Toro Ventures Incorporated is an oil and gas exploration company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Trading on the OTCBB, they focus their efforts on finding projects that are low-risk to generate cash flow, and on finding larger projects that they can develop as joint ventures. Toro believes they can offer their shareholders value in the near term by securing opportunities that they can develop using existing infrastructure and the experience of established oil and gas operators.

Toro Ventures also believes they can play a role in reducing US dependency on foreign oil by being an active explorer and developer of proven domestic reserves. They have recently entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) in Oklahoma. This LOI is with Nitro Petroleum on the Crown Oil and Gas Lease in Pottawatomie County. The company is moving aggressively into the oil and natural gas exploration business because of increased world demand, short

Elysium Internet Inc. (OTCBB: USBF) (Pending name change), an emerging direct navigation Internet media company, with a diversified domain portfolio and proprietary directory and local search platforms. Today the company announced it will launch its proprietary Local Search Platform by July 1. The new search channel is expected to boost directory brands and strengthen its advertising relationships.

“Our majority owned subsidiary Dice Ventures Inc. has built a state of the art platform able to monetize local search traffic by generating search engine optimized, expandable landing pages in seconds,” Elysium CEO Scott Gallagher stated in the press release. “We plan to launch the platform over 50 geo domains as city directories by July 1. The local search channel will become our second significant revenue stream, allowing us to further leverage our directory brands for our ad partners.”

Elysium also announced plans to roll out its second subscription-based Internet directory, brand