Celebrities Invest Funding and Workouts in new Liteboxer fitness system

If you’re looking for more interactivity in your home workouts, Liteboxer, is a new fitness system that has gotten a lot of fanfare. The brand has celebrity followers like 2 Chainz and Busta Rhymes.

The brand recently announced their $20 million Series A funding led by Nimble Ventures, with participation from B. Riley Venture Capital and returning investments from Raptor Group and Will Ventures. Timbaland, the acclaimed producer and Grammy Award-winning Hip Hop artist, also participated in the round.

Liteboxer is an at-home workout experience, combining connected fitness with rhythm gaming to make beat-based music programming and creating an addictive approach to fitness (think Dance Revolution, Beat Saber, and Guitar Hero). Rolling Stone writes “A Boxing Startup Is Turning Ariana Grande Bops Into ‘Punch Tracks’.”

Liteboxer’s patented hardware, hit music, game dynamics, and expert training create the world’s most immersive workout. Liteboxer is designed to make high intensity workouts as fun as playing a video game, all while building cardio, strength, and mental acuity. The brand’s exclusive partnership with Universal Music Group makes Liteboxer the first ever fitness platform to make music the center of the entire experience.

Are you more into video games than working out? Liteboxer’s intelligent tech syncs lights, music, and tempo to challenge, quantify, and motivate you- just like a video game. 6 targets, 200+ LED lights, and force sensors detect and track users every move. Get real-time stats and track progress with the personal performance dashboard.

Spar elite boxing trainers with a range of session length, intensity, and music genres. Liteboxer acts as a virtual extension of the trainer with choreographed punch tracks synced to the trainer’s callouts and the songs you love. Challenge yourself or friends to a quick play song of user’s choice with Liteboxer’s always-growing library of the latest charting music. Content never gets old with new classes and songs dropping daily.

Liteboxer currently retails for $1,495, with a premium app subscription available for $29 per month that offers new programmatic training sessions, music, and competitions. With 0% financing, customers can buy a Liteboxer for just $42 per month.

For more information on visit www.liteboxer.com.

TasteTV’s TASTEABLE Journal Volume 3 Debuts with Commerce, Culture, Concepts and Cuisine

TasteTV’s TASTEABLE JOURNAL, VOL. 3 is here!

This stylish publication provides a curated collection of insightful content on Culture, Concepts, Commerce and Cuisine. This issue features a photography exhibition of recent PHOTO AWARDS Finalists, as well as one on one interviews with personalities such as Chris Knight (CEO, Gusto TV), Rocco Gaglioti (Founder, FNL Network), Podcaster Yorm Achuaku, Ian and Ana of The Other Side Vlog, Michelle Harris (Alive & Well TV), Darley Newman (Equitrekking and Travels with Darley), Dandy Wellington, Diane Kochilas (My Greek Table), Lisa-Renee Ramirez (Recipe.TV), and up and coming musicians Jon Mullane, Mavenne, Harrison Tinsley, the Christopher Brothers and Nathan Witte, plus chefs, restaurateurs, artists, perfumers, and wines.
TASTEABLE is a bi-annual and annual journal that presents a curated collection of insightful content on Culture, Cuisine, Commerce, and Concepts as reported by TasteTV and TCB-Cafe Publishing and Media. Includes celebrity and leadership interviews, delicious recipes, exciting tech, cutting edge fashion, well-known tastemakers, successful entrepreneurs, tasty wine picks and the year’s best chocolate and other culinary finds.

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What is a Stock Split and What Does it Mean for Investors in Companies like Apple, Tesla or Netflix?

When companies such as Netflix, Apple, and Tesla announce that they are going to do stock splits, many small investors wonder what does that mean, and how that affects their own portfolios. Often they will hear that a stock split gives them more shares but it does not actually affect the actual value of your holdings. For many stocks this is theoretically true, but for others this is historically false.

A stock split happens when a company decides that its price per share for the stock is too high for small investors to afford. For example, it’s easy for an investor to buy stock that is valued at $10 or $50 a share, but it is much harder for them to purchase a stock that is valued at $1,500 or $3,000 a share. They may not be able to afford even one share, whereas they can afford several if the price is much lower. The split therefore makes the stock market much more fair to small investors, and those who are not backed by giant mutual funds, family trust offices, or investment companies.

When a stock split happens, the company announces that for each share of stock you currently own, after a certain date you will then get more shares for each share that you already have. You may get two for the price of one, or you may get five for one. It all depends on the company. But if the price was at $1,500 a share and it splits to 2 for 1, then each price is now $750 a share. You still have the same amount of money invested, $1500, but now you own twice as many shares.

This is why we say that theoretically it should not matter if the stock splits or not. Your investment amount should not change. Historically however what happens is that for exciting or fast-moving stocks, especially tech stocks, what you see is that when the price drops to a more affordable level for smaller investors, they in turn buy more of it, and therefore increase the demand and subsequent price of that share.

So if the stock drops to $100 a share from $1000 a share, then over a period of time it may end up rising to $150 or $200 a share just from sheer demand. This has already happened in the past with stocks like Apple, Netflix, and others. Many people assume it will also happen with Tesla and Apple in the future. Netflix also is an example of this growth in price per share before and after a stock split.

Does this mean that you should jump on board when a stock announces a stock split? Possibly, but possibly not. If you were already going to purchase the stock then you should go ahead. But if you think just jumping on board before the stock split will get you extra returns, then that is basically a risky investment. The stock’s future value really depends on the performance of the company itself. If the company underperforms in the future, you will lose money.

Bottom line, only buy stocks that you already think are good investments.