Remark Holdings Announces Agreement to Divest Vegas.com
"We purchased Vegas.com three years ago as a turn-around opportunity. We have increased both revenue and profitability and successfully achieved our monetization goals. It's time to transition the business to new ownership and focus on the future of our high growth AI business," said
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"Our KanKan AI retail solution is already off to a strong start in 2019. We continue to demonstrate its effectiveness in elevating engagement, driving transactions and fostering deeper connections with shoppers while lowering consumer costs. We are also progressing in the roll out of our KanKan safety/security initiatives by developing client solutions aimed at construction sites, campuses, restaurants, and traffic monitoring and enforcement.
"The KanKan platform supports highly tailored, yet easy-to-install AI solutions aimed at solving specific problems, reducing risk and delivering positive outcomes across multiple industries. As we make ongoing progress in deploying our products and scaling our business, we expect to build a stream of recurring revenues, supported by modest recurring capital costs, and operating leverage.
"We also continue to believe there is significant untapped value in our digital media assets, principally our minority ownership stake in Sharecare.com."
The sale of Vegas.com remains subject to certain closing conditions, including approval of the transaction by Remark's stockholders. Remark will hold a special meeting of stockholders to obtain stockholder approval for the transaction. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place during the second quarter of 2019.
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