VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 052312 -- A British Columbia Securities Commission panel has sanctioned a B.C. man for committing fraud and engaging in unregistered trading. In March 2012, a commission panel found that Michael Robert Shantz committed fraud through his company, Canada Pacific Consulting Inc. (CPC), by soliciting German and Swiss residents to open trading accounts with CPC. Shantz and CPC claimed that they would conduct gold futures or foreign exchan...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 052312 -- TextMe, a leading provider of free SMS texting, today announced a free mobile voice service as well as a free Video chat service for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad devices. Users with the app can make calls to mobile or landline phones without incurring charges. Users can make the calls over cellular data networks or over Wi-Fi. TextMe issues phone numbers to all its users including someone with a Wi-Fi-only iPod Touch or iPad. In effect this tu...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- (Marketwire) -- 052312 -- On May 7, 2012, Judge Robert J. Jonker of the United States District Court, Western District of Michigan, dismissed Fannie Maes Motion for Summary Judgment in the case of Pablo Bocardo and Guadalupe Bocardo v. Select Portfolio Services and The Federal National Mortgage Association (Docket 1:12-cv-177), and is allowing this to go to trial. Judge Jonker agreed with two points that the Bocardos attorney, Jason Jenkinson of the ...