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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-K/A

 

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

 

For the fiscal year ended: December 31, 2011

 

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

 

For the transition period from _________________ to _________________

 

Commission File Number: 000-53640

__________________________

 

THWAPR, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada

26-1359430

(State or other
jurisdiction of
incorporation or
organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

410 S. Rampart Blvd. Ste. 390

Las Vegas, NV 89145

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(702) 726-6820

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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

 

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

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Sections 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 ¨ No x

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, 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 x No ¨

 

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 definitions of larger accelerated filer,” accelerated filer” and smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer ¨ Accelerated filer ¨ Non-accelerated filer ¨ Smaller reporting company x
  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

 

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

 

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s common stock at April 15, 2012 was 59,094,129.

 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

 

None.

 

  

 
 

 

INDEX

 

    Page
    Number
  PART I  
ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS 3
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS 15
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS 23
ITEM 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY 23
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEDINGS 24
     
  PART II  
     
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERES AND PURCHASE OF EQUITY SECURITIES 25
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA 26
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESRESULTS OF OPERATIONS 26
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK 32
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 32
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MATTERS 33
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES  
ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION  
     
  PART III  
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 35
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 38
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS 41
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS 43
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES 44
     
  PART IV  
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS 45
     
SIGNATURES 46

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

We are filing this Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2011 (“Amended Report”) to correct the beneficial ownership table, which inaccurately stated that the preferred stock was not convertible within the next 60 days. This amendment also includes an overview section to Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and a revised executive compensation section to include all information required by Regulation S-K. This Amended Report may not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Form 10-K on April 16, 2012 (the "Original Report"), nor does it modify or update those disclosures presented therein, except with regard to the modifications described in this Explanatory Note. As such, this Amended Report continues to speak as of April 16, 2012. Accordingly, this Amended Report should be read in conjunction with the Original Report and our other reports filed with the SEC subsequent to the filing of our Original Report, including any amendments to those filings.

 

In addition, pursuant to Rule 12b-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as a result of this Amended Report, the certifications pursuant to Section 302 and Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, filed and furnished, respectively, as exhibits to the Original Report have been re-executed and re-filed as of the date of this Amended Report and are included as exhibits hereto.

 

PART I

 

ITEM 1.DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

 

General

 

The Company is a development stage technology company the primary purpose of which is to develop systems, applications and software that allow users and brands to share pictures and video to mobile phone users regardless of device, platform or carrier. The Company developed a mobile video sharing platform that solves the problem of sending quality video content to and from mobile devices and from Websites to mobile devices.  Thwapr’s systems, applications and software allow users and brands to share pictures and video to mobile phone users regardless of device, platform or carrier. Additionally, the Company expects to enable users to easily capture and share pictures and videos on their phones with other mobile and desktop users and into social networks. The Company plans to derive revenues from banner and video advertising on its mobile and desktop websites and from mobile media messaging fees from brand sponsors and content owners. The Company also plans to sell premium services to users and brands via subscriptions and other fees. In December 2009, the Company launched a public beta test of its service.

 

The Company launched its service in 2010 under the name ThwaprTM, a trademark owned by the Company. Thwapr has been in the developmental stage since inception, and to date has not generated any meaningful revenues. The Company will not generate such revenues until a significant number of users and brands have signed up for and are using the service. The effort to enter into agreements with brand names” has been recently launched, and the Company’s ability to achieve its full revenue potential will depend in major part on have adequate working capital and personnel to launch a robust sales and marketing effort. The Company has recently suffered from a significant working capital shortage and, despite receiving certain funding from new management, will require a significant infusion of capital to achieve its business goals.

 

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The technology underlying Thwapr’s product is complex, a significant amount of development expense has gone into creating its service infrastructure. To minimize start-up costs, Thwapr only uses independent contractors for its activities and has no full-time employees and does not own any real estate or personal property. For its research and development and other operations, Thwapr employs independent contractors on a part-time and full-time basis. Thwapr expects to convert most of these independent contractors to employees over time as funding becomes available. However, there can be no assurance that such funding will become available or if so, that it will be on terms that are favorable to the Company and its stockholders.

 

Thwapr’s business is subject to several significant risks, any of which could materially adversely affect its business, operating results, financial condition and the actual outcome of matters as to which it makes forward-looking statements.  (See "Risk Factors.”)

 

Restructuring Plan

 

On March 23, 2012, the Company announced a restructuring plan as part of the Company’s efforts to achieve liquidity, avoid defaults under indebtedness that was due and payable, and satisfy approximately $740,000 of additional debt, accounts payable and accrued expense obligations owed to certain consultants, employees and vendors (the Payables”), in addition to seeking to raise additional working capital, the Company’s management has commenced to implement a debt restructuring plan (the Restructuring Plan”).

 

As an initial step, Messrs. Kevir Kang, an individual who previously loaned the Company an aggregate of $1,282,320, Ron Singh, the President and CEO of the Company, and Barry Hall, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, who previously advanced approximately $117,463 to the Company, each agreed to restructure the repayment of an aggregate of $1,664,847 (inclusive of accrued interest at 6% per annum) of cash loans and advances made to the Company. Under the terms of the Restructuring Plan, each of these creditors were issued 6% convertible secured promissory notes payable as to principal and accrued interest on June 30, 2013 (the New Notes”), in lieu of existing indebtedness, including the $200,000 Line of Credit which was payable on demand. The New Notes are secured as to repayment by a first priority lien on all of the Company’s assets and are convertible at any time by the holder(s) into shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0003 par value per share (the Common Stock”) at an initial conversion price of $0.015 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments.

 

In addition to the issuance of the New Notes, the Company’s management is seeking to negotiate separate settlement and deferred payment arrangements with certain of its creditors holding Company Payables, including Bruce Goldstein, the former President and CEO of the Company. In some cases, the Company intends to offer such creditors payment of 80% of their payables in the form of 6% Company notes payable on March 31, 2013, but subject to mandatory prepayment out of the net proceeds, if any, received by the Company in connection with any one or more future financings, to the extent of such net proceeds that are in excess of $1.5 million. The balance of such payment would be in the form of restricted shares of Company Common Stock which the Company proposes to issue at $0.015 per share.

 

Pursuant to private placements of Common Stock consummated in 2009 and 2010, the Company received a total of $2,963,500 in connection with the issuance and sale to 15 investors (none of whom is or was a direct or indirect officer, director or affiliate of the Company) of an aggregate of 5,686,532 shares of Common Stock at prices ranging from $0.417 to $0.833 per share. The Company intends to issue to such investors such additional make good” shares at a value of $0.015 per share during the second quarter of 2012. The Company intends to issue as many as 191,880,135 additional shares of Common Stock to such investors; provided, that no investor shall receive or accept such additional make good” shares that would cause such investor to beneficially own (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) more than 9.99% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock.

 

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Market Overview

 

While video and picture sharing on the Internet have been around for some time now, the task can be cumbersome and frustrating on most mobile devices. Multiple carriers and phone types with limited or no interoperability make this potentially powerful communications frustrating and difficult to use. Compounding this problem is the continuing trend for mobile phone equipment manufacturers to offer new phones with additional capabilities while the mobile phone carriers are enhancing their 3G (and soon 4G) networks to allow users to take advantage of these capabilities. Additionally, users wishing to share videos from a camera phone are at times required to synchronize their phones with a computer, making the process impossible while strictly mobile. As a result, the Company believes that the promise of real-time video sharing is rarely realized.

 

MMS. One possible solution is the use of MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) to send pictures and videos. MMS is a standard developed by the Open Mobile Alliance, an industry consortium. MMS can be an effective way to send pictures from one person to another, but as the mobile experience moves from photo to videos, and more importantly from point to point communication to social networks, MMS may begin to encounter substantial scalability issues. MMS approaches sending of rich media with a lowest common denominator to provide a video experience that will be common across handsets rather than providing the best possible experience a handset can provide. More specifically, MMS does not work consistently for video and relies on the H.263 legacy video compression method (which is no longer state of the art) which typically generates quarter screen resolution and which Thwapr believes is limited to just 176 x 144 pixels. Also, Thwapr’s internal testing between different types of handsets and carriers, showed that MMS delivery failures were frequent, in some cases approaching an 80% failure rate.

 

We also believe that MMS has other limitations, including the fact that

 

·MMS videos are generally limited in duration by file size;

 

·an MMS file is not stored in The Cloud” and therefore is generally not accessed easily from a personal computer;

 

·MMS video generally does not include location information, also called a geotag,” which we believe can significantly enhance the social networking experience;

 

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·although possible, the process to post an MMS picture or video to social networking devices is complicated for most users; and, the MMS standards cannot be changed easily, which means that even as new technologies are developed for MMS, there are likely to be delays in enhancement, implementation and evolution of the technology.

 

Video on Mobile Phones. Most major manufacturers of mobile phones either already have, or plan to, deliver handsets with video capabilities into the market, often with multiple tiers of devices with unique profiles. Dozens of companies have developed and continue to maintain databases that capture the differences between handsets, at significant expense. Some of the hardware-related mobile video considerations include:

 

·High resolution color screens that can render a quality video experience in portrait or landscape mode. Quality is determined by brightness, the ability to generate a high number of colors, and screen visibility indoors and outdoors. Screen size also impacts the overall user experience.

 

·Video tends to have little value without being accompanied by acceptable audio. A number of standard and proprietary audio codes have been developed to achieve maximum quality with minimum network impact at the lowest cost.

 

·Handset based clients are required for streamed and downloaded video content. The variety of media players — and associated DRM schemes — means phones can often only play formats that are supported by that player.

 

Smartphones. Smartphones have emerged as a fast growing sector of the market, blending multi-media, data and internet access and mobile communications. Additionally, Thwapr believes that the smartphone market, most of which by definition is media enabled, will be a growth market that will allow carriers to add a variety of revenue streams attached to data and multi-media messaging. Thwapr also believes that as smartphones continue to penetrate the market, demand for video sharing services will grow dramatically. Mobile phone equipment manufacturers continue to offer new phones with additional capabilities, while the mobile phone carriers will need to enhance their 3G and soon 4G networks to allow users to take advantage of these capabilities.

 

Video and Picture Sharing Approaches. The current market is highly fragmented, with many companies and organizations offering service for the mobile phone video and picture market. Generally, these services fall under five categories:

 

·MMS, which was described earlier.

 

·Mobile-to-Web, where mobile phone users post their pictures or videos on a Website to share with others. This category has a number of participants, and there is little product differentiation between and among them.

 

·Web-to-Mobile, when pictures or videos are posted on Websites and then shared to phones using an open or proprietary application. This category may require a relationship with a carrier and also has a number of participants.

 

·Proprietary Mobile-to-Mobile, where the user utilizes a proprietary application to send pictures or video from one phone to another. A carrier relationship may be required for this service.

 

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·Open Mobile-to-Mobile, where no proprietary application is required, nor is a carrier relationship.

 

While the entire market is nascent, Thwapr believes that leaders will emerge based on their brand recognition, number or users in their network, ease of use and financial resources. Additionally, many of these services are free while others charge a use or monthly fee. Others appear to be focused on an advertising based model. At this time, the size of the market is indeterminable but is generally thought to be growing and viable. Thwapr believes that the size and ultimate viability of the market will be based on the ease of use, cost to use, adoption rate of smartphones and the acceptance of brands that mobile is a viable advertisng medium.

 

Competition. The industry for services and applications related to mobile phones is extremely competitive and fragmented but includes several large companies with worldwide name brand recognition and substantial financial resources.   In attempting to attract users to its proposed service, Thwapr will be competing with online providers of audio and video entertainment, web-based video channels, social networking Internet sites and other similar businesses that compete for the general public’s business in this market. There can be no assurance that other companies will not develop technologies superior to Thwapr’s technology, that new technologies will not emerge that render Thwapr’s technology obsolete or that a competing company or companies will not be able to capture more market share than Thwapr due to name recognition and the expenditure of greater amounts for marketing and advertising. Moreover, such brands as YouTube and Facebook have already begun a move to the mobile market.

 

Other competitors include the following, segregated by their video and picture sharing approaches:

 

·Mobile-to-Web and Web-to-Mobile: Flixwagon, Kyte, Zannel, TwitVid, Shozu, Livestream, Vidly, Viddy, Vlix, and TwitPic.

 

·Mobile-to-Mobile: Qik, SocialCam

 

·Proprietary Mobile-to-Mobile: Movius, LiveCast, Aylus Networks, and Knocking Live.

 

·Mobile Distribution for B2B: Mogreet, VuClip, Kit Digital, NetBiscuits, Nelly Moser, and Ooyala Mobile.

 

Strategy

 

Thwapr is developing mobile media services directly for the mobile phone industry. In addition, Thwapr plans for these services to allow its customers to interact with a variety of other services available through the Internet, such as Facebook and Twitter. Today, Thwapr’s web browser application supports more than 300 mobile handsets with coverage planned to expand to thousands of handsets; the service also runs on Macs and PCs. An extended set of native mobile phone applications are planned to optimize the capture and sharing experience for Apple iPhone, iPad, Android, and Research in Motion OS, among others. Even though applications are expected to be available, there is no need to download or install any additional software to receive Thwapr media.

 

Thwapr continues to develop what it believes to be a seamless solution to the problem of video and picture sharing using mobile phones and devices. Thwapr’s service is expected to allow anyone with an Internet and picture or video enabled mobile phones to be able to both send and receive these images regardless of technical sophistication. In the future, the service capabilities may also allow Thwapr’s customers to create their own personal media social networks, where members can share and communicate through rich media mostly through their mobile phones. Thwapr’s goal is to become the leading service for sharing pictures and video to mobile phones - regardless of carrier or device - for brands and users alike.

 

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In summary, Thwapr plans for its service to provide the following innovations to its users:

 

·Mobile technology for sending photos and videos directly to friends’ mobile phones optimized for socialization and communication amongst users;

 

·Support the largest possible number of mobile carriers worldwide through Thwapr’s adaptive transcoding and delivery service, expecting to offer the ultimate in interoperability;

 

·Support most WAP enabled camera phones, video phones, smartphones and full-featured browsers for wide compatibility in video playback;

 

·Require no applications to download for playback (i.e., not limited to just smartphones or phones running a certain operating system) or on-deck solutions requiring a user to have a certain phone or operating system; and

 

·Target to deliver industry leading ease of use so that if you can send an SMS, you can create your own Thwapr channel.

 

Thwapr is expected to make it easy to share pictures or video on mobile devices and to distribute this content into social networks. End-users can share multimedia content with mobile family and friends, and brands can distribute content to mobile fans and consumers. Thwapr’s goal is to enable easy mobile picture and video sharing and conversations around content on a global basis supporting both consumers and brands.

 

Thwapr believes that mobile phones with text messaging and a data plan can automatically show a Thwapr picture or play a Thwapr video clip. Thwapr can serve instant-play video to a phone dynamically using its cloud-based servers. A Thwapr user can shoot or select a picture or video and email it to their Thwapr account. From Thwapr’s mobile browser interface, a user can select one or more people with whom to share the picture or video. Thwapr then sends the recipients a text message with a URL link in it, which enables the viewing of the picture or the video. Thwapr users may also upload media content from a desktop computer such as a Mac or PC and share the content to mobile users; likewise they can upload content from a native application platform ( i.e. , Apple iPhone OS) and share to those same users.

 

Recipients of the video or picture do not need to sign-up, login, or even know that their phone has a media player to receive media content. Thwapr determines mobile phone attributes that a user has based on a set of unique device detection processes. Thwapr deploys a distributed database regarding how to serve pictures or video to each kind of phone. Thwapr delivers different types of video experiences based on phone type and can deliver such photos to all phones regardless of phone type. For example, on an Apple iPhone, progressive download video is served; for a Blackberry Curve, streaming video is deployed; on a Motorola RAZR, a 3GP download file is utilized, and on a legacy flip phone, an animated GIF preview may be shown. Users who receive content can also post their Thwapr media into major social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.

 

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Smartphone Apps. One popular feature of Smartphones is the use of Apps.” Apps, short for application software, are designed to help a user perform specific tasks. Generally, Apps are downloaded by users from an app store directly on to their mobile phone. While the Thwapr service does not require an App, Thwapr understands the desirability of having one. To that end, Thwapr has partnered with a mobile app software developer to develop an App for the Apple iPhone. This App allows iPhone users to more easily and quickly capture pictures and video and share this media with contacts in the iPhone address book via the Thwapr service. The App provides additional features such a geotagging. In the future, Thwapr plans to have additional Apps developed for Smartphones using the Android, RIM and Symbian mobile phone operating systems. This will be subject to the availability of funding and the relative take up rates of the service on those platforms. As other Smartphones lead the market, Thapr intends to create an App for same, assuming funding is available.

 

Disadvantages of Thwapr. While Thwapr believes its approach to mobile video and picture sharing has many advantages over alternative approaches, it does also have some disadvantages. First, to use the Thwapr service, the user must purchase a data plan from their service provider. Second, Thwapr customers may be notified of their Thwapr service via text messaging. Should the user not have an unlimited data plan, this could result additional usage charges. Finally, the current Thwapr service is a multi-step process and until we develop applications for the service, some users may believe the process is too time consuming and complicated.

 

Revenues and Customers

 

General. Thwapr is expected to generate revenues from two primary sources: providing services to brands and content providers in which Thwapr is paid to distribute branded videos and branded user experience to mobile phones and through advertising and sponsor supported distribution of videos. Thwapr believes that it has the potential to achieve significant market penetration and growth since every user of the product, by virtue of inviting or sharing with their friends to be part of their personal media network, could generate many additional users for the Thwapr service. Thwapr believes that the branded business nature of its business model is essential to understanding the potentially explosive growth of its services user base. While this potential exists, Thwapr has not yet experienced the material growth of these branded relationships that evidences this potential without an experienced sales and marketing team. As a result, the assumption for viral user acquisition remains untested at this time.

 

Advertising. Thwapr’s customers are expected to drive the opportunity for advertising insertions. Thwapr is designing its service interface and workflow to maximize the use of ad insertions without becoming obtrusive. In the future, Thwapr may offer premium services for which it will be able to charge the user directly. Finally, Thwapr expects to partner with brands that will sponsor the delivery of pictures and videos and to charge a fee for delivering each unit of media. Thwapr’s business model is expected to be principally driven by the revenues of businesses and brands paying Thwapr for the distribution of video content to devices. Revenues from ads can help the large volume of page-views generated by its users; Thwapr’s unique ability to provide ad-insertions pre- and post-roll, automatically transcoded to play on each target mobile device will further enhance revenue. Additionally, Thwapr has identified sponsorship-advertising opportunities leveraging its ability to contextualize advertising around user profiles and geo-location information. This combination of video insertion and contextualized targeted advertising should make Thwapr compelling to advertisers targeting the mobile space. Thwapr also plans to offer premium services and ad-free services for monthly subscription levels. Thwapr is currently surveying the market to determine what can be charged for such services; however, its immediate focus is on ad-insertions.

 

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Thwapr is attempting to monetize its users by building revenue opportunities into its products; to wit, by sharing a video with a nonuser. In this way, the use can invite the nonuser to use Thwapr services. This viral model can potentially dramatically drive up the number of users, and in turn, the page-views activated by these users. The potential for this revenue stream exists, but Thwapr has not yet reached a stage where that potential has been validated. As a result, delivering on this potential contains significant risks, as discussed in the Risk Factors” section of this document.

 

Sales and Distribution. Thwapr intends to acquire new users of its service through strategic partnerships, targeted paid user acquisition campaigns and the viral growth derived from social media.

 

Thwapr intends to generate revenue from three sources: (a) recurring revenue from brands and content owners; (b) premium services; and (c) advertising.

 

We believe that there are five planned distribution channels for Thwapr’s services:

 

·Thwapr’s mobile and desktop website;

 

·Partner and sponsor websites that will offer a Share To Phone” button, which accesses Thwapr’s service and enables sending of partner content to partners users;

 

·Applications stores;

 

·Handset and carrier partnerships and bundling deals; and

 

·Third party applications which access Thwapr’s Application Programmers Interface (API).

 

Pending Business Relationship. Thwapr currently distributes content for a variety of prospective customers in a test or trial mode in a variety of vertical markets. This is a prototype service with no guarantee of future contracts or revenues. Thwapr is in various stages of discussion and negotiations with a variety of entertainment and sports brands to provide mobile video distribution service to these brands; the objective is to convert trial activity into permanent, revenue generating activity in 2012. At the date of this Report, no definitive agreements have been signed and there can be no guarantee that any such definitive agreements with any of these brands will be signed. Furthermore, Thwapr is exploring selling its products in foreign markets though joint venture, but to date, no such agreements have been entered into.

 

Third Party Developers. Thwapr also intends these services for third party developers: (a) a ”Share To Phone” button which allows any website to add Thwapr’s services and (b) an Application Programmers Interface (API), which will allow third party smartphone application developers to utilize our services from multiple platforms.

 

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Technology

 

Thwapr is designed to solve the problem of sharing multimedia content, particularly digital video from one mobile device user to one or many other mobile devices. To successfully support interoperable multimedia sharing, Thwapr’s platform must deal with a multitude of file formats, bit rates, screen resolutions, interaction modes, and audio and video codes, all of which create complexity within the framework of mobile video experience.

 

Transcoding. Transcoding is the decoding and re-encoding of digital content from one video format to another. Transcoding is often necessary to enable playback of media on different devices. Transcoding video is especially challenging because the sheer number of parameters can make devices that support the same video standards” incompatible. When you add the complexities layered on top of the devices from the carriers either for delivery, playback, interaction, and interoperability, the result is a very difficult technological challenge. To better understand this complexity, and technical challenges, consider the process to track video content from creation through the various paths that lead to consumption. Along the way, the content may need to be transcoded many times so that it may be distributed over various networks and to a wide assortment of devices.

 

Interoperability Issues. Significant interoperability issues begin with the variables associated with simple home video, involving NTSC or PAL, standard or widescreen video and competing next-generation high-definition formats. These issues increase dramatically when Internet video is added with codecs such as Windows Media Video (WMV) and VC-1, H.264, DivX, On2’s VP6, Sorenson 3 and Sorenson. Adding to this complexity is the ongoing evolution of Flash video. Additional challenges result from content providers and device manufacturers that optimize bit rates, resolutions and other parameters to balance video quality and download times. Finally, on the mobile side, the thousands of different handset configurations in use today force specific unique video formats. In simplest terms, a single piece of multimedia content might need to be transcoded to 100 variations ( i.e ., video bit rate, video frame rate, video picture resolution, compression algorithm, audio sampling rate, audio bit depth, streaming, progressive download, and download, among others) to guarantee playback across various mobile devices.

 

No service can mandate that all content must be produced in a specific standard if they are dealing with User Generated Content (UGC) or mobile media sharing. For UGC, there is a need to deal with the uncertainties associated with numerous end-user devices and multiple networks with differing technical infrastructures and speeds. The approach used by most content aggregators to deal with this issue is pre-transcoding”. That is, the content aggregator ingests content and transcodes it into all of the proper formats a priori; only then is the content distributed. This time-consuming process delays the posting of content and creates the need for massive amounts of hardware required for the processing of the ingested video.

 

A great deal of content is pre-transcoded. That is, content aggregators ingest content and transcode it into their chosen” format or formats; only then is the content is put online. This can delay the posting of content for access by end-users. However the challenge of transcoding takes on a new dimension when one considers the enormous volume of online content. Thwapr anticipates that volume will continue to skyrocket in the coming years as consumption increases. With many individual sites taking in thousands upon thousands of videos each day, there is a non-stop process, especially if the target is the myriad formats and codecs that target many of the top mobile phones. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the type and underlying formats of mobile phones are moving targets with a high velocity of change. Transcoding in this context is already a complex process.

 

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Transcoding Solution. The centerpiece of the Thwapr technology is a hybrid transcoding system. Thwapr’s transcoding technology can detect, in real-time, the handset, carrier and operating system of each destination device to determine mobile device attributes (video formats, screen size and type, browser, operating system) and then delivers videos and photos individualized for each user's device and carrier in real-time; this is combined with selective pre-transcoding for a small commonly used set of formats. The complete process utilizes hybrid transcoding and adaptive rendering, a differentiator versus other approaches to mobile media sharing. Thwapr anticipates that this seamless process will afford users a very easy to use service, while delivering the highest quality video and Web experience that such user's phone can support. Thwapr’s infrastructure integrates multiple databases, sourced commercially and via open source, and updated on a regular basis to determine optimization parameters for the transcoding process. Ultimately, thousands of devices and permutations of operating systems may have to be addressed in the Thwapr device optimization database. There can be no assurance that Thwapr will be able to service all of the mobile phones that will be introduced into the market.

 

In addition to a broadly accessible Web service, Thwapr plans to release native applications for major smartphone operating systems such as Apple iPhone OS, Android, and Research in Motion OS; these applications are expected to optimize the Thwapr user experience for capturing and sharing media.

 

Intellectual Property

 

Patents. Thwapr is developing unique intellectual property for its service. The centerpiece of the Thwapr technology is expected to be a process that detects mobile device attributes (video formats, image formats, video capabilities, screen size, screen type ( i.e. , touch vs. static), mobile web browser, operating system) and delivers videos and photos individualized for each user's device and carrier in real-time. This process is covered by a provisional patent filing and Thwapr is expecting to leverage that into a series of patent applications within the required statutory terms of the provisional patent filing. The Thwapr process utilizes hybrid transcoding and adaptive rendering, key differentiators versus other approaches to mobile media sharing. Hybrid transcoding combines pre-transcoding and real-time transcoding while adaptive rendering scales the end-user web experience from a simplistic HTML web browser on a flip phone all the way up to a large screen multi-touch modern WebKit browser. This seamless process makes it possible to achieve an extraordinary level of ease of use while delivering the highest quality video and Web experience that each user's phone can support.

 

Key topic areas for the Thwapr patents filed on September 21, 2010 include:

 

·Email / SMS methods to enable adaptive multimedia upload and playback on mobile devices;

 

·Hybrid transcoding via pre-transcoding and on-demand transcoding;

 

·Automatic video compositing of adaptively transcoded media;

 

·Client multimedia playback, device rendering, and device interaction attribute detection;

 

·Adaptive device rendering for multimedia playback optimization;

 

·Adaptive download and playback including segmented file structures; and

 

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·Social networks and communication models for adaptively transcoded and played back media.

 

In November 2011 certain amendments to the patent applications were filed as final. There can be no guarantee that Thwapr will be awarded a patent on any or all of the subject areas described above.

 

Thwapr will continue to evaluate its business benefits in pursuing patents in the future.  Thwapr currently protects all of its development work with confidentiality agreements with its engineers, employees and any outside contractors.  However, third parties may, in an unauthorized manner, attempt to use, copy or otherwise obtain and market or distribute Thwapr’s intellectual property or technology or otherwise develop a product with the same functionality as its service. Policing unauthorized use of intellectual property rights is difficult, and nearly impossible on a worldwide basis. Therefore, Thwapr cannot be certain that the steps it has taken or will take in the future will prevent misappropriation of its technology or intellectual property, particularly in foreign countries where it does business or where its service is sold or used, where the laws may not protect proprietary rights as fully as do the laws of the United States or where the enforcement of such laws is not common or effective.

 

Trademarks. Thwapr has filed and received approval for trademarks on its company name Thwapr” and its taglines Get Your Moments Moving,” and Share to PhoneMobilize and Monetize.” There can be no assurance that Thwapr will receive trademark protection on any future applications.

 

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Regulation

 

We will be subject to various federal, state and local laws that govern the conduct of our business, including state and local advertising, consumer protection, credit protection, licensing, and other labor and employment regulations.  We do not anticipate that the costs of complying with such regulations will have a material effect on our business or financial condition.

 

Employees

 

The Company currently has no employees.  The Company engages the services of independent contractors to assist it with management in developing our product and service offerings. We plan to engage full-time employees, including transferring some or all of these contractors to employee status, as our business develops and when we obtain sufficient working capital.   

 

Recent Developments

 

Line of Credit and Restructuring Purchase Agreement

 

On February 23, 2012, the Company entered into a line of credit and restructuring purchase agreement (the Credit Agreement”) with Ron Singh, the President and CEO of the Company.

 

Under the terms of the Credit Agreement, Mr. Singh agreed that he or his affiliates would make available to the Company a maximum $200,000 line of credit ("Line of Credit") to be funded in installments over the next four months. The amount of the advances under the line of credit would be used for working capital and to pay or reduce certain of the accounts payable and accrued expenses of the Company deemed to be critical by an executive committee of the board of directors, consisting of Mr. Singh and Barry Hall, the Chief Financial Officer. All advances under the Credit Agreement were evidenced by a 6% convertible secured note of the Company payable upon demand, and all advances were secured by a first lien and security interest on all of the Company’s assets. In addition, the holder of the secured note may at any time elect to convert the note into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to 75% of the 20 day volume weighted average trading price of the shares at the time of conversion. As at the date of this Report, an aggregate of $125,000.00 has been advanced to the Company under the Line of Credit.

 

Change in Management and Board of Directors

 

Under the terms of the Credit Agreement, a consulting agreement between the Company and Universal Management, an affiliate of Bruce Goldstein, the former President and CEO of the Company, was terminated. Mr. Singh became the President and CEO of the Company, replacing Mr. Goldstein. Mr. Goldstein has also resigned as a member of the board of directors. Concurrently, Robert Rosenblatt resigned from the Board of Directors for personal reasons.

 

Mr. Singh has been appointed to the Company’s board of directors as its Chairman. Two additional directors have also been appointed to the board of directors: Mr. Guriqbal Randhawa and Mr. Gurmit Brar. As a result, the Company’s board of directors now consists of five members.

 

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

 

The following list describes several risk factors related to the Company:

 

General Risk Factors

 

The following risk and uncertainties may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operation. Investors should carefully consider the risks described below before making an investment decision. The risks described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently believe are immaterial may also significantly impair our business operations. Our business could be harmed by any of these risks. If any of the following events occur, the trading price of our common stock could decline and investors may lose all or part of their investment.

 

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

This Strategic Plan of the Company, (the Plan”) contains forward-looking statements relating to events anticipated to happen in the future.  We base these forward-looking statements on the beliefs of our management, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to our management.  Forward-looking statements also may be included in other written and oral statements made or released by us.  You can identify forward-looking statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts.  The words "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "estimate," "project" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.  Forward-looking statements describe our expectations today of what we believe is most likely to occur or may be reasonably achievable in the future, but they do not predict or assure any future occurrence and may turn out to be wrong.  Forward-looking statements are subject to both known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are affected by inaccurate assumptions that we might have made or may make in the future.  Consequently, we cannot guarantee any forward-looking statement.  Actual future results may vary materially.  We do not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or future events or occurrences.  These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties about us, including, among other things:

 

·Our ability to market our products successfully to subscribers and content owners;

 

·Our ability to retain initial approvals and obtain final approvals to design products for major US carriers of our products;

 

·The possibility of unforeseen capital expenditures and other upfront investments required to deploy our technologies or to implement our business initiatives;

 

·Our ability to access markets and finance product development and operation;

 

·Consumer acceptance of our price plans and bundled offerings, if any;

 

·Additions or departures of key personnel;

 

·Competition, including the introduction of new products or services by our competitors;

 

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·Existing and future laws or regulations affecting our business and our ability to comply with these laws or regulations;

 

·Our reliance on the systems and provisioning processes of third party vendors;

 

·Technological innovations;

 

·The outcome of legal and regulatory proceedings;

 

·General economic and business conditions, both nationally and in the regions in which we operate; and

 

·Other factors described in this document, including those described in more detail below.

 

We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this document.

 

Risks Relating to Our Business and Industry

 

Our auditors have expressed uncertainty as to our ability to continue as a going concern.

 

Our independent registered public accounting firm expressed an opinion on our consolidated financial statements which includes an explanatory paragraph indicating that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern due to our recurring losses and our lack of liquidity. While we seek ways to continue to operate by securing additional financing resources or alliances or other partnership agreements, we do not at this time have any commitments or agreements that provide for additional capital resources. Our financial condition and the going concern may also make it more difficult for us to initiate and secure new customer relationships.

 

We have minimal revenues and have incurred and expect to continue to incur substantial losses.

 

Since inception through December 31, 2011, we have not generated any significant revenues. We have generated significant operating losses since our formation and expect to incur substantial losses and negative operating cash flows for the foreseeable future. For the year ended December 31, 2011, our net loss was $6,201,795 and our accumulated deficit, excluding non-cash charges, was $7,580,802. We anticipate that our existing cash and cash equivalents will not be sufficient to fund our short term business needs and we will need to generate revenue or receive additional investment in the Company to continue operations. In addition, our business operations may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate and we may incur significant additional costs and expenses. We expect that capital outlays and operating expenditures will continue to increase as we attempt to expand our infrastructure and development activities and we will require significant additional capital in order to implement our business plan and continue our operations. It is uncertain when or if we will generate revenues from product sales or the licensing of our technology. Accordingly, There can be no assurance that we will ever be able to achieve our sales goals or earn a profit.

 

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We require significant additional working capital to conduct our business and maintain our operations.

 

The current level of our revenues is not sufficient to finance our operations on a long-term basis.   At April 15, 2012, we had cash on hand of approximately $20,000 and outstanding indebtedness to vendors and other creditor (excluding $1,664,847 owed to holders of the New Notes) of approximately $905,000. In addition, the Company requires approximately $40,000 per month on an annualized basis for operating expenses to fund the costs associated with our financing activities; SEC reporting; legal and accounting expenses of being a public company; other general and administrative expenses; research and development, regulatory compliance, and distribution activities related to our Thwapr technology; and ongoing compensation of our consultants. Based on our current cash position, without additional financing we may not be able to pay our obligations past June 2012. The monthly cash requirement for operating expenses does not include any extraordinary items or expenditures.

 

Accordingly, if we do not receive additional financing by the end of the second quarter of 2012, we will likely be unable to continue testing our service and roll out our development plans. In such event we may no longer be able to pay our continuing obligations when due or to continue to operate our business.  As a result, we might be required to cease operations or seek protection under the U.S. bankruptcy laws.

 

We are a development stage company with a limited operating history on which to evaluate our business or base an investment decision.

 

Our business prospects are difficult to predict because of our limited operating history, early stage of development, unproven business strategy and unproven product. We are a development stage company that has yet to generate any revenue. Since our inception on March 14, 2007, it has been our business plan to design, develop, manufacture and distribute our Thwapr service. Thwapr has only been introduced in selected test markets and there is no guarantee that our product will be able to generate any significant revenues. As a development stage company, we face numerous risks and uncertainties in the competitive markets. In particular, we have not proven that we can:

 

·develop and maintain relationships with key customers and strategic partners that will be necessary to optimize the market value of our products and services;

 

·raise sufficient capital in the public and/or private markets; or

 

·respond effectively to competitive pressures.

 

If we are unable to accomplish these goals, our business is unlikely to succeed and you should consider our prospects in light of these risks, challenges and uncertainties.

 

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If we are unable to establish sales and marketing capabilities we may not be able to generate sales and product revenue.

 

We do not currently have an organization for the sales, marketing and distribution of our services. Our strategy is to enter into agreements or other arrangements with carriers to market our products and services. We need to develop and maintain strategic relationships with these entities in order for them to market our products and services to their end users. We expect to face severe competition in this effort from other companies vying for the same type of relationships with carriers. Some of these competitors may have a competitive advantage over us in obtaining agreements with carriers due to their size, reputation, relative financial stability or longer operating history. If we are unable to establish such relationships on terms that are favorable to us, or at all, we may not be able to penetrate the market on a scale required to become viable or profitable.

 

If we fail to raise additional capital, our ability to implement our business model and strategy could be compromised.

 

We have limited capital resources and operations. To date, our operations have been funded entirely from the proceeds from equity and debt financings. We expect to require substantial additional capital in the near future to develop and market new products, services and technologies. We currently do not have commitments for financing to meet our expected needs and we may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms acceptable to us, or at all. Even if we obtain financing for our near term operations and product development, we expect that we will require additional capital beyond the near term. If we are unable to raise capital when needed, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be materially adversely affected, and we could be forced to reduce or discontinue our operations.

 

If we borrow money to expand our business, the likelihood that investors may lose some or all of their investment may increase.

 

We anticipate that we may incur debt for financing our growth. Our ability to borrow funds will depend upon a number of factors, including the condition of the financial markets. If we receive debt financing, it will have priority in any liquidation over the claims of holders of our stockholders, which could increase the risk of loss of your investment in our common stock. In addition, our payment obligations with respect to any indebtedness could divert funds away from operations, marketing and product development efforts.

 

Our products and services are based on new and unproved technologies and are subject to the risks of failure inherent in the development of new products and services.

 

Because our products and services are and will be based on new technologies, they are subject to risks of failure that are particular to new technologies, including the possibility that:

 

·our new approaches will not result in any products or services that gain market acceptance;

 

·our products and services may unfavorably interact with other types of commonly used applications and services, thus restricting the circumstances in which they may be used;

 

·proprietary rights of third parties may preclude us from marketing a new product or service; or

 

·third parties may market superior or more cost-effective products or services.

 

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As a result, our activities may not result in any commercially viable products or services, which would harm our sales, revenue and financial condition.

 

We may face intense competition and expect competition to increase in the future, which could prohibit us from developing a customer base and generating revenue.

 

There are many companies who will compete directly with our planned products and services. These companies may already have an established market in our industry. Most of these companies have significantly greater financial and other resources than us and have been developing their products and services longer than we have been developing ours. Additionally, there are not significant barriers to entry in our industry and new companies may be created that will compete with us and other, more established companies who do not now directly compete with us, may choose to enter our markets and compete with us in the future.

 

Our business depends upon our ability to keep pace with the latest technological changes, and our failure to do so could make us less competitive in our industry .

The market for our products and services is characterized by rapid change and technological change, frequent new product innovations, changes in customer requirements and expectations and evolving industry standards. Products using new technologies or emerging industry standards could make our products and services less attractive. Furthermore, our competitors may have access to technology and strategic relationships not available to us, which may enable them to produce products of greater interest to consumers or at a more competitive cost. In addition, our competitors may have greater financial resources, greater experience in critical areas such as development, testing, marketing and sales, and proprietary rights that prevent us from developing certain technology without compensating them. Failure to respond in a timely and cost-effective way to technological developments in our markets may result in serious harm to our business and operating results. As a result, our success will depend, in part, on our ability to develop and market product and service offerings that respond in a timely manner to the technological advances available to our customers, evolving industry standards and changing preferences.

 

If our services developed for mobile devices do not gain widespread adoption by the devices’ users, we will not generate sales or substantial revenue and our financial condition will be adversely affected.

 

The commercial success of our future products and services will be dependent on their acceptance by potential customers. Our services are developed for mobile devices and may not be compelling to users due to a number of reasons, including, among others, competitors’ services, service failures, or our inability to adequately market our services. If we are unable to attract mobile device users to our services, we may be unsuccessful in attracting both advertisers and premium service subscribers to these services, which could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition and operating results.

 

Our services may experience quality problems from time to time that can result in decreased sales and operating margin.

 

We expect to provide a highly complex service that may contain defects in design and manufacture that may not enable our service to operate on all devices for which they are intended. There can be no assurance we will be able to detect and fix all defects in the products or services we provide. Failure to do so could result in lost revenue, harm to our reputation, and other expenses, and could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition and operating results.

 

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Major network failures could have an adverse effect on our business.

 

Major equipment failures, natural disasters, including severe weather, terrorist acts, acts of war, cyber attacks or other breaches of network or information technology security that affect third-party networks, transport facilities, communications switches, routers, microwave links, cell sites or other third-party equipment on which we rely, could cause major network failures and/or unusually high network traffic demands that could have a material adverse effect on our operations or our ability to provide service to our customers. These events could disrupt our operations, require significant resources to resolve, result in a loss of customers or impair our ability to attract new customers, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

 

If we experience significant service interruptions, which could require significant resources to resolve, it could result in a loss of customers or impair our ability to attract new customers, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

 

In addition, with the growth of wireless data services, enterprise data interfaces and Internet-based or Internet Protocol-enabled applications, wireless networks and devices are exposed to a greater degree to third-party data or applications over which we have less direct control. As a result, the network infrastructure and information systems on which we rely, as well as our customers’ wireless devices, may be subject to a wider array of potential security risks, including viruses and other types of computer-based attacks, which could cause lapses in our service or adversely affect the ability of our customers to access our service. Such lapses could have a material adverse effect on our business and our results of operations.

 

Concerns about health risks associated with wireless equipment may reduce the demand for our services.

 

Portable communications devices have been alleged to pose health risks, including cancer, due to radio frequency emissions from these devices. The actual or perceived risk of mobile communications devices could adversely affect us through a reduction in mobile communication devise users, thereby reducing potential users of our services.

 

If we are not able to adequately protect our intellectual property, we may not be able to compete effectively.

 

Our ability to compete depends in part upon the strength of our proprietary rights in our technologies, brands and content. We expect to rely on a combination of U.S. and foreign patents, copyrights, trademark, trade secret laws and license agreements to establish and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights. We have filed for certain patents on our core technology, however, to date no patents have been issued and there is no certainty that we will ever be issued patents protecting our intellectual property. The efforts we have taken and expect to take to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights may not be sufficient or effective at stopping unauthorized use of our intellectual property and proprietary rights. In addition, effective trademark, patent, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available or cost-effective in every country in which our services are made available. There may be instances where we are not able to fully protect or utilize our intellectual property in a manner that maximizes competitive advantage. If we are unable to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights from unauthorized use, the value of our products may be reduced, which could negatively impact our business. Our inability to obtain appropriate protections for our intellectual property may also allow competitors to enter our markets and produce or sell the same or similar products. In addition, protecting our intellectual property and other proprietary rights is expensive and diverts critical managerial resources. If we are otherwise unable to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, our business and financial results could be adversely affected.

 

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If we are forced to resort to legal proceedings to enforce our intellectual property rights, the proceedings could be burdensome and expensive. In addition, our proprietary rights could be at risk if we are unsuccessful in, or cannot afford to pursue, those proceedings. In addition, the possibility of extensive delays in the patent issuance process could effectively reduce the term during which a marketed product is protected by patents.

 

We may also need to obtain licenses to patents or other proprietary rights from third parties. We may not be able to obtain the licenses required under any patents or proprietary rights or they may not be available on acceptable terms. If we do not obtain required licenses, we may encounter delays in product development or find that the development, manufacture or sale of products requiring licenses could be foreclosed. We may, from time to time, support and collaborate in research conducted by universities and governmental research organizations. We may not be able to acquire exclusive rights to the inventions or technical information derived from these collaborations, and disputes may arise over rights in derivative or related research programs conducted by us or our collaborators.

 

A dispute concerning the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property or proprietary rights or the intellectual property or proprietary rights of others could be time consuming and costly and an unfavorable outcome could harm our business.

 

There is significant litigation in the telecommunications technology field regarding patents and other intellectual property rights. Other companies with greater financial and other resources than us have gone out of business from costs related to patent litigation and from losing a patent litigation. We may be exposed to future litigation by third parties based on claims that our technologies or activities infringe the intellectual property rights of others. Although we try to avoid infringement, there is the risk that we will use a patented technology owned or licensed by another person or entity and be sued for patent infringement or infringement of another party’s intellectual property or proprietary rights. If we or our products are found to infringe the intellectual property or proprietary rights of others, we may have to pay significant damages or be prevented from making, using, selling, or offering for sale or importing such products or services or from practicing methods that employ such intellectual property or proprietary rights.

 

Confidentiality agreements with employees and others may not adequately prevent disclosure of our trade secrets and other proprietary information.

 

Our success depends upon the skills, knowledge and experience of our technical personnel, our consultants and advisors as well as our licensors and contractors. Because we operate in a highly competitive field, we rely almost wholly on trade secrets to protect our proprietary technology and processes. However, trade secrets are difficult to protect. We enter into confidentiality and intellectual property assignment agreements with our corporate partners, employees, consultants, outside scientific collaborators, developers and other advisors. These agreements generally require that the receiving party keep confidential and not disclose to third parties confidential information developed by us during the course of the receiving party’s relationship with us. These agreements also generally provide that inventions conceived by the receiving party in the course of rendering services to us will be our exclusive property. However, these agreements may be breached and may not effectively assign intellectual property rights to us. Our trade secrets also could be independently discovered by competitors, in which case we would not be able to prevent use of such trade secrets by our competitors. The enforcement of a claim alleging that a party illegally obtained and was using our trade secrets could be difficult, expensive and time consuming and the outcome would be unpredictable. In addition, courts outside the United States may be less willing to protect trade secrets. The failure to obtain or maintain meaningful trade secret protection could adversely affect our competitive position.

 

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We grow our business to customers located in the United States as well as customers located outside of the United States as we intend, we expect to become subject to the risks arising from adverse changes in both domestic and global economic and political conditions. For example, the direction and relative strength of the United States and international economies remains uncertain due to softness in the housing markets, difficulties in the financial services sector and credit markets and continuing geopolitical uncertainties. If economic growth in the United States and other countries continue to slow, the demand for our customer’s products could decline, which would then decrease demand for our products. Furthermore, if economic conditions in the countries into which our customers sell their products continue to deteriorate, some of our customers may decide to postpone or delay certain development programs, which would then delay their need to purchase our products. This could result in a reduction in sales of our service or in a reduction in the growth of our service revenues. Any of these events would likely harm investors view of our business, our results of operations and financial condition.

 

Our business depends substantially on the continuing efforts of our executive officers and our ability to maintain a skilled labor force and our business may be severely disrupted if we lose their services.

 

Our future success depends substantially on the continued services of our executive officers. We do not maintain key man life insurance on any of our executive officers and directors. If one or more of our executive officers are unable or unwilling to continue in their present positions, we may not be able to replace them readily, if at all. Therefore, our business may be severely disrupted, and we may incur additional expenses to recruit and retain new officers. In addition, if any of our executives joins a competitor or forms a competing company, we may lose some of our customers.

 

If we are unable to attract, train and retain technical and financial personnel, our business may be materially and adversely affected.

 

Our future success depends, to a significant extent, on our ability to attract, train and retain technical and financial personnel. Recruiting and retaining capable personnel, particularly those with expertise in our chosen industries, are vital to our success. There is substantial competition for qualified technical and financial personnel, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to attract or retain our technical and financial personnel. If we are unable to attract and retain qualified employees, our business may be materially and adversely affected.

 

Litigation may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

From time to time in the normal course of our business operations, we may become subject to litigation that may result in liability material to our financial statements as a whole or may negatively affect our operating results if changes to our business operation are required. The cost to defend such litigation may be significant and may require a diversion of our resources. There also may be adverse publicity associated with litigation that could negatively affect customer perception of our business, regardless of whether the allegations are valid or whether we are ultimately found liable. As a result, litigation may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Corporate insiders or their affiliates may be able to exercise significant control matters requiring a vote of our stockholders and their interests may differ from the interests of our other stockholders.

 

On a fully diluted basis Directors and officers collectively own approximately 14.5% of our issued and outstanding common stock. In addition, one stockholder owned approximately 61.6% of our issued and outstanding common stock. As a result, these officers and directors and stockholder are able to exercise significant control over matters requiring approval by our stockholders. Matters that require the approval of our stockholders include the election of directors and the approval of mergers or other business combination transactions. Certain transactions are effectively not possible without the approval of these officers and directors and stockholder by virtue of their control over a majority of our outstanding shares, including, proxy contests, tender offers, open market purchase programs or other transactions that can give our stockholders the opportunity to realize a premium over the then-prevailing market prices for their shares of our common stock.

 

We incur significant increased costs as a public company and our management will be required to devote substantial time to new compliance initiatives.

 

As a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we would not incur if we were a private company. SEC rules and regulations impose heightened requirements on public companies, including requiring changes in corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives. We may also need to hire additional finance and administrative personnel to support our compliance requirements. Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial costs and make some activities more time-consuming.

 

We are required to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Our compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management effort.

 

ITEM 1B.UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

 

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 2.DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

 

The Company’s corporate office is located at 410 S. Rampart Blvd, Ste. 390, Las Vegas, NV. We currently rent approximately 200 square feet through a lease which expires July 2012 for rent $1,169 per month. Under the terms of the lease no rent is payable for June or July.

 

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ITEM 3.LEGAL PROCEDINGS

 

On March 27, 2012, Bruce Goldstein and Universal Management, Inc. ("Universal") filed a summons and complaint against the Company in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York. This suit is based on an alleged breach of contract concerning Mr. Goldstein's employment contract with the Company. Mr. Goldstein owns Universal, through which the Company engaged Goldstein to act as a consultant and later President and CEO of the Company. Mr. Goldstein seeks damages in excess of $225,000. The Company and Mr. Goldstein are in disagreement regarding the amounts owed him for past compensation. The Company also believes that it has substantial defense to Mr. Goldstein’s claims and intends to defend the suit vigorously. As this complaint was only recently served, the Company has not yet taken further action and is discussing its options with outside counsel.

 

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PART II

 

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

 

Since April 21, 2010 our common stock is currently quoted on the over-the-counter bulletin board under the symbol "THWI". The following table sets forth the range of high and low bid prices for our common stock during the periods indicated. The prices set forth below represent inter-dealer prices, which do not include retail mark-ups and markdowns, or any commission to the broker-dealer, and may not necessarily represent actual transactions. For the quarter ended March 31, 2012, the high and low common stock price was $0.06 and $0.01, respectively.

 

Year Ending December 30, 2011

 

Quarter Ended:  Common Stock 
   High   Low 
March 31, 2011  $1.31   $0.22 
June 30, 2011  $0.60   $0.16 
September 30, 2011  $0.32   $0.06 
December 31, 2011  $0.20   $0.03 

 

Year Ending December 30, 2010

 

Quarter Ended:  Common Stock 
   High   Low 
March 31, 2010   N/A    N/A 
June 30, 2010  $1.48   $1.40 
September 30, 2010  $1.70   $1.48 
December 31, 2010  $1.83   $1.72 

 

As of April 15, 2012, there were approximately 33 record holders of our common stock, which does not include common stock held in "nominee" or "street" name.

 

DIVIDENDS

 

We have never declared or paid a cash dividend on our common stock and do not anticipate declaring or paying cash dividends to shareholders in the foreseeable future.

 

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans.

 

The following provides information concerning compensation plans under which equity securities of the Company were authorized for issuance as of December 31, 2011:

  

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Plan Category  Number of Securities to be
Issued Upon Exercise of
Outstanding Options,
Warrants and Rights
   Weighted-Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding Options,
Warrants and Rights
   Number of Securities Remaining
Available for Future Issuance
Under Equity Compensation Plans
(Excluding Securities Reflected in
Column (a))
 
   (a)   (b)   (c ) 
Equity Compensation plans approved by security holders  -   -   - 
Equity Compensation plans not approved by security holders   36,000,000   $0.13    36,000,000 
Total   36,000,000   $0.13    36,000,000 

 

In October 2011 the Board of Directors adopted the Thwapr, Inc. Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan”) under which up to 72,000,000 million of common stock have been reserved for issuance. As of December 31, 2011, 36,000,000 options to purchase stock at $0.13 per share were outstanding and zero options were exercisable.

 

ITEM 6.SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

Not applicable.

 

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

 

The following discussion and analysis compares our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 to the same period in 2010. This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.

 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations. These statements are preceded by, followed by or include the words "believes," "could," "expects," "intends" "anticipates," or similar expressions. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements for many reasons including, but not limited to, product and service demand and acceptance, changes in technology, ability to raise capital, the availability of appropriate acquisition candidates and/or business partnerships, economic conditions, the impact of competition and pricing, capacity and supply constraints or difficulties, government regulation and other risks described in this report. Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, they relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made, and our future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements may not meet these expectations. We do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this document to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations, except as required by law.

 

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Overview

 

The Company is a development stage technology company the primary purpose of which is to develop systems, applications and software that allow users and brands to share pictures and video to mobile phone users regardless of device, platform or carrier. The Company developed a mobile video sharing platform that solves the problem of sending quality video content to and from mobile devices and from Websites to mobile devices.  Thwapr’s systems, applications and software allow users and brands to share pictures and video to mobile phone users regardless of device, platform or carrier. Additionally, the Company expects to enable users to easily capture and share pictures and videos on their phones with other mobile and desktop users and into social networks. The Company plans to derive revenues from banner and video advertising on its mobile and desktop websites and from mobile media messaging fees from brand sponsors and content owners. The Company also plans to sell premium services to users and brands via subscriptions and other fees. In December 2009, the Company launched a public beta test of its service.

 

To date, the Company has had very limited revenues and suffers from a severe working capital shortage and is actively seeking additional financing to provide it with the financial resources to market and commercialize its system and services both domestically and internationally. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in raising additional capital on terms attractive to it and its shareholders, if at all. Even if such capital becomes available, there can be no assurance that the Company will achieve commercial success with its products and services.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011 AS COMPARED TO 2010

 

Revenues, Cost of Revenues and Gross Loss

 

Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2011 were $33,338 compared to $4,492 in 2010 when the Company had one only begun conducting revenue generating activities at the end of the year. Revenues in 2011 and 2010 resulted from contracts with five and two customers, respectively.

 

Cost of Revenues for the year end December 31, 2011 were $197,838 compared to $16,271 in 2010. Cost of revenues are primarily fixed costs related to the hosting, transcoding and delivery of video to mobile phones as well as the Company’s proprietary short code used in text messaging users of our service. As the Company introduced its service the amount of fixed costs increased in order to accommodate a planned expansion in customers

 

As a result of the above the Company had a gross loss of $164,500 and $11,779 on its revenues for the years ended December 31 2011 and 2010, respectively.

 

Product Development Expenses

 

Product Development Expenses for the year ended December 31, 2011 decreased by 70.9% from $6,813.126 for the same period in 2010 to $1,983,024 in 2011. The decrease was mainly due to a reductions non-cash compensation expenses related to warrants issued to independent contractors, a reduction in fees paid to independent contractors as development activities slowed and a reduction in development supplies as a result of a shift of those expenses to Cost of Revenues.

 

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General and Administrative Expense

 

General and Administrative Expenses for the year ended December 31, 2011 decrease by 32.4% from $5,840,382 for the same period in 2010 to $3,950,966 in 2011. The primary reasons for the decrease were decreases of in non-cash compensation expenses professional fees for legal fees and marketing consulting. The decrease was partially offset by an increase in rent expense and insurance expense.

 

Loss from Operations

 

As a result of the foregoing factors we had a loss from operations of $6,098,490 for the year ended December 31, 2011, compared to an operating loss of $12,665,287 for the same period in 2010.

 

Net Loss

 

Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2011 was $6,201,796, an decrease of $6,479,981, or 51.1% from $12,681,777 for the same period in 2010. This decrease in net loss was primarily attributable to the decrease in the operating expenses described above. Also included in the loss for the year ended December 31, 2011 interest expense of $172,912 primarily attributable to a charge related to the conversion of notes payable to common stock and also for interest accrued on notes payable. This was partially offset by a change related to the change in derivative liability of $28,904 and other income of $43,198 related to forgiveness of debt. 

 

 

 LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

 

As of December 31, 2011, we had cash and cash equivalents of $8,083 and current liabilities of $2,147,337. Our cash needs are primarily for working capital to support our operations and develop our technology, products and services. We presently finance our operations through the private placement of equity and debt securities. As of the date of this report we do not have sufficient capital in order to launch our products and services, grow our customer base, increase revenue and expand our operations. As we have in the past, we rely on obtaining ongoing investments to maintain our business. We will consider debt or equity offerings or institutional borrowing as potential means of financing, however, there are no assurances that we will be successful or that we will obtain terms that are favorable to us.

 

On March 23, 2012 the Company announced a restructuring plan as part of the Company’s efforts to achieve liquidity, avoid defaults under indebtedness that was due and payable, and satisfy approximately $740,000 of additional debt, accounts payable and accrued expense obligations owed to certain consultants, employees and vendors (the “Payables ”), in addition to seeking to raise additional working capital, the Company’s management has commenced to implement a debt restructuring plan (the “Restructuring Plan”).

 

As an initial step, Messrs. Kevir Kang, an individual who previously loaned the Company an aggregate of $1,282,320, Ron Singh, the President and CEO of the Company, and Barry Hall, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, who previously advanced approximately $117,463 to the Company, each agreed to restructure the repayment of an aggregate of $1,664,847 (inclusive of accrued interest at 6% per annum) of cash loans and advances made to the Company. Under the terms of the Restructuring Plan, each of these creditors were issued 6% convertible secured promissory notes payable as to principal and accrued interest on June 30, 2013 (the New Notes ”), in lieu of existing indebtedness, including the $200,000 line of credit payable on demand. The New Notes are secured as to repayment by a first priority lien on all of the Company’s assets and are convertible at any time by the holder(s) into shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0003 par value per share (the Common Stock”) at an initial conversion price of $0.015 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments.

 

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In addition to the issuance of the New Notes, the Company’s management is seeking to negotiate separate settlement and deferred payment arrangements with certain of its creditors holding Company Payables, including Bruce Goldstein, the former President and CEO of the Company. In some cases, the Company intends to offer such creditors payment of 80% of their payables in the form of 6% Company notes payable on March 31, 2013, but subject to mandatory prepayment out of the net proceeds, if any, received by the Company in connection with any one or more future financings, to the extent of such net proceeds that are in excess of $1.5 million. The balance of such payment would be in the form of restricted shares of Company Common Stock which the Company proposes to issue at $0.015 per share.

 

Net cash used in operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2011 was $1,350,474 compared with net cash used in operating activities of $2,093,938 for the same period in 2010. Net cash used in operating activities for year ended December 31, 2011 was mainly due to net loss of $6,201,795, partially offset by non-cash expenses that did not affect cash flows of $4,292,088. Net cash used in operating activities for year ended December 31, 2010 was mainly due to net loss of $12,681,777, partially offset by non-cash expenses that did not affect cash flows of $10,219,941.

 

Net cash used in investing activities was $3,848 for year ended December 31, 2011, compared with $11,205 used in investing activities for the same period in 2010. Cash was used in investing activities in 2011 to purchase property, equipment.

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $1,356,768 for the year ended December 31, 2011, compared with $2,086,960 net cash provided by financing activities for the same period in 2010. Cash provided by financing activities during the year ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 resulted from proceeds from sales of our common stock and issuance of convertible notes.

 

FINANCING ACTIVITIES

 

During the year ended December 31, 2011 the Company sold unregistered common stock totaling $50,200. In each instance the sales price reflected the fair market value of the stock on the date of sale. We issued the shares in reliance on Section 506 of Regulation D and/or Regulation S of the Securities Act, and comparable exemptions for sales to "accredited" investors under state securities laws.  We used the net proceeds from these sales of common stock for general corporate purposes.

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2011, the Company issued six separate notes totaling $277,500 to a stockholder. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum. The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable one year from the date of issue in either restricted shares of common stock at a price agreeable to both parties at the time of conversion or cash.

 

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During the three months ended June 30, 2011, the Company issued three separate notes totaling $650,000 to two stockholders. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at the sole discretion of the note holder at a conversion price of $0.06 per share.  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable six months from the date of issue. The conversion feature is contingent upon the Company raising $4,000,000. The Company became in default on certain notes issued in the second quarter of 2011. One note holder elected to convert two notes totaling $100,000 to common stock in accordance with the terms of the notes.

 

During the three months ended September 30, 2011, the Company issued five separate notes totaling $268,500 to a stockholder. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at the sole discretion of the note holder at a conversion price of $0.06 per share.  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable six months from the date of issue. The conversion feature is contingent upon the Company raising $4,000,000.

 

During the three months ended December 31, 2011, the Company issued two separate notes totaling $91,000 to a stockholder. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at a price to be mutually agreed upon. Should the Company and the note holder not agree on a price, the note holder my, at his discretion convert the notes to common stock at the most favorable price for which the Company has sold restricted common stock since April 1, 2010.  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable six months from the date of issue. The conversion feature is contingent on the Company raising $4,000,000 in debt or equity financing.

 

On October 28, November 4, November 9, and November 16, 2011 the Company issued four separate notes totaling $65,568. These notes were convertible contingent upon raising $4.0 million. Subsequent to December 31, 2011, these notes have been amended and they are convertible to the company’s $.0003 par value common stock at $0.01 per share subject to certain adjustment at the sole discretion of the note holder. The notes mature on December 31, 2012 and do not bear interest.

 

OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

 

We have not entered into any other financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. We have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our shares and classified as shareholder’s equity or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. We do not have any variable interest in any unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

 

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations, including the discussion on liquidity and capital resources, are based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we re-evaluate our estimates and judgments.

 

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Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted

 

Recently Issued or Newly Adopted Accounting Standards

 

In May 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB”) issued ASU 2011-04, Fair Value Measurement (ASU 2011-04”), which amended ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements (ASC 820”), providing a consistent definition and measurement of fair value, as well as similar disclosure requirements between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. ASU 2011-04 changes certain fair value measurement principles, clarifies the application of existing fair value measurement and expands the disclosure requirements. ASU 2011-04 will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. The adoption of ASU 2011-04 is not expected to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

 

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In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Presentation of Comprehensive Income (ASU 2011-05”). ASU 2011-05 requires the presentation of comprehensive income in either (1) a continuous statement of comprehensive income or (2) two separate but consecutive statements. ASU 2011-05 will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. The adoption of ASU 2011-05 is not expected to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

 

In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-08, Testing Goodwill for Impairment (ASU 2011-08”), which amends the guidance in ASC 350-20, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other - Goodwill . ASU 2011-08 provides entities with the option of performing a qualitative assessment before calculating the fair value of the reporting unit when testing goodwill for impairment. If the fair value of the reporting unit is determined, based on qualitative factors, to be more likely than not less than the carrying amount of the reporting unit, the entities are required to perform a two-step goodwill impairment test. ASU 2011-08 will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. The adoption of ASU 2011-08 is not expected to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

 

In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-11, "Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities." The amendments in this update require enhanced disclosures around financial instruments and derivative instruments that are either (1) offset in accordance with either ASC 210-20-45 or ASC 815-10-45 or (2) subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement, irrespective of whether they are offset in accordance with either ASC 210-20-45 or ASC 815-10-45. An entity should provide the disclosures required by those amendments retrospectively for all comparative periods presented. The amendments are effective during interim and annual periods beginning after December 31, 2012. The Company does not expect this guidance to have any impact on its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

ITEM 7A.QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISKS

 

We do not use derivative financial instruments and have no foreign exchange contracts. Our financial instruments consist of cash, accounts payable, accrued expenses, debt and derivative liability. The objective of our policies is to mitigate potential income statement, cash flow and fair value exposures resulting from possible future adverse fluctuations in rates. We evaluate our exposure to market risk by assessing the anticipated near-term and long-term fluctuations in interest rates and foreign exchange rates. This evaluation includes the review of leading market indicators, discussions with financial analysts and investment bankers regarding current and future economic conditions and the review of market projections as to expected future rates.

 

We did not experience any material changes in interest rate exposures during 2010 and 2011, to date. Hence, the effect of the fluctuations of the interest rates is considered minimal to our business operations. Based upon economic conditions and leading market indicators at December 31, 2011, we do not foresee a significant adverse change in interest rates in the near future and do not use interest rate derivatives to manage exposure to interest rate changes.

 

ITEM 8.FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

The financial statements are included as a separate section following the signature page to the Form 10-K.

 

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ITEM 9.CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTINGS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MATTERS.

 

None.

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.

 

It is management's responsibility to establish and maintain adequate internal control over all financial reporting pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"). Our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, have reviewed and evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2011. Following this review and evaluation, management collectively determined that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to management, including our chief executive officer, and our chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

There were no significant changes in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect these internal controls subsequent to the date of their most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.  

 

  Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

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

 

Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets, (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors, and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

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We assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO”) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework.

 

Based upon management’s assessment using the criteria contained in COSO, and for the reasons discussed below, our management has concluded that, as of December 31, 2011, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective.

 

Based on its evaluation, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer identified major deficiencies that existed in the design or operation of our internal control over financial reporting that it considers to be a material weakness”. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has defined a material weakness as a significant deficiency or combination of significant deficiencies that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected.”  These material weaknesses identified include the following:

 

·We have insufficient quantity of dedicated resources and experienced personnel involved in reviewing and designing internal controls. As a result, a material misstatement of the interim and annual financial statements could occur and not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

 

·We have not achieved the optimal level of segregation of duties relative to key financial reporting functions. The deficiency in our internal control is related to a lack of segregation of duties due to the size of the accounting department and the lack of experienced accountants due to the limited financial resources of the Company.  We continue to actively search for additional capital in order to be in position to add the necessary staff to address this material weakness. We are also assessing how we can improve our internal control over financial reporting with the current number of employees in an effort to remediate this lack of segregation of duties.

 

·We did not perform an entity level risk assessment to evaluate the implication of relevant risks on financial reporting, including the impact of potential fraud related risks and the risks related to non-routine transactions, if any, on our internal control over financial reporting.  Lack of an entity-level risk assessment constituted an internal control design deficiency which resulted in more than a remote likelihood that a material error would not have been prevented or detected, and constituted a material weakness.

 

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PART III

 

ITEM 10.DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTIORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

 

The Board of Directors is comprised of only one class. All of the directors will serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified, or until their earlier death, retirement, resignation or removal. There are no family relationships among our directors and executive officers. Provided below are brief descriptions of the business experience of each director 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.

 

During the past 10 years, none of our directors has been involved in any of the following types of legal proceedings: (a) any judicial or administrative proceedings resulting from involvement in mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity; (b) any judicial or administrative proceedings based on violations of federal or state securities, commodities, banking or insurance laws or regulations, or any settlement to such actions; or (c) any disciplinary sanctions or orders imposed by a stock, commodities or derivatives exchange or other self regulatory organization.

 

As at December 31, 2011:

 

The following table sets forth certain information concerning our directors and executive officers as of December 31, 2011:

 

NAME   POSITION WITH COMPANY   YEAR BECAME
DIRECTOR
  AGE  
Bruce Goldstein*   Director, CEO and President   2010   63  
Barry Hall   Director, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary   2010   63  
Robert Rosenblatt*   Director   2010   54  
Leonard Dreyer   Director   2010   68  

 

*On February 27, 2012 Mr. Goldstein resigned from all of his positions at the Company, including his Board position; Mr. Rosenblatt resigned from the Board of Directors on that same day.

 

As at April 15, 2011:

 

The following table sets forth certain information concerning our directors and executive officers as of April 15, 2011:

 

NAME   POSITION WITH COMPANY   YEAR BECAME
DIRECTOR
  AGE  
Ron Singh   Director, CEO and President   2012   42  
Barry Hall   Director, Chief Financial Officer and  Secretary   2010   63  
Leonard Dryer   Director   2010   68  
Guriqibal Randhawa   Director   2012   39  
Gurmit Brar   Director   2012   39  

 

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The terms of the Board of Directors will expire at the next annual meeting of stockholders. Our officers are elected by the Board of Directors and hold office at the will of the Board.

 

BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE OF CURRENT AND FORMER DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 

Bruce Goldstein. From November 2008 to February 2012, Mr. Goldstein served as the Chief Executive Officer of Thwapr. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Goldstein served as the acting President of Thwapr from March 2007 to November 2008. Mr. Goldstein has been a director of Thwapr since March 2007. Mr. Goldstein was appointed CEO pursuant to an agreement between Universal Management, Inc. and Thwapr dated November 2008. Mr. Goldstein concurrently serves as the President and CEO of Universal Management, Inc., where he has served for the past five years. Mr. Goldstein resigned as a director and was terminated as Chief Executive Officer in February 2012.

 

Ron Singh. For the past five years, Mr. Singh has worked for Trivandrum India Fund Management Ltd. as its head of private equity investments. Since 2004, Mr. Randhawa has been the CEO of Trivandrum Capital Corp. (“Trivandrum”), a private venture capital firm. Since 2006 Mr. Brar, has worked at Trivandrum as an engineering analyst. Mr. Singh studied electrical engineering and business at the University of British Columbia.

 

Barry Hall. Since November 2008, Mr. Hall has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Thwapr. Mr. Hall had served as acting CFO of Thwapr from March 2007 to November 2008. Since March 2007, Mr. Hall has been a director of Thwapr. Mr. Hall was appointed CFO pursuant to a shareholder’s agreement between Carlaris, Inc. (Carlaris”) and Thwapr, dated November 2008. Mr. Hall concurrently serves as the President of Carlaris, which provides consulting services to Thwapr pursuant to a consulting agreement between Carlaris and Thwapr, dated April 1, 2009. Since May 2007, Mr. Hall has served as the President of Hall Manor, Inc., a California based management and financial consulting firm. From July 2004 until September 2006, Mr. Hall was the President and CFO of Trestle Holdings, Inc., a medical imaging device company. Mr. Hall has a BA in mathematics from San Diego State University and a Masters in Business Administration from San Diego State University.

 

Guriqibal Randhawa. Since 2004, Mr. Randhawa has been the Chief Executive Officer of Trivandrum Capital Corp. (Trivandrum”), a private venture capital firm. Prior thereto, Mr. Randhawa was a senior associate at Ziff Brothers Investments specializing in energy and technology for the European continent. Mr. Randhawa studied economics at the University of Victoria.

 

Gurmit Brar. Since 2006, Mr. Brar has worked at Trivandrum Capital Corp. as an engineering analyst focused on technological design and deployment. Mr. Brar studied power engineering at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

 

Robert Rosenblatt. Since 2006 Mr. Rosenblatt has worked as a management consultant under the name of Rosenblatt Consulting LLC specializing in mergers and acquisition and strategic alliances. From November 2004 to March 2006 Mr. Rosenblatt served as Group President and Chief Operating Officer of Tommy Hilfiger B.V. Prior to his position at Hilfiger, Mr. Rosenblatt was President of Home Shopping Network USA and CFO and Senior Vice President of Bloomingdale's Department Stores. Mr. Rosenblatt resigned as a member of the board of directors of the Company in February 2012.

 

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Leonard Dreyer. Since 2009 Mr. Dreyer served as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Philanthropic Foundation of California State University, Fullerton. From March 2003 to September 2005 Mr. Dreyer served on the Board of Directors and was the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Worldwide Restaurant Concepts, Inc. Prior to that Mr. Dreyer was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marie Callender Restaurants, Inc. Mr. Dreyer graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration.

 

Board Independence

 

The OTC Bulletin Board, on which the Company's common stock is currently traded, does not have a requirement that a majority of the Board of Directors be independent or separate independence determination requirements. However, the Company's uses NASDAQ's definition of “independent” to determine if a director is independent, along with other applicable independence standards under SEC guidelines, as determined by the Board. The Board of Directors will also consult with counsel to ensure that the Boards 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.  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.  Three of our directors, Mrrs. Dryer, Randhawa and Brar are “independent” as that term is defined by NASDAQ Rule 4200(a)(15). The Company also believes that both members of its audit committee would be deemed to be independent under this definition.

 

BOARD MEETING COMMITTEES

 

Our Board of Directors held a total of five meetings during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. All of our Directors who were Board members at the time attended each meeting.

 

Audit Committee

 

The Audit Committee is primarily responsible for approving the services performed by our independent auditors and reviewing reports of our external auditors regarding our accounting practices and systems of internal accounting controls. During fiscal 2011, this Committee consisted of Mr. Dreyer, who acted as Chairman, and Mr. Rosenblatt; Mr. Dreyer continues to act as Chairman, but Mr. Randhawa replaced Mr. Rosenblatt. The Committee met six times during the year ended December 31, 2011. Mr. Dreyer has been approved by our Board of Directors as the Independent Audit Committee Financial Expert.

 

COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(A) OF THE EXCHANGE ACT

 

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, as amended, requires our executive officers, directors and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of our common stock to file reports of their beneficial ownership and changes in ownership (Forms 3, 4 and 5, and any amendment thereto) with the SEC. Executive officers, directors, and greater-than-ten percent holders are required to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. Based on our review of the activity of our officers and directors for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, we believe Forms 3, 4 or 5 were timely filed.

 

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CODE OF ETHICS

 

We have adopted a Code of Ethics that applies to our principal executive officer and principal financial officer. A copy of the Code of Ethics is available on our website at http://corp.thwapr.com/codeofethics.aspx. We intend to disclose any amendment or waiver to the Code of Ethics on our website at http://corp.thwapr.com/codeofethics.aspx. We will provide to any person without charge, upon written request to our above address, a copy of such code of ethics.

 

ITEM 11.EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

Compensation of Executives

 

The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 certain compensation information for our principal executive officer, principal financial officer. Other than our principal executive and principal financial officers serving during fiscal year 2010, we had no other reportable executive officers for the period.

 

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
Name
and
Principal
 

Year

   Salary
($)
   Bonus
($)
   Stock
Awards
($)
   Option
Awards
($)
   Non-Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compensation
($)
   Non-
qualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings ($)
   All Other
Compen-
sation
($) (1)
   Total ($) 
Bruce Goldstein  2011           $368,590               $240,000   $608,590 
Chief Executive Officer (2)  2010                           $240,000   $240,000 
                                              
Barry Hall  2011           $274,980               $180,000   $454,980 
Chief Financial Officer  2010                           $180,000   $180,000 

 

(1)        All Other Compensation consists solely of payments made to Executive Officers for consulting work.

 

(2)        Mr. Goldstein was terminated as the Company's Chief Executive Officer in February 2012. Mr. Singh, Mr. Goldstein's replacement, does not currently receive any compensation for his services to the Company as President and CEO.

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Employment Agreements

 

Mr. Hall was appointed Chief Financial Officer pursuant to an agreement between Carlaris, Inc. and Thwapr dated November 2008. Under the agreement, Mr. Hall is to devote between 60% and 75% of his efforts for a monthly fee of $12,000 or $15,000, respectively. This agreement can be terminated with three months’ notice. In February 2012, this agreement was modified so that the monthly fee was reduced to $11,250 per month. We do not have any other employment agreements with any of our other officer or directors.

  

Outstanding Equity Awards at December 31, 2011

Name  Number of 
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable
   Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#) 
Unexercisable
   Equity
Incentive 
Plan
Awards:
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Unearned
Options (#)
   Option
Exercise 
Price
($/Sh)
   Option 
Expiration 
Date
Bruce Goldstein   11,340,000         11,340,000   $0.13    November 20, 2016
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
Barry Hall       8,460,000    8,460,000   $0.13    November 20, 2016
                        
                        

 

Name  Number  
of  
Shares  
or  
Units of  
Stock  
That  
Have  
Not  
Vested  
(#)
   Market  
Value of  
Shares  
or  
Units of 
 Stock  
That  
Have  
Not  
Vested  
($)
   Equity  
Incentive  
Awards: 
 Number 
 of  
Unearned  
Shares, 
 Units, or  
Other  
Rights  
That  
Have  
Not  
Vested  
(#)
   Equity  
Incentive  
Awards: 
 Market  
or  
Payout  
Value of  
Unearned  
Shares, 
 Units, or  
Other  
Rights  
That  
Have  
Not  
Vested  
(#)
 
Bruce Goldstein   11,340,000             
Barry Hall   8,460,000             

 

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Equity Incentive Plan

 

In October 2011 the Board of Directors adopted the Thwapr, Inc. 2011 Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”) under which up to 72,000,000 million of common stock have been reserved for issuance. As of December 31, 2011, 36,000,000 options to purchase stock were outstanding and zero options were exercisable.   All such options were granted at an exercise price equal to $0.13 per share, which represents 100% of the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date of such options. The Compensation Committee or our Board of Directors may suspend or terminate the 2011 Plan at any time.

 

The Plan provides for the grant to employees, including executive officers, consultants and directors of restricted common stock, as well as cash or other stock-based awards and other benefits. The purpose of the Plan is to enable us to attract and retain qualified persons as employees, officers and directors and others, whose services are required by us, and to motivate such persons by providing them with equity participation in us.

 

Under the Plan, an aggregate of up to twenty percent (20%) of the total fully diluted issued and outstanding shares of the Company's common stock may be issued and awarded, up to a maximum of not more than seventy two million (72,000,000) shares of common stock.  The number of shares that may be subject to stock awards granted to any one participant during any single fiscal year shall not exceed 30% of the total shares of common stock issuable pursuant to the Plan in one given year, subject to adjustment as set forth in the Plan.

 

 

The Plan is administered by the Board or a delegated Compensation Committee, which has, subject to specified limitations, the full authority to grant equity awards and establish the terms and conditions for vesting and exercise thereof.  Awards of restricted stock under the Plan may qualify for the “performance-based compensation” exception under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “IRC”) Section 162(m) pursuant to their expected terms.  

 

For further information about the Plan, please see the Current Report on Form 8-K that was filed with the SEC on October 26, 2011.

 

Compensation of Directors

 

In accordance with a compensation plan adopted by the Board in May 2010, all Independent Directors are compensated as follows:

 

·Upon joining the Board Independent Directors are awarded One-time stock option grant of 1, 500,000 on the date of election or appointment to the Board, at the prior day’s closing market bid price on a formal offer is made to join the Board, vesting quarterly over three years.

 

·Annually, each Independent Director 300,000 stock options on the first business day of each fiscal year, at prior day’s closing market bid price on the day of grant, vesting 25% at the end of each fiscal quarter.

 

·Board Members receive cash compensation of $500 for every meeting attended in person and $250 for every meeting attended telephonically.

 

·A Committee Chairperson is awarded 150,000 stock options granted at the inception of such member’s tenure and 25,000 stock options granted on the first business day of each fiscal year served. Such grants will be made at prior day’s closing market bid price on the day of grant, and will vest 25% at the end of each fiscal quarter.

 

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·A Committee member is awarded 60,000 stock options granted at the inception of such member’s tenure and 10,000 stock options granted on the first business day of each fiscal year served. Such grants will be made at prior day’s closing market bid price the time of grant, and will vest 25% at the end of each quarter.

 

·Committee members receive $250 for every committee meeting attended and $125 if attended by phone.

 

This plan was discontinued in November 2011.

 

The following table contains information regarding the compensation of our directors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011: [complete table]

 

Name  Fees
earned
or
paid
in
cash
($)
   Stock
Awards
($)
   Option
Awards
($)
    Non-equity
incentive
plan
compensation
($)
   Nonqualified
deferred
compensation
earnings ($)
   All other
compensation
($)
   Total
($)
 
Robert Rosenblatt   2,625        466,200(1)                         
Leonard Dreyer   2,750        471,000(2)                     

 

1)Mr. Rosenblatt also has an outstanding option award to purchase 1,500,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.42 per share and an outstanding option award to purchase 120,000 shares at an exercise price of $1.78 per share, granted on May 19, 2010 and November 12, 2010 respectively; both of these options have a five year term.
2)Mr. Dreyer also has an outstanding option award to purchase 1,500,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.42 per share and an outstanding option award to purchase 150,000 shares at an exercise price of $1.78 per share, granted on May 19, 2010 and November 12, 2010 respectively; both of these options have a five year term.

 

We indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by law so that they will be free from undue concern about personal liability in connection with their service to us. This is permitted by our Certificate of Incorporation and our Bylaws.

 

ITEM 12.        SERCURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

 

The Company two classes of stock outstanding; common stock and convertible preferred stock. The following table sets forth certain information as of April 15, 2012 with respect to the beneficial ownership of our the Company assuming for (i) each director and officer, (ii) all of our directors and officers as a group, and (iii) each person known to us to own beneficially five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding shares of our common stock.

 

As of April 15, 2012, on a fully diluted basis, there would be 391,938,989 shares of common stock outstanding, after giving effect to the exercise of 1,525,000 warrants, 4,905,000 stock options and the conversion of 47,061,636 shares of convertible preferred stock at a conversion ratio of 6.5-for-1.

 

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To our knowledge, except as indicated in the footnotes to this table or pursuant to applicable community property laws, the persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares of stock indicated.

 

Unless otherwise indicated, the address for each of the persons listed below is 410 S. Rampart Blvd, Ste. 390, Las Vegas, NV 89145.

 

[complete table - no other 5% holders from preferred?]

 

Name and Address of

 Beneficial Owner(1)

 

Shares

Beneficially

Owned

  

Percentage

Beneficially

Owned

 
Ron Singh, Director and Chief Executive Officer   13,333,333(2)   3.4%
           
Barry Hall, Director and Chief Financial Officer   37,232,316(3)   9.5%
           
Leonard Dreyer, Director   2,200,000(4)   3.5%
           
Guriqibal Randhawa, Director   0    0%
           
Gurmit Brar, Director   0     % 
           
Energy Trust
2nd Floor, Intl Bazaar
PO Box N-8198, Bay Street
Nassau Bahamas
   222,329,250(5)   222,329,250 
All Officers and Directors as a Group (5 persons)   52,765,649    13.5%

 

(1)Beneficial ownership has been determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act. Pursuant to the rules of the SEC, shares of common stock which an individual or group has a right to acquire within 60 days pursuant to the exercise of options or warrants are deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of such individual or group, but are not deemed to be beneficially owned and outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person shown in the table.
(2)Represents shares underlying a $200,000 6% convertible secured promissory note issued pursuant to the Restructuring Plan discussed above, which are initially convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0003 par value per share at an initial conversion price of $0.015 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments.
(3)Includes 4,230,000 stock options to purchase at $0.13 within 60 days of the date of this table and 7,830,893 shares underlying a $117,463.39 6% convertible secured promissory note issued pursuant to the Restructuring Plan discussed above, which are initially convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0003 par value per share at an initial conversion price of $0.015 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments.
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(4)Represents 675,000 stock options to purchase at $0.13, 1,000,000 Warrants convertible to common stock at a price of $0.42 per share, 150,000 Warrants to purchase common stock at a price of $1.78 and 375,000 Warrants to purchase common stock at a price of $0.32, all within 60 days of the date of this Form 10-K.
(5)Represents shares of common stock underlying 34,204,500 shares of Series A preferred stock.

 

ITEM 13.Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

Transactions With Related Persons, Promoters And Certain Control Persons

 

Other than the relationships and transactions discussed below, we are not a party to, nor are we proposed to be a party, to any transaction during the last two fiscal years involving an amount exceeding $120,000 and in which a related person, as such term is defined by Item 404 of Regulation S-K, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

 

Certain stockholders of the Company have provided and provide general management and technology services to the Company as Chairman, CEO, CFO, CTO, Vice President Product and In-house Counsel. Amounts paid to these stockholders were in lieu of salaries and represented compensation for services rendered as executives, directors and the attorney of the Company. During the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, the amounts incurred to these stockholders were $634,581 and $638,940, respectively. A balance of $360,802 remained unpaid at December 31, 2011. Additionally, at December 31, 2011 the Company owed Barry Hall, the Company's former CEO, $100,000 for cash advances that he made to the Company.

 

On February, 27, 2012, the Company consummated a line of credit and restructuring agreement with Mr. Ron Singh, the Company's President and CEO as of that same date, whereby he and his affiliates agreed to make available to the Company an initial $200,000 line of credit over a period of approximately four months. The funds will be used for general working capital purposes while the Company focuses on operational efficiencies and expanding its patent-pending mobile video sharing technology to a global audience.

 

On March 23, 2012 the Company announced the “Restructuring Plan” which is described above in Part I, Item 1, pursuant to which it issued convertible notes to certain of our executive officers..

 

As an initial step, Messrs. Kevir Kang, an individual who previously loaned the Company an aggregate of $1,282,320, Ron Singh, the President and CEO of the Company, and Barry Hall, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, who previously advanced approximately $117,463 to the Company, each agreed to restructure the repayment of an aggregate of $1,664,847 (inclusive of accrued interest at 6% per annum) of cash loans and advances made to the Company. Under the terms of the Restructuring Plan, each of these creditors were issued 6% convertible secured promissory notes payable as to principal and accrued interest on June 30, 2013 (the “New Notes”), in lieu of existing indebtedness, including the $200,000 line of credit payable on demand. The New Notes are secured as to repayment by a first priority lien on all of the Company’s assets and are convertible at any time by the holder(s) into shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0003 par value per share (the Common Stock”) at an initial conversion price of $0.015 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments.

 

Review, Approval and Ratification of Related Party Transactions

 

Given our small size and limited financial resources, we have not adopted formal policies and procedures for the review, approval or ratification of transactions, such as those described above, with our executive officers, directors and significant shareholders. However, such transactions are subject to the review, approval or ratification of our board of directors, or an appropriate committee thereof.

 

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Promoters and Certain Control Persons

 

None of the Company's 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.

  

ITEM 14.PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

 

Audit Fees

 

For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2011and 2010, the aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered by Rose, Snyder and Jacobs LLP (independent auditors) for the audits of the Company’s annual financial statements and the reviews of its financial statements included in the Company's quarterly reports and filings under the Securities Act of 1933 totaled approximately $54,880 and $51,110 respectively.

 

Audit-Related Fees

 

For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 there were no fees billed for professional services rendered by the Company’s independent auditors for audit-related fees, which include assistance with responding to SEC comment letters, consents, and procedures performed relating to potential acquisitions.

 

Tax Fees

 

For the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, there were no fees billed for the preparation of corporate tax returns.

 

Audit Committee - Pre-Approval

 

The fees for the audit of the financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 by Rose, Snyder & Jacobs LLP as detailed above, were pre-approved by the Audit Committee and all work of said firm was performed solely by their permanent employees.

 

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ITEM 15.EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit
Numbers
  Description
3.1   Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant, dated November 2, 2007, including all amendments to date (incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2010).
3.1a   Amendment to Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1(a) of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 21, 2010).
3.2   By-laws of the Registrant, dated November 2, 2007 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on February 9, 2009).
4.1   Form of Stock Specimen (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on February 9, 2009).
4.2   Certificate of Designation of the Relative Rights and Preferences of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on July 21, 2010).
4.2   Amendment to the Certificate of Designation of the Relative Rights and Preferences of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on April 1, 2011).
4.3   2011 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on October 26, 2011).
10.1   Share Exchange Agreement, dated March 5, 2010 by and among Seaospa, Inc., certain stockholders of Seaospa, Inc., Thwapr, Inc., and certain stockholders of Thwapr, Inc (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on March 9, 2010).
10.2   Addendum No. 1 to July 20, 2009 Exchange Offer Agreement, dated February 2010, by and among Thwapr, Inc. and the stockholders listed therein (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2010).
10.3   Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of Thwapr, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2010).
10.4   Form of Indemnification Agreement for the officers and directors of Seaospa, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2010).
10.5   Registration Rights Agreement, dated March 29, 2010, by and among Seaospa, Inc. and the stockholders listed therein. (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on April 2, 2010).
10.6   Exchange Offer Agreement dated July 20, 2010, made by and between the Company and certain Stockholders (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on July 21, 2010).
10.7   Line of Credit and Restructuring Agreement between the Company and Ron Singh (Incorporated by reference Exhibit 10.1 on the Registrant's Form 8-K filed on March 2, 2012).
10.8   6% Secured Convertible Notes issued to Kevir Kang, Ron Singh and Barry Hall (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on March 23, 2012).
10.9   Form of Offer Letter to certain holders of Company Payables (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on March 23, 2012).
10.10   Form of letter to potential holders of Make Good Shares (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed on March 23, 2012).
14.1   Code of Ethics, adopted May 4, 2010 (Incorporated by reference to the Registrant's Form 8-K dated May 6, 2010).
31.1   Certifications of Principal Executive Officer  pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.  (Filed herewith.)
31.2   Certifications of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.  (Filed herewith.)
32.1   Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.  (Filed herewith.)
32.2   Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.  (Filed herewith.)

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

      THWAPR, INC.   
         
Date: June 1, 2012     /s/ Ron Singh  
      Name: Ron Singh   
      Title: President and Chief Executive Officer  
      (Principal Executive Officer)   

 

Date: June 1, 2012     /s/ Barry Hall  
      Name: Barry Hall   
      Title: Chief Financial Officer  
      (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)  

 

Date: June 1, 2012     /s/ Guriqbal Randhawa  
      Name: Guriqbal Randhawa  
      Title: Director  

 

Date: June 1, 2012     /s/ Gurmit Brar  
      Name: Gurmit Brar  
      Title: Director  

 

Date: June 1, 2012     /s/ Leonard Dreyer  
      Name: Leonard Dreyer  
      Title: Director  

 

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THWAPR, INC.

 

CONTENTS

 

  PAGE
   
BALANCE SHEETS F-2
   
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS F-3
   
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS F-4
   
STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) F-5
   
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS F-6 - F-19

 

 
 

  

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

To the Stockholders and Directors

Thwapr, Inc.

 

 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Thwapr, Inc. (a development stage Company) (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity (deficit) and cash flows for the years then ended, and for the period from March 14, 2007 (date of inception) through December 31, 2011. Thwapr, Inc.’s management is responsible for these financial statements. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these 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 audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit 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 also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, 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 financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Thwapr, Inc. as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, and for the period from March 14, 2007 through December 31, 2011, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has sustained operating losses, continues to use cash in its operating activities and has negative working capital at December 31, 2011. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans regarding those matters also are described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

 

 

Rose, Snyder & Jacobs LLP

Encino, California

 

 

 

April 15, 2012

 

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THWAPR, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

BALANCE SHEETS

 

   December 31,   December 31, 
   2011   2010 
ASSETS          
           
CURRENT ASSETS          
Cash and cash equivalents  $8,083   $5,637 
Accounts Receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $0 at December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010   17,788    1,992 
Prepaid Expenses   17,213    21,782 
           
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS   43,084    29,411 
           
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET   12,409    25,240 
           
TOTAL ASSETS  $55,493   $54,651 
           
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT          
           
CURRENT LIABILITIES          
Accounts payable and accrued expenses  $184,940   $309,270 
Deferred Revenues   5,833    - 
Convertible notes due to stockholders   1,339,334    80,479 
Amount payable to stockholders   734,798    206,526 
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES   2,264,905    596,275 
           
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES          
Convertible note, less discount of $14,792 and $19,792 at December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively   10,208    5,208 
Derivative liability   1,701    30,605 
TOTAL LONG-TERM LIABILITIES   11,909    35,813 
           
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES, Note 5          
           
STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT:          
Convertible Preferred, $.0001 par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized; 46,961,636 shares issued and outstanding   4,706    4,706 
           
Common stock, $.0003 par value; 300,000,000 shares authorized; 58,094,129  and 52,035,795 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively   3,711    1,983 
Additional paid-in capital   20,474,730    15,918,546 
Deficit accumulated during the development stage   (22,704,468)   (16,502,673)
TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT   (2,221,321)   (577,438)
           
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT  $55,493   $54,651 

 

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THWAPR, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011 AND 2010 AND THE PERIOD FROM

MARCH 14, 2007 (DATE OF INCEPTION) THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2011

 

           March 14, 2007 
   For the Year Ended   (Date of Inception) 
   December 31,   through 
   2011   2010   December 31, 2011 
             
REVENUE  $33,338   $4,492   $37,830 
COST OF SALES   197,838    16,271    214,109 
                
GROSS LOSS   (164,500)   (11,779)   (176,279)
                
OPERATING EXPENSES:               
Product Development   1,983,024    6,813,126    9,899,698 
General and Administrative Expenses   3,950,966    5,840,382    12,505,505 
                
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES   5,933,990    12,653,508    22,405,203 
               
LOSS FROM OPERATIONS   (6,098,490)   (12,665,287)   (22,581,482)
               
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)               
Interest Income   5    83    193 
Other Income   43,198    -    43,198 
Change in Derivative Liability   28,904    (3,805)   25,099 
Interest Expense   (172,912)   (7,979)   (184,187)
Other Expense   (2,500)   (4,789)   (7,289)
TOTAL OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)   (103,305)   (16,490)   (122,986)
                
NET LOSS  $(6,201,795)  $(12,681,777)  $(22,704,468)
                
Basic and diluted (loss) per share  $(0.11)  $(0.07)     
                
Weighted average shares   54,385,236    170,120,629      

 

The above shares of common stock retroactively reflect a 3-for-1 stock split in February 2011.

 

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THWAPR, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011 AND 2010 AND THE PERIOD FROM

MARCH 14, 2007 (DATE OF INCEPTION) THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2011

 

           March 14, 2007 
   For the Year Ended   (Date of Inception) 
   December,   through 
   2011   2010   December 31, 2011 
             
CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES               
Net loss  $(6,201,795)  $(12,681,777)  $(22,704,468)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:               
                
Forgiveness of debt   (43,198)   -    (43,198)
Stock based compensation   4,292,088    10,219,941    15,124,327 
Amortization of note discount   117,125    5,000    122,333 
Change in Derivative Liability   (28,904)   3,805    (25,099)
Depreciation Expense   14,179    12,836    32,330 
Loss on Disposal of Fixed Assets   2,500    4,789    7,289 
(Increase) decrease in:               
Accounts Receivable   (15,796)   (1,992)   (17,788)
Prepaid Expense   4,568    (18,433)   (17,213)
Increase (decrease) in:               
Accounts payable and accrued expenses   (25,345)   187,736    288,704 
Deferred Revenues   5,833    -    5,833 
Accounts payable to stockholders   528,271    174,157    734,798 
                
NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES   (1,350,474)   (2,093,938)   (6,492,152)
                
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:               
Purchase of property and equipment   (3,848)   (11,205)   (52,029)
NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES   (3,848)   (11,205)   (52,029)
                
CASH FLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES               
Proceeds from convertible notes   -    -    25,000 
Proceeds from convertible notes due to stockholders   1,306,568    77,500    1,384,068 
Proceeds from sale of common stock, net   50,200    2,009,460    5,143,196 
                
NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES   1,356,768    2,086,960    6,552,264 
                
NET INCREASE  IN CASH   2,446    (18,183)   8,083 
                
CASH AT BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD   5,637    23,820    - 
                
CASH AT END OF PERIOD  $8,083   $5,637   $8,083 
                
SUPPLEMENTARY DISCLOSURE:               
Income taxes paid in cash  $-   $174   $2,660 
Conversion of Notes Payable into Common Stock  $103,500   $-   $103,500 

 

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THWAPR, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)

FOR THE PERIOD MARCH 14, 2007 (DATE OF INCEPTION)

THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2011

 

                   Additional         
   Convertible Preferred Stock   Common Stock   Paid in   Accumulated     
   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Capital   Deficit   Total 
BALANCE, MARCH 14, 2007 (Date of Inception)   -   $-    -   $-   $-   $-   $- 
Issuance of stock to founders   -    -    12,857,136    429    (429)   -    - 
Issuance of stock for cash ($.023 per share)   -    -    30,000,000    1,000    770,676    -    771,676 
Net loss   -    -    -    -    -    (454,014)   (454,014)
                                  - 
BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 2007   -    -    42,857,136    1,429    770,247    (454,014)   317,662 
Issuance for cash, ($0.33 per share)   -    -    1,350,000    45    448,755    -    448,800 
Net loss   -    -    -    -    -    (891,552)   (891,552)
                                  - 
BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 2008   -    -    44,207,136    1,474    1,219,002    (1,345,566)   (125,090)
Issuance for cash ($0.33 per share)   -    -    2,980,500    99    993,401    -    993,500 
Conversion of common stock to preferred stock   15,729,212    1,573    (47,187,636)   (1,573)   -    -    - 
Issuance for cash ($0.41 per share)   -    -    2,133,600    71    869,489    -    869,560 
Amortization of warrants   -    -    -    -    612,298    -    612,298 
Net loss   -    -    -    -    -    (2,475,330)   (2,475,330)
                                  - 
BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 2009   15,729,212    1,573    2,133,600    71    3,694,190    (3,820,896)   (125,062)
                                    
Conversion of preferred stock to common   (15,729,212)   (1,573)   424,688,724    14,156    (12,583)   -    - 
Shares added due to reverse merger   -    -    43,829,262    1,461    (1,461)   -    - 
Issuance for cash ($0.42 per share)             1,207,200    40    495,460         495,500 
Issuance for cash ($0.42 per share)   -    -    750,000    75    312,425    -    312,500 
Issuance for cash ($0.73 per share)   -    -    684,933    68    469,932    -    470,000 
Issuance for cash ($0.83 per share)   -    -    910,800    92    731,369    -    731,461 
Conversion of common stock to preferred   47,061,636    4,706    (423,554,724)   (14,118)   9,412    -    - 
Amortization of warrants   -    -    -    -    7,113,192    -    7,113,192 
Amortization of preferred stock issuance   -    -    -    -    2,468,749    -    2,468,749 
Stocks issued for services   -    -    1,386,000    138    637,861    -    637,999 
Net loss   -    -    -    -    -    (12,681,777)   (12,681,777)
                                    
BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 2010   47,061,636    4,706    52,035,795    1,983    15,918,546    (16,502,673)   (577,438)
                                    
Issuance for cash ($0.06 per share)             833,334    280    49,920    -    50,200 
Amortization of stock options                       764,938         764,938 
Amortization of warrants   -    -    -    -    1,022,368    -    1,022,368 
Amortization of preferred stock issuance for services   -    -    -    -    1,549,166    -    1,549,166 
Common stock issued for services   -    -    3,500,000    930    829,795    -    830,725 
Amortization of common stock issuance for services   -    -    -    -    124,890    -    124,890 
Beneficial conversion feature   -    -    -    -    112,125    -    112,125 
Conversion of notes into shares   -    -    1,725,000    518    102,982    -    103,500 
Preferred stock forfeited   (100,000)   -    -    -    -    -    - 
Net loss     -    -     -    -    -    (6,201,795)   (6,201,795)
                                    
BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 2011   46,961,636    4,706    58,094,129    3,711    20,474,730    (22,704,468)   (2,221,321)

 

The above shares of common stock retroactively reflect a 3-for-1 stock split in February 2011.

 

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Notes to Financial Statements

 

1.           ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

 

Organization and Nature of Operations

 

Thwapr, Inc. (“Thwapr” or the “Company”) is a Nevada corporation which has developed a mobile video sharing platform that solves the problem of sending quality video content to and from mobile devices and from Websites to mobile devices.  Thwapr’s systems, applications and software allow users and brands to share pictures and video to mobile phone users regardless of device, platform or carrier. Additionally, Thwapr expects to enable users to easily capture and share pictures and videos on their phones with other mobile and desktop users and into social networks. Thwapr plans to derive revenues from banner and video advertising on its mobile and desktop websites and from mobile media messaging fees from brand sponsors. Thwapr also plans to sell premium services to users and brands via subscriptions and other fees. In December 2009, Thwapr launched a public beta test of its service.  Thwapr launched its service in late 2010 but to date has not generated any meaningful revenues and does not anticipate such revenues until such time that a significant number of users and brands have signed up for and are using the service.  This service was launched under the name of Thwapr, a trademark it owns.

 

The technology underlying Thwapr’s product is complex and as such, a significant amount of research and development expense has gone into the creation of the Thwapr service infrastructure.  To minimize start-up costs, Thwapr uses only consultants for its activities at this time and has no full-time employees and owns no real estate. For its research and development and other operations, Thwapr employs independent contractors on a part-time and full-time basis. Thwapr expects to convert most of these independent contractors to employees over time as funding becomes available.

 

Thwapr’s business is subject to several significant risks, any of which could materially adversely affect its business, operating results, financial condition and the actual outcome of matters as to which it makes forward-looking statements.

 

Development Stage Activities

 

Since inception the Company has not conducted any revenue producing business operations. All of the operating results and cash flows reported in the accompanying financial statements from March 14, 2007 through December 31, 2011 are considered to be those related to the development stage activities and represent the 'cumulative from inception' amounts required to be reported pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 915-205.  The Company is focusing its efforts in two areas during the development stage. First, the Company has devoted a substantial time and resources to software development related to the service it was to provide.  Second, the Company has spent significant time and resources testing the software against a variety of cell phone models, platforms and carriers.

 

Share Exchange Agreement

 

On March 29, 2010 the Company, then named Seaospa, Inc., entered into a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Thwapr, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (“Thwapr Delaware”), to acquire all of the stock of Thwapr Delaware.   Thwapr Delaware was incorporated on March 14, 2007 under the name Mobile Video Development, Inc. As a further condition to the closing of the Exchange Transaction, the Company undertook a recapitalization whereby each share of the Seaospa’s common stock was exchanged for three shares of the Company’s common stock, with the same rights, privileges, and obligations (the “Stock Split”). Subsequent to the Stock Split, the authorized capital stock of Seaospa was 300,000,000 shares of common stock and 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock.

 

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At the closing of the Exchange Agreement, the Company issued 142,676,508 shares of its common stock and warrants to acquire 12,181,363 shares of its common stock to the Thwapr Stockholders in exchange for 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Thwapr.  Immediately prior to the Exchange Transaction, the Company had 14,609,754 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, subsequent to the Stock Split described below.  Immediately after the Exchange Transaction, the Company had 157,286,262 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, of which 141,562,908 cannot be sold or traded (i) until June 9, 2012, if Thwapr has 10,000,000 registered users on such date, or (ii) upon a change of control of Thwapr.  Additionally, of the warrants outstanding, 10,950,003 shares of the underlying securities cannot be sold or traded (i) until June 9, 2012, if Thwapr has 10,000,000 registered users on such date, or (ii) upon a change of control of Thwapr. (All of these number of shares do not reflect the 3 for 1 stock split of February 2011).

 

As a condition to closing the Exchange Agreement and as more fully described, Mr. Yakov Terner resigned as President, Treasurer, and Director of the Company, and Mr. Yossi Benitah resigned as Secretary and Director of the Company.  Effective March 22, 2010, Messrs. Bruce Goldstein, Maurizio Vecchione, and Barry Hall, the current directors of Thwapr, were appointed to the Company’s board of directors.  At the closing of the Exchange Transaction, Mr. Goldstein was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, Maurizio Vecchione was appointed as Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Hall was appointed Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary. Other key members of the management team include Mr. Eric Hoffert as Integrated Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Duncan Kennedy as Chief Operating Officer, and Mr. Leigh Newsome as Vice President of User Experience, each of whom were appointed as of the Closing Date.  Subsequently, Mr. Vecchione, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Newsome, Mr. Hoffert and Mr. Goldstein resigned from their positions.

 

Recapitalization

 

Although from a legal perspective, Seaospa acquired Thwapr, from an accounting perspective, the transaction is viewed as a recapitalization of Thwapr accompanied by an issuance of stock by Thwapr for the net assets of Seaospa. This is because Seaospa did not have operations immediately prior to the merger, and following the merger, Thwapr is the operating company.  Thwapr's officers and directors also ended up serving as the officers and directors of the new combined entity. Additionally, Thwapr's stockholders ended up owning approximately 91% of the outstanding shares of Seaospa after the completion of the transaction.

 

Given these circumstances, the transaction is accounted for as a capital transaction rather than as a business combination.  That is, the transaction is equivalent to the issuance of stock by Thwapr for the net assets of Seaospa, accompanied by a recapitalization.  After the transaction, the accumulated deficit represents the accumulated deficit of the accounting acquirer, and the common shares are recorded at the par value of the legal acquirer, with an offset to paid-in capital.  

 

Thwapr Delaware

 

In July 2009, Thwapr Delaware amended and restated its Certificate of Incorporation to change its name to Thwapr, Inc., and to increase its authorized number of shares to 200,000,000 of which 180,000,000 shares were designated common stock and 20,000,000 shares were designated preferred stock.  Concurrently, Thwapr Delaware entered into an Exchange Offer Agreement (“Offering”) with all the stockholders of the Company.  Pursuant to the Offering, stockholders at that time exchanged all of their respective shares of common stock of the Company for shares of Series A preferred stock of the Company at a ratio of one share of Series A preferred stock for each share of common stock.

 

The shares of Series A preferred Stock would automatically convert into shares of Common Stock at a ratio of nine shares of Common Stock for each share of Series A preferred stock upon the occurrence of either of the following events:

 

  (a) the three year anniversary of the Offering if the Company has obtained at least 10,000,000 active registered users, or

 

  (b)  a change of control in the Company.

 

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In the event of any liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation, the Series A preferred stock, on a common stock equivalent basis, shall participate with the Common Stock with respect to any distributions of available funds and assets. Additionally, the Series A preferred stock shall vote together with the Common Stock and not as a separate class. The Series A preferred stock shall initially vote only on a share for share basis with the Common Stock on any matter, including but not limited to the election of directors, until the Company has filed an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation with the Nevada Secretary of State amending the Articles of Incorporation to provide that the Board may designate the voting power of the preferred stock, if any, regardless of the equivalent voting ratio to Common Stock .

 

Subsequently, the Company began an offering to sell 2,500,000 shares of common stock at an offering price of $4.00 per share for an aggregate offering amount of $10,000,000. In November 2009, the Company retroactively re-priced the stock offering to $1.25 per share and, as a result, issued additional shares to investors who had previously purchased Common Stock so that the number of shares they received in connection with the offering was equal to the amount of money invested divided by $1.25, with partial shares rounded up.  The effect of this re-pricing was an increase to the number of shares of common stock sold from 168,500 to 539,200 at the time of the re-pricing.  In addition, for every ten shares of common stock purchased the stockholder received one warrant convertible into one share of common stock for five years at a price of $1.25 per share.  The weighted average number of common shares outstanding used to compute the loss per share reflects the effect of the re-pricing. (These numbers of shares do not reflect the 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011).

 

Exchange Agreement – July 2010

 

On July 20, 2010, the Company entered into another Exchange Offer Agreement with Thwapr’s five largest stockholders including the founders of the Company.  Pursuant to this agreement Thwapr issued 47,061,636 shares of Series A preferred stock in exchange for 141,184,908 shares of common stock which were retired (these number of shares do not reflect the 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011).  This preferred stock will automatically convert into common stock at a ratio of 3 shares of Common Stock for each share of preferred upon the occurrence of either of the following events:

 

  (a) the two year anniversary of the Offering, or

 

  (b) a change of control in the Company.

 

On August 15, 2010, a former officer of the Company voluntarily surrendered 1,666,666 share of his preferred stock. This stock was, in turn, issued to contractors to the Company.

  

Going Concern

 

The Company has sustained operating losses since its inception continues to use cash in its operations and has negative working capital and an accumulated deficit. The accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis of accounting, which contemplates continuity of operations, realization of assets, liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.  The accompanying financial statements do not reflect any adjustments that might result if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern and the appropriateness of using the going concern basis is dependent upon, among other things, additional cash infusions.  Management is seeking investors which will allow the Company to pursue the development of its software and business model.  However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise sufficient capital to fully implement its business model.

 

2.           SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

  

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Accounts Receivable

 

The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses that may arise if any of its customers are unable to make required payments. Management specifically analyzes the age of customer balances, historical bad debt experience, customer credit-worthiness, and changes in customer payment terms when making estimates of the collectability of the Company's trade accounts receivable balances. If the Company determines that the financial conditions of any of its customers have deteriorated, whether due to customer specific or general economic issues, increases in the allowance may be made. Accounts receivable are written off when all collection attempts have failed.

 

Property & Equipment

 

Property and Equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is provided for using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets for 3 to 5 years.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Revenue currently consists of fees for usage of our technology including set up fees and fees for one-time consulting services. Our contracts for the usage of our technology are typically usage-based or in some case on a flat fee for monthly services. Set up fees are recognized over the contract period. We recognize revenue when the service has been rendered.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported amounts and disclosures.  Management uses its historical records and knowledge of its business in making estimates.  Accordingly, actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

The Company measures its financial assets and liabilities at fair value.  Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (i.e., exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.  Additionally, the Company is required to provide disclosure and categorize assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the assumptions (i.e., inputs) used in the valuation.  Level 1 provides the most reliable measure of fair value while Level 3 generally requires significant management judgment.  Financial assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input significant to the fair value measurement.  The fair value hierarchy is defined as follows:

 

  Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities,
  •· Level 2 – other significant observable inputs for the assets or liabilities through corroboration with market data at the measurement date,
  Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs that reflect management’s best estimate of what market participants would use to price the assets or liabilities at the measurement date.

 

The following table summarizes fair value measurements by level at December 31, 2011 for assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

 

   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3 
Cash and cash equivalents  $8,083   $-   $- 
Derivative liability (conversion feature and warrants)  $-   $-   $1,701 

 

The following table summarizes fair value measurements by level at December 31, 2010 for assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

 

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   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3 
Cash and cash equivalents  $5,637   $-   $- 
Derivative liability (conversion feature and warrants)  $-   $-   $30,605 

 

The following table sets forth a summary of changes in the fair value of the Company’s level 3 assets (conversion feature and warrants) for the year ended December 31, 2011.

 

   Level 3 Liabilities 
   Derivative Liability 
Balance as of December 31, 2009  $26,800 
Changes in value of Derivative Liability   3,805 
Balance as of December 31, 2010   30,605 
Changes in value of Derivative Liability   (28,904)
Balance as of December 31, 2011  $1,701 

 

The carrying amount of certain financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents and accounts payable and accrued expenses, approximates fair value due to the relatively short maturity of such instruments.

 

The Company used the Black-Scholes option pricing model for estimating the fair value of the note conversion feature and the warrants with the following assumptions: expected life of 3 to 5 years; risk-free interest rate of 0.83%; dividend yield of 0%; and expected volatility of 200%.

 

Valuation of Derivative Instruments

 

ASC 815-40 (formerly SFAS No. 133 “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities”) requires that embedded derivative instruments be bifurcated and assessed, along with free-standing derivative instruments such as warrants, on their issuance date and in accordance with ASC 815-40-15 to determine whether they should be considered a derivative liability and measured at their fair value for accounting purposes. In determining the appropriate fair value, the Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing formula. At December 31, 2011, the Company adjusted its derivative liability to its fair value, and reflected the decrease of $28,904, which represents the gain on change in derivative.

 

Product Development

 

Product development costs are expensed as incurred.  These costs primarily include the costs associated with the research and development and testing of video and picture sharing technology.  During the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, product development costs amounted to $1,983,024 and $6,813,126, respectively.  

 

Concentrations

 

The Company has one major customer that individually exceeded 10% of total revenue. Revenue from this one customer accounted for 99% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2011. Revenue from two customers accounted for 100% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2010. Two customers, one a major customer, accounted for 81% of total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2011. One customer accounted for 100% of total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2010.

 

Income Taxes

 

The Company accounts for income taxes under the liability method in accordance with FASB ASC 740-10.  Under this standard, deferred income tax liabilities and assets are determined based on the difference between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using the enacted tax rates expected to be in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse.  Deferred income tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when the Company is unable to make the determination that it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred income tax asset will be realized.

 

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Earnings (Loss) per Share

 

The Company utilizes FASB ASC 260.  Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted earnings per share is computed similar to basic earnings per share except that the denominator is increased to include the number of additional common shares that would have been outstanding if the potential common shares had been issued and if the additional common shares were dilutive. Common equivalent shares are excluded from the computation if their effect is anti-dilutive.

 

Concentration of Risk

 

The Company maintains its cash at a financial institution which may, at times, exceed insured limits.

 

Recently Issued or Newly Adopted Accounting Standards

 

In May 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2011-04, Fair Value Measurement (“ASU 2011-04”), which amended ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements (“ASC 820”), providing a consistent definition and measurement of fair value, as well as similar disclosure requirements between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. ASU 2011-04 changes certain fair value measurement principles, clarifies the application of existing fair value measurement and expands the disclosure requirements. ASU 2011-04 will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. The adoption of ASU 2011-04 is not expected to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

 

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Presentation of Comprehensive Income (“ASU 2011-05”). ASU 2011-05 requires the presentation of comprehensive income in either (1) a continuous statement of comprehensive income or (2) two separate but consecutive statements. ASU 2011-05 will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. The adoption of ASU 2011-05 is not expected to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

 

In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-08, Testing Goodwill for Impairment (“ASU 2011-08”), which amends the guidance in ASC 350-20, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other – Goodwill. ASU 2011-08 provides entities with the option of performing a qualitative assessment before calculating the fair value of the reporting unit when testing goodwill for impairment. If the fair value of the reporting unit is determined, based on qualitative factors, to be more likely than not less than the carrying amount of the reporting unit, the entities are required to perform a two-step goodwill impairment test. ASU 2011-08 will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. The adoption of ASU 2011-08 is not expected to have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

  

In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-11, "Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities." The amendments in this update require enhanced disclosures around financial instruments and derivative instruments that are either (1) offset in accordance with either ASC 210-20-45 or ASC 815-10-45 or (2) subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement, irrespective of whether they are offset in accordance with either ASC 210-20-45 or ASC 815-10-45. An entity should provide the disclosures required by those amendments retrospectively for all comparative periods presented. The amendments are effective during interim and annual periods beginning after December 31, 2012. The Company does not expect this guidance to have any impact on its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

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3. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT

 

Property and equipment consists of the following:

 

   December 31,   December 31, 
   2011   2010 
Computer equipment  $41,663   $37,815 
Furniture and fixtures   -    3,138 
Leasehold Improvements   -    668 
    41,663    41,621 
Accumulated depreciation   (29,254)   (16,381)
Property and equipment, net  $12,409   $25,240 

 

Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 was $14,179 and $12,836, respectively.

 

4. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Payment for Consulting Services

 

Certain stockholders of the Company have provided and provide general management and technology services to the Company as Chairman, CEO, CFO, CTO, Vice President Product and In-house Counsel. Amounts paid to these stockholders were in lieu of salaries and represented compensation for services rendered as executives, directors and the attorney of the Company. During the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 the amounts incurred to these stockholders were $634,581 and $638,940, respectively. A balance of $360,802 remained unpaid at December 31, 2011. Additionally, at December 31, 2011 the Company owed Barry Hall $100,000 for cash advances that he made to the Company.

 

5.            COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Lease Commitments

 

The company leases an office in Las Vegas, Nevada, which expires in July of 2012. Monthly rent is $1,169, however, according to the terms of the lease agreement, not rent is payable for June or July.

 

Legal Proceeding

 

As discussed in Note 5 to these Notes to the Financial Statements, on March 27, 2012, Bruce Goldstein and Universal Management, Inc. ("Universal") filed a summons and complaint against the Company in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York. This suit is based on an alleged breach of contract concerning Mr. Goldstein's employment contract with the Company. Mr. Goldstein owns Universal, through which the Company engaged Goldstein to act as a consultant and later President and CEO of the Company. Mr. Goldstein seeks damages in excess of $225,000. The Company and Mr. Goldstein are in disagreement regarding the amounts owed him for past compensation and the Company believes that only $121,759 is owed to Mr. Goldstein ($160,759 at December 31, 2011) and it has been recorded in the books and record of the Company. The Company also believes that it has substantial defense to Mr. Goldstein’s claims and intends to defend the suit vigorously. As this complaint was only recently served, the Company has not yet taken further action and is discussing its options with outside counsel.

  

6.            INCOME TAXES

 

The Company has adopted FASB Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes - an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109” codified in FASB ASC 740-10.  This interpretation clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise's financial statements in accordance with FASB Statement 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" codified in FASB ASC 740-10, and prescribes a recognition threshold of more likely than not and a measurement process for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. In making this assessment, a company must determine whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, based solely on the technical merits of the position and must assume that the tax position will be examined by taxing authorities.  The Company is subject to examination for all years it has filed income tax returns.  The Company’s policy is to include interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits within the provision for income taxes.  The Company’s review of prior year tax positions using the criteria and provisions presented in FIN 48 did not result in a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.

 

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At December 31, 2011, the Company has net operating loss carryforwards available for federal tax purposes, which expire from 2028 to 2031.  The amount of net operating losses which may be utilized in future years may be subject to significant annual limitations should an ownership change occur. The Company also has operating loss carryforwards available for California income tax purposes, which expire through 2031. The amounts of operating loss carryforwards are not determined. The Company’s net operating loss carryforwards are subject to IRS examination until they are fully utilized and such tax years are closed.  

 

At December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, total deferred income tax asset consist principally of net operating loss carryforwards in amounts still to be determined.  For financial reporting purposes, a valuation allowance has been recognized in an amount equal to such deferred income tax asset due to the uncertainty surrounding its ultimate realization.

 

At December 31, 2011, the Company files income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”).  For jurisdictions in which tax filings are made, the Company is subject to income tax examination for all fiscal years since inception. The Company’s net operating loss carryforwards are subject to IRS examination until they are fully utilized and such tax years are closed.   Our review of prior year tax positions using the criteria and provisions presented by the FASB did not result in a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.

 

7. CONVERTIBLE NOTES DUE TO STOCKHOLDERS

 

On April 8, April 15 and April 20, 2010, the Company issued three separate notes of $20,000 to a stockholder. On December 30, 2010 the Company issued a note to another stockholder for $17,500.  The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at the sole discretion of the note holder at a conversion price of $1.25 per share (pre 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011).  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable one year from the date of issue. On March 29, 2012, as part of a restructuring plan, the company issued a note of $60,000 to the holder of the notes. The new note plus accrued interest of $7,178.89 is convertible to the company’s $.0003 par value common stock at $0.01 per share subject to certain adjustment at the sole discretion of the note holder. The note matures on December 31, 2013 and does not bear interest.

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2011, the Company issued six separate notes totaling $277,500 to a stockholder. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum. The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable one year from the date of issue in either restricted shares of common stock at a price agreeable to both parties at the time of conversion or cash.

 

During the three months ended June 30, 2011, the Company issued three separate notes totaling $550,000 to two stockholders. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at the sole discretion of the note holder at a conversion price of $0.06 per share.  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable six months from the date of issue. The conversion feature is contingent upon the Company raising $4,000,000. The Company became in default on certain notes issued in the second quarter of 2011. One note holder elected to convert two notes totaling $100,000 to common stock in accordance with the terms of the notes.

 

During the three months ended September 30, 2011, the Company issued five separate notes totaling $318,500 to a stockholder. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at the sole discretion of the note holder at a conversion price of $0.06 per share.  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable six months from the date of issue. The conversion feature is contingent upon the Company raising $4,000,000.

 

During the three months ended December 31, 2011, the Company issued two separate notes totaling $95,000 to a stockholder. The notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are convertible to common stock at a price to be mutually agreed upon. Should the Company and the note holder not agree on a price, the note holder may, at his discretion convert the notes to common stock at the most favorable price for which the Company has sold restricted common stock since April 1, 2010.  The notes along with accrued interest are fully due and payable six months from the date of issue. The conversion feature is contingent on the Company raising $4,000,000 in debt or equity financing.

 

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On October 28, November 4, November 9, and November 16, 2011 the Company issued four separate notes totaling $65,568. These notes were convertible contingent upon raising $4.0 million. Subsequent to December 31, 2011, these notes have been amended and they are convertible to the company’s $.0003 par value common stock at $0.01 per share subject to certain adjustment at the sole discretion of the note holder. The notes matures on December 31, 2013 and do not bear interest.

 

8. CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTES

 

On November 2, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Company authorized the issuance of convertible notes bearing simple interest at 5% which mature in 5 years, convertible on the same conditions as the next major equity financing of the Company in excess of $2.0 million (the “Notes”).  Additionally, each investor in the notes will be issued, upon conversion of the Notes, warrants in an amount of 10% of the number of shares obtained during the conversion and such warrants would be price at the price stock upon conversion.  Also, upon reorganization, consolidation or merger, the Company, at its sole discretion, may convert the principal amount of the Notes and all accrued and unpaid interest, into securities or cash, as the case may be, at a price of $1.25 per share (pre 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011).  As of December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010 the Company had issued Notes aggregating $25,000.

 

9. STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

Between January 27, 2009 and June 11, 2009, the Company sold an aggregate of 993,500 shares of common stock to the Company’s largest stockholder.  Each share was sold at a price of $1.00 per share (pre 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011).  These shares were converted to Series A preferred stock on July 29, 2009.

 

Between July 31, 2009 and December 16, 2009, the Company sold an aggregate of 711,200 shares of common stock in private placements with institutional and accredited investors.  Each share of common stock was priced at $1.25 per share, and as an added incentive, for every 10 shares purchased, a five-year warrant to purchase one share at a price per share of $1.25 was added.  In total, the Company issued to these investors 71,120 warrants along such terms described above (these numbers are pre 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011).

 

On July 20, 2010, the Company entered into another Exchange Offer Agreement with Thwapr’s five largest stockholders including the founders of the Company.  Pursuant to this agreement Thwapr issued 47,061,636 shares of Series A preferred stock in exchange for 141,184,908 shares of common stock (pre 3-for-1 stock split of February 2011) which was retired.  This preferred stock will automatically convert into common stock at a ratio of 3 (after the stock split and subsequently 6.5) shares of Common Stock for each share of preferred upon the occurrence of either of the following events:

 

  (a) the two year anniversary of the Offering, or

 

  (b) a change of control in the Company.

 

On February 4, 2011, the company effected a 3-for-1 forward stock split. As a result of the split the number of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock increase to 52,335,795, from 17,445,265.

 

On March 24, 2011 the Board of Directors authorized the Company to offer for sale up to 100,000,000 shares of restricted common stock to raise up to $6,000,000. As of December 31, 2011, 2,558,334 shares were sold under this offering.

 

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Preferred Stock

 

The Company is authorized to issue preferred stock. The board of directors has the authority to fix and determine the designations, rights, qualification, preferences, limitations and terms of the preferred stock. Each share of preferred stock issued and outstanding were convertible into 9 shares of common stock upon the occurrence of either of the following events: (1) two year anniversary of the Offering and when the Company obtain at least 10,000,000 registered users, or (2) a change in control of the Company.

 

On February 28, 2011 all of the preferred shareholders signed an agreement whereby they accepted a modification in the conversion ratio of the preferred to common from 9-for-1 to 6.5-for-1 in exchange for removing the restriction that such shares could not be converted until the Company obtained at least 10,000,000 active registered users. On March 24, 2011 this modification was ratified by the Board of Directors of the Company. The effect of this modification was to reduce the amount of the common shares that that would be issued upon conversion to 305,250,634.

 

Warrant Agreements

 

On March 1, 2009, the Company issued warrants to consultants to purchase 70,000 shares at $1.00 per share.

 

On April 15, 2009 and May 11, 2009 the Company issued warrants to consultants, vendors and advisors to purchase a total of 1,170,000 at $1.00 per share ($0.333 adjusted for the stock split).  Such warrants vest over a period of 18 months with one-third of the warrants vesting at the end of each six month period from the date of issuance.

 

On November 2, 2009 all of the warrants described above were converted to warrants for Series A preferred shares described in Note 1.  The shares of Series A preferred stock shall automatically convert into shares of common stock at a ratio of nine shares of common stock for each share of Series A preferred Stock upon the occurrence of either of the following events:

 

  (a) the three year anniversary of the Offering if the Company has obtained at least 10,000,000 active registered users, or

 

  (b)  a change of control in the Company.

 

In preparation for a reverse merger into a public shell, on February 19, 2010 the Company converted all of the warrants for Series A preferred shares into warrants for 9 shares of common stock with such stock underlying the warrants being restricted from sale until the prior conditions for conversion to common from preferred are met.

 

In addition to the warrants described above, the Company issued more warrants to Directors and Consultants to the Company. On February 16, 2010 the Company issued 3,000,000 warrants with and exercise price of $0.42 per share to a consultant to the Company. Such warrants vest quarter over a period of three years. On March 5, 2010 the Company issued 360,000 warrants with an exercise price of $0.42 per warrant to consultants to the Company. Such warrants vest quarterly over one year. On May 19, 2010 the Company issued 7,896,000 warrants to members of the Board of Directors and consultants to the Company with an exercise price of $0.42 per warrant. Such warrants vest quarterly over three years. On November 12, 2010 the Company issued 420,000 with an exercise price of $1.78 per warrant to members of the Board of Directors. Such warrants vest quarterly over one year. On January 4, 2011, the Company issued 1,110,000 warrants with an exercise price of $0.32 per share to members of the Board of Directors. Such warrants vest quarterly over one year. All warrants issued to members of the Board of Directors were done in accordance with the Company’s Board Compensation Plan.

 

On September 27, 2010, the Company issued 1,666,666 shares of its convertible preferred stock to consultants to the Company in exchange for 1,047,916 of previously issued warrants to purchase the Company’s common stock issued in March 2009. The preferred shares were previously returned to the Company by the former Chairman of the Company on August 15, 2010. One-fourth of the preferred shares vested to the consultants upon issuance. The remaining three-quarters of the shares vested to the consultants quarterly over the next three quarters so long as the consultants remained associated with the Company.

 

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For the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, compensation expense related to the issuance of these shares was $1,549,166 and $2,468,749, respectively.

 

The Company used the Black-Scholes option pricing model for estimating the fair value of the warrants with the following assumptions:

 

Risk Free Interest Rate:   1.35%  - 2.37%
Expected Life:   4 – 5 years 
Expected Volatility:   200%
Dividend Yield:   0%

 

The following table summarizes the changes in warrants outstanding and the related prices for the shares of the Company’s common stock issued to employees and non-employees of the Company.  These warrants were granted in lieu of cash compensation for services performed or as part of fundraising related to the sale of the Company’s common stock.

  

   Number of 
Common Shares
   Average 
Exercise Price
 
Outstanding at December 31, 2009   3,863,361   $0.34 
Granted   12,021,720    0.46 
Effect of 9:1 conversion from preferred to common   29,200,008    0.33 
Expried/cancelled   (8,406,249)   0.39 
Exercised   -    - 
Outstanding at December 31, 2010   36,678,840    0.36 
Granted   1,110,000    0.32 
Expried/cancelled   (1,612,500)   0.49 
Exercised   -    - 
Outstanding at December 31, 2011   36,176,340   $0.36 
Exercisable at December 31, 2011   34,492,588   $0.36 

 

Awards Outstanding   Awards Exercisable 
Exercise
Price
   Quantity   Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Exercise
Price
   Quantity   Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
 
$0.33    29,885,010    7.25 years   $0.33   $0.33    29,885,010    7.25 years   $0.33 
                                      
$0.42    5,248,830    3.30 years   $0.42   $0.42    3,748,828    3.30 years   $0.42 
                                      
$1.78    307,500    3.92 years   $1.78   $1.78    307,500    3.92 years   $1.78 
                                      
$0.32    735,000    4.08 years   $0.32   $0.32    551,250    4.08 years    $0.32 

 

Warrants to purchase 1,890,000 share of stock at $0.33 per share have no maturity date.

 

Compensation expenses related to outstanding warrants for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were $1,022,368 and $7,113,192, respectively.

 

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Stock Option Plan

 

In October 2011 the Board of Directors adopted the Thwapr, Inc. Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) under which up to 72,000,000 million of common stock have been reserved for issuance. As of December 31, 2011, 36,000,000 options to purchase stock at $0.13 per share were outstanding and zero options were exercisable.

 

The following table summarizes the stock option transactions:

 

TRANSACTIONS IN YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011

 

    Number of
Common Shares
   Weighted-
Average
Excercise
Price
   Weighted-
Average|
Remaining
Contractual
Life
 
 Outstanding at December 31, 2010    -           
 Granted    36,000,000   $0.13    4.81 
 Expried/cancelled    -    -    - 
 Exercised    -    -    - 
 Outstanding at December 31, 2011    36,000,000   $0.13    4.81 
 Exercisable at December 31, 2011    -    -    - 

  

The fair value of the options granted during the year ended December 31, 2011 is estimated at $4,569,120. The Company used the Black-Scholes option pricing model for estimating the fair value of the warrants with the following assumptions:

 

Risk Free Interest Rate:   0.83%
Expected Life:   3 – 4 years 
Expected Volatility:   200%
Dividend Yield:   0%

 

The total fair value of non-vested stock options as of December 31, 2011 and is $3,804,182 and is amortizable over a weighted average period of 1.08 years.

 

The weighted-average remaining contractual life of options outstanding issued under the Plan was 4.81 years at December 31, 2011.

 

The intrinsic value of options outstanding and exercisable at December 21, 2011 was $0.

 

The Black-Scholes option valuation model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of traded options, which do not have vesting restrictions and are fully transferable. In addition, option valuation models require the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the expected stock price volatility. Because the Company's employee stock options have characteristics significantly different from those of traded options, and because changes in the subjective input assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimate, in management's opinion, the existing models do not necessarily provide a reliable single measure of the fair value of its employee stock options.

 

10. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Line of Credit and Restructuring Purchase Agreement

 

On February 23, 2012, the Company entered into a line of credit and restructuring purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with Ron R. Singh the President and CEO of the Company

 

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Under the terms of the Agreement, Mr. Singh agreed that he or his affiliates would make available to the Company a maximum $200,000 line of credit to be funded in installments over the next four months. The amount of the advances under the line of credit would be used for working capital and to pay or reduce certain of the accounts payable and accrued expenses of the Company deemed to be critical by an executive committee of the board of directors, consisting of Mr. Singh and Barry Hall, the Chief Financial Officer.

 

All advances under the Agreement are to be evidenced by a 6% convertible secured note of the Company payable upon demand. All advances under the Agreement are secured by a first lien and security interest on all of the Company’s assets. In addition, the holder of the secured note may at any time elect to convert the note into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to 75% of the 20 day volume weighted average trading price of the shares at the time of conversion.

 

Restructuring Plan

 

On March 23, 2012 the Company announced a restructuring plan as part of the Company’s efforts to achieve liquidity, avoid defaults under indebtedness that was due and payable, and satisfy approximately $740,000 of additional debt, accounts payable and accrued expense obligations owed to certain consultants, employees and vendors (the “Payables”), in addition to seeking to raise additional working capital, the Company’s management has commenced to implement a debt restructuring plan (the “Restructuring Plan”).

 

As an initial step, Messrs. Kevir Kang, an individual who previously loaned the Company an aggregate of $1,282,320, Ron Singh, the President and CEO of the Company, and Barry Hall, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, who previously advanced approximately $117,463 to the Company, each agreed to restructure the repayment of an aggregate of $1,664,847 (inclusive of accrued interest at 6% per annum) of cash loans and advances made to the Company. Under the terms of the Restructuring Plan, each of these creditors were issued 6% convertible secured promissory notes payable as to principal and accrued interest on June 30, 2013 (the “New Notes”), in lieu of existing indebtedness, including the $200,000 line of credit payable on demand. The New Notes are secured as to repayment by a first priority lien on all of the Company’s assets and are convertible at any time by the holder(s) into shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0003 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) at an initial conversion price of $0.015 per share, subject to certain anti-dilution and other adjustments.

 

In addition to the issuance of the New Notes, the Company’s management is seeking to negotiate separate settlement and deferred payment arrangements with certain of its creditors holding Company Payables, including Bruce Goldstein, the former President and CEO of the Company. In some cases, the Company intends to offer such creditors payment of 80% of their payables in the form of 6% Company notes payable on March 31, 2013, but subject to mandatory prepayment out of the net proceeds, if any, received by the Company in connection with any one or more future financings, to the extent of such net proceeds that are in excess of $1.5 million. The balance of such payment would be in the form of restricted shares of Company Common Stock which the Company proposes to issue at $0.015 per share.

 

Pursuant to private placements of Common Stock consummated in 2009 and 2010, the Company received a total of $2,963,500 in connection with the issuance and sale to 15 investors (none of whom is or was a direct or indirect officer, director or affiliate of the Company) of an aggregate of 5,686,532 shares of Common Stock at prices ranging from $0.417 to $0.833 per share. The Company intends to issue to such investors such additional “make good” shares at a value of $0.015 per share during the second quarter of 2012. The Company intends to issue as many as 191,880,135 additional shares of Common Stock to such investors; provided, that no investor shall receive or accept such additional “make good” shares that would cause such investor to beneficially own (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) more than 9.99% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock.

 

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Legal Proceedings

  

As discussed in Note 5 to these Notes to the Financial Statements, on March 27, 2012, Bruce Goldstein and Universal Management, Inc. ("Universal") filed a summons and complaint against the Company in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York. This suit is based on an alleged breach of contract concerning Mr. Goldstein's employment contract with the Company. Mr. Goldstein owns Universal, through which the Company engaged Goldstein to act as a consultant and later President and CEO of the Company. Mr. Goldstein seeks damages in excess of $225,000. The Company and Mr. Goldstein are in disagreement regarding the amounts owed him for past compensation and the Company believes that only $121,759 is owed to Mr. Goldstein ($160,759 at December 31, 2011) and it has been recorded in the books and record of the Company. The Company also believes that it has substantial defense to Mr. Goldstein’s claims and intends to defend the suit vigorously. As this complaint was only recently served, the Company has not yet taken further action and is discussing its options with outside counsel.

 

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