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24-Sep-2012
Annual Report
The following is management's discussion and analysis of certain significant factors which have affected mPhase's financial position and should be read in conjunction with the accompanying financial statements, financial data and the related notes.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
OVERVIEW
mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: XDSL.OB) is a development company focused on the development of innovative power cells and related products through the science of microfluidics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nano- technology. mPhase is primarily focused on commercializing its first nanotechnology-enabled product for military and commercial applications - the Smart NanoBattery providing Power On CommandTM. Our new patented and patent-pending battery technology, based on the phenomenon of electrowetting, offers a unique way to store energy and manage power that could revolutionize the battery industry. Features of the Smart NanoBattery include potentially infinite shelf life, environmentally friendly design, fast ramp to power, programmable control, and direct integration with microelectronic devices.
The platform technology behind the Smart NanoBattery is a porous nanostructured material used to repel and precisely control the flow of liquids. The material has a Smart Surface that can potentially be designed for heart pacemakers and other medical devices.
mPhase's Smart NanoBattery technology has been incorporated in leading-edge research and development projects supported by various groups within the U.S. Army for mission critical static random access memory (SRAM) backup and guided munitions applications. In July 2007, m Phase received a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Phase I grant for $100,000 from the U.S. Army and in September 2008, was awarded a prestigious $750,000 (net $500,000) Phase II STTR grant to continue battery development work for the SRAM project. That award was renewed in 2009 for a second year. The company has also been working with the U.S. Army as part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). mPhase has focused on development of a lithium Smart NanoBattery. Working closely with Rutgers University, mPhase introduced the first version of the lithium Smart NanoBattery designed for portable electronics and microelectronic applications.
One version of the lithium battery based on a breakable separator was developed for an emergency flashlight application.
New Products developed during Fiscal Year 2012
The Company began development of a second automotive product as an addition to its consumer product line consisting of the emergency illuminator. The Company outsourced the design, engineering and development of the product and it is anticipated that announcement of the new product will occur during fiscal year 2013 to preserve the Company's first to market advantage. The Company incurred approximately $300,000 in development costs and has received a series of prototypes of the product. The roll-out of the product will depend upon the Company's financial resources during fiscal year 2013.
Revenues. Total revenues for the year ended June 30, 2012 decreased from $ 49,210 in 2011 to $1,502 in 2012. The revenue for the current fiscal year was derived primarily from payments received by the Company under the Phase II STTR grant from the United States Army and from sales of the mPower emergency illuminator.
Cost of sales. Cost of sales decreased $35,740 for the year ended June 30, 2012 to $14,520. In addition, grants and fees received in connection with our Nanotechnology power cell have relatively low associated cost of sales.
Research and Development. Research and development expenses were $53,374 for the year ended June 30, 2012 as compared to $625,417 in the year ended June 30, 2011, a decrease of $572,043. Such decrease is attributable to the Company's completion of both a mechanically-activated reserve battery and emergency flashlight in addition to substantial completion of research on its SmartNanoBattery product.
General and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses were $7,921,189 for the year ended June 30, 2012, up from $1,823,178 for the comparable period in 2011, an increase of $6,098,011. During fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, the Company incurred non-cash charges amounting to $6,645,300 for stock based compensation awarded to officers, employees and consultants. During fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, such charges amounted to $62,945, an increase of $6,582,355 in fiscal year ended June 30, 2012. This increase was offset, in part, by the reduction of salaries of employees in fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 resulting in lower payroll by approximately $356,458 as compared to the payroll for fiscal year ended June 30, 2011. Expenses were reduced across the board, including a reduction in travel expense of $28,211 and consulting expense of $55,148.
Other Income and Expense. During the current FYE 2012 non-cash charges included $0 for reparations, and net settlement income of $2,782. During the prior FYE 2011 non-cash charges included $0 for reparations, and net settlement income of $8,915. In addition during FYE 2012, the Company realized a non-cash net loss of approximately $320,480 compared to a non-cash net gain of $1,866,669 in FYE 2011 resulting from the issuance and the changes in the derivative liability values relative to convertible debt. The current FYE 2012 includes a gain resulting from a change in derivative value of $1,047,148 offset in part by amortization of debt discount of $298,014, stock issuance costs and other charges including conversion floor fees and charges of $1,069,614. This compares to prior FYE 2011 which includes a gain resulting from the change in derivative value of $4,068,545 offset in part by amortization of debt discount, stock issuance costs and other charges including a $55,000 extension and forbearance fee and a $28,000 intervention fee amounting to $2,319,318.
Net loss. mPhase recorded a net loss of $8,786,952 for the year ended June 30, 2012 as compared to a loss of $486,391 for the same period ended June 30, 2011. This represents a loss per common share of ($.00 ) in 2012 as compared to $(.00) in 2011, based upon weighted average common shares outstanding of 2,789,725,412 and 1,402,130,735 during the periods ending June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011 respectively.
CURRENT PLAN OF OPERATIONS
The Company is actively pursuing both military and commercial applications of its smart surface technology. The Company is actively seeking a strategic partner and is developing a significant working relationship with Stevens Institute in helping to identify new STTR and SIBR technology development grants from the U.S. government. The Company, subject to financial resources, is also seeking to become a member of a major Technology Cluster located in Grenoble, France and thereby partner with a large multinational corporation to custom tailor its Smart NanoBattery as a component for a commercial or military end product. The Company, subject to available capital, will seek to significantly increase sales of its current product, the mPower Emergency Illuminator, and to enhance profitability of this product by offering a cost reduced version containing a modified primary battery with extended shelf life instead of its proprietary Eagle Picher designed mechanically activated lithium reserve battery. In March 2011, the Company received an initial order from Porsche Design Group in Germany for mPhase's Porsche design branded mPower Emergency illuminators to be sold in Porsche Design stores in Germany, Great Britain and the United States and it began shipments of the Emergency Illuminators in April of 2011. As previously noted, the Company, during fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, began development of a second automotive consumer product expected to be announced in fiscal year 2013.
Expanded Market Potential for Proprietary Membrane Technology
The core membrane technology used to enable the Smart NanoBattery's propriety membrane design can potentially be used to develop other non-power source applications and products. The Company's market potential for using the membrane design of this patent pending core technology broadens the application areas outside the portable power energy field.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
mPhase throughout its history has outsourced its research and development activity with respect to all of its product lines. The Company engaged the Bell Labs division of Lucent Technologies in February of 2004 to develop a power cell using the science of nanotechnology. The Company terminated its development efforts with Lucent Bell Labs in fiscal year 2008 with respect to micro power cell products using the science of nanotechnology since the facilities at Bell Labs were only able to provide development of zinc based batteries. The Company determined that in order to develop a commercially viable product, higher energy lithium based batteries were required and it established a research relationship with Rutgers University that has facilities capable of handling development of lithium batteries.
From March of 2005 through March of 2007, the Company, pursuant to the terms of a Project Development Agreement engaged Bell Labs to develop a magnetometer or electronic sensor products using the science of nanotechnology. The Company did not renew this Project Development Agreement in order to conserve financial resources. No further development has occurred on the magnetometer; however, the Company believes that the intellectual property created may have significant value in the future depending upon further scientific progress in the field and market developments.
Since inception, but prior to the end of fiscal year 2006, the Company incurred $13.5 million for research and development conducted by Georgia Tech Research Corporation in connection with its legacy Traverser DVDDS technology that was a proprietary end to end solution of hardware and software enabling telecommunications service providers to delivery broadcast television, high-speed internet and voice over copper telephone lines. Expenditures for discontinued Traverser DVDDS product are included in "discontinued operations. In fiscal year 2003 the Company began the transition of its product to development of a carriers standard open platform using middleware platform and transferred its research and development from Georgia Tech Research Corporation to the Bell Labs division of Lucent Technologies Inc. In May of 2007, the Company decided not to renew its Project Development Agreement for its TV+ solution with Bell Labs and chose a number of new software vendors to finalize its IPTV solution. The Company incurred research and development expenses with Lucent for fiscal years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 of $2.3 million and $4.4 million. It should be noted that all expenditures during with Lucent/Bell Labs in FYE 2007 have been in connection with nanotechnology.
During the year ended June 30, 2008, the Company incurred research and development expenses of $188,000 related to the development of IPTV solutions compared to $4.1 million for the same period ended June 30, 2007. Expenditures for the IPTV discontinued product are included in "discontinued operations". In addition the Company incurred research and development expenses for the fiscal year June 30, 2008 of $800,000 for its nanotechnology products as compared to $2.3 million for fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, the Company incurred research and development expenses of $1,255,655, all of which was in connection with its nanotechnology, manually activated battery and emergency flashlight products. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, the Company incurred research and development expenses of $2,203,383 and during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2011 and 2012, such research and development expenses amounted to $625,417 and $53,374.
During the years ended June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011 the Company was primarily engaged in joint research and development with Rutgers University in connection with a $750,000 Phase II STTR grant from the United States Army for development of a reserve battery with an extended shelf life suitable for serving as a backup energy source for a computer memory application. In addition, during such period significant design services were provided by Porsche Design Studio in connection with the development of the Company's emergency flashlight product.
During fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 the Company commenced research, design and development of a prototype of a second new innovative automotive product with an initial cost of approximately $300,000.
The amount of research and development costs the Company has expended on its current technology, from its inception through June 30, 2012, is $12,310,936.
The Company and Lucent share jointly in certain intellectual property developed with respect to nanotechnology products. The Company has established a working relationship with Rutgers University for development and testing of lithium based batteries. In addition, the Company has a co-branding agreement with Porsche Design Studio for its emergency flashlight product.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and development costs are charged to operations as incurred in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 730 Research and Development, formerly Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS"), No.2, "Accounting for Research and Development Cost."
OPTIONS, WARRANTS AND OTHER CONVERTIBLE EQUITY INSTRUMENTS
STOCK BASED COMPENSATION
Effective, July 1, 2005, the Company adopted the promulgated authority "modified prospective" method, and has recorded as an expense the fair value of all stock based grants to employees after such date. The Company has not restated its operating results for any prior fiscal year end or quarter.
EQUITY LINE OF CREDIT
The Company entered into a $10,000,000 equity line of Credit with Dutchess Opportunity Fund II, LLC in December of 2011. Under the equity line, the Company is eligible to "PUT" to the fund, 20,000,000 shares of its common stock during any pricing period. The Company has registered a total of 250,000,000 shares of its common stock on a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that was declared effective on January 17, 2012 in connection with the Dutchess Equity Line.
As of June 30, 2012, the Company has received $145,428 of proceeds under the Equity Line relating to the resale of 89,587,447 shares of the Company's common stock, net of $13,500 transaction fees. The amount of proceeds to be received under the Equity Line will depend upon the stock price of the Company at the various points in time it exercises the Put Option. (SEE NOTE 13-Subsequent events)
MATERIAL EQUITY INSTRUMENTS
The Company has material equity instruments including convertible debentures and convertible notes that are accounted for as derivative liabilities and options and warrants that are evaluated quarterly for potential reclassification as liabilities pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 815 Derivatives and Hedging previously known as EITF 00-19 (SEE ALSO NOTE 8 "Stockholders Equity" under the caption "Other Equity"). The Company utilized a sequencing method prescribed by ASC Topic 815, based upon applying shares available to contracts with the earliest inception date first.
DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Presently promulgated accounting literature requires all derivatives to be recorded on the balance sheet at fair value. The conversion features of the convertible debentures are embedded derivatives and are separately valued and accounted for on our balance sheet with changes in fair value recognized during the period of change as a separate component of other income/expense. Fair values for exchange-traded securities and derivatives are based on quoted market prices. The pricing model we use for determining fair value of our derivatives is the Black-Scholes Pricing Model with a 20 day life for the look-back period of each conversion feature using volatility of 100%. Valuations derived from this model are subject to ongoing internal and external verification and review. The model uses market-sourced inputs such as interest rates and stock price volatilities. Selection of these inputs involves management's judgment and may impact net income.
REPARATION EXPENSE
As an incentive for additional equity contributions, the Company will, from time to time, adjust the cost of past private purchases of common stock through the issuance of additional shares in such magnitude as to reduce an investor's cost to an average price that more closely approximates current market value. The market value of additional shares issued without cash investment is charged to Reparation Expense, which is included in Other Expenses.
Through June 30, 2012, the Company had incurred development stage losses totaling approximately $203,430,907 and had cash and cash equivalents of $39,913. At June 30, 2012, mPhase had a working capital deficit of $(3,690,779) as compared to a working capital deficit of $(2,705,943) as of June 30, 2011.
In addition, on June 23, 2011, the common stock of the Company ceased to be eligible for fast -trading by investors by the Depository Trust Company that handles the clearance of all securities in the United States. As a result the liquidity of the Company's common stock has contracted and financing the Company exclusively through such instruments may be limited in the future. The Company believes that supplemental private placements of equity will enable it to satisfy short-term liquidity.
In December of 2011, the Company entered into a $10,000,000 equity line of credit with Dutchess Opportunity Fund II, LLC. Under the equity line, the Company is eligible to "PUT" to the fund 20,000,000 shares of its common stock during any pricing period. The Company has registered a total of 250,000,000 shares of its common stock on a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that was declared effective on January 17, 2012. As of June 30, 2012, the Company has received $145,428 of proceeds under the equity line from the resale of 89,587,447shares of the Company's common stock, net of $13,500 transaction fees. The amount of proceeds to be received under the equity line will depend upon the stock price of the Company and the various points in time it exercises its Put option.
On June 6, 2012 the Company announced the restructuring of all of its convertible securities that were issued to JMJ Financial and John Fife of approximately $1,500,000. The result of the restructuring is that such debt is now 8% fixed rate debt payable in equal monthly payments over a two year period of time commencing October of 2012. The monthly payments that must be made by the Company amount to approximately $70,000 per month. The Company intends to raise funds in the equity private placement market and though its equity line of credit to meet this obligation as well as short term operating needs.
In the longer term, we estimate that the Company will need to raise approximately $5-10 million of additional capital above the funds anticipated from the monthly funding's and conversions by holders of revised or replacement convertible securities, to meet longer term liquidity needs through June 30, 2013. Such monies will be necessary primarily to fund future operating expenditures as well as marketing, cost-reductions and commercialization of its Smart NanoBattery and automotive products. Finally, depending upon sales and margins in fiscal year 2013, additional capital may be required to fund a portion of any growth necessary in operations.
Cash used in operating activities was $1,091,944 during the twelve months ended June 30, 2012. During such period, the cash used by operating activities consisted principally of the net loss ($8,786,952) plus non-cash credits related to convertible debt issued and associated changes in derivative value ($2,116,064) reduced by an increase of accounts payable and accrued expenses of $61,008. These amounts are offset in part by non-cash charges related to issuance of common stock and options for services of $6,645,300.
During the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2012, the Company raised capital through private placements with accredited investors, whereby the Company issued 170,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock, generating net proceeds to the Company of $140,000.
During the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2011, the Company raised capital through private placements with accredited investors, whereby the Company issued 67,500,000 shares of the Company's common stock, generating net proceeds to the Company of $265,500.
Equity Conversions of Debt and Other Financial Instruments with Related Parties
Conversion of debt with related parties and strategic vendors during the periods
enumerated is as follows: During the fiscal years ended June 30, 2011 and June
30, 2012, there were no equity conversions of debt or other financial
instruments with related parties.
2010 2011 2012
Janifast:
Number of shares NONE NONE NONE
Number of warrants NONE NONE NONE
Amount converted to equity $ NONE $ NONE $ NONE
Microphase Corporation:
Number of shares 26,666,667 NONE NONE
Number of warrants 0 NONE NONE
Amount converted to equity $ 200,000 $ NONE $ NONE
Strategic Vendor Conversions:
Number of shares NONE NONE NONE
Number of warrants NONE NONE NONE
Amount converted to equity $ NONE $ NONE $ NONE
Officers
Number of shares NONE NONE NONE
Number of warrants (A) NONE NONE NONE
Amount converted to equity $ NONE $ NONE $ NONE
Total Related Party Conversions
Number of shares 26,666,667 NONE NONE
Number of warrants 0 NONE NONE
Amount converted to equity $ 200,000 $ NONE $ NONE
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LOSSES DURING THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE AND MANAGEMENT'S PLANS
As noted above, through June 30, 2012, the Company incurred development stage losses totaling approximately $203,430,907 and at June 30, 2012 had a working capital deficit of $(3,690,779). Funding in our traditional capital markets was difficult during FYE 2012. Management of the Company desired to avoid unnecessary dilution by issuing large amounts of equity at depressed prices to raise larger sums of cash. The Company was able to enter into an equity line of credit with Dutchess Capital to provide liquidity and capital resources during the year.
The Company renegotiated its convertible debt arrangements whereby $1,532,365 of its $1,606,523 convertible debt, otherwise convertible into approximately 1,857,316,902 shares of the Company's common stock based upon terms as of June 30, 2012, will not be subject to conversion through October, 2012 and thereafter through fiscal 2013 so long as the Company makes scheduled payments of principle and interest of approximately $70,000 per month. The Company has also significantly reduced employee compensation, in many instances by as much as 20%, effective July 2010. In addition and from time to time the Company has raised necessary working capital via bridge loans from officers (see notes payable to officers). The Company's ability to continue as a going concern and its future success is dependent upon its ability to raise capital in the near term to (1) satisfy its current obligations, (2) continue its research and development efforts, (3) continue its efforts to commercialize and sell and receive military grants for its SmartBattery, and (4) commercialize and sell its emergency flashlight.
The Company is currently focused on development and commercialization of its emergency flashlight product as well as the further development of its smart nano battery in both single and multi-cell form. The Company believes that these reserve batteries which have a much longer shelf life than conventional batteries will have significant commercial and military applications which the Company intends to actively pursue. The Company has temporarily suspended, to conserve financial resources, development of its magnetometer sensor devices, also developed using the science of nanotechnology.
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