QYOU Media (TSXV: QYOU) (OTCQB: QYOUF) executed a binding term sheet to acquire a majority ownership stake in Maxamtech Digital Ventures, a six-year old India based venture creating technology and games for the mobile gaming industry. The acquisition continues the recent push by QYOU Media and The Q India to ramp up its portfolio of direct-to-consumer products as it moves into 2023.

Hempacco (Nasdaq: HPCO), a hemp smokables company Disrupting Tobacco's™ nearly $1 Trillion industry with hemp cigarettes, smoking paper, and alternatives to nicotine tobacco, announced sales of new Cheech & Chong-branded hemp blunt wraps are now underway.

Lantern Pharma (Nasdaq: LTRN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company using its proprietary RADR® artificial intelligence ("A.I.") and machine learning (“M.L.”) platform to transform the cost, pace, and timeline of oncology drug discovery and development, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 11,471,431, for Lantern’s drug candidate LP-300, which is in a Phase 2 clinical trial for never-smokers with relapsed non-small cell lung cancer.

EV Technology (OTCQB: EVTGF) strategic partner MOKE International Limited is bringing the MOKE brand back to America after 40 years, with the more powerful and highway-legal Electric MOKE Californian – a zero-emissions reimagination of the original 1964 Mini Moke. MOKE International owns the original 1964 British Motor Corporation Moke trademarks and is recognized in over 100 jurisdictions as the owner of the Moke brand.