, if it won't fly in the UK, let's do it somewhere else instead. Who's got a reputation for trampling their citizens' rights? Eastern Europe. Yeah, let's do it to them instead..."

Anyone got friends in phorms new target markets that they can give an early "heads up" to?

Perhaps contacts in the national press of those countries?