Notes
to Financial Statements
March
31, 2020
(Unaudited)
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(1)
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization,
Ownership and Business
Data
Call Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada in 2002. The Company’s
mission is to integrate cutting-edge information delivery solutions that are currently deployed by the media, and put them within
the control of retail and commercial enterprises. The Company’s software and services put its clients in control of real-time
advertising, news, and other content, including emergency alerts.
The
accompanying unaudited financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U. S. generally accepted accounting principles
(“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q. Accordingly, they do not include
all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments
(consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results
for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020 are not indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December
31, 2020.
As
contemplated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Rules of Regulation S-X, the accompanying financial statements
and related footnotes have been condensed and do not contain certain information that will be included in the Company’s
annual financial statements and footnotes thereto. For further information, refer to the Company’s audited financial statements
and related footnotes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.
Cash
and Cash Equivalents
For
purposes of the statement of cash flows, the Company considers all highly liquid investment instruments purchased with original
maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. There were no cash equivalents as of March 31, 2020 and December 31,
2019.
Revenue
Recognition
On
January 1, 2018, we adopted Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic
606), which supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), Revenue Recognition.
Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2018 are presented under Topic 606. The impact of adopting the new revenue
standard was not material to our financial statements and there was no adjustment to beginning retained earnings on January 1,
2018.
Under
Topic 606, revenue is recognized when control of the promised
goods or services is transferred to our customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in
exchange for those goods or services.
We
determine revenue recognition through the following steps:
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identification
of the contract, or contracts, with a customer;
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identification
of the performance obligations in the contract;
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determination
of the transaction price;
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allocation
of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and
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recognition
of revenue when, or as, we satisfy a performance obligation.
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Company
recognizes revenues based on monthly fees for services provided to customers. Some customers prepay for annual services and the
Company defers such amounts and amortizes them into revenues as the service is provided.
Accounts
Receivable
Accounts
receivable consist primarily of trade receivables. The Company provides an allowance for doubtful trade receivables equal to the
estimated uncollectible amounts. That estimate is based on historical collection experience, current economic and market conditions
and a review of the current status of each customer’s trade accounts receivable. The allowance for doubtful trade receivables
was $0 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 as we believe all of our receivables are fully collectable.
Property,
Equipment and Depreciation
Property
and equipment are recorded at cost less accumulated depreciation. Upon retirement or sale, the cost of the assets disposed of
and the related accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts, with any resultant gain or loss being recognized as a
component of other income or expense. Depreciation is computed over the estimated useful lives of the assets (3-5 years) using
the straight-line method for financial reporting purposes and accelerated methods for income tax purposes. Maintenance and repairs
are charged to operations as incurred.
Advertising
Costs
The
cost of advertising is expensed as incurred.
Research
and Development
Research
and development costs are expensed as incurred.
Product
Development Costs
Product
development costs consist of cost incurred to develop the Company’s website and software for internal and external use.
All product development costs are expensed as incurred.
Income
Taxes
The
Company is a taxable entity and recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the future tax consequences attributable to
differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis.
Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to be in effect when the temporary differences
reverse. The effect on the deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the year that
includes the enactment date of the rate change. A valuation allowance is used to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount that
is more likely than not to be realized.
Use
of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with U. S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect
the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could vary from those
estimates.
Beneficial
Conversion Feature
Convertible
debt includes conversion terms that are considered in the money compared to the market price of the stock on the date of the related
agreement. The Company calculates the beneficial conversion feature and records a debt discount with the amount being amortized
to interest expense over the term of the note.
Management’s
Estimates and Assumptions
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates
and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at
the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses. Actual results could differ from these
estimates.
Stock-based
Compensation
We
account for stock-based compensation in accordance with “FASB ASC 718-10.” Stock-based compensation expense recognized
during the period is based on the value of the portion of share-based awards that are ultimately expected to vest during the period.
The fair value of each stock option grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The
fair value of restricted stock is determined based on the number of shares granted and the closing price of the Company’s
common stock on the date of grant. Compensation expense for all share-based payment awards is recognized using the straight-line
amortization method over the vesting period.
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments
The
Company estimates the fair value of its financial instruments using available market information and appropriate valuation methodologies.
However, considerable judgment is required in interpreting market data to develop the estimates of fair value. Accordingly, the
Company estimates of fair value are not necessarily indicative of the amounts that the Company could realize in a current market
exchange. The use of different market assumption and/or estimation methodologies may have a material effect on the estimated fair
value amounts. The interest rates payable by the Company on its notes payable approximate market rates. The Company believes that
the fair value of its financial instruments comprising accounts receivable, notes receivable, accounts payable, and notes payable
approximate their carrying amounts.
On
January 1, 2009, the Company adopted an accounting standard for applying fair value measurements to certain assets, liabilities
and transactions that are periodically measured at fair value. The adoption did not have a material effect on the Company’s
financial position, results of operations or cash flows. In August 2009, the FASB issued an amendment to the accounting standards
related to the measurement of liabilities that are routinely recognized or disclosed at fair value. This standard clarifies how
a company should measure the fair value of liabilities, and that restrictions preventing the transfer of a liability should not
be considered as a factor in the measurement of liabilities within the scope of this standard. This standard became effective
for the Company on October 1, 2009. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial
statements. The fair value accounting standard creates a three-level hierarchy to prioritize the inputs used in the valuation
techniques to derive fair values. The basis for fair value measurements for each level within the hierarchy is described below
with Level 1 having the highest priority and Level 3 having the lowest.
Level
1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level
2: Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets
that are not active; and model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable in active markets.
Level
3: Valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs are unobservable.
The
following table presents the Company’s Assets & Liabilities within the fair value hierarchy utilized to measure fair
value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:
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(Level 1)
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(Level 2)
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(Level 3)
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March 31, 2020
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$
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0
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$
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0
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$
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0
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December 31, 2019
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$
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0
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$
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0
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$
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0
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Recent
Accounting Pronouncements
In
July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases. The amendments in ASU 2018-10 provide
additional clarification and implementation guidance on certain aspects of the previously issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic
842) (“ASU 2016-02”) and have the same effective and transition requirements as ASU 2016-02. Upon the effective date,
ASU 2018-10 will supersede the current lease guidance in ASC Topic 840, Leases. Under the new guidance, lessees will be required
to recognize for all leases, lease with the exception of short-term leases, a lease liability, which is a lessee’s obligation
to make payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis. Concurrently, lessees will be required to recognize a right-of-use
asset, which is an asset that represents the lessee’s right to use, or control the use of, a specified asset for the lease
term. ASU 2018-10 is effective for private companies and emerging growth public companies for interim and annual reporting periods
beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The guidance is required to be applied using a modified retrospective
transition approach for leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative periods presented
in the financial statements. During the year ended December 31, 2019 the Company assessed the impact this guidance had on its
financial statements and concluded that at present ASU No. 2018-10 has no impact on its financial statements due to not having
any commitment to stay in our property longer than a year.
In
February 2018, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2018-02, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic
220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (ASU 2018-02), which allows companies
to reclassify stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Act, from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings.
The new standard is effective beginning January 1, 2019, with early adoption permitted. There were no changes noted as a result
of the implementation of the standard.
The
Company has considered all new accounting pronouncements and has concluded that there are no new pronouncements that may have
a material impact on results of operations, financial condition, or cash flows, based on current information.
(2)
Related Party Transactions
During
2009, the Company received cash in the sum of $50,000 from a shareholder for a Convertible Note Payable at a 10% interest rate.
On July 30, 2015, the Company entered into an amendment agreement for the previously convertible note. The amendment removed the
prior conversion feature of the note and amended the due date to June 30, 2016. The remaining balance of the note as of March
31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 was $3,161 and $4,920, respectively. The interest for the note payable has been calculated annually
and has been paid for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 and the year ended December 31, 2019. This note is pass due and in default.
During the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019, the company repaid a total of $1,759 and $1,759, respectively,
to related parties on various note payables.
During
the second quarter of 2018, the Company issued unregistered shares as follows: (i) 3,500,000 restricted shares to Tim Vance, the
Company’s CEO, in connection with the execution of a new 5 year employment agreement; and 2,000,000 restricted shares to
Gary Woerz, the Company’s CFO, in connection with the execution of a new 5 year employment agreement. The restricted shares
were valued at $0.0034 per share using the closing price of the stock on the date of grant. Total expense associated with the
issuances is calculated at $18,700 to be recognized over the 5-year term of the agreements. The Company recorded $887 (March 31,
2019: $887) in stock-based compensation expense, in relation to those shares for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. The April 30,
2018 employment agreements calls for a 5-year term ending April 30, 2023, annual compensation of $98,000 per year for services
as CEO, annual compensation of $57,200 per year for services as CFO.
As
of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, convertible notes payable to related party had a balance of $10,000. The interest for
the note payable has been calculated annually and has been accrued for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 and the year ended December
31, 2019.This note is past due and in default.
During
the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019, the company repaid a total of $1,759 and $1,759, respectively, to related
parties on various note payables.
As
of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 the total due to management for past accrued salaries is $377 and $350, respectively.
As
of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the total due to management represented by repayment of expenses included in accounts
payable is $5,436 and $3,473, respectively.
(3)
Capital Stock, Warrants and Options
The
Company is authorized to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value per share, of which 800,000
shares are outstanding at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019. The Preferred Stock may be issued in one or more series, the terms
of which may be determined at the time of issuance by the Board of Directors, without further action by stockholders, and may
include voting rights (including the right to vote as a series on particular matters), preferences as to dividends and liquidation,
conversion, redemption rights and sinking fund provisions.
Each
share of Series A Preferred Stock shall bear a preferential dividend of twelve percent (12%) per year and is convertible into
a number shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) based upon Fifty
(50%) percent of the average closing bid price of the Common Stock During the ten (10) day period prior to the conversion. The
Company has not declared or accrued any dividends and as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 in accrued and undeclared dividends
were $1,200 and $4,800 respectively.
During
the quarter ended September 30, 2014, the Company amended its Articles of incorporation to authorize 1,000,000 shares of Series
B Preferred Stock at a par value of $0.001 and issued 10,000 shares. The Series B shares were valued at $76,000 and were expensed
during 2014. The Series B Preferred Stock may be issued to one or series by the terms of which may be and may include preferences
as to dividends and liquidation, conversion, redemption rights and sinking fund provisions. The Series B Preferred Shares have
the right to vote in the aggregate, on all shareholder matters votes equal to 51% of the total shareholder vote on any and all
shareholder matters. The Series B Preferred Stock will be entitled to this 51% voting right no matter how many shares of common
stock or other voting stock of Data Call Technology stock is issued and outstanding in the future.
During
the second quarter of 2018, the Company issued unregistered shares as follows: (i) 3,500,000 restricted shares to Tim Vance, the
Company’s CEO, in connection with the execution of a new 5 year employment agreement; and 2,000,000 restricted shares to
Gary Woerz, the Company’s CFO, in connection with the execution of a new 5 year employment agreement. The restricted shares
were valued at $0.0034 per share using the closing price of the stock on the date of grant. Total expense associated with the
issuances is calculated at $18,700 to be recognized over the 5-year term of the agreements. The Company recorded $887 (March 31,
2019: $887) in stock-based compensation expense, in relation to those shares for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. The April 30,
2018 employment agreements calls for a 5-year term ending April 30, 2023, annual compensation of $98,000 per year for services
as CEO, annual compensation of $57,200 per year for services as CFO.
The
Company is authorized to issue up to 490,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 156,498,515 shares were issued and outstanding
as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019.
(4)
Property and Equipment
During
the period the company paid $2,266 for the additions to PP&E.
Major
classes of property and equipment together with their estimated useful lives, consisted of the following:
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Years
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March 31, 2020
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December 31,2019
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Equipment
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3-5
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$
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116,161
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$
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113,499
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Office furniture
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7
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21,681
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21,681
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Leasehold improvements
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3
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10,656
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10,656
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148,498
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145,836
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Less accumulated depreciation and amortization
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(143,534
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(142,861
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Net property and equipment
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$
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4,964
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$
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2,975
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(5)
Shareholder Notes Payable
As
of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had short-term notes due to a related party of $3,161 and $4,920,
respectively. In addition, as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company had a convertible note of $10,000 due
to a related party, outstanding. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the short-term note and the convertible note were
in default. The Company made repayments on shareholder notes payable during the quarter ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 of $1,759
and $1,759, respectively.
(6)
Prepaid Expenses
The
Company had $19,360 in prepaid expenses as of March 31, 2020 compared to $3,400 at December 31, 2019. Prepaid expenses represent
advances made by the Company’s CEO related to trade show expenses.
(7)
Subsequent Events and Contingencies
The
Company has evaluated subsequent events from the date on the balance sheet through the date these financial statements are being
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No additional material events or transactions have occurred during this subsequent
event reporting period which required recognition or disclosure in the financial statements.
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Some
of the statements contained in this quarterly report of Data Call Technologies, Inc., Nevada corporation (hereinafter referred
to as “we”, “us”, “our”, “Company” and the “Registrant”) discuss future
expectations, contain projections of our plan of operation or financial condition or state other forward-looking information.
Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the
fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They use of words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,”
“expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” and other words
and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. From time to time,
we also may provide forward-looking statements in other materials we release to the public.
Data
Call Technologies, Inc. (“Data Call,” or the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of
Nevada as Data Call Wireless on April 4, 2002. On March 1, 2006, we changed our name to Data Call Technologies, Inc.
Our
mission is to continue to exponentially grow our offering of our proprietary subscription services by integrating cutting-edge
information/content delivery solutions to and within the control of retail and commercial resellers CMS manufacturers and end-users.
Our Company’s services put its clients in control of real-time news, sports, weather and other dynamic content, displayed
within one or multiple locations, spanning from local, regional to global end points, through Digital Signage and Kiosk networks.
Our
business plan continues to focus on growing our client base by effectively offering this real-time and licensed information/content
displayed through Digital Signage and Kiosk networks, seeking to improve the delivery, security, and variety of information/content
services to the growing Digital Signage and Kiosk community.
Overview
- What Is Digital Signage?
You’ve
seen Digital Signage, it’s everywhere. Whether you’re shopping, trying to find your way through the airport, in a
taxi, or even along the highway on your way home, it’s there. LED and LCD displays are continually replacing printed marketing
materials such as signs and placards, as well as the old-school whiteboard, for product and corporate branding, marketing and
assisted selling. The appeal of instantly updating product videos and promotional messages on one or thousands of remotely located
displays is driving the adoption of this growing marketing platform. Digital Signage presentations are typically comprised of
repeating loops (playlists) of information used to brand, market or sell the owner’s products and services or corporate
messaging. But once viewed, this information becomes repetitive and the viewer tunes it out, resulting in low retention of the
client’s message. As digital signage has matured, the characteristics of the digital signage presentations have taken center-stage
requiring fresh, relevant and dynamic content mixed within the marketing messages. Dynamic Content is key.
Digital
Signage Matures
We
are experiencing the Digital Signage Industry (back then called connected signage) steadily maturing and Data Call, through its
multiple industry specific relationships, continues its engagement and influence in the direction of the Digital Signage industry.
Data Call has been performing in this space for well over a decade. Our company has staked claim in assisting the industry’s
birth and maintains its prime position to enjoy and benefit from this industry’s growth.
Early
on, a business desiring to achieve commercial benefits from the use of digital signage was often confronted by a plethora of hardware
and software solutions, all offering their own “standard” of what digital signage should be. Typical customers for
digital signage were most-often offered expensive hardware to present digital signage with a very minimalistic content management
solution (CMS), lacking the full package of content with which to build and tailor their systems for their target customer base.
Those
early adopters of digital signage, often had to realize that their digital signage hardware vendors lacked the acumen to fully
provide best practice of content strategy. The tools to manage content were provided, but not the content. From our inception,
Data Call recognized that early signage providers and their typical customers lacked that key component - the offering of a comprehensive
content package.
As
the cost of platforms supporting infrastructure and digital displays have fallen significantly, digital signage has become more
accessible to a wider range of potential users. Companies in our industry have come to understand, as we have preached since our
inception, that the cost of Data Call’s integrated, content-flexible subscription service is extremely cost effective -
and licensed for redistribution over their networks. The benefit that Data Call continues to provide our client base, in the form
of ongoing content development, is expected to continue to provide our customers with desirable user-friendly content and content
services.
The
Need for Speed - Active Content
Active
and dynamic content is the integral part of digital signage presentations that must be constantly updated with timely and relevant
information to attract and retain target viewers to the products, services, or messaging offered by typical Digital Signage clients.
For instance, a typical presentation may contain ten 15-second loops that provide the primary message of the presentation, but
the active dynamic content, such as that provided by Data Call, is updated with new information constantly throughout the day.
Those seeking to add active and dynamic content to their digital signage presentations are educated and advised to subscribe to
Data Call’s dynamic content rather than attempting to illegally “cut and paste” or “scrape” broadcast
content or RSS Feeds “not for commercial use” of others into their digital signage presentation.
By
integrating Data Call’s content as a meaningful component of digital signage presentations, our clients can legally provide
the entertainment and information content necessary to enhance the target customer’s information retention without disrupting
the core message of the presentation. Some of the Infotainment categories provided by Data Call include news, sports, weather,
financial data, the latest traffic alerts, among many others. With such a broad range of offerings, our clients have access to
this active and dynamic content they need, regardless of the target customers and market they are addressing.
Our
Business Opportunities
Our
many opportunities for client development in the digital signage industry are growing exponentially. While many companies in our
industry have traditionally outsourced all or part of their content creation, Data Call serves as a provider of dynamic active
content to clients on a tailored basis. Whether a client desires general entertainment information for customers, such as news,
sports, stock market quotes, etc. or location-specific content, such as local weather, traffic, etc., our research and experience
has validated our long-held mantra that dynamic content draws and retains our clients’ target viewers to their digital signage
and keeps viewers engaged throughout the client presentation.
Since
our inception, management has developed and maintains strong relationships working with the leaders and associations of the digital
signage industry. Collaborative efforts have successfully created, now industry standard, data formats and methods to facilitate
the delivery of our dynamic content more easily and efficiently for integration into most hardware and software products.
Partners,
Not Customers
Data
Call’s enduring approach to our clients is to build long-lasting partnerships by creating client relationships that we believe
are unique in the digital signage industry. We understand that each client has their own content requirements. In developing dynamic
content for individual digital signage clients, we have identified three content-related factors: (i) reliability; (ii) objectivity;
and (iii) ease of implementation. To address the reliability requirement, we are engaged in multiple license arrangements with
the leading providers of news, weather, sports and financial information, among other client-desired content rather than either:
(i) downloading and repackaging content sourced from the Internet (which may be illegal); or (ii) Scraping RSS feeds from news
organizations (which may come and go at the provider’s whim - not to mention this practice is also illegal).
Licensing
data from these premier providers has also served us by satisfying the second criteria, objectivity. Because it is commonly recognized
that Internet content may often be unreliable, unverifiable and biased, early on, we determined that we could not simply use unfiltered
Internet content for delivery to our clients. Our proper licensing of data facilitates the standard of delivery and implementation
by our client/partners. Data Call does the heavy lifting by taking care of not just the licensing, but the proper formatting of
that data for consumption by the industry utilizing our multiple formats offered. Data Call has understood that it’s Digital
Signage and Kiosk clients needed a more complete service than to endeavor the sourcing of active content from multiple vendors.
As a result, our flexible content plans permit our clients to do “one stop shopping” for all dynamic content requirements
by licensing subscriptions through us.
We
empower our clients to receive customized dynamic content subscriptions to be displayed in a multitude of ways (banners, tickers,
scrolls or visualizations integrated with the overall presentations). We have created “Playlist Ready” offerings and
produced and distribute multiple sets of common data layouts in the industry-standard formats such as XML (extensible markup language),
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), RSS (Rich Site Summary, often called Really Simple
Syndication), MRSS (Media RSS) and MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group). With the advent of HTML5 (5th version of Hypertext Markup
Language), even more delivery methods have been made available to our clients, many of whom have found any one or a combination
of these formats to be easily integrated into their products. Nevertheless, we have also produced customized data formats and
visualizations to the exact and specific requirements of our clients/partners, which, we believe ensures a higher level of reliability
and ease of implementation.
Market
demand, opportunity and technology converge at a single point in time, and Data Call continues hold its position. Our integrity
persistently builds our business. Digital signage platforms steadily evolve to meet mass market requirements, costs for hardware
and software are falling to the point of becoming commodities and the markets for digital signage are clarifying through historical
trial and error.
Business
Operations
In
March of 2017, we released our Direct Lynk Manager (DLManager) customer portal at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. The DLManager
incorporates the Direct Lynk Media platform with major enhancements and options that enable the client to self-serve in a webstore
environment. This is a moderated space that allows proper “white glove” treatment by our staff that our clients have
come to expect and appreciate. Once the client is comfortable with navigation of the portal, they may then set up multiple groups
and displays within their account for testing results in a demo fashion free of charge. Upon completion of their content selections
and distribution points, the client may purchase the proper number of licenses needed to support their sections through various
plans offered within the portal.
Some
of the current types of data and information, for which a client may subscribe to through the Direct Lynk System, in multiple
formats include:
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Headline
News top world and national news headlines;
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Business
News top business headlines;
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Financial
Highlights world-based financial indicators ;
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Entertainment
News top entertainment headlines;
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Health/Science
News top science/health headlines;
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Strange
News - latest off-beat news headlines;
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Sports
Headlines top sports headlines
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AP News Minute Video
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AP This Day In History Videos
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AP Entertainment Minute Videos
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Latest
Sports Lines - latest sports odds for NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball;
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National
Football League latest game schedule and in-game updates;
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National
Basketball Association - latest game schedule and in-game updates;
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Major
League Baseball - latest game schedule and in-game updates;
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National
Hockey League - latest game schedule and in-game updates;
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NCAA
Football - latest game schedule and in-game updates;
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NCAA
Men’s Basketball - latest game schedule and in-game updates;
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Professional
Golf Association top 10 leaders continuously updated throughout the four-day tournament;
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NASCAR
top 10 race positions updated every 20 laps throughout the race;
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Traffic
Mapping;
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Animated
Doppler Radar and Forecast Maps;
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of the day’s horoscopes;
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of the birthdays of famous persons born on each day;
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of historical events which occurred on each day in history; and
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We
continually add different types of content per client requests. We provide our DLM services to our clients and other potential
customers through the Internet. All DLM Services are real-time information services providing a wide range of up-to-date information
for display. These services are designed to work concurrently with customers’ existing digital signage systems. The Direct
Lynk Messenger product is scheduled to be sunset within the next 12 months, as DLMedia gradually moves into a legacy status with
the DLManager portal taking the forefront.
Since
our inception in 2002, we have come to deeply understand that this industry provides an exciting platform for advertisers, including
our clients, to promote, inform, educate, and entertain their customers and employees regarding their business products, services,
and corporate communications. Through Digital Signage, and Digital Out of Home (DOOH) businesses can use a single display or a
complex, networked series of displays and video walls to market their products and services directly at their facilities and elsewhere
to their customers and employees in real time. Additionally, because the core of Digital Signage advertising takes place in real
time, businesses can change their marketing and messaging efforts literally from moment to moment and over the course of a day
or such other period as they may determine.
We
believe that the ability of our clients to display in real-time, the information and content we deliver, better allows our clients
to tailor their products, services, advertising and messaging to individual and target-group customers, thereby advertising and
offering, for example, inventory and sales discounts that may be designed to appeal to those individual customers and target customer
groups, increasing sales and revenues. We believe that the benefits of on-site, real-time Digital Signage displays compared to
regular print or video advertising are substantial and include, among other advantages, being able to immediately change digitally-displayed
images/advertisements depending on our client’s customers own situation, not simply being restricted by in-store print circulars
produced days, weeks or even months in advance, which may become stale or obsolete prior to or shortly after publication and dissemination.
We
specialize in enabling our clients to create their own Digital Signage content feeds which are delivered online directly to their
chosen, electronic digital display devices at their various facilities. The only requirements our clients must have are: (i) a
supported, third-party Digital Signage or Kiosk equipment solution - through a CMS or a standalone player, or similar device,
which receives the data from our servers online; and (ii) an Internet connection. Our DLM System is supported by various, readily
available third-party systems, varying in costs from inexpensive monthly cloud-based licenses to much more extensive and expensive
content management/playback systems. Our Systems allow customers to select from their pre-determined data and information subscriptions
offered. We enable our clients to also select location specific content they wish to receive based on how and where their Digital
Signage network is configured.
In
December of 2017 the company completed the arduous task of reconstructing our back-end systems architecture. This task was initialized
to exploit the latest technology advances within our space, utilizing our data center efficiencies to further streamline our processes.
One of the greater culminations of this effort yielded the Data Call API (Application Programming Interface) allowing our enterprise
channel partners to embed our products within their offerings to further widen our reach.
Data
Call continues to grow its client base through relationships that are gained through industry events such as seminars and trade
shows. Our company has become a leader in syndicated content and custom content development for Digital Signage. Our licensed
content is utilized on thousands of screens in hundreds of deployments. We are truly excited of our continued growth through our
resellers, CMS manufacturers and end users.
Results
of Operations
The
following discussion should be read in conjunction with our financial statements.
During
the last twelve months, the Company has implemented cost management measurements to review monthly expenditures. We will continue
these efforts to streamline operations, as we focus on increasing sales and gross revenues over the next twelve months. We do
not currently have any plans to increase our monthly expenditures or number of employees. We currently offer our Direct Lynk Messenger
and DLMedia services to our clients and other potential customers through the Internet. Both DLM Services are Digital Signage
products and real-time information services which provides a wide range of up-to-date information for display. Both DLM services
are able to work concurrently with customers’ existing digital signage systems. The Direct Lynk Messenger product is slowly
becoming a legacy product with the DLMedia product in the forefront.
We
continually add subscribers for our technology throughout and intend to build and increase such subscribers moving forward.
Three
Months Ended March 31, 2020 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
Our
revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $158,608 compared to $163,669 for the three-month period ended March 31,
2019, representing a decrease of $5,061 or 3.1% during the same period in the prior year. The decrease was mainly not all
of the renewals were completed during the first quarter of the new year.
Costs
of sales for the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $49,545 compared to $44,179 for the three-month period ended March 31,
2019 which represents an increase of $5,366. Costs of sales increased due to the amount of bandwidth required to provide the subscription
services.
Gross
margins for the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $109,063 compared to $119,490, or 68.76% for the three-month period ended
March 31, 2020 as compared to 73.0% for the three-month period ending March 31, 2019
Selling,
General and Administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $103,499 compared to $143,190 for the three-month
period ended March 31, 2019, representing a decrease of $39,691 from the same period in the prior year. The decrease in SG&A
expenses is mainly due to a decrease in expenses and a reduction in the costs of stock. Net income for the three months ended
March 31, 2020 was $3,526 compared to a net loss of $25,626 for the three-month period ended March 31, 2019. The Company’s
net income was accomplished with the reduction of expenses.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources
We
had total current assets of $131,957 consisting of $23,154 of cash and $83,529 in accounts receivable and prepaids of $19,360
as of March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2020, we had total current liabilities of $71,285, which represented $34,006 in accounts
payable, $24,118 in accrued expenses, and $13,161 in notes payable.
We
had a positive working capital of $54,758 and an accumulated deficit of $9,961,523 on March 31, 2020.
We
were provided $46 of cash for our operating activities during the three-month period ended March 31, 2020, which was mainly due
to a net income of $3,526, accounts payable of $8,202, offset by accounts receivables of $9,247 , non-cash expenses related to
stock based compensation of $887, prepaid expenses of $5,960, depreciation expense of $673, accrued expenses of 152. We had investing
activities of $2,662 during the three-month period ended March 31, 2020. We used $1,759 in financing activities during the three
months ended March 31, 2020 for the repayment of related party notes payable.
Due
to our strong financial position we do not see a need to raise additional funds. We will continue to generate sufficient revenues
and generate new revenues to support our operations.
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3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK Back to Table of Contents
We
have not entered into, and do not expect to enter into, financial instruments for trading or hedging purposes.
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4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES Back to Table of Contents
(a)
Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.
Our
management, with the participation of our Principal Executive Officer and our Principal Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness
of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2020 (the “Evaluation Date”). The term “disclosure
controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures
of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or
submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s
rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that
information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated
and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate,
to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how
well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies
its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure
controls and procedures as of March 31, 2020 our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer concluded that, as
of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level as described in our
Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting filed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Our
principal executive officers do not expect that our disclosure controls or internal controls will prevent all errors and all fraud.
Although our disclosure controls and procedures were designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and
our principal executive officers have determined that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective at doing so, a control
system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute assurance that the objectives of
the system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the
benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no
evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company
have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that
breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented if there exists in an individual
a desire to do so. There can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future
conditions.
(b)
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There
have been no significant changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)
under the Exchange Act) or in other factors that occurred during the three month period ended March 31, 2018 that have significantly
affected, or are reasonably likely to significantly affect, our internal control over financial reporting.