Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS

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CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Research and Development [Abstract]  
CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS

3. CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS

 

In 2020, the Company began developing MARKET, a livestream ecommerce platform, and has capitalized $6,461 and $4,348 of internal and external development costs as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. In October 2021, the Company entered into a 10-year license and services agreement with a third party (the “Primary Contractor”) to develop certain components of MARKET. The Primary Contractor’s fees for developing such components, including the license fee, is $5,750. As of June 30, 2022, the Company’s remaining software development obligation to the Primary Contractor was $105. The Primary Contractor was paid an additional $500 bonus in April 2022 for services rendered pursuant to the license and service agreement. In addition, as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company had paid or accrued $389 and $248, respectively, of other capitalized software development costs.

 

There has been no amortization expense related to capitalized software development costs for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021.

 

 

Option to Acquire Primary Contractor

 

In August 2021, the Company entered into a term sheet that provided the Company the option to purchase the Primary Contractor assuming certain conditions are met. In November 2021, the Company exercised this option. The Company and the Primary Contractor subsequently reached an agreement-in-principle on the terms for the Company’s acquisition of the Primary Contractor, the final consummation of which is subject to the execution of a share purchase agreement (the “SPA”) and the completion of an audit of the Primary Contractor that is satisfactory to the Company (the “Primary Contractor Audit”), as well as the fulfillment by the Primary Contractor of certain other conditions set forth in the term sheet. The term sheet stipulates that if the Company had entered into the SPA and the Primary Contractor successfully completed the Primary Contractor Audit prior to May 15, 2022 (or a subsequent mutually agreed upon date) and thereafter determines not to consummate the acquisition of the Primary Contractor, the Company would have been liable for a $1,000 break-up fee payable to the Primary Contractor. However, as of the date of the issuance of these financial statements, the SPA has not been executed and the Primary Contractor Audit is ongoing. The parties are in discussions regarding the transaction. Based on the term sheet, the purchase price for the Primary Contractor would be $12,000, which can be paid in cash and/or stock, although the final terms of the acquisition will be set forth in the SPA. There can be no assurance that the acquisition will be completed on the terms set forth in the term sheet or at all.