AQUISITIONS

6 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2013

Notes to Financial Statements

Note 6 - AQUISITIONS

Acquisition of GEOS IP Assets: On May 24, 2012, we acquired all of the common stock and all of the preferred stock of GEOS Communications IP Holdings, Inc. pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement between Augme and GEOS and other parties. By acquiring the GEOS stock, we acquired five U.S. patents covering Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) and other mobility inventions. The patents allow us to expand our mobile marketing and mobile advertising technology offerings to include adaptive voice technologies for any mobile environment, VoIP-enabled mobile marketing and advertising, VoIP-enabled e-commerce and VoIP-enabled services and support features within our AD LIFE Platform.

We determined that the GEOS assets acquired did not constitute a business as defined under ASC Topic 805 on the basis that the GEOS assets were not an integrated set of activities or assets that were capable of being conducted or managed in a manner that would provide economic benefits or return to us. As a result, we accounted for this acquisition as an asset purchase. The total consideration paid has been allocated to the intangible assets acquired based upon their relative fair values at the date of acquisition.

The fair value of the consideration given for the acquisition of the GEOS stock was $4.2 million, which included $355,000 in cash and $3.8 million in our common stock (1,860,465 shares at a price of $2.05 per share). We are indemnified against certain losses resulting from breaches of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement of GEOS. In order to secure payment of any loss, the approximate 1.9 million shares of our common stock were held for the benefit of the sellers in escrow for a period of up to 14 months following the closing date of the acquisition. In July 2013, the shares were released from escrow.

As described in Note 2, we recorded an increase to the carrying value of the patents on our balance sheet of $2.6 million to correct errors related to the income tax provision impacts of differences between the book and tax basis of the acquired assets, and a corresponding income tax benefit on our consolidated statement of operations, due to the reduction in the deferred income tax asset valuation allowance during the quarter ended May 31, 2012.

Acquisition of Hipcricket, Inc. Assets

On August 25, 2011, Augme completed its acquisition of the business and substantially all of the assets of Hipcricket, Inc. pursuant to the Amended and Restated Asset Purchase Agreement dated August 25, 2011 between Augme and Hipcricket. The acquisition provides us with expanded mobile marketing solutions for consumer brands, agencies, pharmaceutical/health, and media companies. We accounted for the acquisition as a business combination. The results of Hipcricket’s operations have been included in our financial statements since the date of the acquisition.

The estimated fair value of the acquisition consideration was $62.8 million, which included $3.0 million in cash, $35.5 million in our common stock (11,457,359 shares at a price of $3.10), a $1.0 million promissory note, which was subsequently paid off in cash, and $2.0 million of seller tax liabilities, which was paid during the quarter ended May 31, 2012. In addition, the transaction called for a twelve-month earn-out payment to Hipcricket shareholders and employees, which if achieved was estimated to be no less than $15.0 million and as high as $27.5 million. The amount of contingent consideration was based on the amount of revenue recognized in the earn-out period and could be paid in our common stock or a combination of common stock and cash at our discretion, provided that the transaction remained a tax-free reorganization. The contingent consideration recorded at the time of the acquisition was $23.3 million plus the seller tax liabilities of $2.0 million, resulting in an aggregate liability on the transaction date of $25.2 million. The tax liability of $2.0 million was paid during the quarter ended May 31, 2012.

The earn-out period ended on August 25, 2012, which was the measurement date of the contingent consideration obligation. The earn-out payment was calculated to be $22.0 million and we recognized a gain of $2.0 million from the reduction of the liability of the actual consideration due, compared to management’s previous estimates. The gain is included within other income on the statements of operations for the three and six months ended August 31, 2012.

As partial satisfaction of the contingent consideration payments, we paid approximately 50% of the outstanding obligation using shares of our common stock. We issued a total of 5.5 million shares of our common stock as payment of approximately $11.0 million in contingent consideration to the former Hipcricket stockholders. The number of common shares issued was calculated using a $2.00 per share “floor” price, as defined in the agreement. The market price of our common stock on August 25, 2012 was $1.48.  The difference between the $2.00 floor price used to calculate the number of shares to be issued, and the actual price of $1.48 on the measurement date, resulted in a reduction of the estimated consideration payment of $2.9 million, which is included in other income on the statements of operations for the three and six months ended August 31, 2012.

On November 2, 2012 we issued 3.7 million shares of common stock, net of tax withholding, for substantially all of the remaining contingent consideration obligation.  The difference between the $2.00 floor price and the actual price of $0.65 on the date the shares were issued resulted in a reduction of the estimated contingent consideration payment of $7.3 million, which was included in other income on the statements of operations for the three and six months ended November 31, 2012.